Michelle Mulherin has a friend from Kenya

keeponhurling

liam24 wrote: »

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?

What's your point ?

wretcheddomain

The most pointless of all pointless threads.

SweetChaos

liam24 wrote: »

Nobody said anything of the sort.

So whats your point then

Is it news worthy that someone has a Kenyan friend these days?

Kevin McCloud

Is it a facebook friend or real friend?

Insect Overlord

Ever hear that insurance ad on the radio where your man says a change of address would be nice?

porsche959

wretcheddomain wrote: »

The most pointless of all pointless threads.

Or a smear campaign with a rather nasty racist undercurrent.

SweetChaos

is it about abortion?

You are being very cryptic op

feargale

SweetChaos wrote: »

She ran up a 2k phone bill calling him?

Link please. And if she did who paid the phone bill?

So this guy has a child from another relationship. Are you a virgin? Sorry to be so intrusive but the question is as pertinent as the point you are making, Ditto to Fionân Sheehan. Are you a virgin, Fionan?

SweetChaos

feargale wrote: »

Link please. And if she did who paid the phone bill?

So this guy has a child from another relationship. Are you a virgin? Sorry to be so intrusive but the question is as pertinent as the point you are making, Ditto to Fionân Sheehan. Are you a virgin, Fionan?

http://www.rte.ie/news/investigations-unit/2015/0116/673155-politician-runs-up-2-000-bill-phoning-a-single-african-mobile-ph/

Topper Harley

I have a Tanzanian friend. Tanzania's better than Kenya. Tanzania's nice. Friends are nice.

liam24

porsche959 wrote: »

Or a smear campaign with a rather nasty racist undercurrent.

You're about a million miles off the mark there I'm afraid.

liam24

conorh91 wrote: »

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?

Could be!

porsche959

liam24 wrote: »

You're about a million miles off the mark there I'm afraid.

Oh, I'm not suggesting you personally are a racist or are drawing attention to this for improper reasons.

But I do wonder if a TD had a bill due to a large number of calls to, say, Brussels, or London, or even New York, would it be a big issue in the media.

The Backwards Man

This is like when you came home and your mother was obviously angry at you and made all kinds of passive aggressive smart remarks but wouldn't tell you what was up

You have a good time?
With your frinds?
And now your home?
Isn't that great?

Jester252

SweetChaos wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/investigations-unit/2015/0116/673155-politician-runs-up-2-000-bill-phoning-a-single-african-mobile-ph/

Still nothing linking her to the calls

Richard tea

Its so sad that the broke up:( We tax payers should buy her some phone credit so they can keep in touch.... OH WAIT:eek:

Kevin McCloud

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You have a good time?
With your frinds?
And now your home?
Isn't that great?

Too many qs tbm, give us ah drunken thread 122

keeponhurling

porsche959 wrote: »

Or a smear campaign with a rather nasty racist undercurrent.

Go on, who is racist about what ?

c_man

porsche959 wrote: »

Oh, I'm not suggesting you personally are a racist or are drawing attention to this for improper reasons.

But I do wonder if a TD had a bill due to a large number of calls to, say, Brussels, or London, or even New York, would it be a big issue in the media.

If there was suggestion that it was this extraordinary amount for personal calls, then yeah of course it would be a story. No question.

daithi1970

hold on..you said a former Kenyan-Is he not kenyan anymore?

liam24

daithi1970 wrote: »

hold on..you said a former Kenyan-Is he not kenyan anymore?

This website is really infested with smart-arses.

Kevin McCloud

liam24 wrote: »

This website is really infested with smart-arses.

Ad block them.

YFlyer

daithi1970 wrote: »

hold on..you said a former Kenyan-Is he not kenyan anymore?

Is he an athlete?

The Backwards Man

liam24 wrote: »

This website is really infested with smart-arses.

Well, tell us straight out what your point is rather than going all Sunday Times crossword on us.

c_man

Jester252 wrote: »

Still nothing linking her to the calls

We'll have to add it to other Dail mysteries, you know no proof and all,

INDEPENDENT TD MICHAEL Healy-Rae won a celebrity television competition after winning over 3,500 votes that were generated from an Oireachtas phone in 2007, it has emerged.

The taxpayer ended up paying the €2,639 bill for the premium line calls to the number that was needed to vote specifically for Healy-Rae whose father Jackie Healy-Rae was a member of the Dáil at the time. Neither of the two Kerrymen are able to explain the calls, the paper reports.

http://www.thejournal.ie/healy-rae-won-tv-show-after-thousands-of-calls-from-the-dail-164750-Jun2011/

Maybe the phone system is haunted?

daithi1970

liam24 wrote: »

This website is really infested with smart-arses.

..and it took you 85 posts to figure that out:rolleyes:

DaDerv

Maybe he's a Prince looking for money. One guy emailed me and I sorted him out. Nice chap. Hasn't gotten back to me since.

feargale

SweetChaos wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/investigations-unit/2015/0116/673155-politician-runs-up-2-000-bill-phoning-a-single-african-mobile-ph/

Ok then, there are questions to be answered about the phone calls. I still don't understand the relevance of the child from another relationship.

gctest50

DaDerv wrote: »

Maybe he's a Prince looking for money. One guy emailed me and I sorted him out. Nice chap. Hasn't gotten back to me since.

Maybe he's a Prince looking ..........

http://imgur.com/Z3i3vG5

Quigs Snr

So what if it's her making the calls. As long as there's no fornication involved that is.

Menas

So over the past 3 years over two grands worth of calls have been made from Dail landlines to one Kenya mobile phone.
There is no official explanation for this, but it is suspected that it is a personal mobile.
But the number called has not been released for privacy reasons.
There does not seem to be much will from inside the dail to identify who made the caller is. Probably because no TD wants too much scrutiny of personal versus business calls made from their office landlines.
The is now a media witchhunt going on to try to find links between our Public representatives and Kenya to see if they can identify who made the calls and push to get the money repaid to the taxpayer. I am guessing that the OP is trying to hint to us that it is Michelle who made the calls.

godtabh

porsche959 wrote: »

Or a smear campaign with a rather nasty racist undercurrent.

How is it racist?

Menas

godtabh wrote: »

How is it racist?

Its not. But some posters like to label any post that mentions Africa as having 'racist undertones'.

Banjo String

Quigs Snr wrote: »

So what if it's her making the calls. As long as there's no fornication involved that is.

Marry me girl, be my fairy to the world
Be my very own constellation
A teenage bride with a baby inside
Getting high on information
And buy me a star on the boulevard
It's Kenyanfornication

Cee-Jay-Cee

porsche959 wrote: »

Oh, I'm not suggesting you personally are a racist or are drawing attention to this for improper reasons.

But I do wonder if a TD had a bill due to a large number of calls to, say, Brussels, or London, or even New York, would it be a big issue in the media.

Probably not because they're cheaper to them countries.

hfallada

Why is someone still using a landline to make calls to an unusual place long distance? Havent they heard of Skype or Viber? I seriously hope this is a big enough warning to stop TDs doing this again.

The last thing we need is tens of thousands of euro "investigation" to reveal nothing

blinding

Fooking Hell ! ! !

Menas

hfallada wrote: »

Why is someone still using a landline to make calls to an unusual place long distance? Havent they heard of Skype or Viber?

Its a good question. My opinion is that some of them dont give a flying fck about cost to the taxpayer and too lazy to take a few mins to find a cheaper alternative.

arayess

Trigger Happy wrote: »

So over the past 3 years over two grands worth of calls have been made from Dail landlines to one Kenya mobile phone.
There is no official explanation for this, but it is suspected that it is a personal mobile.
But the number called has not been released for privacy reasons.
There does not seem to be much will from inside the dail to identify who made the caller is. Probably because no TD wants too much scrutiny of personal versus business calls made from their office landlines.
The is now a media witchhunt going on to try to find links between our Public representatives and Kenya to see if they can identify who made the calls and push to get the money repaid to the taxpayer. I am guessing that the OP is trying to hint to us that it is Michelle who made the calls.

ah stop talking sense...why derail a thread on something kinda important with common sense when you can cry racism like this person

porsche959 wrote: »

Or a smear campaign with a rather nasty racist undercurrent.

it's much more fun to argue around the racism smokescreen than discuss something relevant like TD being accountable for expenses they use.

efb

Phone jacker?

efb

Fonecation instead of nasty fornication???

blinding

I think it more about taking the Irish taxpayer for a fool than anything to do with racism.

Richard tea

porsche959 wrote: »

Or a smear campaign with a rather nasty racist undercurrent.

Takes one to know one:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

_Jumper_

porsche959 wrote: »

Or a smear campaign with a rather nasty racist undercurrent.

Stupid post. Its a wonder you didnt throw in misogny aswell just to cover a few more bases.

Gentleman Off The Pitch

porsche959 wrote: »

Or a smear campaign with a rather nasty racist undercurrent.

These days everyone's a racist until they prove otherwise it seems.

conorhal

Trigger Happy wrote: »

So over the past 3 years over two grands worth of calls have been made from Dail landlines to one Kenya mobile phone.
There is no official explanation for this, but it is suspected that it is a personal mobile.
But the number called has not been released for privacy reasons.
There does not seem to be much will from inside the dail to identify who made the caller is. Probably because no TD wants too much scrutiny of personal versus business calls made from their office landlines.
The is now a media witchhunt going on to try to find links between our Public representatives and Kenya to see if they can identify who made the calls and push to get the money repaid to the taxpayer. I am guessing that the OP is trying to hint to us that it is Michelle who made the calls.

If I made a couple of grands worth of phone calls at my employers expense I'd be fired on the spot. I have a work phone but I am expected to pay for my personal calls, to that end I log on to a website and tag the calls I've made as personal or business, it's not hard.
Enda actually needs to offer the public some kind of reform and accountability beyond lip service, fully vouched expenses would be a good start. I'm tired of the attitude of politicians that a Dail seat is like a santa arriving with a goodie bag and it entitles them to treat the public purse as their own slush fund.
Stuff like this adds greatly to the growing public cynicisim about politics and confirms the suspicion that we are here to serve them, not the other way around.

evolving_doors

conorhal wrote: »

If I made a couple of grands worth of phone calls at my employers expense I'd be fired on the spot. I have a work phone but I am expected to pay for my personal calls, to that end I log on to a website and tag the calls I've made as personal or business, it's not hard.
Enda actually needs to offer the public some kind of reform and accountability beyond lip service, fully vouched expenses would be a good start. I'm tired of the attitude of politicians that a Dail seat is like a santa arriving with a goodie bag and it entitles them to treat the public purse as their own slush fund.

Very true , public funds used for private. Tell her gtfo and use skype for free (if it was her... )

Same as the thousands wasted because of some numpty using dail phone voting for a politician in a reality show ( Was it Healy Rae?).

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OP, first Leo Varadkar and now this one for Michelle Mulherin.

Some might think you are intentionally trying to smear Fine Gael members.

conorhal

Armelodie wrote: »

Very true , public funds used for private. Tell her gtfo and use skype for free (if it was her... )

Same as the thousands wasted because of some numpty using dail phone voting for a politician in a reality show ( Was it Healy Rae?).

It was Healy Rae, and he was forced to pay it back.
There was also 'toner-gate' wherein it seems that the Shinners were trying to print the entire internet or something... :pac:

What bothers me most is the failure of whoever was involved to put up their hands, admit a mistake and refund the money. Instead we have FG's standard blanket refusal to address the issue (as with Shatter, Hogan, Reilley etc.)
We all know that this ends only one way, in yet another embarrasing admission of failure that has to be forced out of this government who never seem to learn from their mistakes. If there is one reason why FG have NEVER managed to be re-elected to a consecutive term in government it's arrogance.

Satriale

Should we all be racist now?
Only, the farm takes up most of the day, and at night I just like a cup of tea. I mightn't be able to devote myself full time to the old racism.