blanch152 wrote: » Pedantically distinguishing between guidelines and rules is a weasel word approach to denying responsibility and accountability.
gormdubhgorm wrote: » Ah he is good in fairness thinks quick, always ready for a comeback, relentless! A1 for commitment to the cause.
McMurphy wrote: » I need more to go on here? Who broke the same guideline's as Phil Hogan?
blanch152 wrote: » https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0910/1164300-sinn-fein-storey/ "Sinn Féin's leader in Northern Ireland has acknowledged that the public health messaging capacity of the Stormont Executive was undermined by the controversy around the funeral of Bobby Storey earlier this year. Michelle O'Neill told RTÉ News that she regrets what happened when large numbers attended the veteran republican's funeral in June, including herself and party leader Mary Lou McDonald." Michelle seems to indicate that she broke guidelines. Maybe, like Phil Hogan, she should do the decent thing and resign.https://www.thejournal.ie/michelle-oneill-public-health-damaged-5200733-Sep2020/ "Those who set the rules must abide by the results."
blanch152 wrote: » " Michelle seems to indicate that she broke guidelines. Maybe, like Phil Hogan, she should do the decent thing and resign.
McMurphy wrote: » Blanch, there's only so many times you can have the same thing repeated over and over to you - so here goes. 10 PRINT “Phil Hogan did not resign because he broke pandemic guidelines, he resigned because he broke them on multiple occasions, and then lied to the public and his boss about what he did, and where he went” 20 GOTO 10 RUN
blanch152 wrote: » https://www.thejournal.ie/michelle-oneill-public-health-damaged-5200733-Sep2020/ "Those who set the rules must abide by the results."
Truthvader wrote: » Much more concerned by the glorification of the thug Storey and the Sinn Fein IRA budget paramilitary display at the pretendy funeral than any breach of covid restrictions. Expect we will be waiting for any apology on that front for a while. Mary Lou on the radio this morning blithely bleating on about the difficulty of losing loved ones during covid apparently insensitive to all the loved ones deliberately murdered by her colleagues over the years. Yes Mary; very difficult indeed.
markodaly wrote: » I hope the boys in West Belfast will tell her to resign so, as you know, fair is fair.... I also hope those who for days and weeks criticised Hogan and Co. will equally be forthright in their demands for O'Neil to resign.
Hamsterchops wrote: » ............. Can't for the life of me imagine Mary Lou, David Cullinane, Louise O'Reilly, Martina Anderson and the rest actually running the country, like when you really think about it, it would be total madness.
Augeo wrote: » Total lunacy. Forever home for all the wasters, tax cuts, raise corporation tax, tax the wealthy (but yet have tax cuts) ........ to be fair they just spiel populist horsesh1t that folk who are not overly smart find appealing despite the impossibility of it all
Jinglejangle69 wrote: » Don't forget the apple tax!!
tikkahunter wrote: » Why ?? Their mouth pieces on here have - actually totally blanked it and haven’t responded to any posts about it .
christy c wrote: » The most you get is something incoherent about "FAIRNESS".
dundalkfc10 wrote: » Ah the Govt a shambles again, Minister Agriculture not even knowing what's going on in his Dept, the SF threads are busy again. Shock Horror
tikkahunter wrote: » You wouldn’t be trying to spin there would you . What about the Apple money Mary ?
dundalkfc10 wrote: » My names not Mary
Jinglejangle69 wrote: » Very quite in here after Michelle's admission. Couldnt shut them up when it was Clifden a few weeks ago. Laughable
FrancieBrady wrote: » What is it you were wanting to see JJ? Michelle has admitted to what I criticised her for. Good. That's that then. A funeral was never the same thing as a jolly for the golf lads and the elites. Nor was it the same thing as a FG Commissioner lying to everybody including his EU boss and when caught having to resign.
Jinglejangle69 wrote: » Rules were broken. There is no two ways about it. Doesn't matter if its a funeral or a golf outing. Many people couldn't and still can't go to loved ones funerals but SF and their members are different?? Michelle knows what she should do. But it's SF so we know they will never face up to their mistakes. Ever.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Rules and guidelines have been broken and gnored since this thing started by all and sundry. The only resignation I called for was the FG commissioner who got caught lying (8 times was it?) People have to modify behaviour, that was always going to be a learning process. Would the Oireactas organise a golf outing again...no they wouldn't, we hope. Would a state funeral be allowed to break guidelines again...no it wouldn't, we hope. Would SF organise a funeral like that again..no they wouldn't, we hope. Will a FGer arrogantly lie again....hmmmm.
