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After Hours Presidential Election Poll

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  • #752
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    "The essence of racism is to tar everyone with the same brush"

    No, no it's not.


  • #753
    wonga77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,619 ✭✭✭wonga77


    MDH struggling


  • #754
    q85dw7osi4lebg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭q85dw7osi4lebg


    LNR came across terribly


  • #755
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    McCullagh is acting disgracefully here. Desperate.


  • #756
    BoneIdol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭BoneIdol


    Haha. Casey is some fool.


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  • #757
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    The truth that they refuse to acknowledge that Traveller's cause 90% of their own problems.

    Our schools would happily teach them if they encouraged attendance and commitment to education. Our employers would happily employ them if they'd do an honest days work for an honest days pay.

    But many, many Traveller's won't do either of those things because that'd remove them from their gravy train.


  • #758
    Conservative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    Noveight wrote: »
    The truth that they refuse to acknowledge that Traveller's cause 90% of their own problems.

    Our schools would happily teach them if they encouraged attendance and commitment to education. Our employers would happily employ them if they'd do an honest days work for an honest days pay.

    But Traveller's won't do either of those things because that'd remove them from their gravy train.

    Boom. Very well said.


  • #759
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Zubeneschamali wrote: »
    There are loads of things that would poll well which no political party will touch with a bargepole.

    The death penalty.
    Three strikes.
    Corporal punishment.
    Spike island/internment for repeat offenders/druggies/thugs/travellers.
    Anti-asylum seeker policies.

    Casey has just blundered across one or two of these, anti-traveller and anti-dole scrounger sentiment. No government is going near these ideas.

    Spike island is now a really lovely tourist attraction making lots of money. No way is that being turned back into a prison. I highly recommend anyone who has never been to give it a look. It is amazing.


  • #760
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    This is a very weak field with very poor candidates. Micky D has my vote again.

    I'd spoil my vote but I hate Sean G enough to not waste it. :)


  • #761
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    This is a very weak field with very poor candidates. Micky D has my vote again.

    Was thinking the same. McCullagh is also quite a poor host.


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  • #762
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,426 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Noveight wrote: »
    The truth that they refuse to acknowledge that Traveller's cause 90% of their own problems.

    Our schools would happily teach them if they encouraged attendance and commitment to education. Our employers would happily employ them if they'd do an honest days work for an honest days pay.

    But many, many Traveller's won't do either of those things because that'd remove them from their gravy train.

    They have been participating much more in education in recent times.

    Educational attainment among Travellers has risen strongly in the past 17 years, but it is still far lower than that of the general population, according to figures contained in a survey published today.

    A national survey of Travellers has found that 16% now complete their Leaving Certificate, compared to just 2% in the year 2000.

    It found that 40% of Travellers have completed their Junior Certificate or an equivalent, compared to just 9% 17 years     ago.


  • #763
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    LNR is showing herself up and her defective "socialists" beliefs with her "lining your own pocket" remarks.


  • #764
    Conservative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    Is Michael D gone home??


  • #765
    BoneIdol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭BoneIdol


    Conservative wrote: »
    Is Michael D gone home??

    He's proving he's smarter than the rest of these eejits and keeping quiet.


  • #766
    Atoms for Peace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,887 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    Drinking vegan craft whiskey no doudt.


  • #767
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 12,784 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Going to spoil my vote on this one, for the first time ever; it's something I've been very hesitant to do in the past.


  • #768
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    When you see them all lined up you'd realise that we've six of the most uninspiring, two-dimensional candidates.


  • #769
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Noveight wrote: »
    When you see them all lined up you'd realise that we've six of the most uninspiring, two-dimensional candidates.

    Michael D is almost 1D


  • #770
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,159 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Ooooh burn. Sean is an embarrassment. Fcukin gobsh1te


  • #771
    wonga77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,619 ✭✭✭wonga77


    This has gone miles off track.
    McCullough doing a poor job


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  • #772
    ouxbbkqtswdfaw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭ouxbbkqtswdfaw


    Why would you bother voting?


  • #773
    Conservative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    BoneIdol wrote: »
    Conservative wrote: »
    Is Michael D gone home??

    He's proving he's smarter than the rest of these eejits and keeping quiet.

    Agree actually. The bickering amongst one another is just amateur and a waste of time.

    He comes across terribly when he speaks though. He agreed to a "schedule". What??


  • #774
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,426 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Going to spoil my vote on this one, for the first time ever; it's something I've been very hesitant to do in the past.

    Why go to the bother? Just stay at home.


  • #775
    gilly1910
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 248 ✭✭gilly1910


    Fair play to Peter Casey, he's got my vote!!


  • #776
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,019 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    hunter164 wrote: »
    Michael D is living a lie up in that Aras and he stands there in that debate saying he never hides anything from the public. How about the fact that his helper is his lover. I’d respect the man more if he came out and admitted. That and the fact he has the personality of a wooden door.

    I'd respect you if you had any proof of that wild accusation. But you don't so I don't


  • #777
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,954 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    1. gilly1910 wrote: »
      Fair play to Peter Casey, he's got my vote!!
    Are you his missus that he's going to appoint to his Council of State?


    That's going to hurt him.


  • #778
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,765 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    hunter164 wrote: »
    Michael D is living a lie up in that Aras and he stands there in that debate saying he never hides anything from the public. How about the fact that his helper is his lover. I’d respect the man more if he came out and admitted. That and the fact he has the personality of a wooden door.

    Whats that about his helper?


  • #779
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,462 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    I wonder how long the government jet was tied up on this trip ...

    http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2017/10/26/president-higgins-visits-ancestral-homeplace/


  • #780
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,037 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    hunter164 wrote: »
    Michael D is living a lie up in that Aras and he stands there in that debate saying he never hides anything from the public. How about the fact that his helper is his lover. I’d respect the man more if he came out and admitted. That and the fact he has the personality of a wooden door.

    MDH's private life is his own when it doesn't impinge on the office. As was Mary McAleese's, Dev's etc etc.


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  • #781
    maxwell smart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,941 ✭✭✭maxwell smart


    elperello wrote: »
    Whats that about his helper?

    Male or female helper? The Sun is on standby!


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