Irish Politics, Politicians in Ireland, TDs, Irish Government

O'Dea rejects pub fight claims

An article about Willie O'Dea seen on RTÉ News and Current Affairs - Irish and International News

Willie O'Dea has denied he offered to fight a man in a pub in Limerick following a row with Shannon Airport campaigners.... Continue reading »

Ministers behaving badly

An article about Willie O'Dea seen on Wapping Psycho

Snakes alive! After a recent question in the Dail (Irish Parliament) about Government Ministers snorting the marching powder, another Minister ( … at all, considering some of the reprobates Bertie has in his party. Willie O'Dea Willie O'Dea Which brings me to the one and only Willie O'Dea. Ah Willie. The Irish Examiner... Continue reading »

BertieVsBeardy While it is clear that on their …

Seen on Misanthropy Abroad

BertieVsBeardy While it is clear that on their home turf the “Soldiers of Destiny” … more of their partners with them. For example, Willie O’Dea who we all know as brilliant local politician... Continue reading »

Clarification re Willie and De Bert

Seen on Fergus O'Rourke - Journal - Of Laws and Men

My “cut” last night at De Bert was a mite unfair. Three seats for FF in his constituency was very tall order indeed … , Costello a little worse. Meanwhile, in Willie O’Dea’s Limerick East, a 5-seater,FF and PD had 55 … %,very nearly 3 quotas. Whatever about De Bert, Willie let his side down. I suspect that others may... Continue reading »

What a big Willie O’Dea

Seen on A view from Kerry

In Their Own Words. From Willie’s website, you couldn’t make it up. Are the Blue Helmets making Willie so big and proud?... Continue reading »

Wille on Today FM

Seen on SNAPS ::: thesnappers'

  Yesterday, Thursday 17 May 2007, Ireland’s current Minister for Defence, Limerick Fianna Fáil TD, … with his moustache. Funny or weird? Would you trust this man with the defence forces? Listen to Willie O’Dea on Today FM’s Ray D’Arcy Show... Continue reading »

This is the most What The Fuck Election Ever

Seen on Green Ink

Callely’s rabbits, Pole Up The Hole, Spliffogate, and now Willie O’Dea exercises his willie live on Today FM: … ….eh…Willie O Dea! Mary even managed to sit on Willie O Dea’s knee and play with his moustache... Continue reading »

Why Willie. Why Oh Why?

Seen on Bohane's Bits & Bobs

Having been recently exiled to Limerick my vote has been transfered from Cork South Central to the Limerick East constituency … for Defence himself, Willie O’Dea. As all canvasers do he asked for my vote. I told … them feel powerful. And what was Willie’s response? Well I don’t know much about that. I’m... Continue reading »

Election

Seen on Domi's PhD Blog

And now for something completely different: It is election time in Ireland. Of course I do not want to deprive you of the lovely cast of characters that is courting for the grace of the voters. I’ve picked the 3 best posters for you. The funny thing is, that they are all in the same party, and Berties Team. I will hand in Berties Pic later... Continue reading »

Willie’s back!

Seen on Daniel K. Sullivan

This weeks Sunday Independent has a column from Willie O’Dea. So he hasn’t gone to ground after all . As this edition of the paper is out after the dissolution of the Dail will it come under the Benefit in Kind form of expenditure during the course of the campaign? As the entire column is an election broadcast for FF so how can anyone claim is... Continue reading »

Where’s Willie?

Seen on Daniel K. Sullivan

Strangely, no Willie O’Dea in the Sunday Independent today. Where could he be? Hardly running about taking all these posters like the one to the left with his glorious Leader’s name wrong on it could he be? Or were he and a gang up late into the night removing Noreen Ryan’s posters since they don’t have anyone’s name but her own on them. Or... Continue reading »

Inside Politics - Willie O’Dea and the Original Sin(do)

Seen on Harry McGee

Dan Sullivan has posed a couple of very pointed and searchign questions about Willie O’Dea’s second career (that of a newspaper hack) on his blog. He says they have been unanswered by Willie’s own profession (his fellow journalists, of course). Now read on… Unanswered because it seems no one in the Dead Tree Press is asking them. I was drawn a... Continue reading »

Willie O’Dea - the unanswered questions

Seen on Daniel K. Sullivan

Unanswered because it seems no one in the Dead Tree Press is asking them. I was drawn a fortnight ago to the Minister of Defence Willie O’Dea’s entry in the register of Oireachtas members interest. The minister as many people will know has a weekly column in the Sunday Independent. Now, politicians writing the occasional column or making the odd... Continue reading »

Another Minister visiting but who picks the Honorary Consul and more to the point who can remove him.

Seen on Lebanon an Irish Experience through the bottom of a glass

Willie O’Dea will become the Second Irish Minister to visit Lebanon in a month. First we had the Minister for Foreign Affairs and now we will have the Minister for Defence. What makes this surprising is that Lebanon is not deemed important enough to have an Irish embassy but yet the army has had personnel serving here since the seventies and... Continue reading »

Save us from Morons

Seen on Cheebah and all that - Limerick, Ireland

[ Movementtosaveireland_1] While some were busy with the Willie O Dea re-election campaign, another political appeal appeared on some Limerick walls over the last few weeks. This new movement urged us to join and stop multiculturalism because it was evil. Rather unexpectedly it’s very few members include a pole going on some of the Polish... Continue reading »

The lies they tell us

Seen on Skin Flicks

(Number one in an occasional series) Minister for Defence Willie O’Dea, writing in his Sunday Independent column in Summer 2002, spoke out about the Nice Treaty then being debated in the country. He told us: “The second myth is that the Nice Treaty will mean mass immigration from the new EU member countries in Eastern Europe. This is probably... Continue reading »

Defence Minister Willie O’Dea - Spineless

Seen on DG's Space

 Defence Minister Willie O’Dea, what a spineless twat! This year Two young children were hospitalised with serious burns after an arson attack on a car in Limerick (Moyross) Ireland. The attackers petrol bombed the car after the child’s mother refused the attackers a lift! The children in the car couldn’t get out of the car quick enough and... Continue reading »

Biggotted housing estate identified

Seen on The Limerick Blogger

The housing estate which is giving the Murray family the “fuck you” salute has finally been identified. The estate in question is called Clonile, located off the Old Cracloe Road. The houses in the estate range in price from €220,000 to €400,000. It is reported in the Irish Examiner that a petition of 60 signitures has been presented to Limerick... Continue reading »

The National Forum on Europe - Ireland and the EU Battlegroups

Seen on Irish Forums

The National Forum on Europe - Ireland and the EU Battlegroups: “Ireland and the EU Battlegroups The Minister for Defence, Willie O’Dea TD, told the National Forum On Europe today (Thursday 11th May 2006) that the government expects a response shortly to Ireland’s application to join the Nordic Battlegroup, one of the rapid response groups... Continue reading »

Ó Deaghaidh, Willie Ó Deaghaidh

Seen on Roinnt Smaointe

Scéala úr ag teacht isteach. Ní bheidh Daniel Craig sa phríomhpháirt sa chead Scannán Bond eile. Is cuma cé chomh maith is atá sé mar an finscéal scannáin sa scannán Bond is nuaí Casino Royale. Fuair mé an t-eolas seo ó m’fhoinsí maite cóngarach do na boic mhóra i Hollywood, agus is léir anois go bhfuil suim mhór acu Willie O’Dea s’againne fhéin... Continue reading »

Minister Willie O’Dea offers the dumbest excuse EVER

Seen on Blogh an seanchai

This was in The Examiner: O’Dea pulls out of launch for IRA man’s biography The bould Willie O’Dea — Irish Minister for Defence — was invited to launch a book called “Sean South of Garryowen.” He accepted the invitation and the pulled out, because of pressure from his department officials. His excuse? He claims that he didn’t that it was... Continue reading »

Minister Willie O’Dea offers the dumbest excuse EVER

Seen on Ciaran's Site - Ciaran's Site

Minister Willie O’Dea offers the dumbest excuse EVERNov 16, ‘06 1:06 PM for everyoneThis was in The Examiner: O’Dea pulls out of launch for IRA man’s biography The bould Willie O’Dea — Irish Minister for Defence — was invited to launch a book called “Sean South of Garryowen.” He accepted the invitation, but then he pulled out, because of... Continue reading »

Willie O’Dea Puts His Hands Up…

Seen on Green Ink

O’Dea pulls out of Sean South book launch O’Dea pulls out of launch for IRA man’s biography Ahh that Sean South of Garryown... Continue reading »

O’Dea pulls out of Sean South book launch

Seen on The Limerick Blogger

Willie O’Dea has landed himself in the soup after he pulled out of the launch of a biography on IRA man Sean South. He claims that he did not know who the book was about, and with an ambiguous title of “Sean South of Garryowen” who can blame him. Aparantly he thought the book was about someone else. Maybe that someone else had the same name and... Continue reading »

Limerick Late Late Show clips (Continued)

Seen on The Limerick Blogger

The amount of clips in a single post is starting to bog things down. so the remaining recordings will have to go into a separate post. this one We start off with Part 1 of Willie O’Dea’s interview with Pat Kenny, where he discussed how he got into politics. Part Two of the interview dealt with the ongoing crime in Limerick City. Part three... Continue reading »