Clonmel Thread

We have elected a terrible set of TDs. The south got completely screwed when the North and South combined. Cahill, Kelly and Lowry are all in the North and don't care about anything south of Thurles. They would burn Clonmel to the ground if they thought it would get something extra for Nenagh. Mattie is vocal but very very niche. He only cares about the 20% of the electorate he needs to get elected. Old, Catholic, rural. And Martin Browne is an embarrassment. Any time I see him he seems "tired and emotional". It was said that Sinn Fein could run a dead donkey in the last election and they would get in on the first count. Browne certainly proved that. Surely Sinn Fein can't seriously contemplate running him again. If they do they must surely be in danger of losing the seat which would leave Tipperary as the probably only county in the next Dail without a government TD and that won't do us any favours.

But we can only vote for who is on the ballot paper. The handful that were rejected were probably even less inspiring. Didn't Fine Gael parachute the sister of some minister onto the Tipperary ballot paper even though she had barely set foot in the county.

Clonmel must mobilise and elect a Clonmel TD.

Village is full of scum bags if you haven’t got cctv make sure you get it !!

Is he the chap in Carrick? A lovely man, very focussed on local issues

He's running in the locals in Clonmel next year so they're probably going to see how he gets on there. It's up to the electorate not SF

But won't SF have to put him up for election.

Honestly I've never heard of him, but that's probably more about me that him, as I'm no way into politics at all.

It’s a miracle

Anybody else seen the state of market place now the boarded up shops are covered with graffiti the place looks even more pitiful now .

Took them almost 2 months to sort it. Shocking.

Reports that a brother was driving his sister and a group of friends were being driver to meet a bus. Very tragic news.

He’s Clonmel/Cahir/Ardfinnan

Has about 18 screws loose in his head

I’m kinda hoping Mairin McGrath does well long-term.

Unfortunately though as an Independent she can probably only go so far. Would nearly like if she was with Soc Dems.

So can you recommend someone to us? All you are doing is saying no to SF - how about you say yes to someone, anyone else. I’m genuinely interested in who on earth we can vote for next year - we are bereft of suitable candidates.

The way I see it is, we don't have the caliber of politician in the south. For anyone to make any sort of impression locally they will need to be at the very least in a junior ministry position if not a senior role. That or an independent like Lowery (with all his faults) who is willing to make a few deals to get what he wants. And while most of the country laughs at Tipperary voter's for voting Lowery back in, he certainly get things done in North Tipperary

I agree partially with you but we should never stoop to voting in criminals, Lowry shouldn’t even be on the ballot.

So what do we do? Are there any locals that could be drafted in? Most of our local councillors arent great either> lets not settle for a numptie, we should encourage local branches of political parties to promote new, improved would be politicians.