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PHIL HOGAN NEEDS TO RESIGN.

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  • #122
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Diplomatic immunity, can't help hearing that in a South African accent
    It should be revoked!


  • #123
    Yurt2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭Yurt2


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Does Phil Hogan have diplomatic immunity? Or is that just when he is in Brussels?

    He would only enjoy diplomatic immunity when traveling outside the EU on a diplomatic passport on official business.

    He's subject to the rule of law just as any citizen is.


  • #124
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    recyclebin wrote: »
    Plenty of UK ministes have had to resign over trivial matters. It wouldn't be an Irish only thing.

    The UK aren't in the EU anymore, do you not follow the news?

    But seriously, attending a golf dinner is no reflection of your competence to run an EU commission.

    I dare say he has some more spurious war stories to confess from his job travels.

    The only people who want him to resign are people who don't like him. It is not his fault he is an oversized overpaid chunt.


  • #125
    Irishman80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭Irishman80


    Much more important - Seamus Woulfe must resign.

    This is the guy who was AG at the time the government was crafting the law on Covid restrictions. He is now a Supreme Court judge, is been investigated by Gardai, and could be looking at cases around these restrictions.

    His position is untenable


  • #126
    ionadnapokot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,848 ✭✭✭ionadnapokot


    Liamo57 wrote: »
    If I was big Phil I'd brazen it out. I'd say the missus accepted the invite on my behalf and only told me that morning. Id apologise on behalf of her and tell the media to go easy on her, she's a daecent woman and a great wife. I'd blame her like I have blamed everyone along the way up the ladder. Sure everyones afraid of their poo to contradict me. I'd burst them if they didn't agree with me, I'm untouchable with the big swollen Kilkenny head on me, sure women find me irrisistable.

    Brilliant!

    I cannot stand Phil Hogan. He is a sanctimonious pig-headed man with a stupid Sh1t eating grin to boot.
    But he is the perfect man for Brexit negotiations.
    I dont want him to resign.

    What goes around, comes around.


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  • #127
    Be right back
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,239 ✭✭✭Be right back


    He should resign and forgo his pension. Wishful thinking!


  • #128
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    He broke the law by attending, he should go like the others have resigned. The EC will damage its reputation here too if they slavishly stand by him.


  • #129
    markodaly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,835 ✭✭✭✭markodaly


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    Although European Commissioners are nominated by Member State governments, they are not appointed by them and they cannot dismissed by them. The Commission as a whole can be dismissed by the Parliament, but I don't think the Parliament has the power to dismiss invidual Comissioners. It could, I suppose, threaten to dismiss the entire Commission if an individual Commissioner did niot resign.

    I don't know whether the President of the Commission can fire an individual Commissioner, but she could certainly request him to resign. And she could effectively force him to resign by reallocating portfolios within the Commission so that he had nothing to do.

    But none of this really matters. The only reason we notice Hogan's transgression is because he is Irish, and it happened here. When was the last time you heard about a personal transgression of another European Commissioner that had nothing to do with the discharge of his functions? Hogan's attendance at this dinner won't even be a blip in the news cycle outside Ireland, and it won't bother the Commission or the Parliament. It has nothing at all to do with his job as Commissioner with responsiblity for Agriculture and Rural Development.

    This.

    Big Phill, will be staying on, much to the chargin of many.


  • #130
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Diplomatic immunity, can't help hearing that in a South African accent

    'Revoked'


  • #131
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Reports from Gavin Reilly that big Phil has been staying in Kildare whilst self isolating.

    If true, then his position really is untenable.


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  • #132
    Cyrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,188 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    Aegir wrote: »
    Reports from Gavin Reilly that big Phil has been staying in Kildare whilst self isolating.

    If true, then his position really is untenable.

    Mr Hogan was self-isolating in Kildare – where he is understood to have a residence at the K-Club – after his return from Brussels until August 5th, when he travelled to Dublin for a medical appointment.

    He stayed overnight at a health facility in Dublin, during which time he was also tested for Covid-19, with negative results, and then travelled to Kilkenny for a period of convalescence, according to his spokesman.


  • #133
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Big, effing, Phil Hogan resign? The man has no shame he'll be going for UN General secretary next.

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #134
    tritium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,455 ✭✭✭tritium


    Cyrus wrote: »
    Mr Hogan was self-isolating in Kildare – where he is understood to have a residence at the K-Club – after his return from Brussels until August 5th, when he travelled to Dublin for a medical appointment.

    He stayed overnight at a health facility in Dublin, during which time he was also tested for Covid-19, with negative results, and then travelled to Kilkenny for a period of convalescence, according to his spokesman.

    Ah don’t be bothering us with facts and details, that’s far too inconvenient


  • #135
    Mrcaramelchoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mrcaramelchoc


    Gerry Hatrick wrote: »
    He'll hold onto his pension though. In my mind all these guys should have their pensions removed and told to go swing.

    ec-president-vdl@ec.europa.eu

    That's Hogan's bosses email contact. Let them know how you feel about this. I have emailed them this morning.

    I want to remind people of this email address.

    Phil needs to go.


  • #136
    Geuze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,716 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Does his pension get effected if he resigns instead of fired?

    If I stop working today, whether I resign, or am made redundant, my pension benefits are preserved.

    Same goes for any job.

    Preserved pension benefits can't be removed.

    If I contribute 200k to the Siemens Ireland pension scheme, and then resign, I don't lose those benefits.


  • #137
    bmc58
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭bmc58


    Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »
    I for one want him gone.

    His claims of self quarantining timeline needs a little closer scrutiny.


  • #138
    Geuze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,716 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Treppen wrote: »
    Turns his many fuck1ng pensions down to a trickle.

    If across forty years, I have four jobs, ten years in each job, and as a result, I accrue four pensions, is that bad?

    Personally, I will receive three pensions.

    Many people receive multiple pensions.

    My father has four incomes.


    Let's say I was a TD for twenty years, of which five years were spent as a Minister.

    Then I got another job.

    As a result, I will receive at least three pensions. This is normal.


  • #139
    JBD961
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭JBD961


    Phil Hogan was having dinner in The Devlin in ranelagh when he was ''self isolating''


  • #140
    Liamo57
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭Liamo57


    ionadnapokot wrote: »
    Brilliant!

    I cannot stand Phil Hogan. He is a sanctimonious pig-headed man with a stupid Sh1t eating grin to boot.
    But he is the perfect man for Brexit negotiations.
    I dont want him to resign.

    What goes around, comes around.

    He's the absolute example of a thick ignorent rural plank who got lucky. He'the type of fcuker who'd run over to a ditch before the start of a junior B match and drop a scud missile and return to play as if there was no problem.Easn't there contoversy a few years ago about his personal assistant and himself. I can just imagine the big ignorant gobshtie walking across the bedroom floor of a 5 star hotel with a black and amber thong ready to unload the 2 barrells on a young wan. What has Ireland become. I'm off into Mullingar Cadedral to light a candle to St. Anthony for him.


  • #141
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    recyclebin wrote: »
    Plenty of UK ministes have had to resign over trivial matters. It wouldn't be an Irish only thing.

    The UK ministers were always much, much better for doing that (less brass necks), but seems to me it is a dying tradition now the longer their current period of Tory one party rule goes on. They don't have to bother with it any more.


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  • #142
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    "The Commissioner apologises for the distress caused by his participation,"

    He's apologising that people are "distressed", nearly as though he caused us to worry about him :D

    What a pig-headed gob****e.


  • #143
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,507 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Fat chance.


  • #144
    LillySV
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    Seamai wrote: »
    Done.

    Done the same , hope everyone follows this


  • #145
    Dubh Geannain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,513 ✭✭✭Dubh Geannain


    Can't even bring himself to apologise. Getting someone else to do it for him. He's a gas man.


  • #146
    Gerry Hatrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    JBD961 wrote: »
    Phil Hogan was having dinner in The Devlin in ranelagh when he was ''self isolating''

    Do we have a source for this?


  • #147
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Montage of Feck wrote: »
    Big, effing, Phil Hogan resign? The man has no shame he'll be going for UN General secretary next.

    There are few that rise to the top without walking over people, Phil Hogan didn't get where he is today by being nice, he's only trotting after Padraig Flynn and we all know how that ended.
    Necks like jockey's b*llock's.


  • #148
    Ta ceist agam
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 387 ✭✭Ta ceist agam


    Interesting to see John Sweeney and his wife sitting at the top table with the legal pals et al, as they are the company Directors of Western Railway Operations LTD, oil retailers and hotel management.

    Western Railway operations ltd may trade as Clifden Station house or Sweeney Oil.

    Cahoots!!...I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine!

    https://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Compa...Limited-573077


    Does anyone think there's a dirty connection between the Directors of Clifden Station House and the influential people they were seated with and dined with in their own hotel?

    There has been 5 mortgage/charges against Western Railway Operations ltd all on the same day this year 28th February 2020.

    John Sweeney that was seated at the table with the High court Judge , has 38 directorships spanning mainly oil retail and mining, legal and construction / planning and parkrite parking.

    https://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Direc...hn/2105755823/

    The particular Sweeney family are highly influential people worth billions.

    Why was Station House Hotel owned by the Sweeney family chosen?
    Is there a link as to why they 81 party knew the Hotel management would let the Golf party go ahead without social distancing?

    There's something very fishy going on and more questions must be asked about this relationship with the hotel owners and those that attended the Gold dinner.


  • #149
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,777 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Id guess there are multiple journos out there at the minute investigating big Phil's timelines.
    If he is found to have breached any of the guidelines and outright lied about it, he will be under major pressure to go. If not I'd say he is safe.
    I think it would be a bad time for him to go for Ireland at this critical time for us in the EU, as he is a senior player albeit an absolute idiot. Better be in the tent than out of it.


  • #150
    Cyrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,188 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    Ta ceist agam wrote: »
    Interesting to see John Sweeney and his wife sitting at the top table with the legal pals et al, as they are the company Directors of Western Railway Operations LTD, oil retailers and hotel management.

    Western Railway operations ltd may trade as Clifden Station house or Sweeney Oil.

    Cahoots!!...I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine!

    https://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Compa...Limited-573077


    Does anyone think there's a dirty connection between the Directors of Clifden Station House and the influential people they were seated with and dined with in their own hotel?

    There has been 5 mortgage/charges against Western Railway Operations ltd all on the same day this year 28th February 2020.

    John Sweeney that was seated at the table with the High court Judge , has 38 directorships spanning mainly oil retail and mining, legal and construction / planning and parkrite parking.

    https://www.solocheck.ie/Irish-Direc...hn/2105755823/

    The particular Sweeney family are highly influential people worth billions.

    Why was Station House Hotel owned by the Sweeney family chosen?
    Is there a link as to why they 81 party knew the Hotel management would let the Golf party go ahead without social distancing?

    There's something very fishy going on and more questions must be asked about this relationship with the hotel owners and those that attended the Gold dinner.

    Business people socialise with politicians all the time is this news to you :D


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  • #151
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Lads, do yiz really think an EU commisioner is accountable to anyone? :o


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