Gerry Hutch TD?

Which is Gannon, who got re-elected. Despite the assumption there were two SF seats or an FF seat and Gannon vs Hutch for the last seat.

the state of hutch on the news, surrounded by his henchmen and blanking the journalists who asked him very civil and simple questions… “ will you run again next time ? “…. He does a sort of comedy ‘run’ in response and refuses to utter a word in reply to the very straightforward questions…. If he can’t stand the heat…..

If he ever did run again, and I was against him I’d be spamming the internet with him there in the news clip acting completely like a child.

Jim Sheridan is a dose also. He's living in an imaginary world.

He'd have reseived feck all votes if polling was between 8am and midday.

and what about the people?

Couldn't believe I saw Jim Sheridan promoting him yesterday, wtf.

Young people in these areas need encouragement, they need to see and hear people from their areas that have done well in life, that prove work is worth it.

If you're a kid in these areas and all you see are local drug dealers and criminals, having the best gear, laughing at the law and being the king of the area, it's hard to see another way. Particularly if there is no encouragement at home, studying can be seen as weakness and something to joke about.

I honestly believe that people who have done well in life from these areas should go back and try to show young people that there are choices. Not voting for the local crime boss, for the craic. 🙄

And I say this as a person who grew up in one of these areas, with separated parents, one of them worse then useless.

He couldn't even explain what he was going to do to improve lives in his area if he was elected.

You will never see a community clean up day organised by residents of social housing.

Total discriminatory nonsense, plenty of social housing estates all over the country are well kept. This type of rhetoric is what makes those people living there vote for the likes of Hutch.

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I loved the bit where he had a go at Paul Reynolds for being paid “by the state”

Where did he think his TD salary would be coming from?

I presume he was doing all of this for the craic, as a two fingers to everyone stupid enough to live by the rules of society.

His statement of members interests to the Dail would have been interesting

Paul Raynolds ran up to him like a mad man while at an election station and started asking irrelevant questions about court.

It says more about Paul than Gerry as he did podcast with other journalists.

And yes RTE Paul is only there because of RTE €750m bail out by the government. Do you think they are impartial.?

What made people vote for this man? He couldn't answer a question.

The report on the news with Paul Reynolds was gas. You're like a dying wasp you are. I'll do whatever the people want me to do. I'm going to an election, go down to the central criminal court then and talk to them about it.😂

Disagree. Some of them are gangsters. McDonald isn't. I wouldn't vote for her though.

I'm sure it's been discussed earlier in the thread, but what on earth was his rationale for standing in the first place? Did he think it would stop the Spanish from re-extraditing him, or keep CAB off his back, or the Kinahans from taking a shot at him? The responses from him to any questions put during the campaign or at the count would make Danny Healy-Rae look eloquent.

I assume he's not actually an idiot given his success in his particular field but he's no politician and it's hard to see what he would gain from being a TD.

Here's the thing. You can be sure the Spaniards would have been reluctant to extradite and member of the Irish parliament. Just a headache they wouldn't need. They'd leave him for us to deal with happily enough.

Also the Kinahans wouldn't go near him as a TD. I think they are reluctant enough at the moment to go after him. Christy Senior has probably reeled in Daniel and told him to stay away from publicity.

He's not an idiot. No. He has been extremely lucky though. We shouldn't forget the heinous stuff he is linked with. It's not good enough to turn around and say "Well he hasn't been convicted".

He'd have gained protection as a TD and you can be guaranteed he wouldn't have lifted a finger in return for the muppets who voted for him.

Agreed, but it's only a small % of the people that are the problem. Others are unable or unwilling to stand up to them.

I grew up in an area similar to the north inner city but the other side of the Liffey, a stone's throw from St Teresa's Gardens (literally, on many occasions😀) and it was full of decent people. But the row of retail units facing the street were more or less barricaded, and miserable places to visit. The chemist shop effectively had no windows after multiple burglaries - this was 70's/80's. There weren't a lot of facilities in D8 (and recent Pat Kenny programs have confirmed that this is still the case, but some enthusiastic priests managed to fundraise for a youth centre which was built beside the church. It was subject to multiple arson attacks. By the time we left the area in '82 the church was closed outside mass hours - the carpet had been stolen off the alter and the donation boxes were constantly being raided.

I'm no fan of Bertie Ahern but I heard him on Sat annunciating a list of the facilities in Dublin Central - it was a long list.

I disagree that it is a small percentage.

Yes, a small amount may be involved in actual criminal acts, but a lot of the time, these same people are being encouraged, ignored, lied for, hidden, excused etc by a lot more people in these communities. It's like a team effort, and then when society (AGS) intervene they are met with hostility and resistance by plenty of people in these communities

So it's not just the actual people who are committing crime and being anti-social: it's their friends, relatives, acquaintances that really add to, and magnify these issues, and prolong them

Agreed, I was referring to the direct trouble makers. The supporters/enablers are another problem. I do think a lot of the problem is the low-level stuff like minor vandalism not being stamped out, then it escalates, and people lose respect for law and order. But throwing money at facilities on it's own certainly won't improve matters.

Edit: My da taught us our letters, my Ma did the handwriting.

No, I don't think it was normal at all. And, while my mother had finished school, my father left around 13 or 14 and might not have gone much before that. But he was an intelligent man, he worked with educated people and he appreciated the value of education. I don't mean I was reading War and Peace or anything, but I do remember sitting on my father's knee and him getting me to point out the initial letters for me and my siblings. The writing as taught by my mother was probably just being able to write our names, but that was some achievement given she was washing clothes by hand for 10 people and cooking meals in a few shifts (we hadn't space for a table that could fit more than 4 of us, and with a wide range of ages we were coming and going at different times. Christmas Day was the only time we ate together).

I do think though that among the majority of my schoolmates the value of education was appreciated and supported at home. Not so for the residents of St Teresa's Gardens, Fatima Mansions, etc.

could do with serving a few though.

He was discussed on the Last Word tonight and one of the contributors said, when referencing the inner city, that several hundred people die from drug related deaths every year and if that was on the roads there'd be an uproar about it.

Noone said who was a major supplier of the drugs though. Missed opportunity.