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Fine Gael TD sues Dublin Hotel after falling off swing

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    #1502
    lbc2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    You are being very generous to her with that interpretation- no one else sees that! Even her FG colleagues


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    #1503
    2smiggy
    Registered Users Posts: 19,992 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    Bunny Colvin wrote: »
    You're replying to somebody there who's just looking for a reaction. Just wasting your time, stick him on ignore like half of the people on here have done.

    i only see the odd bit of what they write when people quote it. Pity that can't be blocked too. Must be a sad life sitting down all day trying to think of ways to get reactions out of strangers on the internet


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    #1504
    VinLieger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,665 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    They are. People are raising a question of why she says that's for a judge to decide when she has also said she has dropped the case. See multiple earlier posts from others. Which would be a fair question if she said that. But as you correctly, she says would have been. Which while still evasive, is not an illogical answer.
    This is an example of, contrary to some suggestions, she is being very articulate, and exact with her choice of words. And she wins this exchange with SOR. Had he been better, he would have pressed with various tactics : you must remember as you had only had one drink, surely one of your friends remembers clearly even if you don't, is it in your affidavit, why are you refusing to answer a simple factual question, is it because you may yet take a legal action despite saying you have dropped it, etc. But he doesn't. He let's her off. Well played Maria on that one.


    Except for

    MB:We purchased a drink each at the bar, which we didn’t consume, we went up in the lift, we saw the swings. Nobody was drunk, nobody was messing, they’re like polished wood, these seats. I sat on them, I did have a bottle of beer in my hand and next thing I knew I was on the floor.

    SOR: Ok, one bottle of beer in one hand ...

    MB: I had my beer in my hand, and then I was reaching for my friend’s, I had a bottle of wine, she was taking her camera out of her jacket, I then found myself on the floor.


    Which she then backtracked on by refusing to answer the question directly


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    #1505
    brooke 2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    lawred2 wrote: »
    her retelling of the events are hilarious

    Wouldn't it be even more hilarious if one of the two friends who were with her that night was Josepha herself?? :pac:


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    #1506
    Yurt2
    Registered Users Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    2smiggy wrote: »
    i only see the odd bit of what they write when people quote it. Pity that can't be blocked too. Must be a sad life sitting down all day trying to think of ways to get reactions out of strangers on the internet


    He's trying to get his next Young Fine Gael achievement badge: Shameless Internet Propagandizing. His grammar and syntax are a bit poor, but they don't mark you down for that kind of thing anymore.


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    #1507
    McMurphy
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    sabat wrote: »
    Am I the only one who visualises a certain image everytime they hear the phrase "something in each hand?"

    This is the image I get......


    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.thejournal.ie/enda-kenny-man-two-pints-2026386-Apr2015/%3Famp%3D1


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    #1508
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Joegriffin2019 wrote: »
    Shes in the playground now in Dun Laoighre ffs


    Solicitors salivating looking at that . Where are the Supervisors ?


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    #1509
    VinLieger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,665 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Yurt! wrote: »
    He's trying to get his next Young Fine Gael achievement badge: Shameless Internet Propagandizing. His grammar and syntax are a bit poor, but they don't mark you down for that kind of thing anymore.


    Nah they are a well known contrarian, check out the initials of their username, sometimes I interact cus im bored


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    #1510
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    In the interview she was asked if Joespha Madigan gave her legal advice. She refused to answer this simple question.
    To be fair, if she's being represented by Madigan's husband's firm, then that may become a complicated question that she's better off saying nothing about.

    It doesn't imply that Madigan advised her.

    That said, there's clearly an issue here for Madigan if she was in any way involved in advising Bailey.


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    #1511
    holyhead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭holyhead


    By her own words she essentially hadn't a case. Her interview with Sean O'Rourke is every political party's PR nightmare. IF she had had the backbone to say she made a catastrophic error of judgment in taking the case she would have garnered some empathy for a serious misjudgment. Instead she's still waffling on like she had a genuine case. She was injured someone is hence to blame.
    Nobody will take FG seriously about tackling compo culture. But this does need to be tackled or businesses will continue to close due to a combination of spurious claims and rising premiums.


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    #1512
    jon1981
    Registered Users Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭jon1981


    Ah ffs, there's already youtube skits! No coming back from that.


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    #1513
    Fakediamond
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    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    No, it's incompetence from the construction industry, architects, engineers, project managers,plumbers, planners, decorators, lawyers, the HSE, doctors, elecricians, quantity surveyors. If they all did their job honestly, professionally, efficiently, and with moral backbone, the costs would not be the runaway embarrassment of Ireland that they are.
    Nothing to do with a political party. Does anyone (other than blind fan boys of whatever party) seriously believe that the costs would be any different whatever party we're in govt.?

    I would lay responsibility with the senior Civil Service negotiators. They’re probably not even properly trained in how to negotiate or evaluate tenders with any knowledge of the industry. They’re like minnows swimming in shark infested waters.

    And I’m not even implying corruption, favouritism or backhanders - just good old-fashioned incompetence.


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    #1514
    vriesmays
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    Fine Gael wanted diversity.


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    #1515
    brooke 2
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    Muahahaha wrote: »
    My god just as you had thought that this story had died in walks Maria with a can of petrol to throw onto the embers.

    She was asked did Joesepha Madigan advise her in relation to the case and she refused to answer so now we know that Madigan was advising her

    She refused to answer what was in her second hand but also blurted out about a bottle of wine

    And the story of how much drink she had sounds like a crock of sh1te too, one glass of wine in Sandyford at pre-drinks in a friends house, yeah right :rolleyes:
    Then in the hotel she buys a drink "which I didn't consume" but upstairs she is hanging out of a swing with a bottle of beer in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other whilst trying to lurch over to her friend who was taking a selfie If that doesnt conjure up an image of someone who was absolutely locked I dont know what would.


    Brilliant!! 🤣🤣🤣


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    #1516
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Fakediamond wrote: »
    I would lay responsibility with the senior Civil Service negotiators. They’re probably not even properly trained in how to negotiate or evaluate tenders with any knowledge of the industry. They’re like minnows swimming in shark infested waters.

    And I’m not even implying corruption, favouritism or backhanders - just good old-fashioned incompetence.

    They engage other consultants to evaluate the tenders!


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    #1517
    jon1981
    Registered Users Posts: 4,359 ✭✭✭jon1981


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Fine Gael wanted diversity.

    Very original...

    If anything it shows that humans male or female are capable of being dishonest and thick. Nobody ever said diversity removes behavioural traits common to both genders.

    BTW we don't know if she was elected based on quotas.


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    #1518
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    holyhead wrote: »
    By her own words she essentially hadn't a case. Her interview with Sean O'Rourke is every political party's PR nightmare. IF she had had the backbone to say she made a catastrophic error of judgment in taking the case she would have garnered some empathy for a serious misjudgment. Instead she's still waffling on like she had a genuine case. She was injured someone is hence to blame.
    Nobody will take FG seriously about tackling compo culture. But this does need to be tackled or businesses will continue to close due to a combination of spurious claims and rising premiums.

    No this is wrong, she is a mother and a strong female politician and people in Ireland *shakes fist in the sky* don't like that. :pac::pac::pac:


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    #1519
    KSU
    Registered Users Posts: 946 ✭✭✭KSU


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    No, it's incompetence from the construction industry, architects, engineers, project managers,plumbers, planners, decorators, lawyers, the HSE, doctors, elecricians, quantity surveyors. If they all did their job honestly, professionally, efficiently, and with moral backbone, the costs would not be the runaway embarrassment of Ireland that they are.
    Nothing to do with a political party. Does anyone (other than blind fan boys of whatever party) seriously believe that the costs would be any different whatever party we're in govt.?

    What about the office of Government Procurement and the current tendering process?

    Cervical checks?
    School Buildings?
    County Council projects (Irishtown and Lucan tracks to name 2 off top of my head)


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    #1520
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    vriesmays wrote: »
    Fine Gael wanted diversity.
    They got Stupid . Maybe they got so much stupid that they don’t know the difference .


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    #1521
    FFred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 772 ✭✭✭FFred


    Bleedin Scarla’ for her ma for havin her ...


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    #1522
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    KSU wrote: »
    What about the office of Government Procurement and the current tendering process?

    Cervical checks?
    School Buildings?
    County Council projects (Irishtown and Lucan tracks to name 2 off top of my head)

    Yes, all of the above as well. Blaming politicians, let alone a particular party for that fiasco.
    These types of projects cost us way above similar ones in other countries because Ireland Inc is unable to deliver the same value for money.


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    #1523
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    jon1981 wrote: »
    Very original...

    If anything it shows that humans male or female are capable of being dishonest. Nobody ever said diversity removes behavioural traits common to both genders.

    BTW we don't know if she was elected based on quotas.

    Agreed on this one, sex has nothing to do with this. She tried to be a cute hoor and got caught but rather than fess up she has put her foot in it.

    She herself would love for this to be about her sex as it takes the heat off. So people need to stop being so ****ing gullible because if you fall into the sexist trap you are giving her an out and validating what she is saying about this is because she is a woman.

    Luckily most of Ireland can look past sex.


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    #1524
    SnazzyPig
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭SnazzyPig


    How many times in the interview did she say "You know me, Sean..." before going on to assert her honesty, integrity and work ethic as well as her love of running?

    All to personalise the interview and deter any hard questioning.


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    #1525
    holyhead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭holyhead


    Calhoun wrote: »
    No this is wrong, she is a mother and a strong female politician and people in Ireland *shakes fist in the sky* don't like that.

    Are you trolling?


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    #1526
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,291 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Calhoun wrote: »
    No this is wrong, she is a mother and a strong female politician and people in Ireland *shakes fist in the sky* don't like that.

    :rolleyes:


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    #1527
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    holyhead wrote: »
    Are you trolling?

    of course. Taking the piss out of the last part of her interview.


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    #1528
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,291 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Calhoun wrote: »
    of course. Taking the piss out of the last part of her interview.

    ah ooops


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    #1529
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    She obviously expected this case to be settled before it came to court and the Public would never get to hear about it and she would have a nice little earner .

    Other people must have had other ideas and luckily for the Irish public we have seen this Fine Gael TD for what she is .


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    #1530
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Matt Cooper putting the boot in now


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    #1531
    BENDYBINN
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    The simple question that wasn’t asked.......Maria, why was this the hotels fault?
    Why was she not asked this?


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