Most annoying politician at the minute

Which politician are you finding the most annoying at the minute?

There's plenty to choose from because they've been a bloody joke with their handling of the pandemic but it has to be Stephen Donnelly for me with all his blue sky thinking and absolute rubbish he spouts like they're doing a great job and everything is on track for a Borat style great success. I know politics is mostly PR and spin but I've had a belly full of them all at this stage.

The Mighty Quinn

Hazel Chu...

gmisk

Hard to argue with Donnelly (given his high profile).

Mattie McGrath literally makes my skin crawl every time I see him.

neris

Josephia Madigan with her PC gender bolloxology and all thats going on at the moment

OldRio

Far too many to choose from.

Gregor Samsa

Is going to end up the usual Boards list of every person related to the subject matter?

Hyperbollix

Leo Varadkar will always win that prize for me. His showed his true nature when first elected and has astutely being walking it back ever since, in line with it's ability to gain him electoral success. The only time I questioned our PR system was when it snook him back into office on the 5th count.

Etc

Alan Kelly / David Cullinane

I find Mary Lou extremely shrill, condescending, and disingenuous.

Etc

Deleted User wrote: »

I find Mary Lou extremely shrill, condescending, and disingenuous.

I would agree, she has improved !

trashcan

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Is going to end up the usual Boards list of every person related to the subject matter?

My guess is, yes, pretty much

EmmetSpiceland

I think there’s too many to choose from.

Banana Republic 1

Donnelly cause he talks absolute bollix

dirkmeister

Norma Foley by a nose from Stephen Donnelly.

Quantum Erasure

The Mighty Quinn wrote: »

Hazel Chu...

Bless you

freshpopcorn

Certainly Donnelly!( I can’t even say he’s nice at back of it all)

gifted

Donnelly and Foley....they're both sharing the same brain hence the incompetence

ec_pc

Norma Foley by a country mile

freshpopcorn

Norma Foleys hair certainly annoys me!

Sleepy

Much harder to pick a good one tbh but in the spirit of the thread, I'd have to go for Danny Healy Rae. Michael, for all he behaves like an up jumped county council sleeveen can at least string a couple of coherant sentences together. Kerry were trolling the rest of the country when they elected Danny.

ednwireland

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/

i think that pretty much covers it

freshpopcorn

Roderic O Gorman also!

Mantis Toboggan

Has to be leaky Leo

SusanC10

Donnelly and Foley for me.

Larbre34

Alan Kelly.

Apart from the fact we know he's dense, he is falling into that traditional Labour mistake of making every single little problem a nuclear button issue.

Alan, pet, 15 billion doses of vaccine are needed for the planet. Some countries are in dire straits compared to ours right now. If we get 860,000 doses in April compared to 1,000,000 precisely, it's not the end of the World, once we capture the most vulnerable it'll begin to drive down transmission and we'll all get there soon.

Kelly hits the nuclear button, and then when something truly serious actually happens he has nowhere to go.

Larbre34

Larbre34 wrote:

Alan, pet, 15 billion doses of vaccine are needed for the planet. Some countries are in dire straits compared to ours right now. If we get 860,000 doses in April compared to 1,000,000 precisely, it's not the end of the World, once we capture the most vulnerable it'll begin to drive down transmission and we'll all get there soon.

You're not allowed post on this thread Stephen....

bazz26

"sleepy" Ryan. The smugness of that man.

A Law

Harris and his tik toc videos. Don't think he gets the concept.

lawred2

The Mighty Quinn wrote: »

Hazel Chu...

how is someone holding an insignificant titular role your biggest annoyance?

anywho..

One of MM, SD or NF.

Three of the worst ministers at the worst possible time.

Larbre34

There is a light wrote: »

You're not allowed post on this thread Stephen....

He shouldn't be Minister for anything. But I think the worst indictment of him is, that whether he broke his bollix trying or just sat in his office and did nothing, I get the impression the outcome would be the same.

TheValeyard

A Law wrote: »

Harris and his tik toc videos. Don't think he gets the concept.

Ah yeah. Forgot about Harris. He'd be up near the top alright.

Strumms

Chu just about takes the prize... an absolute dosebag of a human... every time she looks into a camera with that false smile you can read her mind “ yep, I don’t really care, I’m going to sell every single one of you down the river to suit mine and my supporters wokey as fûck agenda. “

Chips Lovell

Eoin O'Broin. Insufferably smug, privately educated, faux-Socialist.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Norma Foley for me. She is totally incompetent. She has zero experience in politics and was put in charge of a ministry to satisfy gender quota bullshiit. It makes no difference that she has proven herself to be without a doubt the most useless farcical minister ever, she remains in the position because Meehole and his band of **** actually think she's doing a great job and even more ridiculous see her as potential future leader material.

Hamsterchops

Deleted User wrote: »

I find Mary Lou extremely shrill, condescending, and disingenuous.

I agree, ear piercingly shrill, always preaching in an obnoxious and condescending way, stating the bkeedin obvious too. Fascinating to replay her interviews, then parse & analyse what she actually said, which usually amounts to broad hollow wishy washy brush strokes of nothingness!

Yes Mary, everybody is entitled to vaccination, yes Mary, the programme should be carried out as quickly as possible, yes Mary, people's lives depend on it, yes Mary, it is critical that people get the vaccine!

Then the snide Jabs at government, trying to undermine and divide, calling Leo "Smug" just to plant the seed in people's head, poisonous.

Never any substance (apart from the obvious).

Woeful.

Pintman Paddy Losty

Luke "Ming" Flanagan


A total waster of a man. Dresses like a tramp. Bang of mould, rollies and turf off his woolly jumpers. He's an absolute embarrassment of a politician. Over in Brussels w*nking off to pictures of young ones and doing video calls in his crusty jocks


What kind of absolute gobdaws vote for a clown like him?

keano_afc

"Who is the most annoying politician at the minute, and why is it Hazel Chu?"

Chips Lovell

keano_afc wrote: »

"Who is the most annoying politician at the minute, and why is it Hazel Chu?"

Chu is fairly harmless but seems to attract irrational ire in some quarters. I'm assuming it's because she has the temerity to mention racism she's encountered and is thus seen as somewhat "uppity".

Yurt2

Regina Doherty: Thankfully exiled to the Seanad. Classic Karen haircut, mad eyes that tell you this person is fundamentally crazy and sends the Special Branch to Dublin Airport to harass academics that have the temerity to tweet about her. She wants to speak to the manager.

Paul Murphy: A cloud of smug hangs over this man.

Marc McSharry: Ticking time-bomb. Dynasty politician who'd have a hard time holding down a job as a call centre supervisor but for his family connections.

Josepha Madigan: South Dublin luvvie with a nasty streak and has now hitched her wagon to 'more women just because' bandwagon - when we talk about entitlement in our society, I think it's the likes of Madigan we should be looking at, not someone on the scratch in Mayfield or Blanchardstown.

Aodhan O'Riordan: Pious, mediocre and the kind of person we'll never get rid of from public life -- even if the electorate keep rejecting him.

Sean Haughey: The meek son of a politician that casts a long shadow over Irish politics. He's kind of just there doing nothing for decades on end. Probably sorts out his constituents with medical cards etc, but you'd wonder what's the point.

Eoghan Murphy: Absolute kryptonite outside his constituency. Heard FG reps 'down de country' had to beg HQ not to send him out for ribbon cuttings / appearances when he was minister. Unsurprising.

Leo Varadkar: Why can't FG just admit they made a mistake. Thoroughly divisive character and not half as smart as he lets on.

Gary Gannon: Eoghan Murphy from an odd-numbered postcode; all rolled up sleeves and social media, nothing behind it.

Emer Higgins: Will be an endless source of entertainment and mockery if she keeps getting elected. Marc McSharry-esque levels of cringe.

chosen1

lawred2 wrote: »

how is someone holding an insignificant titular role your biggest annoyance?

anywho..

One of MM, SD or NF.

Three of the worst ministers at the worst possible time.

For someone holding an insignificant titular role, she certainly gets an awful lot of air time. I wouldn't be able to name many of the previous Lord Mayor's of Dublin and I don't think they got any way close the amount of exposure she gets.

The constant tweets also don't help her case. These tweets are often contentious and she doesn't tend to row back in my experience when the initial reports don't turn out to be entirely factual.

Racism seems to be brought into most conversations involving her also. I went out with a South East Asian girl for four years here in Ireland and she didn't have any negative experience in that entire time. She had been living here for another three years before this and never experienced racism either. I don't doubt that there are a small amount of genuine racists out there but thankfully she never came across them.

Hazel must either be incredibly unlucky to come across racists on a such a regular basis, or she is seeing racism in situations where there may not be any. Not for me to answer that question.

Tabnabs

Paul Murphy.

Especially since he left the People’s Front of Judea, only then to join the Judean People Front.






Splitter...

jippo nolan

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Norma Foleys hair certainly annoys me!

I don’t think it’s hair, I think it’s a helmet!

Stovepipe

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Chu is fairly harmless but seems to attract irrational ire in some quarters. I'm assuming it's because she has the temerity to mention racism she's encountered and is thus seen as somewhat "uppity".

I guess you're not paying attention. She is milking the race card as if her life depended on it and her wrist must be aching from all the virtue signalling. Zero substance as a mayor and as a pol,in general.

Chips Lovell

Shelga wrote: »

Could not name one of her policies or a single achievement as Mayor of Dublin.

It's a ceremonial role. You're a figurehead. You go around making speeches and getting your photo taken wearing your chain at various launches and whatnot. That's all any of her predecessors as Lord Mayor did, but none of them seemed to make certain people as cross as she does.

Yurt2

chosen1 wrote: »

For someone holding an insignificant titular role, she certainly gets an awful lot of air time. I wouldn't be able to name many of the previous Lord Mayor's of Dublin and I don't think they got any way close the amount of exposure she gets.

The constant tweets also don't help her case. These tweets are often contentious and she doesn't tend to row back in my experience when the initial reports don't turn out to be entirely factual.

Racism seems to be brought into most conversations involving her also. I went out with a South East Asian girl for four years here in Ireland and she didn't have any negative experience in that entire time. She had been living here for another three years before this and never experienced racism either. I don't doubt that there are a small amount of genuine racists out there but thankfully she never came across them.

Hazel must either be incredibly unlucky to come across racists on a such a regular basis, or she is seeing racism in situations where there may not be any. Not for me to answer that question.

Haven't been paying much attention to Chu, and don't know to what level she's been "playing the race card" so to speak, but I'll say the following:

Her parents were likely part of the first wave of Chinese / HK immigrants to Ireland, and these people didn't have it easy in a mono-ethnic Ireland. I recall when I was a kid there was one Asian kid in my class, looking back, other students did pick on him a fair bit and teachers weren't of much help to him either.

Ireland is also a desperately insider / outsider type of country to out detriment, and second-generation immigrants as talented as many of them are, often (understandably) have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder dealing with intra-generational networks and patronage that our country is riddled with.

I'd also say that someone moving to Ireland in adulthood and working in a defined profession for however many years is a different kettle of fish to bedding down into society. All well and good coming to work in Accenture or whatever, but wait until the immigrants try to muscle-in on the likes of Josepha Madigan or Marc McSharry's turf - then the sharp elbows come out.

Illustrative of this, I read an interesting article the other day about non EU doctors being almost completely shut out of further training opportunities and pathways to consultancy roles in our medical system. The unspoken rule is that these precious opportunities are reserved for the Irish scions of the classes that smuggle their precious darlings into UCD medical school by whatever means necessary. Fact is, they like their immigrants working in Starbucks, not out-competing their sons and daughters.

Oranage2

dirkmeister wrote: »

Norma Foley by a nose from Stephen Donnelly.

Have we ever seen worse ministers?

Shelga

Chips Lovell wrote: »

It's a ceremonial role. You're a figurehead. You go around making speeches and getting your photo taken wearing your chain at various launches and whatnot. That's all any of her predecessors as Lord Mayor did, but none of them seemed to make certain people as cross as she does.

So why do you think she’s so much more well-known than previous Lord Mayors?

Chips Lovell

Yurt! wrote: »

Ireland is also a desperately insider / outsider type of country to out detriment, and second-generation immigrants as talented as many of them are, often (understandably) have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder dealing with intra-generational networks and patronage that our country is riddled with.

It's not even just that. There's some pretty blatant stuff as well. I think there's a fair few people who think that just because they're not a racist and nobody they know is a racist, there's no racism in this country and thus anyone saying they've experienced it is either lying or exaggerating. I've a lot of colleagues who've come here from other countries and some of the stuff they've told me about has been eye-opening.

.anon.

Chips Lovell wrote: »

It's a ceremonial role. You're a figurehead. You go around making speeches and getting your photo taken wearing your chain at various launches and whatnot. That's all any of her predecessors as Lord Mayor did, but none of them seemed to make certain people as cross as she does.

And what 'certain people' are too thick to realise is that a lot of the positive attention she gets in the media is the result of her speaking out against all the racist abuse she has to contend with from 'certain people'. If 'certain people' didn't go on and on about the disproportionate amount of hatred they feel towards her, she wouldn't get half the amount of publicity that she does.

Pintman Paddy Losty

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

Luke "Ming" Flanagan


A total waster of a man. Dresses like a tramp. Bang of mould, rollies and turf off his woolly jumpers. He's an absolute embarrassment of a politician. Over in Brussels w*nking off to pictures of young ones and doing video calls in his crusty jocks


What kind of absolute gobdaws vote for a clown like him?

An extremely ill-tempered man as well. I thought cannabis is supposed to calm someone down?

He’s in that group with pirate flags in their Twitter profile. He is great for pointing out what’s wrong, but has no solutions for anything. He’s also sided with Mick Wallace on their utterly bizarre support for Belarusian government, Putin, and China.

For Forks Sake

Oranage2 wrote: »

Have we ever seen worse ministers?

Shane Ross would like a word.