Leaked council file

Amhran Nua

I was just reading in the paper there this morning that someone leaked an audio recording of arguments in the council to a popular torrent or filesharing site. Would anyone have a link to this (it's not illegal or copyrighted)?

dolphin city

why would that be leaked

sure you can just walk into one of those council meetings any monday night and listen.

ciotog

dolphin city wrote: »

why would that be leaked

sure you can just walk into one of those council meetings any monday night and listen.

Not all of the discussions take place in public - I also suspect that this recording involves councillors and city officials so not necessarily conducted at the public meeting.

Amhran Nua

Yeah it was in the Galway Independent, apparently part of the ongoing trouble between Councillor Conneely and the beaurocrats in the council.

Sponge Bob

Didn't Hildegaarde just step in and negotiate a permanent ceasefire ??

ciotog

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Didn't Hildegaarde just step in and negotiate a permanent ceasefire ??

Apparently so, bit of a shame really as the behaviour of a number of the city officials would have them fired from real jobs. This would seem to let them off the hook. Though I suppose it was becoming an interruption to regular business. Still dissatisfying though.

ciotog

btw it was http://audioboo.fm/boos/304533-padraig-conneely-at-city-hall-march-14 - but has since been taken down (unfortunately).

emptybladder

'Twas a recording of an outburst by Conneely in the Chamber on March 14. Somebody recorded it, edited about a minute and a half and uploaded it, and then posted the link from a fake Conneely Twitter account which has also since been deleted.

He's making a complaint to the Council about it ... under Chamber rules, you cannot record a Council meeting (which it was, as opposed to a recording from a 'private' meeting).

Amhran Nua

I don't get it, what was the point of the whole operation so? Was someone trying to discredit Conneely or something?

Cleahaigh

ciotog wrote: »

Apparently so, bit of a shame really as the behaviour of a number of the city officials would have them fired from real jobs. This would seem to let them off the hook. Though I suppose it was becoming an interruption to regular business. Still dissatisfying though.

List the 'behaviour' that would constitute sackable offences from 'real jobs'
You consider Conneely's behaviour to be acceptable? You think he's some sort of people's hero?

ciotog

Cleahaigh wrote: »

List the 'behaviour' that would constitute sackable offences from 'real jobs'

Here are two examples:
- The failure by city officials to act on directions given by the elected city council. The specific example of this that came to mind was in regard to a complaint made by a member of the public regarding drainage of roads in the city. The complaint was first raised in May 2005 and the same issue repeatedly in the intervening years. The issue was raised by several city councillors and motions were passed calling on city officials to perform the required maintenance and provide a maintenance schedule. None of which were responded to.
- Deliberate breaches of An Bord Pleanala directives, this is currently happening on the Seamus Quirke Road works. The plans which gained approval from ABP are not the plans which the sub-contractors are using.

You consider Conneely's behaviour to be acceptable? You think he's some sort of people's hero?

I don't consider him a people's hero - a good deal of this issue is borne out of his own arrogance. However, the situation involving him did highlight issues between the elected city council and city officials which need to be fixed so that we see the whole council serving the city properly. The current outcome just allows the problems to be glossed over which isn't any good for the long term.

Sponge Bob

Well that didn't last. A meeting was held this morning of the Galway something or other Community or soething Forum and Conneely ranting and raving about officials was item 1 on the agenda. The meeting was adjourned, Conneely would see no reason and the meeting was then abandoned.

Hildegaarde better get busy with the peace process again.

confuseddotcom

The Galway something or other!!! :D

All these "something or other" things going on all around the city lol are just mashed/meshed together into 1 big um useless stagnant blob of more something or others! :rolleyes:

celty

The great Conneely, as much of a 'people's champion' as Joe the Builder. Full of his own bluster, well able to attack others and yet, amazingly, never able to see his own shortcomings.

Doesn't deserve half the publicity he gets and if every Councillor in the city was as loud and obnoxious as him then the Council would have to be disbanded.

He might be right some of the time, but it's all lost in the bluster. Listening him must put people into Homer Simpson mode ... the lips are moving, but I don't hear a thing. It's all noise.:mad: