smurgen wrote: » Interesting article here from 2019 and one maybe for Leo to address. Wonder why this hasn't been brought up earlier? "A pattern of personal abuse and intimidation is becoming ‘commonplace’ in Fine Gael, and the party is not dealing with it, current and former members have told Extra.ie." "Meath councillor Paddy Meade complains that matters as serious as his car being firebombed, involving ‘elements’ of Fine Gael, were not dealt with. He also claims he was assaulted at a meeting where senior members of the party were present." "Mr Meade, who was involved in a court case with a fellow party member, said he and his family ‘don’t feel safe at certain Fine Gael meetings’ and the party is not not ‘a safe society in Co. Meath’." Not a normal party indeed.https://extra.ie/2019/06/30/news/politics/fine-gael-rattled-by-bullying-amid-allegations-of-intimidation-and-verbal-abuse
smurgen wrote: » Joesepha taking credit again for things she'd no hand in. Another narcissist.https://twitter.com/josephamadigan/status/1336306911583621124?s=19
blanch152 wrote: » As this is the FG thread, will comment on the FG aspect of the tweet you raise. 300 new jobs, more good news for Ireland. Whatever Twitter trolls say in response to that on Twitter is not of interest.
markodaly wrote: » Classic, alright. Forget that actual content nor the reality of the announcement. An Irish homegrown entity creating 300 new jobs.... Nah feck that, the real news is what and how someone posts on Twitter... Now THAT is Trumpian!! :D
smurgen wrote: » Wait so FG post to promise student nurses pay and it doesn't happen but it's not their fault yet some random Irish company creates jobs unexpectedly of course yet it is Fine Gaels fault. Christ another case of Newspeak. Trumpian lying.
markodaly wrote: » FG are alone in government? Hmm I would have thought that the minister of Health was from FF and the Greens are in there as well. Take that stuff to the actual thread it belongs.
Bowie wrote: » That might be from her new social media spin merchant. We likely paid for that brain fart.
blanch152 wrote: » More barrel-scraping, lads. Nowhere does she claim credit. She is just passing on good news. It is the fact of that good news that is curdling your responses.
smurgen wrote: » Is that why she plastered her face all over it and FG logos? Surely like normal non narcissistic politicians an official government press release would have sufficed.
blanch152 wrote: » So government politicians have to anonymise their Twitter accounts now? It was good news, that is your problem with it. The Sinn Fein position seems to be that all good news must be delivered in staid press releases but any bad news must be delivered with Leo's face plastered all over it.
smurgen wrote: » So their 16 million euro lottery isn't ran legally?https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/fine-gael-denies-ads-for-leos-lottery-breach-gambling-laws-39843076.html
smurgen wrote: » The narrative is simply all over the place. Spinning around in circles. One month it's the white males next month it's the gay people and mixed race. This dude needs to re-sign.https://twitter.com/IrishTimes/status/1336610925692874753?s=19https://twitter.com/LeoVaradkar/status/1293663127809204233?s=19
McMurphy wrote: » It truly is straight out of the Trump school of clichés, personally I don't like the road Ireland seems to be headed with these constant hypocrisy attacks from FG, and yeah, it is mostly FG who are guilty of it. Their official twitter account is an absolute disgrace, and they should be truly embarrassed by it, it just looks like a troll Sinn Fein account at this stage. The good news I suppose is, it's clear evidence that they're absolutely petrified of the Shinners.
Bowie wrote: » Hiring a former editor of the Sun as press secretary is just awful. Sadly it fits with the tone from government, more over FG.
Nobotty wrote: » To be fair,that chap has to be a SF supporter If he or anyone else expects someone to think otherwise, they're deluded IMO Nothing wrong with that,Obviously Denying it is just stupid and up there with trump posting the word 'rigged I don't see any basis for his complaints therefore The first time I came across him on twitter was when the Leo the leak hash tag started He had 10 posts in a row whose only purpose that day was to try make it trend 100s more since probably from the same person I thought at the time,he looked like a fool Makes a mockery of 'trending and certainly not someone I'd have any interest in following because the posts are all the same theme Thats not needed for me to form my own opinion The only thing positive I got out of looking at that episode was I giggled
McMurphy wrote: » However, in saying that. Twitter is a tough place, thick skin needed if you're going to use that as a platform.
McMurphy wrote: » To be fair, Shorthall isn't denying being an SF supporter, he's objecting to the claim he is a member or a spokesperson for them (from what I'm reading in the attached letter)He has a point about an official FG account targeting him being a private citizen. However, in saying that. Twitter is a tough place, thick skin needed if you're going to use that as a platform.
blanch152 wrote: » He doesn't have a point. You make public statements, you are no longer in a private realm. Given his own posts on Twitter, the treatment he got is very mild. More than a little childish of him to complain.
P.S. Did you ever pay out on that Regina Doherty bet you lost?
