Should Gemma O'Doherty have been given a chance

For Forks Sake

Since she didn't get a presidential nomination her Twitter feed has gone fully off the conspiracy scale, her anti-vaxx stuff over the past couple of days is an utter disgrace.

road_high

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Since she didn't get a presidential nomination her Twitter feed has gone fully off the conspiracy scale, her anti-vaxx stuff over the past couple of days is an utter disgrace.

Anti vaxxers in meltdown mode...do they have any other mode?!

marieholmfan

road_high wrote: »

Anti vaxxers in meltdown mode...do they have any other mode?!

no vaccination should mean no school. I am sure it used to.

Rhineshark

marieholmfan wrote: »

no vaccination should mean no school. I am sure it used to.

Damn right it did for boarding schools anyway. Kids wouldnt be allowed back without their medical card up to date - as per kids school stories at the time! And I'm pretty sure I had to have my vaccs for school, there was a slight oddity over my MMR (born when there was the first big squiff over it, damn you very much Wakefield, so got them seperately).

There is a special place in hell for Andrew Wakefield though. A particularly hot bit.

VinLieger

Jesus she really is showing her true colours since not getting the nomination, as others have said her anti-vax garbage is off the charts in the last few days, disgusting stuff to read really.

Idbatterim

She’d be far better off running for election in the Dail ...

FreudianSlippers

Gemma upping her anti-vaxx nonsense after not getting the nomination feels like nothing more than an agreed ploy to distract from Ní Riada's anti-vaxx past. Why else turn it up to 11 so abruptly?

Subcomandante Marcos

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Gemma upping her anti-vaxx nonsense after not getting the nomination feels like nothing more than an agreed ploy to distract from Ní Riada's anti-vaxx past. Why else turn it up to 11 so abruptly?

It would seem you're joining Gemma and the tinfoil hat brigade there. Maybe too much time on twitter?

FreudianSlippers

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

It would seem you're joining Gemma and the tinfoil hat brigade there. Maybe too much time on twitter?

Anti-vaxxers gotta stick together.

Commanchie

No she offers nothing to the position and shes so devisive the country would be up in a heap within a year.

super_furry

I give it a few months before she's working with Info Wars as their Irish correspondent.

For Forks Sake

super_furry wrote: »

I give it a few months before she's working with Info Wars as their Irish correspondent.

She seems to be attempting to carve a niche as some sort of poundshop Katie Hopkins

B0jangles

super_furry wrote: »

I give it a few months before she's working with Info Wars as their Irish correspondent.

Info...wars?

Edgware

Imagine her with her finger on the button

Subcomandante Marcos

Edgware wrote: »

Imagine her with her finger on the button

What button? The button to call her personal assistant? That's about the height of the powers of the office.

FreudianSlippers

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

What button? The button to call her personal assistant? That's about the height of the powers of the office.

I could see her doing silly things like putting legislation she personally disagrees with to ordinary referenda, which is a pretty bad idea.

Subcomandante Marcos

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

I could see her doing silly things like putting legislation she personally disagrees with to ordinary referenda, which is a pretty bad idea.

She couldn't though, she could only refer it to the supreme court, who would just tell her to feck off. After that if she refuses to sign within 7 days she's removed from her post. She'd either cop on or be replaced within 6 months.

FreudianSlippers

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

She couldn't though, she could only refer it to the supreme court, who would just tell her to feck off. After that if she refuses to sign within 7 days she's removed from her post. She'd either cop on or be replaced within 6 months.

Forgot about the petition requirement!

Subcomandante Marcos

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Forgot about the petition requirement!

If someone managed to get 1/3rd of TD's or a majority of senators to agree to a petition more than once in their 7 year term I'd be surprised, but every time they don't like a bill is way beyond the realms of probability.

Either way, thank feck the fruitcake didn't get enough nominations and we don't have to worry about it and won't have another (presidential) election before the summer.

BarryD2

Agreed, she's a bit odd but would have been a more authentic candidate than the Casey chap, driving his balls up in Donegal. How he got nominated needs some explaining I would think.

VinLieger

BarryD2 wrote: »

Agreed, she's a bit odd but would have been a more authentic candidate than the Casey chap, driving his balls up in Donegal. How he got nominated needs some explaining I would think.

Casey is an idiot, O Doherty is off her rocker, simply look at her twitter feed since she didnt get the nomination to understand the levels of crazy she was trying to hide from us all while campaigning

prawnsambo

BarryD2 wrote: »

Agreed, she's a bit odd but would have been a more authentic candidate than the Casey chap, driving his balls up in Donegal. How he got nominated needs some explaining I would think.

I'm not sure we need authentically nuts in the Áras. Or even on the campaign trail. It's all very well allowing freedom of speech, but giving a platform to people who's views are not just nuts, but objectively dangerous would be a huge mistake.

marieholmfan

VinLieger wrote: »

Casey is an idiot, O Doherty is off her rocker, simply look at her twitter feed since she didnt get the nomination to understand the levels of crazy she was trying to hide from us all while campaigning

I would have loved it if the Presdidential visit to Sligo County Council (for example) had ended in an tUachtaran na hEireann exposing their corruption and dishonesty and perhaps with the Gardai arresting half the council.

I might have liked it a bit less at the Irish Cancer Society or the Lauralynn hospice though.

Is Uachtaran the feminine of Uachataran?

VinLieger

marieholmfan wrote: »

I would have loved it if the Presdidential visit to Sligo County Council (for example) had ended in an tUachtaran na hEireann exposing their corruption and dishonesty and perhaps with the Gardai arresting half the council.

I might have liked it a bit less at the Irish Cancer Society or the Lauralynn hospice though.

Is Uachtaran the feminine of Uachataran?

You like gemma dont understand the role of president

mcmoustache

super_furry wrote: »

I give it a few months before she's working with Info Wars as their Irish correspondent.

While you might be joking, I could actually see this happening.

hill16bhoy

mcmoustache wrote: »

While you might be joking, I could actually see this happening.

I suspect something like this has been her aim all along.

There's a pretty lucrative market for conspiracist crackpots out there.

The key is that they must be loud, appear utterly certain in what they say, and constantly feign victimhood, by claiming that people are trying to "silence" them.

Create a cult, in other words. The exact same tactics as evangelical preachers.

O'Doherty fits the bill as regards all three and probably figures that if the likes of Paul Joseph Watson can get rich by peddling this type of trash, so can she.

Whether there's enough of a market to sustain her in Ireland is another thing. One hopes not.

marieholmfan

hill16bhoy wrote: »

The key is that they must be loud, appear utterly certain in what they say, and constantly feign victimhood, by claiming that people are trying to "silence" them.

Which is exactly what happened in her case according to the Times , Telegraph and Guardian. She doorstepped the Garda Commissioner shortly before he resigned in disgrace and got fired. That isn't feigning victimhood or pretending to be silenced. She was victimised and silenced. To say otherwise is to be willingly complicit in corruption.

VinLieger

marieholmfan wrote: »

To say otherwise is to be willingly complicit in corruption.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Robert McGrath

The thing is, the further down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole she goes, the more she undermines anything she’s said or done in the past

Nekarsulm

I hope she is pressing forwards with the investigation into those Limerick suicides (which were really murders).