Ronan Mullen running for Europe

Brian Shanahan · 07-02-2014 10:11pm #1

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.

swampgas · 07-02-2014 10:31pm

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.

Turtwig · 07-02-2014 10:34pm

Brian Shanahan · 07-02-2014 11:11pm

Jernal wrote: »

Imagine doing that on a windy back road at 10pm on a stormy wet night. That's what nearly happened to me tonight.

Sarky · 07-02-2014 11:16pm

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.

08-02-2014 12:47am

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.

EuskalHerria · 08-02-2014 12:50am

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

PopePalpatine · 08-02-2014 12:54am

swampgas wrote: »

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

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

Pegmatite · 08-02-2014 12:56am

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

jank · 08-02-2014 5:52am

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.

Pherekydes · 08-02-2014 8:40am

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.

Delirium · 08-02-2014 10:05am

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:

jank · 08-02-2014 11:32am

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'...

EuskalHerria · 08-02-2014 11:35am

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.

wp_rathead · 08-02-2014 11:54am

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

wp_rathead · 08-02-2014 11:57am

Pherekydes wrote: »

Dublin has a vast and diverse population.

As does the North-West

jank · 08-02-2014 11:57am

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.

GCU Flexible Demeanour · 08-02-2014 12:45pm

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.

Brian Shanahan · 08-02-2014 12:50pm

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.

Delirium · 08-02-2014 12:51pm

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

Brian Shanahan · 08-02-2014 1:13pm

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.

Sarky · 08-02-2014 1:33pm

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

Corkfeen · 08-02-2014 1:57pm

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......

pauldla · 08-02-2014 1:59pm

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....

jank · 08-02-2014 2:00pm

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?

Nodin · 08-02-2014 2:06pm

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.

robindch · 08-02-2014 5:30pm

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.

Corkfeen · 08-02-2014 5:35pm

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.

Nodin · 08-02-2014 5:38pm

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.

Banjoxed · 08-02-2014 5:41pm

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.

Nodin · 08-02-2014 5:47pm

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.

robindch · 08-02-2014 5:49pm

Corkfeen wrote: »

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.

Well, technically, to reach Europe, he wouldn't have to leave Ireland either and I was hoping he might. Hence the joke.

Corkfeen wrote: »

Not easy being a pedant.

Nope.

joseph brand · 08-02-2014 5:58pm

Ronan Mullen and Sean Sherlock remind of the little sh1ts in school who told teacher and shielded their work in case anyone wanted to copy them. Nasty piece of work both of them. I get angry thinking about them.

I'll just remind myself that Ireland thrashed Wales, and Liverpool made an absolute show of Arsenal. Ahhh, that's better.

Corkfeen · 08-02-2014 6:02pm

robindch wrote: »

Well, technically, to reach Europe, he wouldn't have to leave Ireland either and I was hoping he might. Hence the joke.Nope.

WELL, We should send him to the mainland!

goose2005 · 08-02-2014 6:07pm

Midlands-North-West is the entirety of Connacht; the three counties of Ulster; and seven counties of northern and western Leinster (Kildare, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Offaly, Westmeath). So probably a quarter of voters are semi-Dubliners anyway.

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'...

Waters is from Roscommon.

robindch · 08-02-2014 6:34pm

Corkfeen wrote: »

We should send him to the mainland!

Oh christ, does that mean we should vote for him?

...quandry...

Corkfeen · 08-02-2014 6:39pm

robindch wrote: »

Oh christ, does that mean we should vote for him?

...quandry...

That's how I always liked to view the situation of Nick Griffin being an MEP. I refuse to accept that anyone wants him as a representative.

donegal_man · 08-02-2014 7:00pm

Sarky wrote: »

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.

It's not just Catholics who share his views, you'll find a fair percentage of older members of the CofI taking a similar position on lots of issues. I know quite a few of those who attend the same church as my mother would regard him as a "good lad standing up for Christian values"

Brian Shanahan · 08-02-2014 8:34pm

robindch wrote: »

Oh christ, does that mean we should vote for him?

...quandry...

Nah, we just invest in a very big cannon.

Mr_A · 09-02-2014 12:30am

I for one welcome the opportunity to give this nasty piece of work my last preference.

Hotblack Desiato · 09-02-2014 1:05am

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.

Dublin has seen the error of its ways and purged itself of FF TDs, the rest of the country has some catching up to do, as usual.

GCU Flexible Demeanour wrote: »

About a third of folk in Dublin voted agin divorce

Yeah, but most of them are probably dead by now.

jank · 09-02-2014 1:54am

goose2005 wrote: »

Waters is from Roscommon.

Yes, but living in Dublin. Should we stereotype all Dubs because of him?

joseph brand · 09-02-2014 2:09am

jank wrote: »

Yes, but living in Dublin. Should we stereotype all Dubs because of him?

Yawwwnn. /rubs face

09-02-2014 5:56pm

Its midlands-north-west now after the constituency revisions.

Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath

I struggle to see him repeating Dana's success of 1999.

If Dana stands they would be fighting for the same votes.

Marian Harkin as an independent is in the liberal grouping in the parliament.

PopePalpatine · 09-02-2014 6:34pm

Feck, I'm in Meath and I go to uni in Maynooth in Kildare. I'm willing to bet his face will be all over the seminary in Maynooth.

Brian Shanahan · 09-02-2014 9:00pm

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Feck, I'm in Meath and I go to uni in Maynooth in Kildare. I'm willing to bet his face will be all over the seminary in Maynooth.

Hey look on the bright side it'll alienate even more seminary students from the rcc. They'll all be thinking "oh ****, what have we got ourselves in for?"

Banbh · 09-02-2014 10:07pm

it'll alienate even more seminary students

Both of them?

PopePalpatine · 09-02-2014 10:18pm

TBH, if you've committed yourself to a seminary...you're probably going to vote for Mullen. :pac:

freyners · 10-02-2014 2:28pm

I cannot wait till he tries to campaign near me, better start training the dog again

Annasopra · 11-02-2014 10:19am

wprathead wrote: »

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

I doubt they will. It's 15 counties. There is absolutely no way they have resources to do house to house calls.

PopePalpatine · 11-02-2014 12:20pm

Well, if the Church can fill busloads of pensioners from the arse-end of Kerry to bring them to a pro-life rally in Dublin...I wouldn't be surprised to see the briefcase wanker's supporters.

Ronan Mullen running for Europe

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