The Pat Kenny Show

southstar

All she has ileft s bluster and hot air.. Keny burst that balloon with laughable ease

It wasnt me123

Mary Lou McDonald joined SF around 2000. She wasn't around for the historic stuff - stuff that was perpetrated by both sides of the divide (lest we forget) and held a minor position until 2009. I got this from google, I am not a member of any party and have never, until this one, voted SF.

Lets stick to the policies - regardless of whether you like them or not - and leave the nothern stuff up there - with the DUP, UUP, Red Hand Brigade, UVF, etc. That has nothing to do with our politics, for which we are thank ful.

I usually vote FG but SF is getting my No 1 - I want change - I'm a business owner and employer and I have no home thanks to FF and the banks. Lets try something else and stop living in the past

Zetor19

What would you expect from a prick like Kenny , how long has he been on the fg/ff/rte/Denis o brien gravy train, pathetic stuff.

meeeeh

I can't vote but as a business owner and an employer I certainly not want SF in government. I suspect employer's prsi will be one of the first things going up.

Anyway that has nothing to do with my preferences but Mary Lou is president if a party with some very dubious links. I actually don't mind her but I certainly don't like the talk about looking into special court, I don't like that people like Slab Murphy are called great republicans. For me SF would be a lot more palatable if SF in the North and SF in the south were separate parties with separate leadership.

emeldc

Zetor19 wrote: »

What would you expect from a prick like Kenny , how long has he been on the fg/ff/rte/Denis o brien gravy train, pathetic stuff.

So do you agree with the special criminal court. Your friend Mary Lou refuses to answer that one with a simple yes or no. Do you ever wonder why that might be.

gormdubhgorm

meeeeh wrote: »

This is massacre. Pat Kenny really can't stand SF.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

This is easily the toughest time anyone has got in any of the debates. I'm almost half feeling a teeny tiny bit sorry for Mary Lou.

Then I remember all the IRA stuff and that.

Pat gave a very fair stern interview he asked all the questions floating voters wanted answered. However, after Pat Kenny mentioning hot pants and bikinis in the voting centres (previous item to the interview). I could not get the image of Mary Lou in hotpants out of my mind :eek:. It could be a strategy for SF in future make them seem less threatening?

gormdubhgorm

emeldc wrote: »

So do you agree with the special criminal court. Your friend Mary Lou refuses to answer that one with a simple yes or no. Do you ever wonder why that might be.

Yeah she bluffed that one. On the one hand she was against criminality and thugs in Dublin and how special powers are necessary. On the other hand she mentioned the Diplock courts in NI. Then the final contraction with Mary Lou that she said she was from Dublin and not from NI, when Pat pressed her on SF's performance in NI.

This Fianna Fáil wan is some bull****ter.

Ol' Donie

It wasnt me123 wrote: »

and leave the nothern stuff up there

Isn't that literally the exact opposite of the whole point of Sinn Fein?

neris

meeeeh wrote: »

I can't vote but as a business owner and an employer I certainly not want SF in government. I suspect employer's prsi will be one of the first things going up.

Anyway that has nothing to do with my preferences but Mary Lou is president if a party with some very dubious links. I actually don't mind her but I certainly don't like the talk about looking into special court, I don't like that people like Slab Murphy are called great republicans. For me SF would be a lot more palatable if SF in the North and SF in the south were separate parties with separate leadership.

We own businesses in childcare and its not just employers PRSI that I,d be afraid of with them. I,d be afraid of loosing a viable business and income. I wouldnt vote for them anyway I think their policies are airy fairy stuff that would destroy the economy & private sector and I dont believe for one second that the IRA & other scum have gone away from them and their past. Plus Ive no interest in a united Ireland

Technocentral

neris wrote: »

We own businesses in childcare and its not just employers PRSI that I,d be afraid of with them. I,d be afraid of loosing a viable business and income. I wouldnt vote for them anyway I think their policies are airy fairy stuff that would destroy the economy & private sector and I dont believe for one second that the IRA & other scum have gone away from them and their past. Plus Ive no interest in a united Ireland

Im alright Jack in other words.

emeldc

Technocentral wrote: »

Im alright Jack in other words.

How so? Because the poster has a business or because they have no interest in a united Ireland.

Technocentral

emeldc wrote: »

How so? Because the poster has a business or because they have no interest in a united Ireland.

Both, every one has to pay their fair share and saying **** you to the Nationalist people of the North is selfish bull****

Technocentral

These toilet sized apartments are another reason SF topping polls, FF and FG approving of them, disgusting, wake up people

neris

Technocentral wrote: »

Both, every one has to pay their fair share and saying **** you to the Nationalist people of the North is selfish bull****

Its nothing to do with nationalists. theres 2 sides up there who are nothing but trouble and biggots. We have enough problems socially & economically as 26 counties but we dont have petty squabbles and generally all get on

emeldc

Technocentral wrote: »

Both, every one has to pay their fair share and saying **** you to the Nationalist people of the North is selfish bull****

Employers PRSI is charged at 11.5% on top of gross salary which IMO is already criminal as neither the employer or employee get bugger all for it.
Do you really think the Nationalist northerners would be better off in a 32 counties. We can't afford to look after ourselves never mind bring another two million people on board.

EmmetSpiceland

Pat hammers every SF candidate about their policy of “abstention” in Westminster even though he’s been repeatedly told that it’s part of their election policy.

If they were suddenly to decide to take their seats over there they’d be “slapping” a large chunk of their voters in the face. It’s a lame dig and wastes time in each interview.

Blaming them for “shutting down” Stormont is weak as well, yes they had their part to play in it but the “lion’s share” should clearly go to the DUP, Foster in particular.

It wasnt me123

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Isn't that literally the exact opposite of the whole point of Sinn Fein?

At the moment we are only having elections in 26 counties - he should have focussed more on the problems we are having here - the 6 counties have alot of criminality, not just republicans but there are two sides of criminals up there. Why do the DUP not have to answer for the UVF and ULF continuously?

Lets focus on Saturday at the moment and leave the reunification for another day

Technocentral

It wasnt me123 wrote: »

At the moment we are only having elections in 26 counties - he should have focussed more on the problems we are having here - the 6 counties have alot of criminality, not just republicans but there are two sides of criminals up there. Why do the DUP not have to answer for the UVF and ULF continuously?

Lets focus on Saturday at the moment and leave the reunification for another day

Exactly, Im voting SF on Saturday because they are the only viable left-ish party who can take on the right wing parties who are destroying the Country. If you want housing and health sector chaos for ever vote FF/FG.

meeeeh

It wasnt me123 wrote: »

At the moment we are only having elections in 26 counties - he should have focussed more on the problems we are having here - the 6 counties have alot of criminality, not just republicans but there are two sides of criminals up there. Why do the DUP not have to answer for the UVF and ULF continuously?

Lets focus on Saturday at the moment and leave the reunification for another day

DUP are not running in Republic. SF are and since they call themselves all island party their actions in the North are fair game.

Loafing Oaf

It wasnt me123 wrote: »

Why do the DUP not have to answer for the ULF continuously?

Maybe because it's unfair to hold them responsible for the activities of a nonexistent organisation...

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He really lets himself down when he interviews anyone from SF in my opinion.

He strikes me as a man of principle, I'd guess his very strong feelings here stem from him being a reporter throughout the troubles.

But he gets very clearly emotional and partial when talking to any SF representative. It sounded to me like McDonald was genuinely thrown by it this morning, for my money nobody came out of that looking well.

He's a tough but fair interviewer in general but he goes after SF in a very different way than anyone else.

poppers

Ayden Thundering Poison wrote: »

He really lets himself down when he interviews anyone from SF in my opinion.

He strikes me as a man of principle, I'd guess his very strong feelings here stem from him being a reporter throughout the troubles.

But he gets very clearly emotional and impartial when talking to any SF representative. It sounded to me like McDonald was genuinely thrown by it this morning, for my money nobody came out of that looking well.

He's a tough but fair interviewer in general but he goes after SF in a very different way than anyone else.

He has score to settle since The fake tweet back during the presidental debate.

gormdubhgorm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Pat hammers every SF candidate about their policy of “abstention” in Westminster even though he’s been repeatedly told that it’s part of their election policy.

If they were suddenly to decide to take their seats over there they’d be “slapping” a large chunk of their voters in the face. It’s a lame dig and wastes time in each interview.

Blaming them for “shutting down” Stormont is weak as well, yes they had their part to play in it but the “lion’s share” should clearly go to the DUP, Foster in particular.

Brexit was exceptional circumstances but SF just sat on thier hands, I am sure a large part of the SF would have understood. They could have been the real alternative for change during Brexit. But they are only the alternative for change in the ROI it seems?
Not only that but they did not attend stormont for three years! Some leadership...

Loafing Oaf

Did Pat have to ask the Cavan-Monaghan Green guy whose seat he is hoping to take?:rolleyes: Is he not doing this job long enough to know he'll never get an honest answer from a political hopeful to that sort of question?

Technocentral

More balance from the panel on SF, Pat exasparated!

Lord Fairlord

Technocentral wrote: »

Exactly, Im voting SF on Saturday because they are the only viable left-ish party who can take on the right wing parties who are destroying the Country. If you want housing and health sector chaos for ever vote FF/FG.

We have no right wing parties in the Dáil. FF are centrist and FG are Neo-Liberal.

Lord Fairlord

Ayden Thundering Poison wrote: »

He really lets himself down when he interviews anyone from SF in my opinion.

He strikes me as a man of principle, I'd guess his very strong feelings here stem from him being a reporter throughout the troubles.

But he gets very clearly emotional and partial when talking to any SF representative. It sounded to me like McDonald was genuinely thrown by it this morning, for my money nobody came out of that looking well.

He's a tough but fair interviewer in general but he goes after SF in a very different way than anyone else.

As a right winger with no time for SF, I found Pat Kenny agitated and antagonistic, which I thought unprofessional, in that interview with Mary Lou McDonald.

meeeeh

I didn't think it was particularly unprofessional (a word that is way overused anyway) but he was definitely riled up and that tends to happen whenever he has someone from SF on.

CatFromHue

Sinn Fein have been giving out about Fine Gael's handling of the homeless issue while there's thousands homeless in Northern Ireland. It was a very valid question and really should have been asked of them before this week.

Mary Lou wasn't answering the question either.

Vincent Browne would have gone bananas at her if he were in the same spot.