Comments on: The More You’re Praised, the More Anxious You Should Become http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/31/the-more-you%e2%80%99re-praised-the-more-anxious-you-should-become/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:21:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Donagh http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/31/the-more-you%e2%80%99re-praised-the-more-anxious-you-should-become/#comment-18736 Donagh Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:42:17 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/31/the-more-you%e2%80%99re-praised-the-more-anxious-you-should-become/#comment-18736 Apparently Cyprian has spent the last 20 years as Berties 'runner' in Drumcondra. Its having people willing to post so many letters at that hour of the morning that amazes me. In terms of malpractice its a trifling matter and no one is bothered to pursuit it. Funny story that about Cyprian and the fearful artist Cullen. It seems there is more to this, in terms of backroom dealings and Fianna Fail nastiness than I originally thought. According to <a href="http://ceadaoin.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Wednesday</a> over at Irish Election, who implicitly trusts the source of the story, Mary's Da, Dermot Fitzpatrick 'threatened to invoke his right (under party rules) as a sitting TD to be automatically re-selected unless his daughter was put on the ticket. So there was never any support for her candidacy at HQ and the question wasn’t whether they were going to “shaft” her, but how.' Leave them to it, I say. Apparently Cyprian has spent the last 20 years as Berties ‘runner’ in Drumcondra. Its having people willing to post so many letters at that hour of the morning that amazes me. In terms of malpractice its a trifling matter and no one is bothered to pursuit it.

Funny story that about Cyprian and the fearful artist Cullen. It seems there is more to this, in terms of backroom dealings and Fianna Fail nastiness than I originally thought.

According to Wednesday over at Irish Election, who implicitly trusts the source of the story, Mary’s Da, Dermot Fitzpatrick ‘threatened to invoke his right (under party rules) as a sitting TD to be automatically re-selected unless his daughter was put on the ticket. So there was never any support for her candidacy at HQ and the question wasn’t whether they were going to “shaft” her, but how.’

Leave them to it, I say.

]]> By: Seanachie http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/31/the-more-you%e2%80%99re-praised-the-more-anxious-you-should-become/#comment-18607 Seanachie Thu, 31 May 2007 23:03:43 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2007/05/31/the-more-you%e2%80%99re-praised-the-more-anxious-you-should-become/#comment-18607 Interesting that Cyprian Brady, whose brother Royston famously had Bertie turn on him in dramatic and effective fashion, should be so well in with the Taoiseach now. Ahern is as tough and as nasty a bastard as his mentor Haughey ever was - a personality no less than Michael McDowell will testify to this. A friend of mine who organised the erection of O'Rahilly memorial on Henry St a couple of years back - he is a great-grandson of The O'Rahilly - told me a hilarious story of how Shane Cullen, the artist who produced the memorial and a Nordie friend of his but the fear of God in Cyprian in the latter's office when the young FFer pushed his pen a bit too far in the administrative process. On the subject of dodgy dealings, isn't canvassing on the day of an election illegal? And do the makers of this documentary have substantive proof that might be passed on to the relevant authorities (for all the good that that will do)? Interesting that Cyprian Brady, whose brother Royston famously had Bertie turn on him in dramatic and effective fashion, should be so well in with the Taoiseach now. Ahern is as tough and as nasty a bastard as his mentor Haughey ever was - a personality no less than Michael McDowell will testify to this.

A friend of mine who organised the erection of O’Rahilly memorial on Henry St a couple of years back - he is a great-grandson of The O’Rahilly - told me a hilarious story of how Shane Cullen, the artist who produced the memorial and a Nordie friend of his but the fear of God in Cyprian in the latter’s office when the young FFer pushed his pen a bit too far in the administrative process.

On the subject of dodgy dealings, isn’t canvassing on the day of an election illegal? And do the makers of this documentary have substantive proof that might be passed on to the relevant authorities (for all the good that that will do)?

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