Are Mick Wallace and Clare Daly Irelands greatest shame?

Traitor in Chief Claire Daly on This Week claiming the Russians were taunted and harassed for years and have had enough and are only protecting "their turf".

Can we hold a recall election. This woman and Wallace must be removed from office immediately before they do any more damage to the country.

You get the politicians you deserve. If people vote for fruitcakes (or stay home because they couldn't be bothered) then they should put up with the result.

Two absolute clowns....I think they have seriously misjudged the public's mood...surely it will turn a load of people off voting for them (you would hope)

You forgot to summarise how often she condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

That's a lie. Here introductory comment was;

Question: I asked who she was representing when she voted against the resolution on Tuesday, was it her own political ideology or was she representing the Irish people?

Answer: I think I was very much representing the mandate with which I contested the European elections, and every election before that, that war and militarism isn't a solution to any conflict, that Ireland as a neutral country should very much put itself forward in arguing for a diplomatic resolution. So while forthrightly condemning the Russian illegal invasion of Ukraine, and the voting record shows that we voted for those parts of the resolution, what we opposed was the increasing of arms into Ukraine, the accelaration of NATO involvement and the accelleration of military, militarism, military expenditure inside the EU, which is something that [interruption]

[my bolding for clarity]

No huffing and puffing, no ifs or buts, no 'being challenged' on it - she condemned the invasion (which you conveniently omitted from your 'summary') and condemned the further militarism.

I don't have much time for her, and her plan to solve the problem by asking Putin nicely to stop seems a little far fetched, but if you're going to have a go at her, you might at least do it honestly and accurately. Here's the full interview, for anyone interested; https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22070823/

RTE gave 14m30s to her interview, about three times what they gave to any other item, including their update on what was happening in Ukraine itself.

Were they trying to give her enough rope?

From that text for what she said, it seems she condemns the increase of arms into Ukraine, but doesn’t say why that’s happening and also why NATO are involved on their eastern flank is because Russia are acting the bollock.

That’s about 30 seconds out of a 15 minute clip. If you want to have a go at her, listen to the interview.

The pair of them are a disgrace. Daly today saying there wasn't a military solution and that negotiation was the answer. Putin isn't interested in that and is murdering civilians so how exactly is there to be a negotiated settlement? She knows that full well.

Look online. The reaction to her interview is universal disgust. You can apologise and make excuses for her all you like but she is clearly on the wrong side in this no matter how her remaining loyal supporters and staff, such as yourself, attempt to spin her pro-Putin stance as some sort of peace campaign.

Time to go!

People should replay their comments over footage of Ukraine men, women and children being attacked come the next election…to attempt to justify it is sick in the head stuff.. don’t want those sorts of individuals in Leinster House.

I dont actually think either Wallace or Daly are actually Putinbots - for the record. I dont. I do genuinely think that when it comes to this conflict - they are completely out of their depth. Out of their Depth. And given that they dont realize this fact, they may continue to blunder along for quite a while. And it is embarrassing, and shameful.

I will leave Wallace aside for now. Never a fan even before this, and not my TD/MEP

I said earlier in the thread i had a lot of respect for Daly. I did. She was my TD, but in truth i never quite understood her 'Rush for Brussels' - it never made sense to me, given her anti establishment attitudes, along with the issues her constituents care about. Someone else earlier asked me whether I saw this type of attitude coming? I honestly did not, BUT, maybe i should have.

Had she been merely a TD, perhaps this wouldn't matter as much but she is an MEP. The EU has greatly impressed me in how it is dealing with this new reality. Clare is a fly in that ointment; it would not be an exaggeration to say, that this is her preferred modus operandi. But the EU, is morally, ethically, and politically correct in this conflict. And it should not be that difficult for her to see that. If she is unwilling to side directly with the EU, then she should say nothing. Arguing that the EU is in the wrong here, is blatant nonsense. Doing it publicly when the world is watching and we all need to roll in behind the 'LITERAL GOOD GUYS' - yes i am embarrassed to have my MEP blame NATO and even the EU for this conflict

I reiterate my decision from earlier. As a constituent of Fingal/North Co Dublin - i will NOT be giving her any votes - so long as she remains entrenched in this position. And i will urge others accordingly. Not suggesting that i can effect an EU ELECTION - but, i have a big mouth, im not ashamed to say, and i plan to use it

Clare Daly needs to catch up with reality, but maybe we all do? The problem is, i dont think reality has set in for any of us. And to be fair, reality is changing so quickly every day, who knows where we will be next week. My problem with Clare is that until she realizes this new reality, (that we may be at the onset of Cold War 2). She really should not be involved in this discussion. But being anti establishment, and an 'activist' at heart - expecting her to remain silent is a non starter

She is wrong to make claims about EU militarism. And she is wrong to be taking cheap digs at NATO. The Baltic states are depending on NATO, and we need to support them at the very least.

Well, maybe they'll do what the Ukrainian parliament did ban & persecute any left-wing opposition to their rule.

We seem to have different understandings of ‘universal’.

Surely the logical corollary of this stance is to appeal to the Ukranian resistance to lay down their arms and stop...resisting...At least if she and Wallace openly acknowledged this there would be some coherence to what they are saying