Cllr. Michael Fahy to retain Council Seat despite Jail

[MarD]

Having been sentenced to 12 months for attempted theft and misappropriating Council funds Galway County Councillors unanimously accepted that his absence from local authority meetings was 'due to illness and his attendance in Dublin.'

Under the legislation if a councillor is absent from meetings for more than six months he/she is deemed to have resigned.

Fahy is detained in Castlerea Prison and is due out in January.

Are our expectations of public life so low that even representatives convicted of stealing from the public coffers are free to resume where they left off without censure. The 'Stroke' never even accepted his guilt.

[meriwether]

Having been sentenced to 12 months for attempted theft and misappropriating Council funds Galway County Councillors unanimously accepted that his absence from local authority meetings was 'due to illness and his attendance in Dublin.'

Under the legislation if a councillor is absent from meetings for more than six months he/she is deemed to have resigned.

Fahy is detained in Castlerea Prison and is due out in January.

Are our expectations of public life so low that even representatives convicted of stealing from the public coffers are free to resume where they left off without censure. The 'Stroke' never even accepted his guilt.

Oh man.

[Edo]

I assume he has resigned from FF alright?

Typical - couldn't be bringing disgrace on the party - the country and its citizens -well yis can all go.....................

on top of Bev and all that "morally certain" stuff going on in the castle - I honestly don't know how FFers can live with themselves - then again they have plenty of practice - Aiken, McEntee, Dev and Lemass must be rolling in their graves.

[NeilW]

It appears that all parties on Galway County Council supported this - I'm afraid you cant pin it on FF alone this time.

[The Earl of Desmond]

Well what else would you expect - he is in FF afterall - I mean if the likes of Burke, Lawlor, Haughey, Flynn, Cooper-Flynn face no action why would a mere councillor face any action?

He has more chance of being kicked out for bringing the party into disrepute by 'only' swindling such a small amount - he's a disgrace to the party.

[seanad voter]

Is it something in the Galway water ?

[stanley]

Looks like all the councillors are protecting their own interest but it could also be seen as defiance to the Court.
If they have a rule disbarring this convicted crook why is it not employed direct why ask his mates for permission.
BTW which FF'r has ever accepted guilt, they make the law its just they have not changed the appropiate ones yet.

[Stroke]

I took my p.ie user name from this guy.

Un-************************************g-believeable. Did no-one on GCC stand up and say that he should not have retained his seat? For the first time in my life I am embarrassed to be born and reared in Co Galway because of this.....

[Anorakphobia]

I feel a Junior Ministry coming on.

[Dr Jimbo]

I'm shocked, but not surprised, if that's possible. Has any politician ever resigned in this country?