Did anyone else get Timmy Dooley's Prezzie??

Claregirl

Got a lovely 2011 Calendar dropped through the letterbox yesterday from Timmy Dooley and it got me thinking..... We're going to be getting a lot of useless sh*te through the post in the next few weeks with the election so what can we do with it???

If I mark it as unsolicited mail and return to sender will he be charged the postage?

Any other suggestions??

Clareman

I got it in the post and it is now where it belongs, recycling bin I was considering sending it back as unsolicited mail but figured if there was a cost involved he'd only claim it on expenses anyway

chucken1

Oh Im really spoilt...got 3 of them!! I couldnt believe it..especially after I gave him a piece of my mind when he called here in October :mad:

I threw mine in the fire but Im sorry now I didnt return them..or wait till he turns up again and hand them back to him...Politely of course

Clareman

I can't wait for him to call asking for a vote so I can have a chat with him about which is more important to him, FF or Clare

chucken1

Clareman wrote: »

I can't wait for him to call asking for a vote so I can have a chat with him about which is more important to him, FF or Clare

I pretended I didnt recognise him..well he had never called before(sent his minions)

He knew nothing about us or the area, but was yappin on about 'if theres anything you need,call me'

Good job I had my self esteem in tact that day or I may have been tempted to ask for his help :pac:

Claregirl

I'm surprised you need to ask!! I think it's fairly obvious where his loyalties lie. I had to laugh at the calendar tho it struck me as a desperate ploy by a desperate man hoping to cling to power expences.

If only he'd pressed the wrong button more frequently we'd have had an election long before the IMF came to town:rolleyes:

golden8

Yep went straight into the recycling bin. What a waste of money.

5h4mr0(k

Claregirl wrote: »

I'm surprised you need to ask!! I think it's fairly obvious where his loyalties lie. I had to laugh at the calendar tho it struck me as a desperate ploy by a desperate man hoping to cling to power expences.

If only he'd pressed the wrong button more frequently we'd have had an election long before the IMF came to town:rolleyes:

He's said it on the radio in the past that he is party representative.
I guess this time round we really have to let him know the election is for a PUBLIC representative. We're his employers, not the party. Join the queue Timmy.

golden8

5h4mr0(k wrote: »

He's said it on the radio in the past that he is party representative.
I guess this time round we really have to let him know the election is for a PUBLIC representative. We're his employers, not the party. Join the queue Timmy.

Don't think he needs to he will have a nice pension.

Clareman

He was a senator before becoming TD wasn't he? He wouldn't be entitled to a full pension yet I think, would need another couple of terms

Carry

I didn't get a calendar or something else from Dooley-boy.
Not important enough as I'm living in the middle of nowhere, I assume. Nobody around here got one. Nobody cares actually.

But you do know that Timmy-boy was one of those who voted happily for lowering the minimum wage?
Well, what do you expect from a young party animal on the way to get his share in power and money.
Or you could ask him personally.

And now he is spending our tax money on "gifts" we neither need nor want, just to get him into power.
For what? To be one of the lads? To get into the Galway tent? To revive it?
Cui bono, as my Latin teacher used to say.

Good on you to bin the calender.
Better on you if you really make the effort to send it back with a vengeance and a comment!
I would.

Otherwise he would never know what you think of him and FF.

chucken1

http://www.contact.ie/blog/complete-list-tds-who-voted-lower-minimum-wage


http://www.clarepeople.com/wordp5/20090902681/timmy-top-dog-for-expenses/

Keano

Glad I am not alone!

"Challenging times for Shannon Airport" I believe it said. Do you think :mad:

CptSternn

I dunno how many of ye know this but TD's have a mailing budget and printing budget. They are allowed X amount of euros a year to print and post stuff.

It's almost January 1st so I guarantee that he is using the end of his budget to print and distribute those calendars. If you send them back, it's just going to cost you the tax payer more money, and yes, you already paid (via your taxes) for that calendar already.

As many pointed out he happily voted for lowering the minimum wage, along with all of the other austerity measures his party put forth. But lets not forget all of the other things he has done while in office:

First there was the hospital debacle. Remember when he said on the radio and in the paper that he would 'step down as TD' if any services were cut after he was elected as TD? Then they cut pretty much everything (and they still are cutting) and he then said 'no one took me seriously on that'.

Then there was the Aer Lingus strike. He actually showed up to march with the union workers, even though his own party which was in power and held a considerable amount of AL stock were working against the workers. He didn't mind showing up and 'supporting' them, even though he voted down all measures in the Dáil that would have helped them.

Next there was the nurses and doctors who again marches against cuts to the hospital - he was there front and centre getting his picture in the Clare People, yet voted with his party to cut said funding.

A non-political event I remember was when Mohammed Ali came to Ennis and the board that brought him decided they didn't want any politicians on stage sullying the events. He of course was standing right next to the stage and later when Ali was stepping out of his limo Dooley was caught on camera knocking over children in efforts to get into the photo. A really class act.

I could continue on with a long list of other memorable moments, but I will leave it at this -

Check out his website - www.timmydooley.ie - you will see its not there any more. Now check out Willie O'Dea's website. Willie's disappeared a while back and then when it returned - www.willieodea.ie - it had all references to FF along with logos, colours, etc. stripped. This is nothing new - there are a dozen other FF politicians who in the past few weeks have 'sanitized' their adverts, websites, and pamphlets of all FF logos and colours (there are multiple threads on Politics.ie about this with scanned pictures and links). It appears Mr. Dooley is now doing the same thing.

Out of curiosity - does he have the FF logo or colours on his calendar?

golden8

Clareman wrote: »

He was a senator before becoming TD wasn't he? He wouldn't be entitled to a full pension yet I think, would need another couple of terms

Perhaps.

Also remember what was T Dooleys stance on Ennis A & E.

Minimum wage never effects TD

Think T Dooleys website says it all "under construction".

pedroThePirate

I don't know that much about this Timmy Dooley character, having
had minimal involvement with Irish voting razzamatazz since
moving here from UK, but I would hazard a guess that, in common with
every other nation in the world, Ireland gets "politicians for politicians",
not representatives of the people.

This is a fundamental flaw, not of democracy, but of political systems in
general. Ireland has moved on from the "benign fascism" of Mr Haughey,
where government was on the basis of "What I say, goes, pal.", to the
inept and unpolarised series of coalitions which have characterised the years
since then. There is not (and, as far as my Irish history goes, never has been)
any serious socialist opposition to the Fianna Fail / Fine Gael circus which
seems to bubble to the top after every election. I have seen several general
elections since living here and the outcome is as predictable as a Clare-Leitrim
hurling game.

Were some of the sacred cows of the Fianna Fail mindset to be coherently
challenged in the Dáil, we might see some changes but Fine Gael is not an
opposition party. I don't know how to stress this strongly enough because many
of you reading this will not have spent time as a citizen in the UK, where there
most assuredly is active, powerful and effective opposition politics.

I'm not saying that it always (or even often) works properly, but there is a
fighting chance, across the water, that really stupid policies, driven by self-
interest and continued nest-feathering, will get cut down by vehement voices in
the parliament. Ireland needs (quite desperately, I would contend) a vibrant and
living socialist voice in its lower chamber. The Seanád seems somewhat more
balanced (at present), with a number of dissenting voices raised against some
of the more barmy antics of recent governments, but there is a long way to go.

Chris

coffeelover

I got none
Oh well would only have put it where it belongs if I got it-the bin :rolleyes:

CiaranMT

He was attending to that most noble of Irish politicians' pastimes, showing face at the funeral of a well-known local businessman in Ennis today. Can't remember his name but he was over the shop/petrol station on the Tulla Rd.

Stuxnet

CiaranMT wrote: »

He was attending to that most noble of Irish politicians' pastimes, showing face at the funeral of a well-known local businessman in Ennis today. Can't remember his name but he was over the shop/petrol station on the Tulla Rd.

that sh1t sickens me, he's not the only one, a friend of mine killed himself during the summer, he was 26, james breen with no connection to the family (whom i know well and enquired) was there shaking hands and keeping up appearances, fake ****, they are all the same

chucken1

User timmy.dooley.ie (timmy.dooley.ie@oireachtas.ie) not listed in Domino Directory (The e-mail address to which you sent your mail is invalid. There is no one with that address on the Oireachtas network.)

The whole bloody lot runnin scared.

EDIT..I just sent him a stinker of a mail that didnt deliver

chucken1

http://www.clare.fm/news/clare-fine-gael-tds-among-top-17-%E2%82%AC5000-expenses

Theres the rest :mad:

pedroThePirate

Just got my Dooley calendar through the slot yesterday
afternoon.

A testament to the triumph of graphic design over content,
this really does seem to promise everyone the Earth, and then
some. I see what people are getting worked up about.

The only pressing issue with Ennis General Hospital was, and still
is, the absence of any vestige of emergency admission facility,
and yet in Dooley's patronising missive we find him taking credit
for some €12m investment in an endoscopy suite, radiology upgrade
and a 50-bed ward block. Frankly, Ennis doesn't need these facilities -
it needs a viable and efficient A&E which would demonstrably save
lives. Ten years ago, a friend of mine had a tractor accident near
Kilbaha and it took a total of three and a half hours for him to be
got from under the wheels and into a hospital environment.

Very few people need a "urgent" endoscopy and an appointment at
Dooradoyle or Barringtons is no hardship to suffer. As far as I know,
the radiology at Ennis is adequate (in a 19th Century, white-tiles-and-
twenty-foot-ceilings kind of way). Yet, it costs only about €8m to fully equip
an A&E unit capable of dealing with major incidents to European standards.

Maternity facilities would also be nice, and would at least enable GAA players
of the future to avoid the stigma of having been born outside the county
and thus being in violation of the rules. That sounds trivial, I know, but it
does bring home just how much of a backwater, in political eyes, Clare
really has become.

Chris

User Friendly

chucken1 wrote: »

User timmy.dooley.ie (timmy.dooley.ie@oireachtas.ie) not listed in Domino Directory (The e-mail address to which you sent your mail is invalid. There is no one with that address on the Oireachtas network.)

The whole bloody lot runnin scared.

EDIT..I just sent him a stinker of a mail that didnt deliver

Thats not his e-email address.

highlydebased

Got it in the post today. Was quite apalled.

Full of spelling and gramatical errors.

Claiming the reduction in services from Shannon is because "people are not holidaying". Yet, Ryanair pulled most hte services in a row over fees....

Also claiming we are all collectively responsible for it...what!

CptSternn

Did he cleanse the calendar of FF logos and colours?

Sham Squire

How this dude got elected to anything anywhere is a fukcing mystery to me. He's the most obvious party lap dog I've ever seen in Irish politics (and that's saying something). If the guy keeps his job after the next election I give up. Why would anyone other than his mother vote for him? Phoned his office to complain but there was a message saying the office was closed and to call his mobile if it was urgent. Well, what d'you reckon? Is it urgent?:)

jprboy

Neon-Circles wrote: »

Got it in the post today. Was quite apalled.

Full of spelling and gramatical errors.

Claiming the reduction in services from Shannon is because "people are not holidaying". Yet, Ryanair pulled most hte services in a row over fees....

Sham Squire

Sham Squire wrote: »

How this dude got elected to anything anywhere is a fukcing mystery to me. He's the most obvious party lap dog I've ever seen in Irish politics (and that's saying something). If the guy keeps his job after the next election I give up. Why would anyone other than his mother vote for him? Phoned his office to complain but there was a message saying the office was closed and to call his mobile if it was urgent. Well, what d'you reckon? Is it urgent?:)

you know you have to..

highlydebased

jprboy wrote: »

Ah now, I was highly toxicated when I typed that, so it's lucky it made sense! :P

CiaranMT

Neon-Circles wrote: »

Got it in the post today. Was quite apalled.

Full of spelling and gramatical errors.

Claiming the reduction in services from Shannon is because "people are not holidaying". Yet, Ryanair pulled most hte services in a row over fees....

Also claiming we are all collectively responsible for it...what!

Thankfully I don't live in or around Ennis and so won't get it in the post, but I'm surprised that he and his cohort would show such blatant gall to use the collective responsibility line.

Sonz

Heh i went after him and handed the calander back, got enough rubbish to get rid of after christmas...