Leading GAA figure possible FF runner in bye election?

[Supermanpolitician]

Shouldn't this type of bollox candidacy have been buried with George Lee. At least FG had the good grace to bring a person who was on top of his portfolio.

FF threaten to bring 'celebrity' candidates who played football or hurling.

In fairness SF, SF, FG and Labour all canvassed Sean Og oHalpin to run in 2007. He had the good sense to reject all offers.

[NewGoldDream]

It will all end in tears.

I'm trying to think of a successful parachute/celeb candidate. The obvious one is Martin Bell in the UK, but trying to think of one here.

[Pat Mc Larnon]

In fairness SF, SF, FG and Labour all canvassed Sean Og oHalpin to run in 2007. He had the good sense to reject all offers.

Fg and Labour may have but SF definitely didn't, though it was reported in the Indo at the time.

[James Healy]

For Christ's sake give over about GAA players. I know Cowen is a GAA fan but there is a limit. What have some of those players to offer politics. Was therte not a Dempsey guy from Wexford Hurling who stood before and left, so too did John Donnellan of Galway who won 3 in a row with Galway. Jack Lynch was enough, he was a decent man but a laissez faire one as he showed in Arms affair,m and the scandal of the 1977 giveaway manifesto.

[NewGoldDream]

Sean Kelly, former GAA president and MEP.

[Pat Mc Larnon]

For Christ's sake give over about GAA players. I know Cowen is a GAA fan but there is a limit. What have some of those players to offer politics. Was therte not a Dempsey guy from Wexford Hurling who stood before and left, so too did John Donnellan of Galway who won 3 in a row with Galway. Jack Lynch was enough, he was a decent man but a laissez faire one as he showed in Arms affair,m and the scandal of the 1977 giveaway manifesto.

It is impossible to give over about GAA players when the thread is about a political party trying to head hunt ex GAA players as 'celebrity' candidates.

[Eurocitizen]

I think that no evidence has been provided here that FF are headhunting a GAA player and once again the candidate for the by election will be a female .

[devnull]

It will all end in tears.

I'm trying to think of a successful parachute/celeb candidate. The obvious one is Martin Bell in the UK, but trying to think of one here.

Alan Dukes and Mary McAleese.

Edit: Though neither is a clean example.
Dukes failed to get elected when first parachuted and McAleese did have a long-forgotten electoral history.

[ManfredJudge]

Alan Dukes and Mary McAleese.

Edit: Though neither is a clean example.
Dukes failed to get elected when first parachuted and McAleese did have a long-forgotten electoral history.

Justin Keating? He was a Jacob's Award winner as a broadcaster in 1966 and elected to the Dáil in 1969.

[Ah Well]

Regardless of who this eventual FF runner will be ...

Are they running on a ye know me cher I'm yer man/woman and I'm famous nod nod wink wink thumbs up kind of ticket

Or have they suitable qualifications and/or experience that might actually be of use and value to their Constituents and the country as a whole? As in political grounding knowledge, administration, economics and plenty more besides

Or is it more of the same gombeenry ............ yet again

Commissioner Emily O'Reilly really did hit the nail on the head when she said recently "I will submit that the economic and political crises that face this country will never be dealt with unless the culture and values of the political and administrative classes undergo profound change"