FOUR YEAR PLAN SPECIAL

We the People of This Country are Disgusted,

Occasionally there comes a time when the combined and undirected rage of the People comes together into a focused beam of anger and tonight the target is the four year plan ah here now lads this is the final nail in the coffin of Fianna Fail as if it wasn't enough that that chancer Bertie took us to the brink of the cliff and Cowen pushed us off now he's kicking our lifeless corpse and the stuff that's in this plan would make you vomit up your macaroon bars they're talking about cutting a euro off the minimum wage well that may not sound like a lot to you Mr.Cowen with your fourteen pensions and your ministerial cars but a euro an hour is a big deal when you're living on the breadline and they're now TAXING these people again so they have you coming and going and there's a lot of talk about the minimum wage how about a MAXIMUM WAGE BRIAN how about you take some of this pain you were talking about but you never will you bloody corrupt awful thing you're taxing people to oblivion you're cutting people's pay you're slashing services you're DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY and we the People will vote you and your rotten party out of existence if we have any backbone at all you need to get out get out get out NOW not March not January NOW.

GREENS PULL OUT ELECTION LOOMS

We the People of This Country are Disgusted,

Finally after two years of making excuses and hiding behind their windmills the Greens aren't supporting Fianna Fail anymore and we might get an election in January but Cowen still thinks he'll last til February or March and no you won't Mr.Cowen you need to LEAVE NOW you're not wanted anymore you've lost the support of the People you've lost the support of the Greens you've even lost the support of your own party you're the worst Taoiseach this country has ever had bar none and that's saying something you awful eejit you need to feck off back to whatever hole you came from you're party is about to be destroyed and it's game over the jig is up you need to LEAVE.

'Ireland's Sovereignty is Dead and Gone, It's With Ahern in the Cupboard.'

Dear Friends,

I know that I previously stated that I would 'stay out of the way' and let the wise words of Peter and J. wash over you but there comes a time when one can no longer 'stay silent'.

As I write this, 'high-ups' in the EU and the IMF sit in Leinster House, pulling the reins of government, as Brian Cowen and the rest of his Fianna Fáil cronies bow down to outside influence, and sacrifice the hard won sovereignty that we have held for the last 'hocht blian'. What follows now is a situation too dark to contemplate.

And yet contemplate it we must, for we are about to live this nightmare. What awful measures will be exercised by the faceless Eurocrats who now hold sway over this beautiful republic? Will our gloriously low corporation tax, 'an cáin chorporáide', enshrined in De Valera's constitution all those years ago, be forced to cruelly high European standards? Will they cut public sector pay, crudely and inexpertly? Most importantly, what of the Irish Language?

Our proud and noble gaeilge has long been a thorn in the side of the EU. They fear and mistrust this lilting tongue, trapped as they are in their guttural dialects. I, as a guardian and protector of our native Irish, will lay down my life, my very life, in it's defence. The 'Cead Míle Failte's' wil ring out over this land until the end of time.

But really the EU are merely bit players in this weeks farce. We cannot blame those outsiders for a problem which originated within these shores. I bear no real ill will towards the European Union, not in the face of the terrible monsters that lie much closer to home.

Certain trinities, triumvirates if you will, spring to mind. Insidious tripods holding up the demons of corruption, gombeenism and despair. Not least The Bankers, The Developers and Fianna Fáil. Not Forgetting Fianna Fáil, The PDs and The Greens. But none worse than Bertie Ahern, Charlie McCreevy and Brian Cowen.

McCreevy, the man who defied the advice of the sensible men of Europe, cutting taxes and deregulating until the banks were as free as a bird to gamble with the money of the People in their insidious little casino on Merrion Street. He deserves more scorn than he gets, that much is certain.

Cowen, who even at this late stage, as he goes down as the worst Taoiseach in history, the man who sold Ireland, will not apologise. He retains the arrogance that was his hallmark during his reign as Finance Minister. Enough words have been spent in the national media about this pathetic, shambling, half-drunk dunce of a man.

But we must focus our attentions on the true culprit. One Bartholomew 'Bertie' Ahern. Leaving aside for the minute his gross corruption, his 'lack' of a bank account, his ludicrous stories of winning money on horses, let us place the weight of the blame upon his shoulders. This man 'led' the country for eleven long years. Under his tenure we went from a well regulated, sensible economy, on the up from a flood of American investment, to a bloated, under-taxed false boom country, about to fall off the precipice that he led us to the very brink of. Nothing speaks louder than his comments near the end of his tenure, his response to those who dared to question his insane policies:

It is not fair to tar all politicians with this same brush. Some in the opposition, though far from perfect, are at least honest, decent people. Deputy Rabbitte's thundering denouncement of the government this week warmed my heart to no end.

So on this saddest of days, in the blackest of weeks, in the worst of years I give you my endorsement for the General Election which is sure to come. It is simply this: Anyone But Fianna Fáil. I care not if you vote for the Irish equivalent of the Nation of Islam, as long as you don't ever give this fetid, corruption-marinated, idiotic, borderline insane crowd of smug self-satisfied arseholes another chance, in my life or yours.

Yours, with great sorrow,

Thómáis Ó Donnághchínnéitígdh.

EU BAILOUT BAILOUT BAILOUT LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

We the People of This Country are Disgusted,

Well now it looks like the end of the line for Ireland the EU are coming in to bail us out and sure everyones complaining but it has to be done and at least it's not just the IMF and the EU are our friends and they might show a bit of restraint when it comes to cutting spending and sure aren't Fianna Fail cutting spending enough already and there's no other option we have to take the money and it'll be bad for a few years but at least we'll know what we're doing and sure wasn't it a bit of a bright spark when Munster beat those Aussies better than the Irish Rugby team struggling against Samoa well the All Blacks are coming and you won't be happy when they destroy you and in all this talk of Bailouts and recession and X Factor we've forgotten that this Large Hadron Collider has created the Big Bang 2 or whatever and they say it's the biggest science experiment ever and it's wonderful and will lead to a heap of new advances but you wouldn't know that to read the news they're too fixated on the bailouts and the NAMA and the EU and the IMF and FIANNA FAIL.

SUU KYI BAILOUT GERRY ADAMS X-FACTOR FIX

We the People of This Country are Disgusted,

Jesus Christ holy Mary mother of God that Louis Walsh and his cohorts are making an absolute mockery of the People of This Country with Wagner and that awful wan Katie still in it they're only trying to annoy us and they're gerrymandering the X-Factor votes to make more money isn't it awful and Gerry Adams running for election in Louth now just when we thought Dail Eireann was as big a sham and a joke as it could ever be in swans himself but fair play to Aung San Suu Kyi she's been in there an awfully long time fair dues when she was put away Ireland was in what WE THOUGHT was the worst recession there could ever be and isn't it shocking awful luck to be set free when the economy everywhere is in such a terrible state she'd have been well advised to keep her head down a few more years until it all calms down a bit.

BOND YIELDS CHEESE AGAIN

We the People of This Country are Disgusted,

Turning on the radio in the mornings you could be forgiven for getting confused between the Irish bond yields and Cowen's approval rating well I tell you I'm surprised at how high both of them are sure isn't the country about to go bust and the only people we can borrow from are those fellas who send you dodgy emails from foreign places and everyones saying that we can't pay the debt and isn't that one Merkel going on about how Ireland is in the toilet but sure we owe her a lot shes holding the country together with both hands and sure isn't Germany doing well but thats because they never had Fianna Fail to ruin their boom with the corruption and the cronyism and that awful Charlie McCreevy with his tax cuts well you can't cut taxes and increase spending you big thick smug mentaller you should have been sent packing back in 1998 and sure it's a terrible pity we voted out John Bruton sure there was an honest man who did good him and Ruari Quinn ran the country well and just because they tried to put a tax on children's shoes and look at the fellas we put in instead led by that scoundrel Bertie and the deregulating arseholes the PDs although poor Harney was attacked again and there were eejits throwing cheese at her and I know the cheese thing was off the wall but thats no excuse to start lashing Charleville at the poor woman even if she is supporting FIANNA FAIL.

Hello, Welcome and Cead Míle Fáilte

A note from our president and editor, Thómáis Ó Donnághchínnéitígdh,

Hello, Welcome and Cead Míle Failte to The People of This Country. My name is Thómáis Ó Donnághchínnéitígdh and I am the Founder, President and Chief-Editor of this little "Venture". You may have enjoyed the opinions and wise words of our staff writers over the past few weeks, I certainly have (!). Mr. Murtagh and Mr. Prendergast are not exactly "P.C." but they speak with the true voice of the people.

Yes, 'na Daoine atá Ísteach sa Tireanna Sin' (The People of This Country), thats what it's all about. We here at the People feel that the voices of This Particular Country have gone unheard for rather too long. While you may say 'Marbh le Tae agus Marbh gan é', we remain confident that our "small" contribution will go "a long way" towards getting this country back on the "right track".

You won't be hearing much from me on this little "Blogosphere", I will leave the "Grass-Roots Rhetoric" to my friends Mr.Prendergast and Mr.Murtagh. They say more with their simple words than I ever could with one of my extended Manx Gaelic poems, although the good people at the Áosdána might disagree (!).

With that in mind I should introduce our august writing staff, as the bard says, 'Ar Scath a Cheile a Mhaireann na Daoine'.

Peter Prendergast (B.A. Hons) is a longtime Dubliner who has never been reticent in airing his views. He is a much respected expert in the areas of Popular Dissent and Ethical Engagement. He serves as the "Moral Compass" of the blog, frequently "bringing us down to earth" when our rhetoric becomes obsessively "Duaisceart". He will deal with a wide range of subjects, from the Bank Bailouts to the rescue of Anglo-Irish, and everything in between (!).

J.Murtagh (B.Sc) is a Kerryman from just west of Valencia Island. He has a wide variety of interests, including confrontation, dispute and discourse (both healthy and unhealthy). He currently lives on a combination of the old age pension and a college grant but his views on the welfare state are just to the right of Margaret Thatcher. To quote himself 'Spongers like me are destroying this Country.' Murtagh has some surprisingly Socialist views, but only when it comes to the topic of whether he should be forced to pay for anything. Failing to make the distinction between those who have traveled and members of the Travelling Community, Murtagh is inherently suspicious of those who carry a passport, or have traveled beyond the Kerry frontier.

With that dispensed, let me tell you a story. One year ago, on the then embryonic discussion program 'The Frontline', a brave and noble being stood as a bulwark against the corrosive and entropic force of presenter Pat Kenny. On that day the founding spirit of this site was born, as Peter, J. and myself spontaneously decided to break our self imposed vows of silence and speak out. This man was the driving force behind us, his spirit keeping us going at times that all we wanted to do was quit. I leave you only with the video of the incident, and with the words of the great Greek philosopher Aristotle who stated 'Ní raibh bhRome deanta isteach aon lá'.