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I’m amazed quite frankly that FGs National meetings on Gender Equality https://www.finegael.ie/fine-gaels-gender-equality-listening-to-you-roadshow-kicks-off-in-kilkenny-carroll-macneill/ haven’t given the party the huge boost it needs? Surely in these times of massive private rents, lack housing for working people, crippling levels of taxation on work, eye watering inflation, desperate infrastructure, endless hospital waiting lists, spiralling violent crime and completely uncontrolled migration that FG would be adding at least 5% being so in tune with the common man’s issues?
I don't care about your pal in the slightest.
The topic is a FF'er winning his own raffle. What is your story about your friend to do with it? Are you saying 'nothing to see here' or just having a chat?
Think that Donohoe might want to be leader. He was saying how he worked well with Michael McGrath/FF in an interview before Christmas and then the FG propaganda machine nearly had a meltdown. Coveney was the FG grassroots choice though. Varadkar was the FG parliamentary party choice and, even though Coveney had most votes, Varadkar was installed as leader and he lost seats for FG at every election since.
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“If you are not saying 'nothing to see here' what are you saying?” I’m trying to figure out what YOU are saying. You seemed to be suggesting that my pal was a member of FF. He’s not. Sorry if that doesn’t suit your prejudiced narrative.
I didn't. That's something you made up while you were defending a rapist.
I'm suggesting a man winning the draw he's overseeing is suspect and him being a member of an organisation, FF, known for fraud and cronyism isn't a good look.
Not talking about your latest convenient friend. If you are not saying 'nothing to see here' what are you saying?
I don't think it would matter. Whoever it is will be a stooge. Just dumped in there while they are down and maybe trying to rebuild, then out after a decade. They're used to having leaders not become Taoiseach, my guess is they know they're down and out for a while once this government is out.
All pretty unpalatable and incompetent in equal measure, Pascal the Rascal doesn't have the stomach for it I don't think, Jesus that leaves Heather 😳, I'll say no more 😏
RedC uses a panel of 40K respondents that it thinks represent the electorate. Some of the other pollsters use a random sample of the electorate. The rise of SF in the RedC polls should be a cause of concern, if not outright fear, for FFG. Was there a Bacik bounce?
Who would they put in though instead?
Coveney's chance seems to have come and gone, and given his fondness for increased globalisation and immigration would probably just exacerbate the problems we're already seeing.
McEntee? Like Leo, too fond of her twitter account and trend chasing. Completely out of her depth in Justice with disastrous consequences. Would certainly tick the gender and identity politics boxes though! These days that seems to be enough so who knows!
Harris? Equally unsuitable!
They like FF have a problem in that there isn't a clear successor who could unite not just the party and government behind them, but an electorate.
It's extraordinary to think that combined FF & FG can only muster 35% , not surprising, just extraordinary.
FG will be happy with that 🙄
But not for the reasons that they would try and have us believe. They just don't have the Cajones to rid themselves of Varadkar.
Well I suppose one positive for FFĢG
Greens up 1% 😁
SF 36 %
FF + FG 35%
Popcorn time
A better example would be that the building developers have too much power with the government in their pockets.
I'll be surprised if Maryanne doesn't have a friend who had a builder build 17 houses in his back garden and he was fine with it, even if he had saved for 24 years while living in his parents as a soldier while waiting to buy it. 🙄
There’s a massive issue of integrity and fairness here- someone involved in running a local lotto should not be taking part.
My pal isn’t FF. He was supporting his club in every way. As I said, no one begrudged his win.
Facebook 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
This is an excellent example of why ireland has a housing crisis.
Checking the Facebook website we have one guy complaining because the sun in the morning MIGHT not hit his house but he doesn’t know
Other person said it’s ok but too many floors
of course the usual, oh they built high rise in Ballymun and it didn’t work 🤦♂️🤦♂️
How can anyone expect the housing crisis to finish when you have people blocking houses apartment getting built
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/0524/1300939-700-objections-lodged-against-dundrum-apartment-scheme/
You spent all day yesterday defending a criminal for beating up a pensioner and a man for murdering a Garda. Now you are complaining about a GAA Chairman winning a lotto because he is a member of FF
Get up the yard
Discussion on the Government thread is about the parties in government. A news story was linked to (NOT discussed yet) about a lad picking out his own winning ticket, and he just had to be an FF councillor. You couldn't have bet on it.
It may have been a pot luck draw, and the April Fools draw may not have been a dry run, but it's still the type of typical 'hilarity' that we have come to expect from FF. It's almost slapstick comedy. He had to be a FF or FG councillor to make it that bit funnier.
Admittedly it's usually not a literal raffle ticket when they pick out their own names/crony names for profit but it is a good analogy.
Reputable people and institutions generally don't enter a draw they oversee. The reputation of FF doesn't help his case either.
Discussion on the government thread is about a GAA Chairman winning a draw at a club fair and square....exciting stuff
As the guy is a Chairman I would expect he has invested huge amount of his time for free into the club.
I had to read it closely, as a few years ago, a friend who was Secretary of the local GAA club won their lottery. No one begrudged him his win as he puts a lot of time and effort into the club.
This is how I picture every single member of Fianna Fail. And their supporters will get a great laugh at this too.
Self reflection?
😂😂
A chairman of a GAA club has bizarrely won his own clubs lotto...
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John Connolly, Chairman of CLG Bhearna, took home the prize of €10,700. Mr Connolly, a Fianna Fáil councillor, took part in the lotto draw alongside club officers Murt Conneely and Shane O'Flaherty..
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CLG Bhearna have been in the news already this year for a club lotto draw that took place on April 1st. As an April fools joke, the club drew the numbers of the aforementioned Mr Conneely, before coming clean and revealing that the ruse.
Talk about art imitating life!
As Father Ted Crilly once said moments before he won his own raffle, "The last raffle that I was at was very interesting because the people who ran the raffle actually won it. So, it's not unusual for that to happen now and again."
Sorry, I haven't been following the thread fully, as I am currently very busy, but are you trying to argue that there is no house crisis in Ireland and/or that all houses are currently affordable for all?
All average house prices are available here in every area
https://www.joe.ie/news/house-prices-increase-742428#:~:text=The%20average%20cost%20of%20a%20home%20in%20Ireland%20is%20now%20%E2%82%AC280%2C000.&text=The%20Residential%20Property%20Price%20Index,the%20year%20to%20December%202021.
What isn't shown in that graph, is how house prices have risen at a completely different rate than wages, an have been doing so since the 90's.
From last year
You seem to be struggling, someone posted about unaffordable housing. I just asked for clarity and it turned out I was 100% correct. Yet you continue with these posts trying to have a pop at me.
The average wage in Ireland according to information is just below 50k.
Would that not be the average citizen?
It seems to be a common theme here about firing out "unaffordable" and "average" citizen, when asked for clarity none is provided because it is just words with nothing behind it.
If you get so upset about someone asking for clarity then not sure why you are on a discussion board because thats the point of it
If you just want an echo chamber of slagging off the government plenty of website around to provide that, some peopel on here have different opinions which is still allowed
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