Brian's no fool.

Scraps the tent.
Avoids having to face the builders.
And comes accross as cleaner than Bertie, clean slate, no more FF tied to the builders.

Nice one BC.

-Rd

They're downsizing to a telephone box - they are not expecting many solvent builders at Galway this year.

He knows that being seen to be cosy with builders when the full scale of the mugging of young Irish people becomes apparent over the next couple of years won't be a wise move.

fair play to him.

I'm sure there was alterier motives but it is a step in the right direction

yep got to acknowledge the good when it happens

Meanwhile he was probably necking the Guinness, backslapping all his pals last year and thinking how great it was to be in FF and Irish.

What a hypocrite.

The Galway races days were over in 2007 anyway -- one last hurrah for the boyos.

There's no more money to be suckled from the tiger. What would be the point in having a tent in 2008 anyway? It would only cost FF money.

Tent or no tent.......they will always be the builder's party.

BC is a constitutional republican don't you know.

Hopefully scrapping the 'Fianna Fail Galway Races tent' will help rid of us of the more overused cliché in property price discussion.

I disagree, in the 70's they were probably the farmers party with the IFA pulling the strings. In the 80's, it was the industrialists like Goodman, Smurfit and co.

They'll move on to the next profitable donor-industry now - this is as sure a sign as you'll get that property has had it day. BC is cutting the apron-strings, the CIF are on their own now.

lets not forget that cowen is up to his bollix with the builders. Driving through Offally last week all the builders had full colour signs outside their developments congratulating him. There was one site in tullamore which was totally empty (just about to start work?) with three massive pictures of him all down one side of the road.

Lets not forget all the tax breaks which he made a song and dance about removing but the development land tax exemption is still there. At a time when a young couple must pay stamp duty to change to a second hand house.

After Hubris comes the fall..he is so arrogant, he believes he has the only true vision for the country.

Cosmetic changes in fund raising will change nothing..... the developers will just drop the brown envelopes into the constituency clinics instead

Maybe it will the 'green tent' next

How much of that is the builders now needing to keep Cowan onside, rather than Cowan needing to keep the builders happy though?

You jest skippingrope, but considering the global rumbles regarding a new boom/bubble in alternative energy etc, you could yet be right!!!

It seems Fianna Fail behave like nomadic plains Indians of old. Once the hunting grounds are exhausted they strike camp and move on to new territory.

I agree. Bertie got all the young house buyers to "Geronimo" off that cliff.