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Is Eamon Ryan a troll?

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    #32
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Looking across all spectrums, left, right, centre. Top talent is lacking.

    FG have picked themselves up somewhat with the Pandemic


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    #33
    Poor_old_gill
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    I wouldnt say he's a troll, he's just extremely out of touch and seems to be lacking in any real personality.

    He has thus decided to take on this 'ultra-woke' personality as he thinks it is what will play best with the electorate but it is quite obviously disingenuous.

    He's essentially the South Dublin version of Aodhan O Riordain in Dublin Bay North - extremely disingenuous and lacking in any real substance


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    #34
    Wanderer78
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    Greens will never be a major party in Ireland, so I wouldn't worry about them, we ll probably always have some combination of ffg


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    #35
    BanditLuke
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    Off his rocker obviously. It's a close run thing between himself and Eoin Murphy for worst politican in the country.


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    #36
    lawred2
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    Dorakman wrote: »
    I seriously cannot believe that someone with their full wits about them, could come up which such half-baked and stupid ideas. Is he serious, or just having a laugh?

    What are these ideas of his? Be nice to have some context!


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    #37
    lawred2
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/hollyshortall/status/1240784286091030530

    He's losing his mind


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    #38
    BanditLuke
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Looking across all spectrums, left, right, centre. Top talent is lacking.

    FG have picked themselves up somewhat with the Pandemic

    :confused: FG have "picked themselves up"? How you figure that.


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    #39
    Wanderer78
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    BanditLuke wrote:
    FG have "picked themselves up"? How you figure that.


    I do think fg will get a boost from this pandemic


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    #40
    Nicetrustedcup
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    Not to be mean when he said touching me , touching you

    I thought he was going to start signing the darkness I believe in a thing called love !!!!

    He did give me one idea I have about 6m square of grass in my garden I am thinking of turning into a vegetable garden as being honest it gives me something to do !!!


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    #41
    Wanderer78
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    Nicetrustedcup wrote:
    He did give me one idea I have about 6m square of grass in my garden I am thinking of turning into a vegetable garden as being honest it gives me something to do !!!


    Go for it, be a nice project, probably should get our own plot going again, just couldn't be arsed


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    #42
    [Deleted User]
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    Growing veg is a nice idea but just brings rats.


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    #43
    AndyBoBandy
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    Ever since he became leader of the greens and won a seat back for the party in 2011, he’s come across an being unbelievably smug.

    The word prat also comes to mind


    A smug prat.

    I fear the recent election result for the greens ( despite being a protest vote against FG), will do nothing more than inflate his ego to Hindenburg zeppelin size levels.


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    #44
    sydthebeat
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Growing veg is a nice idea but just brings rats.

    You already have rats


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    #45
    [Deleted User]
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    sydthebeat wrote: »
    You already have rats

    Brings more of them though. In built up areas with no people around and veg growing, could you imagine?


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    #46
    Widdensushi
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    lalababa wrote: »
    He espoused leaving hardware stores (and I assume garden centers open) so people wouldn't go mad at home constantly looking at boards coronovirus threads.
    And yet ye think HE'S loosing his marbles.
    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
    He does come across like an annoying teen with asbergers though
    Not what we are used to with Irish politicians.
    Nothing wrong with what he said though...

    I don't see much wrong with what he said either, it was the way he said it, he seemed totally manic and like he was going to have a breakdown.


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    #47
    s7ryf3925pivug
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    He's not great at speeches. Varadkar's speeches have been great.

    But
    • Cheap transcontinental flights (and cheap flights in general) were definitely part of this getting established.
    • Our bad air quality will increase its lethality.
    • our health service is not equipped to deal with the situation

    I assume the greens' policies would have addressed the first two of these issues. Don't know what their policies on healthcare are, but it can't be worse than FG's. Personally I think policy is more important than speech writing. (Though you don't get to pretend you're in a movie.)

    FG were very slow to respond. For some reason 99% of people didn't seem to realise there was a problem until our leader told them there was. But it was very clear since January for anyone paying attention. I think they should have been paying attention. We didn't need to be in thos situation at all.


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    #48
    careless sherpa
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    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    I do think fg will get a boost from this pandemic

    Wait until the mortality figures start climbing and people start asking questions about the lack of decision making in relation to travel such as allowing the Cheltenham punters to wander to the four corners of the country unimpeded spreading the disease


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    careless sherpa wrote: »
    Wait until the mortality figures start climbing and people start asking questions about the lack of decision making in relation to travel such as allowing the Cheltenham punters to wander to the four corners of the country unimpeded spreading the disease

    That’s exactly it. At the moment it looks like they’re doing well, and they could very well be doing as best can be done with this, but at the end of the day it’ll all be judged on how it ends up. We’re a long way from knowing that at this stage.


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    #50
    suicide_circus
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    i actually think he was having a mental breakdown while making that speech, not joking.


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    #51
    Wanderer78
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    careless sherpa wrote: »
    Wait until the mortality figures start climbing and people start asking questions about the lack of decision making in relation to travel such as allowing the Cheltenham punters to wander to the four corners of the country unimpeded spreading the disease

    maybe, but im still expecting a bounce in the polls


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    #52
    Mav11
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Growing veg is a nice idea but just brings rats.

    No problem. The wolves will get them!


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    #53
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Not a fan of the greens or him but that idiot is right for once

    Mentally and physically people need to keep busy

    Painting gardening diy

    Beautiful day today get out and do something in the fresh clean air


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    #54
    blackwave
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Not a fan of the greens or him but that idiot is right for once

    Mentally and physically people need to keep busy

    Painting gardening diy

    Beautiful day today get out and do something in the fresh clean air

    There is valid points in what he is saying but he is not articulate enough to make the points. If he had went down the route of saying that DIY stores should remain open so that people can do projects to keep themselves active, etc for the benefit of their mental health he wouldn't be getting this ridicule.


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    #55
    ted1
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    An Ri rua wrote: »
    Did you get the back wall painted there, Ted?

    Nope , but I did strip off years worth of ivy. Ready to be painted soon


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    #56
    _Brian
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    He’s probably a HealeyRay on special assignment to destroy the Green Party, amd boy is he playing a blinder.


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    #57
    Thelonious Monk
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    https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/488295-coronavirus-should-be-a-wake-up-call-to-our-treatment-of-the-animal

    Good article here on how our meddling with nature may have caused all this mess in the first place. Eamon is never going to be popular here but Ireland is one of the most denatured countries on the planet and we really do need some green initiatives. I've got tomatoes and chillies going this year.


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    #58
    TheValeyard
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    #59
    osarusan
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    There is a point to be made about more people getting involved in homegrown food, definitely, but the way he made the argument was atrocious.

    He comes across as a laughing stock even while making a point that has merit - terrible terrible politicking.


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    s7ryf3925pivug
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Not a fan of the greens or him but that idiot is right for once

    Mentally and physically people need to keep busy

    Painting gardening diy

    Beautiful day today get out and do something in the fresh clean air
    well for some. My car is covered with ash from neighbours' fires. Only washed a couple of weeks ago. tires cleaner than the bonnet.

    People doing that are killing people. Iran and northern Italy have terrible air pollution and that is thought to be what us behind their death rates.


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    #61
    Rows Grower
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/488295-coronavirus-should-be-a-wake-up-call-to-our-treatment-of-the-animal

    Good article here on how our meddling with nature may have caused all this mess in the first place. Eamon is never going to be popular here but Ireland is one of the most denatured countries on the planet and we really do need some green initiatives. I've got tomatoes and chillies going this year.

    Which planet would that be?

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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