Slugger O'Toole

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richiep has commented 18 times (0 in the last month).

1. Comment on North Belfast election shock
   on 17 April 2010 at 3:09 am

   If there’s such a huge number of first time and previously non voters in this constituency , why don’t they go to the bookies tomorrow, back him to win and then make sure they vote and get as many others as possible to do so as well. Worked famously in local elections in Cork 20 years ago.

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2. Comment on “I believe that the Education Minister is guilty of a terminological inexactitude”
   on 14 April 2010 at 2:17 am

   Someone older and wiser tells me they can remember reports of that term being used by the late Brian Linehan ( sr. ) in the Dáil around the late sixties.

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3. Comment on Chris Grayling adopts the Adrian Watson policy position…
   on 5 April 2010 at 4:27 pm

   I don’t understand the term ” private guest house “.

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4. Comment on “Some time I hope to get the space to reflect on my life with Brendan…”
   on 1 April 2010 at 12:24 am

   Adams didn’t do himself any favours with his petulance on UTV this evening.

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5. Comment on Dan and Wille
   on 20 February 2010 at 3:45 pm

   “What it demonstrates is cowardice. They were bounced the second time, not the first. I’m no fan of FF, but a well liked and competent Minister is gone for a stupid mistake that had no conceivable bearing on his fitness for office. Feeding frenzies are unattractive. This is the sort of rubbish that puts people off politics.
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   I find it hard to believe that any non partisan observer would hold such a view. A government minister ( also a barrister ) would have us believe that an untruth was put by mistake in an affidavit lodged in court. If that was done by a Joe Soap, he would have been up for perjury in jig time. Our beliefs have not been tested as much since Bertie claimed that the unexplained money came from backing horses.

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6. Comment on George Hook loose and unplugged…
   on 13 February 2010 at 9:51 pm

   Prescient comment by Hook about Lee alright.

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7. Comment on And another one bites the dust…
   on 13 February 2010 at 3:55 am

   The longer the Greens stumble around in government, the more they seem like a ” Folk Mass ” group, enjoying the limelight, but still wondering how they got there , what is holding them together and what is now expected of them.
   The leap from sandals and organic vegetables to sharing office with the most corrupt and inept government this country has ever experienced has proven to be too much for them. Soon, they’ll be a mere blot on the historical map , alongside the PD’s and Aontacht Eireann.

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8. Comment on Enda breasts another leadership crisis…
   on 12 February 2010 at 1:50 am

   Journo friend of mine ( regional newspaper ) speculates that the whole Lee thing was choreographed to allow him resign and replace the Birdman in Washington.

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9. Comment on “Let me take this particular issue away..”
   on 10 February 2010 at 1:47 am

   It is an interesting point and is deserving of debate in the Assembly , otherwise P.R. expects us to accept as an act of faith that he’s in the clear, rather like his declaration that God had forgiven the missus.

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10. Comment on SDLP: (Still a)live from Newcastle…
    on 6 February 2010 at 10:17 pm

    Fin, you would have to accept that getting the grouping who killed more Catholics than any other to stop was some achievement.
    Provos have been glad of establishment assistance also, even when it came to writing speeches.

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