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Solidarity and co-ordination at last among irish taxi drivers.

My best wishes to all the Irish taxi drivers who are committed to removing this government from office; and determined that the "Taxi Regulator" quango-whatever it takes-will no longer grind 30,000 decent self employed men into the dirt.
"Those Fianna Fail bas+ards like Noel Dempsey only seem great-because we are on our knees"
                                     (loosely attributable to Big Jim Larkin)

Martin Cullen-have we really seen the back of him?

Martin Cullen's tenure in office has represented everything that is wrong with politics on the island of Ireland. He has pandered to big business (developers) with regard to the social housing  regulations- which were never implemented-  and wasted untold millions of Euros on electronic voting machines.He is-and always was- an ambitious, self seeking opportunist; full of his own importance.He thought he was important.To a Mosquito,he is just another source of blood. He bled the taxpayers of Ireland in ways too numerous to mention, in his chequered career.
He unashamedly blackmailed the Fianna Fail Party into wasting taxpayers money in an inefficient manner to provide new facilities- hospital; airport; educational institution, etc. for his constituents in Waterford.
He represents the "Gombeen man"  political structure of our democracy: "Blackmail rules OK". "Power at any price". "Fianna Fail rule OK"!. "If we need him pay him whatever he asks"
His departure is nothing to gloat over. He will be replaced quickly enough by another of his ilk.Probably one of his sons, if he is old enough to replace him.
He has made his personal publicity agent -Monica Leech-a multi millionaire thanks to the shysters in the four goldmines..and no doubt he will shortly be treading the same path himself to enhance his obscene pension entitlement. He must ASK HIMSELF NOW:   "What good is any of it to me now.."
The money he wasted while in government would have helped a lot of ordinary citizens, if it had been used properly.
 "Bad cess to him", I say-and particularly to his ever so smart  political confidante, Monica Leech-the "Belle of Waterford".
He will  no longer be jetting around the world ,staying in 5 star hotels; visiting Bejing, Singapore,Australia America etc etc. on a "government jolly" just in time for the Olympic Games there,etc ..and all the other sh*t and waste of taxpayers money that goes on in the Fianna Fail government.

A corrupt Oligarchy reigns supreme.

"Findings in relation to the disastrous Irish Glass Bottle site deal in 2006 are thought to be the biggest potential political hand grenade in the reports.

The DDDA's taking of a 26pc stake in the property was endorsed by Taoiseach Brian Cowen, who was then Finance Minister, and the then environment minister, Dick Roche.

The €412m purchase was carried out in conjunction with developer Bernard McNamara and businessman Derek Quinlan and was primarily funded with a €293m loan from Anglo Irish Bankand AIB.

The site is now worth just €50m. That former board members Sean FitzPatrick and Lar Bradshaw helped approve the DDDA's involvement while their bank was part-funding the deal has raised many questions".

- Shane Phelan Investigative Correspondent

Irish Independent

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