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General Election TV debates

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  • #2852
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Varadkar speaks too much. Real kind of over sharing or waffling going on. He seems extremely nervous as a person.


  • #2853
    sailing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 253 ✭✭sailing


    Was thinking of joining the surge and voting Sinn Fein. Absolutely no way after tonight. They have been properly found out.


  • #2854
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    I don't know. Dodgy party history aside (of which they are all guilty of depending on how far you go back), she comes across as the most genuine of the three.

    The standards may not be high but we have the polished nasally spin of Leo, and Martin coming across as more as trying not to put a foot too far wrong
    i dont blame her for looking emotion, theyre all human beings at the end of the day as we pull them asunder from the safety of the internet


  • #2855
    jammiedodgers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭jammiedodgers


    ArchXStanton wrote: »
    Is the country sorted yet lads?

    Should be all ok by Sunday. Monday at the latest.


  • #2856
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Leo the winner.


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  • #2857
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    CH3OH wrote: »
    Leo not doing well at the end there

    He was the best of the three on that one by a margin. Left on an upbeat note off the cuff, and avoided answering the question without it being pinged back to him. Neat.


  • #2858
    boardise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,530 ✭✭✭boardise


    C__MC wrote: »
    Jog on Mary Lou
    How the **** are sinn fein topping polls

    Something to do with the level of political intelligence of the Irish electorate ?


  • #2859
    It wasnt me123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭It wasnt me123


    I would be FG voter as I don’t believe anything should be free to anyone.

    But, I’m going SF this time - if we ever get to vote in Tipp, I hope Mattie gets his way - and we have a really good FF female candidate that I’m thinking of supporting but it will kill me to vote FF in - I haven’t forgot the crash and lost my house in that debacle.


  • #2860
    CPTM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭CPTM


    Leo won that for me. Fastest of 3 slow runners.


  • #2861
    Glebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,154 ✭✭✭Glebee


    What a load of sh1te, i should have went to bed.


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  • #2862
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,187 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Deleted User wrote: »
    a slight exaggeration...


    ...but unfortunately, only a slight one. Grants just haven't worked in general and have been just an excuse for the building firms to up their fees- in my experience.


    Eco Eye featured a 3 bed room house in north Dublin that got exactly this €70k plus of upgrades and they qualified for €20-30k grant while actually having a wood burning stove in a built up area, you couldn't make it up how bloody crooked that is for the environement and health in the area.


  • #2863
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Big mistake wearing an aqua marine tie Leo: bad move...

    hqdefault.jpg


  • #2864
    CH3OH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    It was a bit of a stupid last question .


  • #2865
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,210 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    There were rebates.

    There was also a reduction in VRT, i imported one last year.


  • #2866
    Trizo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 340 ✭✭Trizo


    blackcard wrote: »
    Her biggest mistake was coming on this debate

    Her biggest mistake was not proof reading the SF manifesto lol


  • #2867
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,573 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    I'd call that a draw. With if anyone MM edging it.

    Nobody shone, and all performed to type.

    'You are gonna mansplain corporation tax to me' was the comment of the night, because that was what he did essentially. :)


  • #2868
    Stacksofwacks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,572 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Poor performance from Mary Lou, her command of the issues is not good.


  • #2869
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,993 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Well good luck and thanks that’s over.


  • #2870
    Wombatman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,347 ✭✭✭Wombatman


    The other two made Leo look like a winner.


  • #2871
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    sailing wrote: »
    Was thinking of joining the surge and voting Sinn Fein. Absolutely no way after tonight. They have been properly found out.

    What? You didn’t know what they are about?


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  • #2872
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    irishgeo wrote: »
    was MLM biggest mistake coming on the debate tonight.

    She had to come on, she knew the tricky questions that would be asked and she had to spoof through them.

    She failed on Paul Quinn.


  • #2873
    Westernyelp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,410 ✭✭✭Westernyelp


    amadangomor wrote: »
    Laughable comment

    I don't find it amusing.


  • #2874
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,615 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    smurgen wrote: »
    Varadkar speaks too much. Real kind of over sharing or waffling going on. He seems extremely nervous as a person.

    Miriam: whats your biggest weakness?

    Leo: I'm too honest sometimes

    Miriam: I don't think that's a weakness...

    Leo: I don't give a **** what you think


  • #2875
    cannotlogin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,172 ✭✭✭cannotlogin


    I don't like any of them but think Leo won that hands down but I'm still not convinced the debates have much sway on votes in a general election.

    Think they have more of an impact when it's a presidential election or a specific referendum.


  • #2876
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Leo badly badly rattled by the Dara Murphy line of questioning. They don't represent FG yet he had them remain? Brain fart!


  • #2877
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    CH3OH wrote: »
    Leo not doing well at the end there

    He’s a genius if he makes Taoiseach in next Dail !


  • #2878
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    blackcard wrote: »
    Her biggest mistake was coming on this debate


    No prep was her biggest mistake.
    though she did hit all the buzzwords until the wheels came off at the end.


  • #2879
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    CH3OH wrote: »
    It was a bit of a stupid last question .

    Wasnt a long way off whats your biggest weakness-I'm a prefectionist territory.


  • #2880
    christy c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,225 ✭✭✭christy c


    CH3OH wrote: »
    It was a bit of a stupid last question .

    It was, but better than the usual pre prepared "I'm going to save the world" crap.


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  • #2881
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,252 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    boardise wrote: »
    Something to do with the level of political intelligence of the Irish electorate ?

    Ah yes. Nothing wins voters over faster than telling them they're too stupid to be let have a say!

    FG supporter? It's straight out of the handbook anyway.


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