O Snodaigh doesn't appear to have an inkling that there is anything wrong with such abuse of state fonts - funds - maintaining that the toner was used for printing at his Dublin constituency office.
That's a lot of ink toner. The Indo puts it this way:
"It would have taken him three months, working eight hours a day, five days a week, even if he had been using all of his three Oireachtas-supplied printers simultaneously.
And it meant that Mr O Snodaigh would have printed enough A4 leaflets to cover the GAA's Croke Park stadium -- which sits on an area of 65,000 square metres -- three times over."
It seems that Sinn Fein TDs made up 13 of the top 20 Dail users of State ink cartridges, so they are quite prolific it seems. And the same party, which hasn't quite managed to shake off accusations of involvement in the Northern Bank robbery and other armed actions, is now the largest opposition group, ahead of fellow shysters and cultural nationalists Fianna Fail.
So it's not that long ago that the Shinners were stockpiling cartridges of a different sort, rather than the rather harmless variety available in PC World.
Perhaps we should see it as progress, of a sort?
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Shows how far SF have come when we see such large scale coordinated attacks by the establishment based on such small scale issues.
In defence of O'Snotty I have to say that ink is not toner (a technical thing) and that the print runs you get from cartridges are measured at 5% paper coverage. If he had printed all literature with a full tricolour and black writing, the cartridges would empty very fast ...
... this flashback to my old printer technical support days may be excused by having suffered a lot during these days - like the Coca Cola manager complaining that red always ran out first (hint - they printed their logo).
@ Serial Anon, just like The Establishment was out to get Callely, I suppose. Mind you, O'Snotty's done nothing illegal (in this instance anyway), but even Mary Lou thinks his usage was OTT, before blaming it The System of course. It was a journalist's FOI (Freedom of Information) query BTW. Nothing sinister.
@ Bernd. What? Not toner? What's going to happen to all those lovely puns now??? ;-)
@ Gombeen Man
You'll have to toner it down, I guess. But anyway, no use crying over spilled ink ...
;)
maybe SF is planning to print a new proclamation for 2016. I would like to dedicate this to Snoddy, the Ink Spots - If I Didn't Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvwfLe6sLis
GM, I also like a good Carry On film as well. Alas the Gaelic variety never lives up to the real thing. They try though.
He did it to support the musical wing of Sinn Fein, the Wolfe Toners
@ Bernd. I think I'll just blank that, mate. :-)
@ John. They had a song called "Whispering Grass" too, didn't they. Aengus an co aren't too fond of grasses...
@ Dakota. Try they do. Mind you, I always think it's a bit Father Ted (without the humour). "Those cartridges were just resting in my printer".
Yes GM, Craggy Island without the hope of a glourious salvation......Or the the chance of a series on C4. Looks like it's RTE for Mr O'Snodaigh. Now that's ironic.
@GM
I'd say every news media carrying it as a 'major' news story is a pretty coordinated establishment effort.
Well, the internet is part of this Establishment too, so. Maybe people are interested in this story because they can't believe a Shinner TD can use up 50 grand of public money on ink cartridges for his constituency office? And maybe others.
Perhaps they are amused that a party that grandstands on the "high moral ground" (and I'm trying not to retch here)and is the first to put the boot in to other miscreants has been caught out itself.
Perhaps that Establishment conspiracy exists only in your own head?
And would mind giving us some sort of name to make reading through the comments easier? One name now.
Hi GM, just wondering is there any truth in the rumour that O'Snotty is going to tender to print the ballot sheets for the upcoming referendum?
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