First Annual Donie Cassidy Day April 10th 2009

daltonr · September 24, 2008, 2:59pm

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April 10th 2009 will mark the first anniversary of Donie Cassidy’s prediction that House prices will rise between 25% and 30%. He promised to return to the Senate and remind everyone that “He told us so”.

All true Irish patriots will want to mark this great day, and celebrate the 38% to 44% house price increase that must happen between now and then.

Six months might seem a little early to start talking about this, but for a party of this size you can’t start too early. Major agricultural shows take almost the full year to organize.

So start planning, put that week aside in your calendar. The First Annual Donie Cassidy day will fall on a Friday, so you might want to start thinking about taking a long weekend.

And this isn’t just a Dublin thing. Even culchies can celebrate the first annual Donie Cassidy day. Sure isn’t he one of our own.

Suggested Events for the first Annual Donie Cassidy day:

Host a charity breakfast and ask for donations of 25p to 30p to
symbolise the increase in house prices.
Wear a T-Shirt that’s 25% to 30% too big.
Spend 25% to 30% more for your lunch that day.
Drive on the Right hand side of the road for a day.

April 1st isn’t the only day when we celebrate the nation’s biggest idiots. Now, nine days later you can join us in celebrating the biggest of them all, at the First Annual Donie Cassidy day.

-Rd

BertieBasher · September 24, 2008, 3:01pm

daltonr:

https://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00171/donnie_171791t.jpg

April 10th 2009 will mark the first anniversary of Donie Cassidy’s prediction that House prices will rise between 25% and 30%. He promised to return to the Senate and remind everyone that “He told us so”.

All true Irish patriots will want to mark this great day, and celebrate the 38% to 44% house price increase that must happen between now and then.

Sx months might seem a little early to start talking about this, but for a party of this size you can’t start too early. Major agricultural shows take almost the full year to organize.

So start planning, put that week aside in your calendar. The First Annual Donie Cassidy day will fall on a Friday, so you might want to start thinking about taking a long weekend.

And this isn’t just a Dublin thing. Even culchies can celebrate the first annual Donie Cassidy day. Sure isn’t he one of our own.

Suggested Events for the first Annual Donie Cassidy day:

Host a charity breakfast and ask for donations of 25p to 30p to
symbolise the increase in house prices.

Wear a T-Shirt that’s 25% to 30% too big.

Spend 25% to 30% more for your lunch that day.

Drive on the Right hand side of the road for a day.

April 1st isn’t the only day when we celebrate the nation’s biggest idiots. Now, nine days later you can join us in celebrating the biggest of them all, at the First Annual Donie Cassidy day.

-Rd

WHAT A STUPID MUPPET.

Pill · September 24, 2008, 3:02pm

Wonderful hair style Donie.

The_Unwelcome_Guest · September 24, 2008, 3:04pm

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Senator Donie Cassidy: Senator Hannigan raised the matter of house prices. These have been substantially reduced offering much relief to the first-time house buyer. I sympathise with such buyers. We were all in that category at one time. It is a serious challenge for a person to part with in excess of 30% of his or her weekly disposable income to pay for a home. The Irish have been excellent in this regard.

Prices are now nearing the bottom end. Recently I quoted a house price from the midlands, offering a brand new, semi-detached, three-bedroomed house with everything in place for €195,000. I can now recount to the House that in many larger towns such as Mullingar, Athlone or Tullamore, it is possible to get a four-bedroomed, semi-detached house with fitted kitchen for €260,000. Now is the right time to buy.

Senator Rónán Mullen: Should Senator Cassidy declare an interest?

(Interruptions).

**Senator Donie Cassidy: **We have a duty to tell first-time house buyers, young couples with no previous experience, that there is unbelievable value in the marketplace today. It will not last forever. It is never the wrong time to do the right thing. I offer the House the benefit of my experience and my opinion which is all any Member can do. I will remind the House, perhaps in 12 or 18 months, when prices have again increased by 25% or 30%, that they were told this by the Leader of the House on this historic day, the tenth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

daltonr · September 24, 2008, 3:05pm

I intend to celebrate Donie Cassidy day every year until house prices actually are 25% higher than they were in april 2006. Inflation adjusted of course Donie. You’re a business man you know how it works.

-Rd

BrendanG · September 24, 2008, 3:08pm

I suggest we could have a March around the square in Castlepollard, right past Donie’s front door!

The_Unwelcome_Guest · September 24, 2008, 3:11pm

If we can trust Wikipedia, and I think we can in this instance ( ), you have all the essentials here for a wonderful Donie Cassidy day…

*Donal (“Donie”) Cassidy (born 15 September 1945) is an Irish businessman and Fianna Fáil politician. He is currently a member of the 23rd Seanad Éireann, elected in the 2007 election. He is a former Teachta Dála, who represented Westmeath from 2002 to 2007.

Cassidy was born in Castlepollard in County Westmeath*. He came to prominence in Ireland through the showband scene. A saxophone player with Jim Tobin and the Firehouse, he moved into showbusiness management. He was the manager of Foster and Allen, a popular singing duo whose enjoyed success inside and outside of Ireland.

He first became involved in politics in 1982 when he was elected as a Fianna Fáil Senator on the Labour Panel. He was a member of Westmeath County Council from 1985 until 2003 at which point he resigned from the council due to the abolition of the dual mandate.

Cassidy was elected to Dáil Éireann for the constituency of Westmeath at the 2002 election, taking the seat of sitting TD and Government Minister Mary O’Rourke. This created a rift between the two politicians and Cassidy lost his seat to O’Rourke in the 2007 general election when both candidates contested the Longford-Westmeath constituency. The fact that Cassidy lost most of his home base of Castlepollard and North of Westmeath due to the redrafting of the constituency did not help him. On 22 June 2007 Cassidy was nominated by the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to Seanad Éireann and created Leader of the Seanad for the remaining weeks of the 22nd Seanad’s existence. Cassidy was subsequently elected to the Labour Panel in the 2007 Seanad general election. He is currently Leader of the Seanad.

Business interests:

Cassidy owns two Dublin hotels and is building another. He also owned the National Wax Museum in Dublin. He also owns Celtic Note, a specialist Irish music store on Dublins Nassau Street and since 1984 has had the franchise to sell CD’s and DVD’s at Dublin Airport . He also owns several buildings in Mullingar. His other interests include record and music publishing companies. He owns the publishing rights to many well known songs such as ‘Grace’ and ‘My Lovely Rose of Clare’.

Castlepollard 2009!!!

BrendanG · September 24, 2008, 3:15pm

Now you know where he got the hair-do from!

daltonr · September 24, 2008, 3:21pm

And it’s a Friday, so you know he won’t be in work!

I’m telling you, an Open Air Foster and Allen show in Castlepollard with Mary O’Rourke as M.C.
Finally I shall have my Woodstock.

Just in case, as a fall back, does anyone know of any Foster and Allen tribute band. The Australian Foster and Allen perhaps?

Incidently I’ll not hear a bad word said of Mary O’Rourke. Let the word go forth from this time and place that daltonr is a fan of Mary.

-Rd

karlos_the_jackal · September 24, 2008, 3:21pm

Classic stuff!

Perhaps we can bring some loaves and fishes and he can make them last 25-30% longer too?

Knock_Lion · September 24, 2008, 3:29pm

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Maybe that’s where Donie got the idea for the Irish Jig?

The_Unwelcome_Guest · September 24, 2008, 3:30pm

No, he’d only make them 25-30% more expensive… That’s the miracle with Donie…

Bogman · September 24, 2008, 3:52pm

Fester and Ailin!
youtube.com/watch?v=vF3rGQPHOaA

McAlpine_s_Fusileer · September 24, 2008, 4:02pm

How about a Stamp duty on wigs such as to allow a relaxation on residential property?

yoganmahew · September 24, 2008, 4:17pm

Stamp on wigs? I like the idea. Does Donie have to be resident underneath it?

fishfoodie · September 24, 2008, 4:49pm

I don’t think stamping would make much difference, it always reminds me of those really ripe roadkills you see on motorways.

Think 3 week old Fox !

discostu · September 24, 2008, 5:47pm

My wife says I’ve GOT to met him

What_Goes_Up · October 10, 2008, 10:37am

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Cassidy calls on media to monitor banks hourly
JIMMY WALSH

SEANAD REPORT: BANKS SHOULD be monitored on an hourly basis by the national media so that the Irish people would know which ones were failing to pass on to customers the internationally agreed interest rate cut of one half of one per cent, Seanad leader Donie Cassidy said.

He called on the banks operating in this country to implement the reduction by 5pm yesterday. The Oireachtas, on behalf of the people, had last week shown its commitment to a strong banking system, he said, and the banks had an obligation to respond.

"This is not a time where they can be considering in any way making profits of any shape or form. This is about the survival of the economy of our country, and they must play their part.

“I call on the national media to monitor this on an hourly basis to see who is not playing their part in the banking world,” added Mr Cassidy. His FF colleague Larry Butler said the Minister for Finance should insist on all the banks implementing the cut, which could have a vital influence on deliberations by union members on the latest national wage deal.

Eugene Regan, (FG), said it was very clear that some banks were endeavouring to recapitalise by increasing margins at the expense of Irish consumers, mortgage holders and taxpayers.

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© 2008 The Irish Times

whizzbang · October 10, 2008, 10:58am

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing… no knowledge at all, well that’s just a disaster.

BrendanG · October 15, 2008, 9:11am

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Four bed homes now on market for just €200k

Belvedere Hills was developed by Donie, who bought the site off the nuns, got planning permission and then sold off serviced sites to various builders and developers.

Looks like Donie’s prediction in the senate is well on track so!

Residents at an upmarket Mullingar housing estate may be the first in Mullingar to find they are now in negative equity, as ten new houses on the same estate go up for sale this week at more than 33 per cent lower than a year ago.

The developers of Belvedere Hills are this week launching for sale a tranche of ten four-bedroomed houses on the estate - at just €200,000 apiece. Last year, some of the houses at Belvedere Hills sold for €320,000.

Auctioneer Aidan Davitt of Sherry FitzGerald Davitt and Davitt, reveals that the houses are to be open to the public for viewing this weekend and next weekend, and the developers believe that at that price, and in what is one of the town’s prestige locations, the houses will be snapped up.

Nonetheless, the sale may be a bitter pill for some other residents of the estate, who will now have mortgages greater than the cost of a house at Belvedere Hills.

There are just ten houses up for sale, and as word has leaked out, the enquiries have been coming in thick and fast - proving there is still some life in the property market.

The houses are all four-bedroomed semi-detached houses, above average in size and finish - and in a hot location. The estate has proven popular with young professionals and their families, and when prices rise again, Belvedere Hills is tipped one of the areas set to benefit soonest.

The houses are brand new, and have downstairs a hall, guest w.c., kitchen, separate dining room, and separate sitting room, with, upstairs, four bedrooms, one of which is ensuite, and the main family bathroom. In a top spec finish, the sitting rooms all have cast-iron open fireplaces; the gardens are all seeded; partition walls are block, so the houses are virtually soundproof; and in some, the kitchens are already fitted, while in others, there is a kitchen allowance. All houses have gas-fired central heating, and three out of the four bedrooms have fitted wardrobes.

“These really are great value,” says Aidan Davitt, who says that they are above average in size and finish, and that they are in a location convenient for those working in town, or needing easy access to the road network around and out of town.

“They also have great rental potential,” he says, adding that rents in Belvedere Estate come in at about €800-€850 per month.

“With a 90 per cent mortgage borrowed over 35 years, your total repayments monthly - including tax relief, would be probably under €800 per month,” said Aidan, adding that the recent interest rate cut - and the fact that a further cuts are predicted - means it’s a great time to buy.

The houses can be viewed at Belvedere Hills from 2-4 p.m. this Saturday, and if any remain, again from 2-4 p.m. next week

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