Comments on: The ghosts of Ard Fheiseanna past http://www.irishelection.com/2006/11/the-ghosts-of-ard-fheiseanna-past/ Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:43:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: mollie malone http://www.irishelection.com/2006/11/the-ghosts-of-ard-fheiseanna-past/comment-page-1/#comment-4466 mollie malone Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:36:15 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/11/the-ghosts-of-ard-fheiseanna-past/#comment-4466 your secret is safe with us ciaran now come on and get going about grants and how crooked we are as a nation youll feel a lot better by spitting it out .... your secret is safe with us ciaran
now come on and get going about grants and how crooked we are as a nation
youll feel a lot better by spitting it out ….

]]> By: Ciaran Parker http://www.irishelection.com/2006/11/the-ghosts-of-ard-fheiseanna-past/comment-page-1/#comment-4461 Ciaran Parker Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:06:24 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/11/the-ghosts-of-ard-fheiseanna-past/#comment-4461 Can I share a secret with "Mollie" and the electronic gate post? Even when I was a member of Fianna Fail I never (I swear) voted for them. I recall one European election when the FF candidates were egregious gangsters. I voted no 1 Michael D. Higgins. My late sister Anita (Bunny) was a "companion voter" employed by Fianna Fail. You know the set-up; a person who was infirm or maybe blind asked for assistance in casting their vote. Rather than having an independent person assigned to help them the political parties volunteered members to "assist". This was a situation that was patently open to abuse. My sister would always vote as the person she was helping wished. Whenever someone did not express a preference as to how they wanted to vote - a good way for the Party to mop a few literally undecided voters - she would vote for Michael D. Higgins on their behalf. Commentators here in Cavan were amazed at the surge in the Labour vote here. Alas poor Bunny was gone for the next European elections. Mollie also talks about grants - don't get me going on that subject! Can I share a secret with “Mollie” and the electronic gate post? Even when I was a member of Fianna Fail I never (I swear) voted for them. I recall one European election when the FF candidates were egregious gangsters. I voted no 1 Michael D. Higgins. My late sister Anita (Bunny) was a “companion voter” employed by Fianna Fail. You know the set-up; a person who was infirm or maybe blind asked for assistance in casting their vote. Rather than having an independent person assigned to help them the political parties volunteered members to “assist”. This was a situation that was patently open to abuse. My sister would always vote as the person she was helping wished. Whenever someone did not express a preference as to how they wanted to vote – a good way for the Party to mop a few literally undecided voters – she would vote for Michael D. Higgins on their behalf. Commentators here in Cavan were amazed at the surge in the Labour vote here. Alas poor Bunny was gone for the next European elections.

Mollie also talks about grants – don’t get me going on that subject!

]]> By: mollie malone http://www.irishelection.com/2006/11/the-ghosts-of-ard-fheiseanna-past/comment-page-1/#comment-4386 mollie malone Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:38:38 +0000 http://www.irishelection.com/11/the-ghosts-of-ard-fheiseanna-past/#comment-4386 I remember picketing an ard fheis of fianna fail way back and what really floored me was the numbers -thousands of people went in the doors of the rds -the great and the good !!! but lots of old men from rural ireland too -it was an amazing sight- small farmers they looked like the didnt have a shilling but yet this party was attractive to the biggest developers in the land -amazing stuff the old fianna fail trick of throwing benefits to anyone who can catch them and looking after the others too the farce of student grants to people from big farms when everyone knew they didnt deserve or need them... all things to all people kind of thing -full of crap- you just knew they would sell their mother down the river ...i never believed they planned anything - all on the hoof- never gave them a fifteenth preference - i glory in that fact I remember picketing an ard fheis of fianna fail way back and what really floored me was the numbers -thousands of people went in the doors of the rds -the great and the good !!! but lots of old men from rural ireland too -it was an amazing sight- small farmers they looked like the didnt have a shilling but yet this party was attractive to the biggest developers in the land -amazing stuff
the old fianna fail trick of throwing benefits to anyone who can catch them and looking after the others too the farce of student grants to people from big farms when everyone knew they didnt deserve or need them… all things to all people kind of thing -full of crap-
you just knew they would sell their mother down the river …i never believed they planned anything – all on the hoof- never gave them a fifteenth preference – i glory in that fact

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