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Will allegations of corruption affect the government in the fortcoming June elections

  • 04-03-2004 2:55pm
    #1
    Mighty_Mouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭


    The Tanaiste, Mary Harney, has said she doesn’t believe corruption allegations made at the Mahon Tribunal will affect the performance of the Government parties in this June’s elections.

    Property developer Tom Gilmartin is expected to tell the tribunal over the coming days about the widespread corruption he faced while trying to develop shopping centres in Dublin in the late 1980s.

    His allegations are expected to reflect badly on Fianna Fáil in particular

    Will allegations of corruption affect Government polling? 9 votes

    Yes - less people vote for the Gov
    0% 0 votes
    No- electorate wont care
    66% 6 votes
    Dont know/Dont care
    33% 3 votes


Comments

  • #2
    mycroft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭mycroft


    Can we include a "god I hope so" category?


  • #3
    Villain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,956 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Originally posted by Mighty_Mouse
    Property developer Tom Gilmartin is expected to tell the tribunal over the coming days about the widespread corruption he faced while trying to develop shopping centres in Dublin in the late 1980s.

    He already has: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145302


  • #4
    Mighty_Mouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭Mighty_Mouse


    Sorry Irish!! I meant to apologise in the origional post if I overlapped a previous thread by you.


    I suppose Im interested in whether this will matter one bit when it comes to the crunch. Realisticall for reasons of corruption will this government lose seats.

    Im not sure. -- sure the Shinners will grow, FG might recover a little, labour might recover a little but at the end of the day will this government suffer from an exposition of corruption alone.


  • #5
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    What is needed is real indictments to put the sh1ts in various politicians involved in corruption.
    Then people would wake up to the law breaking.


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