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Fine Gael TD sues Dublin Hotel after falling off swing

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    #4172
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,893 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    Thinkingaboutit wrote: »
    Looking like FG are hoping this will be forgotten about.

    Looks that way alright- they will drag out this investigation until some other big news story breaks and they will release some pointless findings then.

    All brushed under the carpet, maybe a wrap on the knuckles for Bailey - hopefully her medical bills aint too high after it.

    I'd imagine an even more concerted effort will be made in the near future to rehabilitate her reputation by looking to, once again, play the mental health card.

    It's absolutely pathetic that she/supporters of hers have been using this as a way to try move the debate.

    Maria please dont bring mental health into it as you are down because the insurance scam that you tried to pull off has failed and you have been badly caught out. You need to act like an adult and take the disdain that will come your way as you were very willing to take the money if the opportunity had arisen.


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    #4173
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Thinkingaboutit wrote: »
    Looking like FG are hoping this will be forgotten about.

    Surely they're not cynical enough to be stalling for time awaiting some other headline to hit the news so they can bury Kennedy's findings in behind it?


    Best part of a month this has been hanging over them now, the report due to be delivered by today going by what FG sources say.


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    #4174
    tigerboon
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭tigerboon


    angel eyes 2012 wrote: »
    This part of the interview is particularly relevant and represents the mindset that Maria and her ilk possess. If I fell off that swing similar to Maria with a drink in each hand and landed on my ass, I would sit there and have a good laugh about the situation and I know my friends would too. Now they would ask me if I was ok, but because I can laugh at myself they would join in and I would make a few jokes about it and get on with my night.

    However, Ms. Bailey was "mortified", I don't get this, was she mortified about what her "friends" thought of her or the other patrons - why would she care what the other patrons thought. This mindset started the wheels in motion and in the next breath someone, possibly a former FG solicitor allegedly on the scene, said the words "the hotel is liable" and then the night took a different course and hence the episode swing-gate commenced.

    Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, my friends and I would be getting on with the night and having another go on the swings.

    I will be awaiting the result of Leo's review, however my fear is that it will be buried and MB will retain her seat.

    What about the bit where she "jumped up". Some feat considering the injuries sustained wouldn't you say


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    #4175
    InTheShadows
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    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Surely they're not cynical enough to be stalling for time awaiting some other headline to hit the news so they can bury Kennedy's findings in behind it?


    Best part of a month this has been hanging over them now, the report due to be delivered by today going by what FG sources say.

    As i said a while back the next big world event/disaster/terror attack FG's spin department will be Johnny on the spot with the press release.


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    #4176
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Thinkingaboutit wrote: »
    Looking like FG are hoping this will be forgotten about.

    They are one month away from the summer recess. They will try and get as close to that as possible.


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    #4177
    Poor_old_gill
    Registered Users Posts: 2,893 ✭✭✭Poor_old_gill


    tigerboon wrote: »
    What about the bit where she "jumped up". Some feat considering the injuries sustained wouldn't you say

    (Almost) dead cat bounce?


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    #4178
    InTheShadows
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭InTheShadows


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    They are one month away from the summer recess. They will try and get as close to that as possible.

    The bloody summer recess ffs, the rest of us get a couple of weeks off work and despite 90% of these clowns doing the square root of f u ck all they'll be off for months. Joke of a system.
    Maybe Bailey could go get some swinging lessons in her spare time. :mad:


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    #4179
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,149 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    InTheShadows wrote: »
    The bloody summer recess ffs, the rest of us get a couple of weeks off work and despite 90% of these clowns doing the square root of f u ck all they'll be off for months. Joke of a system.
    Maybe Bailey could go get some swinging lessons in her spare time. :mad:

    I'm sure there a few here that would love to educate her. Fnarr.


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    #4180
    Shemale
    Registered Users Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    InTheShadows wrote: »
    Maybe Bailey could go get some swinging lessons in her spare time. :mad:

    Fine Gael could well be the party for swingers after Tom Barry got caught rapid on Dail TV pulling Aine Collins into his lap.


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    #4181
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Just been announced in the 1pm news on Newstalk - Leo has refused to say whether or not he will reveal the details of the report to the public, which was due to have been delivered today.

    Leo said "he will have to read it first" :D

    He's surely in a lose lose situation on this, sure it's better for the plebs to just join the dots and form their own version of events leo.


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    #4182
    inajock
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭inajock


    Has she been turning up to the dail at all or completely gone to ground.


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    #4183
    Auguste Comte
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    Shemale wrote: »
    Fine Gael could well be the party for swingers after Tom Barry got caught rapid on Dail TV pulling Aine Collins into his lap.

    In his defence I do believe he had been drinking in work, something that would get most of us plebs sacked. But it's OK, it was only a debate on The Protection of Life During Pregnancy bill.


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    #4184
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Looks like wheeliebin is an ex FG voter.....

    Ms Bailey is chairing a meeting of the Oireachtas Housing committee this morning, her first appearance at the committee since news of her claim against the Dean Hotel first broke last month


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    #4185
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Wheeliebin30 wrote: »
    Nope every business is closing down because of Maria Bailey, there is no other factors like these insurance companies and how they operate.

    Let’s leave out the simple facts just about to score some political goals.

    Nothing changes

    No they are not, but she shows up Fine Gael for what some members are behind the spin.
    To be fair wheels FG can't go from chastising compo culture participants one week to dismiss one of their own doing it as inconsequential the next as you seem to be trying.
    True we keep giving FF/FG a pass, nothing changes.


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    #4186
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    inajock wrote: »
    Has she been turning up to the dail at all or completely gone to ground.

    Hey, have some sensitivity, the poor woman fell off a swing ffs....


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    #4187
    InTheShadows
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭InTheShadows


    Every word that comes out of FG'ers mouths now about insurance cheats is worthless and every time someone get's a crazy insurance renewal they will remember people the ilk of Bailey are responsible.


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    #4188
    Snow Garden
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    inajock wrote: »
    Has she been turning up to the dail at all or completely gone to ground.

    Both. She has been going to the Dail and falling on the ground a lot.


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    #4189
    RustyNut
    Registered Users Posts: 3,430 ✭✭✭RustyNut


    InTheShadows wrote: »
    Every word that comes out of FG'ers mouths now about insurance cheats is worthless and every time someone get's a crazy insurance renewal they will remember people the ilk of Bailey are responsible.

    Or dole cheats, or FF cheats or any other cheats really. Is this sort of thing because the FF tail has been wagging the FG dog?

    Qui Cum Canibus Concumbunt Cum Pulicibus Surgent.


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    #4190
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,149 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    RustyNut wrote: »
    Or dole cheats, or FF cheats or any other cheats really. Is this sort of thing because the FF tail has been wagging the FG dog.

    Qui Cum Canibus Concumbunt Cum Pulicibus Surgent.


    ooh, fancy.


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    #4191
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    RustyNut wrote: »
    Qui Cum Canibus Concumbunt Cum Pulicibus Surgent.

    LOL.. We had a Christian brother who was always coming out with that. He was warning us off about the girls from the protestant school down the road. We laughed because he said girls and cum in the same sentence.

    Innocent times.


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    #4192
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    That's it, like we needed more proof. Leo's dole fraud PR stunt and the comp culture talk. The whole FG shtick is built on calling out people as chancers without a thought to vulnerable and/or genuine people...like that poor Maria Bailey ;)


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    #4193
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Anyone think these two articles placed side by side on the Indo are strategically placed so, rather than coincidentally so?

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    Who is Paddy McKillen?

    Meet the teetotal Dublin pub boss who's taking over the capital
    So take a deep breath and count his successes: Sophie's; Angelina's; Dollard & Co; Elephant & Castle; Roberta's; Tomahawk; Union Cafe; Wagamama; Wowburger; The Dean Hotel; The Devlin Hotel; the Bison Bar; Everleigh Garden; The Garage Bar, Kennedy's Bar; Mary's Bar; Peruke & Periwig; Stella Cocktail Club; Suas; the Liquor Rooms; the Workman's Club, Vintage Cocktail Club; and the hip new Stella Theatre are all on his books. He is set to open another venue, The Dutch Billy, in the coming weeks.


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    #4194
    bmc58
    Registered Users Posts: 2,804 ✭✭✭bmc58


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Hey, have some sensitivity, the poor woman fell off a swing ffs....

    And she "only has one drink at home before going out" and one at the hotel.She has holding "the third one on the swing" when she had her catastrophic tumble.


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    #4195
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,826 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Anyone think these two articles placed side by side on the Indo are strategically placed so, rather than coincidentally so?

    Screenshot-2019-06-12-18-40-20-730-com-android-chrome.jpg


    Who is Paddy McKillen?

    Meet the teetotal Dublin pub boss who's taking over the capital




    sophies-swing-main-590x495.png

    I like the cut of his jib, low profile hard worker, risk taker and massive employer.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #4196
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,515 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    I like the cut of his jib, low profile hard worker, risk taker and massive employer.

    Noonan tried to blacken him when he wouldn’t go into Nama.


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    #4197
    Suckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,215 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Anyone think these two articles placed side by side on the Indo are strategically placed so, rather than coincidentally so?


    And she going back to work on the same day that the 'independent investigation' is supposed to conclude..


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    #4198
    nuac
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,769 Mod ✭✭✭✭nuac


    Looking at those swings - they seem to be only 15 inches at most from the floor.

    Unless one were standing up on the boards, hard to see how any serious injury, or indeed any injury could be sustained.


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    #4199
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    nuac wrote: »
    Looking at those swings - they seem to be only 15 inches at most from the floor.

    Unless one were standing up on the boards, hard to see how any serious injury, or indeed any injury could be sustained.

    I wondered how she needed plasters from polished wood tbh?

    Can you put a plaster on a bruised ego?


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    #4200
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Who is Paddy McKillen?

    Meet the teetotal Dublin pub boss who's taking over the capital

    New pub named the Dutch Billy? Oooh controversial. Drinks promotions on July 12th? Will be a gay bar for sure like King Billy himself ;)


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    #4201
    Tom1991
    Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭Tom1991


    Old article but it became the lucky duck


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