Deirdre de Burca

ateam

Is Senator Deirdre de Burca of the Greens the most inept and ineffective politician in Ireland? I've seen her on Vincent Browne a couple of times and heard her on the radio and she is truly awful. Refuses to answer a question and seems to be living in another world.

population

She is extremely wishy washy alright.

Never comes across well on anything and seems to have sort of fallen into her posistion

ateam

population wrote: »

She is extremely wishy washy alright.

Never comes across well on anything and seems to have sort of fallen into her posistion

Vincent Browne really shows her up. She was saved last night by the unfortunate events in the North, but he still showed her up in a short time. If she's the future of the Greens, they haven't a hope.

LostinBlanch

Well she's not getting my vote.

Darsad

It must be something in the water the greens drink your one white is an absolute loo la , space kadet in her little elec car lets hope she never has a little tip.

Seth Brundle

ateam wrote: »

Refuses to answer a question and seems to be living in another world.

I don't recall any interviews with her but those traits sound pretty standard amongst our elected representatives!

maxwell smart

Considering their respective positions, Mary Coughlan is head and shoulders above Deirdre in the ineptitude steaks.

Het-Field

maxwell smart wrote: »

Considering their respective positions, Mary Coughlan is head and shoulders above Deirdre in the ineptitude steaks.

Yet you are the one who refers to "stakes" in terms of the popular foodstuff

De Burca is going to exposed very badly in Europe. She is on for a kicking from Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour, Sinn Fein, the Libertas Candidate, and potentially Joe Higgins. She is a blow in who has no business running in Dublin

maxwell smart

Fair point, perhaps as English is not the language I do my day to day work in, I should be taken out and shot?:D

However, luckily I am not running this country, or a public representative, so I guess I can be forgiven, unlike either Coughlan or De Burca!

imokyrok

Deirdre did live in Dublin for many years prior to moving out to Bray so while her politic activism was mainly in Bray she's not exactly a blowin.

stepbar

Unfortunatly the political system is not setup to allow for free thinking, innovative individuals. I just wish a few more of our esteemed business folk would get into politics and crack some heads. However, I'm convinced they'd probably end up killing a few civil servants or something like that.

LordSutch

Oops ........ spot the spelling mistake!

How in God's name did this get into print, and how did it get onto Dublin's billboards without anybody noticing? Actually, I quite like her, but this kind of fau pas doesn't do her image any good at all.
http://www.mamanpoulet.com/

mike65

Weirdly some (ie the dopes at Newstalk) wondered if this were some sort of cunning plan to get noticed.

Hmmmm.

Davidth88

Weirdly some (ie the dopes at Newstalk) wondered if this were some sort of cunning plan to get noticed.

Actually on the b'fast show they said a green party spokesperson had said that, they then went on to say this was a load of bull.

However it certainly worked

Hagar

ateam wrote: »

Is [Insert every politician's name here] of the [Insert every party here] the most inept and ineffective politician in Ireland? I've seen him/her on [Insert any TV talk show here] a couple of times and heard him/her on the radio and he/she is truly awful. Refuses to answer a question and seems to be living in another world.

FYP.

jeawan

ateam wrote: »

Is Senator Deirdre de Burca of the Greens the most inept and ineffective politician in Ireland? I've seen her on Vincent Browne a couple of times and heard her on the radio and she is truly awful. Refuses to answer a question and seems to be living in another world.

she used to be a councilor in Wicklow and was just as bad caused me trouble then good i really don't understand how she got into government, mind you the rest of are government are pretty much the same

Darsad

Thats great as far as I can see this muppet and her ilk would have us believe they created thousands of green jobs when the truth is they have and will cost the Irish people hundreds of thousands of other jobs.
Green is all fine and dandy when we can afford to give them a comfort vote not now we need stimulus policies to get us out of this mess not a bunch of looney tree huggers !!

deadhead13

jeawan wrote: »

she used to be a councilor in Wicklow and was just as bad caused me trouble then good i really don't understand how she got into government, mind you the rest of are government are pretty much the same

She was appointed to the Seanad by Bertie as part of the deal between FF and the greens to form a government. The idea being, to give her some exposure before she ran in the upcoming european elections. But all that has been exposed is her stupdity.

spank_inferno

I seen a poster for a candidate in Leinster by the name of Childers along similar lines.
"Standing for jobs" - what does that mean exactly?

Its like a slogan saying "I oppose crime" ... well duh!

does she intend to create jobs?
Does she have any power to do so?

Raiser

Deirdre de Burca is a living, wittering, simpering embodiment of how the dull, inane and ineffectual can, with a little help, reach great heights and thus really showcase their stupidity.

- Although..... We do need thouands of new jobs; I suppose we should all try and make some sense of her bleating.

K4t

She's terrible alright. She doesn't seem to have an opinion on anything and Vincent Brown showed her up a few months ago on his show.

lostexpectation

seen her in action she compromises and then makes excuses for not sticking to her principles and compromises more.

Jip

She's on Joe Duffy now defending her position on running in Dublin but yet being on Wicklow co.co. when they were preventng non locals for buying or building in the area. She's already being pulled up by Duffy for making wild accusations.

P. Breathnach

Jip wrote: »

She's on Joe Duffy now defending her position on running in Dublin but yet being on Wicklow co.co. when they were preventng non locals for buying or building in the area. She's already being pulled up by Duffy for making wild accusations.

I don't think we are hearing the same programme. Duffy is not allowing her to finish a sentence.

Jip

Well at the moment she's finishing plenty, just a pity it's not an answer to anything she's being asked.

joolsveer

She seemed to be digging herself deeper into a hole. I wasn't aware that she was involved in keeping "outsiders" from buying houses in Wicklow.

JIZZLORD

she made a fool out of herself with joe

P. Breathnach

I am totally neutral on Deirdre de Burca and her party (and will not have the opportunity to vote for or against her). I don't have much knowledge about her, other than being aware that she is a Green Party member and public representative. So I have no axe to grind.

The way she was treated on Liveline was disgraceful. Joe Duffy consistently interrupted her and talked her down, and assisted her main challenger to put a question repeatedly in a "when did you stop beating your wife?" manner.

Jip

P. Breathnach wrote: »

and assisted her main challenger to put a
question repeatedly in a "when did you stop beating your wife?" manner.

And rightly so, it was a easy straighforward question that she wouldn't answer.

P. Breathnach

Jip wrote: »

And rightly so, it was a easy straighforward question that she wouldn't answer.

I can't remember the exact words used, but it was a loaded question. It was along the lines of "did you vote yes to this bad thing?" when it was not clearly established what question was voted on, or if it was a bad thing.

Usually when the questioner demands "answer yes or no", it is a clear sign that a question is loaded.

spank_inferno

Had De Burca not bothered to appear on the joe duffy show it would have just been the host & original caller moaning to each other.
She did herself no favours appearing on the show in the first place.

Restricting planning permissions issued to non locals was a popular move at the time so I dont blame De burca for that,
Problem is is that they also restricted it with wicklow natives also.
The county was split into tiered zones.
Perspective house builders despite being wicklow people for generations could only apply for permission to build in the same tier or a higher one than their current address.

eg: Bray/greystones/arklow & wicklow town were tier 1
kilcoole/blessington were tier 2 & so forth.

My parents wanted to purchase land to build a new home for themselves near aughrim but couldnt as they were prohibited from getting planning permission, despite being local to the county for dozens of generations.

Raiser

P. Breathnach wrote: »

I can't remember the exact words used, but it was a loaded question. It was along the lines of "did you vote yes to this bad thing?" when it was not clearly established what question was voted on, or if it was a bad thing.

Usually when the questioner demands "answer yes or no", it is a clear sign that a question is loaded.

I can answer that!

Deirdre de Burca is a Green Party buffoon, she did vote yes 'cause Brian Cowen told her to and it has now been established that anything the Greens are involved in is most certainly a "big bad thing"

- Joe Duffy could only ridicule her based on her stupid political stance, Party affiliations, inability to field questions and respond in kind and her active part in the annexation of our economic entity.

What's he meant to do with her? Compliment her shoes and offer her a fair trade banana?

ateam

Oh god, just listened to her on Joe Duffy.

She's an embarrassment to the Green Party. Not a hope for June..she brings Seanad Eireann into disrepute.

Chre59

I heard her recently on liveline and apparently as a member of Wicklow council she supported the policy of not allowing Dublin people to buy property in Wicklow. Now she has the cheek of running as a candidate for Dublin. She was continually asked whether she thought this was fair but in true de Burca fashion she wouldn't answer the question!

jocmilt

Deirdre was born in Cork, her profile says. There seems to be some mystery about her early life. Does anyone know where her mother and father were from and why they moved from Cork to Dublin.

later12

LordSutch wrote: »

Actually, I quite like her, but this kind of fau pas doesn't do her image any good at all.

Yes, what an amusing spelling gaff.


On topic, I wouldn't rate her chances but that goes without saying. It's such a pity that amid all of the talk of lack of scant female representation in Irish politics that this is the sort of female candidature that the electorate are faced with when it does occur. As a man, I don't wish to appear sexist, but I genuinely think the country would be in better shape with Irish women in political leadership. Unfortunately, too many seem reluctant to get involved.

Annasopra

later10 wrote: »

On topic, I wouldn't rate her chances

- eh - shes not running

Raiser

Johnnymcg wrote: »

- eh - shes not running

She'd run if she met me :mad:

rubadub

Johnnymcg wrote: »

- eh - shes not running

Its a simple mistake to make, seeing as there are still at least 2 of her posters on the N11 from the last election.