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General Election TV debates

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  • #2582
    Hunchback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭Hunchback


    Deleted User wrote: »
    D6 lady pretends she's from a poor area of Dublin- FRAUD!

    Was she not referring to her constituents? Isn't she in the Dublin Central constituency?


  • #2583
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    CPTM wrote: »
    Nice to see Leo is awake during this debate. Maybe it was strategy to be quieter during the last one.

    He might have to used of it !
    He had all the power in the world to sort a lot of these things in last 12 months, taxes were up he should have done like Fianna Fáil used do buy votes by throwing money at it !


  • #2584
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,882 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Leo, shuda woulda coulda, its been 9 years, convenient now that you're saying you'll do something! Too little too late.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #2585
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,355 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Genghis wrote: »
    Poor quality from all. I don't think this will do anything to change minds, not will it be seen as a turning point.

    I dunno, I think SF could lose a good few here. None of them doing brilliantly but Mary Lou is as bad as she's been in any election event so far.


  • #2586
    Assetbacked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,969 ✭✭✭Assetbacked


    The ads are fierce sh1te during the break. Irish Ferries didnt even bother filming their ship and just used CGI. Terrible altogether.


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  • #2587
    griffinlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 204 ✭✭griffinlee


    As someone who doesn't have any connection or affinity to any party.

    I like Mary lou but lacks depth in her policies the most
    Whilst I'm not his greatest fan, Lv seems the most detailed in this debate
    Micheal Martin looks lost at sea

    Just my opinion as an independent observer


  • #2588
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,012 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Cheerful ad there about dying on smoke inhalation.


  • #2589
    Stacksofwacks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Mary Lou very one paced, Leo half asleep, MM is a very talented debater


  • #2590
    CPTM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭CPTM


    Finty Lemon wrote: »
    Cracks appearing all theough the SF manifesto.

    Will their supporters see them though. Lovely world they live in, just not the real world.


  • #2591
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    storker wrote: »
    Nice point by MLM when she pointed out the FFG will come up with all the reasons in the world to leave the big boys alone and gouge the citizens instead.


    She is doing what all populists do and she's doing it very well if I may so.
    She's hit all the buzzwords and that is key to a huge amount of floating viewers who want any change from the two feckers beside her.

    The point her party may not be coherent in all policies does not matter.
    the floating viewer is hearing

    change
    workers and middle class
    skyhigh rents
    ff facilitating fg
    the crash
    9 years of the same
    no chance of owning own house


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  • #2592
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Certainly this debate proves, MLM and SF would have been much better off if they were not involved!


  • #2593
    Underground
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭Underground


    Pensions next, here we go. Wonder will the actual reality of the situation that is the pension time bomb be acknowledged. What am I saying, pensions for everyone at 65!


  • #2594
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,188 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Will the fishing industry that will be desimated with Brexit get a single mention?


  • #2595
    Jizique
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,143 ✭✭✭Jizique


    Negative_G wrote: »
    Who would you have running Air Ambulances?

    Another 500million contract to CHC? Or perhaps a 3.5million euro part time contract for a fixed wing aircraft that won't do any domestic work?

    Wasn’t one of Haugheys kids running a helicopter company - he could do it for 500m


  • #2596
    Down9194
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭Down9194


    I think David was looking at Miriam and thinking Jesus I’d would


  • #2597
    Venom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Finty Lemon wrote: »
    Cracks appearing all theough the SF manifesto.


    No surprise when a magic money tree is the basis for their entire manifesto.


  • #2598
    It wasnt me123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭It wasnt me123


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    Yeah not a bad idea. How about the welfare wasters do the same ?

    Yes, why not? Work for your money - especially the youth - some of them came out of school straight into the welfare office - they have no skills, no experience, some are illiterate, can’t dress for work etc. Why not have them join the county councils as trainees, learning gardening, maintenance jobs, office work, etc. Social welfare is supposed to help you until you get a job - not be a career move. Don’t make it attractive to be on the dole. And let our indigenous brethren join in as well - everyone should work.


  • #2599
    Vivienne23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Vivienne23


    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    She’s rounding up the anti hunt crowds aswell earlier.will ban fox hunting if she gets in so she says

    That’s no harm tho is it ?

    Lots of undesirables around my area using hunting as a guise , I understand foxes need to be culled but there might be better ways than running them ragged by a pack of dogs


  • #2600
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,253 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    C__MC wrote: »
    Remember when Brian Cowen was hungover in galway when the country was in crises
    God fianna fail were some joke shop and yet there on the cusp of returning to power
    Leave it to the Irish

    While his performance that day was disgraceful and he was massively out of his depth, in fairness to Cowen, I think Bertie threw him under the bus when he saw the (economic) winds changing and legged it.

    FG of course rely on such trips down memory lane, but while they're right to a point - it's really just to deflect attention from their own scandals, waste, incompetence.


  • #2601
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Ardent wrote: »
    Leo with a home run with the John Delaney analogy LOL

    Dunno about a homerun to be fair, Delaney went on a slice of his bender whilst under Leo's tenure as sports minister.


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  • #2602
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Finty Lemon wrote: »
    Cracks appearing all theough the SF manifesto.

    So many holes in it. Its as if it were strafed with an AK47.


  • #2603
    Negative_G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭Negative_G


    Jizique wrote: »
    Wasn’t one of Haugheys kids running a helicopter company - he could do it for 500m

    Bargain.


  • #2604
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Ireland could do with a Monster Raving Loony Party (a different one from the National Party).


  • #2605
    Vivienne23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Vivienne23


    It wasnt me123 wrote: »
    Yes, why not? Work for your money - especially the youth - some of them came out of school straight into the welfare office - they have no skills, no experience, some are illiterate, can’t dress for work etc. Why not have them join the county councils as trainees, learning gardening, maintenance jobs, office work, etc. Social welfare is supposed to help you until you get a job - not be a career move. Don’t make it attractive to be on the dole. And let our indigenous brethren join in as well - everyone should work.

    Agreed nobody should get anything for doing nothing , except the disabled , elderly , sick


  • #2606
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    I was predicting the rise of SF for a few years now as I draw many similarities between Irish and Spanish politics.

    The rise of the socialists there in the 30s is similar to the rise of SF. The socialists looked to redistribute wealth, particularly farmers land.

    That in turn led to a reaction by many Spanish that led to Falange Espanola and the Carlists linking up with the Spanish army of Africa and Franco.

    So SF may get into power but they may face a backlash


  • #2607
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,188 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    When you hit 65 and have to retire you will then be means tested for the dole after 9 months on it and if you have provided savings for your future will get no dole after this time and next payment will be pension years later.


  • #2608
    Slattsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    ??? you even watching?

    They see and hear what they want to see and hear.

    She's been shown up tonight. Great to see.


  • #2609
    Arjun Echoing Senior
    Posts: 0 ✭ Arjun Echoing Senior


    Im sure it's been said before but I'd make a donation for another debate chaired by Vinny b


  • #2610
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,614 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    gmisk wrote: »
    I don't disagree with paying to see a gp, northern Ireland is a joke doctors surgery awash with people (speaking from experience), don't pay for doctors visit and don't pay for a prescription.

    I used to live in a country with excellent health care. Either a gp visit or an xray came with a nominal fee of 5 quid. Probably equivalent of 15 quid here. Enough to make you think twice for juniors sniffles but not a barrier for anyone who was sick.

    They need to do that for everyone.


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  • #2611
    Mr.Crinklewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,709 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Venom wrote: »
    No surprise when a magic money tree is the basis for their entire manifesto.

    Northern Bank bank notes surely ?


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