Laois local elections 2009

[Lottie]

Will ya stop practically everything you have said to me on this thread.....has the .....im better of than you tone to it. especially the....why would you expect LCC to build you a house comment....did your own relations expect LCC to build houses for them....no they didnt...thet were handed to then on a plate....my family on the other hand have endured 11 years of living in a mobile home....thats caravan to you joe....7 or 8 years of absolute bliss....but then i losted my job....then the caravan[38 year old caravan] started to fall apart....then we...through letters only...put pressure on LCC to consider us for one of 3 empty houses in stradbally....only then to discover...through the freedom of information act....that Deegan was making sure we were never going to be housed....i didn't care much about his personal vendetta against me or my wife....but he was condemning my two kids, Mandy 9 and DJ 6 to atleast another 10 years in a caravan....that bud is a disgrace.....and that bud is why i will never stop until i bury him.

This is just heartbreaking. What have we come to? The criteria for public housing are well established. Civil Servants, as in County Council housing allocation people, are bound by the guidelines. They are public servants and are therefore answerable to us. If a citizen fulfills the criteria for public housing, then he is entitled to housing. If an elected Councillor interferes in this process, and by whatever means, secures a house for a less qualified applicant, well, this amounts to corruption. Any Civil Servant who colludes in this should be identified and prosecuted. We have tolerated too much for too long. Right behind you Kimble!

[youwinsomeyoulosesome]

Kimble - I see your point about the housing and the land. I do hope it works out for you.

Lottie - Do you think Grace will try again in 5 years? I think again then, the older councillors will not re-run which will give an opportunity for some younger blood to represent the people of Laois.

[Lottie]

Kimble - I see your point about the housing and the land. I do hope it works out for you.

Lottie - Do you think Grace will try again in 5 years? I think again then, the older councillors will not re-run which will give an opportunity for some younger blood to represent the people of Laois.

Frankly, I am in despair. We are now stuck with Cribben, Deegan, Mitchell, and Mulhall in Emo district. You could not design worse. Collectively appalling track record with self service to the fore. They say we get the politicians we deserve. God knows, we don't deserve this!

[reknaw]

Frankly, I am in despair. We are now stuck with Cribben, Deegan, Mitchell, and Mulhall in Emo district. You could not design worse. Collectively appalling track record with self service to the fore. They say we get the politicians we deserve. God knows, we don't deserve this!

You can't have your cake and eat it, Lottie. Or, to be more accurate, you can't turn up your nose at everything that does not conform to your Blueshirt prejudices and try to spoil everyone else's appetite and their willingness to depart from the usual diet.


There was a perfectly good candidate from Portarlington, a man with a proven track record of getting things done for the community, a respected member of a respectable family, and someone with a very pleasant manner.

I am referring to Aidan Mullins, and he came very close indeed to winning. Yet, throughout the campaign you badmouthed him on this site with a viciousness that Dr. Goebbels would have found questionable. All because Aidan is a member of Sinn Fein. At no stage, despite being exhorted to, did you provide a scintilla of evidence of the things that you claimed and implied, and which anyone who is interested can read by going back through your posts.

That makes you no better than the likes of Conor Quisling O'Brien, whose traitor carcass is now polluting the soil of Ireland rather than being buried in England, where his rancid heart always was.

How many times did you speak out all those years when Section 31 was in force and the media were required to prevent certain people having the say that is their democratic right? Or receiving the information and opinions that is part of their constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression? At the same time as exaggerated and garbled anti-Sinn Fein propaganda could be spewed out by everyone from that political whore Eoghan Harris to the Conrad Black apologist Ruth Diddly-Edwards and that walking faeces Hugh Leonard?

If I didn't know better, I'd blame your blinkered views on Section 31, but your prejudices certainly predated that shameful period in Irish history, and you were probably one of those who warmly applauded it.

Obviously, your selective judgementalism does not extend to the rabid and very much on-record anti-Semitism of your late party colleague, Oliver J. Flanagan. Or maybe you think it is all right to applaud the Nazis for persecuting the Jews Fine Gael TD Oliver J Flanagan - "routing the Jews out of the country" - Stormfront, but unacceptable for Irish people to resist foreign occupation troops on their own soil?

If you are not happy with Cribben, et. al., then stop moaning about them. Portarlington had its chance to put someone into office who would have made a difference, but your kind of negativity and the stupidity of those prepared to take any heed of you put paid to that.

Kimble is sometimes a bit OTT in his allegations about Deegan, but I'm prepared to wait with an open mind for him to back them up, and maybe he will. But you will never be able to do anything about Aidan Mullins and Sinn Fein other than fling your stinking seaneen mud.

[COLOR="Red"]In a democracy, people get the leaders they deserve - Mickey O'Velley, the Kerry political philosopher.[/COLOR]

[Lottie]

You can't have your cake and eat it, Lottie. Or, to be more accurate, you can't turn up your nose at everything that does not conform to your Blueshirt prejudices and try to spoil everyone else's appetite and their willingness to depart from the usual diet.


There was a perfectly good candidate from Portarlington, a man with a proven track record of getting things done for the community, a respected member of a respectable family, and someone with a very pleasant manner.

I am referring to Aidan Mullins, and he came very close indeed to winning. Yet, throughout the campaign you badmouthed him on this site with a viciousness that Dr. Goebbels would have found questionable. All because Aidan is a member of Sinn Fein. At no stage, despite being exhorted to, did you provide a scintilla of evidence of the things that you claimed and implied, and which anyone who is interested can read by going back through your posts.

That makes you no better than the likes of Conor Quisling O'Brien, whose traitor carcass is now polluting the soil of Ireland rather than being buried in England, where his rancid heart always was.

How many times did you speak out all those years when Section 31 was in force and the media were required to prevent certain people having the say that is their democratic right? Or receiving the information and opinions that is part of their constitutionally guaranteed freedom of expression? At the same time as exaggerated and garbled anti-Sinn Fein propaganda could be spewed out by everyone from that political whore Eoghan Harris to the Conrad Black apologist Ruth Diddly-Edwards and that walking faeces Hugh Leonard?

If I didn't know better, I'd blame your blinkered views on Section 31, but your prejudices certainly predated that shameful period in Irish history, and you were probably one of those who warmly applauded it.

Obviously, your selective judgementalism does not extend to the rabid and very much on-record anti-Semitism of your late party colleague, Oliver J. Flanagan. Or maybe you think it is all right to applaud the Nazis for persecuting the Jews Fine Gael TD Oliver J Flanagan - "routing the Jews out of the country" - Stormfront, but unacceptable for Irish people to resist foreign occupation troops on their own soil?

If you are not happy with Cribben, et. al., then stop moaning about them. Portarlington had its chance to put someone into office who would have made a difference, but your kind of negativity and the stupidity of those prepared to take any heed of you put paid to that.

Kimble is sometimes a bit OTT in his allegations about Deegan, but I'm prepared to wait with an open mind for him to back them up, and maybe he will. But you will never be able to do anything about Aidan Mullins and Sinn Fein other than fling your stinking seaneen mud.

[COLOR="Red"]In a democracy, people get the leaders they deserve - Mickey O'Velley, the Kerry political philosopher.[/COLOR]

My, my, Reknaw, such vitriol! A little exercise here......just read back your post. If you really want to know why Aidan Mullins was not elected, you need look no further. With friends like you he certainly did not need enemies.
Now, in the interest of accuracy, might I refer you back to my previous posts to which you seem to have added your own unique twist. At no stage did I ever slate Aidan Mullins, but rather, Sinn Fein. I consistently pointed to the fact that had he run as an Independent, he would have cruised home. Ask anyone in Port. and they will tell you the same. There is enormous respect for Aidan here, but not for Sinn Fein. Frankly, I agonised over my vote, as did so many others. The candidate selection was miserable, with Emerson and Mullins head and shoulders above the rest. Emerson got my vote because she is quality. Mullins did not and for one reason only, Sinn Fein.

[reknaw]

My, my, Reknaw, such vitriol! ... Emerson got my vote because she is quality. Mullins did not and for one reason only, Sinn Fein.

The vitriol was yours and it is disingenuous sophistry on your part to try and claim otherwise. Sinn Fein has elected members in the parliaments in Dublin and Belfast, and also in London if it wanted to take them. If you can ignore the skeletons in the cupboard of your Blueshirt cronies, then you should be able to judge Sinn Fein on its present-day policies and actions.

It is not as though you - or I - had so much time on this planet to look forward to that we can continue to live in the past, however we perceive it, and wait for some point in the future where closed minds like yours can open up enough to give credit to a man as manifestly decent and capable as Aidan Mullins and recognise his right to represent a political party that he, probably better educated than either of us, believes is the right one for our country and county.

That you think the hapless Emerson is "quality" shows how sound your judgement is. She is probably a decent enough person, but an inept fool who allied herself with an unfunny clown - Michael Boloney. Someone as incapable of even running a semi-effective campaign as she proved herself to be certainly would not have been able to get much done for the town. It is very presumptious on your part to speak on behalf of the people of Portarlington. Your view of Emerson is quite a distance from theirs, as they demonstrated at the polling booths.

Now spend the next five years moaning about the local representatives that you consider ineffectual, but you can only blame yourself and your prejudices.

[kimble]

The vitriol was yours and it is disingenuous sophistry on your part to try and claim otherwise. Sinn Fein has elected members in the parliaments in Dublin and Belfast, and also in London if it wanted to take them. If you can ignore the skeletons in the cupboard of your Blueshirt cronies, then you should be able to judge Sinn Fein on its present-day policies and actions.

It is not as though you - or I - had so much time on this planet to look forward to that we can continue to live in the past, however we perceive it, and wait for some point in the future where closed minds like yours can open up enough to give credit to a man as manifestly decent and capable as Aidan Mullins and recognise his right to represent a political party that he, probably better educated than either of us, believes is the right one for our country and county.

That you think the hapless Emerson is "quality" shows how sound your judgement is. She is probably a decent enough person, but an inept fool who allied herself with an unfunny clown - Michael Boloney. Someone as incapable of even running a semi-effective campaign as she proved herself to be certainly would not have been able to get much done for the town. It is very presumptious on your part to speak on behalf of the people of Portarlington. Your view of Emerson is quite a distance from theirs, as they demonstrated at the polling booths.

Now spend the next five years moaning about the local representatives that you consider ineffectual, but you can only blame yourself and your prejudices.

No offense REK, but the only reason Mullins was not elected was because of him been SF. simple as. If he was independent, FAG, FF, the looney party..he would of topped the poll.....no matter how hard SF try, no matter what good they do, no matter how great there candidates are....all the ordinary man on the street sees is there history.....Lump it or like it, they will always be seen to be involved with the IRA. Its not right....but thats the way it is. I believe that SF need wholesale changes....Get Adams, McGuinness and Ferris to resign...put people, people with a Clean track record in place, BECAUSE WHEN THE ORDINARY MAN ON THE STREET.....HEARS THOSE 3 NAMES...THEY AUTOMATICALLY THINK IRA, BOMBS, KNEECAPPINGS, IMITATION ECT ECT. its not right bud...but thats the way it is.....as i said in one of my videos...vote for the man not the party....if the people did this..then men, good men like Mullins who be elected....instead were stuck with wasters like Deegan Mitchell and Cribbib. Its a sad sad world we live in bud.

[Lottie]

My thoughts and prayers are with Kimble and his dearly loved Joan. Some things are bigger, right?

[kimble]

My thoughts and prayers are with Kimble and his dearly loved Joan. Some things are bigger, right?

Thank you Lottie, your an angel.

[Bystander]

I think it's time to wrap this thread up. Anyone agree?