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Thursday June 22, 2006 14:40 by Socialist
Higgins told to ' go away' in heated debate Taoiseach Bertie Ahern described Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins as a " failed person" and told him to "he will soon go away" during heated exchanges on the cost of housing. Mr Higgins said that house prices had increased on the Taoiseach's watch. "He failed cataclysmically to stop the unbridled speculation by developers and house builders. Of course, that was deliberate. The matter goes all the way back to the devil's pact made between Fianna Fáil and house builders and speculators in the 1960s. They bought the party's councillors, who in turn corrupted planning in Dublin, and perhaps other areas, and created the nightmare we now have. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9about time joe higgins was given a lash, but you didn't publish it all, he called him a nitwit
Hard luck son! It was Bertie who looked like a fool. The Irish Times reporter commented that Joe Higgins is the only TD who can really get under his skin; he tries so hard to be a nice guy and absorb all the criticism without breaking his stride, but this time he flipped. Like McDowell with a Dub accent
Another journalist told me that iho Berties was way ott and would have to apologise.
Bertie is behaving like a spoilt, bad mannered child.
He is not fit to be taoiseach.
Give us honest honourable Joe Higgins anyday.
Saw a bit of it on rte last night, what a laugh.
Good on you Joe, keep at him.
yet he refers to socialism as a failed ideology. Which is it bertie? keep up the good work joe. The current housing situation and the governments collusion with property speculators is nothing short of criminal.
Joe Higgins was totally right to pin the 300% increase in housing over the last 10 years on Bertie Ahern and his lamentable brother Noel. This whole stinking government is in hoc to developers, rich businessmen and housing profiteers. And they have the cheek to commemorate Michael Davitt!
However, Joe Higgins' contribution on the 'Week in Politics' last Sunday left a lot to be desired. He seemed to be under the illusion that the North of Ireland was advancing to social inclusion and harmony in 1969! He actually believes that Charlie haughey with the help of the IRA stopped this march towards class unity! Come on Joe, get real and educate yourself about the causes of conflict on this island.
It's a classic example of what was always evident in Irish left-wing movements: The ability to support revolutionary and armed movements anywhere in the world except the one 90 miles up the road...
That Bertie was out of order. They did a picture of Bertie as the Hulk and said he shouldn't have slagged off a fellow socialist like that. I think most people of any sense regardless of left or right know that Bertie lost it. Most likely in reaction to Bertie totally misreading the Haughey funeral turnout and non-outpouring of grief.
I'd just like to actually see it as it happened.