The Whiffy Code - Fidelma Healy Eames

kidneyfan · 03-07-2015 10:40AM

She looks good for 53.

suicide_circus · 03-07-2015 11:58AM

German and french speakers will often pronounce wifi like that

DeadHand · 03-07-2015 12:03PM

FHE is a one woman argument that the Irish people blundered badly when they failed to scrap the Seanad when they had a chance.

She's been emphatically rejected by the Irish people several times, why does she continue to have such a platform and influence?

RikkFlair · 03-07-2015 12:21PM

If she asks you for the whiffy, tell her you'll be with her in a jiffy.

BattleCorp · 03-07-2015 12:38PM

I have her filed away in my mind in the same place that I have the councillor who said "putting gondolas on the lake is all well and good but who is going to feed them"?

:o:o

Numpties.

wp_rathead · 03-07-2015 12:47PM

Sad thing is this doesn't even get in her Top 5 feck ups
From not paying worker's on her way home to thinking she didn't need a ticket on the train to saying Consoles should shut down after an hour - she has a track record Borat would be proud off

Birneybau · 03-07-2015 12:50PM

denhaagenite · 03-07-2015 12:51PM

DeadHand wrote: »

FHE is a one woman argument that the Irish people blundered badly when they failed to scrap the Seanad when they had a chance.

She's been emphatically rejected by the Irish people several times, why does she continue to have such a platform and influence?

Exactly. She's got more of a reason to laugh than you do. She can be as thick or as mental as she likes and she still has more influence in the running of the country than the average Irish voter, or even all of the Irish voters.

DeadHand · 03-07-2015 01:23PM

denhaagenite wrote: »

Exactly. She's got more of a reason to laugh than you do. She can be as thick or as mental as she likes and she still has more influence in the running of the country than the average Irish voter, or even all of the Irish voters.

The Seanad is an undemocratic circus. It is a living monument to self-entitlement.

In a time of great financial strife, unemployment, massive youth emigration, slashed public services and assistance for the most vulnerable in society it's disgusting to maintain with copious amounts of taxpayer money this expensive talking shop of bores and political failures squawking at each other about teens getting raped on facebook and the menace posed by Dublin seagulls.

Having said all this... We deserve it. We had a chance to put an end to this disgrace and we mostly didn't bother to turn up and vote. Those that did voted to keep this wretched institution out of some ignorant attempt to kick the government.

I read somewhere that the Irish were the least politically sophisticated electorate in Europe and when I see referendum results as in the Seanad referendum, the resurgence of Fianna Fail and the election to the Dail of cartoon characters it's hard for me to argue with this assessment.

keithclancy · 03-07-2015 02:09PM

Never even thought of it, I call it Whiffy as well :pac:

Mr. CooL ICE · 03-07-2015 02:18PM

Was wondering how somebody so stupid and unelectable can have power in this country. Found it here

Seanad Éireann is composed of 60 members. View a list of Senators listed by name and by panel. The Taoiseach nominates 11 of the members and 49 members are elected in a Seanad election.

To become a Senator you must be
A citizen of Ireland

Over 21 years old

You must not be:
Serving a prison sentence of more than 6 months

A person of unsound mind

A judge

A senior official of the European Union

A civil servant

A member of the Defence Forces or the Gardai

c_man · 03-07-2015 02:27PM

She's in the fine tradition of repeatedly rejected Galway political candidates being given cushy numbers in the Seanad. This kinda crap needs to stop.

PopePalpatine · 03-07-2015 02:30PM

c_man wrote: »

She's in the fine tradition of repeatedly rejected Galway political candidates being given cushy numbers in the Seanad. This kinda crap needs to stop.

Lorraine Higgins, Fidelma Healy-Eames and Ronan Mullen - the Galway Trinity of Perennial Dáil No-Hopers. :pac:

c_man · 03-07-2015 02:34PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Lorraine Higgins, Fidelma Healy-Eames and Ronan Mullen - the Galway Trinity of Perennial Sail No-Hopers. :pac:

We used to have Niall o'B too. Think he was rejected by Galway West in 3 general elections and definitely the last local one he ran where the Greens were wiped out, yet he got a nice Senator seat from FF. Tradition.

wp_rathead · 03-07-2015 02:58PM

PopePalpatine wrote: »

Lorraine Higgins, Fidelma Healy-Eames and Ronan Mullen - the Galway Trinity of Perennial Dáil No-Hopers. :pac:

Well atleast Ronan was voted in*

*kinda

fergiesfolly · 03-07-2015 03:10PM

foggy_lad wrote: »

But gettin the whiffy code leads teens into sex and debauchery on the internets where the little fookersangels send dirty pictures to each other and do sexting on their smartarse phones, Next they will be riding sideways till the cows come home and the priest will have to be called about getting them churched and the baby christened.

That whole internet should be cleaned up or banned, if the Chinese can do it then why not Galway?

Healy Eames is Galways answer to Healy Rae in Kerry

Except we never, ever, ever elected her to the Dail.
And we never, ever, ever will.
And I mean NEVER.
EVER.
EVER.

RayM · 03-07-2015 03:16PM

Ah, leave her alone. She doesn't deserve all this Vile Online Abuse. Don't forget, she's someone's daughter, someone's mother, someone's... wiff.

FalconGirl · 03-07-2015 03:48PM

Up there with Michelle Mulherin proposing that Skype be installed in Leinster House after the Kenyan phone call fiasco and Noel Coonans ISIS comments. Ladies and gentlemen, our ruling class:-)

Capt'n Midnight · 04-07-2015 12:20AM

RayM wrote: »

Ah, leave her alone. She doesn't deserve all this Vile Online Abuse.

Not that you could thanks to the
Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015

The "Right to be Offended" bill

http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2015/3715/b3715s.pdf

For the purposes of this section an electronic communication shall be considered
malicious where it intentionally or recklessly causes alarm, distress or harm to the
other.

I'm alarmed by this bill.

arch_stanton · 06-07-2015 10:17AM

elefant wrote: »

It would be a wonderful excuse for her to suggest she was using the Dutch pronunciation all along :pac:

Good call - indo link

The independent Senator received widespread criticism on social media for her pronunciation of the word but she claims she was using the French pronunciation.

"I spoke about the dependence on 'Wifi' (English pronunciation) first, before I intentionally used the French pronouciation [sic] 'wifee' not expecting it in the least to cause a ripple! Quelle surprise!" she wrote.

ThisRegard · 06-07-2015 11:05AM

She's now hitting out at all you online bullies and claiming that she used the French pronunciation on purpose. She genuinely claims that.

eamonnq · 06-07-2015 11:26AM

ThisRegard wrote: »

She's now hitting out at all you online bullies and claiming that she used the French pronunciation on purpose. She genuinely claims that.

Quelle surprise!

ThisRegard · 06-07-2015 11:27AM

She was just on Anton Savage, she's been bullied over this you know.

ToddyDoody · 06-07-2015 07:24PM

I hope she runs for president tho.

Yellowblackbird · 06-07-2015 07:30PM

It's perfectly normal for parliamentarians to phase in and out of mimicking random foreign accents for no good reason whilst making speeches, debating or making proposals to their chambers.

I don't see why anyone has a problem with that. People who thought that it happened because she is a loopy, simpleton have egg on their faces now that the truth has come out.

Larbre34 · 06-07-2015 07:34PM

More bullying please, might drive her out of public life and back to whatever Tidy Towns committee that should have been the zenith of her ambitions.

haro124 · 06-07-2015 07:35PM

Talking to a Fine Gael TD who said there wasn't many tears shed when Fidelma left them! They're definitely better off without her

foggy_lad · 06-07-2015 07:37PM

What a buffoon this woman is. She must think we are all as thick as two short planks. so she can't even speak English or Irish in our parliament but instead is daydreaming of her real home in France

mad muffin · 06-07-2015 07:42PM

The Wifey Code. Is that some new book on good house keeping?

Capt'n Midnight · 06-07-2015 08:08PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

More bullying please, might drive her out of public life and back to whatever Tidy Towns committee that should have been the zenith of her ambitions.

Have you forgotten about the Harmful and Malicious Electronic Communications Bill 2015 ?

The Whiffy Code - Fidelma Healy Eames

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