Comments on: Mary Coughlan on BBC HardTalk

By: booby joe

booby joe — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:38:52 +0000

Good on ya Mary

By: Gerard

Gerard — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:18:24 +0000

It would be nice if they had a free choice , many don’t

Neither do many in their 30′s and 40′s

It is a brain drain also , which might result in us geting more TDs
like Mary , Jackie Healy ,J Moloney…. in the national interest

By: Fedup

Fedup — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:41:14 +0000

What a waste of space. No shame or care about Ireland. Founding fathers rolling in their graves…

By: Mark Coughlan

Mark Coughlan — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:48:29 +0000

Got a link to where she said he deserved it?

By: Patricia McCafferty

Patricia McCafferty — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:04:11 +0000

Calamity Coughlan has earned her title well. “A lighhouse in a bog” she is, and as one Fianna Fail politian called her “picture but no sound”, for Gods sake how is she still in a job, she never had to go out and work a day in her life.
She gave the 1million euro pension to Rodney Molloy as what can only be described as silence money, and then weeks later when Molloy was asked why he was not returning the Governments Audi car, Calamity Coughlan said he deserved it.

Scandal and lies always follow Calamity Coughlan around and she should be sacked years ago

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:32:40 +0000

Mary Coughlan, she is a cardboard cut-out ( like the branch bank manager of the last 20 years) ZERO is here GRADE for her to believe that the young people of Ireland are leaving Ireland to enjoy a holiday in the outback of Australia picking onions and living in shacks for a few dollars and “thats what young people are entitled to do!!!” In this house after a €145000 of taxed income spent over 9 years on 3 first class Masters and Degrees to live in the outback Mary go back to Donegal and see will you get a job with your Degree.
Like Bertie in March 2008 the last bullshit to the public advising young people to buy houses now because they will increase by 10-15% next YEAR 2009 what PLANET was he on,(see records )
Or like McCreevy in the 1999 Budget when house sales leveled off due to natural demand he Launched Tax Breaks for second houses when there was no demand oh i forgot the BUILDERS!!!

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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:11:35 +0000

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By: Rogs

Rogs — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:15:16 +0000

I particularly like the part (Part 3, 4.10min in) where Stephan Sachur asks Mary Coughlan about her “Lack of Repentance”. Maybe our politicians need to go to confession more, with the public as their Confessor. Have a look at the expression on Mary’s face when he brings this topic up: it’s priceless.

By: Unqualified to speak

Unqualified to speak — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:37:48 +0000

@Tim O’ Leary: Stephan Sachur exposed nothing; Mary Coughlan’s utter incompetence was well known. It was the assumed explanation for her absence from the Lisbon II campaign – in case she’d say or do something stupid and blow it. He did, however, throw it into sharp relief. Her only saving grace – and the one that has made her the 2nd most powerful person in the country (a terrifying thought) is loyalty to the party, and Biffo in particular. Biffo values loyalty above all else; he’s pinned his colours to too many dodgy masts before.

And if our choice is between Mary Coughlan and Michael O’ Leary, is it no wonder people are emigrating?

By: Rt.Hon. Mr. Fink

Rt.Hon. Mr. Fink — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:59:15 +0000

Unbelievable? No. It’s Coughlan being herself. Symptomatic of the rest of the political class. Probably the rest of the insiders too – RTE, high civil servants etc. Load of wankers, they have fucked the country.

Come to England, its nice here.