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Fidelma Healy Eames is at it again, no joke

pure.conya

FHE is contesting the upcoming Euro elections pmsl

I really dont know what to say, other than she's like a moth to a flame that wan

https://galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-fm-news-desk/former-senator-fidelma-healy-eames-to-contest-upcoming-european-elections/

Former Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has announced her intention to run in upcoming European elections for this region.
Oranmore-based Dr. Healy Eames, originally from Moylough, served as a Senator between 2007 and 2016, but failed to secure a seat in the Dáil on several occassions.
She signaled her retirement from politics in early 2016, when she announced she would not contest that years Seanad elections.

She’s now announced her intention to return to politics – by contesting the Midlands-North/West constituency in upcoming European elections.

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bobbyss

Did she actually attend that Connecticut university? She was, according to Wikipedia, a college lecturer but it doesn't say where.

biko

Maybe we can talk about her politics?

Dr. Healy Eames says development in Ireland is Dublin-centered by Government design and far better regional development, with increased EU support, is needed.
She believes a ‘rural direct investment’ policy can be enabled in the same way as Ireland’s hugely successful foreign direct investment policy.

What track record does she have for caring about local politics?

bobbyss

She's a candidate in the Euro elections. It's good to be as fully informed about candidates as possible before casting your vote.

afkasurfjunkie

bobbyss wrote: »

Did she actually attend that Connecticut university? She was, according to Wikipedia, a college lecturer but it doesn't say where.

She was a lecturer in Mary Immaculate College back in the early noughties.

Lockstep

Alfonso Aggressive Yodeler wrote: »

It's not an honorary doctorate though, is it?
It looks like she had an actual PhD.

That said I can't find it online. Her Masters dissertation is here for anybody that wants a read.

She has an actual PhD. I remember looking it up in NUIG' database one day when she was in the news for some scandal or another.
It's in something primary education related. If I remember rightly, it's something to do with teaching writing to children.

My favourite memory of her was her election leaflets from 2011. One of her listed achievements was that she "uses her phone....A LOT" and that she was one of Vodafone's biggest texters of the year or something.

Bredabe

Lockstep wrote: »

She has an actual PhD. I remember looking it up in NUIG's database one day when she was in the news for some scandal or another.
It's primary education related. If I remember rightly, it's something to do with teaching writing to children.
Edit: here it is

My favourite memory of her was her election leaflets from 2011. One of her listed achievements was that she "uses her phone....A LOT" and that she was one of Vodafone's biggest texters of the year or something.

People would hope that someone with a background in teaching would understand the problems students with SLD face in education. Sadly, I have not seen this in Ms HE.

spurshero

Can’t understand why she’s running . Be amazed if she gets more then 2 percent first preference vote

Bredabe

spurshero wrote: »

Can’t understand why she’s running . Be amazed if she gets more then 2 percent first preference vote

I think its a hobby with her, but I think this time is part of a campaign to undermine recent social advances.

Squatter

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Should there be a ban on all politicians with Healy in their name?

Good suggestion, but a bit too wide ranging!

I'd refine the ban to cover any politician with a double-barrelled surname that includes the word "Healy".

thesandeman

Squatter wrote: »

Good suggestion, but a bit too wide ranging!

I'd refine the ban to cover any politician with a double-barrelled surname that includes the word "Healy".

In fairness, at least the other ones look after their constituents (and they get elected).

Squatter

thesandeman wrote: »

In fairness, at least the other ones look after their constituents (and they get elected).

On the other hand, if every TD was like the Kerry gobdaws, then Ireland would be in a right mess.

irishgrover

I don't know, call me old fashioned.... But if a politician, and even worse a teacher, likes a post comparing a child with autism to a Nazi, then she is crossing the line from being a harmless but entertaining gob****e to a teacher who's fitness for teaching should be reviewed.... Possibly some training on Nazi's, autism or environmental issues is in order.... She appears to be increasingly malignant

ChewyLouie

irishgrover wrote: »

But if a politician, and even worse a teacher, likes a post comparing a child with autism to a Nazi...

What's the reference to autism in that post screenshot? (genuinely not familiar with the context)

El Tarangu

irishgrover wrote: »

I don't know, call me old fashioned.... But if a politician, and even worse a teacher, likes a post comparing a child with autism to a Nazi...

Jesus wept...

(thanks for that, this is the first I had heard of it)

i71jskz5xu42pb

ChewyLouie wrote: »

What's the reference to autism in that post screenshot? (genuinely not familiar with the context)

The child on the right is Greta Thunberg an environmental activist who has Asperger's

TCM

irishgrover wrote:

It's had to know what my favourite things about this woman are... she just keeps on giving... if I had to have a top 5 (in no particular order), Wiffy might not even get on the list..

irishgrover wrote:

5. Getting her car seized for non payment of motor tax (her excuse - she take public transport) 4. Getting done, less than 2 weeks later for not paying for her train ticket on Public Transport. (oh the ****ing irony) 3. Claiming same sex marraige would cause the end of Mothers day (and using a anti-semitic UFO believer as her source) 2. A local builder having to take them (her and husband) to court to get paid for the work he did on their house. 1. Not understanding what fraping actually means and talking about "where youâ€™re raped on Facebook" in the Oireachtas

So she's well qualified for the job then!

ChewyLouie

Alfonso Aggressive Yodeler wrote: »

The child on the right is Greta Thunberg an environmental activist who has Asperger's

So is the post comparing nazi propaganda to a publicity approach taken in an environmental campaign? So the "political construct" is presumably climate change?

I don't see the relevance to her having Asperger's syndrome?

Also - is FHE a climate change denier? Wouldn't surprise me!

[Deleted User]

It's probably my own fault for looking her up but now I am getting targeted ads for Dr. Fidelma Healy Eames, some local Renua candidate and the pro life campaign.

?Cee?view

Zaph wrote: »

What's the point in NUI going to the trouble of giving you an honorary doctorate if you're not going to use the title? Of course she's in good company with those other highly qualified doctors, Dr. Tony O'Reilly and Dr. Ian Paisley.

Tony O'Reilly earned his PhD. He later got some honorary ones tough.

[Deleted User]

According to a poll in the Irish Times this morning she is on 1%.

Deleted User wrote: »

According to a poll in the Irish Times this morning she is on 1%.

It was always going to be like that.
It really begs the questions why she is running at all.

Most likely to keep her name in the public arena to prepare for the next Dáil election (which she won't win, either!).

TerrorFirmer

She was eliminated on the first count or two in the last GE as well as an independent, her vote was poor and only a fraction of what she got in 2011....but that was really a party vote, to be fair. I can't really understand the motive behind running for Europe at all. The cost and effort of it against every odd.

Bunny Colvin

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

She was eliminated on the first count or two in the last GE as well as an independent, her vote was poor and only a fraction of what she got in 2011....but that was really a party vote, to be fair. I can't really understand the motive behind running for Europe at all. The cost and effort of it against every odd.

She seems the type to just plough ahead without much thought or consideration. Stubbornness along with some entitlement will lead to that kind of behaviour.

Harry Palmr

Is she in fact a Charlie Brooker style creation?

GrumpyMe

Deleted User wrote: »

According to a poll in the Irish Times this morning she is on 1%.

Didn't even know she rode a motorcycle!

ronnie3585

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Is she in fact a Charlie Brooker style creation?

She’s more Armando Iannucci.

Muahahaha

aw wrote: »

It was always going to be like that.
It really begs the questions why she is running at all.

Most likely to keep her name in the public arena to prepare for the next Dáil election (which she won't win, either!).

Id say she is running because she was quite vocal against repealing the 8th and she saw the 37% of people who voted against it and she reckoned she could pick up some of that vote. Doesnt seem to be working for her though.

It is either that or she is completely deluded. I wouldn't rule that out either, she definitely has a smack of believing her own sh1te.

Anyway if she does finish on 1% hopefully that will be the last we see of her.

GrumpyMe

Muahahaha wrote: »

...or she is completely deluded. I wouldn't rule that out...

Nail on the head there!

Muahahaha wrote: »

...hopefully that will be the last we see of her...

I sincerely doubt that!

fergiesfolly

There was a canvasser outside mass last Sunday morning, that had her pamphlet tucked under a Renua candidates pamphlet. Literally hidden from view. Not one taker.
Spoke to people in Oranmore yesterday. She's outstayed her welcome there too.
She's lost any support she's ever had.
I can't see her coming back for more, once this election is over.

deisemum

It says it all about her when some of those who have canvassed for her in the past have nothing good to say about her, quite the opposite.