Freeman Megamerge

For Forks Sake

Its been a while since we've had one of these idiots, we have nearly gone full circle back to Mr Sludds in post #1

https://www.thejournal.ie/woman-with-no-road-tax-claimed-she-was-entitled-to-free-movement-in-the-state-6549191-Nov2024/

Hotblack Desiato

Not taxing your car for nearly 3 years is not "acting stupidly on the day" 🙄

Esel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122868057#Comment_122868057

Too thick to know about the 'sell and buy back' trick.

Robbo

Not a great day at the polls for Ben Gilroy last week, he couldn't manage to get past the first count in his home constituency of Meath West, with 416 votes (1.1% of first preferences). The people of Fingal West managed to find a single extra vote in their hearts for him but Fingal East was worse.

whippet

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122916153#Comment_122916153

how many elections is that now since 2013 ? from the lofty highs of 6% of the poll in that byelection to 1.2% in the 2014 Europeans, got a bump to 1.9% in the 2016 General Election, that strong performance gave him a gain to 2.09% of the vote in the 2019 Europeans (the Hurley played a bit part in that jump) … but the decline then followed with 1% in the 2020 General election (I think the government invented Covid to keep him out of the Dail)

And as for 2024 - 1.1% in Meath West makes the 0.8% tally in Fingal East look like a blip.

Can we safely say he is irrelevant at this stage ? 6 elections - 1-2% each time

GerardKeating

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122862156#Comment_122862156

I wonder how this works for the European Elections, they don't have by elections, just a list of "replacements".

I always wonder if a celeb candidate would/could run in every constituency, use the name to get multiple seats and pass them off to his "list ".

A350-900

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122918529#Comment_122918529

It would be entirely possible. Once they stump up the required deposits they could run.

Sure don't certain Dublin based God Squadders run in every constituency?

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122918529#Comment_122918529

Pretty certain that would work; but we'd probably be pressured to go for a single national constituency by the EU after that.

UK bans people running in more than one constituency so we may need to look at that. Councillors getting elected twice is becoming a problem too.

A350-900

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122918588#Comment_122918588

Oh where is that happening?

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122918609#Comment_122918609

In 2019, Sharon Keogan got elected to two wards in Meath. I think someone else did also but I can't remember.

In 2024, Paddy Holohan got elected to two wards in South Dublin.

Historically there was a lad who was on adjoining wards - in different councils. Waterford City and Waterford County. This is allowable!

Losty Dublin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122861532#Comment_122861532

Strawman takes one seat and his natural person the other.

Which one gets to turn the Sovereign Seal, well that is the real question….

For Forks Sake

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122917172#Comment_122917172

These are the results of a man with a fondness for losing deposits.

On the topic of financial misadventures, did the bank ever get round to taking the house off him?

Robbo

More woes for Caitriona Carey, 46 more charges. What I found interesting are her co-accused, who are also charged with acting unlawfully as a solicitor, as these names don't include a person who was previously involved in her companies who has been held out in the media before as a "solicitor" despite holding no professional legal qualifications.

I think the Companies Act offences would give pause for thought to other people operating in the same sphere who decided to incorporate companies for reasons and then decided that filing annual returns, accounts etc. was all a bit of a palaver.

TheBMG

Another glorious Paul Coyle day out. Court giving him particularly short shrift in this one.

https://www.courts.ie/viewer/pdf/c9bd3c7c-2d15-4737-956c-ad1d5ee9e179/2025_IECA_38.pdf/pdf#view=fitH

Esel

^^^^

https://www.courts.ie/viewer/pdf/c9bd3c7c-2d15-4737-956c-ad1d5ee9e179/2025_IECA_38.pdf/pdf#view=fitH

Robbo

The Supreme Court refused to hear a case of a Freeman who wanted to change his name on his driving licence (no problem there) but then have replace the signature section on his licence with "Christopher-nicholas, I reserve all my rights".

When dealing with the RSA, they were having none of it…

This submission was rejected by the respondents, who informed that applicant
that they could not accept the addition of the words ‘I reserve all my rights’ in the
signature therein. It appears that the respondents believed to do so would be in
breach of the applicable legislation and regulations in relation to the issuing of a
driver’s licence. The respondents contended that the presence of these words,
which were provided as part of a statutory declaration in his application for a
driver’s licence may suggest that the declaration was being made on a conditional
basis. It appears that this was unacceptable to the applicant for a variety of
reasons, including that he is of the view that legislation and statute is not valid
law, as valid law comes only from ‘God and maxims that have their origins in
canon law and ecclesiastical law’. He also claimed to be exempt from the
legislation by reference to his belief that he enjoys a private diplomatic status.

The High Court refused to entertain a judicial review and he then went to the Court of Appeal, where he filed a motion to adduce new evidence.

In this motion, the applicant sought to adduce three pieces of further evidence for use in his appeal, namely two judgments from the United States Supreme Court, and a form of documentation which suggests that Christopher-nicholas O’Hara, as appears on the applicant’s birth certificate has been designated as a corporate entity which is subject to being traded on the New York stock exchange.

Unsurprisingly, the Supreme Court has declined to hear this case.