You wouldn’t want to be giving a fella who was on €200 a week too much compo in fairness…..he might lose the run of himself ;)

Give him a wig!

Come on Ultan, the RTE board is fully made up of FF cronies. Of course they had to give a quick public apology, so Gallagher can get the big tax-free lump sum compensation….. What Miriam did to McGuinness was a total disgrace, the whole country knows it… and we know that RTE would never acknowledge it, as FF and SF are polar opposites.

Well Put. That Gallagher was proven to be a courier and a bagman for FF was proven. The Tweet was accurate enough and RTE were correct in using it.

Any chance that we’ll get an explanation of some of his accounting tricks and other business actions, that he refused to elaborate on. Can’t say I blame him though, there were some biggies.

Fair question to a terrorist in fairness.

The Communications Clinic, The Communications Clinic, The Communications Clinic…. nuff said!

Don’t believe the shype!

What I want to know Cal and Ross and especially you Ultan, being a saint and all, has Sean got Confession since he was caught out on being a liar?

Fianna Fáil might call them entrepreneurs but the rest of us call them bagmen.

Réada

I presume that he gave a priest 50 Euro and had him grant absolution. That’s how FF’er roll.

That’s called an ‘indulgence’ Ross, a long established tradition in the Roman Church and Fianna Fail.

Well none of ye are taking this seriously at all. Especially you John. I think I’ll email Miriam O’Callaghan. She’s not afraid to ask the probing questions we need to get to the bottom of this.

Ah no Leave poor saintly Miriam alone . You know she is the golden girl of RTE and can do no wrong .

I’m still getting over Reada’s comment Susie. The association of the word ‘bottom’ with MO’C's propensity for probing well…lets say, kinda unsettled me a little bit.

Just to clear up any confusion. I pay my TV licence every year – great service, wonderful people and great value for money!

You’ll be needing confession for sure after that one John!

If Reada sends M O’Callaghan around to do a bit of ‘probing’ as she has threatened I think I’ll have had enough of that kinda thing!

This is getting more ridiculous by the minute. So now the fact that SG has problems with his eyesight and has a wet bottom lip!!! is a reason to slate him. I’m not too keen on MDH leprechaun face either but now I have to put up with it. Not that we’ll see much of by the look of it. Almost 4 months in power and 1 visit to London where he only managed to upset the most popular paper with the Irish in Britain by refusing to meet them for a one to one interview. Then today he goes to see a play in wheatfield prison. Well worth his fat salary.

LMAO! Give your mother my love Dhakina. His wet lip drove me mad too. ;)

Reada! This is a family friendly site. Read the comments policy.

Smack John murphy. I don’t have a dirty mind. You know what I meant. Aaaaah. >:-O

Thanks, Reada, My mother was adamant that she was right, regardless
of scientific proof, that Gallagher
was not to be trusted. Her proof of dodgy characters( drool included ) was all that she needed. I will pass your compliments on to her. Thanks!.

Hi Dhakina,
Hope I didn’t appear too flippant – just having a bit of a lark late at night. Your mom had great insight! Best wishes to you and her.

Not at all John. I think even she would have a laugh at that, although I don’t think I’d be comfortable to share the joke in the same room, at the same time. It’s interesting though, to watch her personality change from, subservient Catholic, to jeans wearing and occasionally swearing elder citizen. I’m so proud of her!.

Fair play to her! Never too late to rip at the powers that be. Tell her to keep up the good work and watch out for those slobbery lower lips – never a good sign that!!

Fair play to you too, John and Reada. Please excuse the lack of fada’s, Reada. I haven’t figured that one out yet. But seriously, I can’t wait to tell her of your reactions to her endevours. I’ll have to wait until she gets back from her annual bone defrosting exercises though. I wouldn’t be surprised if my next shock was discovering a secret stash of punk rock records in her luggage along with a request to know where the most reasonablly priced Doc Martins can be purchased.

Just watch that she doesn’t start heading for Dame St. to get the camp up and running again. Then you’ll have something to worry about!

Hey guys. Still up? Your mam has stopped worrying about things and is tuned into her 6th sense. That’s how she knew he couldn’t be trusted. The slobbery lips was just a visible thing for her to easily identify.

All animals have a 6th sense. It’s just that the human species has based too much emphasis on the tangible 5. ;)

But if you’d like to know how to do a fada on an iPhone it’s easy. Here goes… When wanting to use a fada hold your finger down on the chosen vowel and slide don’t lift your finger upwards and all options will appear. Continue to slide your finger over to the vowel with the fada and lift your finger. Tá súil agam go bhfuil sé ceart go leor. :-)

Hey Dhakina! We’ve got another slobbery lower lip fan back from a night on the tiles. What’s the world comin’ to??

Not going by his pre-emptive and hubristic radio slot with Pearse Doherty and Fionnan Sheehan a few weeks ago which amazingly concluded in effect that it was all something of nothing. That deserves an investigation all of its own.

@So you veiw people with a disability as fair game for a joke.

Thumbs, like hips, don’t lie.

No Charles you are not alone. Happens all the time. I go back, cut the comment as opposed to copy it and then paste in the appropriate area (usually). Seems to work but it drives me nuts!

No

No Charles, it happens to me ALL the time. Here’s what I do: I write my comment and then ‘cut’ it as you would when ‘cutting and pasting’, then I refresh the page and post the comment by ‘pasting’ it in the new comment or reply field as appropriate. I hope that makes sense?

Rommel! Your a smartass! I’d figured that out first.

Hey! have any of you two had a look at the conversation that’s goin’ on up above???

John, you gotta speed up that trigger finger! one whole minute off like! ;)

That only ever happens to me if I’m using Facebook. Never with twitter. Dunno

The only difference is I copy and paste if necessary but it ceases to be a reply. And sometimes I forget to copy, usually when its one of my longer comments (stop that sniggering! ). I’ve said my piece on the debate above. Trying to get Journal.ie to address this frustrating problem is my current focus.

Think you may need see a shrink….if this is a reflection of your thoughts

But Lee, you have many times in the past, made comments supporting FF… Would i be right in asking, would there be a touch of FF in your current support for Gallagher??? How can you reconcile these mis-truths with YOUR God? Doesn anyone else on this thread have a problem with Lee supporting FF, sorry i mean Gallagher? Give him thumbs up if you agree with him ;)

Is there a SF themed equivalent of “Reds under the beds”? If so, it should be applied here

Rommel. Comment of the week. Lmho

I’m going to rob that Rommel. I’ve never even voted Sinn Féin but these party guys with their political party agenda of bad mouthing their opposition gives me a pain in my ass.

Hope you don’t mind. I’ll attribute it to you once or twice. But “Sharing is caring”! :D

Sharing is caring? God above it’s true! There are bloody commies everywhere! ;)

Well said Declan RTE is taking the michael out of the license payers. Just look at the wages they pay Duffy, Kenny Turdidy and Collins even that man in the morning Shane Byrne is on 200 grand a year.

You are do right Patricia. In rte there is an agenda against anyone who doesn’t come from the pale. How dare Sean Quinn become a billionaire- he’s only from Cavan/fermanagh How dare Sean Gallagher attempt to be president. He’s only an ordinary man from a small Cavan farm.

How dare a self educated man born in Limerick and raised on a small farm in Clare with strong ties to Galway attempt to be President! Oh wait a minute….

Not to mention that he had the support of only about a quarter of the electorate in opinion polls days before the election. What a turnaround! Amazing!

I know Charles. What a glorious awakening!

Seems like the subversion of Democracy is acceptable, desirable even, for many around here. Imagine the squealing if the shoe was on the other foot. The situation is very simple. The National Broadcaster, funded by the People (all of them) via the State, allowed itself (being as charitable as I can) to be used as a pawn to derail the campaign of the frontrunner in a supposedly democratic election. And failed to correct the record when it knew it had been had ( more charity). And contributors come on here with their “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” comments essentially celebrating the event even while RTE is holding its hands up in yet another damage limitation exercise. I find that quite disgusting. I think I’d feel the same no matter who was the victim of this outrage, or what his or her politics. (I was no fan of SG, but preferred him to MDH, as it happens). As for the happy campers hereabouts, they have shown their true colours.

You know Charles I accept that there’s a lot in what you say. I will readily admit that if the same event occurred against my preferred candidate I would be pretty peeved. Then, thinking on it a bit more I feel that had he not have been of such a ‘flawed pedigree’ his handling of it might have been better. He stumbled and fell ’cause he knew his game was up, his race was run and his goose was cooked.
You do realize of course that Fianna Fail have a rather dubious past in presidential election campaigns from the ‘mature recollection’ of not having made phone calls to the rather spurious remarks on Mary Robinson’s hairdo and the like. Sean Gallagher was indeed romping home on the basis of his celebrity profile but as soon as the flimsiest of tripwires (an unverified tweet for pitys sake!) was put in his way he fell headlong and the day was saved. Feet of clay you could say.

John, please see my comment re attempted reply down below. Another problem is that when I do go back and resubmit my reply it appears as a fresh comment rather than a reply.

John. It wasn’t just Mary Robinson’s hairdo FF took offence to. I think it was Pafraig Flynn and his typical FF attack questioning her newfound interest in her family. Back to the kitchen woman. It’s a pity his daughter didn’t take her father’s advice. Yuck. What a git.

Whatcha mean kitchen sink? Poor oul Pee had several houskeepers an the like to look after that kinda thing.

You hit the nail on the head there Charles.

Kind of yea. Totally agree with you on that. I think they should all have a max pay cap of 100k as well.

It’s called being an Entrepreneur. He has a business farming the Tax Payer for regular harvest.

I did because I gave up trying to read it half way down. My cat could construct a paragraph that was easier to read just by jumping up onto the keyboard.