Who is that mystery man with Martin Cullen?

// January 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Seanad, Uncategorized

The Irish times apparently doesn’t know who this mystery man is*. Well, I can reveal that it’s none other than fellow UL grad Ian Noctor who from what I recall was working with Monica Leech at the time. Given his CV it somewhat surprising that no one at the Irish Times could identify him. And I don’t believe his presence in this photo would lead anyone to think that he was involved in an inappropriate relationship with Brian Cowen.

*I was tempted to say the mystery man is Brian Cowen but that was too obvious even for me.

Martin Cullen – “that’s the end of the matter”

// January 22nd, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

In regard to his treatment at the hands of the media, according to RTE Martin Cullen has said that he has no more to say and that was the end of the matter. So won’t be seeing any libel cases as we did from Ms. Leech from him once he departs from politics. I’m sure the papers will be pleased to hear that.

Interesting he also said “that he had spoken in the proper forum yesterday to convey what he had to say to a very legalistic audience, and everything he said should be seen in that broad context.” Indeed, I’m confident that audience members of who are of a legalistic nature will be well aware of what rape is and is not. As a lay person myself I’m only able to hazard a guess at the notion that having your face in the paper regularly with things being said about you that are hurtful, damaging and untrue isn’t quite the same as being raped on a daily basis but again I’m only a lay person. What would I know.

I wake up in the morning and the tiredness is like that of a member of the undead having slept in the earth for centuries with worms moving through my rotted corpse, while my skin dried and cracked like paper. Not that I’ve ever experienced the latter but what the hey I’m allowed make this direct comparison if I think about it from a legalistic mindset right? Not having experienced it doesn’t invalidate my right to claim it is true and to thus claim compensation from whoever caused my sleep to be less than 100% pleasant.

The rape of Martin Cullen

// January 22nd, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

So Martin Cullen felt that the media scrutiny into his affairs was like being raped? Seriously, he said “It was like waking up every morning and being raped” I’m quoting from the people who were quoting him. Is that really how he felt?

Besieged, witch-hunt, being naked in public, being a hare at a coursing meet or a fox at a hunt, violated, even persecuted, all handy enough comparisons he could have used but didn’t. Nope he felt raped every day. Not that he had felt his personal world had been violated and that each morning held the possibility of a revisiting of this, but he was raped every day. Every day.

And why was this media attention directed at him? Because his department awarded a contract paying €800 per day to someone he knew personally who was apparent plucked from a pool of 3 companies. And who it appeared hadn’t handled accounts of this size before. And people were somewhat surprised at this, and one eejit made an inappropriate and untrue comment on air as to what the real reason might have been. I’ll give ya a hint it wasn’t because Martin was incompetent. And the investigation wasn’t able to find anyone who would say any wrongdoing occurred or anything written down that indicated wrongdoing had happened, or that the process was flawed.

You can read more here – http://www.soldiersofdestiny.org/monicaleechsaga.htm

Update: I did a quick search and found this Martin Cullen profile on Bebo but surely that isn’t the one with a million hits. It’s only had under 2,000 profile views to date since 2006.