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FORMER GREEN PARTY TD Paul Gogarty has said that that he is considering a move to Fianna Fail.
The former Dublin-Mid West TD is no longer a paid-up member of the Green Party and is considering the move following a conversation with a local Fianna Fáil supporter while taking part in RTE’s ‘Celebrity Bainisteoir’. The FF supporter told Gogarty that if he ran in the next General Election under Fianna Fáil that he would get elected.
Speaking to Jason Kennedy in the building that used to be his constituency office, Mr Gogarty said that the move to Fianna Fáil is one of three political routes that he is thinking of following.
“I think Fianna Fáil have taken their kicking,” he said. “They have to move forward and learn from this. Fianna Fáil back in the fifties was a national movement. They represented the pulse of Ireland,” he said.
He added:
I haven’t finished with the Greens. I am very much green to the core, but in terms of getting political objectives achieved, I have not made up my mind with, whether I will go back into politics, whether the Green Party has a chance to recover or whether we need a strong green element in some other organisation.
The Lucan man also had some harsh words for the electorate, saying that some of them are “thick as hell”.
He said: “There are some very intelligent people out there who think about how they make their voting arrangements and then put one, two, three in order and go all the way along the ballot paper. Then there are some really stupid people who vote for you for no real reason and they don’t think about it. Either because they know you or they like the look of you.” He added that people were “stupid enough to be taken in by the promises of Fine Gael and Labour”.
Nowadays the controversial former TD says he is happy to have more time to spend with his family, develop his music and work as a journalist, which he was originally trained as.
“It [life] has been a lot more relaxed and a lot less oppressive,” he said.
Watch the interview with Paul Gogarty:
This interview is part of a series of interviews with politicians one year on from the 2011 general election. Tomorrow: Barry Cowen on a year living in the shadow of his brother Brian since his election to Dáil Éireann…
Wow! Only 18 years old!!!
I could barely set the V.C.R. at 18…
This is why I would doubt the credibility of this story.
If its not Kim Kung Un its some school kid.
Any excuse to usher in the Global cyber police state.
Careful Frank the Gov’ment is probably monitoring your posts on here…
Jim Butler_ I think Declan Noonan has that job.
To be fair, what this guy did wasn’t a hack. A DDoS attack is basically downloading a tool, sticking in an IP and hitting “start”.
We call them “Script Kiddies”
Hope the litte sh!t gets put behind bars for a long time and is never allowed near a computer again
Or a life term of commador64…..with no pencil to wind the tapes back in
He should be sentenced to dial up for life,.
Haha look who got FIFA for Christmas.
Hope MI6 and FBI give him a good job offer- seems he is way ahead of them in IT skills!
Not that far ahead if he was still caught.
An ape could do a DDOS attack. What this little runt did was not hacking.
I think those agencies have slightly bigger fish to fry
Indeed they do but still these people should still be punished for the disruption they caused.
Apparently ddos attacks are not that difficult for those in the know. I doubt he’ll be employed by any government agency.
Anybody with internet access and the will to do it will find a program in seconds , a lot use ” near orbit ion cannon ” ( typical anon tool of the mid 2000′s ) and various others , it takes no understanding what so ever with these programs
It’s not a hack as the media love to call it. A hack is breaking through or bypassing security to gain access or control of a network. Example north Korea gained access to Sony and stole info. This indeed is a hack.
These kids carried out a ddos attack. Just causing to much traffic that’s all. Not accessing just collapsing the server.
Apparently not hard to do if you have the network and software to do it
They aren’t complicated attacks at all. Anyone can launch one from their computer really easily. A ddos (distributed) using more than one computer is a bit trickier but still not a technical masterpiece.
This attack actually leveraged normal joke routers with default passwords on them from around the world
They should lock him away for a while. Took me three days to download “the last of us”….this attack cost sony and Microsoft a lot of revenue, all thanks to one clever idiot!
Ha, reminds me of Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski. “This is what happens when you **** a stranger in the ass”
You’re killing your father Larry.
This is the second arrest made by police in the UK involving the Lizard Squad hacking group who are Responsibility for the attacks over Christmas. they only stopped after Kim Dotcom offered them 3,000 vouchers for his Mega cloud storage service worth $99 (€90) each.
Shorty after Xmas a user by the name of “Vinny” tried to sell 3,000 Mega vouchers In a thread on Hackforums. more can be read about that here http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/whos-in-the-lizard-squad/
Also Lizard squad announced on 30 December a “booter” service called LizardStresser, which charges between $6 and $500 – paid for using the bitcoin cryptocurrency – to help any person launch DDoS attacks on any website or internet service they choose.
In an interview with Daily Dot, (http://www.dailydot.com/crime/lizard-squad-lizard-stresser-ddos-service-psn-xbox-live-sony-microsoft/) a representative of Lizard Squad claimed that the Christmas attacks on Sony and Microsoft had been “a huge marketing scheme” for the DDoS service, He added that 25 people had paid to use LizardStresser within hours of its launch.
Wisked away to do some good work for the FBI now.MI6,grab him,his the next Bond.If he goes the chances are he’ll become a supervillan!
Forgot my spelling:meant “he’s” not “his”
Jail the little bollix for 5 years it might teach the rest of the nerdy shites to get a life and use the internet for porn like normal guys!
I hope that a disproportionate view is not taken. I don’t like emergency services being diverted or wasted but this does not look a life threatening situation.
A sense of perspective can be helpful. After all, this is an 18 year old male and perhaps emotionally immature.
Only seeing him hung,drawn and quartered will appease those who were unable to play Destiny over the christmas! Boys will be boys and they have more tools for mischief now than ever before, lessons need to be learned but destroying a kids life for it isn’t justice.
More of this please, world.
Fascist US President Barack Obama and David Cameron are both itching them selves to usher in the CISPA cyber security bill and take control of the Internet, usher in police state censorship and attack online free online speech.
Interestingly the H.R.234 – Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has been in the background for quite some time and the US Government looks like it was waiting for this opportunity to usher it in. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this is another filthy lie by Western Powers.. The guy is 18 years old 18 = 6+6+6
Frank – there’s some truth behind a lot of what you post but the numerology stuff is rubbish.
Bit the guy arrested in Finland recently for the same reason was only 17 Frank.
But.
665+1=666.
Be very afraid.
Aaron_ Interestingly enough the Controversial CISPA Cyber Security Bill in question is HR234
http://www.theeventchronicle.com/news/north-america/cispa-back-sneak-peak-cispa-2015/
The Number 234 = 6x6x6+6+6+6 It is also the Greek ordinal value of “Barak”
There was a story last year where A judge made an example out of a 16 year old after being nicked for a “swatting” incident by giving him25 years in jail. Turned out to be fake. Scare tactics?
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