Helen McEntee & Those Donations - threadbanned users in OP

No, no we don't.

She's like her leader. More concerned with virtue signalling and her profile above all.

The crusade she's been on to reward illegal immigration at a time when natives and legal migrants are struggling to find or keep a roof over their heads and pay their bills, and all for the social media feelz and without a mandate is something we will all deal with the consequences of in the years to come.

The justice system and its ability to deal with serious crime and more importantly serial offenders is a joke with shootings, murders and serious violence and attacks now a regular feature on the news, yet she seems incapable of dealing with it effectively.

She was only elected originally on a sympathy vote, had no real experience or anything to offer beyond name recognition, and like the rest of the new generation of FG you refer to, far too easily led by fickle social media and the impact on her career.

Competence, performance, and results should dictate whether someone is a good TD, not their age, sex or ability to work the media. She's not the only one though - Leo himself and Harris would be just as bad.

@Dempo1 I've bad news for you, King are also produced by Tayto at the same site.

I think you are being unfair to Incels, their opinions are far more varied.

But I imagine the thread will soon light up to put this 'uppity bitch' in her place, with the bulk of the rhetoric been focused on bloody foreigners eating our Tayto and taking our houses.

I'll check back later to see if I am correct.

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Not seeing any new questions to answer based on that article tbh.

Coyle gave her 3 cheques from 3 different companies. I'm sure there's a legal tax dodge in that, which is why he did it that way.

That most likely led to confusion on McEntee's side where what she sees is 3 different donations. When they went to do the SIPO return, they realised that they were in effect a single donation over the limit and returned the money.

The article is full of loaded statements like "refuses to disclose other donations", but she has no legal or moral obligation to reveal the names of everyone who donated every euro, and you'd be a fvcking moron to do so.

Another Minister who has done f all in her brief apart from being the first female minister to claim her fully paid maternity leave. If she has broken the law regarding donations, she should have some honour and resign.

No, it's right there in the article. Your man wanted to donate and was advised by his own tax people to split it into 3 cheques from different companies.

He may have handed her personally the 3 at once, he may have posted them to a constituency office, they may have been handed to someone else during an event. It doesn't really matter.

Anyone who thinks that this isn't how all political parties and donors do things, is codding themselves. In the days leading up to elections, the TDs who look like a sure thing have money coming at them, left, right and centre. There's nothing legally grey about it once the donations are within the allowed thresholds. Ethically, I would personally rather a ban on all and any campaign donations, but that's a separate issue.

Whatever confusion arose, they realised that the 3 donations legally counted as one, and returned the donations when that error was realised.

I see no questions that anyone "must" answer here. Sure there's plenty there if someone wants to be nosy and needs to know the ins and outs.

She'll likely continue to fail upwards to get the Taoiseach slot at some point as well, and much will be made of how far we've come with the first young female Taoiseach in office ('m not convinced Mary Lou will beat her to the title).

That's how we do things here.. appearance over substance.

I think there should also be a max time limit that people can serve as TDs - say 15 years (or 3 full terms). Do away with scenarios like Enda Kenny who sat there for decades.

Her and Harris seem to be in the running for next FG leader, which says it all about how bad that party is getting. Not a bit of talent to either of them.

I seen that and I am thinking what have they done, one was the cause of the last government having to call an election because he wouldn't survive a vote of no confidence and the other is better known for holding umbrellas. How can either of them be considered leader material? God help us.

Did Harris ever make a complaint about the TD who named him as the Cabinet leaker in the Dail or is Harris still thinking about it?

Is the allegation, that she received the payments for finding a "solution" for Tayto Park to operate as normal through CV19?

We live in a media age, your media profile is far more important than the content of your character.

Both have name recognition because they've never refused a mic thrust in front of them (a bit like Leo) and have an army of media apparatchiks pumping up their visability. Visibility is worth far more then mere competence in this era, how else do you explain the Kardashians? The superficiality of the times we live in is paving a road to hell, but at least we'll have Harris, Leo and McEntee live tweeting the road trip!

They also all seem to be unwilling to confirm/deny whether there were any more payments as well.

God help this country if McEntee and Harris are the best that FG can muster as leadership material.

I wouldnt trust either of those 2 to run a corner shop never mind a country.

They would be out of their depth being a Principal in a small rural school, why is such dross seemingly getting plum roles in politics all over the world these days.

It seems to be all about having a brass neck and making the most noise, empty vessels make most noise.