Sean Gallagher why is he doing so well in the polls?

Gingko

takamichinoku wrote: »

Has anyone been keeping track of how many likes Gallagher has on facebook? I'd swear it's gone up a few hundred since the debate.

Currently 38,116

How could that be possible in all fairness? The residual FF'ers still in the shadows?

Capt'n Midnight

washman3 wrote: »

And Dessie left and formed the PD's
Which went on to equal if not surpass FF for corruption,greed and cronyism.
Thank God they got their come-uppance and got wiped off the face of Irish politics.
Yes, the party Dessie founded.

Make no mistake

I think the PD's failed miserably in their slogan of "high standards in high places"

just pointing out it was the last time anyone in FF actually took a stand against the corruption in the party

Colours

Fair play to Martin McGuinness for putting it up to Sean Gallagher tonight. No better man to corner him so that he couldn't dodge his way out of it by some spoof talk about rising above petty squabbling. It's a pity he didn't rise above taking envelopes from crooks in the name of the Fianna Fail party only 2 years ago.

Capt'n Midnight

Pity the papers have been printed

or maybe they'll change the headlines ?

gizmo555

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Pity the papers have been printed

or maybe they'll change the headlines ?

Most, if not all of the papers previewed on Vincent Browne had the SG €5k cheque story on the front page.

Colours

Another important point to consider is that if this allegation has surfaced about Sean Gallagher's murky association with Fianna Fail which took place only two years ago then just think how many other skeletons are likely to be hiding in Mr Gallagher's closet when his involvement with Fianna Fail has gone as far back as thirty years when he was a party member working alongside Charles J Haughey?? That's around 30 years of involvement with Fianna Fail. Do we want to have a person who could bring shame and scandal to such a high and dignified office?? The answer is unequivocally NO so any right thinking sensible person has to exercise their voting privilege accordingly and ensure this con man is not voted into the highest office in the land.

Colours

djpbarry wrote: »

I know, it’s ridiculous. I mean, how many murders is Gallagher directly or indirectly responsible for?!? Do we really want a president who doesn’t have blood on his hands?!?

djpbarry Martin McGuinness was involved in a conflict which arose due to Irish republicans being oppressed and treated as second class citizens in Northern Ireland. And in case you're another die hard Fianna Failer let me point out that Eamon De Valera - who incidentally was in his seventies when he assumed the office of President and ninety when his second term ended - took up arms and fought in the civil war so you could say that he too had blood on his hands to use your terminology.

The hands of Sean Gallagher have the whiff and smear of filthy money from probably countless grubby brown envelopes with the Fianna Fail stamp that have passed through them.

ifitburwilll

Colours wrote: »

djpbarry Martin McGuinness was involved in a conflict which arose due to Irish republicans being oppressed and treated as second class citizens in Northern Ireland. And in case you're another die hard Fianna Failer let me point out that Eamon De Valera - who incidentally was in his seventies when he assumed the office of President and ninety when his second term ended - took up arms and fought in the civil war so you could say that he too had blood on his hands to use your terminology.

The hands of Sean Gallagher have the whiff and smear of filthy money from probably countless grubby brown envelopes with the Fianna Fail stamp that have passed through them.

gallagher bashing aside,ask the people in Adare County Limerick about the suitability of Mc Guinness for president

CiaranC

Hes as bent as three pound note. Altough Im pretty sure this will actually encourage more FF to vote for him, the vermin.

Gallagher charged GAA clubs up to €5,000 for grants advice

PRESIDENTIAL frontrunner Sean Gallagher charged GAA clubs in his home county of Louth as much as €5,000 to help out with applications for sports grants, the Irish Independent has learned.

Mr Gallagher charged the fees for as little as 20 hours' work in order to help the clubs get funding from state agencies, such as the National Lottery, when Fianna Fail led-governments had enough money to hand out the cash.

Local sources last night told the Irish Independent: "He was inside with Fianna Fail and the ministers and (he had) the inside track, he had been (Dr Rory) O'Hanlon's secretary. Once you got him to do it, you were going to get the grant.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/presidential-election/gallagher-charged-gaa-clubs-up-to-euro5000-for-grants-advice-2915300.html

djpbarry

ifitburwilll wrote: »

I think it is unfortunate that tonights debate and Pats attacks were all dictated by the polls.The higher you were in the polls the more grief you got . Not RTEs finest hour.

Why? Gallagher was the favourite, the attention was obviously going to be on him, especially considering most of the other candidates are out of contention at this stage.

Colours wrote: »

djpbarry Martin McGuinness was involved in a conflict which arose due to Irish republicans being oppressed and treated as second class citizens in Northern Ireland.

Don’t care dude – I’ve heard it all before. McGuinness has a highly questionable past and I don’t think he is at all suitable for the role of president.

Anywhoodle

hangon wrote: »

This is not a troll i am genuinely puzzled.
what is the attraction to people?

OP, I've been wondering the exact same thing.. I've been following all of the debates etc. and cannot get my head around his popularity. A load of vague waffle about creating a 'culture of entrepreneurialism', lots of expressions of empathy for those out of work, some talk about how he's struggled with adversity himself... Eh, I certainly haven't heard anything concrete? When he's asked 'how' he's going to achieve all these lofty goals, he rabbits on about visiting schools etc. Bloody hell, a CSPE student could write the same spiffy rhetoric in their Junior Cert. exam.. I'm genuinely not seeing any depth there at all.

Any direct question which requires him to take a concrete position (eg. are you pro-gay adoption or not) or give a non-fudgeable answer (eg. name one important piece of legislation passed in the last few years..... a would-be President who couldn't even blag that one!?) seems to leave him stumped..

I know none of the candidates are up to much, but that still doesn't explain (to me anyway) why this guy is so far out ahead? What am I missing?

Godge

Colours wrote: »

The hands of Sean Gallagher have the whiff and smear of filthy money from probably countless grubby brown envelopes with the Fianna Fail stamp that have passed through them.

As opposed to the whiff and smear of filthy money from armed robberies, protection rackets, smuggling and intimidation from the hands of IRA supporters and defenders??

EamonM

CiaranC wrote: »

Hes as bent as three pound note. Altough Im pretty sure this will actually encourage more FF to vote for him, the vermin.



http://www.independent.ie/national-news/presidential-election/gallagher-charged-gaa-clubs-up-to-euro5000-for-grants-advice-2915300.html

Originally Posted by Love nor Money
A bit of perspective here (and I'm not (a) a new member to boards (b) a ff voter or (c) mad).

1. Sean Gallagher assisted in a FF fundraiser. All political parties have fundraisers. Therefore there are people associated with all political parties who assist fundraisers. Are all people who assist with political fundraisers unsuitable for the presidency for that reason?

2. If not, is it because it was a ff fundraiser? Is anybody who assists FF an accessory to the crime of what FF did and therefore unsuitable for the presidency?
3. He delivered a picture to the donor. Are all deliverers of photographs thereby debarred from the presidency.

4. He got confused between whether he got a cheque or an envelope or nothing in return for the photo (it turns out he got a cheque (maybe in an envelope maybe not) on a different date). So what? He didn't deny he helped FF with its fundraiser (that's no crime) so is this any bigger a lie than saying he got the 46A bus to Montrose and not the 10? Behind the hyperbole, no.

Personally, I think he was targeted last night. The leader of the polls should always expect more heat but that was not why they went for him as Michael D in 2nd place was fawned over. The audience (which - if a fair reflection of the electorate should have been 40% in favour of him) was very partisan against him, and RTE put the audience together.
---End Quote---:)

EamonM

Again Sean was being tricked and confused over the events.

Sean Never called to any1s house to collect anything, he was singled out and attacked and it was planned down to the last detail. sinn fein knew they were losing badly and said they would wait until the final debate to try and discredit Sean so badly and so close to polling day that he would not get or indeed have the time to address the allegations and recover his great name.

However the Irish people are and have been wise to sinn feins backstabbing, dark and menacing cloak and dagger tactics for years and years and it gets right up my skin but we wont fall for that kind of negative propaganda end of.

I would call upon all of Sean's supporters to post and repost positive comments like mine and yours to EVERYBODY both on facebook, twitter, boards,ie irish journal.ie etc etc etc, and debate with keep promoting the positive themes that Sean has been promoting himself from the beginning, and lets make this happen...:)

caseyann

EamonM wrote: »

Again Sean was being tricked and confused over the events.

Sean Never called to any1s house to collect anything, he was singled out and attacked and it was planned down to the last detail. sinn fein knew they were losing badly and said they would wait until the final debate to try and discredit Sean so badly and so close to polling day that he would not get or indeed have the time to address the allegations and recover his great name.

However the Irish people are and have been wise to sinn feins backstabbing, dark and menacing cloak and dagger tactics for years and years and it gets right up my skin but we wont fall for that kind of negative propaganda end of.

I would call upon all of Sean's supporters to post and repost positive comments like mine and yours to EVERYBODY both on facebook, twitter, boards,ie irish journal.ie etc etc etc, and debate with keep promoting the positive themes that Sean has been promoting himself from the beginning, and lets make this happen...:)

Ah but funny enough only when SF or anyone related to SF is running do they start accusing them or Martin of being murderers,and yet not a single thing any other day of week.But still no proof.
If he cant take the heat get out of the kitchen.:D

anymore

EamonM wrote: »

Again Sean was being tricked and confused over the events.

Sean Never called to any1s house to collect anything, he was singled out and attacked and it was planned down to the last detail. sinn fein knew they were losing badly and said they would wait until the final debate to try and discredit Sean so badly and so close to polling day that he would not get or indeed have the time to address the allegations and recover his great name.

However the Irish people are and have been wise to sinn feins backstabbing, dark and menacing cloak and dagger tactics for years and years and it gets right up my skin but we wont fall for that kind of negative propaganda end of.

I would call upon all of Sean's supporters to post and repost positive comments like mine and yours to EVERYBODY both on facebook, twitter, boards,ie irish journal.ie etc etc etc, and debate with keep promoting the positive themes that Sean has been promoting himself from the beginning, and lets make this happen...:)

I suppose we should say welcome to Boards as you are new. Support Sean Gallagher do you ??????

JonathanAnon

His old housemate Noel Whelan on talking about him now on Prime Time... Impartiality has been a real loser in this Presidential Election..

road_high

JonathanAnon wrote: »

His old housemate Noel Whelan on talking about him now on Prime Time... Impartiality has been a real loser in this Presidential Election..

Yep. Talk about effin deluded.

Ironé

EamonM wrote: »

Again Sean was being tricked and confused over the events.

Sean Never called to any1s house to collect anything, he was singled out and attacked and it was planned down to the last detail. sinn fein knew they were losing badly and said they would wait until the final debate to try and discredit Sean so badly and so close to polling day that he would not get or indeed have the time to address the allegations and recover his great name.

However the Irish people are and have been wise to sinn feins backstabbing, dark and menacing cloak and dagger tactics for years and years and it gets right up my skin but we wont fall for that kind of negative propaganda end of.

I would call upon all of Sean's supporters to post and repost positive comments like mine and yours to EVERYBODY both on facebook, twitter, boards,ie irish journal.ie etc etc etc, and debate with keep promoting the positive themes that Sean has been promoting himself from the beginning, and lets make this happen...:)

You've been posting this multiple times on boards.ie and on SGs facebook page. If this is the level of 'debate' from an SG supporter it explains a lot. Do you honestly think spamming will change people's minds and get them to vote for SG?

thebman

EamonM wrote: »

Again Sean was being tricked and confused over the events.

Sean Never called to any1s house to collect anything, he was singled out and attacked and it was planned down to the last detail. sinn fein knew they were losing badly and said they would wait until the final debate to try and discredit Sean so badly and so close to polling day that he would not get or indeed have the time to address the allegations and recover his great name.

Your not counting today as a day then because he had all day today to clear this up

Don't think he has a great name, he appears to have dodgy accounts and dodgy dealings at fundraisers for parties he was never really heavily involved with according to himself.

His account of what happened doesn't balance IMO.

K-9

caseyann wrote: »

Ah but funny enough only when SF or anyone related to SF is running do they start accusing them or Martin of being murderers,and yet not a single thing any other day of week.But still no proof.
If he cant take the heat get out of the kitchen.:D

Shame you aren't watching Spotlight on BBC1 NI.

McGuinness contradicting himself on his membership on camera in the 80's!

EamonM

anymore wrote: »

I suppose we should say welcome to Boards as you are new. Support Sean Gallagher do you ??????

Im not new to boards i was in here when you were in nappys kid but a different account and yes i do support him:)

EamonM

Ironé wrote: »

You've been posting this multiple times on boards.ie and on SGs facebook page. If this is the level of 'debate' from an SG supporter it explains a lot. Do you honestly think spamming will change people's minds and get them to vote for SG?

I am not spamming I just feel this response is the answer for all this sillyness and it explains exactly what is happening here end of story, im not trying to change anyones mind but clearly just respond to the negativity

Liam Byrne

EamonM wrote: »

anymore wrote: »

I suppose we should say welcome to Boards as you are new. Support Sean Gallagher do you ??????

Im not new to boards i was in here when you were in nappys kid but a different account and yes i do support him:)

Why ?

hangon

EamonM wrote: »

Again Sean was being tricked and confused over the events.

If he so easily 'tricked'it hardly makes him the man to uphold the Constitution now does it?

He was a FF man true and true and tried to con us throughout this election.

Capt'n Midnight

From a technical point of view did his company one of his companies "smart homes" do anything more than "colour coded cat 5" ?

Was there any real innovation ?

HivemindXX

There were all those patent fees. They must be for something right? Anyone know what?

Scofflaw

EamonM wrote: »

I am not spamming I just feel this response is the answer for all this sillyness and it explains exactly what is happening here end of story, im not trying to change anyones mind but clearly just respond to the negativity

And doing it through spamming the forum with the same pasted message. That's not acceptable, and any repeat of that tactic will result in a ban to the far side of the election.

moderately,
Scofflaw

guitarzero

I cant understand what the attraction was even before GallagherGate, hes got as much charisma as a chair. He never smiled once, he looks like a hitman, he wears lipstick, he keeps knocking on about changing the economy when any half witted fellah knows this can be rubbished, he speaks with a dread in his tone, he has zero expression.

I just cant wrap my head around it, especially Irish people who like a bit of flavour in peoples character, hes just a plank, a plank, a complete wooden plank.

ColeTrain

guitarzero wrote: »

I cant understand what the attraction was even before GallagherGate, hes got as much charisma as a chair. He never smiled once, he looks like a hitman, he wears lipstick, he keeps knocking on about changing the economy when any half witted fellah knows this can be rubbished, he speaks with a dread in his tone, he has zero expression.

I just cant wrap my head around it, especially Irish people who like a bit of flavour in peoples character, hes just a plank, a plank, a complete wooden plank.

MrsStuffings

Scofflaw wrote: »

And doing it through spamming the forum with the same pasted message. That's not acceptable, and any repeat of that tactic will result in a ban to the far side of the election.

moderately,
Scofflaw

Scofflaw,

Without appearing to be too intrusive into the confidentiality that comes with one's right to vote, may I discernibly ask who you are voting for?

cordially,
Stuffings

Scofflaw

MrsStuffings wrote: »

Scofflaw,

Without appearing to be too intrusive into the confidentiality that comes with one's right to vote, may I discernibly ask who you are voting for?

cordially,
Stuffings

I think I've honestly considered voting for each of them at this stage (bar Dana), and given up on each of them in turn. I'm forced to admit to not caring very much either way.

While the job of the President is pretty much just to do what the government tells them to do, there's an element of the President representing a message to ourselves - a sort of reminder of what kind of country we want. On that basis, I'd call the messages of the different candidates as:

• Michael D - a socially liberal and culturally focused Ireland, with a traditional Arts-oriented definition of culture.
• Mitchell - a business-focused Ireland, but business as usual, FDI and diplomacy. Like electing the IDA.
• Gallagher - a business-focused Ireland, but in the slipshod Celtic Tiger mode.
• McGuinness - continued focus on the peace process and all-island business.
• Davis - voluntary sector first, but voluntary sector as usual.
• Norris - culture first, with an eccentric definition.
• Dana - a socially conservative and eurosceptic Ireland.

As for competence for the job:

• Michael D - probably the safe choice, and my main problem with voting for him is exactly that. Wouldn't embarrass me in public.
• Mitchell - another safe choice, but without Michael D's redeeming features. Wouldn't embarrass me in public, bit wouldn't interest me even slightly either.
• Gallagher - not a safe choice in the sense of the others, but also not a safe choice at all. It might be nice to have a younger President, but I think he's shown he's simply not ready for the job. Probably would embarrass me in public, definitely lacks the necessary gravitas and steadiness, probably lacks the moral fibre.
• McGuinness - undoubtedly has the political competence and weight, would certainly be seen outside Ireland as an impressive statement of an all-island mentality, but internally too divisive in the Republic, and potentially in the North as well.
• Mary Davis - currently the only one to make a proper statement about the constitutional amendments, which earns her a definite vote. I'd say she'd also be a safe pair of hands, but something of a lightweight. I couldn't honestly say what she has going for her as a President, apart from being called Mary, but some of that is probably because her campaign was torpedoed early on.
• Norris - he'd probably embarrass me in public, but I probably wouldn't mind. On balance, though, I'd rather keep him in the Seanad, even if I would enjoy seeing the President of Ireland cycling round Dublin on Bloomsday.
• Dana - I find the whole concept of her as President embarrassing. And that's before we get onto the fact that she's a socially conservative eurosceptic.

So at the moment, it will probably be Davis - Norris - Michael D, based on the assumption that the first two will be eliminated and probably in that order.

Frankly, I'm a good deal more concerned about the referendums. I don't think any of the candidates represent any appetite for change as such - I appreciate Gallagher claims to, but to be honest I see that as just a hankering for a return to the 'cleverness' of the Celtic Tiger, and that doesn't interest me. I'd actually vote for Michael McDowell over any of them now that the PDs are safely dead, and I hate McDowell.

cordially,
Scofflaw

EamonM

Scofflaw wrote: »

And doing it through spamming the forum with the same pasted message. That's not acceptable, and any repeat of that tactic will result in a ban to the far side of the election.

moderately,
Scofflaw

Scofflaw ,

There is no law to say i cant give the same answer for the same silly questions, I think you need to grow up a small bit its perfectly legitimate.

Thank You,

Eamon Murphy

Scofflaw

EamonM wrote: »

Scofflaw ,

There is no law to say i cant give the same answer for the same silly questions, I think you need to grow up a small bit its perfectly legitimate.

Thank You,

Eamon Murphy

No, I'm afraid it isn't really - it was just about tolerable once-off if you took on board not to do it again. Since you won't do that, you can have a 24-hour ban, and the moment I hear you've been spamming again, you'll get banned again.

moderately,
Scofflaw

books4sale

EamonM wrote: »

Scofflaw ,

There is no law to say i cant give the same answer for the same silly questions, I think you need to grow up a small bit its perfectly legitimate.

Thank You,

Eamon Murphy

You've been caught with your pants down, reminds me of FFailers and SG...laughable stuff really!

.... best to get a new user name now cause yer creds shot.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.smarthomes.ie/products/bronzepackage.asp

Further features may include:

TV splitters and amplifiers which distribute TV and satellite to each room
Hub for PC Networking
Router for simultaneous Broadband access in multiple rooms
Discretely concealed power supply panel

The only use for a hub this millennium is to sniff network traffic when you don't have a managed (ie. cheap) switch.

I'd like to see the back of the F connector panel. Unless it provides full screening of the centre cable then it isn't fit for satellite usage. Replacing shop bought PCB's on the back with a barrel connector is the DIY way to go BTW.

http://www.smarthomes.ie/products/cctvsecurity.asp

This installation makes it easy for a CCTV supplier of your choice to install cameras which allow visitors to be viewed from any TV in the home or remotely via the internet.

sounds like cables, doesn't mention if they are using cat5 / scart or coax to carry the signal, defo no IP cameras and what if you want auto switching when PIR activated ?

It's just modular cabling and I'm wondering if throwing just cat6 everywhere in a home and using baluns for AV wouldn't be cheaper and more flexible.

caseyann

K-9 wrote: »

Shame you aren't watching Spotlight on BBC1 NI.

McGuinness contradicting himself on his membership on camera in the 80's!

And what has that got to do with what i said just now?
Funny isnt how this dangerous man from IRA and a leader no doubt and yet they havent got a single recording or his hands in the kitty jar not even once before the gfa or afterwards.Would be one worried citizen if thats the kind of intelligence officers they have in British police army and other forces with threats from all sides of the world.:rolleyes: Not a single phone tapping or meetings not once so bizarre.What did he do scratch his bollox and that was the code for do this and that?
Please you are so gullible and easy to feed propaganda to.:)

anymore

caseyann wrote: »

And what has that got to do with what i said just now?
Funny isnt how this dangerous man from IRA and a leader no doubt and yet they havent got a single recording or his hands in the kitty jar not even once before the gfa or afterwards.Would be one worried citizen if thats the kind of intelligence officers they have in British police army and other forces with threats from all sides of the world.:rolleyes: Not a single phone tapping or meetings not once so bizarre.What did he do scratch his bollox and that was the code for do this and that?
Please you are so gullible and easy to feed propaganda to.:)

Hardly surprising given the UK government were willing to supply info to mad dog Gaddafi nor that on occasions the UDA and UVF were used by UK Govs virtually as subcontractors for dirty ops. There are no surprises as far as the UK is concerned. Libya's second in command is now safely in Bahrain, Cameroon having allowed him, to first go to the UK, unfroze his assets and then allowed him to fly out, with his financial assets to the Middle East - maybe he will be a Tory donor at some future point.

K-9

caseyann wrote: »

And what has that got to do with what i said just now?
Funny isnt how this dangerous man from IRA and a leader no doubt and yet they havent got a single recording or his hands in the kitty jar not even once before the gfa or afterwards.Would be one worried citizen if thats the kind of intelligence officers they have in British police army and other forces with threats from all sides of the world.:rolleyes: Not a single phone tapping or meetings not once so bizarre.What did he do scratch his bollox and that was the code for do this and that?
Please you are so gullible and easy to feed propaganda to.:)

You were on about SF in a thread about Gallagher, that's the comment I repsonded to. Sweet Jaysus!

The Spotlight shows McGuinness lying on camera in the 80's about his IRA membership, no need for British intelligence crap.

Anyway, it's lost on you anyway, not worth any more effort.

acer1000

I guess Sean Gallagher is popular because in spite of what we hear about the pain being felt by masses, the majority of the middle classes haven’t felt that much pain, so there isn’t as much anger directed to what he represents, as some people might think?

The unlucky and the vulnerable have taken a far greater share of pain. They are angry with what he represents, i.e. if they have an understanding of what has happened.

The policy of government is to cushion certain sectors of society from economic reality and it must be working. In other words, he's popular thanks to FG/Lab.

Maybe if the election were to be a year later, he mightn’t be so popular?

Ozymandius2011

I think it's because there is an Ireland outside of the Dublin commuter belt that doesn't like being told how it must vote by the Dublin 4 media and it's engrained metropolitan prejudices against what Eoghan Harris once called (when talking about RTE): 'against centrists, conservatives and anyone not espousing some form of republican socialism'. Also he is the only candidate talking about jobs. He may have only created 120 jobs, but small businesses employing 10 or fewer people are responsible for most employment in this country. The recession has hit everyone.

There are parallels with the dichotomy between public and media opinion on questions like EU Treaties. We remember Parnell and how the media ganged up on him.

CiaranC

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

I think it's because there is an Ireland outside of the Dublin commuter belt that doesn't like being told how it must vote by the Dublin 4 media and it's engrained metropolitan prejudices against what Eoghan Harris once called (when talking about RTE): 'against centrists, conservatives and anyone not espousing some form of republican socialism'. Also he is the only candidate talking about jobs. He may have only created 120 jobs, but small businesses employing 10 or fewer people are responsible for most employment in this country. The recession has hit everyone.

There are parallels with the dichotomy between public and media opinion on questions like EU Treaties. We remember Parnell and how the media ganged up on him.

Did you have a staff meeting which told you to get onto the internet and start drumming up a Dublin/Country divide? Nobody is buying it. Dublin FF are just as corrupt as country FF.

Ozymandius2011

CiaranC wrote: »

Did you have a staff meeting which told you to get onto the internet and start drumming up a Dublin/Country divide? Nobody is buying it. Dublin FF are just as corrupt as country FF.

I am not a member of a political party and I am not a canvasser/election worker for one nor have I ever been.

acer1000

CiaranC wrote: »

Did you have a staff meeting which told you to get onto the internet and start drumming up a Dublin/Country divide? Nobody is buying it. Dublin FF are just as corrupt as country FF.

Exactly. I'm in the country, and I'm not buying it.

If anything the established media weren't doing their job properly, they left it too late in putting the spotlight on the 'country' chap.

Ozymandius2011

acer1000 wrote: »

Exactly. I'm in the country, and I'm not buying it.

If anything the established media weren't doing their job properly, they left it too late in putting the spotlight on the 'country' chap.

Are you originally from the country or did you move to it?

acer1000

Yes, originally from the country. Why?

CiaranC

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

I am not a member of a political party and I am not a canvasser/election worker for one nor have I ever been.

What is it with FFers and lying? You just signed up here and every single one of your posts has been about Sean Gallagher. Who do you think you are fooling? Or do you think people from the country cant check your post history?

dixiefly

acer1000 wrote: »

I guess Sean Gallagher is popular because in spite of what we hear about the pain being felt by masses, the majority of the middle classes haven’t felt that much pain, so there isn’t as much anger directed to what he represents, as some people might think?

The unlucky and the vulnerable have taken a far greater share of pain. They are angry with what he represents, i.e. if they have an understanding of what has happened.

The policy of government is to cushion certain sectors of society from economic reality and it must be working. In other words, he's popular thanks to FG/Lab.
Maybe if the election were to be a year later, he mightn’t be so popular?

I dont think FG / Lab are in power long enough to determine whether they are providing a cushion to certain sectore of society or not.

thebman

Ozymandius2011 wrote: »

I think it's because there is an Ireland outside of the Dublin commuter belt that doesn't like being told how it must vote by the Dublin 4 media and it's engrained metropolitan prejudices against what Eoghan Harris once called (when talking about RTE): 'against centrists, conservatives and anyone not espousing some form of republican socialism'. Also he is the only candidate talking about jobs. He may have only created 120 jobs, but small businesses employing 10 or fewer people are responsible for most employment in this country. The recession has hit everyone.

There are parallels with the dichotomy between public and media opinion on questions like EU Treaties. We remember Parnell and how the media ganged up on him.

There is an Ireland outside Dublin 4 and the commuter belt that has problems with other posters trying to paint them as SG supporters too.

I was born and raised outside Dublin and have never lived there and I think SG has some very dodgy business practices and won't be voting for him.

I think Higgins is the only person running that actually has the skills required for the job.

acer1000

dixiefly wrote: »

I dont think FG / Lab are in power long enough to determine whether they are providing a cushion to certain sectore of society or not.

I hope you might be alluding to a possibility in the near future, they grow a pair and behave in a fair and equitable manner.