Kieran Mulvey

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Is it time for Kieran Mulvey to consider his position, after fronting the FG side of the referendum. Is he now a suitable person to hold the position he has.
(hopefully this is in the right forum)

sinjin_smythe

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(hopefully this is in the right forum)

lol

galwayrush

Would it make any difference if he did?

RobbingBandit

Not really his fault in any sense Enda should have took up the challenge of an open debate.

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galwayrush wrote: »

Would it make any difference if he did?

His office is expected to be impartial, is it not.

Cody Pomeray

His affiliation with the One House movement, as much as I disagree with their position, was a personal one.

There's nothing wrong with a person getting involved in civil society groups, as a general rule, even members of the judiciary.

Why exactly are we to believe Mulvey's opinion compomises him in the LRC

Can we have a concrete, real world example?

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RobbingBandit wrote: »

Not really his fault in any sense Enda should have took up the challenge of an open debate.

Are you suggesting Mulvey is Enda's spokesperson. Or doppelganger.

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His input into the debate was repeating they were going to save 20 million, he kept repeating that figure, even though it was proven to be incorrect. Where does that leave his credibility.

amazedanddazed

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Is it time for Kieran Mulvey to consider his position, after fronting the FG side of the referendum. Is he now a suitable person to hold the position he has.
(hopefully this is in the right forum)

This call is a bit akin to the Sunday Independent demanding that John Hume "consider his position" back in 1988 given that people opposed the IRA (with whom Hume was speaking at that time). Hume, however, persisted and out of that vision came the 1994 ceasefire and the GFA in 1998.

Similarly, Mulvey is stating the obvious: in a tiny state like ours, there is no need for a second "parliament", particularly when it was established by the British under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to give power to their colonial remnants in Ireland, and has been used since to bestow privilege upon "in" groups like democratically rejected politicians (Mary O'Rourke? Donnie Cassidy? etc) and a wide variety of sycophants who appear on television and radio praising the taoiseach of the day and are rewarded with a position in Seanad Éireann (Eoghan Harris? Marie-Louise O'Donnell? etc).

That Mulvey is stating the obvious now but the more obtuse members of society cannot see it simply means Mulvey, and educated Ireland, will have to wait until the troglodytes realise exactly how corrupt and irreformable Seanad Éireann is, never mind how completely antithetic its existence is to democracy in Ireland. Like Hume, Mulvey's vision will ultimately triumph over the inane soundbite from ignorami.

Specialun

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(hopefully this is in the right forum)

Yes.yes it is.AH is the home of irelands intellect.Mensa doesnt have a chance here

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amazedanddazed wrote: »

This call is a bit akin to the Sunday Independent demanding that John Hume "consider his position" back in 1988 given that people opposed the IRA (with whom Hume was speaking at that time). Hume, however, persisted and out of that vision came the 1994 ceasefire and the GFA in 1998.

Similarly, Mulvey is stating the obvious: in a tiny state like ours, there is no need for a second "parliament", particularly when it was established by the British under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 to give power to their colonial remnants in Ireland, and has been used since to bestow privilege upon "in" groups like democratically rejected politicians (Mary O'Rourke? Donnie Cassidy? etc) and a wide variety of sycophants who appear on television and radio praising the taoiseach of the day and are rewarded with a position in Seanad Éireann (Eoghan Harris? Marie-Louise O'Donnell? etc).

That Mulvey is stating the obvious now but the more obtuse members of society cannot see it simply means Mulvey, and educated Ireland, will have to wait until the troglodytes realise exactly how corrupt and irreformable Seanad Éireann is, never mind how completely antithetic its existence is to democracy in Ireland. Like Hume, Mulvey's vision will ultimately triumph over the inane soundbite from ignorami.

Is this from the ER room of the FG headquaters.

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Specialun wrote: »

Yes.yes it is.AH is the home of irelands intellect.Mensa doesnt have a chance here

My apologies, I seem to have posted in the thread for protected species.