Full Independent inquiry

booboo88

Should the tax payer foot the bill?
Is it just sour grapes?
Personally I think the right man got the job.

http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?article_id=68148&locID=1.2&pagename=news

Seachmall

Why is there a need for an investigation?

Just fire the "researchers".

Or was this a conspiracy?

iregk

Either way the man tripped himself up and was guilty of the charges. Regardless of the tweet being fake or genuine his story still changed from cheque to envelope and back. In other words the event happened and he stumbled when questioned about it. The whole tweet thing is academic at this point.

mikemac1

The voters didn't care about the tweet

It was his reaction to the tweet that ruined him
Should have kept his mouth shut but he didn't and that was the end of him

Kess73

If Gallagher thinks he has a case against RTE, then he should stick to using his own money to fight that legal battle.

I seem to remember the man making a statement about how he would not be looking to take things any further after he lost the election.

Now months later he is pushing for taxpayer's money to be wasted on a public inquiry?

Maybe he thought he would be back on the Dragons Den show, and when that did not happen he decided to try and see if there would be money to be got elsewhere.

Let him hire his own investigators, and issue proper legal proceedings against RTE and fight his own battle. Funny that after all his talk during the his election campaign speeches that he is now happy to be pushing for state money to be wasted on his behalf.

Maybe Ireland dodged a bullet when this guy flopped in the presidential race.

St.Spodo

I was following that account and it was common knowledge on Twitter that it wasn't affiliated to Sinn Féin. I've no sympathy for Gallagher as he dug his own grave on Frontline, but that was a massive cock-up from the researchers at RTÉ. It's not the first time that could be said.

danniemcq

so he lied, hid information about his past and generally tried to decieve the Irish public.

While the way it happened can i guess be queried as RTE are supposed to remain neutral I have no issue with it at all.

there was many cases like this from RTE during the run up, sure Miriam gave Martin McGuinness a wile bad time but there is no big outcry about it.

Sean do us a favour and shut the f*ck up

Cee-Jay-Cee

It seems to be an automatic reaction to anything that people have a gripe about in this country, the first sign that something may not be as clear cut as previously thought and theyre demanding a full independent investigation/enquiry. Everyone from politicians to the oridinary man on the street now calls for enquiries for the most ridiculous things. If they were informed that they would have to foot the bill if it were found to be not in their favour then they'd probably think twice about it.

drunkmonkey

He's a FF fraudster up to his neck in corruption, it's a scandal if we waste any more money entertaining him. I don't know who all these gobshoites who were going to vote him in for president were but they should all be flogged with a nail bar.
Baldy FF president, never had a chance, take your beating and crawl back to party HQ.

starbelgrade

The Recent History of Sean Gallagher.

Set up a construction based business on the back of Fianna Fails property led boom with €13 million handout from the IDA.

Despite this huge investment & failing to ever making any real profits, he was nominated for several business awards.

When things started going downhill, he became Brian Cowen's rent boy, collecting brown envelope handouts for the party coffers.

In reward for his arse, he was given a handout by Fianna Fail when they gave him a senior role in FAS.

Well known for their penchant for rent boys, the top brass in Montrose also gave him a side earner & he became known across the land for being the slapheaded Cavan man from Dragon's Den.

Not content with being a media whore on RTE, he played the "poor-little-blind-kid-does-good" act in an attempt to secure his election in the 2011 Presidential race.

Little did he know that a fiery Nordy red-head was going to scupper him on national TV & expose him for the incompetant, buffon that he is.. a man who nobody would know or care about if it weren't for all the bloody handouts he's lived off for his entire adult life.

He now resembles a thumb with a sad face drawn on it in red pen.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

good synopsis Star ,
ive no sympathy for him .

but RTE needs a serious shakedown - im not a fan of priests , but the defaming / libel of the priest and now this means RTE have become a law to themsleves and it needs to be stopped , the tax payer ends up paying

that and the absolutley atrocious sh1t they pass for programmes .

it needs a serious and huge boot up the hole.

Dubit10

Nobody cares about the tweet it's the fact he was FF's bagman that done him in.

fishy fishy

is it not fianna fail that is calling for an independent investigation. How hilarious is that.

I mean bagpuss himself said he was not affiliated with FF.

It's so laughable. Sour grape gallagher - get back into your cave man.

There were unfair statements thrown at other candidates but you don't see them running like babies. Gallager is miffed he isn't on an easy ride for the next 7 years. Thats all.

micropig

It was all a set up, but if they want an inquiry they can fcuk off and pay for it themselves (FF), but I forgot he's not affiliated with them

My name is URL

If your entire campaign can be undone by one tweet then it wasn't a very credible campaign to begin with.

There should still be an investigation imho. RTE showed themselves, yet again; to be inept. We may as well pay for an enquiry and sack those who aren't worth their wage. Not that it will ever happen.

flyswatter

The title of that article relates in no way to the content of it.

Nothing mentioned about a tweet at all.

smash

Can we just close down RTE please...

DarkJager

No need to waste money on an enquiry about some FFers hurt feelings. Build a bridge and get over it Gallagher, nobody ever viewed you as a realistic candidate anyway.

Mardy Bum

RTE's second scandal in a very short period from the same show. Clearly the producers had an agenda, obviously trying to make a name for themselves in a very competitive industry.

They should be fired from their positions and hopefully be unable to secure such a position again. However the media nowadays is based more so on fiction than fact so these scoundrels will probably take up a nice cosy position someplace else no doubt.

I am glad Higgins was elected though.

super_furry

Dubit10 wrote: »

Nobody cares about the tweet it's the fact he was FF's bagman that done him in.

Nail on the head. I couldn't even tell you what that tweet was, I just know I didn't vote for him because he was a fund collector for Fianna Fail.

SeaFields

Gallagher is arguing that the democratic process has been interfered with due to this.

I would argue that it was Gallagher himself that was attempting to interfere with the democratic process, by hiding information (the fact that he was much more than just an "ordinary grassroots member" of FF) that the Irish electorate had a right to know.

Freddie59

DarkJager wrote: »

No need to waste money on an enquiry about some FFers hurt feelings. Build a bridge and get over it Gallagher, nobody ever viewed you as a realistic candidate anyway.

Prior to those shenanigans, a large majority of the electorate did. Leaving aside which party, etc, is it right for the electoral process to be, allegedly, interfered with?

super_furry

Freddie59 wrote: »

Prior to those shenanigans, a large majority of the electorate did. Leaving aside which party, etc, is it right for the electoral process to be, allegedly, interfered with?

But was that due to this tweet or the fact that his links to Fianna Fail emerged at around the same time? I'd argue it was the later.

booboo88

If he wants an independent inquiry he should bloody pay himself, the very fact he stumbled over his words and admitted he may have received an envelope, that he doesn't remember says a lot.