I see Mary Lou is joining the compo culture brigade with a defamation lawsuit against RTE.
I invite you to criticise MLMD for filing her case.
You can also criticise MB again too. You have already spoken quite negatively.
Until you solve the inconsistency, you have no credibility on the topic.
Why would I criticise somebody for excercising a right I think is fundamental?
Have you found a post where I criticised anyone else for that?
You need to start making some sense Donald
Not my fault the prose got the better of you once again.
Point scoring exercise by the looks.
Man, if you are ranting and spewing it out at such a rate that you can't even remember it, then you must be panicking and backpeddaling pretty fast and trying to shout out anything at all. Let's remind you of the post below:
And plenty, including yourself, have compared her suing to Putin and MB,
If you are going to lie so blatantly, expect to be called out on it. The real world doesn't work the same as your local SF chapter where the plebs unconditionally believe what their masters tell them.
Great. We are back then on the merry circle again. Now you are back to fully supporting MB for taking her action, and only have fault with the people who pressured her to withdraw her action. At least we have consistency again (albeit probably temporarily)
Here's the interview Ms McDonald of sinn fein is suing rte about
anyone find anything remotely untrue or defamatory whatsoever?
Seems ms. Mc Donald has no problem with her sinn fein colleagues defaming people from the protected privilege of the dail, yet runs to sue for a compo payout from rte, paid for by the license payers, even though there's nothing there that warrant such a compo claim
What will be interesting will be the blind supporters position if she withdraws the case
'We' never left supporting her right to take a case Donald.
'She' withdrew the case, nobody else.
You've never left it. It didn't start there, but you went straight there and are the only one to have done so. You have never left it because you have no basis to justify any other position. You might as well be coming on and making the point over and over again that the 2+2=4 in response to others posts. Funnily enough, although you might try to claim to have never left MB's right to take a case, you have clearly spoken negatively in relation to what she did.
Let's have a look at one of the top stories online. The front page of independant.ie has a claimed exclusive about Tony Holohan.
Would ya have any bad words to say about Tony? If he joined SF in the morning and anyone said anything negative about him, or criticised his performance at his job, then, true to form, no doubt you would just go on about his constitutional right to earn a living.
Here's one from the breaking news about a fella caught importing drugs from Africa:
No doubt, if someone said anything negative about the poor fella, and he was a paid up SF member, you'd come on saying "Everyone has a constitutional right to travel"
WTF 😁😁
It's fine Francie. Although it has been entertaining seeing you contradict yourself and tie yourself up in knots by blindly trotting out party lines, eventually everything comes to an end. You don't appear to have the capacity, or perhaps permission, to form your own opinions. That's fine. You can stick to parroting the lines from the "party leadership" if you want. At the end of the day, you are the one getting used by them for their own personal gain. If you are happy with that, then so be it.
That's sad Donald.
Could you match my opinion with anything SF have said on this?
Nope you can'5t because they haven't said anything.
But if you believe only SF believe 'everyone has a right to redress' (which has been my 'consistent opinion from the start) then you really are in trouble.
We don't know the details of them, just that they were settled out of court.
There have been clearly signalled problems with our defamation laws that the European Commission and independent bodies have criticised for quite a while, because they favour litigants over media companies, encourage libel tourism to Ireland and discourage free speech. The sheer number of previous cases involving Sinn Fein are a demonstration of this and show how Sinn Fein have a policy of using defamation litigation to censor the media.
Nobody, and in particular, no politician or political party has a right to abuse the defamation legislation in order to censor free speech and damage democracy.
Well, Francis, the newspapers are reporting that RTE have refused to take down the interview that Mary-Lou is complaining about. That means you will be able to listen to it and point out to us where exactly Mary-Lou was defamed. If you want, I can look for the link for you.
Do you support the outcomes blanch? A 'settlement' where we can assume both sides were happy with the outcome?
Absolutely.
Can you point me to your ire about politicians in general doing this because there are examples.
You want me to try the case without any idea what caused the problem?
No thank you blanch
Because they were settled out of court, with the defandants under pressure, we do not have any knowledge of the details involved. What I suggest you do is that you produce the alleged libellous statements and I will tell you if the settlements were justified.
The Mary-Lou one is still up on the RTE website, tell us how she was defamed.
No, Francie, don't expect you to try the case, just give us the reason for the case. You don't have to judge whether the piece was libellous or not, just point to the questions and statements that give rise to the case.
You are asking others to comment on cases, yet you refuse to even point to the subject and reasons behind the cases. Desperate stuff.
I wonder who replaced Bobby Storey on the SF “advisory council”? Might be a more litigious sort.
So by your own admission you are supposing. In layman's terms - making stuff up in order to paint a selective picture.
Very good. Won't wash I'm afraid.
Once again you show us that you have very nasty undemocratic traits.
Jesus, how many times?
I don't know the reason blanch.
Well, listen back to the interview then. If you, as the most diehard defender of Sinn Fein, cannot tell the rest of us what might be upsetting Mary-Lou, then the conclusion that everyone else has reached that Mary-Lou is just engaged in SLAPPs, is almost certainly true.
Well then, what are you worried about, she will lose.
I see the SDLP have not learned from FG/FF's failed negative campaigning and tried to capitalise politically on this. Eastwood revealed a solicitor's letter from SF and promptly got shown how they were happy to threaten legal action using a stooge themselves.
Echo's of Eoghan Murphy and food parcels. 😁
Again with the strawman Francie. If you continue down that road, in future, if I bother to respond, it will be to respond in kind with an equally ridiculous and irrelevant strawman
People are worried about:
On the upside:
It's pretty clear that this has backfired (similar to their numerous housing protests which saw supporters challenge what words meant), but it will be interesting to see how they plan to spin this.
The timing isn't great either, given the elections next week.
And feel free to start defining what the "media" is, I and others will have noticed the dodging around that.
dodging what exactly?
I have been listening to various 'Shinners' on the radio all weekend. Scaremongering won't really help here
Yes indeed, it is all about the other poster. Attack the person criticising SF/Mary-Lou because you have no answers to the real question of why Mary-Lou is taking a SLAPPs action.
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