Sean Gallagher and his "comparisons"

fishy fishy

I nearly fell down in shock yesterday when I looked at this goon comparing what happened to him to the catholic church and the abuse issue.

How dare he? Has he got any idea of reality at all.

I always knew he was sleezy, but he has gone below the below with this one.

The fact of the matter is, he screwed up HIS OWN ANSWER. He should have been well able to handle he question/tweed if he was indeed innocent of it. He cracked. He wants to blame everyone else. But to bring in the abused children and the church, to justify his inability to get his story straight.

Low, very low. glad he's not my president.

DonnaHay

this man would have been a seer, a shaman priest... possibly a leader. In our world, he's a shoe peddler, and lives in the shadows.

Biggins

Sean Gallagher, is there anyone out there in politics in Ireland that loves themselves more?

El Guapo!

I'm sick of listening to his irritating voice. Every time he speaks I just want to kill him. I wish he'd just fcuk off!

lividduck

Love him or hate him the fact is that he was royally shafted by RTE, and that was the view of Broadcasting Authority, so he has a point.
BTW OP he merely made an analogy between the arrogance of RTE in dealing with his, now proven to be valid, complaint and the arrogance of the church years ago in dealing with victims of abuse.

foxyboxer

Well it isn't easy being a thumb.

SEPT 23 1989

Poor cue ball:(

padd b1975

Biggins wrote: »

Sean Gallagher, is there anyone out there in politics in Ireland that loves themselves more?

Lucinda Creighton.

the_syco

Biggins wrote: »

Sean Gallagher, is there anyone out there in politics in Ireland that loves themselves more?

Possibly Bertie?

BTW, haven't heard of him fúcking up lately. What gives?

enviro

padd b1975 wrote: »

Lucinda Creighton.

Would ya?

Biggins

the_syco wrote: »

Possibly Bertie?

BTW, haven't heard of him fúcking up lately. What gives?

Could be busy either with his Swiss bank or in Nigeria getting another 40K for speaking more rubbish!

tonycascarino

Who does he think he is anyway? Self promotion at it's best with this lad.

Ellis Dee

Phew! What a narrow escape our nation had when Martin McGuinness lamped that recycled and rebranded Fianna Fail bagman and kept him out of the Aras!:D

Talk about sour grapes. And what a capacity for whinging. His sheer effrontery in comparing himself to the victims of the kiddy-fiddler priests is beyond breathtaking.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

He nearly won an election under false pretences, but he didn't. Now it is finally time to get in line and support the honest man who did and who is our head of state. Sean Gallagher, it's way past time for you to recognise the reality and say "I'm out". And then find a nice little rock to slither back under.:):)

padd b1975

enviro wrote: »

Would ya?

Yes.

Yes I would.

fishy fishy

lividduck wrote: »

Love him or hate him the fact is that he was royally shafted by RTE, and that was the view of Broadcasting Authority, so he has a point.
BTW OP he merely made an analogy between the arrogance of RTE in dealing with his, now proven to be valid, complaint and the arrogance of the church years ago in dealing with victims of abuse.

wrong....he was shafted by himself and his inability to hide the fact that, although the tweet was incorrect - it showed that he had some dealings that he didn't want the public to know about.

frag420

So does this mean we owe Martin McGuinness a big thanks.......................bloody conflicted now!!

kfallon

the_syco wrote: »

Possibly Bertie?

BTW, haven't heard of him fúcking up lately. What gives?

Biggins wrote: »

Could be busy either with his Swiss bank or in Nigeria getting another 40K for speaking more rubbish!

He's back driving an '08 car now is 'our' Bertie, apparently he had to resit his driving test too

Pherekydes

lividduck wrote: »

Love him or hate him the fact is that he was royally shafted by RTE...

They did the nation some service...

LordSutch

Ellis Dee wrote: »

Phew! What a narrow escape our nation had when Martin McGuinness lamped that recycled and rebranded Fianna Fail bagman and kept him out of the Aras!:D

It was RTE/Pat Kenny who 'lamped' Gallagher, not McGuinness.

c_man

No time for the guy, but I don't know how RTE's behaviour can sit easy with anyone.

Biggins

c_man wrote: »

No time for the guy, but I don't know how RTE's behaviour can sit easy with anyone.

Its RTE, their behaviour in a lot of cases, has much to answer for.

Carter P Fly

Seriously, wooptie-fcuking-do that RTE read out an unfair or unsubstantiated tweet. Its nothing, a blip, a who cares, the newspapers print retractions practically every other day.

The fact that these IS such a hubub about this is the shocking thing, not that it was read out.

Fluorescence

lividduck wrote: »

Love him or hate him the fact is that he was royally shafted by RTE, and that was the view of Broadcasting Authority, so he has a point.
BTW OP he merely made an analogy between the arrogance of RTE in dealing with his, now proven to be valid, complaint and the arrogance of the church years ago in dealing with victims of abuse.

Yes he was mistreated by RTÉ, but his comments were very insensitive. He's shown himself time and again to be a fool and a windbag. I'm still embarrassed he managed to do as well as he did in the elections despite not knowing a single thing about the constitution.

the purple tin

Thank God Mussolini didn't get the presidency.

Cedrus

I don't believe that RTEs incompetence amounted to a shafting, they should not have announced/published an unverified statement but it was one display of many which is in line with their unchallenged arrogance as 'The National Broadcaster'. Mission to prey is another one in the headlamps at the moment.

It was Gallaghers certain knowledge that it could be true that felled him, if he had never been a FF bagman he could have confidently faced down that tweet.

If RTE really had tried to shaft him he'd probably be president now.:rolleyes:

Sleepy

The man is a contemporary of the most corrupt Taoiseach since Haughey.

Is it any wonder he has a neck like a jockey's bollix?

Slideshowbob

Because of RTE, Pat Kenny, Martin McGuinness, Twitter, television and the Frontline audience, Ireland has been deprived of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpUpR4P7eu8

I hope they are proud of themselves

omgitsthelazor

Some very blinkered people in this thread who apparently have no qualms about somebody getting shafted by supposed indiscriminate broadcasting so long as they don't like him personally. :rolleyes:

Slideshowbob

omgitsthelazor wrote: »

Some very blinkered people in this thread who apparently have no qualms about somebody getting shafted by supposed indiscriminate broadcasting so long as they don't like him personally. :rolleyes:

Correct - why don't we dislike him personally -> because he is a sham.

The man was so confused when the tweet was mentioned he didn't know right from wrong.

Do we really need to go back over his credentials? Charging volunteer sports clubs 5K to "help" with sports capital grants applications !!! What a saint etc etc

charlemont

Carter P Fly wrote: »

Seriously, wooptie-fcuking-do that RTE read out an unfair or unsubstantiated tweet. Its nothing, a blip, a who cares, the newspapers print retractions practically every other day.

The fact that these IS such a hubub about this is the shocking thing, not that it was read out.

He milk this to the extreme too, The fact that he is still so bitter about it just show's what a lucky escape we had, RTÉ should be thanked instead of criticised.
Gallagher is just after compensation now.

MadsL

omgitsthelazor wrote: »

Some very blinkered people in this thread who apparently have no qualms about somebody getting shafted by supposed indiscriminate broadcasting so long as they don't like him personally. :rolleyes:

The Nation didn't like him, that's why he lost an election - all he had to do on RTE was explain himself. What shafted him was his constant dissociation with FF only to be shown that he was in fact collecting cheques for FF. I firmly believe he would have done better at the polls as a FF candidate. It was the sheer two-faced brazen neck on him that shafted him.

RTE got roped in by SF - but should have checked their sources. But I have long since learnt to disregard anything in the Irish media until two sources verify it. Journalism in Ireland is shoddy at best.

Slideshowbob

SG also has a subtle "oh I am disabled - go easy on me" subconscious thing going on imho.

Uses to his advantage in the extreme.

Joe10000

He should have been able to answer/deflect the question, end of story.

His voice is too annoying and he is far too smug to ever have won anyway.

Slideshowbob

and

how much volunteering has he done since his election defeat


......... tumbleweed ........

ah well at least he made a personal appearance at the media conference the other day .... oh wait, that was to serve his own agenda.....

and wonder how much he got for it ....... I'm guessing he won't have many more events like that. The wife need not buy more ink cartridges for invoices.

squod

'No recollection' Gallagher lost out because of his FF roots.

Pure Sound

The strange thing is that RTE correct in their assumptions but their source was wrong. He wants an apology for him being correctly exposed without a credible source, to me that shows serious arrogance from him.

starbelgrade

He set up a business with a €5 million government handout. Even during the construction boom, it failed to make any decent profits.

When that went belly up, his FF cronies handed him a top job in FAS.

Meanwhile he went around collecting brown envelopes from them.

Then he decided he wanted another handout, by getting the cushiest top job in politics. He did that by playing the "poor little blind kid done good" card throughout his campaign. Never once did he mention a life led on handouts & riding on the back of others.

He's a failed businessman & a failed politician. What RTE did was underhand, but if it stopped that twat from becoming President, then they actually performed a decent public service for a change.

Sean Gallagher can go suck my balls.

steddyeddy

fishy fishy wrote: »

I nearly fell down in shock yesterday when I looked at this goon comparing what happened to him to the abuse by the church on children.

How dare he? Has he got any idea of reality at all.

I always knew he was sleezy, but he has gone below the below with this one.

The fact of the matter is, he screwed up HIS OWN ANSWER. He should have been well able to handle he question/tweed if he was indeed innocent of it. He cracked. He wants to blame everyone else. But to bring in those abused children and what the abuse by the church has done to them, to justify his inability to get his story straight.

Low, very low. glad he's not my president.

That is an extremely low thing for him to say. Hes not have the person that abuse survivors are.

Slideshowbob

Oh oh I almost forgot to mention, he has it in for RTE, the very organisation that made him a household name and gave him a springboard to launch his bid for the Aras.

That sums him up really, what a sleeven, slimey, free loading, knuckle dragging Neanderthal he is

Think u played your last hand Sean

MadsL

starbelgrade wrote: »

Sean Gallagher can go suck my balls.

What did he say when you emailed him that volunteer opportunity?

Fighting Irish

fishy fishy wrote: »

I nearly fell down in shock yesterday when I looked at this goon comparing what happened to him to the abuse by the church on children.

How dare he? Has he got any idea of reality at all.

I always knew he was sleezy, but he has gone below the below with this one.

The fact of the matter is, he screwed up HIS OWN ANSWER. He should have been well able to handle he question/tweed if he was indeed innocent of it. He cracked. He wants to blame everyone else. But to bring in those abused children and what the abuse by the church has done to them, to justify his inability to get his story straight.

Low, very low. glad he's not my president.

I was going to read until this!

:rolleyes:

Pottler

padd b1975 wrote: »

Lucinda Creighton.

Can boards please include a "multi-thank" button for posts like this?

omgitsthelazor

Slideshowbob wrote: »

Correct - why don't we dislike him personally -> because he is a sham.

The man was so confused when the tweet was mentioned he didn't know right from wrong.

Do we really need to go back over his credentials? Charging volunteer sports clubs 5K to "help" with sports capital grants applications !!! What a saint etc etc

Irrelevant to the issue at hand. The issue isn't about his character, the issue is if as a presidential candidate he was treated fairly. Unbiased broadcasting can not discriminate based on who they think is a shyster or not, and in fairness to SG he wouldn't have been the only one in the debate that night.

true

TV stations in other countries would not have shafted a political candidate like that. Our television and government standards compare very poorly with the UK for example. No wonder everyone is leaving.

ColeTrain

Dry your eyes Sean. RTE already released this video of him doing his rounds.

jimmycrackcorm

fishy fishy wrote: »

I nearly fell down in shock yesterday when I looked at this goon comparing what happened to him to the abuse by the church on children.

How dare he? Has he got any idea of reality at all.

He did not compare his treatment to the child abuse by the church.

He compared RTE's arrogance where they got it wrong. But hey as AH threads go you're on to a winner.

upandcumming

fishy fishy wrote: »

wrong....he was shafted by himself and his inability to hide the fact that, although the tweet was incorrect - it showed that he had some dealings that he didn't want the public to know about.

Really? I went out last weekend and did shit I wouldn't want the public to know about!

MadsL

upandcumming wrote: »

Really? I went out last weekend and did shit I wouldn't want the public to know about!

Are you also running for the highest post in the land?

fishy fishy

upandcumming wrote: »

Really? I went out last weekend and did shit I wouldn't want the public to know about!

so you ran for president did ya?

MadsL

Is it me or is there an echo in here?

lividduck

We Need Community wrote: »

The strange thing is that RTE correct in their assumptions but their source was wrong. He wants an apology for him being correctly exposed without a credible source, to me that shows serious arrogance from him.

Actually RTE were shown by the Broadcasting Authority to be wrong in their assumptions! He may be a twat, but he was not "correctly exposed" as was shown by said Broadcasting Authority.