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Ronan Mullen running for Europe

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  • 07-02-2014 11:11pm
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    Brian Shanahan
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    Coming back from training tonight, I heard that the bold Ronan is running in the Euro elections on the Newstalk Irish language programme. As soon as I heard his voice I changed channels, not wanting to vomit all over my windscreen, but here's an article.

    What're the odds he won't get his deposit back? Yes, I know the Midlands/North-West is the most backward looking part of the country, but surely Iona's agressive, greedy and nauseating brand of homophobia will straighten enough heads out up there.


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    swampgas
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    I did like this quote from the linked article:
    Mullen will run as an independent in next June’s ballot and says that although he has “great respect for the people of the Reform Alliance” he has not been approached to get involved in the group saying that in any case he is “very independent minded”.

    Translation: even the Reform Alliance won't touch him with a bargepole.


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    Turtwig
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    Brian Shanahan
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    Jernal wrote: »
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    Imagine doing that on a windy back road at 10pm on a stormy wet night. That's what nearly happened to me tonight.


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    Sarky
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    And that's what Mullen's will campaign for. Fun outlawed, women back in the kitchen/maternity ward, city councils to be turned into churches, and mandatory vomiting into your own face to get back to that good old Catholic shame.


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    I saw him campaigning on William Street here in Galway the weekend before last. My wife had to drag me past rather than engaging with him.

    If I see him again I might stop amd chat.


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    EuskalHerria
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    This image of his election poster is.....well placed.


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    PopePalpatine
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    swampgas wrote: »
    ...even the Reform Alliance won't touch him with a bargepole.

    Maybe he's forming the "Briefcase Wanker Party". :pac:


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    Pegmatite
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    I'm surprised this is only being brought up now. He announced his intent to run a couple of weeks before the Senate referendum.


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    jank
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    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    Yes, I know the Midlands/North-West is the most backward looking part of the country

    Backwards as in rural or backwards as in they probably share 98% of the same value and characteristics of the Übermensch of D4 and the like. Not like Dublin haven't had their own 'backwardness' to contend with. CJH, Bertie, Liam Lawlor among others, all born and breed within the M50 and voted into office by the same populace…. Just saying.


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    Pherekydes
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    jank wrote: »
    Backwards as in rural or backwards as in they probably share 98% of the same value and characteristics of the Übermensch of D4 and the like. Not like Dublin haven't had their own 'backwardness' to contend with. CJH, Bertie, Liam Lawlor among others, all born and breed within the M50 and voted into office by the same populace…. Just saying.

    You're right about Dublin backwardness in relation to the eFFers. Certain voters seem to be in thrall to the lying, conniving, yet somehow charming, gombeens of FF.

    You're wrong that these are the same people that despise backward gob****es like Rónán Mullen.

    Dublin has a vast and diverse population.


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    Delirium
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    Brown Shanahan wrote: »
    Coming back from training tonight, I heard that the bold Ronan is running in the Euro elections on the Newstalk Irish language programme. As soon as I heard his voice I changed channels, not wanting to vomit all over my windscreen, but here's an article.

    What're the odds he won't get his deposit back? Yes, I know the Midlands/North-West is the most backward looking part of the country, but surely Iona's agressive, greedy and nauseating brand of homophobia will straighten enough heads out up there.
    yeah, we all look like actors in a Huckleberry Finn movie :rolleyes:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    jank
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    Pherekydes wrote: »
    You're wrong that these are the same people that despise backward gob****es like Rónán Mullen.

    Dublin has a vast and diverse population.

    Yes its diverse population which includes people like David Quinn, John Waters and Michael Nugent, which doesn't actually refute the point that the north-west of the country is the most 'backwards'...


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    EuskalHerria
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    jank wrote: »
    Yes its diverse population which includes people like David Quinn, John Waters and Michael Nugent, which doesn't actually refute the point that the north-west of the country is the most 'backwards'...

    The north west, not just a geographical location, also a personality trait. Apparently.


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    wp_rathead
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    He is running in my constituency.. oh pleaaaaaaaase let some of his campaigners call to my house.. oh please please please!!


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    wp_rathead
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    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Dublin has a vast and diverse population.

    As does the North-West


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    jank
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    EuskalHerria wrote: »
    The north west, not just a geographical location, also a personality trait. Apparently.

    Sure we all know the Irish are god fearing, drunk,leprechaun dancing idiots anyway.


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    GCU Flexible Demeanour
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    wprathead wrote: »
    As does the North-West
    Isn't the point more about politics? In recent history, the North-West has been a bit of a political cu-de-sac. At one point, five of the six TDs from Donegal were FF. If that had been replicated nationally, we'd have almost been a one-party State. Trace back to things like the 1995 Divorce Referendum and you find a distinct Country and Western trend in voting "No", and a distinct Dublin trend of voting "Yes".

    That's not to say that everyone in either location has to feel some shared burden of shame, for either being backward or for forcing divorce onto unwilling country folk. About a third of folk in Dublin voted agin divorce, and about a third of folk along the Western seaboard voted in favour.

    It just that, if you're a politician with a traditional values platform, you'll clearly find it easier to garner support in places that have demonstrated support for the kinds of positions you are likely to advocate.


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    Brian Shanahan
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    SW wrote: »
    yeah, we all look like actors in a Huckleberry Finn movie :rolleyes:

    Well I forgot to add the following;
    with the exception of Tipperary, the inhabitants of which, unversally look like extras from 1,000,000 BC

    That better?

    But in all honesty I was talking in voting patterns, Mullen only picked that constituency because he knows its the only chance he'll get enough people to vote for a gob****e that he'll get his deposit back.


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    Delirium
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    No....... I'm from Offaly :pac:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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    Brian Shanahan
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    SW wrote: »
    No....... I'm from Offaly :pac:

    So then you're well aware of what I speak about.

    I spent six years in Tipp Town proselytising to the heathen about hurling.


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    Sarky
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    Can we at least all agree that Mullen's a smarmy, bigoted wanker?


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    Corkfeen
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    SW wrote: »
    yeah, we all look like actors in a Huckleberry Finn movie :rolleyes:

    *chews some straw* We don't like any of your kind around these parts......


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    pauldla
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    Sarky wrote: »
    Can we at least all agree that Mullen's a smarmy, bigoted wanker?

    Well, we can't with any confidence speak on his 'self-relief' practices (though I'm sure he doesn't do it. At all. Ever).

    But as for smarmy and bigoted....


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    jank
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    Brian Shanahan wrote: »

    But in all honesty I was talking in voting patterns, Mullen only picked that constituency because he knows its the only chance he'll get enough people to vote for a gob****e that he'll get his deposit back.


    Only, never mind the fact that he was born there, raised there, educated there??? None of those i suppose entered into the decision to run for political office in his home constituency? No?


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    Nodin
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    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    Coming back from training tonight, I heard that the bold Ronan is running in the Euro elections on the Newstalk Irish language programme. As soon as I heard his voice I changed channels, not wanting to vomit all over my windscreen, but here's an article.

    What're the odds he won't get his deposit back? Yes, I know the Midlands/North-West is the most backward looking part of the country, but surely Iona's agressive, greedy and nauseating brand of homophobia will straighten enough heads out up there.

    I've nothing against him running for Europe, as long as its just ahead of a pack of trained and angry attack dogs.


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    robindch
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    Nodin wrote: »
    I've nothing against him running for Europe, as long as its just ahead of a pack of trained and angry attack dogs.
    I'm all for him running for Europe as well, but only so long as he stays there when he reaches it.


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    Corkfeen
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    robindch wrote: »
    I'm all for him running for Europe as well, but only so long as he stays there when he reaches it.

    But Ireland is in Europe so if he came back,he'd still be in Europe so has technically stayed there. Not easy being a pedant.


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    Nodin
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    robindch wrote: »
    I'm all for him running for Europe as well, but only so long as he stays there when he reaches it.


    Ever since the Telegraph was invented, that hasn't been as good as it sounds.


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    Banjoxed
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    There are enough bonkers reactionaries up here in Donegal who will vote for the cnut. Whether he will be in the hunt for a seat is another matter but playing the holy Mary card has worked here before.


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    Nodin
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    Banjoxed wrote: »
    There are enough bonkers reactionaries up here in Donegal who will vote for the cnut. Whether he will be in the hunt for a seat is another matter but playing the holy Mary card has worked here before.

    As its been near (or is) a quarter century since I've been there, I've no idea what the place is like now. Or anywhere else outside of the pale, tbh.


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