Fine Gael TD sues Dublin Hotel after falling off swing

hatrickpatrick · 22-05-2019 9:42pm

nuac wrote: »

BC sustained very serious injuries

What has that got to do with anything though? It was entirely his own fault. Therefore he should have had his case thrown out and legal costs against him. It's that simple.

22-05-2019 9:43pm

that's the point exactly, she has to be told. And if she can knock the claim in the head then that shows her intent was just motivated by greed and self entitlement. This is the problem for her now, it's a lose lose!!! I'd love to see anyone spin it another away!

Like a said, If I have to be ****ed, at least bertie and the likes might buy you a meal first and wear a condom!! this shower will **** you bareback and take your wallet on the way out the door!!!

Suckit · 22-05-2019 9:45pm

NIMAN wrote: »

But back to this halfwit of a woman, she is starting to get a lot of flak on the radio etc, and it's making FG look bad.

I can see Leo telling her to knock the claim on the head.

The damage is done. She is unlikely to get voted in again.

If she drops the case, she loses her lucrative yearly wage by next election, and loses the chance of getting her grubby paws on the €60k (unlikely that she will win anyway).
She only really stands to get her pension - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/just-how-are-ministers-pensions-worked-out-1.559289

Wheeliebin30 · 22-05-2019 9:45pm

rusty cole wrote: »

that's the point exactly, she has to be told. And if she can knock the claim in the head then that shows her intent was just motivated by greed and self entitlement. This is the problem for her now, it's a lose lose!!! I'd love to see anyone spin it another away!

Like a said, If I have to be ****ed, at least bertie and the likes might buy you a meal first and wear a condom!! this shower will **** you bareback and take your wallet on the way out the door!!!

Lovely words.

Bet you don’t talk like that around your kids.

22-05-2019 9:51pm

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Lovely words.

Bet you don’t talk like that around your kids.

I don't have any not that its anything to do with this thread. sorry snowflake, it;s an emotive topic, go start a #savethechildren group if your that offended.

Wheeliebin30 · 22-05-2019 9:52pm

rusty cole wrote: »

I don't have any not that its anything to do with this thread. sorry snowflake, it;s an emotive topic, go start a #savethechildren group if your that offended.

Snowflake:)

I actually use that term daily and love it so you win this round sir!!

hatrickpatrick · 22-05-2019 9:53pm

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Lovely words.

Bet you don’t talk like that around your kids.

In fairness, most people don't talk about the judiciary and compensation culture with their kids either, unless their kids are advanced enough to be interested in such conversations, and therefore in all probability also advanced enough to understand the legitimate role of profanity in discourse :pac:

22-05-2019 9:54pm

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Snowflake:)

I actually use that term daily and love it so you win this round sir!!

I'll see your olive branch then and raise you a handshake

Wheeliebin30 · 22-05-2019 9:56pm

rusty cole wrote: »

I'll see your olive branch then and raise you a handshake

I’m big enough to know when I’ve lost an argument:)

Kivaro · 22-05-2019 9:56pm

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Lovely words.

Bet you don’t talk like that around your kids.

Wheelie,
You shouldn't underestimate the damage that this woman (in power) and other politicians of similar ilk are doing to our society and to our country.
No wonder then that there is palpable anger when they are caught being the scum that we always suspected them to be.

One of these days, we will rid ourselves of these greedy, self-centered, lying politicians. When that happens, we will find that Children's Hospitals and Rural Broadband projects will not be outrageously priced. We will find a healthcare system that is run for the patients and the public and not for the bureaucratic management and unions.

We need to remember that when we vote.

Wheeliebin30 · 22-05-2019 9:57pm

Kivaro wrote: »

Wheelie,
You shouldn't underestimate the damage that this woman (in power) and other politicians of similar ilk are doing to our society and to our country.
No wonder then that there is palpable anger when they are caught being the scum that we always suspected them to be.

One of these days, we will rid ourselves of these greedy, self-centered, lying politicians. When that happens, we will find that Children's Hospitals and Rural Broadband projects will not be outrageously priced. We will find a healthcare system that is run for the patients and the public and not for the bureaucratic management and unions.

We need to remember that when we vote.

Vote for who though?

Independents, possible but what do they really achieve apart from a few potholes.

McMurphy · 22-05-2019 9:58pm

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

In fairness, most people don't talk about the judiciary and compensation culture with their kids either, unless their kids are advanced enough to be interested in such conversations, and therefore in all probability also advanced enough to understand the legitimate role of profanity in discourse :pac:

Going by the Da's wiki page, I'd say it's safe to assume that they actually do in the Bailey household.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bailey_(Irish_politician)

I'd say Maria didn't lick it off a stone.

Kivaro · 22-05-2019 10:02pm

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Vote for who though?

Independents, possible but what do they really achieve apart from a few potholes.

Independents. Otherwise, the current crop of incompetents will continue screwing the country.
Vote Independent to make a point.
A new party of Independents can be formed that reflects the philosophy of the people who elected them. If they don't conform, they are out at the next election.

It is really that simple.

Fann Linn · 22-05-2019 10:06pm

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Vote for who though?

Independents, possible but what do they really achieve apart from a few potholes.

Could they be any worse than whats on view in this thread?

Stephen15 · 22-05-2019 10:08pm

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Vote for who though?

Independents, possible but what do they really achieve apart from a few potholes.

That's why there needs to be a true nationalist party. Time for the National Party to step up to fill the gap and act as a party that acts solely in the national interest and nothing else.

pjohnson · 22-05-2019 10:09pm

Stephen15 wrote: »

That's why there needs to be a true nationalist party. Time for the National Party to step up to fill the gap and act as a party that acts solely in the national interest and nothing else.

I thought Renua were meant to be the saviours?

They used to be the party suggested as the good one.

Simple_Simone · 22-05-2019 10:09pm

salmocab wrote: »

You certainly do not have that right, there are actually by-laws against that, she on the other hand is guilty of being an utter moron unfortunately nothing more.

Thank you; I have now edited my post accordingly.

downtheroad · 22-05-2019 10:11pm

downtheroad wrote: »

I just sent the following email to Maria Bailey and copied several of her Fine Gael colleagues. Please feel free to copy and paste if you are in agreement.

Dear Deputy Bailey,

I am writing a short email to advise that due to your decision to take legal action against a Dublin hotel, seeking damages up to €60,000, I will not be voting for any Fine Gael candidate in the upcoming local and European elections this Friday 24th May.

Insurance costs are rising significantly in Ireland due to the volume of compensation claims that are being entered via our legal system, and a compensation culture is creeping into our society. I believe that your high profile case displays a lack of leadership as an elected official, and for this reason I will not be voting for any member of your party this coming Friday, despite doing so in recent elections.

I am copying into this email:
Leo Varadkar TD as leader of Fine Gael
Josepha Madigan TD whose family law firm are representing you in this case
Charlie Flanagan TD as Minister for Justice
Regina Doherty TD who today defended your claim
Councillor Naoise O'Muiri who is standing for election in my electoral ward on 24th May
Jeff Johnston who is standing for election in my electoral ward on 24th May
Frances Fitzgerald TD who is standing for European election on 24th May

Yours sincerely,
downtheroad

Sorry to quote myself but 50 people have thanked this post. If all 50 of you could take 2 minutes to send a similar email to Maria Bailey (maria.bailey@oireachtas.ie) and Leo Varadkar (leo.varadkar@oir.ie) it might hammer home the message. Hopefully a number of you have already done so. Thanks.

Mods, I assume it's ok to include these emails addresses as they are public record but please snip if not appropriate.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 22-05-2019 10:15pm

This case is drawing such a massive negative reaction that Ms Bailey must surely be regretting taking such a ludicrous case which only highlights her greed and utter stupidity.

The best thing she could do now is withdraw her case and hide for a few months and hope people forget how unbelievably stupid she is but I actually hope she continues to pursue it, loses it, has massive costs awarded against her and then loses her seat because people wouldn’t vote for someone so thick that they couldn’t sit on a swing without requiring supervision/instruction.

hatrickpatrick · 22-05-2019 10:16pm

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

Vote for who though?

Independents, possible but what do they really achieve apart from a few potholes.

Independents have no party name to hide behind so they have to do what the public tells them to do, and one of the aspects of this means not doing things that will piss people off. You're probably right in that they'd accomplish less, at least while the dust was settling, but they would also not be able to worsen many problems the way FFG have been doing.

When a car is speeding over a cliff, the most important thing is to hammer the breaks. You can sort out where to drive instead after you've halted the disastrous trajectory you had previously been on. That's something Irish politics desperately needs right now. A lot of the utter disasters FFG are pushing - the mass sell-off of public land for housing to private developers, for example - are policies which need to be stopped urgently, as there is a timeline beyond which it will not be possible to fix the problems they cause. Insurance costs are a similar issue, seeing as like rents and other costs of living, they tend never to reverse - only to stop getting higher. We're probably stuck with high ones in perpetuity now, but we can at least stop them getting any higher than they already are.

hatrickpatrick · 22-05-2019 10:21pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

This case is drawing such a massive negative reaction that Ms Bailey must surely be regretting taking such a ludicrous case which only highlights her greed and utter stupidity.

The best thing she could do now is withdraw her case and hide for a few months and hope people forget how unbelievably stupid she is but I actually hope she continues to pursue it, loses it, has massive costs awarded against her and then loses her seat because people wouldn’t vote for someone so thick that they couldn’t sit on a swing without requiring supervision/instruction.

The Twitter replies to her last pre-story tweet are hilarious, so many memes

https://twitter.com/garlittle/status/1131186868639477761

https://twitter.com/KevinCa47989229/status/1131285345063055360

https://twitter.com/DHaych80/status/1130947154707660800

https://twitter.com/RobMcG87/status/1130891541885739008

https://twitter.com/susie_yaps/status/1131263746444275712

McCrack · 22-05-2019 10:22pm

I know popular opinion is against claims yet I know most people would be straight down to a solicitor if they suffered an injury arising from negligence

In this case the swing should not be in a pub, swings are normally in playgrounds

Putting a swing in a pub invites drunk people onto it and drunk people can fall injuring themselves. Pubs selling alcohol have a duty of care and providing a swing on their premises in my view breaches that

Kivaro · 22-05-2019 10:23pm

downtheroad wrote: »

Sorry to quote myself but 50 people have thanked this post. If all 50 of you could take 2 minutes to send a similar email to Maria Bailey (maria.bailey@oireachtas.ie) and Leo Varadkar (leo.varadkar@oir.ie) it might hammer home the message. Hopefully a number of you have already done so. Thanks.

Mods, I assume it's ok to include these emails addresses as they are public record but please snip if not appropriate.

I've done this already today, and encourage others to do the same.

McMurphy · 22-05-2019 10:27pm

McCrack wrote: »

I know popular opinion is against claims yet I know most people would be straight down to a solicitor if they suffered an injury arising from negligence

In this case the swing should not be in a pub, swings are normally in playgrounds

Putting a swing in a pub invites drunk people onto it and drunk people can fall injuring themselves. Pubs selling alcohol have a duty of care and providing a swing on their premises in my view breaches that

Been done.

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Aha, I see the potential problems now with Ms Bailey's claim, she should be arguing that a drunk person may fall off a swing, that belongs in a children's playground.

Problem is - I didn't see anywhere in the report where she claimed she was drunk.

Just a claim that she wasn't to be trusted unsupervised on a device usually found in kids playgrounds without signage instructing her how to properly use something the rest of us mastered as toddlers.

The culture Ministers ex law firm will hopefully pick up on this now too and change the grounds for the claim.

Jesus H Christ.

Plumbthedepths · 22-05-2019 10:28pm

McCrack wrote:

Putting a swing in a pub invites drunk people onto it and drunk people can fall injuring themselves. Pubs selling alcohol have a duty of care and providing a swing on their premises in my view breaches that

Has it been confirmed that Maria was drunk?

McMurphy · 22-05-2019 10:31pm

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

The Twitter replies to her last pre-story tweet are hilarious, so many memes

https://twitter.com/garlittle/status/1131186868639477761

https://twitter.com/KevinCa47989229/status/1131285345063055360

https://twitter.com/DHaych80/status/1130947154707660800

https://twitter.com/RobMcG87/status/1130891541885739008

https://twitter.com/susie_yaps/status/1131263746444275712

https://twitter.com/JoyGall13/status/1130442014888255488?s=19

https://twitter.com/dhv938d/status/1130758095435706368?s=19

https://twitter.com/DamienCrean/status/1131154732398055424?s=19

Kivaro · 22-05-2019 10:33pm

We are just going to have to start Bailey-proofing common items that we interact with on a daily basis.

All dining room chairs will require a seat-belt; lest we fall off it.
Knifes and forks will be banned; 2 pieces of non-pointy sticks will have to do.
And we'll Bailey-proof our toilet seats by attaching a harness to the cistern; lest we fall off. This process will require supervision though at all times, including after the flush.

stampydmonkey · 22-05-2019 10:33pm

dubrov wrote: »

Does anyone know who managed the hospital tenders?
Do FG bring in their own people or is it run via the civil service?

Hospital was Arup consulting engineers

In all in anyways · 22-05-2019 10:39pm

I know we probably don't know all the facts, maybe the swing broke? If not, then this is pretty incredible and not a good reflection on the government!!

Pythagorean · 22-05-2019 10:40pm

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

This case is drawing such a massive negative reaction that Ms Bailey must surely be regretting taking such a ludicrous case which only highlights her greed and utter stupidity.

The best thing she could do now is withdraw her case and hide for a few months and hope people forget how unbelievably stupid she is but I actually hope she continues to pursue it, loses it, has massive costs awarded against her and then loses her seat because people wouldn’t vote for someone so thick that they couldn’t sit on a swing without requiring supervision/instruction.

In one way, I hope the silly bitch gets a payout. This would make international news, show our compo culture to the world at large, make us a right laughing stock. Then we might see some action taken to tackle the compo culture ( out of sheer embarrassment)

Fine Gael TD sues Dublin Hotel after falling off swing

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