Theresa Heaney on Vincent Browne

Bubbaclaus · 23-05-2014 11:24AM #1

Sad to think people like her still exist in 2014.

Will she even get any votes outside of her family members?

Kermit.de.frog · 23-05-2014 11:26AM

She is entitled to her views and opinions OP. I don't know what type of country you want to live in but I don't want to live in one where people cannot stand for election based on their own beliefs and put a case to the public.

jimgoose · 23-05-2014 11:26AM

Can someone give me the executive summary? One-legged Ethiopian bisexual Womyn for President, or douse 'em in Holy Water and learn 'em with fire??

Bubbaclaus · 23-05-2014 11:27AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

She is entitled to her views and opinions OP.

You can have your own opinions but you can't have your own facts.

edit: and to add, I never said she shouldn't be allowed run. I said it was sad that these types still exist in the 21st Century.

shruikan2553 · 23-05-2014 11:30AM

At least she is telling us she is insane now so we know not to vote for her. Although I can't imagine myself voting for anyone in a party called Catholic Democrats anyway.

Kermit.de.frog · 23-05-2014 11:31AM

Bubbaclaus wrote: »

You can have your own opinions but you can't have your own facts.

The voters can decide that not you. I don't support her views but she at least she has the courage to stand by her own convictions no matter what you think of them - that is far more than can be said for a lot of people in this country.

I respect anybody who stands for election no matter what their views. It is not an easy thing to do.

Bubbaclaus · 23-05-2014 11:33AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The voters can decide that not you. I don't support her views but she at least she has the courage to stand by her own convictions no matter what you think of them - that is far more than can be said for a lot of people in this country.

I respect anybody who stands for election no matter what their views. It is not an easy thing to do.

I'm not sure where you are getting the suggestion I said she shouldn't be allowed run. I never made such a claim.

Muise... · 23-05-2014 11:37AM

It like a Spinal Tap-style faux documentary. I especially like the reaction shots of the rest of the panel - a masterclass in how to facepalm without putting your palm to your face.

kneemos · 23-05-2014 11:38AM

The least uptight looking of the religious headbangers that I've seem.Normally there's a stern bitter look about them.

Muise... · 23-05-2014 11:41AM

jimgoose wrote: »

Can someone give me the executive summary? One-legged Ethiopian bisexual Womyn for President, or douse 'em in Holy Water and learn 'em with fire??

The Holy Water has been contaminated by oestrogen from the contraceptive pill, and cervical cancer vaccine (I think), getting into the sacred Irish streams and rivers. The report on this is suppressed till 2016 so they can push the water charges through. So now.

jimgoose · 23-05-2014 11:44AM

Muise... wrote: »

The Holy Water has been contaminated by oestrogen from the contraceptive pill, and cervical cancer vaccine (I think), getting into the sacred Irish streams and rivers. The report on this is suppressed till 2016 so they can push the water charges through. So now.

Right you are, Squire. Thought it might be along those lines.

Bubbaclaus · 23-05-2014 11:46AM

My favourite bit is where she says she has nothing against gays, she just doesn't want them to have equal rights.

Jimoslimos · 23-05-2014 11:47AM

Wait a minute...she wants mothers to stay at home to look after their children, yet immediately after she is against tax incentives being removed for grandparents who look after children (whilst their mothers are presumably out working :rolleyes:)

Don't even get me started on vaccines.

Reformed Character · 23-05-2014 11:48AM

The woman is clearly demented, but the proof of how out of touch she is with reality will be when the ballots are counted.

tayto lover · 23-05-2014 11:50AM

Life's a box of chocolates folks. It takes all kinds.

Sunglasses Ron · 23-05-2014 11:51AM

I'd vote for her just to piss off the PC mob. If she got elected their reaction would just be too good.

edit- I've watched more. She's even worse than the PC brigadiers. Even seeing them shi't is not worth electing this wingnut.

jimgoose · 23-05-2014 11:51AM

tayto lover wrote: »

Life's a box of chocolates folks. It takes all kinds.

Common misconception. It doesn't necessarily take all kinds, but we seem to have them anyway.

kneemos · 23-05-2014 11:53AM

Muise... wrote: »

The Holy Water has been contaminated by oestrogen from the contraceptive pill, and cervical cancer vaccine (I think), getting into the sacred Irish streams and rivers. The report on this is suppressed till 2016 so they can push the water charges through. So now.

Thought you were joking,but no.

Reformed Character · 23-05-2014 11:53AM

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

I'd vote for her just to piss off the PC mob. If she got elected their reaction would just be too good.

What is it you have against personal computers?

thomas anderson. · 23-05-2014 11:54AM

No lads No

It is people like this who are keeping Ireland in the dark ages

LuckyLloyd · 23-05-2014 11:55AM

I thought she was wonderfully entertaining to be perfectly honest. The contamination of rivers by contraceptive pills nonsense was delicously cuckoo crazy.

Corkfeen · 23-05-2014 11:55AM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

She is entitled to her views and opinions OP. I don't know what type of country you want to live in but I don't want to live in one where people cannot stand for election based on their own beliefs and put a case to the public.

Her cervical cancer statements are down right dangerous. Thankfully she offsetted by carrying on to speak of oestrogen in the water supply. She is free to have her opinions but we are also free to say how completely nuts they are. Her opinion is not founded in reality.

Sunglasses Ron · 23-05-2014 12:00PM

"the waterways of Ireland are contaminated with estrogen from the contraceptive pill"

I've read better logic on the CT forum.

Muise... · 23-05-2014 12:00PM

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I thought she was wonderfully entertaining to be perfectly honest. The contamination of rivers by contraceptive pills nonsense was delicously cuckoo crazy.

Even Enoch Powell didn't envisage rivers of oestrogen. You could sing that to the Boney M tune though.

laoisman11 · 23-05-2014 12:05PM

Muise... wrote: »

The Holy Water has been contaminated by oestrogen from the contraceptive pill, and cervical cancer vaccine (I think), getting into the sacred Irish streams and rivers. The report on this is suppressed till 2016 so they can push the water charges through. So now.

I thought you were making that up........

Then I watched the clip.

bear1 · 23-05-2014 12:10PM

Nice to see that they let the looneys out once in a while.

stmol32 · 23-05-2014 12:21PM

Fookin hell, the mental old cow might actually be right.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/male-fertility-fears-over-pollution-in-water-supply-654356.html

bear1 · 23-05-2014 12:23PM

stmol32 wrote: »

Fookin hell, the mental old cow might actually be right.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/male-fertility-fears-over-pollution-in-water-supply-654356.html

Not Ireland though

miss-p · 23-05-2014 12:26PM

stmol32 wrote: »

Fookin hell, the mental old cow might actually be right.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/male-fertility-fears-over-pollution-in-water-supply-654356.html

Depends where you get your information from http://www.arhp.org/publications-and-resources/contraception-journal/august-2011

A literature review published in Environmental Science and Technology by researchers at the UCSF PRHE debunks the myth that birth control pills (and other estrogen-based hormonal contraceptives) are a major contributor to the presence of estrogenic compounds in waterways. The reviewers conclude that birth control pills contribute a negligible amount of synthetic estrogen to waterways, and EE2 is minimal or nonexistent in drinking water.8 The notion of unsuspecting Americans drinking water filled with birth control hormones may get headlines—but it does not accurately describe the state of the science.

The UCSF review cites several other sources of endocrine-disrupting compounds in our water, including synthetic estrogens in crop fertilizer (e.g., Atrazine), synthetic and natural estrogens from livestock, including dairy cows, which can be fed hormones to increase milk production, and an unknown number of industrial chemicals, like plastic additive bisphenol-A (BPA). Industrial chemicals may enter waterways either through chemical plant runoff or the disposal of products in landfills (Fig 1). Chemicals in pharmaceuticals such as anti-seizure medications and anti-depressants may also mimic estrogen.18 Furthermore, women using birth control are not the only ones flushing estrogen down the drain. Pregnant women excrete high levels of natural estrogens, and nearly everyone (both women and men) produce some amount of natural estrogens also released into wastewater.8

RobertKK · 23-05-2014 01:24PM

Dr Tony Byrne, head of the University of Ulster's photocatalysis research group, said: "When a woman takes these pills only about 20% of the oestrogens are used by her body and she discharges 80% into the sewage system.
"The problem is that these oestrogens can be effective at nanogram levels - traces so small that they are very hard to detect.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/1897419.stm

golfball37 · 23-05-2014 01:31PM

She comes across as backward and aykward but I agree with her on a lot of issues. Especially the mother working at home being rewarded for it and on Gay Marriage.

She ruined perfectly cogent arguments with her water supply, vaccine story and Gays want to end the family nonsense but she comes across as a nice lady who is well intentioned. She doesn't deserve the abuse she has being getting for having the conviction to convey her own personal beliefs, unlike most other people running for office who will be all things to everybody.

Theresa is getting my no 1 as I would like to see her get her expenses back, my 2 is in effect my no1 then which is the great thing about STV.

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