So the Irish people want a Taoiseach who dances with dogs? The Labradoodle is indeed a lovely specimen of a dog - pity about the wannabe Taoiseach though - his party are afraid of their lives to let him loose on the electorate so he will not appear on TV3 in a three way debate with Eamon Gilmore and Micheál Martin - some lame excuse about a pejorative remark made by Vincent Browne last year for which he apologised profusely! In any case this is what we are going to be subjected to now that Fine Gael are at last poised to be in government in this God forsaken land. Then our wannabe Minister for Finance Mr Michael Noonan starts off down the slippery slope of 'auction politics' - Fine Gael, he says, will subsidise first time mortgage holders who are in negative equity by giving them tax relief (just when we thought the days of auction politics were over for good)! Does anyone remember that the self same Mr Noonan bullied Bridget McCole on her deathbed. In 1994 the 'Rainbow Coalition' was formed and Noonan became Minister for Health. The department was embroiled in a scandal at the time regarding blood products contaminated with Hepatitis C virus, caused by the negligence of the Blood Transfusion Service Board. Noonan consistently held an authoritarian line on the case of Bridget McCole and would not budge on his views, suffering as a result of the scandal.[4][5][6] He threatened to take Bridget's mother Ellen to the Supreme Court when she wondered why her daughter had contracted the disease. Noonan was forced to establish the Hepatitis C Tribunal of Inquiry and to issue several apologies for his handling of the affair.[3] Noonan remained as Minister until the 1997 election election. The Irish Times said "the woman involved had been infected by a negligent State agency, in the biggest health scandal since its foundation."[7] Another great promise of Mr Noonan was when he was on the back foot in the 2002 general election he offered us our Eircom share money back! Am I the only person in Ireland to remember these events? I am now on the edge of despair as regards a good candidate to vote for in this election and I might just have to go to the polling booth and vote NONE OF THE ABOVE!
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