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Fine Gael TD sues Dublin Hotel after falling off swing

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  • #6452
    Loafing Oaf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,832 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Any video footage of Maria’s tumble?

    Leo says he can't make it public cos it contravenes the new upskirting law:P


  • #6453
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    This isn't the water gate scandal that you and a bunch of online cranks are about to blow wide open. It's a storm in a teacup that most people have already forgotten about.

    One month later.
    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

    Terry and Theresa Taxpaper don't give a white shite about this story anymore. They're just looking forward to their week in the sun. Come September after the recess and when the body politic is back in action minds will be focussed on the looming brexit deadline and this sorry tale will be a distant memory.

    The acts gone stale Paddy.


  • #6454
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    One month later.



    The acts gone stale Paddy.

    Go easy Johnny he's just a wee intern reading from a script.


  • #6455
    RCK1
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭RCK1


    https://www.thesun.ie/news/4309983/fine-gael-alan-farrell-compensation-claim-case-women-involved/


  • #6456
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    The bould Maria getting a mention in the same article as the other chancer Farrell in yesterday's paper. Yeah Paddy everyone has forgotten...well everyone except the media lol.


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  • #6457
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    I genuinely don't get why posters continue to engage with one lad talking to himself (yet again the 2 ID's show up within a few posts of each other), desperately trying to convince us that there's nothing to see here.

    Wasting your time.

    If you suspect a poster has multiple accounts, please report. Do not comment on thread.

    dudara


  • #6458
    Stop moaning ffs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    If you want to discuss mod action, contact a mod directly, or raise a thread in the Help Desk. Do not discuss on thread.

    I have already red carded you today for back seat moderating. Do not continue.

    dudara


  • #6459
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    No idea other than she is incapable of sitting on a swing without adult supervision.

    And instructions, don't forget instructions.


  • #6460
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,336 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    Paddy. Maybe you’ve heard of unintended consequences.

    Perhaps if you didn’t respond saying the story was dead it would actually contribute to it dying.

    Posting to say it is dead bumps the thread. More people see it.

    Kind of self defeating yanno?


    Except that the audience for this thread is quite small and full of people with fixed opinions.


  • #6461
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    blanch152 wrote:
    Except that the audience for this thread is quite small and full of people with fixed opinions.


    That's why it is good that the media keeps highlighting the behaviour of TD's who engage in insurance fraud. ;-)


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  • #6462
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Except that the audience for this thread is quite small and full of people with fixed opinions.


    I doubt it is small......I read it most days but dont comment......I would say a good few do as well......


    Fixed opinions maybe, mostly because the report was not released


  • #6463
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,213 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Except that the audience for this thread is quite small and full of people with fixed opinions.

    498,201 and counting.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #6464
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,336 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    498,201 and counting.


    I would guess that about 247,000 of them are the OP checking for updates.


  • #6465
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    If you want to discuss mod action, contact a mod directly, or raise a thread in the Help Desk. Do not discuss on thread.

    I have already red carded you today for back seat moderating. Do not continue.

    dudara


    It took me a minute to realise that was ventriliquism..



    <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


    The media may have suspended reporting anything more about her out of sympathy and respect.

    No doubt she is going through a very tough time right now.



    But it won't mean the public have forgotten. September will come around and people won't have let this go, so while there a few popping up here telling us we're dragging it out etc.. Wait until September.


  • #6466
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    2aHXamM.jpg

    Imagine the claim if she had fallen from this one.


  • #6467
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Stop moaning ffs wrote: »
    On any real world she wouldn’t be.
    But she will be. That won’t be until March at least and FG will assume people will have forgotten.
    Fair chance the indo are sitting on that report and have the video. And will drop both on the public between now and then
    They do have a number of female councillors in DL, who might be better alternatives. Even so it'll be down to numbers. If polling suggests she's a liability she'll go, if not they might take the risk. It will be more of a challenge next time though with all 4 seats in play. I doubt there will be any comment publicly on her status until we get closer to an election.


  • #6468
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    RCK1 wrote: »
    https://www.thesun.ie/news/4309983/fine-gael-alan-farrell-compensation-claim-case-women-involved/

    This guy should be getting a lot more stick in the press about his dodgy claim. In many ways Farrell's story is worse because he pursued it to the end and made money from it. Bailey was trying to defraud a successful business but Farrell went after 2 taxpayers (and their insurance company of course) and he was pretty nasty about it. The judge probably would have thrown out the case if he wasn't a TD.


  • #6469
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,862 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    This guy should be getting a lot more stick in the press about his dodgy claim. In many ways Farrell's story is worse because he pursued it to the end and made money from it. Bailey was trying to defraud a successful business but Farrell went after 2 taxpayers (and their insurance company of course) and he was pretty nasty about it. The judge probably would have thrown out the case if he wasn't a TD.

    It was a rental from Hertz.
    Not that that makes him less of a **** but the victims probably had no consequences on their own (car)insurance from this if they took out the extra insurance.


  • #6470
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    is_that_so wrote: »
    They do have a number of female councillors in DL, who might be better alternatives. Even so it'll be down to numbers. If polling suggests she's a liability she'll go, if not they might take the risk. It will be more of a challenge next time though with all 4 seats in play. I doubt there will be any comment publicly on her status until we get closer to an election.

    I'd believe that from fine gale, absolutely no ethics whatsoever.


  • #6471
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    inforfun wrote: »
    It was a rental from Hertz.
    Not that that makes him less of a **** but the victims probably had no consequences on their own (car)insurance from this if they took out the extra insurance.

    Yeah and he definitely saw the rental company as an easy target with lots of money. He abused his position.


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  • #6472
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Yeah and he definitely saw the rental company as an easy target with lots of money. He abused his position.

    And let's not forget the photos of the damage that he produced to back up his claim that were not from the incident in question.

    If ever there was a case for the guards to look at, that should be it.


  • #6473
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,939 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Just randomly flicking through the boob tube a few minutes ago and came across a BBC programme called Claimed and Shamed.

    Whole premise is a programme based on call recordings and CCTV footage of fraudulent insurance claims.
    I wonder if Virgin Media would be interested in similar if we pitched it to them with this thread having a producer credit? :P


  • #6474
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    Auguste Comte wrote: »
    And let's not forget the photos of the damage that he produced to back up his claim that were not from the incident in question.

    If ever there was a case for the guards to look at, that should be it.

    No way!?

    The man is an absolute shyster so. He should be investigated.

    Fine Gael will never live these cases down.


  • #6475
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    inforfun wrote: »
    It was a rental from Hertz.
    Not that that makes him less of a **** but the victims probably had no consequences on their own (car)insurance from this if they took out the extra insurance.

    Yeah and he definitely saw the rental company as an easy target with lots of money. He abused his position.
    Auguste Comte wrote: »
    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Yeah and he definitely saw the rental company as an easy target with lots of money. He abused his position.

    And let's not forget the photos of the damage that he produced to back up his claim that were not from the incident in question.

    If ever there was a case for the guards to look at, that should be it.
    He was also the first FG TD out of the blocks to support Bailey after her interview. Be wondering does he have any self awareness at all.


  • #6476
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    JeffKenna wrote: »
    He was also the first FG TD out of the blocks to support Bailey after her interview. Be wondering does he have any self awareness at all.

    A valued member of the FG parliamentary party.


  • #6477
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JeffKenna wrote: »
    He was also the first FG TD out of the blocks to support Bailey after her interview. Be wondering does he have any self awareness at all.

    One tap artist recognising another. They're going directly for our pockets with respect to insurance hikes.


  • #6478
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,173 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    If I was elected as a td I'd feel i hit the jackpot and would not feel the need to get up to compo shenanigans. I guess it's just embedded in people's DNA


  • #6479
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Ash.J.Williams wrote:
    If I was elected as a td I'd feel i hit the jackpot and would not feel the need to get up to compo shenanigans. I guess it's just embedded in people's DNA


    There was a FG senator on the radio a couple of days ago whinging 66k a year is not enough. FG seems to attract a certain type. ;-)


  • #6480
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    JeffKenna wrote: »
    He was also the first FG TD out of the blocks to support Bailey after her interview. Be wondering does he have any self awareness at all.
    He also tried to give his heavily pregnant wife his council seat and when he was told he couldn't (FG wouldn't allow him), he hired her as his parliamentary assistant.
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/fg-td-hires-wife-as-aide-after-council-bid-fails-26716863.html
    She took her maternity leave shortly after, and the maximum allowed which I believe was 18 weeks + 8 weeks back then. Roughly 6½ months. In certain circumstances it could even be raised to 15 months, but no idea how long she took in the end. Probably easily found.
    https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/td-alan-farrells-staffing-arrangements-under-fire-27810009.html


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  • #6481
    Scoundrel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Scoundrel


    He really is a scumbag trying to game the system in any way he can just as bad as the serial litigants from the thriving ethnic community


  • #6482
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    No way!?

    The man is an absolute shyster so. He should be investigated.

    Fine Gael will never live these cases down.

    Oh yeah, way.
    Photographs presented in Alan Farrell’s injuries compo case showed damage to his car which happened after Fine Gael TD’s whiplash accident
    TD's car was involved in a second prang which caused damage to his car and his engineer told the court the Fine Gael deputy had told him the car was in a subsequent accident, not linked to the personal injury claim


  • #6483
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Auguste Comte wrote: »
    Oh yeah, way.

    That must be a criminal move to purposefully give false evidence, fraudulent at least?


  • #6484
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    blanch152 wrote: »
    I would guess that about 247,000 of them are the OP checking for updates.

    What an outlandish claim. Reminds me of the time you claimed that Michael D. Higgins is "a danger to humanity" :rolleyes:


  • #6485
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,516 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    What an outlandish claim. Reminds me of the time you claimed that Michael D. Higgins is "a danger to humanity" :rolleyes:

    really?? blimey.


  • #6486
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,958 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Suckit wrote: »
    He also tried to give his heavily pregnant wife his council seat and when he was told he couldn't (FG wouldn't allow him), he hired her as his parliamentary assistant.
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/fg-td-hires-wife-as-aide-after-council-bid-fails-26716863.html
    She took her maternity leave shortly after, and the maximum allowed which I believe was 18 weeks + 8 weeks back then. Roughly 6½ months. In certain circumstances it could even be raised to 15 months, but no idea how long she took in the end. Probably easily found.
    https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/td-alan-farrells-staffing-arrangements-under-fire-27810009.html


    He has nothing on the gangsters from Kerry


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/more-wheels-added-to-the-healy-rae-political-machine-1.3905092


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/healyraes-strongly-reject-all-charges-of-double-standards-34557665.html


    Just google and you will find lots and lots of links....all of them ripping off the Irish people


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  • #6487
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    He has nothing on the gangsters from Kerry

    Ah, most of them are, yep. Not taking anything away from that, but those guys are seasoned.

    Alan Farrells first move in his first month of sitting as a junior TD was to do all that shit.
    That's before he even began to play around with what he could get away with. He didn't even question himself.
    Luckily for us I don't believe he'll ever get in again, but can you imagine the crap that lad would be trying in years to come. He has some neck on him, fobbing the press off etc. when he wasn't a wet week in the place.
    I'd wager he would be more than capable of putting those in Kerry to shame in terms of what he would be willing to do for an extra few quid.


  • #6488
    Auguste Comte
    Registered Users Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭Auguste Comte


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    That must be a criminal move to purposefully give false evidence, fraudulent at least?

    I would think it should at least be reported and investigated.


  • #6489
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,173 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    There was a FG senator on the radio a couple of days ago whinging 66k a year is not enough. FG seems to attract a certain type. ;-)

    66k wouldn't be enough.... for those hours , however the expenses and perks and pensions more than make up for it


  • #6490
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Ash.J.Williams wrote:
    66k wouldn't be enough.... for those hours , however the expenses and perks and pensions more than make up for it

    A senators job is part time. They do not have a constituency.


  • #6491
    Suckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,211 ✭✭✭✭Suckit


    Nor do they have to turn up.

    They could even live in Chicago. Imagine that. :rolleyes:


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  • #6492
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Suckit wrote:
    They could even live in Chicago. Imagine that.


    Another genius idea by Enda. Although would he claim for mileage if he did or just the flight?. Knowing the quality of politician FG attracts probably claim for both.


  • #6493
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    There was a FG senator on the radio a couple of days ago whinging 66k a year is not enough. FG seems to attract a certain type. ;-)

    Not intentionally derailing the thread but have you a link to the podcast?


  • #6494
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    seligehgit wrote:
    Not intentionally derailing the thread but have you a link to the podcast?


    Apologies I don't but someone else maybe able to provide one.


  • #6495
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    JeffKenna wrote: »
    Snow Garden wrote: »
    inforfun wrote: »
    It was a rental from Hertz.
    Not that that makes him less of a **** but the victims probably had no consequences on their own (car)insurance from this if they took out the extra insurance.

    Yeah and he definitely saw the rental company as an easy target with lots of money. He abused his position.
    Auguste Comte wrote: »
    Snow Garden wrote: »
    Yeah and he definitely saw the rental company as an easy target with lots of money. He abused his position.

    And let's not forget the photos of the damage that he produced to back up his claim that were not from the incident in question.

    If ever there was a case for the guards to look at, that should be it.
    He was also the first FG TD out of the blocks to support Bailey after her interview. Be wondering does he have any self awareness at all.

    It's just arrogance and a class that thinks they are above everyone else. I'd be confident enough it's not only insurance where these guys are acting unethically.


  • #6496
    RCK1
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭RCK1


    Auguste Comte wrote: »
    A valued member of the FG parliamentary party.

    Unfortunately he s my local TD and has that full entitled aggragant attitude going for him


  • #6497
    WishUWereHere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,469 ✭✭✭WishUWereHere


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Except that the audience for this thread is quite small and full of people with fixed opinions.


    As I type, 500,795 views, an increase of over 2,500 on this time approximately yesterday.

    Hope that plane from Schenzhen lands soon, your side kick must be on it, as he has disappeared.


  • #6498
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    Leo Varadkar on the Sean O Rourke programme on RTE Radio 1 now. I wonder what the chances of him being questioned about this issue are?


  • #6499
    Stop moaning ffs
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    General election in spring.
    Bailey is gonna be a huge albatross for them.


  • #6500
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,581 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Except that the audience for this thread is quite small and full of people with fixed opinions.

    bagdad-bob.jpg


  • #6501
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70,021 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Leo getting a grilling on Sean O'Rourke atm. Let's see if he gets grilled on Maria.


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