Presidential Election.

So Niall Donald a journalist has been revealed to be the tenant whom Jim Gavin received rent from in error to the tune of 3k. Apparently Jack Chambers knew about this some time in September 2025. Why at that point he didn't immediately repay the money is something I find staggering. It wouldn't had undone the delay in repaying but it would have helped with the optics ie an oversight which has now been corrected etc. Better still would have been to repay lets say 3500 as a way of an apology etc.

FF's handling of this has been appalling. I can understand Jim Gavin maybe not understanding the potential time bomb this story represented but Chambers and Michael have been around the political block so should have been proactive. Either repay or drop out.

I wonder if he'll actually return the money.

what money FF owned the horse, Jim was only the jockey and when he fell off at the first fence they all came along and started kicking him.

I think it's fairly clear to most that Connolly would be quite closely aligned with PBP, who would be the most extreme left grouping in Dáil Eireann.

And II are the most right-wing grouping in the Dáil. They are opposed to a woman's right to choose termination for example.

The only groups I can think of further left are Eirigí, who have no political representation in the Dáil or local government. Who CC also seems to be fond of.

And the likes of the National Party to the right, who again have no representation in the Dáil and have 1 county councillor (Gavin Pepper).

And just to help you understand:

“as the least worst option.”

There’s certainly strong CC supporters out there - less so - much less so actually for HH- I’ll be choosing “the least worst option” also but it won’t be CC 😀 But you’re right, many people like ourselves believe the choice this election is poor

Listening to the pod with Nicola Tallant it seems he was worried about the cost of taking a case and uncertain about the outcome. So I can understand. Jim Gavin comes out of this in an appalling light. Niall Donald the tenant comes across really well and just a decent guy who was wronged. Gavin if he has a brain cell between his ears will repay Niall but I have my doubts. Apparently I'm see in that 3300 euro is now worth about 4700.

Karma has come back to bite Gavin in the ass. Let it be a lesson to us all if we're tempted to be cute.

The malicious rumors were complete nonsense and completely unrelated.

Dont forget Humphreys was a cabinet minister in that government so shes not blameless if she is unpopular because of that.

Its very hard to get a handle on what she represents. A presbyterian folksy style rural politician who attended Orange order events and is married to a member of same. But shes a republician and was minister for the gaeltacht and is now aiming for the presidency despite not speaking irish.

people are asking why Jim didn’t pay the tenant back in early September when this came to light … I’m not sure if people realise the type of operator Jim is …

Remember, The facts are that After the tenant made numerous attempts to contact Jim, he reluctantly dropped a confidential letter addressed to Jim to JG parents house.

He asked the parents to provide the letter to Jim but didn’t want to involve them any further than that.

Jim rang the tenant off a private number late that same night, and was extremely irate that the tenant had the temerity to show up at his parents house.

Jim was extremely angry then once he eventually calmed down he told the tenant he was transferring the money right there and then online. He assured him he would have his money within a few days.

Remember, this is months after the tenant first requested Jim to pay him back.

The tenant never received the money.

People need to take the blinkers off when it comes to Jim Gavin.

Then Jim says he remembers none of this when asked specifics by FF. Never happened sez Jim.

Then, he keeps digging a hole when he appears on last Sundays debate. he gives a very wishy washy response and doesn’t admit fault. He goes on about how it was tough time for him back then and plays the sympathy card at every opportunity.

I can think of a few words that describe Jim and his type but will leave that to others.

It's been brilliant watching her grow into the campaign as the days go by. For a clearly right wing organisation like II to back her says a lot about her as a person who can inspire and unite a nation. Once she's elected (fingers crossed) she will make a wonderful president.

I listened to it. He's currently deputy editor of the Sunday World, and is far more forgiving of Gavin than most people would be. He outlines the fact that he tried numerous times to contact Gavin, and the only time he got any reply was when he dropped off a solicitors letter in an envelope marked private and confidential to Gavin's parents house and asked them to pass it on to him. This was after all other attempts to contact him had failed in 2010, two or three years after the overpayment.

After midnight he got an irate call from Gavin who said he was transferring the money and it would be in his account in five working days. It still hasn't arrived.

A colleague of his tried to get another paper to run the story earlier but it was spiked. Many people in journalism knew about this and the tenant was getting slagged off every time Dublin won an All Ireland. Despite this, he wasn't waiting in the long grass for Gavin. He showed more sympathy than most would, myself included, and said that if he was even paid back at the start of the Presidential campaign he would have considered the matter over.

What got him was when Gavin said he didn't remember which he basically felt was making a liar out of him, so he supplied the documentation to support his story.

Nowhere did i say people from an Orange background should be excluded. Im merely pointing out inconsistencies in her candidacy. When asked about her husband she denied he was in the Orange order when in fact he was.

You ignored the fact that she is a self proclaimed republican in Dail eireann yet she never learned irish despite promising to back when she was minister for the gaeltacht.

My inclination is generally to vote for a centrist candidate but she is not making it easy to predict what she stands for.