He lost yes.. But he didn’t lose fairly. That debate had a huge impact on his campaign. The National Broadcaster has the responsibility to be impartial.

Sean has conceded the election and given his support to Michael D. This is about ensuring the reporting process in RTE is fair and just going forward. Only a moron wouldn’t want that

hold it a minute, he lost because someone asked a question and he didnt give a convincing answer back. Instead of sayin straight out that he had nothing to do with Morgan he got muddled and confused and looked like an eejit. McGuinness had all sorts of allegations thrown at him, (true or false) he managed to answer convincingly. Sour grapes is all this is, hell probably try and sue rte for lost presidential earnings next!

I’m pretty sure it was an accusation not a question?

And yes, he handled it appallingly badly, even on the radio the next day. But the process should have ensured that the false accusation was never put to him in the first place.

Any degree of impropriety levelled towards him was always going to stick because people had him linked with Fianna Fail and brown envelopes

accusation or question- it doesnt matter. The fact of the matter is this, if u cant answer for yourself in politics, you might aswell choose a different career

What caused Gallagher to loose was the ammount of questions that were being poised about his business dealings, the state grants he got etc etc etc.

When he was shown, which is beyond doubt, that he was a debt collector for the FF gang, and a very senior member of them, all the financial questions took on added potency. We have all grown up over the last 40 years with countless evidence of FF members scamming the state from their lowest members to the leaders. Pretty much every leading figure in the party over the last few decades has had serious questions raised about their ethics and honesty.

It was this long story that destroyed Seán Gallagher, he might be more honest than Jesus but because he laid down with dogs for so long it was hard for people to believe it . Gallagher was damaged before the tweet, his admissions on the show just confirmed that. If the media had being doing its job this would have been published in papers prior to the debate. Everything said about Gallagher, implied about Gallagher was admitted and confirmed by Gallagher in that debate.

The country truly dodged a bullet her and this nasty little man should accept that he comprehensively lost. I’m sure that he’ll get a nice quango job as a consolation prize, either way the taxpayer is going to be paying Sean G. Some things never change.

@Ciaran,

He’s not the only one that didn’t lose fairly. There were many untruths said about another candidate that was doing very well. RTE and the papers were very aggressive towards him and actually left him out of the 2 page spread on the last Sunday before the voting the following Thursday. It was very wrong, unprofessional and amateur. I hope Mr. Gallagher doesn’t throw this bill onto us, the taxpayer, for the inquiry, if there is an outside inquiry. Having the internal inquiry is going to cost us enough through our TV licences.

Wow Shiela, we actually agree for once …. You are 100% right that Martin McGuinness was treated extremely badly by Miriam O’Callaghan that night. But fair play to Martin, he hasnt made a big song and dance about it, unlike his FFailure rival. Thank God, McGuinness pushed Gallagher to the extent he did, otherwise we would have a Financial Terrorist in the Aras today. All Gallagher wants is another envelope to keep quiet, but this time, he wont get it.

Cal,
You are so right . Mr Mc Guinness was treated very badly by Miriam O Callaghan,and her line of questioning was nothing short of disgraceful.
FFailure Sean Gallagher will not be getting any more envelopes.

Isn’t is just brilliant that the man who is accusing RTE of trying to set up Sean Gallagher is a convicted bank fraudster.

Maybe Pat McGurk, the bank fraudster will run as a co-candidate for FF with Sean “the collector” Gallagher in the Euro elections in 2014. Jesus just imagine those 2 coming to your door canvassing. I’d say most people would stay hiding behind the couch.

Sean’s friends and defenders are a right quare bunch.

The key may be the Euro elections. Maybe Seanie is trying to clear his name/get some sympathy for a run at the European parliament. A word to the wise Seaneen, sympathy you’ll find in the dictionary, somewhere between shit and syphilis.

@Cal,

Sadly, for you, I was not talking about Mr. McGuinness! But, yes, Miriam O’Callaghan did make a booboo of her question. The only thing I found wrong with that was that she was a bit careless the way she put her question!

I was speaking of another candidate. No. I have no intention of mentioning which one. Work it out yourself. I will agree with you that the RTE presenters/interviewers are and can be very careless in their questioning and can be a law upon themselves as we all saw with the Sean Gallagher incidence.

I love discussion and talking, but only if it’s constructive and nobody is forcing their beliefs on others, thinking that they are right in all that they say.

Here we go…………..bring on the conspiracy theories.
Sean Gallagher is a charlatan who tried and almost succeeded in pulling the wool over the eyes of the electorate. He failed, not because he was set up by lefties in RTE, shady characters in SF, or green men from a far off planet but because he was unable under pressure to maintain the pretence that he was an “Independant” candidate, but was in fact up to his neck in dodgy dealings with a strong FF backround.
The BAI found in his favour, lets wait and see how RTE deal with it first before call for expensive, long winded public enquiries.

Look McCab, you deluded individual.

It was not the tweet that did for Gallagher, it was his reaction to it, it confirmed the already substantial questions over what type of man and what way he operated and who he associated with.

What really nailed him was Gleanna Lynch, a business woman from Dublin. A transcript of the following is in the below link. This would have holed his shampaign below the waterline irregardless of his evasiveness or subsequent admissions during the debate.
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/10/25/glenda-lynch-and-the-dragon/