Irish General Election - Friday, November 29th *Read OP for Mod Warnings*

As Jim O'Callaghan's sister, she should not be chairing the debate. We have enough bias.

Mary Lou doing well here or the other two lads looking very poor more so

Simon Harris begins his response to so many questions with "That's a really important question." "That's a really good question." "That's a really relevant question."

He's buying time to think of an answer.

The more I watch, the poorer he’s coming across. He’s desperate and insincere.

Is there a possibility of him loosing his seat, never mind getting back as Taoiseach?

I saved us from COVID. How many times has he said it.

Martin's closing statement was all about me, a great man of the people. We should be so lucky to have him.

Very few Independents though. Kate O’Connell will prop Fine Gael as will Lowry etc.

Healy - Rae will support FF. I’m sure there’s other Independents who’ll prop other parties but I can’t think of any at the minute.

HHe Is the lad that would rat you out or the class out in school to get a pat on the head from the teacher. Such an unlikable character, didn't think they could do worse than varadkar but Harris is close

If MM wanted he could have gone after harrris on a few issues, the candidate running in Louth, the debacle with the care worker over the weekend and also Mary hildigarde Naughton backing that councillor after knowing that they had sent inappropriate messages, but he didn’t, it’s fairly obvious after tonight that MM and Harris want to go back in together again whether you agree with it or not, going forward if they get into office again it’s pointless having a three way leader debate again, the media trying to build it up, not a Sinn Fein voter or won’t be but I can see them gaining some momentum over the next few days

So that was a 2 on 1 team up from Harris and Martin. The only way to get these two fuckers to go head to head is if no one else is in the debate but them.

That last kid in Tipp cutting through all the bullshit and asking the hard question on the real pertinent issue of the day.

The question the MSM is afraid to ask.

Funny how people watch the same thing and have different opinions. Only watched till 1030 but thought she was pretty poor, and had very little detail on anything when pushed. Even by the overall non answer standard, she's was even more off topic then the others, and it should be easier being in opposition. The fact she went back to her tweedle dee comments probably enforces how I feel about her performance, a sound bite we have heard before with little substance.

On contrary to most I thought Harris was good, and would had expected him to be the poorest going in.

Nothing in the debate will change anyone's mind you would expect.

Why?

I'm back home the last few days and the flyer that came in the door from him is something else.

The first pic of him that catches your eyes is literally one of him holding a baby.

Yeah, unhappy with her performance as minister for justice, obviously a man and dislikes foreigners.

It's these kind of lazy retorts that will ultimately destroy the current parties. Any criticism of government ministers or policies is automatically labelled with an 'ist. And if anything, it is the main reason for the rise in independents and fringe parties.