Former TCDSU Dep Pres Seeking Election Nomination

aodh_rua · 08-11-2005 2:15pm #1

Hi all - just to let you know a certain former TCDSU Deputy President (2001-2002)\3E3 Management for Engineers lecturer has declared for Fine Gael in Kildare South. The selection convention is in late January\early February, but he's quietly confident and has the support of senior party types, and local members.

If you want to help let me know, and to those involved in the 2002 Seanad Campaign, it won't require folding 40,000 Tonys again - honest!

08-11-2005 2:26pm

G'wan, throw up the picture you sent to us!

Time Magazine · 08-11-2005 2:27pm

Have you been onto the branch about this yet?

G'wan ya good thing. Out of college all of 6 weeks and you're looking for a cushy number again

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*Adds his support. Let's do everything to keep Ivana 'Der Witch' Bitchface out of public office.

Ron DMC · 08-11-2005 2:39pm

pfffh! Fine Gael

aodh_rua · 08-11-2005 2:39pm

Angry Banana wrote:

Have you been onto the branch about this yet?

G'wan ya good thing. Out of college all of 6 weeks and you're looking for a cushy number again .

*Adds his support. Let's do everything to keep Ivana 'Der Witch' Bitchface out of public office.

The overlap members between home and TCD know, but I haven't informed the branch. Perhaps you could be so good!

If you want to laugh at the pic EduMyth mentions click here. Children be warned!

Crash · 08-11-2005 2:44pm

...it made me wet.

Time Magazine · 08-11-2005 3:29pm

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

pfffh! Fine Gael

Quiet you.

Agent Smith · 08-11-2005 3:39pm

pfffth.... Blue shirts.....

fade · 08-11-2005 4:21pm

crash_000 wrote:

...it made me wet.

thats funny, cos it made me as dry as the kalamari.....

mmm....tumbleweed

Pet · 09-11-2005 12:28am

Kalamari is seafood. So I take it you found him irresistable too?

geraghd · 09-11-2005 1:14am

Angry Banana wrote:

Have you been onto the branch about this yet?

G'wan ya good thing. Out of college all of 6 weeks and you're looking for a cushy number again .

*Adds his support. Let's do everything to keep Ivana 'Der Witch' Bitchface out of public office.

Ivana who now?

fade · 09-11-2005 10:28am

Pet wrote:

Kalamari is seafood. So I take it you found him irresistable too?

haha, look how stupid you can look by typing a "m" instead of a "h". damn you all to the bowels of hell!

euch, kalamari reaks of nastiness! so nope, still dry...

geraghd · 09-11-2005 2:05pm

Dead Ed wrote:

Labour superbitch. She banned the sale of "the sun" (it doesn't deserve capitals) in su shops when she was in the union. Then she has the gall to whine about censorship when she was runnin for the E.U. (this information may not be entirely accurate as I lost interest in fish-pond politics a while ago.

Ok, but what has she got to do with the South Kildare election..

fade · 09-11-2005 3:58pm

well im speaking from a total base of ignorance in the matter, but i would assume that she is running for some sort of position aswell? maybe...

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 09-11-2005 4:46pm

she's not Kildare - think it is South-County Dublin she might be running in. The Phoenix was saying that it is far from certain that she'll be able to get a nomination though, as the local branch want someone else...

Pet · 09-11-2005 5:20pm

She banned the sale of "the sun" (it doesn't deserve capitals) in su shops when she was in the union.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. The only place on campus I'd like to see the sun is in the arts block toilets, for the purposes of wiping arses.

Barry Aldwell · 09-11-2005 6:21pm

Pet wrote:

That's not necessarily a bad thing. The only place on campus I'd like to see the sun is in the arts block toilets, for the purposes of wiping arses.

I'm not a particularly big fan of the sun's sensationalist tactics, but censorship is censorship. Similarly with the coke ban. If someone doesn't want to buy it, then fine, don't buy it, but to dictate what someone can and cannot buy has a distinct stench of......oppression.

Agent Smith · 09-11-2005 9:06pm

then Vote in any referemdum on lifting the coke ban

Time Magazine · 09-11-2005 10:49pm

geraghd wrote:

Ok, but what has she got to do with the South Kildare election..

Ohhhhhh.... I read Tony's message as he was seeking a FG nomination in the TCD constituency.

Obviously Ivana is of no concern to him then so.

Sorry.

Barry Aldwell wrote:

I'm not a particularly big fan of the sun's sensationalist tactics, but censorship is censorship. Similarly with the coke ban. If someone doesn't want to buy it, then fine, don't buy it, but to dictate what someone can and cannot buy has a distinct stench of......oppression.

Yes, just like the bans on fireworks, heroin and murder. Bloody democratically enforced bans.

I don't agree necessarily agree with the ban on Coke, but a mandate's a mandate.

Andrew 83 · 10-11-2005 6:33pm

Barry Aldwell wrote:

I'm not a particularly big fan of the sun's sensationalist tactics, but censorship is censorship. Similarly with the coke ban. If someone doesn't want to buy it, then fine, don't buy it, but to dictate what someone can and cannot buy has a distinct stench of......oppression.

In the case of Coke the idea is that the members of the Union are taking a stand and not financially supporting an organisation that is letting murder happen in its name.

With the Sun I assume that it was a similar logic of the Union refusing to give financial support to a paper with the Sun's views.

Neither is oppression, it's the Union not financing causes it disagrees with, no one in the union's stopping you strolling across to Spar.

Crash · 10-11-2005 10:49pm

Oddly enough, for one who vehemently disagrees with the coke ban, i see the Sun ban as far worse. granted its a **** newspaper but i still dont believe the press should be banned in that way.

Ron DMC · 10-11-2005 11:49pm

crash_000 wrote:

Oddly enough, for one who vehemently disagrees with the coke ban, i see the Sun ban as far worse. granted its a **** newspaper but i still dont believe the press should be banned in that way.

hear hear

John · 11-11-2005 12:19am

Does the library still get in the Sun?

Ron DMC · 11-11-2005 12:21am

John2 wrote:

Does the library still get in the Sun?

I'd imagine so, they get a copy of every newspaper and have microfilms of papers going back over a hundred years.

Andrew 83 · 11-11-2005 1:11pm

I've no problem with a ban on the Sun (is it still in place?). As I say it's not stopping anyone going to Spar to get it.

Crash · 11-11-2005 1:47pm

Well if i had my way the independent would be banned then also - wonder how much larger the complaints would be if that got passed...

Ilac · 11-11-2005 2:44pm

Couldn't help but notice that the SU Shop in House 6 does in fact stock the Irish Sun...Oh no wait, it might have been the Irish Star.

On what grounds exactly was it banned? Maybe the same will apply to the Independent....

Ron DMC · 11-11-2005 3:24pm

Let's ban everything except the Irish Times, the Guardian, Daily Ireland, and Lá.
They're the only dailies that are any good anyway.

Andrew 83 · 11-11-2005 3:38pm

I've no problem with either of you proposing those bans either as a motion to Council or as a Referendum. If it's the democractic will of the students it's perfectly legitimate. Also perfectly newsworthy

Agent Smith · 11-11-2005 10:28pm

Ilac wrote:

Couldn't help but notice that the SU Shop in House 6 does in fact stock the Irish Sun...Oh no wait, it might have been the Irish Star.

On what grounds exactly was it banned? Maybe the same will apply to the Independent....

yeah the sun is sold in the SU shop

censorship of the press is wrong kids! mkay?

Hitchhiker's Guide to... · 14-11-2005 2:55pm

agent smith wrote:

yeah the sun is sold in the SU shop

censorship of the press is wrong kids! mkay?

Judging from the time of the ban - the Sun was probably banned over something to do with:

1. abortion
2. the de-unionisation of journalists by Rupert Murdock in the paper
3. South Africa
4. rainforests
5. Northern Ireland
6. "just generally wanting to ban something, and walking into the SU shop and The Sun being the first visible thing"

- Also, it wasn't necessarily Ivana who banned the paper; it could have been banned independently. Just as coca-cola was essentially banned by Rory Hearne in 2004, even though he wasn't involved in su politics at the time.

ISAW · 15-11-2005 9:38am

Andrew 83 wrote:

I've no problem with a ban on the Sun (is it still in place?). As I say it's not stopping anyone going to Spar to get it.

But the original point was not about whether it was fair or not. the point was whether people should support someone who promotes something (e.g. a ban on newspapers, a ban on homexuality a ban on abortion) and you then find that they preach the opposite (e.g. that censorship is wrong; that they secretly procured an abortion for someone while saying abortion was wrong; that they frequently met up with rent boys while saying homexuality was wrong).

However, I would like to see evidence for the ban on The Sun being initiated or supported by Bacik. Just saying it does not make it true.

Former TCDSU Dep Pres Seeking Election Nomination

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