Mary Lou McDonald's interviews today

Two long-term Direct Provision centres here in Galway city. 3,291 Ukrainian refugees in the county as per October 3, including four families on my estate. Happy to welcome many more. Our country can afford to help people fleeing wars and conflicts.

My rural home village of 1000 people is dealing with 750 refugees with no additional services.

Apply that metric to Galway city and get back to me.

I have already addressed this a page ago:

I don't disagree with her right to distinguish, I dispute the distinction she made. That is where you are not reading my posts, which you have clearly demonstrated in your most recent contribution.

PIRA violence was more serious, terrorised more communities and caused more damage to more people than gangland violence has. If you and MaryLou agree with that, then we are at idem.

Whatever Francie, can see right through your posts.

If you have accredited media verification of successful criminal proceedings against any person that SF supports then I will join you in condemnation of both said person and the party. Without such you're in the realms of hearsay.

As before do you apply the same post-conflict standards to South Africa, Palestine and Colombia as you do to Ireland? Or you continue with your hypocrisy?

By the way, you STILL haven't pointed to where she talked about one being more 'serious' than the other. Or were you misrepresenting again.

Nothing online?

Ffs,I'm looking out the window at it.

Just because you're not effected right now by what's going on doesn't mean you won't be.Its a very "I'm alright jack" selfish approach.

By the way I support taking in Ukrainian refugees in principle but not the disastrous way the government has gone about it.

Similar situations in Clare and Donegal but I don't know the details of them locally, maybe you can find them "online"

I don't support "international protection " chancers from Albanian and Georgia being stuffed into small rural villages.

By the way,above article is 3 weeks old and number has gone up to about 750 since then.

Edit,maybe best not to engage with you on this thread as you haven't a clue what's you're talking about and you've been shown up fairly badly.

It's also off topic so won't contribute further to it on this thread.

Unfortunately I can't let these lies go unchallenged.

Breaffy is a village outside Castlebar,I am from the area,nobody would ever consider Breaffy part of Castlebar,you would be laughed out of it by anyone from either Breaffy or Castlebar for suggesting same.Its an utterly ridiculous thing to say and smacks of desperation as you have been badly caught out on this and you know it.

I've included a link as you can't believe anything unless you see it online t seems although you weren't great at finding a link to Breaffy or any of the similar situations in Donegal or Clare.(Perhaps you can justify the situation in Lisdoonvarna by suggesting it is not a village but is in fact in Limerick?)

I know its a fairly shocking situation,it's is unbelievable so in fairness I can see why you want to bury your head or pretend it's not happening .

On another note it seems you can't believe anything unless you see a link,there were 700 refugees on site in Breaffy since 26th Oct this year,I and the rest of the village knew this as we watched them put the beds in to a sports hall,also from chatting to some of the Ukrainians staying at the adjacent Woods Hotel.Nothing was official or reported online for 3 weeks after that (and even that was only after Breaffy community Council were demanding info from government and the hotel itself)

So by your logic those numbers didn't exist until they were reported almost a month later.The number is about 750 now,when or if that'll be reported I don't know.

You have been totally and utterly shameful in the way you have acted on this specific example.You made a statement calling out my figures and then when I posted a link you decided that Breaffy is not a village but is in fact part of Castlebar! It's OK to be wrong,to double down,move the goalposts and start telling lies (whether by genuine ignorance or just to flail about and try to win an argument ) is a nasty trait.

If that's the way you want to conduct yourself that's your perogative. I won't engage with you again on this thread,it's off topic and I apologise to others who want to stay on topic.If you want to continue come over to one of the dedicated threads on this where you'll have your arse handed to you more regularly.

Very composed and assured interview on the Late Late tonight...FF and FG wouldn't have liked the round of applause when she said she'd prefer a government without either.

How much did it cost? You seem to have ommitted the figure. How much savings had they? Did they recieve an inheritance? How much of a mortgage did they take?

Not enough detail here tbh.

And how will she be able to do that?

There is no way in hell SF will be able to form a government without FG or FF. The seats are just not there.

MLMD will have to eat her words, like Gilmore before her.

As an aside, I didn't watch the interview, but was looking at a house and the auctioneer we had did. Without prompting he tore strips off her 'plans' to build 20,000 social houses a year. According to him its not possible as there just isn't the people and the skilled labour in Ireland to do it.

His words, not mine.

Yes, because an auctioneer is obviously going to give a completely unbiased opinion on that.

Someone in the industry who would lose a huge amount of money if Sinn Fein did get into power. As I said, I wouldn't be listening to an auctioneer for unbiased opinions. Even if they didn't built 20,000, they would build a huge amount more than FG or FF. Who have proven there number priority is keeping property developers, landlords and auctioneers swimming in as much profit as possible while at the expense of a large portion of society.