Fine Gael Seanad candidate John McNulty resigns from the board of IMMA.
Mr McNulty runs a Mace store in Stranorlar and has managed two football teams in Kilcar.
He’s hiring.
He’s also looking forward to his election campaign.
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so are they still going to use that as his qualification for the Seanad canditure, its right there on the form https:// pbs.twimg.com/ media/ ByYQAToIMAAD-mG .png
So he is standing down on that basis alone… yeah right.
That’s what makes it so irritating. Its policy that he has to as he is now contesting for a Seanad seat, so he just used the IMMA as a springboard. But he references the IMMA job as a reason for candidature for the Seanad seat.
In fairness, he’s contributed a lot to the IMMA board in the 12 seconds he was there.
Anyone know if he even attended a meeting before resigning the position?!
he was appointed to the board on Friday 12th of September I spoke to company secretary yesterday who said he hadn’t been to a board meeting, so unless he was today then no.
“A safe pair of hands”
FFS, even if he did, he would be turning up to resign the same day he was due to start properly.
How is this not cronyism? Come on FG, don’t piss on our backs and tell its raining.
Same with the way he’s such a great “business leader” by owning a petrol station.
He did powerful work while on the board, sure IMMA would probably no longer be with us if it wasn’t for his tireless efforts.
He didn’t make a single bad decision once appointed!
Regardless of his Seanad candidacy, why the hell was he appointed to the board of IMMA? What exactly would he bring? I kept seeing that he was a big supporter of the GAA in Donegal. What the flup does that have to do with modern art? Does he have an interest in modern art? Or art, for that matter.
Ignore this, I see it was just to get him into the Seanad. Urgh.
he was apparently a member of IMMA and had been to it in DUblin a number of times , according to sources close to him via Barry Whyte Highland Radio.
Interested to know the date he became a member of IMMA and did he pay the membership fee?
http://www.imma.ie/en/subnav_34.htm
50 is quite alot
there are 551 member in total (I asked IMMA), so you can figure your chances for becoming a member of the board.
415 IMMA Member – Individual €50
78 IMMA Concession – Individual €30
26 IMMA Family €100
18 IMMA Supporter €150
10 IMMA Benefactor €350
4 IMMA Gold Benefactor €500
551
ehhh……..
You’d wanna watch yer Ma with Mani about !
This is disgusting. I have a friend who has done a ton of unpaid work in this area over several years. If anyone deserved to be appointed to the board of IMMA, he did. FG make me sick. At least with FF, what you see is what you get – corruption and cronyism. This shower promised change and accountability but they’ve turned out to be every bit as bad.
“every bit as bad”
I’m not convinced.
FG always do the cleanup work after an FF long haul in government, it’s almost routine. Yes, FG too do some dodgy sh*t but they’re nowhere near the levels of FF as they’ve never been in govt long enough to do so.
That’s hardly a glowing endorsement..
It’s not meant as one :)
Just saying FG would have a lot of work to do to reach FF standards of corruption. I also imply that if FG were in for longer they may be as bad…. who knows.
+1
this is not clean up stuff. This is FG stuff. Shatter was in gov for 3 years and refused to do anything about the police corruption in that time.
Yep, know a few also in this area too and that really angers me; the disregard for ability, competence and experience and blatant abuse of public appointment standards. They’ll still hire full-time Arts Co-ordinators on Job Bridge of course.
You could look at this as a work of art.
Like a performance piece…I like how your mind works..
Its all a piece of conceptual art. John Mc Nulty is shining a light on contemporary Irish politics in way no artist has done since W.B Yeats. Some people just don’t get modern art I guess. John Mc Nulty for next years Turner Prize-shoo-in.
…did he draw any expenses from IMMA?
no only the chair gets a payment to be on the board, the board members do get travel etc expenses but if never went to board meeting? then no
…thanks steve…you seem to have a bit of an inside track here so I’m willing to have a small wager that an expenses claim is winging it’s way to IMMA as we speak….and maybe what the CoCouncillors call ‘disappointment money’.
I must stop listening to the news for a few days. It makes me want to emigrate. But that’s what they want, the f*ckers. We have to collectively dig our heels in and root out the dross from political life.
Can you imagine his input into choosing exhibitions and artists to show.
I bet he has generic printed orange canvases all over his wine coloured walls, interspersed with pine and glass doors with wrought iron handles. Not to mention the unnecessarily winding driveway of broken hard core, not yet finished with tarmac, leading from two pillars holding plaster eagles.
You forgot the framed doggies playing snooker in your snob snag list
Ah I dunno if he’s as modern as all that! He is from Donegal after all!
Nice ‘patterns’ and three brass ducks flying along the wall.
This is beyond shoddy.
It displays the utter contempt the political system has for the electorate.
I thought he could have added a lot to IMMA with his business background. They could have put in a Spar and maybe an area to inflate your tyres. Probably won’t happen now, shame.
The Gilbert & George Sh*t Piss car wash retrospective would have got him going.
How will they cope….
Fine Gael are going down.
Hurray for Irish Politics!
Corrupt as ever
Only long term members of the Irish “Arts Elite” should be on a museum board. If anyone outside of this circle is appointed it’s clearly cronyism. The IMMA can do what it likes with taxpayer funds and butt out of our business!!
let me fix that for you “Only long term members of the Irish “Arts Elite”” [and people who won’t have to resign because they are being elected to the Seanad) should be on a museum board.