The Curious Case of Violet-Anne Wynne

nthclare

Im a Clare native and only heard about her in the last few weeks.

limnam

Deleted User wrote: »

What’s really embarrassing is that the people who voted for them didn’t do their own research.

Not really.

How much research does the average voter do?

We're talking about a country where more thought goes into booking a holiday than taking out a mortgage.

If you want SF in you're going to vote the party regardless.

Maybe they did so some research and didn't think it was much of a big deal compared to some of the corruption that goes on anyway.

anewme

I do believe the people who voted SF because they wanted "change' would have a problem with this woman.

I also believe they would have a problem with the Tiocfaidh ar la crowd.

And the Holohon idiot in Tallaght.

If there is another GE, their support might not continue.

JCX BXC

Seemingly the locals from West Clare didn't really vote for her, it was all the east Clare vote that got her in.

The charity that helped and accommodated her was brilliant, I knew who ran it, she really broke their hearts. Shameful.

Never a fan of Sinn Féin, but when you get local candidates like that elected it would really make your blood boil.

dxhound2005

JCX BXC wrote: »

Seemingly the locals from West Clare didn't really vote for her, it was all the east Clare vote that got her in.

The charity that helped and accommodated her was brilliant, I knew who ran it, she really broke their hearts. Shameful.

Never a fan of Sinn Féin, but when you get local candidates like that elected it would really make your blood boil.

But what about FF and FG and all the bad things they did???

anewme

JCX BXC wrote: »

The charity that helped and accommodated her was brilliant, I knew who ran it, she really broke their hearts. Shameful.

Genuinely very sorry to read that. I hope they are ok.

Hate to see genuine good people exploited.

She is taking from a genuinely needy family.

limnam

I guess north clare didn't have great options

Timmy Dooley

A senior Fianna Fáil TD ‘voted’ in the Dáil six times in one day despite not being present in the chamber. Timmy Dooley is recorded as having taken part in a string of votes on Thursday – but video recordings show he was not in his Dáil seat at the time.

Paul Daniels. It's magic.

cj maxx

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Has her twitter handle always been private?

@violetwynne

Pending

dxhound2005

limnam wrote: »

I guess north clare didn't have great options

Timmy Dooley

A senior Fianna Fáil TD ‘voted’ in the Dáil six times in one day despite not being present in the chamber. Timmy Dooley is recorded as having taken part in a string of votes on Thursday – but video recordings show he was not in his Dáil seat at the time.

Paul Daniels. It's magic.

It obviously goes to show that decent people willing to stand for SF are very thin on the ground. If there is another election, what sort of people are we going to get when they need to put up 80 for election? This one in Clare is far from the only dodgy character in their ranks.

limnam

dxhound2005 wrote: »

It obviously goes to show that decent people willing to stand for SF are very thin on the ground. If there is another election, what sort of people are we going to get when they need to put up 80 for election? This one in Clare is far from the only dodgy character in their ranks.

With the likes of Tim Dooley pulling of magic tricks in the dial fooling the people of clare. SF may not be the only ones.

anewme

limnam wrote: »

I guess north clare didn't have great options

Timmy Dooley

A senior Fianna Fáil TD ‘voted’ in the Dáil six times in one day despite not being present in the chamber. Timmy Dooley is recorded as having taken part in a string of votes on Thursday – but video recordings show he was not in his Dáil seat at the time.

Paul Daniels. It's magic.

Oh I had experience of that Dooley guy before (and before the voting thing) he is really dreadful.

Bill 2.0

Nice to see SF supporters bringing the "them 'uns did stuff wrong so you can't critise us!" attitude down from the North.

limnam

Bill 2.0 wrote: »

Nice to see SF supporters bringing the "them 'uns did stuff wrong so you can't critise us!" attitude down from the North.

1. Not a SF supporter.

2. I'd love you to critique SF on something worthwhile.

I actually can't wait for a real discussion around an important topic.

Not to hear about people in pubs, lads wearing irish flags etc

I won't hold my breath

dxhound2005

limnam wrote: »

1. Not a SF supporter.

2. I'd love you to critique SF on something worthwhile.

I actually can't wait for a real discussion around an important topic.

Not to hear about people in pubs, lads wearing irish flags etc

I won't hold my breath

Bringing it back to the subject of the thread, what are Violet-Anne's policies on the important topic of the housing crisis?

James Brown

Calhoun wrote: »

ah good old whataboutery, anyone can do what they like when they like and nobody is responsible for their actions as we always have someone who has done something worse.

Maybe stick to her and leave the husband out of it? Other comments here on him would bring buckets of faux outrage were it the partner of a FG or FF politician. The point is this is a spring board for SF bashing which is cool, but let's not fool ourselves and play the high morals while taking the piss out of her husband.

Nijmegen

They’re clearly cleansing the twitter account and gone private beforehand. Hopefully someone was good enough to pull down her tweets before they went, one wonders what other gems she’s trying to hide.

sligojoek

limnam wrote: »

I don't know if she could afford it.

Not sure if you have kids or not. But I couldn't raise 5 kids on what the states provide nor will I try to assume it.

The good news is now she has the money to pay the arrears she's going to clear it.

Pitty FF/FG can't undo some of theirs.

And where's that coming from?

You guessed it.. Johnny taxpayer. Nice "work" if you can get it.

If there's an election in 6 wks and she's not returned, will she still be as willing to pay it off?

limnam

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Bringing it back to the subject of the thread, what are Violet-Anne's policies on the important topic of the housing crisis?

No idea,

Send her an email.

But going back to the options they had in north clare

Martin Conway FG. Missed more than half of Oireachtas committee meetings. Biggest housing crisis and this guy doesn't turn up for half of them.

With the caliber of TD in Clare is it any surprise she got in?

Two lads pulling down huge wages and don't turn up to work.

limnam

sligojoek wrote: »

And where's that coming from?

You guessed it.. Johnny taxpayer. Nice "work" if you can get it.

If there's an election in 6 wks and she's not returned, will she still be as willing to pay it off?

huh

She is a tax payer?

UDAWINNER

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dxhound2005

limnam wrote: »

No idea,

Send her an email.

But going back to the options they had in north clare

Martin Conway FG. Missed more than half of Oireachtas committee meetings. Biggest housing crisis and this guy doesn't turn up for half of them.

With the caliber of TD in Clare is it any surprise she got in?

Two lads pulling down huge wages and don't turn up to work.

Were Sinn Fein doing some sort of special offer to North Clare?

limnam

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Were Sinn Fein doing some sort of special offer to North Clare?

Maybe the people of clare did do their research after all

BarryD2

Rural Resettlement was a great initiative, pretty dire to see they were exploited by the likes of this citizen. Disgusting. Shame on her.

dxhound2005

limnam wrote: »

Maybe the people of clare did do their research after all

Probably just went for Change, like the people of Kildare who elected the SF woman who went on holidays during the campaign.

sligojoek

limnam wrote: »

huh

She is a tax payer?

Well I suppose she is, now.

I'll spell it out for you. If she pays back the debt it'll be coming from her TD salary which is coming from the exchequer.

limnam

BarryD2 wrote: »

Rural Resettlement was a great initiative

Wasn't it FG that pulled funding for the project?

pity Eoghan Murphy and the local councils seemed to give them the constant run around.

Jim who ran it has also seemed to been very critical of FG housing policy.

JCX BXC

If this is what "change" is, we're in for some trouble!

On a positive note, she pays her rent now!

limnam

sligojoek wrote: »

Well I suppose she is, now.

I'll spell it out for you. If she pays back the debt it'll be coming from her TD salary which is coming from the exchequer.

The public coffers are going to pay her 90k+ to do a job.

She can do whatever she wishes with the money.

If she uses her own money that she's going to be working for to pay off that arrears. I'm ok with that.

dxhound2005

limnam wrote: »

The public coffers are going to pay her 90k+ to do a job.

She can do whatever she wishes with the money.

If she uses her own money that she's going to be working for to pay off that arrears. I'm ok with that.

She can do whatever she wants after handing up half of it the her party.

limnam

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Probably just went for Change, like the people of Kildare who elected the SF woman who went on holidays during the campaign.

Forgot all about that.

Woman goes on holiday!

Man shouts in pub

Man wears Ireland jersey.

The country is fcked.

Sure didn't the whole government go on holidays as we were going bankrupt

limnam

dxhound2005 wrote: »

She can do whatever she wants after handing up half of it the her party.

Why is that a concern for you

dxhound2005

limnam wrote: »

Why is that a concern for you

It might mean she hasn't enough left over to pay back the housing charity.

limnam

dxhound2005 wrote: »

It might mean she hasn't enough left over to pay back the housing charity.

Sure we'll see

and we can all have a right go off her and slag her husband in Violet-Anne 2.0

dxhound2005

limnam wrote: »

Sure we'll see

and we can all have a right go off her and slag her husband in Violet-Anne 2.0

Are you going to send her an email to find out?

limnam

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Are you going to send her an email to find out?

No need.

Some raggy newspaper headline will be picked up by some numb skull who'll let us know.

dxhound2005

limnam wrote: »

No need.

Some raggy newspaper headline will be picked up by some numb skull who'll let us know.

Not if we get Change. That won't be allowed.

limnam

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Not if we get Change. That won't be allowed.

We'll get the headline regardless.

If she does or if she doesn't

Hamsterchops

It obviously doesn't matter about a SF candidates past misdemeanors, or beliefs, seeing as the 'Brand' is currently running in such a high, that even the proverberial wheeliebin would secure it's quota of votes, if it had a Sinn Fein sticker affixed.

I had previously googled the candidate in question for other reasons to do with her background and her very interesting name!

I suspect her whole family who have passed on will be turning in the graves, if they're the same family I strongly suspect them to be.

In relation to her forebares, by joining Sinn Fein she really has gone off on a political & ideological tangent. Curious what she does on poppy day in Church (CofI) when the rest of the congregation are wearing theirs, what woud she do as a Sinn Fein TD in the Dail?

Or maybe she turned her back of that tradition a long time ago?

Shefwedfan

The Sinn Fein vote is an anti government vote by the people, peeved with FF and FG. No other party was around so it they used SF.

It will be a car crash and the whole lot of these TD’s will be sent back to defrauding charities etc where they came from.
The only hope is before they are sent back they don’t make too big of a mess that nobody can clean up after them

dxhound2005

Hamsterchops wrote: »

It obviously doesn't matter about a SF candidates past misdemeanors, or beliefs, seeing as the 'Brand' is currently running in such a high, that even the proverberial wheeliebin would secure it's quota of votes, if it had a Sinn Fein sticker affixed.

I had previously googled the candidate in question for other reasons to do with her background and her very interesting name!

I suspect her whole family who have passed on will be turning in the graves, if they're the same family I strongly suspect them to be.

In relation to her forebares, by joining Sinn Fein she really has gone off on a political & ideological tangent. Curious what she does on poppy day in Church (CofI) when the rest of the congregation are wearing theirs, what will she do as a Sinn Fein TD in the Dail?
Or maybe she turned her back of that tradition a long time ago?

I don't know anything about her apart from reading that she went to Trinity. It didn't surprise me that her politics is of the Left in that case. Marxists and Trotskyites in the Dail are all the products of fee paying private education and a generally privileged background. It's an odd thing.

jon1981

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/sinn-f%C3%A9in-td-willing-to-pay-12-000-rent-arrears-to-charity-1.4175308

Donate from her own pocket or the shinner coffers?

A wet day as a TD already a controversy. I can't wait to see what the others are hiding, aside from the ones we already know about.

limnam

jon1981 wrote: »

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/sinn-f%C3%A9in-td-willing-to-pay-12-000-rent-arrears-to-charity-1.4175308

Donate from her own pocket or the shinner coffers?

A wet day as a TD already a controversy. I can't wait to see what the others are hiding, aside from the ones we already know about.

Good stuff

I wonder if we could manage to get TD's who swindles hundreds of thousands in expenses paid back.

blanch152

limnam wrote: »

Wasn't it FG that pulled funding for the project?

pity Eoghan Murphy and the local councils seemed to give them the constant run around.

Jim who ran it has also seemed to been very critical of FG housing policy.

They were meant to generate income from collecting rents..........but they didn’t count on people not paying.......so the Shinner didn’t pay, they went bust.......and it is all FG’s fault.

Have I got it right? It is hard to get the right element of cognitive dissonance into the post.

blanch152

limnam wrote: »

1. Not a SF supporter.

2. I'd love you to critique SF on something worthwhile.

I actually can't wait for a real discussion around an important topic.

Not to hear about people in pubs, lads wearing irish flags etc

I won't hold my breath

Francie has some competition in the race to be the most prolific defender of
Sinn Fein without being a supporter.

This woman with her 50k income from benefits puts all other politicians in the shade when it comes to working the system.

Ol' Donie

This is just insane.

This woman has been living on benefits with 5 kids for how many years, and she gets elected on a platform of demanding change?

If the intention was to make FG & even FF seem like a great bunch of stand up guys and gals you love to see running the country, congratulations, mission accomplished.

Shefwedfan

Ol' Donie wrote: »

This is just insane.

This woman has been living on benefits with 5 kids for how many years, and she gets elected on a platform of demanding change?

If the intention was to make FG & even FF seem like a great bunch of stand up guys and gals you love to see running the country, congratulations, mission accomplished.

You had the few SF supporters voting, the usual


Then the rest who just voted to piss off FF/FG. It would have been Labour/Green but they have been dragged into previous FF/FG governments so all that was left was SF


A huge majority had no idea who the candidate was, background or anything. Just voted SF....

Lockstep

First the anti vaxxer comments and now this.

It's really surprising how Sinn Féin supporters are still trying to defend this, always with Whataboutery.
They have some brilliant TDs like Doherty and now they have people like this. It's just embarrassing that they can't admit that someone like this should not be defended.

And I'm a leftist.

nthclare

God help the structure of Shannon Airport if someone who's that aloof to paying rent and defiantly doesn't pull her weight.

Shefwedfan

Lockstep wrote: »

First the anti vaxxer comments and now this.

It's really surprising how Sinn Féin supporters are still trying to defend this, always with Whataboutery.
They have some brilliant TDs like Doherty and now they have people like this. It's just embarrassing that they can't admit that someone like this should not be defended.

And I'm a leftist.

Doherty and Mary Lou etc are great politicians, problem is they are the exception in Sinn Fein....

limnam

blanch152 wrote: »

They were meant to generate income from collecting rents..........but they didn’t count on people not paying.......so the Shinner didn’t pay, they went bust.......and it is all FG’s fault.

Have I got it right? It is hard to get the right element of cognitive dissonance into the post.

If one person falling behind sent them into bankruptcy it probably wasn't a very solid plan.

Anyway FG pulled the funding from them and the chair was very critical of FG housing policies. said it was like pulling teeth dealing with them