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Lifestyles from the rich possess a public interest dimension
ONE of the most stupid remarks ever made by a politician originated from the former 2nd Viscount Stangate,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], aka British Labour Party veteran Tony Benn.
It wasn't when he said that blaming Marx for what happened within the Ussr was like blaming Jesus for that Inquisition, though which was daft enough. Nor even his description of Gerry Adams as "immensely sensitive". Benn's most absurd remark was the oft-repeated assertion that what matters in politics is "policies not personalities".
It will, obviously, be the other way round. Policies could be changed at the drop of the opportunistic hat; manifestos ripped up entirely. Consider the disparity between what Fine Gael and Labour said in opposition and what they've got done in government. Voting on policies alone didn't do much good there. All you can really do is look for men and women whose integrity seems to be intact after which hope for the best,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], trusting that character will out.
Sadly, some of the coverage of the ongoing saga over Sean Quinn and family's brush using the Irish courts has been infected by the same prissy Bennite delusions. Many commentators purport to believe that, whilst it's legitimate to discuss the complicated financial shenanigans which continued between the Quinn empire and the bank formerly known as Anglo Irish,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], bringing the family involved with it personally is somehow less than cricket. Or perhaps 'not quite GAA' would be a appropriate phrase, considering the rally held close to the Border in support of the beleaguered tycoons.
Irish Times columnist Ann Marie Hourihane even complained this week there was an excessive amount of interest in some news reports towards the clothes worn through the Quinns, specifically a pea coat owned by Peter Darragh Quinn, former head of the family's International Property Group, who was snapped by the Daily Mail at another GAA event days after failing to join his co-accused Sean Quinn Jr in jail for contempt for putting an incredible number of euro price of assets beyond the reach from the courts.
Now I did not know such a pea coat was before a week ago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and was none the worse for it; but I struggled nonetheless to comprehend precisely what was Ms Hourihane's objection to hearing about the Quinn family's penchant for such garb. So were a lot of her readers to evaluate in the generally negative comments below her piece online. She even managed to drag the Sunday Independent's Life magazine into her griping, because, er, which carries pieces about fashion? Was it? I'm confused. Though nowhere close to confused as Ann Marie Hourihane's column.
I presume her point was that we shouldn't make use of trivial matters like clothes and handbags when there are much meatier affairs of state at hand,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but we all do so anyway because "jails and courts are soooooo boring" (company, there have been six Os, I counted). And if which was indeed Ann Marie's laboured point, then she couldn't be more wrong.
One good picture of a pea-coated Peter Darragh Quinn enjoying himself in a GAA game up North instead of doing time down here's worth 10000 earnest words concerning the economy. The Quinns owe more than towards the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation -- quite simply,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to Irish taxpayers, who ultimately pick up the tab.
Together they are also receiving hundreds of thousands of euro in living expenses every year from accounts frozen because of law suit by the IBRC, including newly agreed rates of more than a month between them for Sean Quinn's five adult children and three of their spouses -- while the High Court also heard last month how Peter Darragh Quinn himself had received payments of since April 2011 from three Russian companies.
When did it suddenly become vulgar or silly to wonder what they might be spending this mountain of cash on? Details matter. Lifestyle matters. That was instinctively understood when tributes were paid to Chuck Feeney recently. The philanthropist's famously modest lifestyle -- the cheap watch and economy-class airline tickets -- were referenced repeatedly. Why? Because what sort of man lives, austere or opulent, is really a pointer to his character,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and character is exactly what counts.
Ann Marie Hourihane accustomed to recognise that. She wrote a magazine about the Celtic Tiger called She Moves With the Boom, which was light on discussions of fiscal policy and heavy on profiles of the consumerism rampant during those years: the expensive bottled standard water; the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. And she was to do so. Spending habits say much more than company spreadsheets.
Obviously, the personalisation of public debate can go too much. Go ahead and take Irish Times journalist who last year devoted an entire column to discussing Kate Middleton's weight: "Kate's too thin, this is the problem . . . she was thin enough in the engagement dress. Then a week ago she appeared inside a blue suit, gaunt. Her lovely knees knocking. Her beautiful face haggard. Ann Marie something, I believe.
Hourihane always has a ready-made excuse. Negative personal comments about Kate Middleton were justified because she was allegedly sending ladies a message that "once you've found Prince Charming you are able to quit food forever" (seriously?),[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and putting the McCanns' appearance underneath the microscope was simply part of analysing the media coverage from the disappearance of Madeleine.
Where I originate from,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that's called having your cake and eating it. The Irish Times specialises in it. They're far too high minded to inform readers what individuals in news reports are wearing or eating or spending. The things they're doing is snipe at other media outlets for telling readers what celebrities are wearing or eating or spending, whilst repeating every delicious detail to illustrate the horror.
Personally, I favor a far more straightforward approach, by which journalists who wish to talk about Prada handbags simply do it rather than pretending to lower themselves to such insignificant matters only underneath the guise of satirical social commentary. However I've this weird idea that brains can handle computing different bits of information, shoes and rates of interest alike. One do not need to counterbalance the other. Both can appear in harmony. Indeed, each complements the other.
Somebody that tried to understand the Quinn story only by examining the total amount sheets would miss as much as somebody that looked solely at Peter's pea coat. Regarded the two, I'd still say the lifestyle of people that have landed the State by having an unrepayable bill for billions may be the more revelatory.
This type of person living from the fat of the land they helped ruin. So I wish to understand what they're wearing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which restaurants they eat at, where they go on holiday? Damned right I do. The Irish people rightly feel taken for any ride by a generation who rode high in crest from the boom and are now trying to wriggle out of responsibility for his or her contribution to its collapse.
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