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James Brown · 15-08-2020 11:14AM

Bishop of hope wrote: »

It could be anything, it's get Leo time.
Laughable when you analyse it, Leo and FG are demonised for everything they say virtually yet if it's and form of self criticism or critical of Leo in particular then it's gospel.
Lads who gave nods to FG TD's even, and lads who claim anyone critical of SF have grudges to grind using that same tactic themselves.
Opposition party supporters are like that, disgruntled with everything and everyone in govt.
Sore chappies mostly.

Yes we get our fair share of look what some shinner said this week alright.
Yet when government policy issues are raised some just want to sidetrack back to SF or more interested in playing the victim anytime anyone makes light of Varadkar or one of the other gaffe prone 'best people'.

James Brown · 15-08-2020 11:17AM

Bishop of hope wrote: »

On another note, the old twitter machine was running on overdrive here locally for the last couple of days. A FF TD getting the ire.
He got my number one in the election but never again, and not because of this, but because one of his first acts was to write a letter of representation for some gougers who were in court on serious assault charges, who were subsequently the target of CAB.
A good local rep I thought and we needed one, I doubt Mr Flaherty is it now.
But anyway the twitter mafia is discussing this.
https://www.longfordleader.ie/news/home/566449/longford-westmeath-td-joe-flaherty-slams-blatantly-untrue-cab-raid-claims.html

Not a good look.
Will Heather Humphreys still be getting your support?

Shefwedfan · 15-08-2020 11:19AM

McMurphy wrote: »

Didn't you say you're an FF party voter, what was your opinion on James Lawless having a go at him, basically telling him to stfu about matters that didn't concern him?

You were strangely quiet on that for a lad whose very opinionated on everything else.

Do you have the conversation in full? I will comment then

Or is it your normal half assed poorly researched twitter rubbish?

FrancieBrady · 15-08-2020 11:20AM

Bowie wrote: »

Not a good look.
Will Heather Humphreys still be getting your support?

Ceann Comhairle involved in this stuff too.

Bishop of hope · 15-08-2020 11:31AM

Bowie wrote: »

Not a good look.
Will Heather Humphreys still be getting your support?

Heather hasn't been proven to do anything wrong.
Flaherty has been proven to have written a letter himself with intent to at least influence the courts.
I pay lip service to the recent twitter social media thing.
When you get a lad saying he will clean up your county town as an election promise then within a wet week writing to the courts to try to get gougers a lighter sentence for a horrific crime, time to pull the plug.

James Brown · 15-08-2020 01:22PM

Bishop of hope wrote: »

Heather hasn't been proven to do anything wrong.
Flaherty has been proven to have written a letter himself with intent to at least influence the courts.
I pay lip service to the recent twitter social media thing.
When you get a lad saying he will clean up your county town as an election promise then within a wet week writing to the courts to try to get gougers a lighter sentence for a horrific crime, time to pull the plug.

Agreed bad form.

Heather passed on a letter seeking clemency for an animal abuser already banned from keeping animals. That's a fact.
The only debate is did she know what the letter was or does she moonlight as a courier?

Brendan Bendar · 15-08-2020 05:56PM

Bowie wrote: »

Agreed bad form.

Heather passed on a letter seeking clemency for an animal abuser already banned from keeping animals. That's a fact.
The only debate is did she know what the letter was or does she moonlight as a courier?

When you have FACTS... get back to the thread, a chara.

Shefwedfan · 15-08-2020 06:03PM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

When you have FACTS... get back to the thread, a chara.

Facts on this thread are hillarious.....

Some randomer on Twitter who is clearly another SF troll and it’s a FACT

ExMachina1000 · 15-08-2020 06:33PM

What did she do?

Shefwedfan · 15-08-2020 07:08PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

What did she do?

Not a member of SF so the trolls are after her

That’s about it

Snow Garden · 15-08-2020 08:06PM

Fair play to Catherine Martin on dealing swiftly with the Bord Failte chairman.

If a FFG minister were in charge they would have made him a senator.

Brendan Bendar · 15-08-2020 08:19PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

Fair play to Catherine Martin on dealing swiftly with the Bord Failte chairman.

If a FFG minister were in charge they would have made him a senator.

Have you proof of that, or just guessing?

Nevin Parsnipp · 15-08-2020 08:34PM

Martin did the right thing in showing the Failte lad the door.

Nice,quick and clean too which is a plus in this posters book.

Contrast that with the male Martin's handling of the Barry Cowan issue .....

Snow Garden · 15-08-2020 09:01PM

Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »

Martin did the right thing in showing the Failte lad the door.

Nice,quick and clean too which is a plus in this posters book.

Contrast that with the male Martin's handling of the Barry Cowan issue .....

Yep and Leo's handling of Bailey which eventually forced him to call an early election.

The_Brood · 15-08-2020 09:10PM

He only resigned because he got caught. Can't imagine how many foreign holidays the rest are having, laughing it up while we obediently stay at home minding their rules.

All out protests every day until the entire political system is reformed from the bottom up.

ExMachina1000 · 15-08-2020 09:12PM

The sooner leo is back in charge the better.

Fann Linn · 15-08-2020 09:12PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

Fair play to Catherine Martin on dealing swiftly with the Bord Failte chairman.

If a FFG minister were in charge they would have made him a senator.

Only after the LP and the Shinners called for his head.

FrancieBrady · 15-08-2020 09:32PM

Snow Garden wrote: »

Yep and Leo's handling of Bailey which eventually forced him to call an early election.

It was the astonishing mess in Health that forced the election. Harris was going to be forced to walk the plank, an election was called to avoid that.

FrancieBrady · 15-08-2020 09:33PM

Fann Linn wrote: »

Only after the LP and the Shinners called for his head.

Fionnan Sheahan pointing that out on Twitter this evening.

christy c · 15-08-2020 09:44PM

Given Cawley's very impressive CV, you'd have to assume he will be a loss to Failte Ireland. He was a key man in Ryanair's massive growth across Europe, plus he holds a number of other high profile directorships.

But also given his CV, you'd have to wonder how he thought this was a good idea or how he thought he'd get away with it. Pity it ended this way.

Shefwedfan · 15-08-2020 10:01PM

christy c wrote: »

Given Cawley's very impressive CV, you'd have to assume he will be a loss to Failte Ireland. He was a key man in Ryanair's massive growth across Europe, plus he holds a number of other high profile directorships.

But also given his CV, you'd have to wonder how he thought this was a good idea or how he thought he'd get away with it. Pity it ended this way.

It doesn’t matter if anyone is good at their job or that they will be a huge loss

At least SF got the chance to have another speech about nothing in particular but of course the outrage was incredible.....as usual

christy c · 15-08-2020 10:05PM

Shefwedfan wrote: »

It doesn’t matter if anyone is good at their job or that they will be a huge loss

At least SF got the chance to have another speech about nothing in particular but of course the outrage was incredible.....as usual

In fairness it was a fairly stupid thing to do. Was it a resigning matter? Probably, given his role.

But I don't think any politician probably cared if he was a loss.

RandomViewer · 15-08-2020 10:21PM

christy c wrote: »

Given Cawley's very impressive CV, you'd have to assume he will be a loss to Failte Ireland. He was a key man in Ryanair's massive growth across Europe, plus he holds a number of other high profile directorships.

But also given his CV, you'd have to wonder how he thought this was a good idea or how he thought he'd get away with it. Pity it ended this way.

Lot of these people are really poor socially, their awareness of things outside their own little sphere is quite small, they are great at the technical stuff but fail miserably at the mundane everyday stuff, suspect it is at the lower end of the autism scale.

christy c · 15-08-2020 10:25PM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Lot of these people are really poor socially, their awareness of things outside their own little sphere is quite small, they are great at the technical stuff but fail miserably at the mundane everyday stuff, suspect it is at the lower end of the autism scale.

Met him a few years ago, definitely not poor socially.

Shefwedfan · 16-08-2020 07:18AM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Lot of these people are really poor socially, their awareness of things outside their own little sphere is quite small, they are great at the technical stuff but fail miserably at the mundane everyday stuff, suspect it is at the lower end of the autism scale.

Are you saying all high ranking people are like above?

RandomViewer · 16-08-2020 10:33AM

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Are you saying all high ranking people are like above?

Quite a few, they understand whatever business they are in but seem to avoid everything outside of it. In many cases they can't have a conversation about anything outside of work.

RandomViewer · 16-08-2020 10:35AM

christy c wrote: »

Met him a few years ago, definitely not poor socially.

Was he trying to sell you something, was there anything to be gained from talking to you?

christy c · 16-08-2020 10:37AM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Was he trying to sell you something, was there anything to be gained from talking to you?

No. Do you know much about him yourself?

RandomViewer · 16-08-2020 10:38AM

christy c wrote: »

No

Blonde moment then?

christy c · 16-08-2020 10:39AM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Blonde moment then?

As I said I dont know, but he will probably be a loss.

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