Fidelma Healy Eames at it again. Claims SSM might mean that Mother's Day is banned!

My name is URL

https://twitter.com/senhealyeames/status/577055219013574656

Happy Mothers' day all! Hope we can continue to celebrate it after #SSM passed. In some US states Mothers & Father's Day banned #pcgonemad

She then clarified what she meant.

https://twitter.com/senhealyeames/status/577100884183769088

Lying not my thing. No slur intended either. #justsaying Mother's Day banned in a NY & Nova Scotia school. Happy Mothers Day!

So it went from 'some US states', to 2 schools, one of which isn't even in the US!

Seriously, how stupid is this geebag?

Someone needs to tell her to stay the feck off Twitter!

brevity

But lesbians who have children?

conorh91

#sexualorientation

Guy:Incognito

Hopefully that's what happens.:)







do some people just flat out refuse to see truth even when its put up right in front of them? Or is this one of the best sarcastic minds of our times?

Tom Martin ‏@codenamehuskey · 5h5 hours ago
@senhealyeames A refreshing voice Fidelma, respectful, factual and honest just the sort of politician we need:-)

My name is URL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHoI5Zum2ek

kneemos

My name is URL wrote: »

https://twitter.com/senhealyeames/status/577055219013574656



She then clarified what she meant.

https://twitter.com/senhealyeames/status/577100884183769088



So it went from 'some US states', to 2 schools, one of which isn't even in the US!

Seriously, how stupid is this geebag?

Someone needs to tell her to stay the feck off Twitter!

Was it a Muslim school?

Specialun

Is this clown still going

If brains were petrol she wouldnt have enough to go around a smartie

Pumpkinseeds

Well, Mothers day cost me a small fortune, for what is essentially a made up day, so I wouldn't mind seeing an end to it:D, But seriously, surely parenting is what's important and the quality of parenting, not the gender of the parent? There are many appalling mothers in the world and frankly their kids would be much better off without them. Anybody who makes the grade for adoption/fostering should be entitled to do so, regardless of their sexual orientation.

4zn76tysfajdxp

She doesn't strike me as very bright.

michael999999

What an idiot!

20Cent

She also posted her source as mad libertarian website rense.com but quickly deleted it as it is full of anti Semitic articles and drink this to cure your cancer ads.

Das Kitty

Monroe Ashy Holster wrote: »

She doesn't strike me as very bright.

She fails the Turing test.

My name is URL

Specialun wrote: »

Is this clown still going

If brains were petrol she wouldnt have enough to go around a smartie

Yet somehow had enough to get herself B.Ed., M.Sc., and Ph.D degrees :eek:

Also

Having a strong experiential background in education and health promotion, Fidelma is a former primary teacher, College lecturer in Teacher Education and is Director of her own business,FHE Education & Training Providers

http://www.webcitation.org/6IA7ibOzs

Hard to believe that someone as stupid as her actually had a job teaching teachers!

bjork

This must be the school she's on about.


http://rense.com/general10/mothers.htm
Parents whose kids attend a pricey Manhattan private school are in an uproar over a new policy aimed at protecting the feelings of children raised by same-sex couples: Mother's Day has been banned. And in the interest of fairness, Father's Day, too


The reasoning was several-fold," Samson said. "One is, it didn't serve an academic and educational need. Number two, families are changing. Some children were very uncomfortable."

PopePalpatine

My name is URL wrote: »

Seriously, how stupid is this geebag?

Someone needs to tell her to stay the feck off Twitter!

Careful now, she might call for us to be forced to register our names and bank details just to get online after getting her arse handed to her!

I'm just waiting for a drive-by post from her key voting demographic.

Archeron

It's always nice to see the word geebag every now and again, makes me proud to be Irish.

hfallada

The most disturbing thing is that people retweeted that. Its funny how she see SSM as morally wrong, but there is this gem on her wikipedia page

A car belonging to Healy Eames was seized in Galway city on 2 July 2012 for failure to display a valid car disc. She told the Galway Advertiser: “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”.[9] Healy Eames was then fined for boarding the Galway-Dublin train without a ticket on 12 July 2012, 10 days after her car was seized.[10][11] She was convicted and fined €1,850 for the motor tax offence.[12][5][13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelma_Healy_Eames#Controversy

My name is URL

hfallada wrote: »

Healy Eames was then fined for boarding the Galway-Dublin train without a ticket on 12 July 2012, 10 days after her car was seized

Ah yes, I remember that.

She used the infamous 'do you know who I am?' line too on that occasion.

I've seen stinking piles of shite that were more charming than that woman.

PopePalpatine

hfallada wrote: »

The most disturbing thing is that people retweeted that. Its funny how she see SSM as morally wrong, but there is this gem on her wikipedia page

A car belonging to Healy Eames was seized in Galway city on 2 July 2012 for failure to display a valid car disc. She told the Galway Advertiser: “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”.[9] Healy Eames was then fined for boarding the Galway-Dublin train without a ticket on 12 July 2012, 10 days after her car was seized.[10][11] She was convicted and fined €1,850 for the motor tax offence.[12][5][13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelma_Healy_Eames#Controversy

Didn't she try to get that news silenced?

Specialun

My name is URL wrote: »

Yet somehow had enough to get herself B.Ed., M.Sc., and Ph.D degrees

Hard to believe that someone as stupid as her actually had a job teaching teachers!

But yet she comes out with this sh!te and the embarassing "fraping"comment

Paramite Pie

I'm gay myself but apparently one school has already done this;

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581793/Parents-rally-after-Canadian-elementary-school-bans-Mothers-Day-and-Fathers-Day-celebrations.html?pg=all

It's absurd. If we're going to live in a diverse society then we should be able to embrace the diversity, not make it taboo. Yes there'll be kids with only one parent (that's life), or kids with two same-sex parents but there's nothing intrinsically negative about having a Mother's/Father's day.

I really hope this doesn't catch on but some do-gooders will probably try.

My name is URL

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Well, Mothers day cost me a small fortune, for what is essentially a made up day,

All days are made up days =p

Paramite Pie wrote: »

I'm gay myself but apparently one school has already done this;

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581793/Parents-rally-after-Canadian-elementary-school-bans-Mothers-Day-and-Fathers-Day-celebrations.html?pg=all

It's absurd. If we're going to live in a diverse society then we should be able to embrace the diversity, not make it taboo. Yes there'll be kids with only one parent (that's life), or kids with two same-sex parents but there's nothing intrinsically negative about having a Mother's/Father's day.

I really hope this doesn't catch on but some do-gooders will probably try.

It's pointless anyway. I mean it's not as if kids and teachers do be high-fiving each other between lessons in celebration of Mother's Day!

ohnonotgmail

Paramite Pie wrote: »

I'm gay myself but apparently one school has already done this;

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581793/Parents-rally-after-Canadian-elementary-school-bans-Mothers-Day-and-Fathers-Day-celebrations.html?pg=all

It's absurd. If we're going to live in a diverse society then we should be able to embrace the diversity, not make it taboo. Yes there'll be kids with only one parent (that's life), or kids with two same-sex parents but there's nothing intrinsically negative about having a Mother's/Father's day.

I really hope this doesn't catch on but some do-gooders will probably try.

She said the US. that is in canada. She obviously wasnt a geography teacher.

kneemos

Do kids even talk about or notice mothers day?

Schwiiing

If her brains were dynamite she wouldn't have enough to blow her nose.

shruikan2553

Thank you people of Ireland for voting to keep her in a job.

Guy:Incognito

Schwiiing wrote: »

If her brains were dynamite she wouldn't have enough to blow her nose.

Old school

Guy:Incognito

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Thank you people of Ireland for voting to keep her in a job.

"The people" dont vote for senators.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann

shruikan2553

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

"The people" dotn vote for senators.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanad_%C3%89ireann

We had a vote on keeping the playpen for failed politicians or getting rid of it.

I have heard of schools choosing not to acknowledge Mother's Day or Father's Day, but for the sake of children who may have lost one or both of their parents; nothing at all to do with SSM. But shur, it's much easier to blame the pinko bleeding heart liberal PC gay agenda!

One day I sincerely hope Fidelma Healy Eames comes out as being an actress, and she's actually a genius satiricial creation as opposed to the worryingly ignorant and unpleasant individual that she comes across as.

Guy:Incognito

shruikan2553 wrote: »

We had a vote on keeping the playpen for failed politicians or getting rid of it.

Not really the same as voting her in though. You could agree with keeping the Senate but wanting rid of this particular bint.

ohnonotgmail

shruikan2553 wrote: »

We had a vote on keeping the playpen for failed politicians or getting rid of it.

None of the parties wanted to disband it so they proposed a referendum that replaced one bad option with another. It wasnt a referendum that proposed to reform the seanaid, which is what was required

Fr_Dougal

My name is URL wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHoI5Zum2ek

She looks a lot like that Panty Bliss girl...wonder are they related.

My name is URL

shruikan2553 wrote: »

We had a vote on keeping the playpen for failed politicians or getting rid of it.

The choice was essentially to keep it and hope that it's one day modernized and made fit for purpose, or to give the self-serving boyos in the Dail even more reach and power.

I went with the former and don't regret my decision even in spite of the likes of Healy-Eames being in there wasting oxygen and a seat.

Busted Flat.

Monroe Ashy Holster wrote: »

She doesn't strike me as very bright.

That's an understatement.

Lux23

I think its shocking that the unemployment rate is still over 10% and she has a job. An important one at that.

the groutch

this sort of stuff doesn't surprise me, given she's one of Lucinda's pals.

and it's still not as bad as when she said games consoles should a chip installed to have them automatically shut down after two hours

Busted Flat.

That's the one who had her car seized for no tax, tried to take a free ride on the Galway train and had a problem paying the plumber. Has she joined the RIP yet.

RobertKK

Mothers day banned...when you hear ads saying about taking your mother out for a meal or doing something nice for her, it is kinda sad when your mother is not alive and is six feet under...
There is never talk about people whose mother is not around on mothers day...
That is something far bigger on a day like today...

BlaasForRafa

She's even more annoying than Marie Louise O'Donnell and that's saying something!

Royal Legend

20Cent wrote: »

She also posted her source as mad libertarian website rense.com but quickly deleted it as it is full of anti Semitic articles and drink this to cure your cancer ads.

here is the original article
http://rense.com/general10/mothers.htm

Is this the type of site and people she gets her news and views from????? :eek:

conorh91

the groutch wrote: »

and it's still not as bad as when she said games consoles should a chip installed to have them automatically shut down after two hours

A lot of parents would agree with that, to be fair.

My own view is that FHM is gaffe-prone by her nature. But the personal attacks on her are nasty, and uncomfortable to read. I'm not talking about well-intentioned and intelligent piss-taking, like that parody video posted earlier. I'm talking about attacks on her intelligence, or sexist comments, or snide jibes at her family.

We need to distinguish gaffes from stupidity; genuine concern from scurrilous invective. I think FHM has shown that she is genuinely passionate about child welfare and improving the lives of children, even if her outlook is misguided. That's something that can be parodied, or debated rigorously, but they personal attacks go too far IMO.

This doesn't just apply to FHM obviously. MLOD gets it as well, for example. People on the internet sometimes just have this devious tendency towards attacking others in semi-anonymity.

Stark

Happy Lesbian Lovers Day everyone!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gNrJYwrK7U

ohnonotgmail

conorh91 wrote: »

A lot of parents would agree with that, to be fair.
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Perhaps they could then maybe take an interest in what their children are doing and turn it off manually. If children are spending too long on video games then the problem is with the parenting not with technology

hollypink

conorh91 wrote: »

My own view is that FHM is gaffe-prone by her nature. But the personal attacks on her are nasty, and uncomfortable to read. I'm not talking about well-intentioned and intelligent piss-taking, like that parody video posted earlier. I'm talking about attacks on her intelligence, or sexist comments, or snide jibes at her family.

We need to distinguish gaffes from stupidity; genuine concern from scurrilous invective.

I think it is entirely appropriate to question the intelligence of a public representative who makes statements intended to influence the debate on a referendum, when those statements are, intentionally or unintentionally, factually incorrect and who does not withdraw it when proven incorrect. And the use of the hashtag #justsaying? Is that the intellectual level of debate we should reasonably expect from someone in public office?

Dr. Mantis Toboggan

She's an awful feckin taypot.

conorh91

hollypink wrote: »

I think it is entirely appropriate to question the intelligence of a public representative who makes statements intended to influence the debate on a referendum, when those statements are, intentionally or unintentionally, factually incorrect and who does not withdraw it when proven incorrect.

You respond to incorrect claims with countervailing evidence. Not by hiding behind an avatar and telling someone they are stupid. I understand this is an unpopular thing to say, because it gives a small number of people a kick, and nobody likes being denied their kicks.

I just can't imagine being at a meeting or any physical gathering, where someone would have the nerve to walk up to someone with whom they disagreed, and pass sexist remarks, or tell that person how stupid they are to their face. I mean they might do it, but it would be excruciatingly uncomfortable for most people to witness, and would be considered utterly inappropriate. On twitter or boards, it is usually seen as valid.

ohnonotgmail

conorh91 wrote: »

You respond to incorrect claims with countervailing evidence. Not by hiding behind an avatar and telling someone they are stupid. I understand this is an unpopular thing to say, because it gives a small number of people a kick, and nobody likes being denied their kicks.

I just can't imagine being at a meeting or any physical gathering, where someone would have the nerve to walk up to someone with whom they disagreed, and pass sexist remarks, or tell that person how stupid they are to their face. I mean they might do it, but it would be excruciatingly uncomfortable for most people to witness, and would be considered utterly inappropriate. On twitter or boards, it is usually seen as valid.

What she said was both stupid and ill-informed

jaykay74

She should have had the grace to apologise for the lies she told earlier.

Lying not my thing. No slur intended either. #justsaying Mother's Day banned in a NY & Nova Scotia school. Happy Mothers Day!

No. Thats not what you were just saying! Such sh!te you have to listen to in Irish politics. An embarrassment

My name is URL

conorh91 wrote: »

My own view is that FHM is gaffe-prone by her nature. But the personal attacks on her are nasty, and uncomfortable to read. I'm not talking about well-intentioned and intelligent piss-taking, like that parody video posted earlier. I'm talking about attacks on her intelligence, or sexist comments, or snide jibes at her family.

I never mentioned her family, but I stand by my comments regarding her intelligence.

I'm not the cleverest of people myself, but (most of the time) I consider what I'm saying because of that. I'm not in public office either, but she is, and by extension is in a place where she can easily influence public opinion.. yet it has never stopped her from failing to think before she speaks.

I hope I didn't come across as sexist by calling her a geebag in my OP. I'd have used the same word if it were a male senator making such asinine comments!

conorh91

My name is URL wrote: »

I'm not in public office either, but she is

You're the second person to mention this in defence of personal attacks.

So what if she's in public office? Does that make her a legitimate target? Why is it never sufficient simply to disprove someone, or even parody and satirize their comments? Why do people have to go too far, and hurl abuse?

I'm not responding solely to the comments on this thread demanding that she is stupid. I've seen comments elsewhere that she should dive off a cliff; comments were also posted about 'her poor children'. Like, would you really say these things to a person's face?

My local TD is fairly well known for his gaffes, but anytime he calls around canvassing, he gets a cup of tea, a few biccies, and the piss extracted. He's a nice guy, and fairly smart, but again, a bit misguided.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this rant. I don't expect people to agree with it. But i'm sure I'm not the only one who reads these threads, or the #vinb hashtag, and feels a little uncomfortable about how many users of social media feel unrestrained in emitting pure venom.

One of the things I like about living in Ireland is that we tend to be respectful of those with whom we disagree. It's part of living on a small island. If we can't get along and find common ground, we're fcuked. Personally i think it would be a shame to see that change.