Never Make a Promise You Can't Break: How to Succeed in Irish Politics - Softcover

Let the bores blabber on about the importance of transfers in the fifteenth count - Never Make a Promise You Can't Break gets to the heart of politics in Ireland today: shafting your colleagues, conning the voters and sucking up to the people who matter. The only book that tells you how to get elected, how to be a minister and - when the time comes - how to give evidence at a tribunal of inquiry. From the basics (How to Shake Hands) to the complex (How to Accept a Bribe), this is a no-holds-barred guide to political success. How to pick a party to join, how to explain economic booms and slumps and - should the occasion arise, Ten Things to Say to the Leader of the New World Order. How to Fake Sincerity, What Not to Say About the North, How to Deal With the Media and Other Scum - and not forgetting, How to Be No More Racist Than is Strictly Necessary. Other books by Gene Kerrigan Another Country Hard Cases This Great Little Nation.

" ...a very informative and entertaining, colourful writer . Judge Patrick McCartan " ... a very clever writer ... a biting, savage wit . Garret Cooney SC Gene Kerrigan is one of Ireland's best-known journalists. His previous books - Hard Cases; Another Country; and This Great Little Nation - have all been bestsellers.