Are people out of their minds ? WTF did anyone vote for Bagman Sean Galllagher ?

lucozader

I am deeply ashamed

Have the Irish people learned nothing?

Only in Ireland would a sleazoid like Gallagher get so many votes.

Are people out of their minds ?

mikemac

lucozader wrote: »

Only in Ireland would a sleazoid like Gallagher get so many votes.

Because Ireland is the only country in the world with dodgy candidates?

ted1

Their the same people who voted for lowry and healy rae.

hondasam

The election is over now, move on.

MistyCheese

Well, don't blame me, I voted for Bosco.

HellFireClub

They're coming, I can hear the heavy footsteps and the rattle of keys

Absurdum

what's all this about an election? there's no mention of it anywhere on boards.ie

earpiece

We need some sex scandles.
QED

Dotrel

They probably just wanted a guy for President with a head that looks like a thumb.

I'm personally glad I won't have to see him too much more. He puts me off my dinner.

Badgermonkey

Cos superficially, folks recognised a bit of themselves in him - Young, married, mortgage, kids, a go-getter blah blah...and bizarrely place a greater weight on that than the fact the man had no record of public service.

Methinks we owe Martin McGuinness & Pat Kenny a pint.

Stained Class

Well, wasn't he better than Mc Guinness?

Voting for him would be much worse of a shame.

I didn't vote for him either BTW.

HellFireClub

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Cos superficially, folks recognised a bit of themselves in him - Young, married, mortgage, kids, a go-getter blah blah...and bizarrely place a greater weight on that than the fact the man had no record of public service.

Methinks we owe Martin McGuinness & Pat Kenny a pint.

Having no record of public service is a huge asset these days. What caught him out was having a Louth accent and being a Fianna Fail trouserman.

starbelgrade

He looks like a gigantic thumb that someone dotted eyes on with a pen & a mouth with lipstick.

ilovesleep

God almighty! People have mushy jelly brains and are easily fooled. FF could win the next dail election even after all the lies and deceit, years of running this country on brown envelopes and all the damage they have done.

What will it take for people to wake up to FF.

At least the germans became wise after hilter.

professore

FFS. You'd swear the other candidates actually had something to offer. If Sean Gallagher is at international meetings he's the only one of them that could attract investment here since he understands business. Can you say that about Michael D, or any of the rest of them?

It's nothing to do with FF BTW.

patwicklow

Well we the people were the Dragans this time........ Were out

starbelgrade

ilovesleep wrote: »

At least the germans became wise after hilter.

Europe didn't.

The Germans own the place now.

cloneslad

The OP is heading to prison, how many times has he/she been warned now?

ted1

professore wrote: »

FFS. You'd swear the other candidates actually had something to offer. If Sean Gallagher is at international meetings he's the only one of them that could attract investment here since he understands business. Can you say that about Michael D, or any of the rest of them?

It's nothing to do with FF BTW.

Only funding he can get is from enterprise Ireland on request by his ff buddies. You've been conned you should do some research before you make a statement.

Chances are, he'd be in if it wasn't for Sinn Fein those pesky kids!

starbelgrade

professore wrote: »

It's nothing to do with FF BTW.

Collecting donations for Fianna Fail. A card carrying member of the party since youth. Ran a business off the back of the building boom which was fuelled by Fianna Fail's tax breaks. Then handed a job from them as a board member of FAS.

It has quite a lot to do with Fianna Fail... far too much for most people's likings.

cloneslad

plus he looks like my mate roy (but with a shaved head) and I wouldn't trust Roy to tie my laces, let alone be president

SugarCoat

Deleted User wrote: »

Chances are, he'd be in if it wasn't for Sinn Fein those pesky kids!

Two wrongs do make a right

Guy:Incognito

professore wrote: »

FFS. You'd swear the other candidates actually had something to offer. If Sean Gallagher is at international meetings he's the only one of them that could attract investment here since he understands business. Can you say that about Michael D, or any of the rest of them?

It's nothing to do with FF BTW.

Well McGuinness could threaten to have them "dissappeared" if they dont invest. Wasnt it all the rage in the past. But sure whats a bit a terrorism when someone else was once a member of FF.

Tesco Massacre

professore wrote: »

FFS. You'd swear the other candidates actually had something to offer. If Sean Gallagher is at international meetings he's the only one of them that could attract investment here since he understands business. Can you say that about Michael D, or any of the rest of them?

It's nothing to do with FF BTW.

He's struggled to find investment for his own businesses, so I wouldn't place much faith in him doing it for the entire country.

I don't think he's the knight in shining armour you were hoping for. He's more of a chancer/fraud/FF-type.

maddragon

lucozader wrote: »

I am deeply ashamed

Have the Irish people learned nothing?

Only in Ireland would a sleazoid like Gallagher get so many votes.

Are people out of their minds ?

+1000. I had the flights booked to leave the country if Gallagher got in.

Guy:Incognito

maddragon wrote: »

+1000. I had the flights booked to leave the country if Gallagher got in.

No you didnt, your talking ****e to overdramatise a non event.

At the end of the day it wouldnt have made a difference if we had airlifted Gaddafi out before he was caught and made him president.

maddragon

ilovesleep wrote: »

God almighty! People have mushy jelly brains and are easily fooled. FF could win the next dail election even after all the lies and deceit, years of running this country on brown envelopes and all the damage they have done.

What will it take for people to wake up to FF.

At least the germans became wise after hilter.

Who is this hilter of whom you speak.

maddragon

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

No you didnt, your talking ****e to overdramatise a non event.

At the end of the day it wouldnt have made a difference if we had airlifted Gaddafi out before he was caught and made him president.

Poetic licence.

Ghandee

maddragon wrote: »

Who is this hilter of whom you speak.

Your user name, And the name of the person the threads about = SNAP!

Dionysus

lucozader wrote: »

Only in Ireland would a sleazoid like Gallagher get so many votes.

Are people out of their minds ?

Ahem. Let's not totally lose fúcking perspective here. When it comes to electing a sleaze bag, a crook, a gangster, a briber, a blackmailer, a racist, a chauvinist, an exploiter of vulnerable female teenagers and so much else, the Italian electorate leave the Irish and every other electorate in Europe in absolute awe.

Nobody in Irish political life since the foundation of the state - not even Charles Haughey, Pee Flynn, Bertie Ahern, Ray Burke, Michael Lowry and Liam Lawlor - is as big a crook, gangster, pig and embarrassment to this country as Berlusconi is to any moderately intelligent Italian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9K6bs_fIWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPqaqGJ5Js

Just read this link for an extensive list of Berlusconi's "controversies" including mafia and other criminal connections.

Ulysses Gaze

While he didn't win, he was polling over 30% in some constituencies.

That is worrying because it signals that Irish people still haven't shaken the 'battered wife' syndrome they have with FF. And yes he wasn't running as FF but he may as well have been.

ascanbe

Yeah, it's baffling.
Over half a million people gave him their first preference vote, i think.
Then again, i, like more than 700,000 people, gave Michael D my first preference.
I did so just as a bulwark; like many did, i'd imagine.
Now am feeling dirty about it, tbh; after all, he is an unrepentant Labour party member who seems to be full square behind their current role as willing actors in lining the pockets of speculators who should have lost everything they chose to bet, at immeasurable expense of Irish people who had nothing to do with it/in the destruction of this country.
Flys somewhat in the face of their supposed modus-operandi.
F*ck.
Should've just voted on the referendums and spoilt the vote on the presidency.
Oh well..

3greenrizla's

maddragon wrote: »

+1000. I had the flights booked to leave the country if Gallagher got in.

my passport is due for renewal & I was considering getting an english one he was voted president. I'm starting to think that we are not intelligent enough to govern ourselves.

Ulysses Gaze

Dionysus wrote: »

Ahem. Let's not totally lose fúcking perspective here. When it comes to electing a sleaze bag, a crook, a gangster, a briber, a blackmailer, a racist, a chauvinist, an exploiter of vulnerable female teenagers and so much else, the Italian electorate leave the Irish and every other electorate in Europe in absolute awe.

Nobody in Irish political life since the foundation of the state - not even Charles Haughey, Pee Flynn, Bertie Ahern, Ray Burke, Michael Lowry and Liam Lawlor - is as big a crook, gangster, pig and embarrassment to this country as Berlusconi is to any moderately intelligent Italian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9K6bs_fIWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bPqaqGJ5Js

Just read this link for an extensive list of Berlusconi's "controversies" including mafia and other criminal connections.

Why are we comparing our leaders to a complete basketcase?

'Ah sure they're not as bad as Silvio so that's ok.'

Like some of our attitudes to corruption.

'Ah sure we're not as bad as El Salvador so that's alright then.'

Should be expecting a lot higher standards for our country.

AnnyHallsal

3greenrizla's wrote: »

my passport is due for renewal & I was considering getting an english one he was voted president. I'm starting to think that we are not intelligent enough to govern ourselves.

They're over there banging their heads against the national wall cos the Tories are r^ping the country. Not much more inviting, really.

ilovesleep

If FG cared in any way for this country they have to do all that they can to help improve this diabolical voting situation.

Like perhaps
Allow people newly emirgrated to vote
A voting license as a requirement for voting.

nice_very

a politically related thread on boards reaches 38 posts without keith....

Would people be having this debate if the "revelation" of Gallagher's FF fund-raising exploits hadn't been exposed?

RichieC

There's a post in political theory with some guy saying he wont accept a micheal D presidency because it should be this bookmaker looking fella... the mind boggles... the human race has peaked, we're definitely getting stupider..

Tesco Massacre

Deleted User wrote: »

Would people be having this debate if the "revelation" of Gallagher's FF fund-raising exploits hadn't been exposed?

Yep.

Ulysses Gaze

Deleted User wrote: »

Would people be having this debate if the "revelation" of Gallagher's FF fund-raising exploits hadn't been exposed?

Yes.

They're over there banging their heads against the national wall cos the Tories are r^ping the country. Not much more inviting, really.

TBF the alternative is Red Ed and Labour's 'Something for Nothing' policy - that would tank the UK quicker than the Tories would.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I got a tenner in a brown envelope to vote for Gallagher...i'd have accepted a fiver.

KeithM89_old

Take it to the mega-thread or Election forum.

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