Caroline Simons own election workers did not vote for her: Tribune

[kerrynorth]

According to Justine McCarthy in the Tribune quoting an unnamed Libertas source (I wonder who that could be? ). Of course it is a very easy claim for anyone to make as it can never be proved one way or the other. It should also be noted though that she does somewhat delight in Libetas' demise.

One anonymous Libertas source has been quoted saying its Dublin candidate, the beatific anti-abortionist Caroline Simons, was so insufferable even her own campaign workers couldn't bring themselves to vote for her on polling day.

Justine McCarthy - "Last week was a week to be ashamed of being Irish... What weird, perverted people our fellow Europeans must think us"

[toxic avenger]

Oh dear. It's all rather unseemly, isn't it? Perhaps better for them that they were wiped out, the implosion thus immediate. McGuirk and Simons might want to consider adulthood soon...

[Defeated Romanticist]

Justine McCarthy is a spa.

[borntorum]

Justine McCarthy is a spa.

As is everybody else involved in this pathetic spat

[fergalr]

It's an excellent article.

Europe, we said, in all conscience (that terror-inducing Irish weapon) we cannot promise to save this treaty unless you guarantee the most valued core principles of our people. Right, said Europe, what are they? Neutrality and the abortion ban, we said. Europe kicked itself under the table, suppressed a chuckle and hatched a concordat.

If neutrality and the pseudo-abortion ban are our two most cherished positions I dread to think what might be the disposable ones. We don't even sufficiently care about either to discuss them from one end of a decade to the next. They are just there – like the midlands and men called Sean. What's to discuss? We have let the neutrality we hold so dear slide into a reflex cop-out inertia rather than hone it as the sort of muscular anti-war stance demonstrated by the Swedes, for instance. We don't like talking about it because of all the historical baggage that comes with it.

As for abortion? This is the apogee of our two-facedness. Nearly two decades ago, the Supreme Court delivered a celebrated judgment on abortion containing a rebuke of the legislature for its cowardice on the issue and still the legislative desert flourishes. Justice minister Dermot Ahern regards the passage of a blasphemy bill as a matter of urgency following a recent Supreme Court ruling but sees no need whatsoever to respond in kind to the X Case judgment. Twenty-six years ago, we passed a constitutional amendment on abortion that has proved to be a legal landmine and governments ever since have been trying to shore it up. The fact is that abortion is legal in Ireland under the X judgment and all the single European acts, Maastricht and Lisbon protocols in the world will not change that.

What weird, perverted people our fellow Europeans must think us when they see us coming, trumpeting our conscience and our anti-abortionism. Not to mention our hypocrisy. Are the Irish not the same people, they surely ask one another, who gave us the Ryan report about the sadistic brutalisation of born-children?

[Panopticon]

Of course, if some of her campaign workers are registered outside Dublin, it's a (near) certainty that they didn't vote for her. I know for a fact that much of the Dublin operation was "foreign labour" who were registered to vote at their homes outside Dublin.

[Ah Well]

According to Justine McCarthy in the Tribune quoting an unnamed Libertas source (I wonder who that could be? ). Of course it is a very easy claim for anyone to make as it can never be proved one way or the other. It should also be noted though that she does somewhat delight in Libetas' demise.

Justine McCarthy - "Last week was a week to be ashamed of being Irish... What weird, perverted people our fellow Europeans must think us"

That article -> pontificating rubbish

[Lefronde]

I saw Simons at the count in the RDS... insufferable would be an apt description.

[PhoenixIreland]

Brian Cowen and Micheál Martin pursued the politically advisable, pragmatic and expedient option last week when they browbeat the EU into granting Ireland certain guarantees to fireproof Lisbon Two. Even poor, beleaguered Gordon Brown caved in, knowing it was another of the thousand cuts that will kill him in the end. Last week was a week to be ashamed of being Irish. Not because, once again, we were screeching up to Europe's door with a begging bowl in one hand and a gun-to-the-head in the other. What was mortifying was our exhibition of ourselves as a shower of un-self-aware hypocrites.

I've never read her before, but she's clearly bat ******************** crazy.
I wonder if she actually believes any of this? She could give Fox News lessons on sucking the incumbent governments balls.

[lapsedmethodist]

I've never read her before, but she's clearly bat ******************** crazy.
I wonder if she actually believes any of this? She could give Fox News lessons on sucking the incumbent governments balls.

An example of two people giving details of a crash.

I read the article, and saw nothing at all remotely sucking about it.