Worst TD ever elected

Shane Ross.

Stephen Donnelly.

Louise O'Reilly.

Violet-Anne Wynne.

Eoin Ó Broin.

Roderic O' Gorman.

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.

Maria Bailey.

Noel Rock.

Holly Cairns.

Richard Boyd Barrett.

Clare Daly.

Mick Wallace.

Gino Kenny.

Paul Murphy.

Brid Smith.

Joan Collins.

Ruth Coppinger

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Didn't see Mattie McGrath mentioned, fair enough not the worst but he's at least one of the most unlikeable.

Anti-gay marriage, anti abortion and staunch Catholic Church supporter.

Craves the dark old days with Church and state and the Magdalene laundries.

I'm not sure. At first glance she doesn't appear the worst but she could only be keeping her head down for now while she cements her position. She could be serious bad news in years to come

True.

Last time out, the good people of Tipperary afflicted us with Lowry, Mattie McGrath, AK47, Martin Browne and Jackie Cahill, all in one sitting.

Let that sink in.

Michelle "Fornication is a leading cause of unwanted pregnancy" "I'm entitled to an All-Ireland Final ticket" Mulherin

Got caught for over 3k worth of calls from her Leinster House phone to her "friend" in Kenya, she did cough up the cash in the end though

Willie O’Dea……little weasel sucking on the teat of the State for decades and doing fork all

The repeatedly nominated Wynne has just resigned from SF citing bullying oddly enough!

Another dreamer cast on the pile.

Still, she has done the job of breaking new ground for SF in a general election. They will replace her with 'one of their own' next time out. Happens all the time.

No, but it should still be a bit more than I hate X so X is a bad TD. Some of them are not that obscure if you look. Most of the TDs down the years in Dublin North East for example, including Michael Woods, a FF minister, were awful and Cosgrave was implicated in corruption as a councillor. If you look at other constituencies up to 2000 and beyond you'll find exactly the same thing; poor quality TDs who did very little for their constituents.

The ultimate 'career' politician.

Them hands never did a day in the real world

I tend to agree albeit I suppose I'm at an age (54) we're I can recall quite some Shenanigans from former FFG TD'S that would make many current TD'S blush and indeed those who continually Bash SF TD'S for events that happened decades ago.

I'm no fan of SF incidently, but by a long mile some of their TDs have performed far better than the current shower of government TD'S, some of whom are utterly dreadful.

hmmm Would you include Enda Kenny, Willie O'Dea, Michael Martin in these ultimate 'career' politicians? Another one would be Helen McEntee.

As for worse TD's surprised no one has mentioned Sean Haughey, How long has he been in the Dail and you barely hear anything from him? Happy to sit back on the back benches, if he evens turns up, and get the cash. Not even sure how active he is in the constituency.

When their elected TDs offered such wonders as the charity defrauder Wynne, gone on holidays for the election Ryan, bomb maker Ellis, twitter-history-eraser Cronin etc it doesn't leave much to be considered one of the best.

If it was any other party doing something similar, SF would massacre them, no pun intended. Imagine a FG TD being elected and doing a blueshirt salute! There would be no way they could not resign.

Good God when you see them all in one list it really is utterly depressing.

Whats even more depressing is trying to work out how many tens of thousands of people actually voted for these people and in some cases more than once!

I was just about to mention Eoghan Murphy. Mega disastrous appointment at a time when we had/have the worst housing crisis in the history of the state. Yes, he has left public life but his appalling performance will have grave consequences for Irish citizens for decades.

Has Heather Humphries been mentioned , utterly dreadful , two questions

How was she elected

How was she appointed a minister

Actually, I'll squeeze in another, am I alone in not understanding a single word that comes out of her mouth 🤔

With the times that are in it, I can't believe no one has mentioned Joe "we'll send out your iodine tablets in a few months" Jacob.

I mean what are the chances we get some nuclear fallout coming from the East sometime soon?

Some poster asked what are the criteria for claiming a person is a bad TD.

Is it they come across as buffoons that can't strink a coherent sentence together? Danny Healy Rae

Is it they are buffoons whose ideas are nonsenical and will cost us dearly? ryan, all the greens, all sinn fein

Is it that they are grossly out of their depth on topics they are in charge of? Cowen, Varadker, Harney, Donnelly, McEntee, O'Brien, Murphy

Is it that they couldn't give two fecks about the national well being, but do huge work for their constituents? Healy Raes, Gregory.

Is it that they were corrupt and just fill their own pockets? lawlor, haughey, callely

Is it that they were very probably corrupt (can't be proven in court)? ahern, flynn, lowry, martin

Is it that they contribute nothing anywhere and just collect a salary and pension? Durkin, Coppinger, flynn jnr, Murphy, etc

Is it that they wrecked things and cost the taxpayers and citizens lot of money? cowen, ahern, coughlan, martin, ryan

From what I see here the Irish electorate could be considered the worst electorate ever since it alone is responsible for projecting the hapless individuals listed above into the County Council Confederation ..oops sorry, I mean the national parliament commonly referred to as the Dawl. 🙃