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,"a stinking tide of popular, fascist, unthinking and merciless right-wing politics."
But Sean , Bertie is rolling out a unique combination of socialist(where appropriate) and right wing politics-(bin taxes ,toll bridges etc...) just in time for the next election.!
Where is the evidence that, if Connolly had survived and gone on to run the country, Ireland would have had a better health service? Connolly was a marxist. At the time of his death there were no marxist-run countries in the world. Within 30 years there were quite a few, mainly in eastern Europe. These regimes lasted until around 1990. During their forty years or so of existence the marxist governments of eastern europe had a dreadful health record. By the late 1980s mortality rates in eastern Europe were double those of western Europe and life expectancy was 10 years lower in countries like Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Czechoslovakia than in western European countries. Even the poorest countries in western Europe of that time, such as Ireland, Portugal and Greece had life expectancies 8 years higher than in the marxist-run eastern European countries. If Connolly had lived and gone on to run the country, where is the evidence that Ireland would not have ended up in the late 1980s with mortality rates and life expectancy similar to the levels that prevailed then in Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Czechoslovakia ?
Roddy Connolly: political odyssey of a socialist republican
PUBLIC LECTURE by CHARLIE McGUIRE, Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway, 8pm
Roddy Connolly (1901 -1980) had a long & varied political career. He was at the side of his father in the GPO in 1916; a few years later he was a founder of the Communist Party of Ireland and a confidant of anti-Treaty republicans; in the 1930s, he was involved in the Republican Congress. Later, he was a Labour TD; later still, he was an obedient pro-coalition chairman of the Labour Party. The lecture will consider Roddy Connolly's career, with a particular focus on his custodianship of the Connolly legacy.
We all know that James Connolly was executed by gunfire sitting in a chair after he had fought bravely a hopeless battle intended to secure the liberty of the Irish working class. I am sure that if he were alive today he would interpret the HSE as a bureaucratic oppressor seeking to make slaves of workers at the lower levels in the health "service."
First of all let me say, “James Connolly was only an old Shite full of wind who needed a good dose of Epsom salts or castor oil to clear his system of shit”!
Second I want to say that the HSE is choked with bureaucracy and a workforce is only as good as it management and the management speaks for itself as the system is out of control offering no value for money to the economics when compared internationally. Unit costs are far too height here in The Emerald Isle
The whole system needs to be scrapped and let the Health task be let in the hands of privatisation. Let market forces run the health service.
And further to be honest we cannot accuse the government of bullying tactics etc. The problem is that too many people want everything for nothing and don’t want to work just sit around on their arses like arm chair generals and do fuck all but moan and groan and this can include many politicians like your good beloved colleague Mr Michael (Mick) McDowell and your darling colleague Ms Mary Harney. Well to be fair they are doing some movement by wagging their tongues to the news media while they may pile on weight like a big heap of Shite. However, I must give credit to Mrs Elizabeth O’Donnell-Carter whose is a very hard working politician and keeps herself lovely and trim.
Executed by gunfire sitting on a chair ironically is what should be done with the present system and open out to market forces. Yes I have come from a business background and would give it a go at running the country for 12 months as long as I would have time for relaxation with a drop of the craters etc.
I am very diplomatic and approachable too!
Larry Brennan
What Did James Connolly Die For?
There is only one man that is fit to run the country and his name is Cllr Peter Savage because he will show James Connolly “What you shall live for”. A big car, plenty of money from expenses etc, plus his own private businesses I am just back from sabbatical Sean and no so thankful for all I have got and now I do not never want to die and leave this world. I will settle for you nagging at me and realise all that I can do in this life with the huge salary I get from the council I am entirely grateful to be alive and serving in my capacity even though you try to eat the backside out of me and get me sent away on sabbatical.
I only wish that you would do it more Sean as I had such a great time. I will try and get you to join me maybe linking up in a programme with Communities Connect. Gosh Sean I assure you that you will connect if you get away with me as the birds are lovely in the trees.
Thanking you Sean
Michael Anthony Curran
I feel ye all have it wrong and that we should be getting ready for the next world and start saying our prayers and attending daily Mass before it is too late and we are at the gate with Peter a Peter who will not be as lenient as the good Cllr Peter Savage. You know that Peter Savage taught all you know Sean, as he must have been the best student to have ever come through Armagh.
At present I am applying for permission to construct a monument to Peter Savage for as soon as he passes away. Also I want to remind you that you should keep well in with him as he will have great power into who gets into Heaven and who does not get in. I trust that the Pope will fast track him to Sainthood as soon as the good Lord calls him home.
Yours Truly
John O’Hanlon