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Oh dear. What a ham fisted effort. Very disrespectful to women to use their abuse to try score a point. Sadly typical from you.
She threatened him to get him to pull out of the campaign. She should have reported him.
Reported him to whom?
You have dug yourself a hole on this one, out on your own, your blind hatred of all things FG has left you looking like a fool who thinks women should accept online bullying.
You are the one taking this personal and using the plight of women to try lay claims. You are going over the top.
The woman blackmailed a party colleague into pulling out of a race based on a Snapchat post he made. She held it over him 8bstead of reporting it. I asked was it appropriate for her to be speaking out about online bullying? You tried to make it a misogyny thing. Thats low but typical.
As for 'blind hatred', I protest. I always give a good reason if showing my dislike for FG.
Absolute nonsense. I have asked you twenty times who she should have reported him to, and you have still failed to answer. Why? Because you have no answer.
Women who stand up to male online bullies are to be praised, not criticised. They are also role models for other women in similar situations and are absolutely the right person to be speaking out about online bullying. In criticising her, you are making yourself look like a misogynist, nobody else is doing that to you.
You should stop digging the hole you are in.
Hey, if you think there was nothing to report what was she bullying him with? If she had an issue she should have contacted the Garda, not blackmailed him.
You are trying to twist this into some crusade for women. You are being dishonest and using the plight of women to try turn the discussion. Its a low tactic.
I asked was it appropriate for her to be speaking on online bullying after engaging in same. You seemingly think it is. Thats it really.
You seem incapable of being calm and civil. This level of rabid debate is beneath me. So one last go.
You called out a woman who confronted a male online bully. I say she is a role model. You can't accept that and go with some nonsense around she should have reported it. She was very brave to tackle that male online bully, hopefully more will do so.
If I see her as someone standing up for women who have been bullied online by male misogynists, and praise her for that, what the hell is wrong with me doing that (other than showing you up)?
I've been nothing but civil whereas you tried to use women being bullied to infer misogyny.
I've only queried was she the right person to be speaking on bullying having engaged in same. I keep repeating this because you keep trying to use the plight of women for your advantage. Its despicable frankly.
Right, stop this part of the discussion. Having looked at what has been posted accusations of blackmail are totally inappropriate in this case. Any questions PM me. Do not respond to this warning in thread
MM getting very historic.
He seems to be saying the emergency aspect is almost over.
I still don't see the logic between closing a pub at 8 or 12 being any different.
Michael Martin, leader of the nation.
Thanks Mick
Well if you haven't understood the logic after near two years of this then I suppose you never will! Aim was to reduce interactions enough to reduce R-naught to ideally below 1.
Great to be approaching normality again. Must plan a few celebratory pints for the weekend :)
Probably not.
Not a big drinker but miss the social aspect certainly.
Tony and Micheal playing 4D draughts while Leo is playing Tiddlywinks.
Leo: "We're looking at March 31st when we remove most of the restrictions
Micheal and Tony: "THEY'RE GOING TOMORROW"
I see McEntee posted on Instagram about nightclubs opening prior to MM speech, then deleted it.
Surprised Varadkar didn't run out and spill the beans like he normally does. They probably fed him fluff due to form.
Wow, some people seem quite bitter that things are returning to normal.
You have to ask - which FF/FG ministers come out of Covid with their reputations intact?
Donnelly? Foley? Whoever Housing is? Calleary? Coveney? Cowen? Leo the Leak? Harris?
McEntee has also decided to make a complete fool of herself this week for some odd reason.
The retrospective will be very interesting and the magic money tree is well and truly raided.
Nothing bitter. Passing comments back and forth. It doesn't have to be lads in the trenches all the time. Relax.
Ryan slept through much of it. He lost reputation letting Leo leak with no consequences, Coveney gift the Envoy post and attend/not attend/attend the party with no consequences. That's his legacy.
Norma Foley took on the vested interests and was vindicated every time
Michael McGrath top class
Pascal Donohoe delivered the highest tax take ever totally against the odds
Daragh O Brien is going well
McConologue has wiped the floor with his opposite number
Coveney highly respected internationally
Even Heather Humphreys has done the business
The grown ups are delivering
It is incredible that a government that has had to impose the most severe austerity measures ever remains as popular as it does.
what’s more, the only way from here for the government is up. In three years time, when the election arrives their message will be COVID stopped us doing everything but we are on the right track. Polls will be interesting then.
When the time comes, maybe folks will still want their boring parents, and not their drunk uncle with a criminal record, in charge of the house
"Back on track".
I hope they learned this time.
Nobody wants a return to normal. Normal wasn't working.
To be fair to Varadkar lets wait until the criminal investigation concludes.
Good to see that the days of summary justice are over. Progress.
Nobody expects justice.
Why did the greens think diesel was cleaner than petrol?
They should have known that you need to wash the diesel first
Good job we have the SCC
Dept investigation not 'transparent' - Rabbitte (rte.ie)
Minister for State Anne Rabbitte said that asking the Department's Secretary General Joe Hackett to conduct an "internal" investigation was not "open and transparent".
On the same programme, Labour TD Duncan Smith called for an independent investigation of the event.
He said "mates investigating mates was not the way to go."
Deputy Government Chief Whip Brendan Griffin TD called the event "sickening" and "disheartening" on Radio Kerry. He added it was "two fingers to the people".
Asking the Department of Foreign Affairs to investigate themselves. Pure FG, pure New Politics.
I thought "two fingers to the people" was the party motto?
Paschal was challenged on PrimeTime why there was no Garda investigation into champagnegate and he avoided the question.
If you missed it, the car crash interview that Helen McEntee did is here.
Minister Helen McEntee - Today with Claire Byrne by RTÉ Radio 1 (soundcloud.com)
I actually thought she was a lot more capable than this. All over the shop like some of the other clowns in the cabinet.
She even let oversight of domestic violence leave Justice last year and move to O'Gorman's department despite all the promises in the initial program for government.
