Well well well
SF TD hates rooral Ireland, the homeless and charities.
Very disappointing to see this sort of behaviour.
She wont be elected again if thereâs another election called. Her partner also allegedly has a very dubious past.
Would you think thereâs similar things as these to come out about our recently minted TDâs? Iâd really hope not.
The influx of new TDâs is a goldmine for journalists.
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They really didnât do their due diligence with her.
She didnt even campaign. She wasnt supposed to get elected.
The candidate in Limerick thinks the moon landings were faked.
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Iâm sure they did with all the rest though. We should be grand. This is a once off.
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She even looks like a cunt in that photo
Sheâs an anti vaxxer. Also theres a moon landing denier. And a candidate in galway east the brits could turn with a bottle of buckfast. 
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What a head banger.
No surprise the SF rural candidates are so wacky. These are the kind of people that have traditionally supported them in rural areas.
Yeah, there were specific places where seat gains were targeted and even expected, and others where they hoped to consolidate on previous election efforts and further enhance their constituency profile/support without necessarily winning a seat.
An example of the first bracket would be Paul Donnelly in Dublin West who had gone close before (not sure how they didnât manage to oust Joan Burton there in 2016; @Juhniallio mentioned a lazy ground game back then).
Claire Kerrane in Roscommon-Galway East would fit into the second bracket. 3,000 odd first preferences in her first go in 2016, building up her profile as a local councillor in the intervening period, working for party HQ in the DĂĄil etc etc. Theyâre usually good at a bit of the auld mentoring too. I know Matt Carthy worked a fair bit with them in that neck of the woods to organise the local base. Heâs originally from Roscommon and the constituency was part of his wider EU constituency. Similarly Michelle OâNeill was close to Michelle Farrell in Galway West.
But then there were the outliers, the constituencies where they didnât think they had a hope of winning a seat, barely had a local presence and where widely unknown candidates were swept up by the national SF surge. I think Violet Anne Wynne would benefit from some of the mentoring I referred to above. I see from her profile on the party website that sheâs served in the reserve defence forces so Dessie Ellis would be the ideal man to work with her.
She put up twenty posters to be fair
TFK exclusive confirmed
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Well if Aodhan and Ged can get just one more person, theyâll have 50% of the parliamentary party anyway 
If there was another election you couldnât even be confident either would hold their seats.
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Was the Richard Gere character âDeclan Mulqueenâ based on this bloke?
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Listening to Billy Hutchison on Dunphyâs podcast and he reckons NI isnât a failed state economically. He also reckons Ireland went bust because we were in the EU. He also called Sinn Fein insular. He was deadly serious. Imagine having to negotiate with this type of intellect.
Hutchinson is by no means the worst of them.
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