Presidential Election.

OK, posting out that there's a problem with the candidate slection but not proposing an alternative isn't very helpful.

As for the Billy Kelleher thing, that's an internal FF matter. If you wanted him to run you'd have been better served joining FF and lobbying fellow members for his nomination.

A bit of perspective wouldn’t go astray here

CC ‘s lapse in judgement was giving someone who’d paid their debt to society a second chance
and what happened? She was there for 6 months and the sky didn’t fall. She just did her job and went home

compare that with heather humphreys

She had a lapse in judgment where she helped someone avoid paying any debt to society for a horrific case of animal abuse

A shocking abuse of power

Why is nobody talking about that?

“Catherine Connolly knowingly put her reputation on the line to give a second chance to a woman with a record”

So she’s now some sort of career martyr 🙄

Indeed, a dangerous type of person to have in the Arus, in my humble opinion, given her past leanings .

I wonder will this story take on legs? Will the former tenant come on record and be interviewed? Let’s see how it pans out.

“The north inner-city apartment has since been occupied by a number of tenants, including a couple who rented the property from 2007 to 2009. The tenant was paying his rent by standing orders from his current and savings account each month. The couple were saving for a house themselves, hence the second bank account.When the tenants moved out in May 2009, the standing order from the current account was cancelled.

But a banking error resulted in rent continuing to be paid into Gavin’s account by a standing order from the savings account for six months until November 2009. When the error was spotted, the tenant sought to get a refund of the inadvertently paid rent. Finding it difficult to get hold of Gavin, the tenant persisted by phone, email and personal contact.“When I moved out of your apartment, due to a mix up with the bank, rent continued to be paid into your account by a standing order from a saving account I have with AIB,” he wrote in December 2009. “After I moved out of the apartment at the beginning of May, a total of €550 continued to be paid into your account until November when I realised the error. This means I paid you a total of €3,300 in error.”The tenant asked Gavin to acknowledge the mistake and refund him the money. “I would like you to contact me by phone or in writing to arrange for this money to be repaid to me,” he said. “I am writing to you in work because I have been unable to reach you by phone, despite repeated attempts.

Your home address was never included on the original lease, so I was not able to write to you at your home address.“I also asked the bank to contact you by phone, but you did not respond to them.”The tenant claimed that, when he did not get a response, he went to Gavin’s parents’ house to seek to contact him. He got a mobile number for his former landlord. He also contacted the Residential Tenancies Board to try and get Gavin’s home address from them, but they had no record of the tenancy.The tenant says that, when he got Gavin on the phone, he was told the money would be refunded, but this never happened. He also says maintenance of the property was slow to happen, and he got the impression that Gavin was stretched financially.Gavin says he does not remember any issue over a rent refund.

“In relation to the tenant, he does not have any recollection or records of any such dispute, and they have reviewed all the records they have from 16 years ago,” a statement says.“

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/jim-gavin-the-celtic-tiger-apartment-he-lost-in-the-crash-and-a-rent-refund-dispute/a841490522.html

If it sells copies and advertising, they will.

terrible choice of candidates this time out

many people will spoil their vote

the rest may vote for the dire CC to thank the government for more taxes and wastage this budget