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Sligo Chamber of Commerce pushing out competition from Sligo?

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    #62
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    This is either a case of shoddy reporting on behalf of SligoToday
    Most likely! Rubbish publication that lifts most stories verbatim from newspapers.
    It also seems to be a mouthpiece for a certain senator whose father was also a politician! ;)


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    #63
    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    red sean wrote: »
    Most likely! Rubbish publication that lifts most stories verbatim from newspapers.
    It also seems to be a mouthpiece for a certain senator whose father was also a politician! ;)

    Is that the senator who went before the people, failed to get elected and was handed a nice number in the senate which paid much the same? The senator who stood before thousands of his fellow Sligo people and decried the cancer services closing, but actually remained and still remains a FF member despite his populist speeches? The guy who had a dozen election posters on a road "we" named after his father, to jog our memories and remind us who our nobility are? Nice work if you can get it.


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    #64
    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Dat be de one!


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    #65
    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    red sean wrote: »
    Dat be de one!

    And he's the "acceptable" face of FF in Sligo, to be foisted on us time and again until we accept him as our worldly better. If he finally trips over the finish line with a vote to spare, he'll rise through the ranks quickly with his name.


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    #66
    TireeTerror
    Registered Users Posts: 2,271 ✭✭✭TireeTerror


    Why dont you all just say who you are talking about rather than the smoke and mirrors nonsense that I cannot understand. How do you expect things to improve if you do not publicly out those you have question marks over? This day and age of hiding in shadows is why people get away with murder.

    If you want to make a comment, then at least have the courage of your conviction, lest ye be quiet.


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    #67
    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    TireeTerror wrote: »
    Why dont you all just say who you are talking about rather than the smoke and mirrors nonsense that I cannot understand. How do you expect things to improve if you do not publicly out those you have question marks over? This day and age of hiding in shadows is why people get away with murder.

    If you want to make a comment, then at least have the courage of your conviction, lest ye be quiet.

    Marc McSharry. Ran for election and failed so was returned to the senate. Told people what they wanted to hear but hasn't the conviction to resign from FF when push came to shove. Will run for election again. Will go far because if who his daddy is. Succinct enough?
    It was light hearted beating around the bush. I have no problem calling a spade a spade if that's required. :)


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    #68
    redarmyblues
    Registered Users Posts: 972 ✭✭✭redarmyblues


    CoC are King Canute merchants, engaging with them at any level makes them feel relevant, best to leave them alone.


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    #69
    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    redarmyblues wrote: »
    CoC are King Canute merchants, engaging with them at any level makes them feel relevant, best to leave them alone.

    When they can throw their weight around like they've done, they are relevant, unfortunately.
    If there ends up being, is it 25 jobs, lost in Homestore, will the CoC president be giving quotes to the media like he did when Elanco announced redundancies? Just two months ago. He said one job lost in Sligo was equivalent to twenty in Dublin. That's the same as 500 in this case then, by his reckoning. Nice one.


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    #70
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users Posts: 6,259 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    il gatto wrote: »
    When they can throw their weight around like they've done, they are relevant, unfortunately.
    If there ends up being, is it 25 jobs, lost in Homestore, will the CoC president be giving quotes to the media like he did when Elanco announced redundancies? Just two months ago. He said one job lost in Sligo was equivalent to twenty in Dublin. That's the same as 500 in this case then, by his reckoning. Nice one.

    I'd love to see them explain themselves if this actually happens (and its likely to in fairness).
    Will they call on the government to intervene like every union in the country when a business closes down, citing that it's a massive blow for the region?

    Or will they hide in the shadows and pretend they know nothing about it, like the bus service route?

    I fear it would be the latter


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    #71
    il gatto
    Registered Users Posts: 3,021 ✭✭✭il gatto


    Buford T Justice wrote: »
    I'd love to see them explain themselves if this actually happens (and its likely to in fairness).
    Will they call on the government to intervene like every union in the country when a business closes down, citing that it's a massive blow for the region?

    Or will they hide in the shadows and pretend they know nothing about it, like the bus service route?

    I fear it would be the latter

    If the staff spend their dole money in their member's shops, they won't care.


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