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LAST UPDATE | 11 Jan
RODERIC O’GORMAN, THE Green Party’s leader and sole remaining TD, has said the general election was “hugely disappointing”, but the party will rebuild.
Speaking at the Greens’ annual conference in Dublin today, O’Gorman said the meeting provided an “opportunity to regroup, to reflect and to plan our next steps”.
November’s election was a massive blow for the Green Party. After winning 12 seats in the 2020 election, its best ever result, it only managed to keep one seat in 2024.
O’Gorman told delegates in Castleknock the Green Party had “a very successful period in government” but “despite what we’ve achieved, no one here this afternoon is under any illusion about the scale of the loss that we suffered in November”.
It was a very hard day for our party, and it was an incredibly difficult day personally for so many people here.
Despite the “challenge that lies ahead”, O’Gorman said the party also has “good reason to be optimistic”.
He encouraged members to vote for Green candidates in the upcoming Seanad election, namely Malcolm Noonan, Hazel Chu and Ossian Smyth.
In his speech, O’Gorman also sounded an alarm about the incoming government. He noted that, during the election campaign, he voiced his worries “about what a Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael government propped up by independents would look like in terms of policy”.
The Dublin West TD said, according to recent briefings in the media, the incoming government looks set to prioritise local road projects over “large public transport projects of national importance”.
He said Climate Action will likely be “watered down” if the incoming government is “instead focused on implementing a patchwork of local deals, rather than looking out for the national interest”.
Speaking to The Journal ahead of today’s conference, O’Gorman said party members are “extremely disappointed” with how the election turned out, but they are proud of what they achieved in government.
“People knew there was a risk going in [to government], and we’ve seen the consequences of that risk. I suppose people also see the fact that other centre-left parties have stepped away from talks.
“That was a point that we were making throughout, that the Greens are the party that is prepared to take the risk, to go into government, to deliver on these sort of policies,” he said.
Yesterday, the Social Democrats, who have all but walked away from the prospect of entering into government, released a statement saying there must be no watering down of climate action ambitions in the new programme for government.
What does O’Gorman make of such statements from the SocDems?
O’Gorman told The Journal ”the only place you can protect those sort of initiatives and indeed increase their ambition is in government”.
“I have a real worry about what a government supported by Independents are going to do. I think we’ve already heard the kind of briefings about cutting the budget from big public transport projects and moving it over to localised roads projects.
“I have a real nervousness about what the next government are going to do,” he added.
The Green Party still has an important role to play in Irish politics, he said, adding: “We’re in the Dáil, we’ll hopefully be in the Seanad, and we have strong councillors around the country.
“So, we have strong foundations and will rebuild the party from the ground up.
“We topped the poll in the locals across Dublin because people recognise the effectiveness of the Green Party at a local level. Someone will have to hold the next government to account on climate action and that someone is us.”
With reporting by Órla Ryan
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The risk of going into government? Both of the other parties held their vote while the greens were decimated, tax after tax for their policies. If their policies were strong enough and explained well enough they wouldnt need taxes to force people to get behind them
@Paul Keenan: can’t think of even one tax they introduced during their term in gov.
@Paul Keenan: They’ll be fine if they can turn a punitive ‘do nothing’ ideology into actually building a sustainable future, but we need to build infrastructure and (imo) they are all incapable of doing so, Greens more than most, this will be a good period of reflection for them, I’m hoping they can untie their shoe laces and actually start to run the race.
@Paul Keenan: They were a small minority in the last govt. A fall guy for the other two….. Eamon Ryan didn’t help their cause with his limp performance as the transport minister
@Dave G Doe: cool story bro
@eoin fitzpatrick: Aren’t you paying more for your drink bottles and cans especially if you can’t bring them back to get your refund?.They gave exemptions to airport shops and pubs who charge you the price plus the tax. You would have to bring the bottle or can with you on your flight then bring it back to Ireland to get your deposit back. So yes, the foc king green party did what they always did. Bring in taxes on things people use in order to make our lives as miserable as these little shits. Don’t forget about their carbon taxes on home heating fuels and car fuel costs. A truly disgusting party which hopefully we won’t see anywhere near government again.
@Gerry Lamont: Say what you say but there are no more discarded cans and bottles littering our streets and parks. The same can also be said about lack of discarded bottlecaps as they are now attached.
The last time I took a plane somewhere I didn’t really think that the 15c personal loss made a big difference on spending. Just made sure the bottle was recycled at the destination.
@eoin fitzpatrick: carbon, increased the levy on electric goods, increased nct, driving licence, need I go on, you muppet
@Sami Hentunen: The scheme that gave total control to the Drinks Industry to enrich themselves even further. Ossian Smyth allowed the Drinks Industry design the scheme, form a Limited Company & make themselves Directors. The make up of this group is people who are already mega wealthy. There are no answers or Transparency around Renumeration & Bonuses or what’s happening to the unclaimed Millions of Euros, it’s a major scandal. Minister Ossian Smyth was so incompetent, he couldn’t answer questions put to him in the Dail on this on four occasions. These bottles were already been recycled in private bins & now the Carbon footprint of people going especially to centres to recycle bottles is contradictory. A scheme that made the Drinks Industry multi Millionaires.
@eoin fitzpatrick: you obviously have trouble thinking then
@Paul Keenan: It was also convenient for FF & FG blame greens for taxes etc when they were happy to do them in the first place.
@K O: they didn’t introduce carbon taxes and those other things are not taxes
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec:
Roderick O Gorman certainly didn’t help with his open invitation to the illegal immigrants of the world, but especially the Middle East & Africa,
to come and be guaranteed their own front door key – something that thousands of Irish aspire to but cannot afford.
@Thomas Sheridan: He doesn’t have a clue what he’s at really …. Comical in the debates as well
@eoin fitzpatrick: funny how you claim that every time it’s pointed out to you, that while technically right, you tend to forget that they A) did not delay the increase to the carbon tax, B) argued for the excise duties on fuel to be returned to the pre cost of living crisis rates, and C) introduced the stealth tax that is the DRS scheme as more and more families have started putting the items back into their recycling bins as they do not have the space to keep them, despite the idiotic suggestion of putting them next to the full ones. You keep forgetting that despite it being pointed out constantly to you by myself and others.
@eoin fitzpatrick:
Carbon Tax right in the middle of a cost of living crisis
@Pat Barry: they did not introduce carbon taxes I asked what taxes they introduced. When carbon taxes go up during the next government’s term who will you blame then? And I just bring cans and bottles back and get my deposit back, simple really.
@Paul Keenan: The elephant in the room is Roderic O’Gorman and open borders!
@Paul Keenan: “Tax after Tax”. OK, I’m asking, name 2 taxes introduced by them.
@Thomas Sheridan: fake news, as debunked by the Journal. He wrote in other languages so the current asylum seekers could read them in their language. And I’m no fan of the greens at all but just pointing out that your narrative got rejected by the Irish public, Billy No Seats! Immigrant bashers go no seats
@Brian Hunt: your open borders narrative got rejected by 100% of the Irish public, Billy No Seats, but repeat away
@F1rYnpWc: Which party, apart from Aontu (2TDs) supports closing the borders?
BTW, in the Constitution Amendments, 80% of the people rejected them, despite all the political parties recommending them.
Politicians in Leinster House have formed a cartel!
@Sami Hentunen: that funny as i was at the store returning my bottles & cans only yesterday and the lady had 2 big bags & told me that her husband had picked them up on his walks so it certainly not true to say they are not being discarded,
@Dave G Doe: That’s just you, a complete clown. Nothing wrong with telling you that. It was actually Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael that brought in carbon taxes and you voted for them, clown.
@eoin fitzpatrick: circular economy tax. That was an anti baby tax.
@eoin fitzpatrick: carbon tax.
@eoin fitzpatrick: They but another 50 euro on a fill up of the home heating oil we use to keep our families warm in the winter. Which is 10 months of the year, here. That on average equates to over 100 euros a year.
@eoin fitzpatrick: fuel on home heat and transport petrol and diesel. Huge increases
@Gerry Lamont: well said!
@Brian Hunt: all your anti immigration parties want closed borders. They got 0%. Rejected 100% by the Irish public. While ‘open border’ parties got elected.
@Sami Hentunen: yeah because the country was covered with discarded bottles ….. would you ever catch yourself on
@F1rYnpWc: I’d say you have the IQ of a tadpole, only I wouldn’t like to slander the tadpoles!
@Me Me: The rush of people coming in to answer my simple question speaks volumes.
@Brian Hunt: changing the subject Billy No Seats, with all of your 0% of support?
@eoin fitzpatrick: solid fuel taxes. Gas, petrol, diesel
@F1rYnpWc: Yawn…..Zzzzzzz
Can someone of the 300 delegates ask him why so many children went missing out of state care on his watch,..one being found in a brothel in Limerick? And why he deleted reports he received about missing children??
And someone PLEASE take the loonatic tweeter’s phone off him….his ‘guests’ are costing us €2 billion a year now!!!
That’s all,, enjoy the tofu and oat milk ye eegits
@Finn Barr: very big scandal what he did with the kids. Covered up
@Colonel Gaddafi: he got away with an awful lot of skulduggery,, cos he’s part of the ‘rainbow mafia’ …he was quizzed in the Dáil one day about extra funding he gave to lgbtqxyz groups.. and he got thick and said ‘ your only asking me that because of my sexuality choices’ and flounced off in a huff …proper drama (ahem) queen..
@Finn Barr: Did you find the kid on your visit to the establishment in Limerick.
@Finn Barr: A cover up akin to what happened with the Grooming Gangs in the UK, can’t be investigated here by Media or Gardai in case we upset those like Roderic O Gorman.
@SV3tN8M4: there was no cover up of grooming gangs. It was covered on the front page of the Times in the UK, and there were three or four prime time television shows about it, including Panorama.
@Dennis L: There are many proven historical cover ups of Grooming gangs, well covered by TV, perhaps you should speak to the victims in Oldham. Anyone excusing or trying to defend the sexual abuse of people is disgusting & very suspect.
@SV3tN8M4: What percentage of grooming gangs in the UK are of native white individuals? your answer if any will be very interesting.
@SV3tN8M4: Yeah, like the Catholic Church here and people still vote for those that let it happen. There was already a report carried out into grooming in Britain, amazing how Musk and his army of clowns never came across that? Why didn’t the Tories do anything about that? You’re being used
@Finn Barr: https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/national-news/1531255/thirty-four-children-are-currently-missing-from-state-care-tusla-report-reveals.html
Ignotance, absolute and utter, I suppose you were one of thpse calling him a paedophile because he’s gay?
@Finn Barr: No Mates Woderic must be the most detested politician in Ireland, his open borders policy is an unmitigated disaster, Cromwell would be more popular than ROG!
@Trump24: Are you just checking ahead?
@Brian Hunt: ‘no mates Roderick’ and the detested greens got more in seats than all your closed border parties combined, Billy No Seats!
@SV3tN8M4: maybe if there was proper investigative journalism, those guilty of the crimes of children going missing in care would result in a subsequent criminal investigation. We shouldn’t let this go, I expect if Rod had any part at all, he would have had more than enough time to destroy any documents relating to the matter.
@Brian D’Arcy: Whataboutery!
@Finn Barr: I didn’t regard the result for the Greens as disappointing. In fact , my only disappointment was the fact that they got one seat
@Dennis L:
Pi@@ off with your gaslighting, the political and media establishment ignored the grooming gangs for years until finally public opinion forced them to take action,and even that was too little too late!
@F1rYnpWc: Yawn….Zzzzzz
Potentially did more damage to Ireland than the Brits. The long term consequences of his gimmigrants will be enormous.
@Pork Hunt: wow. That’s some level of willful ignorance. The Brits murdered people. You had a slight increase in tax, and a massive decrease in up front public transport costs.
@Pork Hunt: Roderic O Gorman’s policies now costing us over €2 Billion annually. Public Services at the point of collapse, especially our Hospitals & GP services, all courtesy to ROG & the Greens. Add in the stealth taxes they placed on families, making the Cost of Living the second highest in Europe. Certainly did enormous damage to the country.
@Pork Hunt: Billy No Seats your narrative was rejected by the Irish public where even the detested greens got more in seats than all your parties combined!
@SV3tN8M4: What about your old buddies the Bertie Kissers who he was in Government with and you put them back again this time with their Proxies
@Dennis L: Ashling Murphy! Ring any bells?
@Dennis L: Aisling Murphy etc etc you one dimensional woke one trick nodding dog dung head
@Tim Higgins: Josip Štrok, an immigrant, was murdered by a couple of Irish men. Motivated by their hatred of immigration.
@Pork Hunt: Of course he did more damage than the Brits. You can recover from what the Brits did to us, like we did. But you cannot recover from all the hostile cultures coming to our country that are now here permanently.
Eamon ryan turned the whole country against the green party … jaysis lads in fairness there is saner people locked up
@djdonohoe2000@yahoo.co.uk: in fairness, he didn’t stand alone….very able ‘assistants’ alongside him, Catherine Martins disastrous handling of the RTE scandals/ fiascos comes to mind….. Lies and falsehoods over & over…….. The solution???- a 750€MILLION government guaranteed income stream
@REAL kevvy kerr: Catherine Martyn sat on the whole RTE scandal for three months, then disappeared. No answers, no accountability, nobody held responsible, no NBCI raid, no Revenue investigation, nothing, into the lies & corporate fraudulent activity at RTE, the “public service broadcaster” & Catherine Martyn sat idly by. Instead she allowed them walk away with mega Exit Packages, Pension Payments & NDA’s & then on top of that rewarded the Lies & Corporate Mismanagement with the Licence Fees & a near Billion Euro bailout. Truly Incompetence at its very best from one of the most Incompetent Ministers ever
How appropriate that they are holding there conference in the affluent suberb of Castleknock.They need to get down off their high horses and recognise that there are people living outside Dublin.Im sure they wont be too happy that Michael Healy Rae has been offered a junior ministry.
@Willie Marty: more millions 4 michaels refugees housing rent racket in kerry s
@liam ward: Ah! those cute kerry hoors but at least we might get some badly needed infrastructure into rural Ireland for a change.
@Willie Marty: 65% of roads deaths in the countryside, it’s not because of bai racers OR drink driving, it’s because our road networks are thousands of years without change, all contemporary traffic on the same 5 foot roads along with Freight, Agri, walkers, cyclists, 80 year olds going for prescriptions, mad altogether.
@Willie Marty: Sums up how they viewed rural Ireland. Their base is Dublin, made up of ideologists who turn out to be Hypocrites. Castleknock, sums up the Greens
@Dave G Doe: he ,much like yourself,is a complete feckwit
He said that they knew that there would be consequences going into government, but they still ploughed on and we are suffering as a consequence. Fold the party up, they are never going to get into government again. People have been hurt too much.
Forget it Rodders, the Greens are now in Fiddlers Green.
Might be no harm if they did a bit of RE- branding, be honest with the electorate…..how about the “TAX party”??
@REAL kevvy kerr: How about The Toxic Party?
What’s the obsession with a party that got 1 seat
@Dixie: advertising
@Dixie: Journal was their main defender on MSM, many of the Contributors/ “journalists” on here were involved in promoting the Green party & actively involved.
@SV3tN8M4: lol
A lot of people are genuinely concerned about environmental issues, both national & global.
The problem with green parties across Europe is that they bring all that other lefty woke nonsense with them, AND they veer into we know we’re right & that gives us the right to ignore everyone else territory. They oppose everything that makes our country prosperous, and their policies hit those on low incomes hardest. They appear to me & I’m sure many others as middle-class Marxists, using the global warming issue as a mask for a completely separate agenda.
@Gerry Kelly: They didn’t bring the people with them. They hate the Irish people & especially those in rural Ireland. Ciatan Ciffe wrote to financial institutions across Europe asking them not to lend to Irish Farmers. The Greens have more time for those arriving weekly in record numbers than for the Irish people. Rural Ireland wasn’t going to tolerate much more of the Green parties dictatorial policies, there would have been war.
Eamon Ryan, worst leader the greens ever had, literally fell asleep on the job and was a walking contradiction in what he preached and then did himself. Roddy O;Gormless……well enough said about him as minister and the damage he caused and the carnage left after his time in government, and then lastely we have Catherine Martin I mean RTE’s very own santa claus who literally approved a 700 million bailout for the state broadcaster without any real terms and conditions, and hadnt the guts to push to have that likes of dee forbes dragged in for a chat despite her sick note. And thats before you go onto the greens going to war with car owners and rural Ireland in general. And yet their posh toff support wonder why nobody likes them
@Patrick Newell: Eamon Ryan, cost us the Taxpayer a fortune. Surrounded himself with over 10 Special Advisors, 10 ! It was an insult to Taxpayers & an embarrassment worldwide, to watch this guy fall asleep at a sitting of Dail Eirinn, it showed his contempt for the people. Despite his 10 Special Advisors, his Department was the worst performing of all Govt Depts & we lost our on funding from the EU, because his Dept failed to furnish certain applications on time. He wasn’t fit for public office & his incompetence was breath taking. His purchase of EV Buses & them sitting parked for over a year because of no charging points, same with Generators. His role around Data Centres needs a Tribunal investigation, re the pressure on the National Grid & our Emissions Targets blown out the window.
@SV3tN8M4: Aided and Abetted by your buddies the Bertie Kissers
You’d have to be some saddo to be at that
@qffaffaf affrafrfraf: Is Peter Tatchell attending.
@SV3tN8M4: Probably, with the missing children!
How can he justify sending out those tweets in what was it, 8 different languages to come to treasure Island??… And gets voted back in? He should go back to where he got his education and ask for a refund.
@tiobraiddroicead: Do you live in this state? Forget about Social Welfare, it’s hard enough to work and live here but you blame asylum seekers, truly tragic, like the Irish who fled from here and were met with the same ignorance. I’d love to see a report on asylum seekers working here, despote it being extremely difficult and let’s go back to how they were treated during Covid, ring up sick and don’t come back which saw clusters developing in meat factories etc and yet they don’t work? Get a clue and stop being used to oeddle rubbish.
@Brian D’Arcy:
Ah that old chestnut, the Irish went everywhere, they did, and what was handed to them when they landed on foreign shores? No handouts. Take your head out of the sand and wake up.
@tiobraiddroicead: He was educated at the Josef Goebbels Academy of Journalism!
@Brian Hunt: lol are you seriously suggesting that thousands of Irish didn’t land in the UK and immediately claim dole and housing benefit?
@Kevin Kerr: Where did I say that? don’t put words in my mouth!
@Brian Hunt: now now Brian, you intimated it. It’s quite clear from the thread. It’s a common comparison made by the anti immigrant crowd, of which you are one: immigrants here get handouts, Irish emigrants never did – it’s BS
@Brian D’Arcy: asylum seekers don’t work in meat factories,shows how you think when everyone that isn’t Irish is a “asylum seeker”
Dope
@Kevin Kerr: You assume a lot and then present it as evidence. You are very manipulative, deceptive and dishonest, but then, you’re paid to be!
The one man party identifies as ‘they’.
@Michael Curtin: He thrives on that, every time there was justified criticism of him, he played the sexuality card. Nobody cared what his orientation was, it was his performance not his orientation that was the problem, but it was a very effective way of shutting down debate or any investigation of him. I have no doubt that this forum on the Greens will be shut down by the Journal Greens very soon. There can’t be any accountability of their actions in the Media, but the People, the Electorate made them accountable for their abandonment of the Irish People
@SV3tN8M4: No he didn’t. I amn’t a fan of the Greens, do you not remember that he was called a paedophile because he was gay? Ignorance knows no bounds.
@Brian D’Arcy: John won’t reply to you. He has posted at least a dozen comments on this article that are littered with misinformation. I’ve given up challenging him
@Brian D’Arcy: I think that was about his friendship with Peter Tatchel!
@Brian Hunt: More fake news from you, Brian. He is not friends with Thatchell, but was photographed with him at Pride in 2018
@Brian D’Arcy: is he a pedophile tho?
@Kevin Kerr: Only your word for that Kevin!
Donkeys the lot of them
@Martin Ridge: Hey hey now thats not on, I have seen some disgraceful language and comments on here, but enough is enough
How dare you compare those loveable and smart creatures of donkeys to the bloody green party. If donkeys formed a party they would likely get more seats than the greens
If the Russians or Chinese or even the Yanks wanted to sabotage a country’s economy, what better way to do it than set up a Green Party in the target country? No need for any blood to be spilled and the country would be crippled within a generation of the Greens getting into power from all the rules & regulations and uncompetitiveness on the global market.
@Staker Wallace: Roderic O Gorman has been responsible for destroying Tourism along the Western Seaboard in just 2 years, a lifeline & income for many families that depended on it, in often disadvantaged areas, a business that took decades to build its reputation wiped out overnight. Instead he dumped Thousands of Immigrants, most who destroyed their documentation on arrival here, dumped overnight on rural communities, often doubling their population overnight, without providing any extra services for those Communities, just empty promises & lies about consultation. He has caused massive division & destroyed social cohesion in many Communities & yes he is a dangerous character to foist on any country.
@SV3tN8M4: Completely untrue, try the cost of everything which was reduced for tourists, so ok for us mere mortals to pay exorbitant prices but not tourists? Yet another redundant point by you, the Greens most certainly didn’t crush anything. Sure now you can blame ‘independents’ for what Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael do.
@Brian D’Arcy: U must be one of them so If u believe O’Gorman was not responsible for any taxes or anything else u are deluded
@Brian D’Arcy: you are deluded. The immigration policy has made millionaires out of hoteliers and some politicians but treating gimmigrants better than.our.own by providing so much for them at tax payers expense
@Brian D’Arcy: it was the greens idea to make desiel the same price as petrol,this has caused the cost of living crisis, everything you buy has been delivered by a truck ,put the haulage prices up then ALL prices go up
Will this crowd just give up already every choice they made was incorrect.
Awwwww poor Woderic in the Dail………”I’m so ronery”
@Dave Callaghan: Yet more ignorance
I hope this cult never returns.
Like all greens they have a short shelf life, especially the organic produce. They have withered before our eyes.
@JP: Pippa Hackett not even elected by the people, appointed as a Super Junior Minister, destroyed the Forestry Industry & Horticultural Industry, disastrous appointment, but walks away with a Ministry pension pot, leaving the mess behind.
There were lots of things the green party could have done to improve our environment without it costing anyone a cent but they had no interest in anything that didn’t rake in the taxes and they were not alone as there buddies in fffg were only to happy to go along. A real green party needs yo have a say in the changes we need but these fools are definitely not it.
@Gavin Smartr: Spot on assessment. The Irish people love Nature & Diversity & are well aware of Climate change & are really positive participants around Recycling. The Greens had a great opportunity to bring people with them, but they did the opposite, instead of offering incentives they penalized people & the whole Retrofit debacle was not accessible for working families. Instead they heaped massive increases on the Cost of Living on Working Families. They lost the people from Day 1, concentrating on Woke issues & Immigration, instead of the bread & butter issues affecting every day Working People.
Their meeting today? We’ll an old phone box will come in handy for the meeting
Proposing July 12th as a national holiday for the Orange marches here capped it all!
@John Nolan: once you begin to tolerate it you have started to lose.
They are utterly inept.
Even friends of the earth said so.
Remember this
https://youtu.be/Wld8KjxBAI8?feature=shared
My good God.
@Dan Murphy: Ha ha, a libretarian ha ha. Yes, you cannot go in and shoot up a school but I guess that is undemocratic? New World Order, that old chestnut, boring and yet you support a billiknaire in Trump to fight on your behalf, the irony.
All the dangerous immigrants that rodders attracted will fester for generations. Muslims want a Sharia state wherever they go they don’t integrate
@Pork Hunt: Have you offered a welcoming hand?
Hopefully rebuilding the green party means he loses his seat next time along with any councillors and senators they have
I wish they would just acknowledge they got it wrong !
Policies were sound but implementation was dreadful
Adding more tax in a cost of living crisis showed that the party were either inept or just didnt care about ordinary people
Ryan was a disaster His lack of empathy perceived or otherwise added to the Greens woes
Oh BTW The greens aren’t a Center left party a bit like Labour
People just want to raise thier children and live a life best they can, ireland rejected the ultra progressive greens can use not just leave it there lads, we got got sick of tax after tax after tax, tax china and India on their products to generate your green tax leave us be we barly scratch the climate surface individually again ireland and let’s face it the world now really is rejecting ultra progressive green agenda political wise, people are doing their bit we drive cleaner engines cleaner diesel and petrol admission we put the green bin out every two weeks we don’t throw batteries into rivers we recycle them we don’t have fires in our new homes, we have played and keep playing our part go away no one ever wants to be taxed to near starvation again
I had to google the murder of Kriss Donald, the 15 year old whose fate was singled out by Musk during the interview with the AfD and whose killing the former FM of Scotland said was only brought up to inflame tensions. Actually, of you read it is shocking what government and the legal establishment will do.
The Green Party is a prime example of how theft is dressed up as virtue. They champion policies that rob the hardworking public under the banner of saving the planet, yet their solutions are little more than economic scams. Carbon tax hikes, inflated energy bills, and punitive measures on agriculture – these are not environmental initiatives, they are tools of coercion. Then to add insult to injury, they give wasteful taxpayer subsidies to certain sectors, pretending it’s some grand favor. These are nothing more than bribes, designed to make people complicit in their own financial ruin. Not to mention the fact that O’Gorman kept inviting illegal immigrants to come to Ireland and claim a free house, free healthcare and free dental care with his official statements and open borders policy.
@William Jennings: Bullsht! As are most of the comments.
@Chutes: You haven’t provided any sort of coherent response to the points that I made. Is that because you know I’m right?
Sapirse Mc Hugh, who ran for the Greens and left them warned, warned about their lack of socio-economic awareness, they ignored her warnings abd niw they have one seat. A Green Party for the rich was never going to work.
Deluded folk. I watched that wagon Pauline O Reilly eith her mad eyes…a fanatic if ever there was one. She has denied the people of Galway traffic relief with her relentless opposition to the Galway ring road.
To piss her off I propose a Goldrn Gste style bridge linking connemara to north clare.
Was all down to their leader in my opinion. A complete tulip. Falling asleep in the dail on numerous occasions was the last straw for me.
Should be in jail for treason
Maybe instead of running endless puff pieces for this individual the media might do their job and press him about the blatant lies he told in the run up to last years referendum defeats! Also his repeated lies claiming his department didn’t send out invitations to Ireland in multiple languages promising ‘own door accommodation’. Why does our useless, cowardly media continue to give this spoofer an easy ride!
@Jonn: Glad I’m not the only one that realises the media in this is an utter joke and a complete waste of space.
Useless, the whole lot of them..you get ahead in Irish media by having the same set of approved opinions on every subject as everybody else! You’d wonder why they even bother because all they get is dogs abuse for their lies and seemingly the money isn’t even that good anymore, unless you’re in the marble hallways of RTE!
Him and his co##upt party are beneath contemt
What a load of bull even one is one too much
My my the poor man is delusional
Delusional as always….
Delusional
Soare a thought for poor Crocodiles, they also have to live in De Nile.
Huge amounts of deliberate mis-information in here!
@Chutes: nonsense there’s not
@James Casey: yes there is
I don’t know what that guy is smoking, but it just better be smokeless lol.
There are politicians who are bad for Ireland and it’s people.. Then there is Roderic who is in a class of his own . Is mission was not to look after the people of Ireland but to encourage every Tom dick and Harry to arrive here . He is probably the most unliked and worse politician that Ireland has ever had. The Green Party care nothing for Ireland and its environment. Dublin bay is still as polluted as ever..we import peat and turf from Germany and Holland . 70% of our veg comes from the UK including the so called Irish staple, the potato.
The greens gave us woke..
You on drugs Roddy?
Same fella invites the dregs of every country in the world to come and take the social houses , social welfare and children allowance and ruined this country for ever , good riddance to the greens c un ts
O’Gormless should seek help. His time in office has left him deluded.
I’d like to see what they are going to do about this;
https://greenlens.ie/2025/01/10/industrial-farming-an-environmental-crisis-in-ireland/
have your say