Hurrache wrote: » It's odd isn't it. Firstly, why would that particular business man loan her money? Secondly, if he was a friend or had an interest in her becoming president, why charge an interest rate of 9%? 9% is around the APR of an unsecured business loan from a bank. Maybe she had exhausted, or didn't try, the avenue of bank loans or remortgages.
FreudianSlippers wrote: » As I said, it's likely he (possibly against the rules of the lending institution) extended a facility that he held to loan on that money. Hence the specific interest rate.
For Forks Sake wrote: » Do we know what other causes he donates loans to?
blackwhite wrote: » I’ve been very disappointed in Freeman. Given her good work woth Pieta House I was open to hearing what she had to say and give her a chance, but her inability to give straight answers around her personal beliefs, and about the various groups backing her has really put me off
Larbre34 wrote: » I'm concerned about contagion for Pieta House itself already.
realdanbreen wrote: » I never said people voted for him en masse and I never said anything about executive power. He said one term, now he's going again, therefore he lied or is there another word for it?
Pussyhands wrote: » Thank God we have Higgins in the race....imagine one of these fools winning it.
Sam Russell wrote: » One possible current role that could be used to provide a President would be a retired supreme court judge, preferably the Chief Justice. As for salary, if Michael D were to not run or was defeated he would be in line for a pension as ex-Pres, a pension as ex-Minister, and a pension as retired Senetor, and a Pension as retired TD. ll in all, he would get a rise in pay. Currently he returns his pensions. How much say does the President get a say in how the expense account is spent, or in how his itinerary is planned? Not a lot, I would think. He turns up early, and well scrubbed with speech in his pocket. What more could a President do?
seamus wrote: » Meh, who though really? We'd probably have Fergus Finlay make another stab at it. Ruairí Quinn, Eamonn Gilmore, Alan Shatter? Kenny? :D Our President is an odd role, it really is mostly suited to humanitarians, whose qualifications are politics or law. It requires a very broad-scoped personality, not someone with a gimmick. It's hard to imagine most people in the role.
eastwest wrote: » It's certainly hard to imagine any of the 'businessmen' who have emerged as making a good job of the role. No experience of anything but making money, really most unsuited to a job like this.
hotmail.com wrote: » As if saying touching a wall cured an illness wasn't enough, Joan Freeman's campaign is virtually over with news of these "loans" from wealthy businessmen.
marieholmfan wrote: » Joan Freeman would have been perfectly acceptable.
eastwest wrote: » It's certainly hard to imagine any of the 'businessmen' who have emerged as making a good job of the role. No experience of anything but making money
Nitrogan wrote: » I voted for Sean Gallagher last time as I thought we needed someone at that time who could project the real Ireland, the one willing to work and pay it's way in the world, in a more positive way than any of the alternatives, especially two old Communists like Martin McGuinness and Micheal D Higgins. I probably overestimated the role of the President in selling the country as a peaceful, stable, hard working, capitalist democracy. I don't think we need a candidate that can say the right things to business this time, if anything I think it would be counter-productive in the current global environment. I'm going to vote Joan Freeman. I don't know much about her but I'm sure Sinn Fein's political assassination squad will inform.
B0jangles wrote: » Isn't Sean Gallagher's most reliably profit-making skill his ability to qualify for government grants? Like, he didn't just use his knowledge of the system to get grants for himself, he sold on his intimate knowledge of how to get free goverment money to any sports clubs will to pay him?https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gallagher-charged-gaa-clubs-up-to-5000-for-grants-advice-26785504.html I'm not saying it's not a skill, but it's not exactly the 'self-made man, pulled himself up by his bootstraps' image he likes to project,.
Nitrogan wrote: » Sean Gallagher had his chance. Have to feel sorry for him in the way he was knee capped by Sinn Fein but that's politics. Do you know anything Joan Freeman?
eastwest wrote: » All I know about Joan freeman is that Knock cured her acne, she appointed God as her CEO, and she appears to have some kind of secret devotion to a right wing religious cult which may or may not have been the source of a huge dollar loan to fund her campaign. Seems OK to me.
Nitrogan wrote: » Uh oh.. :eek: Why are there no normal people in politics these days?
marieholmfan wrote: » Believing Knock cured your acne is neither here nor there.
Nitrogan wrote: » I'm going to vote Joan Freeman. I don't know much about her...
