Fidelma Healy Eames' train ticket scandal

Canvasser

Fuinseog wrote: »

not really.she has quarrelled with them several times. she belongs to FHE.

What do you mean not really? Of course she's in Fine gael. Don't be stupid.

Fuinseog

Canvasser wrote: »

What do you mean not really? Of course she's in Fine gael. Don't be stupid.

good man yourself. keep on trying. you obviously know her better. she may be in the party but she only supports no. 1.

Mrs OBumble

scholar007 wrote: »

I'm glad for him and his family that he has secured justice.

I'll be even gladder when he's actually got the cash. A judgement is one thing, sometimes payment is quite another.

scholar007

If ever there was a reason for the abolition of the seanad then ticketgate and plumbergate truly is it!

Canvasser

Fuinseog wrote: »

good man yourself. keep on trying. you obviously know her better. she may be in the party but she only supports no. 1.

How is that different from any other Fine gael politician?

connemara man

Canvasser wrote: »

How is that different from any other politician?

Imo fyp

flynnlives

Lol!

In tomorrows Advertiser or the Sun, not sure yet, FHE had her car impounded by the Gards for not being taxed!

You couldnt make it up!

First the train, then the jacuzzi and now this!

what is it with the rich and trying to avoid paying their way?

Stuck Cone

flynnlives wrote: »

Lol!

In tomorrows Advertiser or the Sun, not sure yet, FHE had her car impounded by the Gards for not being taxed!

You couldnt make it up!

First the train, then the jacuzzi and now this!

what is it with the rich and trying to avoid paying their way?

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Shel be taking the train now lads! And paying for it!

thesandeman

If it's true then lots of LOLs. If not ur in trouble.





hope it's true.

Seaneh

Too good to be true!

Lockstep

If this is true, it's certainly in character for her.

mathepac

Forgive my ignorance but what's a "FHE" when it's at home?

Lockstep

Fidelam Healy Eames: Senator and general busybody. Basically a real life Helen Lovejoy.

Likes: Thinking of the children, Fine Gael, giving opinions to the Galway Advertiser.
Dislikes: Video games, dogging, not being elected.

pjmn

Ah, ye are being very harsh, isn't it obvious what has happened here... She assumed the bill from the builder included tax for the car, the husband forgot to pay the builder, she then took the train to Dublin with the intention of paying the car tax. However Iarnrod Eireann robbed her on the train. De facto the builder and/or Iarnrod Eireann are to blame, and she should be made Taoiseach or President.

RichT

Tis true.......

It also emerged yesterday that she had her car impounded at rush hour in Galway city lately because it did not have valid car tax.

Source, Galway Advertiser

Acidflash

Lockstep wrote: »

Fidelam Healy Eames: Senator and general busybody. Basically a real life Helen Lovejoy.

Likes: Thinking of the children, Fine Gael, giving opinions to the Galway Advertiser.
Dislikes: Video games, dogging, not being elected,Paying for anything

added one in for you.

snubbleste

How did the Advertiser get the scéal? Did someone see her car being impounded at rush hour or something?

fishy fishy

my god who does she think she is. She seems to be getting caught all over the place lately.

never came across as anyway sincere or believable anyway

she should be disqualified (or whatever you call it these days)

GalwayGaillimh

How long does a car have to be out of tax for them to impound it ?

snubbleste

GalwayDotCom wrote: »

How long does a car have to be out of tax for them to impound it ?

One day.

Edit: I was wrong it is actually
empowered to impound any vehicle which has not been taxed for a period of two months or more

turbojunkie

GalwayDotCom wrote: »

How long does a car have to be out of tax for them to impound it ?

Anything over 2 months.

GalwayGaillimh

Under road traffic legislation gardai are empowered to seize a car if its tax disc is two months or more out of date or not properly displayed.

Yesterday cops refused to confirm whether Sen Healy Eames has now paid the road tax and a €155 release fee.

theteal

snubbleste wrote: »

One day.

i thought it was a month

biko

snubbleste wrote: »

How did the Advertiser get the scéal? Did someone see her car being impounded at rush hour or something?

She told them herself, it was not a scoop by GA.

She outlines that however, another event - her car being impounded by the gardai for not having a current tax disc - happened on July 2. She says this is not in the public domain but she believes it is important to speak about it “for the record”.

“ It happened during rush hour between Moneenageisha cross and Cemetery Cross. I was mortified. On this matter I was totally wrong. Mea culpa. Ironically, only hours earlier I had been organising a garda escort with Mill Street for the Chinese Ambassador to visit our China-Ireland symposium at the Volvo for the following day. Truth is I had been trying to sell the car. I was using public transport up and down to Dublin and I had neglected the car tax. There is no excuse. I was completely in the wrong.”

wingnut

Did you read that BS story about the garage.

"While I was in Romania they built the wrong garage"

Definitely a plan to ask for forgiveness than permission. Interesting they refused permission to build but granted the retention no hassle.

fago

wingnut wrote: »

Did you read that BS story about the garage.

"While I was in Romania they built the wrong garage"

Definitely a plan to ask for forgiveness than permission. Interesting they refused permission to build but granted the retention no hassle.

To add to the conspiracy, one thing I noticed on the google streetview image of the unplastered garage is that a head was built into the gable.

From experience the only time this is done is when at a later stage a window is going to be retrospectively added, to get around planning permission. Putting the head in makes it easy to cut out the window later.

I must check if there is a window there when passing that way.

If it is the case then the garage was always built with the view to converting it.

https://maps.google.ie/?ll=53.239293,-8.94683&spn=0.000013,0.009645&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.23929,-8.946738&panoid=uo7_pVK7asYVQdmsMAzl9Q&cbp=12,330.26,,0,0

Sappa

The big whopper strikes again.

i_steal_sheep

Has this woman ever been elected by the people to anything other than local government? Will she ever get the message that she is not actually as popular as she would like us all to believe. I can't wait for the next episode in this soap opera!

scholar007

"neglected to pay the car tax"?

Gosh I hope she hasn't got anything of any significant responsibility to take care of if she is so neglectful!

LOL LOL LOL - Its a good thing that so many people are "neglecting" to pay the rip off banker funding household charge.

Iwannahurl

fago wrote: »

To add to the conspiracy, one thing I noticed on the google streetview image of the unplastered garage is that a head was built into the gable.

From experience the only time this is done is when at a later stage a window is going to be retrospectively added, to get around planning permission. Putting the head in makes it easy to cut out the window later.

I must check if there is a window there when passing that way.

If it is the case then the garage was always built with the view to converting it.

https://maps.google.ie/?ll=53.239293,-8.94683&spn=0.000013,0.009645&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.23929,-8.946738&panoid=uo7_pVK7asYVQdmsMAzl9Q&cbp=12,330.26,,0,0

Is there no privacy any more?


















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