It was obviously too much for him to criticise anything to do with the Religion of Peace so he invented some spurious wittering about climate change.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0613/1304483-higgins-nigeria/
He's either right or wrong. You can read motive into it all you like.
Weird thing for the poster to keep in the birdbox for further use.
Or even put it this way, who spends their time wondering if x,y or z person has paid capital gains on a house sale besides Revenue and goes to the trouble of googling it?
Don't you give out about Trump, Brexit and the 'power swap'? Politics really is a rough trade
He shouldnt been letting those kids without a house,so he could flog it
He have an unbelievable wage and pensions,has more money and wealth he can ever likely use,its donating it to the state he should have done
Not to distract from his lifetime of service and role in ending section 31,but it was utter greed was all,that drove the sale of that house
FF and FG decided not to run candidates in order to save money for upcoming elections. They backed Higgins. So the old 2.5 party system (FF/FG/Labour) were backing their candidate. Even then over 50% of the electorate didn't bother voting. Far from it marking the rehabilitation of the Labour Party and the restoration of the Tweedledumb, Tweedledee and Tweedledumber 2.5 party model where FF and FG swapped seats every few years, it forced SF to rethink its policies and organisation and kickstarted the rise of SF. Less than 25% of the electorate voted for "the people's choice". That's a bit like FF or FG these days.
Regards...jmcc
It was a big story a few years ago and some people can even remember as far back as 2019. The Sunday Times got a scoop.
And did he remember to mention eating out? His post is the best argument I’ve seen to limit voting rights even further.
Some posters with a very deep analysis and research on MDH and his money. He must have upset some group very much: was it the housing speech? Was it the NI commemoration? What would those groups have in common?
Google search=very deep analysis
Dear me.
The way this FF man conducted himself as governor-general is to my mind an even better model for our presidency, if we have to have one
De Valera explicitly instructed Ua Buachalla as Governor-General to keep a low public profile, and not to fulfil public engagements, which was part of de Valera's policy to make the office an irrelevance by reducing it to invisibility. While he continued to give the Royal Assent to legislation, summon and dissolve Dáil Éireann and fulfil the other formal duties of the office, he declined all public invitations and kept himself invisible, as advised by his Government...On de Valera's instruction, Ua Buachalla did not reside in the official residence of the Governor-General, the Viceregal Lodge (now called Áras an Uachtaráin, the residence of the President of Ireland).[11] Instead, a house was rented for his use in Monkstown, outside of Dublin.
They'll grow up.
PJ O'Rourke: "I had a clear road-to-Damascus experience. When I was a hippie I thought I was a Socialist. Then I got my first paycheck and found that state, federal and local governments took almost half my pay. Thereby I discovered that we had socialism already. And since I was opposed to the status quo I went out and joined the Republican Party."
This row has got new legs this morning: “senior coalition figures” trying to brief against the President anonymously to media figures. It seems that the speech has hit home but why are they so afraid of dealing with the breach of role (if that is what it is) in the proper manner? Running scared of MDH? Very odd
What is the 'proper manner'? Genuinely asking. If it's impeachment, I can understand why they're not gung ho for that...
I don’t know either but wouldn’t a formal letter from Taoiseach be “proper” rather than the manner described? Maybe this is the way now?
Heard his rant this morning about travellers and how they are not by now living in proper houses - no doubt triple A rated and with stables out the back as desired.
Methinks our president is more than a little out of touch with the common citizen.
They keep digging: describing it, allegedly, as an embarrassment and a performance. It seems they believe they are more in touch with the public mood on the issue.
Well if you constantly whinge on about the ills of capitalism from a very exalted pulpit, don't be surprised if people start checking if you eat cake instead of bread.
Ah yes, one must dress in sackcloth to offer an opinion on capitalism.
One could be forgiven for thinking you just don't like what he's saying irrespective of what's in his pension pot.
I certainly don't like what he's saying that's correct, however his lifestyle comes from the public coffers so I understand why that may gall people further.
You're galled at him getting paid over the course of his career?
Righty-oh. You'll have a lifetime of being galled by people being paid then. Hope it gets better for you.
Maybe some mindfulness could help.
FF’s O’Cuiv backs MDH. Varadkar admits he’s not wrong “for some people”. Seems like the speech may have crossed a line but it’s not the point anymore.
I think higgy baby needs to shut his mouth and retire gracefully at this stage. Way above his, wonderfully generous pay grade, that rubbish he came out with yesterday.
He's like the grandad in the corner that just sits there and talks shite. Everyone loves him but they just wish he'd shut the **** up
What did he say specifically that was rubbish?
When even Varadkar is forced to agree with him to his limited degree it causes huge confusion in the ranks.
If you had figured him out as a greedy hypocrite, it was quite easy to remember the details of his house sale.
He's not wrong.
You try and buy or rent a place and come back to me and tell me it's grand.
He sold his house, where's the story here?
I'm not galled at all, perhaps reread my posts to alleviate your bewilderment.
So "may gall people" isn't a reference to yourself?
Sure thing.
The only one who seems stressed about it is you wanting people to look the other way in, weirdly, a thread about Michael D Higgins virtue signalling!
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