Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

PomBear

Sinn Féin candidate doing well in our poll. So thought since everyone else is having a thread, this guy also could have a shout for the last seat, I'll certainly vote for him.

Ex-Producer of Ros na Run and Fair City! Also, he was project manager for Gaelsceal and lectures Business through Irish in GMIT.

You never know could be the first SF TD in Galway West since the 1920s.

PomBear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_SZjMObhB4

dolphin city

I think he also has something to do with the Taibhdhearc. He seems well able to hold his own - heard him on radio a couple of times and he was better than most. Would think about giving him a vote.

Das Kitty

I knew him before I knew he was SF. Great guy. I'm so conflicted!

Storm 10

Tell you one thing if Sinn Fein got in I would have the few euros I have out of the bank before they collapse with the lunatic ideas that they have put forward, the Country would fall apart in weeks.

gandroid

He ran for Labour last time I think. He's a good guy I think. If he was running for them again he would get my vote, but I would find it hard to give my no.1 to a SF candidate.

ben.schlomo

Storm 10 wrote: »

Tell you one thing if Sinn Fein got in I would have the few euros I have out of the bank before they collapse with the lunatic ideas that they have put forward, the Country would fall apart in weeks.

Ya i like their moxie but the policies they have come out with are nothing short of mental in financial terms, couldn't even give them a last preference.

seriouslysweet

He is great, we used live near him but I wonder are the policies a bit pie-in-the-sky...maybe not...

PomBear

Storm 10 wrote: »

Tell you one thing if Sinn Fein got in I would have the few euros I have out of the bank before they collapse with the lunatic ideas that they have put forward, the Country would fall apart in weeks.

Hello Mr. O'Cuiv welcome to boards!

Fuinseog

PomBear wrote: »

Sinn Féin candidate doing well in our poll. So thought since everyone else is having a thread, this guy also could have a shout for the last seat, I'll certainly vote for him.

Ex-Producer of Ros na Run and Fair City! Also, he was project manager for Gaelsceal and lectures Business through Irish in GMIT.

You never know could be the first SF TD in Galway West since the 1920s.

an interesting CV.
so he belongs to the new generation of shinners who never held a gun in their hands.

would Galway West vote SF?

Fuinseog

PomBear wrote: »

Sinn Féin candidate doing well in our poll. So thought since everyone else is having a thread, this guy also could have a shout for the last seat, I'll certainly vote for him.

Ex-Producer of Ros na Run and Fair City! Also, he was project manager for Gaelsceal and lectures Business through Irish in GMIT.

You never know could be the first SF TD in Galway West since the 1920s.

an interesting CV.
so he belongs to the new generation of shinners who never held a gun in their hands.

would Galway West vote SF?
are we ready to embrace marxism?

Fuinseog

PomBear wrote: »

Hello Mr. O'Cuiv welcome to boards!

the middle class is afraid to vote SF. do we really want the boat to be rocked that much?

Mrs OBumble

Dunno how much sway the "didn't grow up here" vote holds ... I'm but it would take a lot to convince me to vote for someone whose name I cannot pronounce.

Sad perhaps, if he is good, but true.

Fuinseog

JustMary wrote: »

Dunno how much sway the "didn't grow up here" vote holds ... I'm but it would take a lot to convince me to vote for someone whose name I cannot pronounce.

Sad perhaps, if he is good, but true.

i know, he seems to belong to the wilde Irishe, if indeed he speaks erse. should we let his type into the city at all? maybe he should change his name to something more appropriate like smith.

on a perhaps unrelated matter, how can you live in town heavily influenced by Gaelic culture and not know how to pronounce basic names?

Das Kitty

He does speak Irish, for the record.

Fuinseog

Das Kitty wrote: »

He does speak Irish, for the record.

fluently or just a few token phrases like "tiocfaidh ar la" and " a dhaoine uaisle?

gandroid

Fuinseog wrote: »

fluently or just a few token phrases like "tiocfaidh ar la" and " a dhaoine uaisle?

No, he's a native speaker.

?Cee?view

Fuinseog wrote: »

fluently or just a few token phrases like "tiocfaidh ar la" and " a dhaoine uaisle?

I knew him more than 20 years ago in the Taibhdhearc. He had beautiful Irish then; doubt if he's forgotten it since. An absolute gentleman, whatever about his politics.

CrowdedHouse

JustMary wrote: »

I'm but it would take a lot to convince me to vote for someone whose name I cannot pronounce.

It's hardly his fault you can't speak Irish

Fuinseog

churchview wrote: »

I knew him more than 20 years ago in the Taibhdhearc. He had beautiful Irish then; doubt if he's forgotten it since. An absolute gentleman, whatever about his politics.

a cultured shinner? he could indeed be in within a chance.

apart from the NUIG debate has he come out on any issues?

Aiel

I knew him from a few years ago when he was a lecturer in the college,a really nice guy.He went for the local elections last time out.It all comes back though to wanting to vote for 1 particular candidate but not really wanting his/her Party to get into power-thats Democracy for you:(.

dolphin city

JustMary wrote: »

Dunno how much sway the "didn't grow up here" vote holds ... I'm but it would take a lot to convince me to vote for someone whose name I cannot pronounce.

Sad perhaps, if he is good, but true.

it's an Irish name - surely you knew that much.

Mrs OBumble

Fuinseog wrote: »

on a perhaps unrelated matter, how can you live in town heavily influenced by Gaelic culture and not know how to pronounce basic names?

Because there are no damn rules about how to pronounce things! And the Irish don't even all agree on how to pronounce 'em, and as a result most of the tend to mutter a lot, so the rest of us have difficulty picking up what's said.

I never said it was his fault that I can't say his name ... the fault is totally mine. 'Tis his loss, though, that I won't be considering his, even if his parties policies were good.

PopeBuckfastXVI

JustMary wrote: »

even if his parties policies were good.

Don't worry about it, they're not.

PomBear

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Don't worry about it, they're not.

which one do you disagree with?

PopeBuckfastXVI

PomBear wrote: »

which one do you disagree with?

Setting up a marxist republic.

Jamey

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Setting up a marxist republic.

None of Sinn Féin's policies mention Marxism or setting up a Marxist Republic.

PopeBuckfastXVI

Yeah I'll bet they don't. I doubt their election manifesto ever mentioned the IRA either...

Jamey

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Yeah I'll bet they don't. I doubt their election manifesto ever mentioned the IRA either...

An age old argument not worth getting into.

FF, FG, Labour all have a bloody past - Sinn Féin's is the most recent so people will continue to bring it up as a reason for being anti-SF as The Troubles are not yet a distant memory. SF's popularity will only rise and rise as their links to violence become ancient history....

dolphin city

JustMary wrote: »

Because there are no damn rules about how to pronounce things! And the Irish don't even all agree on how to pronounce 'em, and as a result most of the tend to mutter a lot, so the rest of us have difficulty picking up what's said.

I never said it was his fault that I can't say his name ... the fault is totally mine. 'Tis his loss, though, that I won't be considering his, even if his parties policies were good.

they are the only ones the david mcwilliams and other economists agree with so really, Tis your loss

PopeBuckfastXVI

Jamey wrote: »

An age old argument not worth getting into.

FF, FG, Labour all have a bloody past - Sinn Féin's is the most recent so people will continue to bring it up as a reason for being anti-SF as The Troubles are not yet a distant memory. SF's popularity will only rise and rise as their links to violence become ancient history....

I'm not saying their links aren't a reason to vote for them, I'm saying they never included blowing up bars in any election manifesto, while the IRA were doing it. i.e. Their stated policies and their actual aims, methods and goals have differed in the past, and likely still do.

dolphin city wrote: »

they are the only ones the david mcwilliams and other economists agree with so really, Tis your loss

{{Citation needed}}

dolphin city

pope - I refer to david mcwilliams talk on newstalk last week

brianthebard

JustMary wrote: »

Because there are no damn rules about how to pronounce things! And the Irish don't even all agree on how to pronounce 'em, and as a result most of the tend to mutter a lot, so the rest of us have difficulty picking up what's said.

I never said it was his fault that I can't say his name ... the fault is totally mine. 'Tis his loss, though, that I won't be considering his, even if his parties policies were good.

You won't have to say his name out loud when you vote, you just put a number in a box... Are you serious about not voting for a person cause of their name?

Starie1975

JustMary wrote: »

Because there are no damn rules about how to pronounce things! And the Irish don't even all agree on how to pronounce 'em, and as a result most of the tend to mutter a lot, so the rest of us have difficulty picking up what's said.

I never said it was his fault that I can't say his name ... the fault is totally mine. 'Tis his loss, though, that I won't be considering his, even if his parties policies were good.

Is fearr Gaeilge bhriste ná Béarla cliste.

lezza

WHATS WITH THE SINN FEIN 8X4 POSTERS TO DO WITH OIL AND GAS SEEMS VERY INTERESTING

''EVEN WHEN WE STRIKE OIL AND GAS, FIANNA FAIL GIVE IT AWAY, THERE IS A BETTER WAY VÓTAIL SINN FEIN!''

Dan_Solo

JustMary wrote: »

Dunno how much sway the "didn't grow up here" vote holds ...

Never did Eamon O'Cuiv any harm did it?
(I love giving the boggers the shock of their lives by asking them to look up O'Cuiv's wikipedia page )

KylieWyley

JustMary wrote: »

Dunno how much sway the "didn't grow up here" vote holds ... I'm but it would take a lot to convince me to vote for someone whose name I cannot pronounce.

Sad perhaps, if he is good, but true.

Robbo

lezza wrote: »

WHATS WITH THE SINN FEIN 8X4 POSTERS TO DO WITH OIL AND GAS SEEMS VERY INTERESTING

''EVEN WHEN WE STRIKE OIL AND GAS, FIANNA FAIL GIVE IT AWAY, THERE IS A BETTER WAY VÓTAIL SINN FEIN!''

I don't think the diesel fields of South Armagh and Hackballscross hold the solution to all of our energy supply problems.

lezza

must be to do with the 540 billion worth of oil and gas of the coast of ireland thats been sold by that corrupt politician ray burke, we get nothing of this 540 billion

Starie1975

lezza wrote: »

WHATS WITH THE SINN FEIN 8X4 POSTERS TO DO WITH OIL AND GAS SEEMS VERY INTERESTING

''EVEN WHEN WE STRIKE OIL AND GAS, FIANNA FAIL GIVE IT AWAY, THERE IS A BETTER WAY VÓTAIL SINN FEIN!''

What's with the block cap's?

Strange this hasn't been mentioned yet......

But one fault I would have with Trevor is his big pamphlet.
I was looking over it yesterday and EVERY single part is in Irish.
Maybe there was an English one but I couldn't see it amongst the ones we've got so far.

Do they not realise that I like most people can't read it?

lezza

Starie1975 wrote: »

What's with the block cap's?

emphasis:)

Starie1975

lezza wrote: »

emphasis:)

Sorry just seen the sign it is also in block cap's.......my bad!

PopeBuckfastXVI

lezza wrote: »

must be to do with the 540 billion worth of oil and gas of the coast of ireland thats been sold by that corrupt politician ray burke, we get nothing of this 540 billion

Hi Lezza,

Out of curiosity, where did this figure come from?

dolphin city

i got a pamphlet with english on one side and irish on the other.

I quite like the posters saying ff gave away our natural resourses for nothing. shows them up by using the truth.

Dan_Solo

dolphin city wrote: »

I quite like the posters saying ff gave away our natural resourses for nothing. shows them up by using the truth.

Well they're giving away all our money so they may as well be consistent and give away everything else we have too!

Das Kitty

Yeah but then their other placard says "We will give back all the 2010 budget cuts." A promise they'll never have to fulfill but it might get them a couple of extra seats, handy.

dloob

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Hi Lezza,

Out of curiosity, where did this figure come from?

It's from some figures used by the petroleum affairs division, but doesn't refer to what shell to sea and their shinner friends would have you believe.
Current value of corrib is about 6-9bn and it will cost 2.5bn to develop before anything comes out.

The petroleum affairs division job is to sell exploration licenses.
They say there could be 540bn of oil and gas out there somewhere , it's just on one has found it yet, but it could be you!
To quote from their current license round

Irish Atlantic waters have traditionally been inhospitable areas for petroleum exploration. Circa 150 wells have been drilled in the last 30 years with a less than 1 in 30 success ratio (discovery of commercial fields).

Yet, it is estimated that the area is likely to be rich in petroleum reserves. There are potential reserves of 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (oil or gas) in the Irish Atlantic Margin.

Yes rich in huge reserves that no one seems able to find. If you're interested you have until May 31st to apply for a license in the current round. But I'm afraid the terms aren't as generous as those enterprise oil got for the corrib field any more.

The 540bn number has been quoted out of context enough times now by the shiners and their shell to sea friends that some people think corrib is worth that much. :rolleyes:
Mission accomplished for them I suppose.

lezza

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

Hi Lezza,

Out of curiosity, where did this figure come from?

at the last survey done ir was announced that it was worth 464 billon but on further analysis and price hikes in todays market it is worth 540 billion and we only get 25% of its ROYALTIES which in turn shell can knock off by writing tax off against it, not only irish tax profits but any shell project around the globe, its mental, i have no problem getting oil and gas into this country, i want it! but i think we should have it all for ourselves like every other country does! we could take a 100 billion give it to imf and restructure the state easily on the rest and never see the end to our money like norway did and continue to do! KEEP A EYE OUT FOR THE ''540BILLION EURO NOTE'' PAMPHLET REALEASED RECENTLY VERY GOOD INFORMATION ON THIS

lezza

dloob wrote: »

It's from some figures used by the petroleum affairs division, but doesn't refer to what shell to sea and their shinner friends would have you believe.
Current value of corrib is about 6-9bn and it will cost 2.5bn to develop before anything comes out.

The petroleum affairs division job is to sell exploration licenses.
They say there could be 540bn of oil and gas out there somewhere , it's just on one has found it yet, but it could be you!
To quote from their current license round

Yes rich in huge reserves that no one seems able to find. If you're interested you have until May 31st to apply for a license in the current round. But I'm afraid the terms aren't as generous as those enterprise oil got for the corrib field any more.

The 540bn number has been quoted out of context enough times now by the shiners and their shell to sea friends that some people think corrib is worth that much. :rolleyes:
Mission accomplished for them I suppose.

I'll say this and no more my father drilled in seven different spots around ireland ALL of these spots produced 10000 barrels of crude oil for testing, the oil is easily found, i know its just in deeper water big deal this was done in the 1970/80's with todays technology it can easily be done!

kraggy

Are the rights of all of our oil and gas sold in their entirety? To whom and is there any way of reversing this?

Any links to when it happened and the process?