The wondrous adventures of Sinn Fein (part 3) Mod Notes and Threadbanned List in OP

Fann Linn

Fann Linn wrote: »

Was MM second home mentioned in Ryan's piece?

Does he donate half his salary to FF?

padd b1975

blanch152 wrote: »

Thanks for that information, which I had been looking for previously.

It seems that Gerry Adams was remiss in not declaring his holiday home in Donegal and his residence in Louth, while he maintained a home in Belfast. Unless of course, they were owned by Sinn Fein.

He did very well when he was working as a barman for a wet week back in the seventies.

Pulled a beautiful pint of Arthur's finest I'm told so he did.

Fann Linn

Marine Layer wrote: »

Does he donate half his salary to FF?

Don't know, don't care.

padd b1975

Marine Layer wrote: »

The house is described as a palatial 5 bedroom home worth north of 400k
A bit hard to understand for a lad after donations to the party that has a take home pay of 40 something thousand
His wife is a nurse though, which might bring in another 40 but with 5 kids to rear, a 20 to 30 year mortgage would eat up more than half of that pay or more
I doubt a bank would give it
There must be a fair whack of money coming in to that household somewhere

With his "qualifications", I'm sure he'll be project managing it himself.

FrancieBrady

So now we move on to man builds house in Donegal shocker?

I was absolutely stunned and shocked to find out that somebody building in Gweedore has a coastal property with sea views, I mean how exclusive and posh is that in Gweedore a coastal community in Donegal with sea views from almost everywhere?
Shocking stuff from the home of Barbara J. Pym and co.

smurgen

Marine Layer wrote: »

The house is described as a palatial 5 bedroom home worth north of 400k
A bit hard to understand for a lad after donations to the party that has a take home pay of 40 something thousand
His wife is a nurse though, which might bring in another 40 but with 5 kids to rear, a 20 to 30 year mortgage would eat up more than half of that pay or more
I doubt a bank would give it
There must be a fair whack of money coming in to that household somewhere

You'd get a 5 bed gaff in Donegal for 300k easy. And it's 5 bed because he's 4 kids.

smurgen

smurgen wrote: »

You'd get a 5 bed gaff in Donegal for 300k easy. And it's 5 bed because he's 4 kids.

No the article values his new house at 4 to 450k
But its nice to know property values in the area despite being an NI holiday resort are still affordable

Fann Linn

Fann Linn wrote: »

Don't know, don't care.

Well I do care about pointing out apples were being compared with Oranges
MM is paid too much in my opinion but even in the last 20 years hes been paid multiples of Dohertys 40k and has been earning longer
Doherty better not be silly enough to be putting funny money into his house,I doubt that he is,but it is the under current of the Indo article,in my opinion
Basically they are laying down a marker that if that ever was the case,they will expose it
Thats to be welcomed in my view

smurgen

Marine Layer wrote: »

No the article values his new house at 4 to 450k
But its nice to know property values in the area despite being an NI holiday resort are still affordable

It's the Indo. I'd take their valuation with a heap of salt. They're fairly loose with the facts at the best of times. Even more so with anything reporting on SF.

smurgen

smurgen wrote: »

It's the Indo. I'd take their valuation with a heap of salt. They're fairly loose with the facts at the best of times. Even more so with anything reporting on SF.

Well they are what they are
Plenty houses on myhome.ie around that valuation by the way in Donegal,I just looked

smurgen

Marine Layer wrote: »

Well they are what they are
Plenty houses on myhome.ie around that valuation by the way in Donegal,I just looked

Struggling to see the point? Plenty below that too. Fine value in Donegal in fact!

blanch152

smurgen wrote: »

Struggling to see the point? Plenty below that too. Fine value in Donegal in fact!

They wouldn't be good enough for our Pearse.

I am sure he got a good price from the lads on the bricklaying and stuff. Hope he didn't get Slab to organise the materials.

batman75

I think Michelle O'Neill should have met Prince Charles. At the end of the day she has got to think outside the narrow SF box. She is deputy PM in NI and therefore is meant to represent ALL the people of NI. I know she has her reasons but there is a bigger picture.

blanch152

batman75 wrote: »

I think Michelle O'Neill should have met Prince Charles. At the end of the day she has got to think outside the narrow SF box. She is deputy PM in NI and therefore is meant to represent ALL the people of NI. I know she has her reasons but there is a bigger picture.

Exactly, it shows the narrow view of representation taken by sectarian parties. Outside Northern Ireland, the closest contemporary would be Trump.

Brendan Bendar

Fann Linn wrote: »

Don't know, don't care.

Of course, yet other minor stuff not involving SF can eat up hundreds of posts.

Strange, very strange.

FrancieBrady

batman75 wrote: »

I think Michelle O'Neill should have met Prince Charles. At the end of the day she has got to think outside the narrow SF box. She is deputy PM in NI and therefore is meant to represent ALL the people of NI. I know she has her reasons but there is a bigger picture.

Never an onus put on the imperious UK to do the right thing?

SF in fairness have put the hand out many times. The verdict of the court is very fresh in the Ballymurphy case.
The onus was surely on the UK to recognise it?

Johnson's mealy mouthed attempt at a state apology was probably a big factor in this.

The Irish power swap and the SDLP's are far too weak traditionally on these issues - tripping over themselves 'not to offend'.

Hasn't meant much when looking for some respect from sections of Unionism and the British.

Pintman Paddy Losty

What's the story with Eoin O Broin appearing as a witness to be interviewed by a committee he's a member of?


Imagine it going something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp6KExqs_3o

The End Is Near

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

What's the story with Eoin O Broin appearing as a witness to be interviewed by a committee he's a member of?


Imagine it going something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp6KExqs_3o

Considering he already stated the obvs that he would hardly be asking questions of himself, your attempt at rumour failed

Why not bring uo the funeral, not much left to shout about is there

StupidLikeAFox

https://twitter.com/Philip_Ryan/status/1395309418863017987?s=19

Always kept an open mind on this but it looks like the abu database was a lot more sophisticated than some were letting on. Can put the "its just the electoral register" argument to bed anyway.

blanch152

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

https://twitter.com/Philip_Ryan/status/1395309418863017987?s=19

Always kept an open mind on this but it looks like the abu database was a lot more sophisticated than some were letting on. Can put the "its just the electoral register" argument to bed anyway.

Of course it was, no point in it otherwise.

There will be plenty of attempts to muddy the waters on this but a secret centralised database gathering information on citizens is something straight out of the Stasi.

starkid

whats good for the goose and all that...

If SF and the left can call out Leo over a jacket or whatnot then anybody taking issue with their being a story written about Pearse's house can **** right off.

Many people are sick of their hypocrisy.

Its not just that man builds house shocker, its man that never ever shuts up about posh boys, housing, the wealthy, builds really nice gaff in nice area. there's just the slightest whiff of hypocrisy or ivory towerism, and its good to have it recorded.

Fann Linn

blanch152 wrote: »

Of course it was, no point in it otherwise.

There will be plenty of attempts to muddy the waters on this but a secret centralised database gathering information on citizens is something straight out of the Stasi.

Data Commissioner will decide. Issues with all parties by the sounds of it. No doubt however if it doesn't go the fanboys way there'll be allegations she's corrupt, she's a Shinners, was bullied etc etc.

Where did we hear that before?

Brendan Bendar

blanch152 wrote: »

Of course it was, no point in it otherwise.

There will be plenty of attempts to muddy the waters on this but a secret centralised database gathering information on citizens is something straight out of the Stasi.

Very difficult to nail these bhoys on stuff like this Blanch, looks like they got them on this one.

Few slates being lifted here and some sounds of swamps being drained.

This will be interesting.

jmcc

Fann Linn wrote: »

Data Commissioner will decide. Issues with all parties by the sounds of it. No doubt however if it doesn't go the fanboys way there'll be allegations she's corrupt, she's a Shinners, was bullied etc etc.

Where did we hear that before?

And the DPC is conducting an audit of all political parties and their handling of voter data.
https://www.thejournal.ie/dpc-audit-political-parties-5442385-May2021/

The law of unintended consequences seems to be quite active with this. It started out as a Sindo/FG "get SF" campaign. It had FG busted for tracking users without telling them and had loads of FF/FG politicians pulling down their non-compliant websites.

Regards...jmcc

Triangle

Fann Linn wrote: »

Issues with all parties by the sounds of it.

No not all, just the ones that don't follow the laws.
I expect FF, FG and SF will have a few skeletons, I'd be surprised if any others do.

Brendan Bendar

jmcc wrote: »

And the DPC is conducting an audit of all political parties and their handling of voter data.
https://www.thejournal.ie/dpc-audit-political-parties-5442385-May2021/

The law of unintended consequences seems to be quite active with this. It started out as a Sindo/FG "get SF" campaign. It had FG busted for tracking users without telling them and had loads of FF/FG politicians pulling down their non-compliant websites.

Regards...jmcc

Take that to the relevant thread dude, SF thread here.

As you are so fond of reminding us…….:cool:

jmcc

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Take that to the relevant thread dude, SF thread here.

You may not think so but "all political parties" would also include SF. This FG/Sindo "Get SF" story has backfired and has now dragged in other parties. Naturally, the Sindo/Indo is still banging its little drum about SF's Abu database.

Regards...jmcc

Brendan Bendar

jmcc wrote: »

You may not think so but "all political parties" would also include SF. This FG/Sindo "Get SF" story has backfired and has now dragged in other parties. Naturally, the Sindo/Indo is still banging its little drum about SF's Abu database.

Regards...jmcc

I’ll take note of your views, a chara.

FrancieBrady

jmcc wrote: »

And the DPC is conducting an audit of all political parties and their handling of voter data.
https://www.thejournal.ie/dpc-audit-political-parties-5442385-May2021/

The law of unintended consequences seems to be quite active with this. It started out as a Sindo/FG "get SF" campaign. It had FG busted for tracking users without telling them and had loads of FF/FG politicians pulling down their non-compliant websites.

Regards...jmcc

The slate was covering them all, so to speak?

jmcc

FrancieBrady wrote: »

The slate was covering them all, so to speak?

And some of them don't like the daylight hence the continued deflection.

Regards...jmcc