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Joe_Knee
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Voted for Higgins.
Very happy for him. He seemed very genuine in his speeches today too.
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Citizen
Roy Keane Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Location: Highway 753 Status: Offline Points: 13741 |
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The main role is a protector of the constitution, he seems to have absolutely no knowledge of it, and was caught out a number of times on it. He portrayed himself as a successful businessman when in fact he left his business 'smarthomes' in the mire. Bare in mind he only got the capital to start up smarhomes as a result of a generous grant of 680,000 from enterprise ireland. The business model for smarthomes, was simply on the crest of the housing boom, with no sustainability after that, the company was in essence 'upmarket electricians' On dragons den he only made two investments, both were with another dragon, and one of them he drew money out from of his own business to fund the capital. He made 12,700 last year. In so far as his business achievements, he would be laughed at in international circles. He portrayed himself as a community man, yet he charged local GAA clubs 5,000 to fill out grant applications. Lied about the level of his involvent in fianna fail Lied when he ended his involvement in fianna fail He was a bagman for fianna fail He refused to criticise Fianna Fail for their role in the downfall of the economy I cant believe anyone let alone 28% (over 500,000) of the electorate swallowed his rubbish, its like they had cotton wool in their ears. if they wanted an independent they should have went with norris who i also believe was a worthy candidate, he has made some real change in the oireachtas. Edited by Citizen - 29 Oct 2011 at 12:31pm |
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Baldrick
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Great post Citizen.
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BigStrongMan
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Citizen
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PM me for all forum moderation queries.
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rossieman
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Citizen,
good post. |
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tribalarmy
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32851 |
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His wife was the bridesmaid at Luke Kellys wedding.
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tribalarmy
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Elf Presidente
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IrishPride
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Quality Post Citizen
Fair play to Michael D for meeting with the gufc team. Some amount of thugs on that team
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Galway Will Win The 2014 Hurling Championship
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32851 |
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Just reading the poll above. We are not a million mile away from the national average other than to say that their is a Sinn Fein bias on this boad and an anti Fianna Fail. Other than that we are fairly reflective of the national poll.
Michael D did well here Dana and Mary Davis and Mitchell did crap and David Norriss did ok. |
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32851 |
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http://www.independent.ie/national-news/presidential-election/michael-d-claims-an-overall-victory-in-all-four-provinces-2921072.html
There you go Kerzy. It was all in Dublin Limerick and Galway |
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Pipkin
Liam Brady Joined: 07 May 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1975 |
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I am well able to read and had seen the results of all constituencies before I made my original post. You are clearly missing or ignoring the point I was making about the contrast of the huge margin of victory in all major cities compared to rural constituencies. |
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32851 |
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"Higgins won this in Dublin, Cork and Limerick cities where
Gallagher suffered badly. Gallagher topped the poll in 6 constituencies
and McGuinness 1. Surprised Norris polled so low tbh."
That was your original post. |
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Pipkin
Liam Brady Joined: 07 May 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1975 |
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Thought I clarified that comment after but Ill have a go again. I made the comment in relation to the scale of his victory in those places. It would have been physically impossible to claw back the amount of votes he lost there. It ensured there was no contest. Did I not acknowledge that Gallagher only won 6 constituencies (he actually won seven I see from that article)? The comment was made initially to highlight the contrast of voting in rural and urban areas. |
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32851 |
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Kerzy, your point is muddled and not clear whatsover.
Higgins won this election on 1st pref and on transfer in every province and in ever constituency bar 7. He just won it by more in Dublin and Galway and limerick. Now considering he is from Limerick and has lived for many years in Galway that is hardly a suprise. Higgins won this in Ireland simple as that. He wont it overwhelmingly. You could say that Gallagher did better in rural areas because some people in rural areas are still stuck with voting Fianna Fail. |
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Bob Hoskins
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Congratulations to the mushroom
Him and Chuck were the only two that displayed any understanding of the role of President. |
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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GoneToShowgies
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The fact that Gallagher was out-voted by Higgins in his own area tells you a lot I think. Good luck to Michael D, I think he is the best of a bad bunch. I hope he is up to it, 7 years is too long imo. Five years would be loads.
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Baldrick
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the reason for the 7 years is so that it is out of cycle with the lifetime of a dail which his every five years.
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