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What brand of bike has Eamon Ryan got

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    #32
    Truthvader
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    Chips Lovell wrote: »
    How do you know she's a Green voter?

    A cyclist and former school principal driven to give someone a good telling off for not wearing a helmet. What else could she be?


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    #33
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,267 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Truthvader wrote: »
    A cyclist and former school principal driven to give someone a good telling off for not wearing a helmet. What else could she be?

    I don't know. I've met a fair few Green members/supporters in my time and none have been helmet Nazis.


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    #34
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    It’s a big girls bike...which suits him perfectly.


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    #35
    tomasrojo
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    This is quite a weird thread so far.


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    #36
    tomasrojo
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    Someone asked what bike shop he owned. It was the UCD bike shop I think. He co-owned it, it said in the Forbes report. I assume that's right, though it also initially said he was going to be Prime Minister.


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    #37
    tomasrojo
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    Chips Lovell wrote: »
    I don't know. I've met a fair few Green members/supporters in my time and none have been helmet Nazis.

    In general, they seem to try to be photographed in normal clothing. Ciarán Cuffe used to be occasionally tut-tutted at in the media as well.

    EDIT: see the "rolling press conference" photo in the Forbes article:
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/06/15/former-bike-shop-owner-soon-to-be-irelands-prime-minister-secures-1-million-a-day-for-5-years-boost-for-walking-and-cycling/


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    #38
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Have we figured out what bike yet?


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    #39
    FFVII
    Registered Users Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭FFVII


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Have we figured out what bike yet?

    It's nothing special


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    #40
    Lissavane
    Registered Users Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Lissavane


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    I was actually wondering this yesterday, it was different pic and I thought I seen Giant
    Yes, I saw a picture that clearly said "Giant" but I think this is a different one.


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    #41
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,742 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    What if he has a stable of inconspicuous bikes?


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    #42
    mloc123
    Registered Users Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Lissavane wrote: »
    Yes, I saw a picture that clearly said "Giant" but I think this is a different one.

    What if he has.... more than one bike :eek:


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    #43
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,321 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    that's hardly environmentally friendly, is it? (cough)


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    #44
    Thinkingaboutit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,180 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    zell12 wrote: »
    Irish Times
    9LLxHhm.jpg?1

    She's an example of that meme Karen.


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    #45
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Apparently it was both Ryan and his then party leader, John Gormley that cycled to the Dáil often followed by the garda driver in the car...
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/wheels-come-off-greens-ministerial-car-pooling-plans-26508478.html


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    #46
    magicbastarder
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    to be fair, they both come out reasonably well from that article.


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    #47
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Apparently it was both Ryan and his then party leader, John Gormley that cycled to the Dáil often followed by the garda driver in the car...
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/wheels-come-off-greens-ministerial-car-pooling-plans-26508478.html


    I think the point is the Garda has to follow them anyway, so if they drive/walk/run/cycle a Garda car was going to be driving after them


    Seems like a bit of point the finger at the Greens in the middle of the crisis...which os course as we know worked.


    The main point of that story was who ended up with the 150k merc :-)


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    #48
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,742 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I wonder is the "files too heavy to carry on their bike" bit really "too sensitive to carry". People who don't cycle often have the most absurd idea of how little you can carry on a bike.

    Don't know about the "tokenism" bit. They' were getting a bit of exercise, and normalising the idea that "important" people can cycle for transport.

    It looks as if the journalist was looking for signs of abject hypocrisy and didn't find that much: "often on call", "occasionally borrowed". Really weak stuff.


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    #49
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,372 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Truthvader wrote: »
    A cyclist and former school principal driven to give someone a good telling off for not wearing a helmet. What else could she be?
    She could be Fianna Fail. She could be Fine Gael. She could be Labour or SD. She could be Sinn Fein or PBP.

    She could be anything really. The letter doesn't tell you anything about her political leanings, apart from her willingness to take a swipe at Ryan in public. My conclusion would be that she's less likely to be a Green supporter than any other party.


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    #50
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,372 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Truthvader wrote: »
    If you like it it will be on the market in a couple of years once he lands his pension. Remember that clown Gormely? Couldn't go anywhere in Sandymount back in the day without seeing him on his bicycle. Once he got his pension he ****ed the useless thing into the nearest hedge

    Are you sure about that? Because I'd swear that I've seen fairly regularly, maybe two or three times a year around south inner city, Ballsbridge area on this bike, often on the Grand Canal cycle track where it looks like he took this photo.

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/1159182901575147520

    There are quite a few entries on his Twitter feed that suggest that he cycles regularly;

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/521949276650627072

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/765199913231773696

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/938408069012377600

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/1036288847573929987

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/1036334635951775744

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/1011583366519558146

    Are these posts all part of some massive conspiracy to persuade us that he still cyclists (though it's hard to see what benefit would arise to him from this conspiracy) or did you just make up this little fantasy about the bike in the hedge yourself, because you really don't like Greens?


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    #51
    MojoMaker
    Registered Users Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭MojoMaker


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    ...did you just make up this little fantasy about the bike in the hedge yourself, because you really don't like Greens?

    Do you really have to ask? :pac:


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    #52
    Truthvader
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Are you sure about that? Because I'd swear that I've seen fairly regularly, maybe two or three times a year around south inner city, Ballsbridge area on this bike, often on the Grand Canal cycle track where it looks like he took this photo.

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/1159182901575147520

    There are quite a few entries on his Twitter feed that suggest that he cycles regularly;

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/521949276650627072

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/765199913231773696

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/938408069012377600

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/1036288847573929987

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/1036334635951775744

    https://twitter.com/JohnGormley/status/1011583366519558146

    Are these posts all part of some massive conspiracy to persuade us that he still cyclists (though it's hard to see what benefit would arise to him from this conspiracy) or did you just make up this little fantasy about the bike in the hedge yourself, because you really don't like Greens?

    7 tweets excavated over the last 6 years. Desperate stuff. When he was a Minister he was always tooling about Sandymount on his bicyle . NEVER see him now.


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    #53
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,372 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Truthvader wrote: »
    7 tweets excavated over the last 6 years. Desperate stuff. When he was a Minister he was always tooling about Sandymount on his bicyle . NEVER see him now.

    Not quite as desperate as making up fantasy stories just to justify personal prejudice.

    I never see Lance Armstrong cycling now. Does that mean that he's thrown his bike in a hedge?


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    #54
    Truthvader
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Not quite as desperate as making up fantasy stories just to justify personal prejudice.

    I never see Lance Armstrong cycling now. Does that mean that he's thrown his bike in a hedge?

    Jesus that is feeble


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    #55
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,742 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Truthvader wrote: »
    Jesus that is feeble
    It's not really slam-dunk evidence that you never see him in Sandymount anymore either. He was a TD for that area, so he would have constituency business there, and he ceased to be a TD at the same time he ceased to be a minister. He lives in Ringsend, so he wouldn't be passing through Sandymount on his way to town.

    Not sure this argument is a very productive use of time. I guess you're trying to persuade a bunch of people on a cycling forum that people only cycle as a form of virtue signalling or something?


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    #56
    Truthvader
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    It's not really slam-dunk evidence that you never see him in Sandymount anymore either. He was a TD for that area, so he would have constituency business there, and he ceased to be a TD at the same time he ceased to be a minister. He lives in Ringsend, so he wouldn't be passing through Sandymount on his way to town.

    Not sure this argument is a very productive use of time. I guess you're trying to persuade a bunch of people on a cycling forum that people only cycle as a form of virtue signalling or something?

    Gormley certainly did but I suspect the current Green Party are more honest - but a lot crazier


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    #57
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users Posts: 28,372 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Truthvader wrote: »
    Jesus that is feeble

    From the bloke who made up a story and thought that people would believe it, I'll take that as a compliment.
    Truthvader wrote: »
    Gormley certainly did but I suspect the current Green Party are more honest - but a lot crazier
    And Gormley's continued cycling - is he still virtue signalling, though he has no political or public role for around ten years now?


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    #58
    Truthvader
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    From the bloke who made up a story and thought that people would believe it, I'll take that as a compliment.


    And Gormley's continued cycling - is he still virtue signalling, though he has no political or public role for around ten years now?

    As pointed out, notwithstanding the cogent evidence of the 2014 tweet neither I nor apparenly other posters here have seen him on his bike for years.


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    #59
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Truthvader wrote: »
    As pointed out, notwithstanding the cogent evidence of the 2014 tweet neither I nor apparenly other posters here have seen him on his bike for years.
    ...and what?
    Do you keep an eye out for him? Do you try and identify all cyclists that pass you by?
    We don't have any evidence that you even live or have ever set foot in the area - just your biased word.


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    #60
    Truthvader
    Registered Users Posts: 1,826 ✭✭✭Truthvader


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    ...and what?
    Do you keep an eye out for him? Do you try and identify all cyclists that pass you by?
    We don't have any evidence that you even live or have ever set foot in the area - just your biased word.

    Oh deary deary me, you sound balanced and independent. Shout out to people of Ringsend. Seen John lately?


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    #61
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,742 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Truthvader wrote: »
    Oh deary deary me, you sound balanced and independent. Shout out to people of Ringsend. Seen John lately?

    I like the way the dogged pursuit of the truth implied by your user name goes so far as seeking evidence beyond reasonable doubt that John Gormley isn't faking his bicycle use on social media. Ordinary claims require extraordinary proof!


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