Embittered McDowell gives bitter interview about FG

[blackpitts]

IMO very unlikely that he will join any party/ found a new one. I think he's content to make his millions at the bar and occasionally surface to make statements like this.

I agree that it's very unlikely that he'll join any party (they won't have him) or found a new one (no one else would join) but I think you underestimate his ego and his arrogance. IMO if he thought he could, he would.

[hiding behind a poster]

You didn't.

I only introduced Creighton to make the point that for all of FG's disdain for McDowell, the party seems to have picked a candidate who embodies many of the man's downsides but not much of his lauded brain power.

By downsides, I mean rich parents paving the way to the Bar, a sense of entitlement, a bit of an annoying public persona, and a fondness for attacking the personalities on the other side rather than engaging with the argument (ref: Lisbon "debate")

This isn't a thread about Creighton and I don't want to turn it into one. I just think it's ironic that while FGers can rightly identify McDowell's limitations (both as a serving TD/Minister and a DSE candidate), to the extent of gleefully reflecting on his downfall, Lucinda Creighton doesn't seem to strike them as having been cast from the same mould.

But as you said yourself, this isn't a thread about Creighton. The fact that I have a particular (low) opinion of McDowell doesn't mean that I have either a similar or a different opinion of Creighton. The two opinions are unconnected.

[FutureTaoiseach]

Tell the elites to pronounce her name properly. It's "Crayton".

[hiding behind a poster]

Tell the elites to pronounce her name properly. It's "Crayton".

Which elites are they this time?

[FutureTaoiseach]

Which elites are they this time?

Like Niamh Breathnach who pronounced it wrong (like Croydon) after her opposition to the female-quotas in FG came out and the former criticised her stance. Must be so annoying having your surname mispronounced to sound like a town in the former colonial-power (perhaps a cynical tactic by Labour to make FG seem more West-British). My sympathies.

[hiding behind a poster]

Like Niamh Breathnach who pronounced it wrong (like Croydon) after her opposition to the female-quotas in FG came out and the former criticised her stance.

What, so Niamh Breathnach is now one of the elites as well? God, its getting crowded in there.

Must be so annoying having your surname mispronounced to sound like a town in the former colonial-power (perhaps a cynical tactic by Labour to make FG seem more West-British).

Yes, that's doubtless what Labour are up to, FT. How dastardly of them.

(It really is hard to know where to begin, sometimes)

[Libero]

Fresh from the Labour Party dirty tricks department, here is that FG-English towns list in full

Richard Burton-upon-Trent
James Reigate
Simon Coventry
Michael Tring
Olwyn Enfield

... and Brian Hayes!

[borntorum]

Fresh from the Labour Party dirty tricks department, here is that FG-English towns list in full

Richard Burton-upon-Trent
James Reigate
Simon Coventry
Michael Tring
Olwyn Enfield

... and Brian Hayes!

Yeah, except Brian Hayes's case, he's such a West Brit, the town was named after him

[owedtojoy]

Yes, the Sunday Independent at an all time low (if that was possible) ... Johnny Ronan (who he?), a creature named Gilson, De Burgh's daughter, & Michael McDowell ... a bunch of has-beens, wannabees and boring old farts ( I don't mean McDowell). I don't think I'll be bothering much with it next sunday.

[Supermanpolitician]

Yes, the Sunday Independent at an all time low (if that was possible) ... Johnny Ronan (who he?), a creature named Gilson, De Burgh's daughter, & Michael McDowell ... a bunch of has-beens, wannabees and boring old farts ( I don't mean McDowell). I don't think I'll be bothering much with it next sunday.

Indeed. I think McDowell was just lonely for the media spotlight!

As for the others, mindless drivel is entertaining for some, but it ain't for me.