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THE SUCCESS OF Rory McIlroy in the US Open offers “lessons” for the Republican party in next year’s US presidential race.
So says the Republican party itself which posted a blog on its official website this week entitled: What 2012 Republican Contenders Can Learn From Rory McIlroy.
The blog noted that McIlroy’s strategy as he headed into the US Open in mid-June was “to set an overall goal, do his best, play things out in small segments on the course… and not pay much attention to the leaderboard”.
This approach could serve Republican challengers to President Barack Obama in 2012, the blog continues: “Setting a goal and then playing it out day by day is also great advice for living our lives.”
It concludes:
The nomination process for Republicans will be determined by many factors. But the election candidate who approaches the contest as McIlroy did is likely to end up playing in the final twosome in the fall of 2012 against President Obama. In the process, the election candidates should stay grounded and not take themselves too seriously.As McIlroy’s mom reportedly said to him over and over again growing up, and as I heard in my Irish household many, many times: “Get over yourself”.
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So landlords attack tenants for not paying rent, when in fact the reason is they moved banks and the tenant in question is a surgeon who had the presence of mind to put the rent aside.
The gardaí were only interested in asking if rent was owed and completely disregarded the attack with, what we can all agree is a deadly weapon. Yeah, that’ll encourage medical professionals to stay in Ireland alright. Of course no arrests and nobody held accountable. Great little country.
Tenner bets the aul fella changed from Ulster Bank or KBC or whatever, forgot to tell his tenants and then decided it was the tenant’s fault when he couldn’t get the rent!
The Gardai are thinly veiled revenue protection for landlords!
It’s well known that attacking someone with a motorised saw is a civil matter….
In cloud cuckoo land.
It’s not a civil matter when someone tries to physically attack you, irrespective of the payment or not. Solicitors give clients many reasons to do or not do things, in the end the decision to act or not is the person involved. Lastly, racial abuse should not be tolerated whether from the landlord or the Gardai!
It’s mad how much Fine Gael and Fine Fail wanted to cry over a photoshopped painting last week and have no comment on this very terrifying situation. I imagine FF/FG spin doctors are working overtime in HQ tonight trying to frame this on Mary Lou somehow.
@Pat Barry: You must have only skimmed the article. The landlord switched bank accounts and didn’t inform the tenant of the new details, so of course when the tenant tried to pay, his payment bounced back and the landlord didn’t answer the phone. Couldn’t be any more cut and dry that the tenant has done nothing wrong.
Impressive show from our law enforcement agency
The rulebooks in this country need to be updated! Non stop drama with properties. Between prices, supply, tax and mortgage rules.. The lot of it stinks, and must be normalised.
Ballinasloe Circular Saw Massacre.
What a scuumbag landlord. What a useless response by the cops.
That sort of thing happens all the time here in Ireland. The Gardai have no interest. The jails would be full if everytime someone was attacked with a chainsaw they arrested the assailant. I’m somewhat surprised to see this story hitting the headlines. There must be an ulterior motive.
With the judges of this country, Garda has no point existing, they would release a mass murderers after a slap on the wrist.
@Yvon Queguiner: They let a guy in wanted buy interpol for 2 seriously offences, no problem!
@Pat Barry: Id i ot
There are some awful thick people in this country.
@Sylvia Power: Yadda, yadda, yadda.
@Pat Barry: go on away back to bed with yourself…
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