Poor Paul Murphy - please read the OP before posting

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120520747#Comment_120520747

Surely you mean “think abou it”?

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120520693#Comment_120520693

So its lynch mobs rather than the rule of law?

We imprison paedophiles, not tear them limb from limb, however appealing that thought may be, because the day we do there is no going back.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120519161#Comment_120519161

Was Gatling not just joking?

thinkabouit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120520817#Comment_120520817

No never said anything about lynch mobs

The point im trying to make is people should have that tool (protest at house) in there toolbag available to them if it's justified.

thinkabouit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120520765#Comment_120520765

So if a convicted paedophile or rapist was moved into your area you wouldn't go to there house and protest to get them out?

I'm using that as a very hard-core example

chrisd2019

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058293944/poor-paul-murphy

Karma indeed.

Do to others as you would like then to do to you.

Poor man indeed he is with this attention seeking moan indeed.

Hopefully those that voted for him find another champion next time!

Comhrá

On Prime Time just now..... "We were giving our baby a bath....." Jesus wept.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120519506#Comment_120519506

This.

Not only that, she wasn't even invited that particular day.

I've no time for Paul Murphy, I think he is a big fake, but Burton deserved everything she got that day.

I wonder if those saying Burton fully deserved it (and she was right - they were the dregs for that behaviour) would say the same if she was a politician whose views they liked.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120519755#Comment_120519755

Actually, she wasn't invited.

She actually wasn't welcome at all - not at an event organised for disadvantaged women, when she as Minister for Social Welfare was directly responsible for making brutal cuts which massively increased the disadvantage of many of those very women just three years prior. The fact that she showed up and thought she'd be made welcome at all just showed her arrogance.

Also, I have to say, some of the comments about Paul Murphy's child are unnecessary and distasteful.

Say what you like about the man, but leave his wife and baby out of it.

elperello

In most cases the home is shared with other family members.

They certainly don't deserve to have their lives disrupted by protesters.

Take your political protests to the constituency office or Leinster House.

What part of it being unacceptable to intimidate a public servant outside his home is proving so difficult for some people to understand?

It's absolutely repugnant, and has no place in anything approaching a civilised society.

That Murphy is a communist and a prolific tweeter of his sometimes far-out views doesn't change it for a second.

Arrest them, name them, charge them.

Annasopra

Nobodies home should ever be protested.

I have seen SF and PBP protesting politicians houses before and always disagreed.

It was wrong to Trap Joan Burton in her car, wrong to protest at the homes of Simon Harris, Leo Varadkar, Stephen Donnelly, Paul Murphy and the homes of asylum seekers in this country.

I'd agree with the propsal from Senator Malcolm Byrne to ban all protests outside homes.

stellamere

I'd say Paul Murphy is delighted that a few gobshites arrived outside his gaf. More publicity

Markus Antonius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120518818#Comment_120518818

Thank your for your valued token comment.

People should really hold people prisoner in their car like Murphy does.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521255#Comment_120521255

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/i-was-petrified-joan-burton-s-adviser-testifies-in-jobstown-case-1.3071761

…. …

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521580#Comment_120521580

She should have won an Oscar for that performance.

Timely reminder that those accused of falsely imprisoning Burton and her assistant were cleared of all charges.

I'll leave it at that, because this thread is actually supposed to be about Paul Murphy, not Joan Burton.

Count Dracula

Any citizen does not deserve to be doorstepped and harassed at their own home. This is a democracy and we really should learn to love ourselves a little more, as in love your neighbours. I love all my neighbours, I hate some of them too, but I wee-spect them loike, no wadda mean mortals?

But try not to invite me in to your house, the rumours are very very true mortals. I will transform myself into an effigy of Edward Coll and hide under your stairs whispering in a West Clare accent. I will only come out at night and then loiter for virgins, lock yours away, I crave virgins in mid spring, I howl like a warlock and hiss like a biblical serpent. Terrifying creep all together so I am.

Murphy will change. He could be a decent labour TD if he wanted to be, albeit we know he is not actually a socialist, he is just a crank pretending to be one. It catches up after a while. He should have more kids as well, grow him up a bit, give him something to actually care about, Bluebell deserves more than it ever gets.

Don't forget he is more Bosco than Wonderly Wagon, that matters. Tongue Twisters and magic Doors, bad combo for some, ask Gráinne. But at least he can make a craft spider out of an egg carton and some pipe cleaners.

How many Murphy's Laws, would land on Murphys Paws, if only Paul Murphy plamásed, Paul Murphy's Murphy's laws?

Deep Breath, try it faster now

Howu mini merphies lost, wu land n merphies pause, if only paul merphie plamawsed pawel meerphies Murphies loss?

faster ( pretend your a chip monk loike )

nullzero

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521588#Comment_120521588

Gerry Hutch was cleared of all charges last week as well.

The thread is very much about Paul Murphy, I haven't seen many people condone the protestors actions here but it is relevant that Paul Murphy has long been involved in protests that have on occasion gotten out of control and the Jobstown water protest was a disgrace regardless of your opinion of Joan Burton and whether or not she deserved to be confronted or if her claims of being scared by what happened were genuine or not.

Odd that you yourself talk so regularly about believing women and in this case because you don't like the woman in question you decide she was obviously lying; "basic right to be believed for me but not for thee", you could do with taking a deep breath and pause for thought and self reflection before your next post.

RidleyJones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521588#Comment_120521588

We see murderers and rapist getting off in Irish courts every day of the week

Cleared of all charges means nothing anymore to be honest.

realdanbreen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521105#Comment_120521105

So let me get this right. They had a baby boy but in order not to have the kid confused about gender/sexuality etc they gave him a girls name (Juniper,Greek Goddess), and call him They/Them !

realdanbreen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521799#Comment_120521799

Oh and of course they certainly weren't seeking publicity or have attention drawn to themselves!

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521588#Comment_120521588

Regardless of the charges it was still wrong what happened to trap them in the car.

Annasopra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521608#Comment_120521608

Hows the hangover

Tippman24

All of the comments about the name that Murphy has thought fit to give him son reminds me of something Sebastian Coe said in answer to a question posed to him one time. Journalist asked how he got into running and reply was something to the effect that when you live in Leeds and your first name is Sebastian you learn to run very quickly very early in life.

Boggles

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521864#Comment_120521864

Leeds in the 50s was probably a tough place to grow up alright whatever your name was.

You would imagine we have moved on from that though. Some haven't obviously, there will always be cretins whatever the decade.

NattyO

I still haven't seen any evidence, other than Paul's own claims, that the people outside his house were "the far right"

Were any arrested or spoken to by the Gardai?

Did anyone get any photos of their faces - the press, in their abject terror of the imminent takeover of the country by the legions of far right we keep hearing about would have been all over this, where are their photos and interviews?

I've a feeling that a lot of PBP "activists" might have collected their dole early yesterday.

All very mysterious...

nullzero

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521944#Comment_120521944

You would have thought that these far right activists would have been clamouring to claim responsibility for this and get their faces "out there" so to speak.

The fact that PBP see the likes of FFG or anyone they generally disagree with as far right doesn't exactly help them not look like the boy who cried wolf whenever they talk about the far right being behind anything.

TomTomTim

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120521944#Comment_120521944

“There was a protest by 10 or 11 far-right protesters outside my house last night, overwhelmingly men, a number of them covering their faces”, he said.

This is certainly odd anyway. The genuine people that they label as "far right" are not known to cover their faces.