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FINE GAEL HAS again attacked Gerry Adams’ maths skills, poking fun at the Sinn Féin leader on Twitter.
A post on the Fine Gael’s Twitter page promoted the fact that the Taoiseach was taking part in a Q&A session with new party members yesterday.
Sinn Féin later asked if Enda Kenny answered any questions or just kept “waffling until he ran out of time à la Leaders Questions?”
Sinn Féin: 1; Fine Gael: 0.
However, the senior Government party was quick to take the opportunity to poke fun at Gerry Adams’ maths skills:
On Monday night, Adams made a bit of a gaffe on Claire Byrne Live. During a debate with Tánaiste Joan Burton, he said scrapping the property tax would cost about €5 million, rather than €500 million.
Sinn Féin has now responded, claiming Kenny could do with brushing up on his own numbers skills:
Last week, Adams told fellow deputies in the Dáil: “I’m not great at maths.”
A statement quickly seized on by political opponents:
Can’t we all just get along?
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Minimum wage is €35,000 according to Inda. Pot, kettle etc.
i wish it was 35k , living in a dream world they are! as long as gerry doesn’t become minister for finance we should be sound!!
That’s the ‘average industrial wage’ apparently.
Sinn Fein Dail members have to hand over the balance of their salary to the party coffers, like Scientologists.
Or like egalitarians?
Not quite. Some keep all their book earnings, dinner speech proceeds and other perks for themselves, as they’ve earned it. As distinct from Sinn Fein Dail members.
Some pigs are more equal than others.
It’s a core principle of good communism.
Dear The Bench,
You are currently overseeing an economy that is based on a figure that was picked out of David Drumm’s ar8e …
How in all that is known in the universe can you criticise Sinn Fein ?
I thought Fianna Fail are to blame …..
Integrity ? ? ?
Communism? You’ve gone so far right you’ve done full circle have you John
Forgive me for pointing out the blindingly obvious, but surely the people who need to be handy with numbers are Sinn Feins finance guy Pearse Doherty, and the people in the Department of Finance who supply Sinn Fein with the Figures for their Budget Submissions?
I’d be more concerned if Adams didn’t have the skills required for leadership and diplomacy, which he has displayed in spades during his career
Doh doh doh me no know how count me get minyun do it but me can be leader bang me can tell lie like diplomat you no like lie bang Err yu furrill Jammin?
Having a minor stroke there thomas?
Like murdering people? That kind of diplomacy?
Or leadership like jumping on band wagons of public opinion?
Hey maybe he’s good at geography.. Like drawing up maps to where ‘the disappeared’ are?
well enda has 5 advisors.. so that’s
1 for Math
1 for English or write his speeches
1 for how to dress
1 to craft his lies
1 to wipe his arse
Murdering people Colin? Quick, inform the authorities and bring forth your evidence to substantiate such a statement. The truth of the matter is Gerry Adams is a fine politician and negotiator who helped bring about sustained peace after decades of bloodshed. He is not one in which i could see bending over to Merkel/ECB and co or happily smiling away as Sarcozy rubs his head. At the very least its nice to see him engage in rather than dodge debate, unlike our Taoiseach who is nothing more than a mortifying, spineless, incompetent sell out.
So you’re saying that ends is an innocent man in all this, and it’s his advisors who are doing the deeds? Here, I’ve a spare FG membership form in front of me, what’s your address?
It’s well known to the irish people that Gerry was in the IRA and took part in their miscellaneous activities, sin fein have never been in government and therefore don’t have a notion what their on about. Eg the fact they think imposing a higher tax rate on high earners will fix the woes of unemployed paddy. Grow up and cop on these people will do to our country what syriza are going to do to Greece.
Sinn Fein are in government up north colin
You’re a fool, you’re comment verifies that
If YOU’RE going to call somebody a fool, try to get YOUR spelling right.
Future Taoiseach Gerry doesn’t need basic maths?! You’ll explain away anything negative about SF WJ…
i wish
Colin I don’t know what you are at in that photo ….
Is that a bit of concentration mentality coming out there Colin – The final solution rhetoric ?
I hate that if it is …it stinks of stupidity !
Anything to James ..
You don’t have to answer if you are – we understand – embarrassing and all that !
Where did Colin go with his dalek “exterminate attitude” comment ?
I’d say he reread his original comment about adams and the disappeared, and then his comment where he wants me disappeared, and probably got crushed under the weight of the irony.
I not a Sinn Fein supporter but FG & Labour are doing a great job……
NOT……
It’s not only Sinn Fein they should be worried about its everyone.
Fine Geal will loose many seats and Labour will be history.
@Simon Barnes:
That’s 6, Simon.
You forgot the one who kisses his arse!
so its ok that the leader is stupid? ah this hilarious :D
Ha this is funny coming from a party who’s leader and irelands elected td thinks irelands minimum wage is 35k a year.
Sorry correction Taoiseach
Yep it’s hilarious how much they are stealing from us to prop up bond holders and banks… #USC #PropertyTax #IrishWater #InsuranceLevy …. Hilarious!!
Top costing 50 T5.D.s cost us 100 million since the election ..
They can add expenses I bet ya …..
“I’m not good with women”. says a clown that no-one has much respect for anymore !
What’s new pussy cat ? – Not a lion anymore ?
FG seem to be very fast to forget the Enda howler that the min wage is 35k per annum,fair mathematician at the helm of our country
Fine Gael are pathetic, doubt anyone pays them much attention anyway..
Oiche. Mhaith.
Thomas and you a man of the cloth ….
some things never change ! ……
RTE seem to be paying them plenty of attention at the moment.Not much attention to anyone else but sure what can we really expect at this stage.Dickie Bruton rehashing the same speil again tonight for a good ten minutes without one difficult question.It’s a party political broadcast on behalf of FG every evening on good ole RTE at the moment.
It’s so obvious they have moved to election footing -
Vincent Browne is back on the agenda ……
I for one am sick of all this school yard nonsense. Why can’t our elected representatives behave like adults and do some bloody work. They’re paid enough of tax payers money and don’t seem to do much at all.
Completely agree. I don’t like the way some media (mainly journal) talks it up that this petty to and fro between the twitter interns of elected politicians is in some way meant to show young people that it’s ok to bring childish barbs rather than keep people updated. To be fair, neither could be called a “burn”, in any environment outside of media luvvies.
How pathetic and school yard bully type tactics. So are they making fun of Irish people who are bad at maths? Is there something wrong with being bad at maths. Does that mean me as someone who is bad at maths is beneath them? At least he knows he is unlike fg ff lab who screwed the country and bad a maths when finding money for Irish but can find it very easily to send out of country and for luxury of their lives. You’re not going to blind side me and make me think badly of Gerry because he is bad at math. He isn’t one destroying the country. You are leo grow the hell up.
Well said. I’d rather have someone who’s ‘bad at maths’ but has a backbone fighting my corner in Europe, than a invertebrate yes man who used to teach maths to 9 year olds.
But they’re also very bad at Chemistry and Computer Science, not to mention Economics.
So you admit that you prefer loud mouthed idiots. Fair enough.
Watched the clare byrne debate, there was only one loud mouthed idiot on display for voters to see, and it wasn’t Adams.
@William Grogan.Surprised you missed the obvious dig about SF being quite good at chemistry…
*I know I really shouldn’t be helping the Blue Shirts but when they are missing the easy ones it’s hard not to.
*I actually red thumbed myself for that in case anyone is thinking Im giving myself a pat on the back for it.
Paddy, well spotted. Selective studying. Mind you I managed to make real gunpowder when I was 12 so that’s not impressive.
jorry fought the brits out of northern ireland… oh wait :D
This coming from a government which today admitted it did not know how much it was going to cost to staff and manage the so-called Water Conservation grant (seems it likes ‘installing’ [sic] an iPad. So they have effectively launched an un-costed entity – which they are running hard to keep up with, costing and staffing wise. And this is no small matter, the costings the government have yet to finalise could well bring the whole rotten edifice crashing down around ‘Paddys’ ears. Had the Shinners done this, or even proposed it as a model, they would have been rightly accused of fantasy economics etc.
jorry got owned :D
Are you going to post Sinn Feins response ?
No?
Well they use an actual figure that enda messed up on recently. Fine gael just copied and pasted a picture of a maths book.
Thanks journal !
It how’s the lack of knowledge FG have with what’s going on in the schools.The post a picture of a math book that hasn’t been used in decades and then prattle on about a knowledge based economy.Completely out of touch as usual .
*shows
game set and match to FG :D
1 plus some more X’s will get this Blueshirt shower and their labour lackeys OUT.
It’s hard to know if Enda’s good at hard sums because he is so incoherent at the best of times it’s impossible to understand him.
id have it before jorrys cringe ‘curry my yogurt’ attempts in the Dail
Some people like to make economics out to be complicated, so that they can try an rip you off while telling you its for your own good and you wouldn’t understand. This has been F.G’s mantra since they took office. But economics is simple if you take the money off the poor people, they have nothing to spend, this in turn leaves the people who are supplying them with nothing to spend, tradespeople, shopkeepers etc. it becomes a vicious circle wages fall as profits fall.
Finegael and labour not only robbed the poor but they then gave the money away to the rich. It would be hard to believe if you didn’t know that they are in one big circle with the rich and elite
As I’m sure you know, Economics is mainly complete b_ls41t.
I personally can’t wait until I kick back and put my feet up and live in this new welfare state sf will create. Who needs a stable economy anyway I mean look at how successfully socialism has been implemented in other country’s. The excitement is overwhelming me. Quick give me my free everything that someone else will pay for I cant wait any longer!!!!!!!
FG certainly have us living the dream David!…….Oh crap!…….I just woke up!
@ David
To an extent you are right … BUT Sinn Fein was the ONLY party which voted AGAINST FF’s Bank Guarantee… The Guarantee which we were told would be the “cheapest in history” hahaha
That bank guarantee then led onto the severe troika bailout two years later
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/election-2011/sinn-fein-defends-bank-guarantee-vote-144934.html You mean this one or another one I never heard of?
@ David
Sinn féin did agree to back the guarantee as an emergency measure to stop a run on Irish banks.
However ,once the detail was revealed and the initial evidence was exposed as lies from the banks, ,Sinn Féin subsequently withdrew that initial support and voted against the bill ratifying the Guarantee, some weeks later. They have been against it ever since
You just said right before I posted that, that SF was the only party that voted against it. Now you have a different excuse. That sums up my apathy to the whole political system in our country every last politician in the country is in it for the money. They backed it, the vote was final how can they withdraw a vote after its called? If that’s the case I withdraw my vote for labour from 2011. All the same full of Sheeit!
As an emergency measure they had to support it, to stop the banks from collapsing. But they voted against RATIFYING it
David, its a matter of Dail record that they voted against the bill.
Anybody who voted labour in 2011 was at best naïve at worst a complete halfwit.
Gerry….How can you have a complete halfwit?
SF like to forget that they fully supported the bank guarantee but like everything they lie about it afterwards. just shows the cult cannot be trusted
Average earner saving up to 30000 euro a year .enda kenny.
Just out of shot is a copy of “where’s enda?”
Enda is just about capable of reading. His own party hide him and prevent him from speaking, he is that stupid. what does that say for the combined brain power of finegael that they would elect a moron to lead them.
enda is a qualified teacher. gerry is what exactly again?
Countless newspapers have accused Adams of being in the IRA but he has never sued them for slander? Funny that, aint it?
If someone accused me of being in the IRA, I would sue the bollix off them and make a killing, as well as regaining my good name
obviously he’d rather the matter won’t get properly investigated!
Go away wee willy everybody knows you wouldn’t have the guts to join the IRA
only cowards joined the IRA. Of the 1600 murder victims how many were armed? complete cowards murdering innocent unarmed people. lets not forget the countless women, men and children sexually abused by the ‘decent’ IRA mob.
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This reminds of the SF marches in Dublin in the 80′s where they’d have a line of one person on each side of the road to make the march as long as possible. :)
Fg poking fun at anyones shortcomings is a joke in itself considering the kind of brain power that they could muster together would hardly toast bread …..on one side !
How do you form a line with one person? ???
Give them a pencil and piece of paper
M, a line of one person width. Is that more clear?
Fine Gael are really scared of losing seats to Sinn Fein.
Sarcastic tones here lol.
that was a bit tragic alright those SF marches. one person on either side of the road and declare the road was packed, its all too tragic
Gerry’s words-
I am not in the IRA- Fine Gael do not believe him-
I am not a maths expert- Fine Gael believe him- I suppose it’s progress-
he conclusively proved he was stupid, the other is harder prove but it will happen and he will be locked up :)
As long as they know the Earth was created in 6 days, what’s the problem?
Sinn Fein are already proven to be scientifically illiterate because they have a policy to stop the Fluoridation of water and repeal the Law of Gravity because they don’t understand them. There is NO scientific or medical body agrees with removing Fluoridation but presumably most SF members left school before they learned basic Chemistry as well as basic Maths.
SF have swapped the balaclava for ……………
http://diablo.incgamers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/index.jpg
Whereas you’ve swapped yours for anonymous profile.
You’re really big into the Fluoridation topic, at every chance you get you throw wobbler at it’s removal, you use it to bash anyone who agrees with its removal……..is it that addictive?
Eoin, what are you talking about?
If a political party supports total quackery what does that say about their level of intelligence and education? Fluoridation is like a measure of stupidly. Oppose water Fluoridation and you are clearly scientifically illiterate. Do we want scientifically illiterate people running the country?
Huges face is guaranteed to pop up when there is a story about FG…even when he didn’t write the article!
Hugh even!
to be fair, Busy at Maths 6 is a bit of a compliment. Toughest of the series.
There’s one question where there are loads of bodies buried in shallow graves all over the countryside and you have to calculate just the right amount of political generousity of selectively remembering where they might be, without warming up any criminal evidence.
It’s a real tricky one to work out.
you do know that far more died in the care of this state than were killed in this state by the ira. when will the government tell the truth and apoligise for there own parties shortcomings
More die from smoking every year. Globally more people die from slipping in the bathroom that the IRA every killed.
So we should forget the evil deeds of the organisation who murdered gardai and other Irish citizens.
The are now peacemakers.
Just like a rapist who stops raping, an arsonist who stops burning or a thief who stops thieving, they should be praised for stopping what they were doing.
Should we forget about the priests who are still at large who have raped children ?
Should we forget Fr. Molloy ?- Assurances from Enda ?
The past is either buried or all skeletons come out !
SF/IRA will never be allowed forget their evil deeds
Aged 17, after finishing school, Adams worked as a barman in the Duke of York pub in central Belfast.
For some unknown reason, never disclosed, he was relieved of his duties.
We now know the reason, he was giving out the wrong change to everyone!
brilliant :D
@ Orla Ryan
I notice yourself and Hugh have both started dropping the word “Burn” into the slew of pro FG/ anti SF articles.
Clearly the Journal.ie has been instructed to do this, what excatly have FG offered?
Hope it’s all worth it..
Is what F.G. not doing called BULLYING… The same form as they have done to us all with property charges, water charge and do not forget austerity and how they ignored the people here to pay banksters and bondholdsters?
They bullied all those things onto this nation, a leopard never changes its spots…
you forgot SF latest bullying of rape victim maria cahill?
Social media, politics, people we should respect, can they not see that they are collectively reducing themselves to class clowns and idiots by going down this road. Should have posted ´Figure it Out´ ;) there was a text book that taught you maths
Teachers being bullies who would have tought!
So F.G. living in the past as usual because they thought it was clever this childish act and they are the ones ruling this country under Merkels apron…
Lol. I think I may have started this… Sorry Gerry. It just proves that politicians do read the journal.ie
i suppose its the brits fault that he is stupid?
As it’s the social media people hired by the parties and not Enda or Gerry actually doing the tweeting can’t you all just see the slight humour in it and stop being so bloody serious all the time.
hilarious all the same
I wonder what type of questions jorry will get from now on? they would be maths or economic related now would they. The name kim jun jorry truly does apply, touts himself as intelligent but is just stupid at the end of the day.
poor jorry just got owned :D
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