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Ronan Mullen running for Europe

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  • #202
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,859 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    couple of family members were on the fence about him as they didn't know much about him. Soon changed that so a few votes denied for poor ole Ronan :P

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



  • #203
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    How's his prospects looking


  • #204
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #205
    Mr_A
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 501 ✭✭✭Mr_A


    14 pages.. same number as the preference he got on my ballot paper. :)


  • #206
    Fred Swanson
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  • #207
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,859 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Seemingly Ronan is only managing 4% of the vote :D

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



  • #208
    Corkfeen
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    The silent majority remain silent even when it comes to voting. :D


  • #209
    lazygal
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    There's a clear liberal bias working against Ronan.


  • #210
    Turtwig
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    I'm sure the gay liberation front infiltrated all the polling stations and altered his preference numbers.


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  • #211
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    lazygal wrote: »
    There's a clear liberal bias working against Ronan.


    The human brain is a fucker allright.


  • #212
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Turtwig wrote: »
    I'm sure the gay liberation front infiltrated all the polling stations and altered his preference numbers.

    ed8.gif
    All four polling clerks/presiding officers in my station were waving GLF placards in everybody's faces, and Mr. Dwarf wasn't even running in the south.


  • #213
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    So glad this clown did so badly in the election. I had a few elderly relatives pleading me to vote for him. I told them no chance, Ming all the way! :D


  • #214
    freyners
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭freyners


    unfortunately its probably a dry run for a dail run, especially if there is good support in east galway,


  • #215
    PopePalpatine
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    Where in Galway could he get that much suppo-

    Oh wait...the Gaeltacht.


  • #216
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Where in Galway could he get that much suppo-

    Oh wait...the Gaeltacht.

    Yeah for putting 2 fadas in his first name.


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  • #217
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Where in Galway could he get that much suppo-

    Oh wait...the Gaeltacht.


    That's where my relations on the fathers side are from - they wouldn't piss on him.


  • #218
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Nodin wrote: »
    That's where my relations on the fathers side are from - they wouldn't piss on him.

    They like him then?


  • #219
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Red Pepper wrote: »
    They like him then?

    ...'if he was on fire'.


  • #220
    freyners
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,300 ✭✭✭freyners


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    Where in Galway could he get that much suppo-

    Oh wait...the Gaeltacht.

    he was fairly prominent in the campaign against the mental hospital closing down in ballinasloe and with the maternity unit in the general hospital there coming under threat he will probably feature again. Would rather spoil my vote than give him any preference but there are enough people around (im from east galway originally) that probably would vote for him based on those actions despite him being a vile little worm (which he keeps fairly well hidden)


  • #221
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Myself and a few friends shared some of his less vocalised views with people on Facebook after people started posting his primetime rant. Not one of them knew his history and a good few followed up by urging people not to vote for him. Who knew Facebook had positives?


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  • #222
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,260 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    What's the story with the name calling, not a very nice thing to do. You can disagree profusely with Mr Mullen's policies and ideals without the need for name calling.


  • #223
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,916 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Because Mullen has done a number of things that only a [PROSE DELETED] would do. If he wants to act like a [PROSE DELETED], it's inevitable that people will call him a [PROSE DELETED].


  • #224
    alan partridge aha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,260 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    iguana wrote: »
    Because Mullen has done a number of things that only a [PROSE DELETED] would do. If he wants to act like a [PROSE DELETED], it's inevitable that people will call him a [PROSE DELETED].

    I find that language is not right a will bid you adieu.:o


  • #225
    lazygal
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    I don't need to call him names. He'll always be the man who told couples who shared their heartbreak about travelling abroad to terminate in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities that they had a wider agenda.


  • #226
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,916 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    And sidled up to one of those women at an event she was speaking at and quietly goaded her about how her baby would probably have been fine if she hadn't terminated it because he sponsors a perfectly healthy child in Africa that was born with the same condition, which I think was anencephaly.

    If I was ever face to face with the "man" my language would be the least of his worries.


  • #227
    heebusjeebus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭heebusjeebus


    Only 4‰ first preference vote.
    I always thought he was a gimp but now he's a useless gimp.


  • #228
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    iguana wrote: »
    And sidled up to one of those women at an event she was speaking at and quietly goaded her about how her baby would probably have been fine if she hadn't terminated it because he sponsors a perfectly healthy child in Africa that was born with the same condition, which I think was anencephaly.

    If he's claiming that a child born with anencephaly is perfectly healthy, he's also a liar.


  • #229
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Nah, just a mental reservation.


  • #230
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    heebusjeebus wrote: »
    Only 4‰ first preference vote.
    I always thought he was a gimp but now he's a useless gimp.

    I have bad news though....
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/law-to-abolish-election-deposit-26055940.html


  • #231
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,916 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    I'm not a Labour voter but it is so disturbing to me that Briefcase Wanker did better than the Labour candidate. Will he go after Ming's Dail seat now?


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  • #232
    iwantmydinner
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭iwantmydinner


    Nodin wrote: »
    I have bad news though....
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/law-to-abolish-election-deposit-26055940.html

    Jaysus you put the heart crossways on me there. I thought that article was going to tell me he'd got there...


  • #233
    Fred Swanson
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  • #234
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Nodin wrote: »
    I have bad news though....
    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/law-to-abolish-election-deposit-26055940.html

    Well to be fair you really shouldn't have to put a deposit down to run for election. A signed nomination sheet is fairer. We live in an open democracy after all.


  • #235
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    iwantmydinner wrote: »
    Jaysus you put the heart crossways on me there. I thought that article was going to tell me he'd got there...

    Soz.


  • #236
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Well to be fair you really shouldn't have to put a deposit down to run for election. A signed nomination sheet is fairer. We live in an open democracy after all.


    ....but I just want him to suffer and wipe the smug gimp look off his sickening face. Why is that so much to ask for...why?


  • #237
    Fred Swanson
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  • #238
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.


    Yeah...in a sense.


  • #239
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Nodin wrote: »
    ....but I just want him to suffer and wipe the smug gimp look off his sickening face. Why is that so much to ask for...why?

    Oh me too!

    On a side note I was looking at some of the extremists the rest of Europe DID elect, I wonder why Ireland is immune to organised xenophobia during recessions (further edit - I'm not saying Mullen is a racist). Don't get me wrong I'm delighted we seem to be but it seems to grab at least some minor power in most other Euro countries. I'd like to think we're above it but I know plenty of genuine racists back home(EDIT - living in Canada at the minute) so it's not that.. Anywho just got me thinking about areas we ARE lucky in when it comes to our political landscape (far and few they are)


  • #240
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    ShooterSF wrote: »
    Oh me too!

    On a side note I was looking at some of the extremists the rest of Europe DID elect, I wonder why Ireland is immune to organised xenophobia during recessions (further edit - I'm not saying Mullen is a racist). Don't get me wrong I'm delighted we seem to be but it seems to grab at least some minor power in most other Euro countries. I'd like to think we're above it but I know plenty of genuine racists back home(EDIT - living in Canada at the minute) so it's not that.. Anywho just got me thinking about areas we ARE lucky in when it comes to our political landscape (far and few they are)


    It is odd allright. I thought that some 'racial purity' knuckle dragger would have got a CC seat, especially in 2009, but not a sign thankfully.


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  • #241
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Nodin wrote: »
    It is odd allright. I thought that some 'racial purity' knuckle dragger would have got a CC seat, especially in 2009, but not a sign thankfully.

    Being on a island of the coast of Europe, that has never been an imperial power, and has a relatively high cost of living, we simply haven't seen the same level of immigration as some other European countries. We don't have the type of racism seen in other countries because we don't have their large often ghettoised ethnic minorities.


  • #242
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    smacl wrote: »
    Being on a island of the coast of Europe, that has never been an imperial power, and has a relatively high cost of living, we simply haven't seen the same level of immigration as some other European countries. We don't have the type of racism seen in other countries because we don't have their large often ghettoised ethnic minorities.

    That's incorrect. Our level of immigration is one of the highest in Europe in the last few years. And you may be mistaking cause and effect in ghettoisation.


  • #243
    jank
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    Well I suppose after decades hating our nearest neighbor it seems that our tongue lashings are reserved for ourselves.


  • #244
    bnt
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    In the Midlands-NW constituency, Mullen's name isn't in the news at all:
    Midlands-Northwest is also not going to bring home a first count tonight – in Castlebar, it is likely they too will call a halt to the count at 11pm and restart at 9am (Tues).

    This is a massive constituency, spanning parts of 15 counties, and returning four seats.

    Ss much reported, Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan (ind) is in the top polling spot there according to tallies and exit polls.

    The second seat should go to Mairead McGuinness (FG). The third seat could be a fight between Matt Carthy (SF), Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher (FF) and Marian Harkin (ind).

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #245
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    That's incorrect. Our level of immigration is one of the highest in Europe in the last few years. And you may be mistaking cause and effect in ghettoisation.

    High rates in recent years don't make up for decades of long term immigration in countries such as France and the UK. If you look at the 2013 list of countries by foreign-born population you'll note that the levels in Germany, France and the UK are in excess of ten times greater than in Ireland. Much of the immigration in these countries has come from colonies or ex-colonies.


  • #246
    PopePalpatine
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    jank wrote: »
    Well I suppose after decades hating our nearest neighbor it seems that our tongue lashings are reserved for ourselves.

    Oh boy, another drive-by post.


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  • #247
    pauldla
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    jank wrote: »
    Well I suppose after decades hating our nearest neighbor it seems that our tongue lashings are reserved for ourselves.

    Decades of hating our nearest neighbour? I didn't know one clause could contain so much wrong.


  • #248
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,859 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    jank wrote: »
    Well I suppose after decades hating our nearest neighbor it seems that our tongue lashings are reserved for ourselves.
    Ah c'mon, Clare isn't that bad! :P

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



  • #249
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    smacl wrote: »
    High rates in recent years don't make up for decades of long term immigration in countries such as France and the UK. If you look at the 2013 list of countries by foreign-born population you'll note that the levels in Germany, France and the UK are in excess of ten times greater than in Ireland. Much of the immigration in these countries has come from colonies or ex-colonies.

    Did you click on that link? Ireland's in the top percentiles. The descendent of an immigrant is not an immigrant. The foreign born population here is higher than most of Europe as a percentage of the population which is , of course, the only way to measure it.

    The percentages in France, Germany and the UK of foreign born is less than Ireland.


  • #250
    robindch
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    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    The descendent of an immigrant is not an immigrant.
    Tell that to the pro-Russians in Crimea.


  • #251
    Nodin
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    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    Did you click on that link? Ireland's in the top percentiles. The descendent of an immigrant is not an immigrant. The foreign born population here is higher than most of Europe as a percentage of the population which is , of course, the only way to measure it.

    The percentages in France, Germany and the UK of foreign born is less than Ireland.


    In reality, yes. In the mind of an idiot, no.


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