Most Annoying Galway Politican

kellyreilly

While there will be a lot of nominations here, I'm casting my vote for Padraig Connelly.

I've stopped reading a lot of local papers on account of him. I was/am sicking of seeing his bloody mug in the paper every second week.

Second place goes to Michael Crowe. He reeks of ambition and you know he doesn't stand for anything.

Screw it I should just go through the lot of them. Third place is Catherine Connolly, she is always 'shocked and appalled'

sensitive_soul

That Healy Eames one.....shes as fake as a cardboard cut out and loves herself being photographed for the papers.

kellyreilly

Perhaps I should have titled this which politican do you least hate ?

Totally agree on the Healy Eames point. All that is wrong in any politican

sensitive_soul

Full of self adoration isnt she? Oh please woman, you dont work for the white house!

slickmcvic

niall o broaclachaaaann...the green party former mayor....can't stand the sight of the tree huggin head on him!"
...leave the stage

Mr A.

slickmcvic wrote: »

niall o broaclachaaaann...the green party former mayor....can't stand the sight of the tree huggin head on him!"
...leave the stage

sure, between a beard-sporting former mayor defending environmental friendly values and a bunch of self-centered,power-driven and corruption-ridden walking clichés, the choice is tough

snubbleste

Oh good god, what a bunch of vegetables!

I predict we'll still vote them all in again in 2009 :cool:

kellyreilly

What kind of person would be a good politican ?
I can see a coloured candidate at the next election

Creachadóir

Healy Eames - she was my lecturer in college. I thought I'd never see her again when I finished my course...now I can't open the paper without reading yet another opinion from her.

Frank Fahy - he's rude and obnoxious etc.

ErnieBert

Why don't you change the thred to Most Interesting Galway Politician. Michael D Higgins would win it easy.

Toto Wolfcastle

kellyreilly wrote: »

What kind of person would be a good politican ?
I can see a coloured candidate at the next election

Which colour? :rolleyes:

Malice

kellyreilly wrote: »

What kind of person would be a good politican ?
I can see a coloured candidate at the next election

Ah no, grey politicians all the way!

Toto Wolfcastle

malice_ wrote: »

Ah no, grey politicians all the way!

Grey is still a colour!

cp251

Michael D might be the most interesting Galway politician but as useless as the rest of them.

If he spent more time doing his job as a local politician and less time worrying about airy fairy stuff on the other side of the world. He might be more effective. He's an eccentric. I read this in the Galway Independant. Does this make sense to anyone but him? European manufacturers designing guns for children????????????

Ireland is not guilty when it comes to light weapons but partner countries in the European Union are
“The response, when it became known that there were up to 250,000 child soldiers globally was to lighten the weapons children would carry rather than eliminate the weapons or remove the children from this appalling industry of death. Scientists were hired to use new materials that could lighten weapons to allow children of seven, eight and nine years of age carry them.”

The man is out there, somewhere all on his own.

Then there's O'Cuiv, a TD and minister only because of who he's related to. Always looks uncomfortable, like a Rabbit caught in a spotlight. Ineffective and dull, the classic grey man.

As for the others. I know nothing about them which tells you all you need to know.

The local councillors are a massive joke and the joke is on us. Most of them are not really interested in their local job. No, they all have ambitions for the Dail and it's expense accounts. Meanwhile we sit in all day traffic jams. Remember the poisoned water and the Eyre Square farce.

Galway is badly served by it's local politicians and quite frankly the so called professionals who staff both the city and county councils.

What is needed for the next local election is a massacre of the old guard and some new blood.

padraig71

Least annoying, definitely Michael D and Niall O Brolchain. As for the former's being concerned with 'airy fairy' matters such as child soldiers, surely I'm not alone in wanting to see more conscientious and less parochial politicians.

Most shameful: all those county councillors who pretended that one of their number who had served time for misappropriating public funds had actually been off sick, so that he could resume his seat on getting out of gaol. Only in Ireland…

Robbo

padraig71 wrote: »

Least annoying, definitely Michael D and Niall O Brolchain. As for the former's being concerned with 'airy fairy' matters such as child soldiers, surely I'm not alone in wanting to see more conscientious and less parochial politicians.

Agreed, TDs are elected as national legislators. Unfortunately, clientelism reigns supreme and elections are decided by promising to fix the potholes or by doing the funeral circuit.

We get the representatives we deserve.

padraig71

Robbo wrote: »

We get the representatives we deserve.

Thanks, Robbo, I wanted to say that too, but chickened out, thinking I'd be flamed in moments!

Remember the apathy when the water crisis hit? There was a protest at City Hall - I thought it would be mobbed, but hardly anyone turned up; most sheeple, sorry I mean people, just started paying for clean water and hardly blinked. As for ethics and parochialism, you only have to read the threads about the GAA or the air show… And there are still plenty of people who will tell you what a great guy Charlie Haughey was - and doubtless are saying the same about Bertie now.

TerrorFirmer

Annoying doesn't necessarily have to equate to a bad politician, so you could approve of someone and still find them a head wrecker! Conneely, followed by Healy Eames.

galvianlord

I think Padraig Conneely is hilarious....it's almost entertaining now to see his sombre face week in week out in the local papers: pointing at overflowing rubbish bins, pointing at graffiti, pointing at broken kerbstones, pointing at Eyre Sq, pointing at people bushing down the arch, pointing at students on the rip during rag week, pointing at doubleparked taxis, pointing at seagulls cause one shat on him once....hmmm, guess you get the idea! The gall of the guy to continually use these photo-opps has to be admired, takes a very odd person to do it so shamelessly....

As for annoying my vote goes to the Connolly sisters, I find their self-righteous attitude to everything particulalry grating! Will never forget the time Catherine used her casting vote to block the Bish's move to Newcastle. Despite the fact that the move was wanted, even needed by the brothers, teachers, parents of the school. And of course it was done despite her husband being a teacher there....

Have no time for the likes of O'Brolchain either, and very little for the dinosaurs of the main parties. Hardly any vision for the future of Galway is displayed by any of them, just the usual constant attacks on developers, their own civil servants in city hall, the economy for causing Galway's mess without offering solutions.

The TDs dont bother me much either, have voted Michael D in the past but kind of losing interest in him, but dont think I would give my no 1 to any of the other four...

bilko

Crowe, that "independent" elected at the last election - all FF gimmicks and no substance followed by the eloquent,urbane Val Hanley.I suppose a non-entity like John Connolly will never appear on your radar,but being FF he's guaranteed to be re-elected given the constituency's devotion to all Fianna Failers.

snubbleste

Anyone else see the latest Padraig Conneely stunt?

Outing a sex shop that has been around for some time as unsavoury and unwanted in Galway, garnering national headlines as a result. Any reason why he chose to do it now as opposed to a few years back, besides local elections are on next year?

The cinema concerned isn't even in his electoral ward, so how can he be claiming to represent his constituents.

po0k

Moral Outrage++

King John V

Down with that sort of thing.

Malice

King John V wrote: »

Down with that sort of thing.

Careful now

CliffHuxtabel

cp251 wrote: »

As for the others. I know nothing about them which tells you all you need to know.
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CliffHuxtabel

I love these political threads on the Galway board.

Nearly everyone seems overwhelmed with bitterness but for all your vitriol nobody ever comes close to providing any kind of answer.

I think to be a politician you have to have some kind of ego problem or emotional defect but in fairness you have to admire their nerve. To stick your neck out there when (judging by boards.ie) everyone knows better than you takes a special kind of courage.

The most annoying local politican is Padraig Conneely. He embodies everything cynical and despicable about the political charade. Thats just my opinion though.

Zzippy

CliffHuxtabel wrote: »

I love these political threads on the Galway board.

Nearly everyone seems overwhelmed with bitterness but for all your vitriol nobody ever comes close to providing any kind of answer.

I think to be a politician you have to have some kind of ego problem or emotional defect but in fairness you have to admire their nerve. To stick your neck out there when (judging by boards.ie) everyone knows better than you takes a special kind of courage.

The most annoying local politican is Padraig Conneely. He embodies everything cynical and despicable about the political charade. Thats just my opinion though.

I was prepared to give them a chance. I've occasionally written letters to councillors asking certain questions, and last year I wrote to 8 of them who had voted yes to rezone a piece of land beside me from residential to commercial (it was part owned by another councillor). Only 2 of them bothered to reply - Terry Flaherty and Mary Leahy. Fair play to them at least for replying.
The ones who didn't reply included Michael Crowe, Padraig Conneely, John Mulholland among others. Hence my lack of respect for them.
IMO the best councillor in there is O'Brollchain, he's the only one who strikes me as committed. Most of the rest are just in it for the expenses.

sgthighway

galvianlord wrote: »

Will never forget the time Catherine used her casting vote to block the Bish's move to Newcastle. Despite the fact that the move was wanted, even needed by the brothers, teachers, parents of the school. And of course it was done despite her husband being a teacher there....

Not defending her but its the norm to use such a casting vote to oppose any motion and not support it. Happens in any Committee in any Organisation

pencil

I don't know one that is work its salt... but...

my vote has to go to Mr. Frank Fahy..... a Galway Politician and head of the transport committee..... representing the county with the worst roads in Ireland! The man is a walking joke

When will we (Irish voters) cop on and stop voting in these clowns :mad:

Lockstep

I like Mikey D Higgins.

That is all.

SimpleSam06

cp251 wrote: »

Michael D might be the most interesting Galway politician but as useless as the rest of them... European manufacturers designing guns for children????????????

lol. A 1998 EU code of conduct on arms exports bans governments from granting export licenses to countries where there are human rights abuses, internal or regional conflicts or regimes that support terrorism. There is even a clause prohibiting exports to countries where there is a risk of arms being diverted to an “undesirable end-user.” So eh, nice one Michael. He was the only politician that showed up at my door in the run up to the last elections however.

Robbo wrote: »

We get the representatives we deserve.

Its a bit of a joke alright. The question is who will step up to the plate to get themselves elected? How do you go about doing that anyway?

/breaks out Bonnie Tyler "I need a hero"

Sherifu

Padraig Connelly, I didn't mind till he tried to take away our dickhouse arthouse cinema.

kellyreilly

AAAHHHHHHHH......sweet mother of Jesus it seems that Connelly is on course to become the next Mayor. Anyone else believe he is a joke ?

galvianlord

well tbh i think the whole town is falling apart, nothing constructive has been done in years. the officials of the council seem inept and unwilling to take any risk to see that galway reaches its full potential. so as much as i would have a jaundiced view of our soon to be mayor and his penchant for photo-ops, he may stir up the eejits that oversaw the eyre sq debacle, the water debacle, the general planning debacle etc etc anything that calls out the shower of civil servants in city hall has to be good thing IMHO

snubbleste

Anyone notice how quiet Cllr. Conneely was in relation to the allegation of getting off without paying a clamping charge that was put to him by another Cllr.?

On topic, Collette Connolly has risen in my opinion for breaking the party line in campaigning for a NO vote in the referendum.

Malice

galvianlord wrote: »

he may stir up the eejits that oversaw the eyre sq debacle, the water debacle, the general planning debacle etc etc

That's a very good point. I'm not 100% sure but I don't recall anyone being held accountable for the water problem and the Eyre Square problems were pinned on the developer weren't they?

Zzippy

galvianlord wrote: »

well tbh i think the whole town is falling apart, nothing constructive has been done in years. the officials of the council seem inept and unwilling to take any risk to see that galway reaches its full potential. so as much as i would have a jaundiced view of our soon to be mayor and his penchant for photo-ops, he may stir up the eejits that oversaw the eyre sq debacle, the water debacle, the general planning debacle etc etc anything that calls out the shower of civil servants in city hall has to be good thing IMHO

He's stirred them up before, in fact he gave them so much personal abuse that the city manager and his officials refused to deal with him, and rightly so. He's a publicity-seeking bully, thats all. I can see quite a few council meetings going south over the next year - he was bad enough as a regular councillor but now he'll have the chair it will be a joke.

galvianlord

the developer was the city council. they hired a contractor to complete the works for them. i think that a case is at present before the high court, which will determine who was to blame for the eyre sq debacle. the buck should stop with the city council. if the development of eyre sq had been completed by the private sector, it would probably have been completed on time and within budget. however accountability is not something that seems to worry the civil servants within city hall. services/planning/heritage/environment et al have alot to answer for with regard to wrongs within the city but seem to prefer attaching blame to builders, developers and others....there is a complete lack of leadership and accountability in college road. it's a far cry from when joe gavin was city manager.....things got done. galway is stultified at present and feck all seems to be done about it! if conneely wants to cause fuss on his way to a nomination for the dail, let him! at least things might get done....


connolly sisters win it hands down for me....irritating self righteous pair of....ladies...

Mars Bar

We got Michael D rocking in the Dáil for us, Michael D rocking in the dáil(in the cabinet) *sings along with the Saw Doctors' Michael D*

Eejitt

Connolly sisters are definitely the most annoying, Conneely and Callanan are embarrassing but entertaining.

axiom32

who did get the mayors job?

and im personnally delighted over the movement in wards so crowe has f@@k all chance of getting elected
does anybody know of anything he ever did for the areas he represented
maybe when he was chairman of renmore fc he may of heard of the walkway by the rail track and maybe he could then when elected done something or raised the issue about the lack of lighting and its safety...but know he just wants to be the next frank fahey

Eejitt

axiom32 wrote: »

who did get the mayors job?

Conneely

Headline in the Sentinel says "I wont stay silent - declares Mayor Conneely after election". I would expect nothing else!

Fenster

Padraig Connelly by a mile.

kellyreilly

Today's Advertiser can't make up it's mind as to it believes is better Jesus or Padraig Connelly. It's crazy how this rag and all the media treat him.

"i won't be silenced'...no-one ever tried to silence him yet he always shouts and roars at city council meetings silencing those rational councillors who wish to speak.

It is the Galway media more so than the councillors like Connelly that are so pathetic. :mad:

_Whimsical_

kellyreilly wrote: »

It is the Galway media more so than the councillors like Connelly that are so pathetic. :mad:

They are definitely an unusual lot.
Anyone else notice the Galway Independent's editorial headline on the subject of everyone's favourite politician?
"Creme de la Mayor".

Verbal_Kint

Noel Grealish is by far and away the best Galway has to offer. Will go out of his way to deal with problems quickly and he has a good staff.

Mars Bar

We are glad to have Pete Warren over here in Tuam as our mayor. He is already doing more than all the others have done to get attention to our closed hospital. I'd be in a mind to go up and picket outside the dail with him!

Robbo

Verbal_Kint wrote: »

Noel Grealish is by far and away the best Galway has to offer. Will go out of his way to deal with problems quickly and he has a good staff.

Been a bit quiet on the Claregalway Bypass thing recently, hasn't he? A bit too quiet given that it was pretty much his sole campaign issue...

snubbleste

Another City Council meeting abandoned tonight after Cllr. Callanan brought up again the issue of other councillors alledgedly not paying clamping release fees.

snubbleste

After failing to get the City Council managers to answer his questions, Cllr. Callanan appealed to the Ombudsman to put the info into the public domain..

Cllr. Tom Costello was released without paying a fine after being clamped for parking in a disabled bay at the Cathedral carpark in March.

Current Mayor Padraig Conneely was released free of charge in March after being clamped on Forster Street, as "he was only there for a short time while leaving a message at the Connaught Tribune".

Cllr Mulholland was also released without charge in 2005 and again in April of this year. The reason given for the removal was that he was on walkabout with Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny.

Independent Cllr Catherine Connolly was also had her clamp removed for free in May 2007, during general election time.

Following the release of the information, Cllr Callanan said he was happy to put a close to the debate but angered that so much time was wasted by city official in covering up the records. http://www.galwayindependent.com/local-news/local-news/cllrs-caught-on-clamping-charge/

nycman

I'm going to go to bat for Éamon Ó Cuív. He's a great politician who does all he can for Galway West. He's easily the most effective TD in Galway, he's straight with people and he gets stuff done. Michael D I quite like as well. Great for a chat so he is.

On the other hand Frank Fahey is a vile,mean excuse for a person. He embodies whats wrong with FF nowadays. Doesnt care. Full Stop.


And don't get me started on that wagon Healy-Eames. Good God what a news hound. You'd swear to God she was Mother Teresa. Horribly ambitious but with no redeeming factors.