Is Mary Davis covering up links to Fianna Fail?

legendary.xix

I've been watching her interview on Prime Time. It turns out she was appointed to a good number of boards. She got good support from a lot of councils around the country, 12 as far as I know. For an independent candidate to get so many she must have some political party links. The Prime Time interviewer seemed eager to question her regards Fianna Fail. When she mentioned Sean LeMass and FG's Gareth Fitzgerald as politicians who've inspired her, the PT interviewer seemed interested to know if any recent Fianna Fail leader was an inspiration.

Has Mary Davis links to Fianna Fail. Dirt tends to come out in elections, if it's found she has FF links, it could go against her in the election.

GoldenTickets

legendary.xix wrote: »

Has Mary Davis links to Fianna Fail. Dirt tends to come out in elections, if it's found she has FF links, it could go against her in the election.

Ah, she hasn't a hope of winning it anyway so don't sweat it, we'll be ok.

maringo

Bertie is awe-inspiring:D

kev9100

She definitely has FF connections of some kind. Personally, I can't stand her holier than thou attitude where she seems to think she is Gods gift to the Irish electorate.

Corsendonk

Has Norris links to Mossad seening that he speaks hebrew? I expect more of these type threads popping up in politics from various supporters from each camp. Remember the presidental election is always a dirty campaign.

legendary.xix

Corsendonk wrote: »

Has Norris links to Mossad seening that he speaks hebrew? I expect more of these type threads popping up in politics from various supporters from each camp. Remember the presidental election is always a dirty campaign.

I'm not a supporter of either camp anyways. I was impressed by some of the work she's done but this hiding of her true colours is a bit ridiculous but understandable in other respects. It's typical politics though, not to be up front and put up smokescreens and not answer questions directly.

It's been said she could be transfer friendly. On the evidence of the Prime Time interview, I don't think she's going to cope well when the difficult questions are asked.

Callan57

legendary.xix wrote: »

I'm not a supporter of either camp anyways. I was impressed by some of the work she's done but this hiding of her true colours is a bit ridiculous but understandable in other respects. It's typical politics though, not to be up front and put up smokescreens and not answer questions directly.

It's been said she could be transfer friendly. On the evidence of the Prime Time interview, I don't think she's going to cope well when the difficult questions are asked.

Sean Gallagher was laughable with Sean O'Rourke at lunchtime ... he did his 'FF sure I know nothing about them ... never even heard of them' act.
Absolutely nauseating :mad:

Mr.Micro

MD just making up the numbers like Ms. Scallion.

anymore

Pardon me of ro dugressing slightly from thread theme, but didnt see need for separate thread on it. I see from a link on P.Ie that she was paid
€93,750 for work with Special Olympics in 2003.

According to the annual accounts 93,750

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...hMGZj&hl=en_GB

Page 26

That was a very good salary for then. So I guess that needs to be taken into consideration when giving her credit for her work.

meglome

I seem to recall her wasting a truck load of money over the Bertie Bowl.

gandalf

One does not get to be on the number of boards that Mary was on without having very close links to the Government of the day. I would say that yes she has very close ties with FF and with the most tainted leader ever of this country Mr. Bertie Ahern.

charlemont

I reckon its true, She wont be getting any vote off me.

Bannasidhe

Shane Ross did a demolition job on MD and her membership of Quangos under FF
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/shane-ross/shane-ross-quango-queen-eyes-the-park-2886869.html

jimmycrackcorm

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Shane Ross did a demolition job on MD and her membership of Quangos under FF
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/shane-ross/shane-ross-quango-queen-eyes-the-park-2886869.html

Isn't ironic considering what a quango the Seanad is that Shane Ross partook of? FF or TCD, take your pick.

expectationlost

both her and her husband http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/julian-davis/4/178/796 are involved in so called corporate social responsibility this where corporations donate to charity to distract from their own behavior, she has a long history of working with people with various disabilities but this does not mean that she has correct view of what is best for society, bertie was just like this power hungry, fueler of disparity who then ranted about how people didn't volunteer enough, and look who he appointed to his citizenship board, none other then mary davis.

and what hell was a pe teacher doing on the board of the DAA etc, just an acquiescent PR person blocking of somebody who would actually scrutinize the business.

femur61

Since her refusal to give forfeit her extra council nominations so another candidate might get the "nod" after she got the required 4. She said she worked hard for them didn't do her any favours. Obviously the woman is self centered grabbing what she can, does remind you of a certain party.

thebman

She waffles like I'd expect the queen of quangos to but unfortunately doesn't say anything of substance.

She has been in government fueled quangos of waste so long she was dodging questions she didn't even need to dodge in that interview. She seemed to just assume every question was an attempt to get her to say she was Bertie's friend.

Of course, Bertie did say he appointed friends to a lot of these positions and she got the Bertie Bowl project.

That Prime Time interviewer destroyed her.

Callan57

I don't like the disingenuous way Mary Davis takes full personal credit for the Special Olympics .... as if she did all the work! Most of those working on the Special Olympics were volunteers and received no benefit whatsoever for their hard work ..... unlike Mary who was on another nice little earner!

Anyone seen her election posters? I nearly crashed the car laughing ... I know they all airbrush the wrinkles etc but by God has Mary overdone it.

Zubeneschamali

Callan57 wrote: »

Anyone seen her election posters?

from broadsheet.ie:

macaedh

Mary Davis posters were being put up outside the local school this morning as the Principal-local Fine Gael councillor-arrived.He promptly ordered all posters to be taken down and down they came...

Fr Tod Umptious

anymore wrote: »

Pardon me of ro dugressing slightly from thread theme, but didnt see need for separate thread on it. I see from a link on P.Ie that she was paid
€93,750 for work with Special Olympics in 2003.

According to the annual accounts 93,750

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...hMGZj&hl=en_GB

Page 26

That was a very good salary for then. So I guess that needs to be taken into consideration when giving her credit for her work.

I love the way people here love to criticise other people's salaries

If I recall Special Olympic in 2003 was a huge success.

Are you saying he did not deserve the salary she got in 2003 ?

If so then tell us how much she deserved for the work she did on the project ?

anymore

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I love the way people here love to criticise other people's salaries

If I recall Special Olympic in 2003 was a huge success.

Are you saying he did not deserve the salary she got in 2003 ?

If so then tell us how much she deserved for the work she did on the project ?

Could you point exactly where in my post you are seeing the criticism ?

Fr Tod Umptious

anymore wrote: »

Could you point exactly where in my post you are seeing the criticism ?

The line
'That was a very good salary for then. So I guess that needs to be taken into consideration when giving her credit for her work.'

It come across as a criticism like saying 'well if any ordinary person was paid that amount of money they would have made a success of the event too'

Too often we have seen high financial reward for failure (former financial regulator, FAS top brass, bank executives) in this country it is good in this case too see high financial reward of a success.

anymore

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

The line
'That was a very good salary for then. So I guess that needs to be taken into consideration when giving her credit for her work.'

It come across as a criticism like saying 'well if any ordinary person was paid that amount of money they would have made a success of the event too'

Too often we have seen high financial reward for failure (former financial regulator, FAS top brass, bank executives) in this country it is good in this case too see high financial reward of a success.

Yes of course it needs to be taken into consideration - she was well paid so she shouldnt be treated as if the work she did was altruisitic or purely voluntary. I can see the problem with saying that.
Also the success of the event was also as much due to the efforts of all those who worked under her- far, far too often, top management hog all the credit - yes you can interpret that as criticism if you are so minded.
And of course much of the credit should go to the army of annoymous voluntary workers and supporters.
As for reward for failures, havent seen the lady taking the credit for any of the failures of the Boards she sat on, have you ?

anymore

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

The line
'That was a very good salary for then. So I guess that needs to be taken into consideration when giving her credit for her work.'

It come across as a criticism like saying 'well if any ordinary person was paid that amount of money they would have made a success of the event too'

Too often we have seen high financial reward for failure (former financial regulator, FAS top brass, bank executives) in this country it is good in this case too see high financial reward of a success.

Oopps ! Seems like the lady is quite an expert on financial matters :

As a former PE teacher, Mary is certainly qualified for membership of the Sports Council, but it is difficult to understand why she is not proud of her place on the board of the Irish Civil Service Building Society. It's even more difficult to understand as it is a Bank of Ireland satellite. It fails to merit a mention.

When Mary departed in 2010, directors of the Bank of Ireland subsidiary were being paid €25,000 a year. As a presidential candidate -- with banking experience -- she could offer priceless insights into the property collapse, the current mortgage crisis and the behaviour of the directors of the Bank of Ireland, which paid her such a fine part-time wage. Instead, she prefers to stay silent about this hidden area of her expertise.

Probably just an oversight. You cannot fit everything in with a CV as long or as virtuous as Mary's. But funnily enough, there is another important omission. Mary picked up a gig in no less a semi-state than the deeply troubled Aer Rianta (now the DAA). Indeed, she did a five-year stint there -- possibly the most rotten quango in Ireland

http://www.politics.ie/forum/irish-presidential-election-2011/171110-quango-queen.html

UDAWINNER

Stupidly, I thought she volunteered her role in relation to the special olympics. Another FFer, making a fortune on boards,etc.

anymore

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

from broadsheet.ie:

I dont recall seeing the dog on her posters ? Photoshop ?

expectationlost

she was asked ~What are your politics?

I think its important in the context of what and I am and who I am, Im defined by my values, and those I got growing up in Mayo, values of fairness and respect, of ensuring that each person is given dignity and respect and equal opportunity for all, those are my values where does that leave me on the political spectrum, its leave me in terms of where my values are and as I said I've never been involved with a political party, but in terms of political persuasion, indeed I have a lot of knowledge in relation to that.

huh? what?

Bannasidhe

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Isn't ironic considering what a quango the Seanad is that Shane Ross partook of? FF or TCD, take your pick.

Electorate for Trinity senate seat - everyone who ever graduated from Trinity so that would be...several thousand.
Electorate for membership of a quango - The Taoiseach.

Nope - not quite the same thing at all.

golfnewbie

With ref to the Special Olympics I don't think anyone begrudges someone a decent wage but when MD comes across as this kind of holy saviour who devoted all her time to making the SO such a success (implying she worked free gratis) then she is insulting the irish people and the real volunteers who should be attributed with all the praise.

she then played on her links to Mary McAleese with some wonderful quote about how wonderful she is... puke! fair

anymore

macaedh wrote: »

Mary Davis posters were being put up outside the local school this morning as the Principal-local Fine Gael councillor-arrived.He promptly ordered all posters to be taken down and down they came...

If they were on school property ,he would seem to be within his rights as principal. If they were say on public property such as telephone poles etc, then he wouldnt be.

Capt'n Midnight

anymore wrote: »

If they were on school property ,he would seem to be within his rights as principal. If they were say on public property such as telephone poles etc, then he wouldnt be.

AFAIK you aren't allowed put up election posters within 100m of a polling station.

Eoin Cunniffe 94

She's not just hiding that ! have you seen her election posters ? AIRBRUSH to the MAX ! She said she wanted to put her face in the public because she isn't a celebrity ! Then why didn't she put her real face on the poster ?

Zubeneschamali

anymore wrote: »

Photoshop ?

That's Reese Witherspoon's dog from the Legally Blonde poster.

HellFireClub

Well this certainly sounds like the kind and extent of pure cronyism and "jobs for the boys", that we have come to associate with Fianna Fail and I would also argue that has ruined the very fabric of how business is done in this country.

Is it any wonder at all now, that she is going for the presidency, it sounds like the next logical step in her wider plan to suck as much money from taxpayers pockets as is practically possible.


http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/davis-denies-allegations-of-cronyism-523064.html

Presidential candidate Mary Davis has denied allegations of cronyism in the awarding of a PR contract to a charity in which she and her husband were involved.

Ms Davis and her husband Julien were on the board of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland when a PR contract was awarded to Mr Davis's public relations firm.

Speaking at the launch of her campaign in Dublin this morning, Mary Davis said she absented herself from any discussions about the awarding of the PR contract when she served as a director of the charity.

"There was absolutely no cronyism at play here," she said.

"I had nothing to do with the rewarding (sic) of the contract, and if there were any discussions in relation to the awarding of a contract, like the public relations contract, I was not a party to those discussions.

"I would have stood aside from those discussions, as indeed, I’m sure my husband would to, but you’re free to ask him his opinion on that."