Michelle Mulherin has a friend from Kenya

mikom

A TD or Senator has run up significant bills by making dozens of expensive calls to a single African number yet confidentiality rules prohibit the Oireachtas from finding out who is responsible.


The calls to the phone – dozens of them each year – are consistently among the most costly made from Leinster House.
However, laws that grant politicians complete privacy in their offices mean nothing can be done to identify who is responsible.


Records released by the Oireachtas show that the Kenyan mobile was the destination number for 38 out of the 100 most expensive calls during late 2011 and 2012.

The review of the Information Commissioner stated that the phone number did not belong to an Irish person working abroad or one that was working in an official government capacity.


A decision said that the Oireachtas was satisfied that the Kenyan number is a ‘local mobile number of a personal phone of a private person’.
The investigator found that the mobile number was therefore the ‘personal information of the individual recipient of the telephone calls’.
http://www.rte.ie/news/investigations-unit/2015/0116/673155-politician-runs-up-2-000-bill-phoning-a-single-african-mobile-ph/

That's some abuse of public funds.

So, folks of afterhours, would ye say it is a member of FG, FF, SF, LB, Ind?
Or do ye not give a fornicate fuck.




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berger89

Must never have heard of Skype…

Señor Fancy Pants

"Hello Kenya,....yeah what direction does the water go when you flush the toilet"
L
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helimachoptor

Where was that Pamela lady from who kept appealing deportation? May be to do with that..

The_Valeyard

It was a diplomatic call to a Kenyan Prince who happened to have 354,000,000 euros he wished to invest in the Irish economy.

afatbollix

Id say its a staff member, Someone who would be around at night when not so many people would be around...

berger89

TD with a family member over there or buddies with a missionary priest/nun.

castletownman

The_Valeyard wrote: »

It was a diplomatic call to a Kenyan Prince who happened to have 354,000,000 euros he wished to invest in the Irish economy.

Sums up their intelligence so seeing as that's a Nigerian prince :pac:

SEPT 23 1989

name and shame

thelad95

Ming Flanagan?

mikom

The_Valeyard wrote: »

It was a diplomatic call to a Kenyan Prince who happened to have 354,000,000 euros he wished to invest in the Irish economy.

berger89 wrote: »

TD with a family member over there or buddies with a missionary priest/nun.

I'd say there was a "Kenyan Prince" and missionary involved alright......

RobertKK

Probably just a TD who has a grudge against Kenya and is an advisor to the al shabab terrorist group.

Custardpi

Doesn't Barack Obama's brother live in Kenya? Could be someone trying to influence US policy by developing a relationship with him. Not sure how effective that would be though.

raher1

Google galway senator add Kenya, not saying but ya know like. Could be wrong it could be a cleaner

Baggy Trousers

raher1 wrote: »

Google galway west senator add Kenya, not saying but ya know like. Could be wrong it could be a cleaner

Oh don't tell me Healy Screams is up to her old tricks again...:(

Lucinda, wake up and smell the coffee.

Marcusm

We had that in work once except all the calls were to Cote d'Ivoire; it turned out to be one of the cleaners who had also taken a cheque from a colleague's chequebook and cashed it for £3,000.

Baggy Trousers

Marcusm wrote: »

We had that in work once except all the calls were to Cote d'Ivoire; it turned out to be one of the cleaners who had also taken a cheque from a colleague's chequebook and cashed it for £3,000.

Hey we call it the Ivory Coast here Frenchie!

Custardpi

Côte d'Ivoire is the official name in both English & French for that country.

Baggy Trousers

Custardpi wrote: »

Côte d'Ivoire is the official name in both English & French for that country.

République de Côte d'Ivoire

Custardpi

That's the full name in French. In English it's just Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. Both have Côte d'Ivoire in the title though.

thelad95

Custardpi wrote: »

Côte d'Ivoire is the official name in both English & French for that country.

Well lad-di-dah, do you live in the Republic of Ireland? Have you ever been to the Kingdom of Denmark? What do you think of the current situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan? Do you think the Hellenic Republic (Greece) will recover anytime soon?

Official names for countries are only for official documents. Most of them are very long-winded

Custardpi

I never said the full title had to be used. If your problem is with "longwindedness" then surely Côte d'Ivoire is better since it has fewer syllables than Ivory Coast.

Baggy Trousers

Sorry OP, they've all gone mad...so who was calling Kenyan sex lines again?

bmm

Coffee beans ...

foggy_lad

raher1 wrote: »

Google galway senator add Kenya, not saying but ya know like. Could be wrong it could be a cleaner

So did squealy eames give the family her dail mobile to ring her while she was on holidays in Kenya?

Gatling

Surely there must be ould one's here that can talk dirty to on the phone,

Baggy Trousers

foggy_lad wrote: »

So did squealy eames give the family her dail mobile to ring her while she was on holidays in Kenya?

They need to reboot her out of the Senate. Actually the Senate should not even exist - when are we reforming that again???

FalconGirl

Sorry I cant post links as I am a new user.

Fidelma Healy Eames went on a trip to Kenya in 2012 with a state funded agency. This is an actual quote from her. If ever there is proof that some politicians do feck all.

Fidelma Healy Eames

It's very hard work. You have two-and-a-half to three weeks' work in one week. We start at 8 in the morning and don't finish until 5 or 6. That's a lot more work than a day at home.

LOL

FalconGirl

FalconGirl wrote: »

Sorry I cant post links as I am a new user.

Fidelma Healy Eames went on a trip to Kenya in 2012 with a state funded agency. This is an actual quote from her. If ever there is proof that some politicians do feck all.




LOL

Id wonder has she ever seen that statement in text since it came out of her mouth. Has she recalled in horror ?
Thats some belter of a statement.
8 till 5 or 6? the poor child down the mines all that length of time

The Backwards Man

Phone call to Kenya causes a Rift.

donegaLroad

would it have anything to do with Tullow Oil's exploration contracts in Kenya?

It was suggested before on Politics.ie that a number of Dail members had bought shares in Tullow oil ahead of the €166 million aid package awarded to Uganda by Ireland in 2010. A few days later, Tullow oil was given an oil exploration contract in Uganda.

Link

Joe prim

donegaLroad wrote: »

would it have anything to do with Tullow Oil's exploration contracts in Kenya?

It was suggested before on Politics.ie that a number of Dail members had bought shares in Tullow oil ahead of the €166 million aid package awarded to Uganda by Ireland in 2010. A few days later, Tullow oil was given an oil exploration contract in Uganda.

Link

Yes, and Kenya is in Uganda, isn't it..well, it's fairly near it anyway, all dem African places look the same to me to be honest......

Cee-Jay-Cee

It has to be George Agdgdgwngo.

http://youtu.be/LA3zhzT1wDo

donegaLroad

Joe prim wrote: »

Yes, and Kenya is in Uganda, isn't it..well, it's fairly near it anyway, all dem African places look the same to me to be honest......

Google 'Tullow Oil Kenya' and re-read my post..

Tullow Oil have interests in more than one African country.

Your post doesn't look very smart tbh.

Areyouwell

The_Valeyard wrote: »

It was a diplomatic call to a Kenyan Prince who happened to have 354,000,000 euros he wished to invest in the Irish economy.

I think you left out three zeros at the end.

Banjo String

My suspicions are someone in Leinster House has been fornicating with someone in Kenya.

Long distance phone fornicating......

Another Kenyan Lotto victim

Banjo String

I have been singing the wrong lyrics to this for years now.....

I always thought the lyrics were "Kenyan fornication".......

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

barking up the wrong tree perhaps ?

mikom

"God will provide", as they say.
Should change that to "the taxpayer will provide".

Plazaman

Probably one of the Junior Minister trying to pull a scam on the poor Kenyans.

"Howya, I'm from Microshoft, deres a problem with your computer"....

biko

Only in Kenya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en3PZ09fue8

Zebra3

And politicians wonder why the public are cynical about them...

Why isn't Edna Kenny banging on about the abuse of taxpayers' money?

mikom

Zebra3 wrote: »

And politicians wonder why the public are cynical about them...

Why isn't Edna Kenny banging on about the abuse of taxpayers' money?

FG stick together.

Capt'n Midnight

Truffle Pig wrote: »

"Hello Kenya,....yeah what direction does the water go when you flush the toilet"
L
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but Kenya is on the equator so that means the water goes ..
no wait
eh



oh that's going to take some research

conorh91

There was an official trade visit to Kenya in 2013. Might be something to do with that.

It's possible the phone call relates to an individual in the Kenyan government or in business, with whom the relevant public representative or his staff member was maintaining a political relationship.

I'm amazed that phonecalls are still this expensive. Is the cost of such communications really justifiable by the telephone companies?

liam24

Interesting - Michelle Mulherin the Fine Gael TD has a former Kenyan boyfriend. And according to this article:
http://www.sexualhealthcentre.com/2012/04/mulherin-women-are-using-abortion-as-birth-control/

he has returned to Kenya, but the two are understood to still be friends. It's nice to have friends, isn't it?

endacl

So?

SweetChaos

endacl wrote: »

So?

She ran up a 2k phone bill calling him?

liam24

I just think it's nice and heartwarming that they broke up, but they're still in touch - even though he lives in another country far away.

Kristopherus

Old news.Op, get with the times.

liam24

SweetChaos wrote: »

She ran up a 2k phone bill calling him?

Nobody said anything of the sort.