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Finian McGrath TD - hypocrite!

darkman2 · 2011-09-17 22:27:14

...because he is supporting McGuinness' nomination.:rolleyes: That's one hell of a double standard. Norris writing letters is completely unaccapetable but a former IRA commander is acceptable. What a gombeen. Proof they are elected in Dublin too.

17-09-2011 10:27pm

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...because he is supporting McGuinness' nomination.:rolleyes: That's one hell of a double standard. Norris writing letters is completely unaccapetable but a former IRA commander is acceptable. What a gombeen. Proof they are elected in Dublin too.

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#2 17-09-2011 10:27pm

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Here we go.

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#3 17-09-2011 10:29pm

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Normally, I'd do the "popcorn" post, but this is just too... ahhhh... **** it, I can't be bothered finishing this post.

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#4 17-09-2011 10:31pm

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Let's always vote the way the OP wants us to. Hurrah for the OP. An end to democracy.

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#5 17-09-2011 10:31pm

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The vast majority of politicians are hypocrites so no surprise there.;)

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#6 17-09-2011 10:32pm

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darkman2 wrote: »

Proof they are elected in Dublin too.

This is news?

Bertie, Haughey, Burke, Lawlor, etc...

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#7 17-09-2011 10:33pm

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I have no support for the IRA / SF and wouldn't consider myself a Republican in any shape, but McGuiness is now a politician who represents hundreds of thousands of people. I wouldn't consider it entirely hypocritical, he's just playing the typical "people pleaser" attitude.

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#8 17-09-2011 10:33pm

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How do you know that Norris' letter has anything to do with his decision? Is it not possible that he just feels that McGuinness would be a better candidate to get behind?

I think we can expect to see a lot of this crap over the next couple of months.

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#9 17-09-2011 10:33pm

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squod wrote: »

Let's always vote the way the OP wants us to. Hurrah for the OP. An end to democracy.

I am not saying that - I just think the hypocrisy of his posistion is important to point out. Do you not agree or have a problem with the double standard this is?

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#10 17-09-2011 10:36pm

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How do you know that Norris' letter has anything to do with his decision? Is it not possible that he just feels that McGuinness would be a better candidate to get behind?

But he abandoned Norris over the letter. A letter!? I can see what is wrong with the letter of course I can but I also have reservations about McG dubious past in the context of Finian McGraths behaviour. Fair enough I have respect for what McG has done for peace and he does a good job up North but I still think it's a moral double standard. I think he should have stuck with Norris personally.

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#11 17-09-2011 10:39pm

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darkman2 wrote: »

But he abandoned Norris over the letter. A letter!? I can see what is wrong with the letter of course I can but I also have reservations about McG dubious past in the context of Finian McGraths behaviour. Fair enough I have respect for what McG has done for peace and he does a good job up North but I still think it's a moral double standard. I think he should have stuck with Norris personally.

The day we start worrying what a nonentity in the scheme of things like Finian Mcgrath does is the day we are really fooked.

Might be a big boy in his own area, but nationally, ignore him.

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#12 17-09-2011 10:42pm

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darkman2 wrote: »

I am not saying that - I just think the hypocrisy of his posistion is important to point out. Do you not agree or have a problem with the double standard this is?

Tricky one. D'you know I didn't grow up in Derry. I don't have his genes. God know what I would have done in his shoes etc.

I've said this before. This election to me has two distinct sides. It so happens that from my point of view he's not on the side I dislike the most right now. That put's him in contention for me. It's possible I'd vote for him or Higgins.

I agree it's a double standard and I can see your point of view on this issue.

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#13 17-09-2011 10:46pm

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TD puts his own interests first. Shocker.

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#14 17-09-2011 10:48pm

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Finnian McGrath is a great local politician who's actions I can hardly knock with the exception of his Pro Lisbon stance. What a lot of people don't realize is that Finnian McGrath used to be a member of the IRSP. Calling him a hypocrite for supporting and nominating McGuinness is wrong. He'd be more of a Hypocrite for not supporting him

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#15 17-09-2011 10:50pm

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seanmacc wrote: »

Finnian McGrath is a great local politician who's actions I can hardly knock with the exception of his Pro Lisbon stance. What a lot of people don't realize is that Finnian McGrath used to be a member of the IRSP. Calling him a hypocrite for supporting and nominating McGuinness is wrong. He'd be more of a Hypocrite for not supporting him

That about sums him up-local.

In other words ...look after yourself.

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#16 17-09-2011 10:57pm

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Finian McGrath is a republican I believe. I think he may even have been a member of the IRSP but I'm not 100% sure.

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#17 17-09-2011 10:59pm

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darkman2 wrote: »

...because he is supporting McGuinness' nomination.:rolleyes: That's one hell of a double standard. Norris writing letters is completely unaccapetable but a former IRA commander is acceptable. What a gombeen. Proof they are elected in Dublin too.

I presume that you were disgusted when the South Africans elected Nelson Mandela as their president.

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#18 17-09-2011 11:00pm

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Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Finian McGrath is a republican I believe. I think he may even have been a member of the IRSP but I'm not 100% sure.

Tell us something we don't know.

one thing is sure, no way that guy will sway the views of the electorate.

Strictly mé féiner.

The electorate are too intelligent for that kind of crap.

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#19 17-09-2011 11:02pm

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FlutterinBantam wrote: »

The electorate are too intelligent for that kind of crap.

Really? The electorate are intelligent? Successive FF & FG-led governments tell me a different story.

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#20 17-09-2011 11:04pm

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El Weirdo wrote: »

Really? The electorate are intelligent? Successive FF & FG governments tell me a different story.

Lack of Shinners at the levers of power prove my point;)

Hopefully things will remain that way.

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#21 17-09-2011 11:04pm

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FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Tell us something we don't know.

one thing is sure, no way that guy will sway the views of the electorate.

Strictly mé féiner.

The electorate are too intelligent for that kind of crap.

He swayed them enough to get them to vote for him didnt he?

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#22 17-09-2011 11:06pm

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#23 17-09-2011 11:10pm

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Can't really knock McGrath for his work within his community,
but I honestly think the OP is right here.

I know there's a difference between the Norris situation and McGuinness,
but people really shouldn't be supporting terrorists.

If the country goes backwards, we're all fcuked.

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#24 17-09-2011 11:28pm

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LETHAL LADY wrote: »

The vast majority of politicians are hypocrites so no surprise there.;)

How incredibly naive of you. Wouldn't it be nice if life was as simple as that.
My comment has nothing to do with Finian McGrath or his apparent decision to back Martin McGuinness.

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#25 17-09-2011 11:31pm

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chinwag wrote: »

How incredibly naive of you. Wouldn't it be nice if life was as simple as that.
My comment has nothing to do with Finian McGrath or his apparent decision to back Martin McGuinness.

Yeah I thought as much will ya ever stop your chinwagging and hang out that washing.

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#26 17-09-2011 11:33pm

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LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Yeah I thought as much will ya ever stop your chinwagging and hang out that washing.

Your reply (or lack of it) says it all!

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#27 17-09-2011 11:55pm

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darkman2 wrote: »

...because he is supporting McGuinness' nomination.:rolleyes: That's one hell of a double standard. Norris writing letters is completely unaccapetable but a former IRA commander is acceptable. What a gombeen. Proof they are elected in Ddublin too.

And whats wrong with a chief of staff of the IRA ?. Many former statesmen were involved in the fight for independence.

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#28 18-09-2011 5:35am

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I just think people should remember this the next time they vote. This guy is a duplicitous hypocrite.

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