This is the sign of a weak man, and he wants to lead this country, Grow up Enda your behaving like a spoiled child!!

Unmitigated disaster by Enda Kenny and his advisers. All they had to do was stick to the one party line on this. Coming up with this new excuse of scheduling issues is a PR calamity. They know Enda’s a liability and Browne would eat him for breakfast. It’s a case of “better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt”…

One ridiculous excuse after another. Fine Gael are throwing away their opportunity to lead the first single party government since the ‘ 20s and it’s all as a result of their pathetic “leader”.

Who watches tv3 anyway? I never have. Certainly never seen or heard of this person that enda won’t debate in front of. He must be a nobody.

And he wants to represent our country if he gets voted in!

I would bet any money,that kenny not debating will make no difference in poll results 3/4 after the debate
As i have said i was on our school debate team,there were guys in my year who could not do it.They now
run some very big companies very well,there still shyish.I want a delagator to fix this not a debater.These
debates are the work of TV3/RTE to charge big money for advert slots that hour.Also i dont want a single
party to govern.My preference is f.gael and some smart indos like sommerville, ross, and that type of
or quality candidate. Its also well known that whomever is ahead in polls has nothing to gain by debating
Its like running a 5K race but waiting near t.he finish line to let other runnes to catch up.What scares me
about m.martin.is he set up the HSE,E-voting,When he spent 150 million on a payroll system that did not
work he says “ah well lets just call it the one that got away.The biggest report on cancer He forgot to read it.??
How can he act so flippent with our money.Cause he didnt give a SHIT!!!!

Absolute bollox! Does he really expect anybody to believe that he’s got “scheduling difficulties”?! If he wanted to be there, he’d be there. Won’t exactly do his ratings any good…

I thought Ireland was trying to ‘reform’ politics, personal views, excuses, personal commitments, enough is enough, we need the right party in power, a debate is a very important opportunity for the leaders. It needs to happen, for the sake of the country, at this stage!!

So this is the guy we think has the chutzpah to go up against Sarkozy & Merkel…….oh dear, oh dear

DAITHI,
You obviously have not made your mind up at this stage who to vote for.I have but it wont be f/fail.
it will be a mix of indos f/gael,my first time i have voted them.I voted f/fail last time and deserve
what i got,i am in massive neg equity on my home,but thats my fault not the governments,I like
alot of people was living beyond my means.Ye pay one way or another.I dont know how good
f/gael will be,but one things for sure f/fail have no friends in europe,they think our gov are enept
thats one reason for our interest rate on bailout so high they think we deserve it,and anybody
who thinks we can go up against sar/merkel banging tables like Goombens,is wrong i think.

Chicken.

Oh god he’s such an idiot and a liar.

Well well well
Some leader he will make if he gets in

Fine Gael are trying to do a John Bruton with Enda , but this is a new era I hope the polls reflect Fine Gaels mistake with a jump too Labour come next week & a real left alliance than puppet Enda can ponder what might have been come 25th Feb & his string pulling masters resigned to opposition spokesperson’s

What a total and utter joke! Out next leader has no backbone

Enda playing hard ball tactics here! Most people think he has made wrong choice! Problem is he maybe our only choice for an alternative leader! That worries me, as Enda maybe a grand fella but he thinks he can pick and choose his battles! Worrying

Ahh, poor VinB used “as a ploy”.
Poor Michael Martin won’t get to say a lot while saying nothing really and trying to get people to see divisions in between parties that are supposed to be – well, different.
And, poor Mr Gilmore (a possible Taoiseach) will have to debate with a man who is not going to be Taoiseach (at least this time round). It should really be Gilmore and Kenny debating then of course this should have all been arranged and agreed not just announced by 3 limelight searchers TV3, VinB and of course Mr Martin.

What were TV3 expecting? Do they think that every TV station can request the candidates to turn up for 2 or 3 debates each without prior agreement? TV3, TG4 and RTE are 3 companies which would result in 6+ debates over 3 weeks and the leaders of most parties (at least those who still hope to have a resemblance of their party after the election; unlike FF and GP) have other things to do.

TV3 and Vincent Browne are all about TV3 and Vincent Browne. When he chairs his show it is VinB who spends most of the time talking. And, when TV3 planned this debate, they timed it so that it would be the first. They didn’t bother to discuss the time, the presenter or the format with any other station or with any of the participants.
Hopefully their two egos will recover with time… of course after VinB tries to have the last word by making jibes about Enda Kenny for the next week on each of his shows just like he has mentioned Joan Burton’s haranguing in every show since last week. Granted, she lost it a bit but to bring it up in every show since is just childish.