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Sean Gallagher awarded damages - ''tweetgate''

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    #32
    James 007
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭James 007


    lertsnim wrote: »
    It was glorious television. Great to see him squirm.
    Yah i taught the same, he seemed to have a chip on his shoulder at all times, saw him speak at one of those seminars in the RDS when he was a dragon, a guy that seemed to love himself too much. Cant hold a cavan man down when he smells the money.


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    #33
    [Deleted User]
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    monnies wrote: »
    how do we know this wasn't planed by kenny and gallagher,
    they are probaly diyying up the money now and laughing at us

    Oh they probably are alright. You really convinced me with all the evidence that you have put forward to support your fraudulent claim theory.


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    #34
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh they probably are alright. You really convinced me with all the evidence that you have put forward to support your fraudulent claim theory.

    Who needs facts and evidence when you have conjecture and slander?


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    #35
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Hopefully now he'll have enough money to stop his Sunday Independent 'column' where he meets business people,

    (usually some useless sh1te)

    and is there grinning moronically with the business owner.

    I don't think it was a conspiracy by the Establishment OP to keep him from winning the presidential election.


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    #36
    BinLiner2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭BinLiner2


    Is it true he's being lined up to play Kojak in a movie?


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    #37
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,557 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    BinLiner2 wrote: »
    Is it true he's being lined up to play Kojak in a movie?
    No. They couldn't get big enough lollipops.


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    #38
    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭gifted


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I knew students of his who said he was lovely...but certainly were less than enamoured with him as a lecturer.

    Anyway, you assert he was an excellent lecturer and politician. Could you point to his achievements as a public representative so we can judge this excellence and see was he worth the amount he was paid decade after decade after decade...

    Why are you personalising it? You knew some students who weren't impressed with his lecturing?...that's a cheap shot at someone's credibility....

    Regardless of what he did or did not do as a politician there is no reason to attack his professional ability especially when you weren't a student of his.


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    #39
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,730 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    People who think what happened was good due to the outcome are supporting the national broadcaster putting lies about people into the public sphere.
    They did it to a priest and only admitted they lied when on the doorsteps of the court...

    People who were voting for Sean Gallagher and who then changed who they would vote for based on that tweet were very gullible and it showed how easy it is to brainwash people into believing something, 'it is RTE it must be true...'

    RTE doesn't give unbiased information, they are like the people who call themselves influencers.


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    #40
    [Deleted User]
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    gifted wrote: »
    Why are you personalising it? You knew some students who weren't impressed with his lecturing?...that's a cheap shot at someone's credibility....

    Regardless of what he did or did not do as a politician there is no reason to attack his professional ability especially when you weren't a student of his.

    I was responding to a post that referred to Higgins excellent service on behalf of the State, and contrasted it with Gallagher, whose credibility he questioned.

    The other poster injected the personal into it. If you don't like that line, take it up with him, I merely responded.


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    #41
    dav3
    Registered Users Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭dav3


    Poor Sean. Although I'm sure he's done alright for himself since with all his Fianna Fail contacts that he amassed over the years.

    The country dodged a bullet by not having him as president.


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    #42
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,730 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    dav3 wrote: »
    Poor Sean. Although I'm sure he's done alright for himself since with all his Fianna Fail contacts that he amassed over the years.

    The country dodged a bullet by not having him as president.

    We just got an idiot instead who signs the book of condolences for Fidel Castro. I have chatted with Cubans and they think our president is deluded when our president talked about "Fidel Castro will be remembered as a giant among global leaders whose view was not only one of freedom for his people but for all of the oppressed and excluded peoples of the planet".

    I asked a Cuban who is heading back to Cuba for Christmas if the health system is as good as we are told, he said it is good for the people with money, but if you are poor it is very bad, and it is nothing for Cuba to be prod about.

    We have our president who was elected on lies that helped him, telling lies as president as people in Cuba do not what we would regard as freedom.

    Our current president is a disgrace.


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    #43
    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,858 ✭✭✭gifted


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I was responding to a post that referred to Higgins excellent service on behalf of the State, and contrasted it with Gallagher, whose credibility he questioned.

    The other poster injected the personal into it. If you don't like that line, take it up with him, I merely responded.

    You merely got a cheap shot in....


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    #44
    dav3
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    RobertKK wrote: »

    ...Our current president is a disgrace.

    Well we certainly don't want to be upsetting the fake Cubans.


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    #45
    meeeeh
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    A pot plant can be a president and it won't make a difference.

    However state body falsley discrediting someone in an election is usually more common in some totalitarian countries. I don't think it was intentional but it's nothing to be proud or happy about. In fact I think heads should roll.


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    #46
    RobertKK
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    dav3 wrote: »
    Well we certainly don't want to be upsetting the fake Cubans.

    You should not imply I am telling lies, I know a Cuban quite well who lives in Florida.


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    #47
    BinLiner2
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    RobertKK wrote: »
    You should not imply I am telling lies, I know a Cuban quite well who lives in Florida.

    That a very small sample size has to be said


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    #48
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,730 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    BinLiner2 wrote: »
    That a very small sample size has to be said

    Yet more experience of living in a Cuba that our current President says has freedom thanks to Fidel Castro...the evidence is with all the Cubans who fled the country for political reasons.


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    #49
    Bobeagleburger
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    The tweet keeping Gallagher out was the best thing about the whole campaign.

    Absolute spoofer.


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    #50
    BinLiner2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭BinLiner2


    RoboKlopp wrote: »
    The tweet keeping Gallagher out was the best thing about the whole campaign.

    Absolute spoofer.

    Htf did a bluffer like him ever become a candidate?


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    #51
    jojofizzio
    Registered Users Posts: 5,915 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    BinLiner2 wrote: »
    Htf did a bluffer like him ever become a candidate?

    I refer the right honorable gentleman to the incumbent of the post in the US of A:D:D:D


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    #52
    BinLiner2
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    Has he said what he's doing with the money?


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    #53
    c_man
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    dav3 wrote: »
    Poor Sean. Although I'm sure he's done alright for himself since with all his Fianna Fail contacts that he amassed over the years.

    The country dodged a bullet by not having him as president.

    Do you really think anything of substance would be different if it were the case?


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    #54
    quintana76
    Registered Users Posts: 751 ✭✭✭quintana76


    meeeeh wrote: »
    A pot plant can be a president and it won't make a difference.

    However state body falsley discrediting someone in an election is usually more common in some totalitarian countries. I don't think it was intentional but it's nothing to be proud or happy about. In fact I think heads should roll.

    So you think that It was only just a coincidence that RTE's prefered candidate benefited and subsequently won the election.


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    #55
    baylah17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭baylah17


    Interesting to see that Gallaghers Senior Counsel was none other than Jim O'Callaghan.
    Yes thats right Miriam's brother, TD and FF spokesperson for Justice.
    The settlement brought an end to protracted proceedings initiated by Mr Gallagher in 2013. At a scheduled pre-trial hearing yesterday, Mr Justice David Keane was told by Jim O'Callaghan SC, for Mr Gallagher, that the matter had been resolved.
    https://www.lawlibrary.ie/members/James-O'Callaghan/868.aspx


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    #56
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    What exactly was so bad about him?

    At the time I thought somone like him might have been good for the role. Youngish man who had been succesful outside of the world of politics. Recently married and about to start a family. I felt that would have given off a good image and revitalized the office to some extent.


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    #57
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    baylah17 wrote: »
    Interesting to see that Gallaghers Senior Counsel was none other than Jim O'Callaghan.

    He specialises in defamation. A quick search on Google says he acted in Rosanna Davison's defamation case, in Dana's case, Thomas Byrne, Tulisa, Denis O'Brien and so on and on.


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    #58
    meeeeh
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    quintana76 wrote: »
    So you think that It was only just a coincidence that RTE's prefered candidate benefited and subsequently won the election.

    I don't think Rte got someone to tweet this to discredit Sean Gallagher. However for whatever reason their handling of the issue afterwards was extremely poor and possibly prejudiced. I don't think they set out to discredit Sean Gallagher but they didn't do anything to correct the information either.

    I wouldn't vote for Gallagher or Higgins (I can't vote) but that kind of interference in election results makes me very uncomfortable. National broadcaster is supposed to be independent.


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    #59
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    That whole election was amazing craic altogether.

    From Dana reckoning that there was an assassination plot against her when her tires blew out, to Gallaghers implosion on live TV, to absolutely everything about and every cringe-worthy utterance from Gay Mitchell's campaign, Irish politics hadn't been that entertaining in years.

    Thankfully, I believe the right man won - Michael D has done an excellent job as president and I hope he goes for re-election (although I will be sad if that means the above political circus won't come to town again).


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    #60
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    meeeeh wrote: »
    A pot plant can be a president and it won't make a difference.

    However state body falsley discrediting someone in an election is usually more common in some totalitarian countries. I don't think it was intentional but it's nothing to be proud or happy about. In fact I think heads should roll.
    Sean Gallagher was the least idiotic on that stage or morally disgraceful. When you have a terrorist debating your ethics as Sean had towards him then you have to call into question the legitimacy of the debate to begin with.


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    #61
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    What exactly was so bad about him?

    At the time I thought somone like him might have been good for the role. Youngish man who had been succesful outside of the world of politics. Recently married and about to start a family. I felt that  would have given off a good image and revitalized the office to some extent.
    Nothing whatsoever was wrong with him. At least he had an opinion and experience in business. Has Higgins got an opinion on anything? Ireland elected the most boring person in Ireland to be it's President who doesn't seem to say anything.


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