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Peter Casey to contest the European elections

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  • #2042
    Nobelium
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭Nobelium


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    So it looks like Peter has fought three elections and lost three...is it time for him to fall on his sword?

    Why would he be carrying weapons ? He's not some provo terrorism/murder apologist.


  • #2043
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,382 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Three?


  • #2044
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,106 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Three?

    Yep...three. He tried for the Seanad too and got 14 of the 113 required votes.

    Anyone would think nobody wanted him. :)


  • #2045
    Yermande
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Yermande


    I'd like to see him contest the next local elections. That'd make it a full suite of Irish electoral failures. A Royal Flush.


  • #2046
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,382 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Forgot about the Seanad.

    But in his 2 other elections he got over 400,000 votes combined.

    Not that bad for a failure?


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  • #2047
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,106 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Forgot about the Seanad.

    But in his 2 other elections he got over 400,000 votes combined.

    Not that bad for a failure?

    Still a failure. No seat or position.


  • #2048
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,382 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    True.

    I think a councillor in the next local elections might be his level.


  • #2049
    Fan of Netflix
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭Fan of Netflix


    Green party deputy leader was on Prime Time tonight and was appalling. Disgusting arrogance and sneering at basic questions. They seem to relish taxing normal people. We aren't all D4 millionaires like her, Ryan and Cuffe.

    Put them in the spotlight and if the media stop fawning over them and them to account they will crumble, and people will be sick of them quickly.


  • #2050
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,798 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Yes talking down to Healy Rae - Did you not hear our leader speak, she said, as if Ryan is the second coming of Christ


  • #2051
    Nobelium
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    Fan of Netflix wrote: »
    Green party deputy leader was on Prime Time tonight and was appalling. Disgusting arrogance and sneering at basic questions. They seem to relish taxing normal people. We aren't all D4 millionaires like her, Ryan and Cuffe.

    Put them in the spotlight and if the media stop fawning over them and them to account they will crumble, and people will be sick of them quickly.
    mickdw wrote: »
    Yes talking down to Healy Rae - Did you not hear our leader speak, she said, as if Ryan is the second coming of Christ

    Same as Saosise McHugh, they can't debate policy and just resort to ad hominem.
    Some people have short memories of what happened last time they were in power. Lies, spin, cronie capitalism and destruction of the Irish economy for a generation.


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  • #2052
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,106 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    NIMAN wrote: »
    True.

    I think a councillor in the next local elections might be his level.

    He clearly isn't interested in that. Three elections and he hasn't managed to any work in the community yet. Good going. :rolleyes:


  • #2053
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,852 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    FrancieBrady wrote:
    So it looks like Peter has fought three elections and lost three...is it time for him to fall on his sword?
    How many Casey posters did you see?


  • #2054
    Yermande
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Yermande


    eagle eye wrote: »
    How many Casey posters did you see?

    None, which was 1 too many.


  • #2055
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,860 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I think Ryan was nearly planning to have Saoirse Mchugh on the last Late Late on Friday so he could talk to her about how great she was and how people preferred her to Casey and his views. He was delighted with the opinion poll on Friday night.
    I do feel sorry for Saoirse they really pushed her into thinking she was in with a great shot but Ryan just loved to see Casey knocked.


  • #2056
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,288 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    eagle eye wrote: »
    More serious candidates, hahaha, load of stupid people voted for Walsh, worst candidate in the mnw.

    What does that make Casey?


  • #2057
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    pjohnson wrote:
    What does that make Casey?


    Even stupider, is there even such a thing


  • #2058
    beggars_bush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭beggars_bush


    My mamma always says that stupid is, what stupid does...


  • #2059
    Mad_maxx
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    VinLieger wrote: »
    He's very unlikely to win a dail seat based off last weeks performance unless he aligns to a party and i can't see any of the main ones taking him on.

    The only way he has a chance is via much larger elections like the Euro's or the Presidency when it boils down to Dail constituencies he doesnt have broad enough appeal to be an independent

    The only party who could take him on is FF but Michael Martin is far too concerned about what the Irish Times thinks to allow that


  • #2060
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    The only party who could take him on is FF but Michael Martin is far too concerned about what the Irish Times thinks to allow that

    ff?


  • #2061
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    The only party who could take him on is FF but Michael Martin is far too concerned about what the Irish Times thinks to allow that
    Excluding the spicy stuff he comes out with he's a completely empty suit, and I can't see Martin entertaining going head to head with the local FG cumainn in Donegal for someone like him.


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  • #2062
    FrancieBrady
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    is_that_so wrote: »
    Excluding the spicy stuff he comes out with he's a completely empty suit, and I can't see Martin entertaining going head to head with the local FG cumainn in Donegal for someone like him.

    For someone so loose with his gob he could cause 'swing' levels of embarassment? You are right...That ship - a safe party seat somewhere - has sailed.


  • #2063
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Excluding the spicy stuff he comes out with he's a completely empty suit, and I can't see Martin entertaining going head to head with the local FG cumainn in Donegal for someone like him.

    He might have been a FF type candidate in the past but Martin is far too Woke


  • #2064
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    He might have been a FF type candidate in the past but Martin is far too Woke
    No, he's just terrible. For all the scoffing at the Healy Rae tribe in Kerry, they work hard. He's self-important and feels he's owed a seat. Show he can work for one instead of just showing up when an election is called and he might even be in with a shot. He's been as transfer toxic as SF here.


  • #2065
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,954 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    So where do people think the next set of transfers will go? Maria walsh did really well out of Anne Rabbittes transfers while Casey did only middling. It shows how transfer toxic he is when a FG candidate does better out of a FF candidates transfers than him.


  • #2066
    [Deleted User]
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    Nobelium wrote: »
    Same as Saosise McHugh, they can't debate policy and just resort to ad hominem.
    Some people have short memories of what happened last time they were in power. Lies, spin, cronie capitalism and destruction of the Irish economy for a generation.

    I will never forget their car tax introduction in 2008.


  • #2067
    Mooooo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,577 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    So where do people think the next set of transfers will go? Maria walsh did really well out of Anne Rabbittes transfers while Casey did only middling. It shows how transfer toxic he is when a FG candidate does better out of a FF candidates transfers than him.

    You'd be surprised, people may not say it and hard-core ff/ fg wouldn't vote for each other but if people want to vote for the centre it'll be between ff and fg 90% of the time so that's where the 2nd 3rd picks etc will go


  • #2068
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,036 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    So where do people think the next set of transfers will go? Maria walsh did really well out of Anne Rabbittes transfers while Casey did only middling. It shows how transfer toxic he is when a FG candidate does better out of a FF candidates transfers than him.


    Smith Leapfrogs Casey from McHughs transfer, Casey comes sixth and is eliminated next.


    Also possible that Walsh slips into 3rd above Carthy off McHughs transfers


  • #2069
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,954 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Mooooo wrote: »
    You'd be surprised, people may not say it and hard-core ff/ fg wouldn't vote for each other but if people want to vote for the centre it'll be between ff and fg 90% of the time so that's where the 2nd 3rd picks etc will go

    there is probably a lot of truth in that. Policy wise there probably isn't a whole lot between them. I cant see the transfer of Saoirse McHughs votes being of much help to Casey.


  • #2070
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,954 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    VinLieger wrote: »
    Smith Leapfrogs Casey from McHughs transfer, Casey comes sixth and is eliminated next.


    Also possible that Walsh slips into 3rd above Carthy off McHughs transfers

    That sounds entirely plausible. Is the fourth seat in this constituency a frozen seat?


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  • #2071
    Loafing Oaf
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    That sounds entirely plausible. Is the fourth seat in this constituency a frozen seat?

    Nope, all four straight into Champions League:p


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