State of the Nation Address From An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny

[smolenskiii]

Your a shame, how can you look at us and feel your the leader of a country your selling off,. be somebody take account and stand up to them, or fall with your puppet friends, its your choice, make the right one, be a Man. a true Irish Man, and Keep Ireland in Irish Hands,

[1CaptainAustralia1]

lol what the fuck is a "taoiseach", stupid irish language

[360crowley]

we need to make a stand ,he is a puppet whos strings strech far.we can not trust them they look after the ritch and fuck the rest of us.they need to be stopped NOW!

360crowley 1 minute ago

[IrishChemKiller]

end the CHEMTRAILS in Irish Skies

[XxiloveGWxX]

Where's the other half of his chair?

[SeamusOLepreachaun]

A boy, Enda boy !!!

[MrGypsyLovelyFace]

Let it snow on Enda!!

[teachill]

Something cowen was too scared to do.. Talk to the nation. Well done Taoiseach.

[mahigo14]

sold his country for fiu pennis to the elite, what a shame

[loser33user]

So he says he wants to help the most vulnerable in our society, and then a few days later he cuts disability benefit. So much sense.

[grimaces]

Why does someone who is telling the truth still look like a puppet?

[mahigo14]

@grimaces he is a puppet of the german and french

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[Funkinhell07]

@grimaces You mean MUPPET! :D

[SgtByrne101]

Play trololo behind it.

[SgtByrne101]

Enda is all like "U mad, europe?"

[starfangled]

Terrific chap! An honest politician :-).

[profbucko]

"If you're unemployed, you're one of the many who still can't find work",..... ah duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrrrrrrr

[mick7662492]

These people know noting about how the other half live with their 180,000 euro a year salaries They are supposed to represent Ireland but have become puppets and yes men for Europe. Germany has tried twice in the past to rule Europe by force at the cost of millions of lives, they failed so now they are trying the political route.The Irish people need to grow a pair of balls and tell these people we wont put up with this bull any more.

[JontieDesario]

bullshit.

[letsgolefties]

The child benefit is just ridiculous! They should tax it instead of giving less the more children there are. That means that poor, big families that need it will be way worse off than before and more well off, small families will be getting bigger amounts of benefit per child?!

[brigibrigdale]

punt nua?

[BrenCawley73]

much prefer the version by dj drunk chipmunk

[jimmy27paul]

When i see the harp now i always get sad, its almost a mockery that symbol of ours, knowing that our country has sold out to the EU.

[drquinn89]

good man enda fair play no pain no gain

[smolenskiii]

@drquinn89 COPE ON, HES A GERMAN NOW

[KidInThePark]

Whats he going on about ?

[TheVidiman]

We are not at war ! Its all blown out of proportion, So the economics are bad and banks cant be honest. most of the money is still accounted for unlike lives lost in wars

We in the western world have had it good long enough. Our problem is greed.

Back to basics and looking after your own !

Stop hoping your vote will change your life because it never does.

[huughjarse]

Same shit, - different asshole,

- at least he's prettier than ' the pig ' (B.C.)

Someday, hopefully, the Country will be back on it's knees,

because it's prostrated, face down in euromuck at the moment...

[jimlineen]

You are a traitor to your fellow Irishmen!

[athloe123]

Is that a.........chocolate chair!!!

[JohnnyCooney2010]

Wait why are yous making us paying back your fuck up; tell me that.

[TuskTubez]

This strikes me as an honest assessment, one delivered with a reassuring lack of pretentiousness. The details are necessarily (?) vague but the intentions seem well based.

Good luck to him and to us.

[CosmicTurbo949]

'You may be looking at your 'adult children' haha

[SuperStickmanML13]

@CosmicTurbo949 Yes, children do become adults. That's not a mistake, ya eejit. I will tell you a mistake he made, though: "Difficult decisions are never easy." Jesus Enda, what would we do without ya?

[thethreeamazingmen]

ha, the dislike bar...

[BrenCawley73]

I wonder what he'd sound like after a night-on-the-town and a dose of helium? - Have a listen to this LOL ---> dj-drunk-chipmunk.tumblr.com

[TonerKebab]

Major Cuts in the public sector will cripple families,if College fee's rise it will almost certainly prohibit young people from getting the third level education,and i am one of these people i will be going to college next year,education is key,we,the youth of the country will be cleaning up this mess for the next god knows how many years. And In Ainm Dia ,Dont sit there like a plank reading auto-cue.

[siuloir611]

"If you are unemployed, you're one of the many who still can't find work" - who the hell voted this cod as Taoiseach?

[daithi300]

at 1.40 "you are not responsible for this" ya but we will be paying the price

[shamnet1]

Why the heck does he not make the cuts from their own pockets? Always the people at the bottom of the ladder.. Save everyone time & cut yay

[dunleckney2011]

@anglim98 u didnt miss14 minutes, the programme was still the length of time it would have been regardless of enda ;)

[dunleckney2011]

the only thing that would have made this speech epic was if enda had said , seanie fitz will be charged in the morning along with all those others who have been found accountable of wrong doing, i have passed a bill which will reduce the wages of every acting t.d. by 60% and all pensions from the previous 2 governments will be reduced to only come into action when they reach the proper retirement age, and will also be reduced by 40%.... then the irish people would listen, until then .....no

[MrThatman1]

Well, we are all worse off after yesterday and more to come today, shame on the labour Party in Ireland.

[Numinous20111]

The simple truth is that Ireland hasn't reached meltdown because of the resilience of its citizens, not because policies being pursued are so successful.

[slantyrock]

Here's a short version of what he's said.

"You're all screwed for years to come, and on top of tha,t we're handing over even more power to Europe who were part of getting us in this mess in the first place".

[farnium]

TL;DR: You should have stocked up on booze yesterday.

[cretin509]

THIS ISN'T BORING AT ALL!!!!!

[liam9996]

More false promises and downright lies....Glad your optimistic about the future Enda....Lets see how optimistic you are when you have to live on the breadline and know its about to get a whole lot worse..Shame on the whole lot of you....Fianna Fail, Labour, Fine Gael.....You your greed and your lasting friendships with the so called elite and bankers have been the ruin of our nation....Proud To Be Irish....Dont make me laugh...

[messi213465]

Why the hell am I watching this

[nathanforum]

Wait a second... these are fake hands!

[mynameisantonis]

2011 will be some episode of reeling in the years

[JoCionnaith]

In fairness you wouldn't have seen Cowen or Bertie addressing the nation to let us know there's hard times ahead!

[Necropolis20123]

None of this has Enda'd the crisis...... :3

[SAMSUNG2494]

RTE should give all Irish Youtubers a voice

[paddymourinho]

Ah the state broadcaster choosing what we can and cannot say about the state leader.... Interesting situation we find ourselves in...

[2kid10]

wheres the golden pot at the end of the rainbow

[paddymourinho]

jobs jobs jobs jobs, it's not your fault, jobs jobs jobs.

The stupidity of these guys is disturbing.

Watch the 'Zeitgeist' movies. Find out whats really causing this, and what can really solve it!

[kenobr]

Boring!

[DiZzYCoN]

Maybe if Enda and the rest ot them cut they're own wages and retirement packages (MORE), we would be a little less in the shit.

Instead of looking money from the people pockets to solve the problems, they should look in they're own a bit more. And! what is all this talk about saving when he just increased that fellas yearly wage by 30000?? hmm...

They make me sick to the stomach, little children in a sweet shop!

[killdeslm]

Kenny is a genuis

[docno3]

This video should have been done when the reccesion started but nobody had the balls.

fair play to you enda.

[strasheep]

sounds like a 'cash for gold' ad.. feckin' eejit!

[alegaleagle]

I'm watching this and wondering.... where is the rest of his chair..

[fwalsh101]

@alegaleagle

they have a cut back on chairs!!

(bad joke:L!!)

[Vinoshane]

His tie is lovely

[ahbuggrit]

I dunno how to feel about this... some is good, some is bad... if he wants to get the economy going again, how about amending the rent law for shops? Investing in unis, to get foreign investors? And if you cut all those people from the public sector, are they going on the dole?

[kjp68]

This man is a disgrace .He knows who is to blame for the mess the country is in but he is not asking them to pay for it .Its the same through out the world we are paying for the banking sectors outrageous behaviour .Because they control the purse strings the government dances to their tune . 

[TheUnchain3d]

@kjp68 Good one... especially the people who have maxed out 4 mortgage's to buy apartments to rent out for (to high) prices and now the rents go down and 4 mortgage's are not payed back to the banks. So who caused the crisis? I do not say the banks are not responsible... I'm just saying, the people who in the Celtic Tiger time got greedy are the once now bailed out by bailing out banks!

[rentonvega]

Who is under the desk

[37zeus37]

@rentonvega

Monica Lewinsky

[taraailbhe]

"My government"??? I thought it was ours...

[andymill32]

@taraailbhe Its alright, you can have it!

[NekroStevo]

Us he crazy? "We will leave income taxed untouched." Those with the means should pay. By using stealth taxes, we all, including the struggling unemployed will have to pay.

[briank05]

Enda your a wolf in sheep's clothing

[howayaboss1]

I miss Ireland :(

[nonoriginalrude]

On a MUCH LIGHTER NOTE....check out 'the original rudeboys and me' :))

[kieranfitz]

how long till someone decides on an emigration tax

[ironnica]

I'm in final year of college. Have gotten near top of class every year so far. I certainly couldn't have afforded it with fees. Do realise that higher college fees mean less highly qualified a workforce. If you say it is already free, you know that that is an exaggeration of the truth.

[polpotsdog]

Thunderbirds are go!!

[josephharte]

and yet all the rules can be broken so your mate who was offered a 92k job can be paid 127k instead, with not even an attempt at justification.

[treefrog2108]

christ,look at him gripping his fingers like a lost school boy.This guy is supposed to at least pretend to protray an aura of power.Show some dignity when telling your lies..National tv and he looks like hes 5 years old knowing that the lies he is telling wont fly.Look at his hands. Im not political,but I fear for my country,It dosent matter what politician puppet is put before us,its not fianna fail,fianna gael,they are just window dressing,They actually said this themselves,

[DiZzYCoN]

Maybe if Enda and the rest ot them cut they're own fucking wages and retirement packages (MORE), we would be a little less in the shit.

Instead of looking money from the people pockets to solve the problems, they should look in they're owna bit more.

They make me sick to the stomach, fucking children in a sweet shop!

[ottvantor]

where is the other half of the back of his chair? why is his glass upside down instead of "half full"......

[fwalsh101]

@ottvantor

it symbolizes how screwed we really are:L!!

[mickrooney777]

Oh, it will become an epic alright!!



[78thesweepstakes]

If we are spending €16 billion more than we are creating why the bloody hell are we giving it all away to Public servants who take massive wages and create nothing, Public servants who take massive pensions from privately created wealth, Social Welfare recipients who don't want to work, peopel who are rewarded for becoming single parents. Everybody knows what is wrong - we need proper people to sort it out!

[howayaboss1]

I fear I will never get to go home..

[yusufandyasser]

Well, well well, for so long it's been. You the government sacked all the high earners, like my father a surgeon. Then you decide to cut his pay. And again. And again. And again. But finally you've released that everyone's pay should be cut including your own

[99palmer99]

I can only imagine what they will come up with tomorrow! :(

[thebhoy32]

what an idiot

[EurofighterVsRaptor]

He may as well of saved me 13 mins and just said "The Country is in tight shape Lads!, Kenny out!"

[macker33]

more nonsense

[TheCJD89]

Good man Enda! :)

[Hrehorowful]

This is better than fade street....

[XxiloveGWxX]

We all know that this crisis isn't our fault, Enda.

[RonanDonovan007]

Go on ya Enda! :P

[09890897]

tax the rich

[09890897]

he's very good at reading

[2scary4yu]

Give us a voice on youtube RTE....

[09890897]

he's very good at reading

[Jewhack2]

Sod that, I'm leaving when I get the chance

[blackdottedfairy]

Well at least he didnt bullshit... He said in a nice way that we are fucked and its gunna be a bitch to sort it out and hang in there.... I think fair play to him but he really has no idea nor does anyone how it feels to be on welfare and struggle to feed your family and keep warm and keep a roof over your head and to be facing this budget next week. Think ya just have to experience these things to know how it feels. But all in all good man enda for being truthfull to the nation and mot trying

[EarthriseChannel]

haha i uploaded this to :D

[MusicContrast]

Ah hes has a point and i can tell hes being honest

[deNIALL92]

The republic gives away 200 euro a week to the unemployed...

[SuperMickoc]

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out” Robert Collier

[xXRamza126Xx]

"you are not responsible for this crisis, but you will have to pay for it anyway" don't you mean Enda?

[TzarNicholas2]

do whatever you like - do not introduce college fees, please!

[Herexus]

It was nice to see Enda actually do something like this. Shame however it is most likely going to be filled with false promises towards the groups he mentioned to inspire a sense of nautious optimism in the populace as the government prepares once more to put direct and indirect taxes on the people and groups in the country that are struggling most.

[Hyperspeed91]

@TzarNicholas2 I'm a working-class student who obviously does not want fees introduced, but I would never just say the government could do what they like as long as they leave us alone. It's not just students that are going to suffer after this poxy budget, all vulnerable people are only going to be targeted by the budget despite what this man says.

[Unisaur64]

@TzarNicholas2

We're already paying a huge registration fee.

Introducing college fees what require more paperwork, so it's easier just to add the cost to the registration fee.

The government thinks Irish students are stupid and think like this:

"I'll gladly pay a huge registration fee, but if they introduce college fees I'll be super morto."...

You get what I'm saying ?

[clubsandwedge]

@TzarNicholas2 *Introduce* college fees? I hope you're not implying college education is free in this country

[smolenskiii]

@clubsandwedge FORGET YOUR COLLEGE, GET YOUR TENT , your been left out in the cold, were warm clothes

[glowpunk]

Some one will edit this and make it into one of the most epic Irish Youtube videos of all time :)

[TheMojoMojo26]

@glowpunk I would love to try but the new damn Movie Maker is utter shit and I can't use it :/

[andymill32]

@glowpunk Check out my humble attempt.

[DjDowney2k9]

@glowpunk well republic of telly just did it ... literally 30 seconds ago :L:L

[smolenskiii]

@glowpunk without one bullet been fired, they gave us money they knew we could never pay back, now its time for payback, stock control of a country.

[smolenskiii]

@glowpunk Such an easy take over, after the aggressive campaign of the past ww2, they are taken European countries one by one, no rush,

[smolenskiii]

@glowpunk , grow up Edna your selling or giving the national silver away, Please look at the surnames of those you are dealing with and there ancestors, none have been elected from a constituency,

[smolenskiii]

@glowpunk they were appointed not elected, you know what this means? Or need I spell it out?

[smolenskiii]

@glowpunk ange,

you know this is what they have had in mind for 20 years, coffee and one biscuit,and you became a German puppet,

[smolenskiii]

@glowpunk sell off aer lingus , the ESB, and note we are one off the last countries that hold those bodies in state hands, you forget state hands are all the people not yours,

[smolenskiii]

@glowpunk its very interesting to see a humble Irish leader, you look weak, frail, and even scared, a leader of a nation that once had its hand in the pot , we are all to blame, we did not see what was coming,

[turloughohara]

Interesting