tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36562073.post3944535545060674939..comments2023-06-19T16:12:50.823+01:00Comments on Harry McGee: Say it Again TerenceHarry McGeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11083501942481997668noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36562073.post-37696134608429114422008-03-05T11:16:00.000+00:002008-03-05T11:16:00.000+00:00Thanks for comments Dan. Perceptive as always. Am ...Thanks for comments Dan. Perceptive as always. Am going to do a short post respnding to it. To anonymous, I should have mentioned the Sunday Times but I couldn't remember which paper had done it when writing the blog. I also think the journalist was Mark Tighe, to give credit where it is due.Harry McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11083501942481997668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36562073.post-60792858016287849392008-03-05T10:00:00.000+00:002008-03-05T10:00:00.000+00:00Given that you're exposing plagiarism, and the Ter...Given that you're exposing plagiarism, and the Terence Flanagan story was widely plagiarised by other media, it might be no harm to mention that it was The Sunday Times that broke this story last weekend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36562073.post-5962122288408642692008-03-04T15:13:00.000+00:002008-03-04T15:13:00.000+00:00We don't have a government we have an administrati...We don't have a government we have an administration and oddly enough it would appear the Irish electorate seem to prefer it that way. We much prefer to wait for some other country to come up with some solution and when they do we're clamoring for it to be introduced here within weeks. <BR/><BR/>Sadly with the days of the speechifying on the back of a truck after mass gone it would seem forever, the dearth of an actual local press in Dublin, and the lack of capacity for the national media to look at all the candidates that there is next to no scrutiny of candidates. <BR/><BR/>The Americans often talk about how the primary process (which exists at the local level too) is about scrutinising and testing the candidates to ensure they are up to the task ahead. Here you just get a critical mass of people to go about saying you're a great lad or lassie, and pretty soon not alone do you believe it but the electorate do too. I would love to have heard about the interesting ideas that the individual candidates had at the time of the general election but other than repeating a party line put out by HQ I don't recall many of them having any at all. SF repeated the word equality so often you would think that saying it would make it so. They weren't the only offenders. We've become so goal orientated as a society that everyone seems to have forgotten about what goes into working out how those goals will be achieved, or is that just the engineer in me talking again? Ideas are for the consultants to work out, for the civil service to recommend and for the minister to approve.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03238749613615582511noreply@blogger.com