What's the point of Paul Murphy?

He's just a professional moaner, who can see nothing good in anything the Gov do.

But I suppose that's his job, to highlight all the mistakes or broken promises, despite the fact he would do no better if in charge, and would in fact likely do a lot worse.

But he'll never have to prove himself, as he will never have any power. Will just always be a hurler on the ditch.

To borrow a phrase he is one of the "supple-handed sons of privilege" who has never done an honest days graft who thinks he understands the plebs.

I only caught about 30 seconds of the end of his contribution on Prime Time .. but from what I gathered he is belly aching now about the relaxation of COVID restrictions …. A bit like the Irish Council of Civil Liberties he seems to have a default position of ‘no’ on every issue.

An irrelevant member of the dail is the best way to describe him now

This will ensure the necessity of exceptional social welfare payments like the PUP for his target market

not really - but he has been trying to make the case for not easing restrictions for a long time.

Sure he even said that he'd like to have the public transport kept at 50% so we would have to hire more drivers - pretending its a greenwashing exercise. But you know these things will need to be paid from taxpayers money and increases in taxes then make it even harder for middle income families to afford rent / homes which he also says needs to be cheaper - so the government needs to pay for that also - which then takes more money out of the same pockets - making it even harder to afford these rents and homes ......... i'm getting dizzy

and of course it was part of his socialist covid manifesto back in January

Paul Murphy: It's time to break the cycle of lockdowns and go for zero Covid in Ireland (thejournal.ie)

Murphy relishes on hardship - it's the fuel for his votes so why would he want people to be happy and comfortable if it costs him votes

For some foolish reason, Sinn Fein only ran one candidate in his constituency in 2020, when they ran 2 in 2016. If they ran two, he would have lost his seat.

Murphy reminding everyone of his stunning intelligence once again.

Rereading a bit of this thread and happened across this, which I agree 100% with...

“LOOK AT IT THIS WAY ...can you imagine paul murphy trying to organize the vaccine rollout? He would shipping off our supply to third world countries before we had our population done.”

and he fûckin 100% would..

we’d probably hear him on the news tonight.... “ now that we’ve shipped the vaccine or 19 million doses worldwide to poorer parts of the planet... we are going to begin vaccinating our own Irish people, if you are one of the remaining 47,974 people in this country alive you can rejoice in the comfort of knowing you soon might live longer”... cut to a pic of a load of kids in Burundi in Irish jerseys smiling...

I see Paul Murphy has decided that - just like last spring - he doesn’t really trust the science and that he knows much better than NPHET.

I had forgotten completely about his existence. Where has he been for the last year?

I see he was blaming NATO for Russia invading Ukraine in the Dail today.

Paul Murphy is an anarchist who tries to appeal to people's baser instincts in blaming "the man" for everything. A one trick pony, a charlatan with nothing better to do than throw stones at those trying to run the country. If he had the responsibility of a ministerial portfolio he'd piss his pants.