Wallace and Daly - Please Read Mod Warning on OP

Says the poster making straw men all over the place, I dont like wallace or daly and somehow that makes me a pro-imperialist?

Does Western imperialism normalising RTE regularly show the frequent million strong pro-Palestinian marches in Yemen.
Do they explain in detail why those pro-Palestinian protests happen in Yemen but not in say Jordan or Egypt. They could if they wanted but no, that kind of thing is ignored & left unexplored (not considered relevant or even news by the narrative managers).

If one habitually consumes such platforms for foreign affairs despite it being an insult to ones intelligence don’t be surprised if you are considered pro-imperialist.

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Stop talking sense about Wallace and grommet will you. It's upsetting their fan base on thread.

The pair of them should be arrested for supporting terrorism on their return home.

Here is “Eastern” Arab media talking about slavery in Yemen

Are you good with slavery as you are with imperial wars of conquest by Russian colonisers?

Well firstly when MEPs despite their own claims at the count centers last year they both consistently refused to talk to Irish Journalists even at one stage calling building security on a journalist who had simply knocked on their office door in Brussels door to ask them some questions.

The reason for this was while MEPs they were able to get away with this level of nonsense as they had a consistent platform that was regularly recorded and televised when they spouted off their nonsensical diatribes on the floor of the EU parliament. The access to that platform meant they didn't have to talk to journalists, and the reality is they were very happy with this as it meant they got to avoid being asked uncomfortable questions like what happened on RTE the other day. Now however without any elected platform they are forced to agree to these media requests as without them they have no other platform. However this also directly contradicts your claim they arent covered by our media outlets by the very fact she Daly was on the radio this week and i have seen several articles about them both this week.

Secondly why do they deserve to be given any platform whatsoever when they were soundly rejected as political representatives in both elections last year. And its not like we don't have very similar voices in the forms of Paul Murphy, RBB and Catherine Connolly et al who regularly appear and are heard from on all forms of Irish media. What is unrepresentative about any of that?

Mick Wallace makes €2.1m Revenue settlement
A Revenue settlement is the final, agreed sum but does not imply payment has been made.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/mick-wallace-makes-2-1m-revenue-settlement-1.1064343

My error – misleading headline.

What relevance has any of that to do with Wallace and Daly?

I don't like them because they are overly simplistic and live in a black and white world where NATO = bad and everyone not NATO = good, therefore Russia is good and Ukraine is bad.

I dont think the US actions where they overthrew regimes to install increasingly unstable regimes that then eventually lost control of was a good thing, I also dont think their constant meddling in the middle east is good either, BUT I also don't think NATO is inherently evil either, especially in the context of Russias invasion of Ukraine. Yet somehow this in your eyes will still make me whatever the fvck it is you have defined as an imperialist as in your head.

But again this is my problem with them and people like yourself, every single political event, theory or event is a shiboleth test and if you fall on the opposite side to them or yourself on just 1 topic then you are declared the anti-christ. Sure it happens as well if somehow you don't have an intricate knowledge of varied complex and specific events to be able to choose option a or b then you are dismissed as being selfish or not caring enough and again dubbed as the anti-christ.

And finally….. I knew i could eventually get you to reply to me 😂

This is probably a failure to communicate maybe due to words not being adequate.
If one hasn’t decolonised one’s mind from capitalist propaganda then the things socialists say may appear black & white.
The US emits great PR claims for itself. So did the British empire, so did the French empire, so did both imperial and Nazi Germany. If anyone still believes US PR about being the worlds policeman and fighting for freedom, democracy, human rights and free trade then without some mental decolonisation what anti-imperialists say just IS going to hurt your feelings.
I don’t really blame people for voting for their own oppression – some know with virtual certainty what would happen if we tried to dismantle capitalism here (I think its against the constitution anyway). If one can’t change the political economy they live under they are just slaves (with wifi & central heating but still slaves).

The background to the case is that Wallace’s business started to fail. Fairly normal in this oppressive disguised feudalist system that we all love deep in our hearts! As a motive, business failure is not equivalent to the intentional type of sleazy embezzlement & corruption that is so common here (esp among the politicians).
He then did unwise things to try to keep his business going. IF, he had misdeclared VAT and spent the (non-existent) money on buying Ferraris or buying houses for his children then I wouldn’t have any time for him.

According to the IT in 2023: "he previously owned a vineyard in Italy but sold it in 2009 to his brother".
However, the building business ran into trading problems only in 2009-2011 during the crash, no?

Clare is suing the Sunday Times

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2025/05/09/former-mep-clare-daly-alleges-defamation-in-article-published-weeks-before-2024-european-elections/

Ms Daly is suing over a Sunday Times story regarding her alleged links to a Lithuanian diplomat, Algirdas Paleckis, who was prosecuted by the Lithuanian security services for passing information to Russia.

The article, published on May 28th, 2024, alleged Ms Daly had, in November 2021, provided Mr Paleckis, then under house arrest pending an appeal, with the email address of dissident republican Liam Campbell. It alleged that the two men were later in contact.

In 2021, Mr Campbell, from Dundalk, Co Louth, was fighting an attempt to extradite him to Lithuania on foot of terrorism charges which were later dropped.

In 2009, he was one of four men found civilly liable in a case taken by families of victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing. He was never prosecuted in connection with the bombing, in which 29 people died.

Daly describes this butcher as a 'political prisoner'

“Any dealings I have had with any political prisoners has always been anchored in the work of the cross-party Oireachtas group on prisoner conditions and reinforcing the peace process, ” her statement said.

“I’ve known Liam Campbell through that work since 2012 and attended the trial of his brother Michael in Lithuania along with TDs Éamon Ó Cuív, Martin Ferris and Maureen O’Sullivan.”

Ms Daly said: “I am taking this very seriously in the context of foreign interference in the elections.”

The last sentence, you just could not make it up.

Clare says Paleckis was imprisoned for espionage on the testimony of a convicted pedophile & secret evidence even the judges could not see?
Do you know what that secret evidence is or want to give an educated guess what it most likely is?
Maybe this secret evidence will be exposed by the intrepid ST legal team?

Paleckis seems an odd duck though I can see how his attempts at rewriting soviet history are appealing to clare.

RE: the Sunday Times hit-piece …. Ah man. Once you read more of that trollery, even at the most superficial level, the worse it gets (or the more simplistically straightforward it gets to be precise).
The facts are clear.
So any and ALL of CD’s dealings with prisoners were in a cross party committee. This was not about favouring any one prisoner or any particular crime category.

Big picture: Daly & Wallace were doing good numbers off & online, improving all the time, the Euro elections were imminent, so the Murdoch kkklan looked at the easily predictable outcome of a defamation case under the Irish court system (due to “expert” legal advice which you can buy when you’re a billionaire obvs) and judged that the cost was worth it, like spare change at the back of the couch for these *****

• to completely make up a lie out of thin air about espionage & spying

(and OF COURSE CD was going to sue due to this cringe worthy low quality fabricated lie!

Bingo – Front page Hit piece published.

Also to note:- the huge print headline was designed to be read by people who didn’t even buy the ST that day. It is not unreasonable to assume that 10 or 100 times the amount of people who didn’t buy the ST or any billionaire owned newspaper that day saw the headline (many newstand pillars in shops are set up so one can’t help but see headlines as you go to & from the till - which is by design, retail hotspots…)

So as a standard hit job on socialists, even for this thread this has to rank as 0/10 (I don’t give minus scores, that might change in future).

Q: Are any people who uncritically swill anti-socialism from the MSM, like its their daily tea or coffee, embarrassed by this clownish scummy carry-on?

Daly was a hard working and respected TD. Her support of Iran against US sanctions was from the perspective of how average Iranians would be affected by the oppression of the ruling theocracy, not in support of it. She has been hugely critical of American overreach in world affairs and rightly so as we are seeing that soft power being leveraged against us by King Donny. Granted though, her take on Ukraine is so up her arse it has clinkers.

She used to be a decent skin and it's a shame she's getting fucked over so much, especially when you look at the shower of absolute gowls populating the Dail these days.

Neh it’s important that those who defend and work for Putin’s regime are called out and named and shamed

Imho these two can f**k off to Russia and experience the place for themselves first hand, hey they even get to use all them dirty roubles then

We still have journalists who are not afraid to do investigative work and not afraid of falling out of windows or being assassinated for criticising foreign agents