Poor Paul Murphy - please read the OP before posting

Paul Murphy only got 6.63% of the First preferenve vote in Dublin South West in the 2020 General election . Possibly the lowest first preference percentage of any TD elected.

Sean Crowes huge surplus with no running SF candidate same Murphy pick up a lot of second prefernces. They will all go the second Sinn Fein candidate next time meaning Paul Murphy is highly unlikely to get elected and all his WOKE mad stuff will be history.

In fairness your analogy is somewhat weak.

Bailiffs only come into play after a long legal process during which the homeowner is represented at every step.

Can you see that is different to a random group of people arriving at a house with placards to protest because they have a problem with one of the occupants ?

So can we set it aside and concentrate on the matter at hand ?

Protest is allowed and facilitated.

Nobody is saying protest should be outlawed.

What we are saying is that protest outside politicians private homes is wrong.

Personal abuse 🤣

Are you prepared to stick your address up on a public forum so people who disagree with you on various matters could call around if they had nothing better to do in their sad little lives?

Of course not and there's no way in hell I would either. But politicians don't really have a choice, they have to expose their private life to the public to quite an extent, probably more so in Ireland than other countries.

He was perfectly justified IMHO to mention how a protest at his home intrudes into his family life.

Politically I think he's a complete cretin but this sort of protest is entirely out of order.

I agree that politicians houses should not be targeted. However I have no sympathy for Murphy, his carry on during the water protest was nothing short of a disgrace. What happened with Joan Bruton ( and I do not like her either) was contemptible and the blame lies squarely with him in the way he stoked up the mob similar to Donald Trump in the January riot in Washington.

The reason he got away without going to jail is similar to the Gerry Hutch case the DOP failed to charge him with lesser offences. See the case in the UK with Ger Dundon. He was convicted false imprisonment as he was charged with that as well as kidnapping.

To me this talk of a housing referendum is a load of nonsense that will change nothing. Let's assume such a referendum is passed, it will only deliver a load of crap housing for those who have given up on life.

What about someone who wants to buy a decent house from (that is not necessarily new) and just wants to buy it in an unrigged market?

The economic consequences of borrowing 200 billion euro since 2008 have to be paid for and because it was used to inflate property prices, ideally it should be paid for by the beneficiaries, like the property rich Sinners and people like Paul Murphy who seem to think people like renting other people's houses.