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 How is it possible for this man
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Full
story below........
 Taoiseach fiddles while
Ireland's farms burn?
Irish prime
Minister, Bertie Ahern, pictured left, on the day
foot and mouth was confirmed in Ireland;
bullshitting in Parliament, and bearing a
striking physical resemblance to ex-PM Albert
(I'll Sue) Reynolds, describing the
Republic's first foot and mouth outbreak since
1941 as a "major disappointment, given the
intensity of the efforts by all sectors of
society to keep the disease out of Ireland."
Apparently, he hasn't been reading
Mad-As-Hell.Com. If he had, he would know his
statement to be untrue. Even if he took a look at
local newspapers, such as the 'Donegal Democrat',
he would see that public functions have not been
cancelled, and that people are travelling far and
wide, from North and South. Can he be so ignorant
of all that is going on around him?
The day he gave the above speech, most
disinfectant mats in Donegal Town were dry.
Donegal Town is a central town of Co.Donegal;
visited by everyone from foreign tourists, to
local famers, and an essential night spot for the
rural community.
Interviewing a number of Donegal farmers that
same evening, Mad-As-Hell.Com learned how serious
many were taking the threat of foot and mouth.
Statements varied from the concerned, to what can
only be described as out of touch with reality
(something we all understand can happen to a
person, when on the dole all their life)......
"It isn't in Ireland. It's the British
trying to fuck up our economy with false testing
results." Or "I've bought a mobile, so
I can phone that man with the cure straight
away." Refering to a man who is regularly
allowed to advertise his services in local
'newspapers', who claims to be able to cure
everything from 'chest pains'
to 'bleeding' in man
and animal alike.........with a phone
call. Or "Hay is good, I'm
using it on my farm, it's far better than any mat
you could buy" In fairness to the previous
interviewee, we would like to point out that the
high winds we've had in Donegal for the last few
days had subsided by the time we talked to him.
It's about time that our politicians started to
think of the country as a whole. This is no time
for parish pump politics or self interest. Can we
afford for Donegal, or similar place to become
Ireland's 'Typhoid Mary'? And by
that, we don't mean having our Minister for
Agriculture saying, " There is no reason to
believe that we cannot confine the outbreak to
the Cooley Peninsula [Co.Louth]" while
successfully applying for regionalisation of the
EU's export ban, at the same time that his
officials are taking samples from a sheep with
foot and mouth symptoms, near Milford,
Co.Donegal.
Queen
contracts foot-in-mouth  disease
Apparently feeling some affinity with
distressed cows, Britain's Queen
Elizabeth has compared the victims of the
Selby rail crash, where 10
people have lost their lives and scores
more injured, to cattle in a message of
regret saying, "It is a particularly
shocking tragedy coming on top of the
foot-and-mouth outbreak".
How
is it possible for this man to remain in
public office?
Sean
McEniff, Bundoran Fianna Fail councillor
and convicted drunk driver has done his
patriotic duty by cancelling his
constituency clinics, due to the
fear of spreading foot and mouth disease.
Councillor McEniff is also a major
business figure in the town and owns
several hotels and amusment arcades. His
hotel night clubs etc, are a mecca for
those seeking entertainment from far and
wide across several counties, both north
and south of the border,
not to mention the UK. As he is so
concerned about the spread of a disease
which could decimate the farming industry
of his county and entire country, that he
has had to cancel his clinics, why has he
refused to close his business premises
which pose a far greater threat? Such
behaviour for a businessman is
understandable, but for an elected public
representitive in the ruling government's
party, is such a blatent attitude proof
that he is not fit for office?
Meanwhile, in the same 'newspaper', the
'Donegal Democrat' that made
light of the above, the
recently elevated Donegal Minister, Mary
Coughlan is quoted as saying, "The
people of Donegal are doing a magnificent
job of taking precautions against foot
and mouth disease......The spirit of
unity and support from all sections of
the community for the beleagered farming
industry is absolutely admirable."
She went on (and on and on) "People
in towns as well as the countryside,
young and old, are making sacrifices and
putting themselves to considerable
inconvenience to prevent this dreaded
disease infecting our livestock."
Well, if she thinks that a few old bits
of rain soaked carpet, hardly long enough
to wet the circumference of a wheel
barrow tyre is going to do the job, she's
badly mistaken. And if she thinks that
the majority of the Donegal rural
community isn't travelling all over,
she'd be just as mistaken. And if she
doesn't know what is going on in her own
back yard, she must be pretty stupid....
we at Mad-as-Hell.Com, don't think that
she is.
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Sinn Fein cows to keep
Northern Ireland British
The epidemic of
foot-and-mouth disease devistating the UK
has finaly reached Northern Ireland, within
a mile of the border with the Republic.
Sources close to Irish farmers allegedy
connected to Sinn Fein and the 'Real' IRA
have witnessed them on their
knees....thanking god for the border.
Unfortunatly, their god didn't listen and
they now have their lifetime's wish....a
united Ireland.
Dermot Ahern
cracking up?
Claims
by Dermot Ahern, Ireland's Minister for
Social, Family and Community Affairs that
his department is cracking down on
welfare fraud, were brought into question
once again, after Mad-as-Hell.Com learned
that special measures were to be
introduced so that farmers and those
living on farms would not have to travel
to sign on for unemployment payments. A
spokesman for the 'small farmers who pay
taxes and have to work full time in the
PAYE sector to make ends meet even though
their wives are working celtic tiger me
arse organisation' said, in an interview
with Mad-as-Hell.Com, "If the
government are serious about curtailing
the spread of foot and mouth, will they
pay my wife and I our wages, so we don't
have to leave the farm?"
When asked to comment, our editor, Howard
Beale said, "One good thing about
being disabled and being unable to work
to support my family and totally
dependent on welfare payments, is that I
don't have to pay taxes to help keep
these criminals in business." When
asked to clarify whether he was speaking
about welfare cheats or the government,
he declined to comment further.
Crap job
condition
Despite
a large percentage of it's workers having
much of their wages being paid for with
government subsidies, the
management of a factory in Co.Donegal has
insisted that workers bring in their own
toilet rolls.
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