General Election 20 GalwayWest

zell12 wrote: »

Ollie Crowe considering Seanad bid

:rolleyes::rolleyes:

I actually had some leaning towards Fianna Fail, but all that disappeared the moment they selected Ollie Crowe to run for this election.

ClanofLams wrote: »

Didn’t vote for him either but like Kyne, Ollie’s a decent guy, hate he gets on here is bizarre.

I don't have any hate for him either, but in my opinion he's not someone who has the qualifications to be a td/senator. I honestly believe he was selected by FF because he was willing to spend a lot of his own money on the campaign.

After watching Hildegarde on RTE last night and listening to that Sean Kyne interview, I would honestly say the people of GW picked the wrong FG candidate to represent them in the Dail. imo.

ChewyLouie wrote: »

It's mostly backlash from insulting the electorate's intelligence by littering the city with billboards with Trump-like slogans rather than articulating any specific policy.

"Build the Bypass" - how does that inform our decision to elect him. The bypass is already beyond the political process, it's working it's way through planning. Does Crowe have some suggestion on how to speed that up?

"Our Smart Green City" - what??

He may as well have said "Snackboxes Are Nice - Vote Ollie Crowe".

Think you’re taking the signs a bit too serious! Not like they normally have anything on them bar “Vote Mr X 1” and plenty of politicians have highlighted bypass. It might be going through planning but there are some parties who don’t support it - Greens don’t and Soc Dems seemingly don’t based on Roisin Shortal comments although O’Tuathail refused to state his position on it so there are some potential coalitions (pre election and probably still) who wouldn’t fund it. Planning outcome won’t matter much then.

Snow Garden wrote: »

I believe the number, size and frequency of the signs patronised the electorate. He seemed to have more posters and billboards than all the other candidates put together. Maybe he thought signs would win the election but many people saw it as pollution. Also he suggested he would remove all the complex blockers and get the bridge built himself. How exactly would he succeed where so many others have failed for decades? The devil is in the detail which he did not provide.

I guess 80s style politics doesn't work anymore.

He definitely had the most at the start, would say Hildegarde was pushing him pretty close by the end. She put up a massive amount in Oranmore and out that side anyway about keep your local TD and did same in Salthill I think.

I don’t care about his campaign, just find the comments on him on here ott and it’s not something I like about any candidate, even though I have probably been guilty of it myself on here with Grealish. But I think it’s slightly different for someone who makes bigoted comments, although I’m still gonna try not to do it again.

Just thought some of the remarks pushed the boundaries, he was accused of all sorts of bananas stuff, including being responsible for them lunatic Burke’s and orchestrating a traffic jam. Real tinfoil hat stuff.

pure.conya wrote: »

the same frank fahy that had a large poster campaign about 8 years ago claiming responsibility for the bypass? that we're still waiting for lol

The very one. Coincidentally, Fahy deployed the stop traffic tactic too when people were going to work @7:00am in order to hand out more propaganda filled leaflets.

ClanofLams wrote: »

Just thought some of the remarks pushed the boundaries, he was accused of all sorts of bananas stuff, including being responsible for them lunatic Burke’s and orchestrating a traffic jam. Real tinfoil hat stuff.

if you don't believe frank fahy and ollie crowe would orchestrate traffic jams to drive home Ollies message about the bypass then you're a fool, those snakey ba$tards would try anything within reason and faking some breakdowns is a stroke i wouldn't put passed them at all

pure.conya wrote: »

if you don't believe frank fahy and ollie crowe wouldn't orchestrate traffic jams to drive home Ollies message about the bypass then you're a fool, those snakey ba$tards would try anything within reason and faking some breakdowns is a stroke i wouldn't put passed them at all

Relax with the name calling there lad.

Cars break down on the roads of Galway City every day, so far all I have seen here is oh Crowe was on about bypass and a car broke down - to call it thin would be an understatement.

When did this breakdown/breakdowns even happen? I don’t recall any major chaos on roads in last month or so, just the regular chaos.

pure.conya wrote: »

the same frank fahy that had a large poster campaign about 8 years ago claiming responsibility for the bypass? that we're still waiting for lol

Fahy was in Cancun week leading up to vote.....some mastermind alright.....glad crowe didnt make it also....

golfball37 wrote: »

After watching Hildegarde on RTE last night and listening to that Sean Kyne interview, I would honestly say the people of GW picked the wrong FG candidate to represent them in the Dail. imo.

I'd agree with that alright. Kyne always polls well out in Connemara but Hildegarde must have got enough of the city votes. I know which one I'd prefer representing Galway west. Plus she still has a lot of her posters up.

Kyne suffered from a perception that he went against the wishes of people in his constituency, that is what cost him the vote and he recognised it himself. I agree he's better than Hildegarde, but it is what it is. I don't think a re-run would solve much.

Whereisgalway wrote: »

Ollie Crowe rejected by the people has been elected to the Seanad on the Industrial and commercial panel

With Ronan Mullen elected to the Seanad too. We're not exactly covering ourselves in glory here in Galway....

zell12 wrote: »

Two vacancies on City Council now, any frontrunners who is chosen to be co-opted?
Is there a third Crowe brother?

there are 4