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Judgement day for Maria Bailey.

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    #392
    John_Rambo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,596 ✭✭✭John_Rambo


    She was not far from self entitled Ivor Callely level when she claimed (two stars) **

    Then she was nearly at Ivor level when she did the interview (three stars) ***

    Now (congratulations) she's fully at Ivor level *****


    FIVE STAR IVOR LEVEL *****

    Dodgy used car saleperson?


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    #393
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,437 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    That font definitely eye catching; can/would she dare run as an independent or join a different party for the next election, if I was in that area I wouldn't vote for her based solely on this fiasco, fine Gael can't be faulted for wanting to distance themselves really.

    She won’t run as an Independent, she has too much to lose with her friends and neighbors in the area. She’ll work behind the scenes and might get nominated back to her old council seat if someone leaves early.

    She won’t be nominated for a Seanad seat either, she doesn’t have much dirt on existing people in the party. Her father had contacts and connections and knew where the skeletons were.

    But Maria was just a poor little rich Daddy’s girl who threw away a golden throne.


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    #394
    GreenandRed
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    angel eyes 2012 wrote: »
    "That’s not a level playing pitch. And as somebody who grew up on the side-line of a GAA pitch, I play fair. I don’t play offside," she said.

    That's a strange GAA pitch she grew up on the sideline of that had an offside rule.


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    #395
    Bullocks
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    Doesn't inspire confidence in Leo to let it dwindle along this long .She should have been deselected long before this


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    #396
    Snow Garden
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    Are Fine Gael now suggesting that it wasn't a bona fides insurance claim like Maria, Leo and Simon said?


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    #397
    John_Rambo
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    Doesn't inspire confidence in Leo to let it dwindle along this long .She should have been deselected long before this


    She was bunched from the interview. We all know it.


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    #398
    jmreire
    Registered Users Posts: 8,359 ✭✭✭jmreire


    Bobtheman wrote: »
    If this is the reason you abandon FG- please never vote again. So no issue with chronically high homelessness? No issue with the insurance industry in general spinning utter bull**** about amount of fraudulent claims? No issue with the running of the HSE. Voters like you can fxxx off

    I'd say that there is very few who are not aware of what is wrong in the Country as you have listed above. but MB really was the straw that broke the camel's back...she was a lightening rod for everything that is wrong politically in the Country in general and FFG in particular. The Nr of (ex) FG voters who are now publicly saying that they will never vote for them again is on the increase. So don't be too hard on anyone who is now jumping the FG ship.


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    #399
    KrustyUCC
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    Hopefully Bailey will now throw Madigan under the bus


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    #400
    Spanish Eyes
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    Doesn't inspire confidence in Leo to let it dwindle along this long .She should have been deselected long before this

    Vlad doesn't care. I don't think he wants to be TEESHOCK for much longer either. I think he said this actually a few years ago about not wanting to be in politics forever. The Swingate issue is just a headache for him. There are more fish to fry.

    Anyway, it is all such a game in politics isn't it?

    I wouldn't trust any of them as far as I could throw them. But i still vote, God knows why lol. And god help me.


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    #401
    KevRossi
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    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    Hopefully Bailey will now throw Madigan under the bus

    She won’t. She still has a life to lead after politics. She would be ostracized in her social circles if she did that.


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    #402
    ahnowbrowncow
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    #403
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,034 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    What social circles?

    Her so called friends abandoned her once she became politically toxic


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    #404
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    https://twitter.com/eirefreespeech/status/1195100914073382912?s=21


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    #405
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Bobtheman wrote: »
    If this is the reason you abandon FG- please never vote again. So no issue with chronically high homelessness? No issue with the insurance industry in general spinning utter bull**** about amount of fraudulent claims? No issue with the running of the HSE. Voters like you can fxxx off

    In fairness I voted FG in 2011 with great hope and Endas new politics and contract for Ireland bull****. I can think of at least 10 reasons not to vote for them. Their abject failure to tackle the legal profession and Insurance industry cartels are definitely on the list.


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    #406
    sligojoek
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    Just watching the Tonight Show. Michelle Mullhearne is not a happy camper.


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    #407
    Stop moaning ffs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    Oh wow
    She continued to dig a hole for herself at the meeting.


    https://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1195102293986820097?s=21


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    #408
    high_king
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    angel eyes 2012 wrote: »
    That's quite standard in a press statement, however the use of Comic Sans is definitely not!

    What do you expect from an Irish politician ? People's expectations of Irish politicians always amaze me . . it's like they never seen or heard one operating before.


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    #409
    high_king
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    Absolutely no sympathy for her and far too little far too late for FG to be trying to save face in an oncoming election

    She should have been immediately dismissed when this emerged.

    Instead they tried to bury it and wait it out.

    Then forced do a sham investigation. And buried that. And Then cleared her.

    They made a complete balls of this and people won’t forget.

    I’ll never vote FG ever again.

    Good grief, do people really think this is something new with FG or any Irish political party ? Compared to most of them, this small beans.


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    #410
    Fann Linn
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    And to think Leo had to be taken kicking and screaming to reach this ultimatum.

    A total fraud and charlatan.


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    #411
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    At least Sean Gallagher's brown envelope car crash happened in one night. :)


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    #412
    Millionaire only not
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    She deserves every bit of it . The genuine business in this country are closing over dubious claims against there insurance .

    Premiums for some are mortgage figures now ! And the likes of what has been said her numerous times , lead by example!
    Some advice this lady got from her husband to so called friends and solicitors !


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    #413
    padd b1975
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    Doesn't inspire confidence in An Taoiseach to let it dwindle along this long .She should have been deselected long before this

    FYP.


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    #414
    Millionaire only not
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    padd b1975 wrote: »
    FYP.

    I’d say he thought she was a bit of eye candy!
    I think she’s hot anyway


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    #415
    Stop moaning ffs
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    high_king wrote: »
    Good grief, do people really think this is something new with FG or any Irish political party ? Compared to most of them, this small beans.


    That sound was the point breaking the speed barrier going over your head.

    This was a coalescing moment. That went on and on and on at the same time insurance companies are ravaging businesses

    It wasn’t just this One Thing.

    It was the final nail in the coffin of ordinary voter like me, I think Leo and simon couldn’t have worked through brexit better.

    But while doing that dropped th ball at home on a myriad of issues. Every single other thing is a fvckup

    It’s time for them to go.


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    #416
    ChikiChiki
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    Fann Linn wrote: »
    And to think Leo had to be taken kicking and screaming to reach this ultimatum.

    A total fraud and charlatan.

    Leo "wants to be everybodies friend" tried his best for her but could not go against the constituency vote for obvious reasons.

    And she still kicked him in the statement. The entitlement factor is strong in this one.

    Appalling leadership and ethics all round. These are not people you want running the country. He should just have nipped it in the bud straight away.


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    #417
    suicide_circus
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    her statement speaks of anonymous sources, wonder if she has any idea who these are...


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    #418
    high_king
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    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    That sound was the point breaking the speed barrier going over your head.

    This was a coalescing moment. That went on and on and on at the same time insurance companies are ravaging businesses

    It wasn’t just this One Thing.

    It was the final nail in the coffin of ordinary voter like me, I think Leo and simon couldn’t have worked through brexit better.

    But while doing that dropped th ball at home on a myriad of issues. Every single other thing is a fvckup

    It’s time for them to go.

    Actually it's going over your head, you got exactly what you voted for.


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    #419
    CageWager
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    Now the tone will change to the gender victim card. The reality is that MB was a lightning rod for the electorate’s anger at politicians always slithering their way out of misdeeds with no accountability.

    Her colleagues regularly called for her to be “allowed to move on”. NO. SORRY. You can’t just f’ing move on from making a fraudulent insurance claim just because you can’t pass up an opportunity to stick your snout in the taxpayer funded trough.

    This is a win for SME’s and ordinary voters all over the country. When a public representative stinks, don’t just let them and their mates pull up the rug and sweep their dirt under the carpet. Future generations will thank us.


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    padd b1975
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    Millionaire only not wrote: »
    I’d say he thought she was a bit of eye candy!
    I think she’s hot anyway

    I don't think she's his type.


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    Stop moaning ffs
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    high_king wrote: »
    Actually it's going over your head, you got exactly what you voted for.

    I didn’t vote for them. Try harder.


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