A notice in today’s Irish Independent.
A spokesman for the group Eddie Farrell, who has campaigned on the development of wind farms and pylons, said people “could no longer depend on the current Government to sort these issues out”.
Mayo communities seek General Election Independent candidate (Sam Griffin, Independent.ie)
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…what are their views on fornication?
Hmm, “selecting” independent candidates seems to go against the spirit of the very independence they stand for.. Then again it is Mayo, and they always want jam on both sides.
Bizarre alright.
Inviting people to apply to be come ‘qualified’ candidates. What’s the qualification criteria? Where do you stand on X, Y, Z? Doesn’t this make you a party?
A strong history of inbreeding and a passion for representing and talking about ‘ROOOORDLE PAYPEL’ as though they were your very own lambs and sure they can’t understand what dey do be doin up der in dat Dublin and sher why cen’t Ballhaunis have an auld Luas too and wasn’t it de roordle paypel what med de country.
A Connaught Healy-Rae essentially.
I hope this is just satire of the “would-be” candidate this process would find, rather than what you think actual Mayo people are like.
It might be funny to people in Dublin, but public services in rural counties are, in fact, pretty scarce, and no expansion of them doesn’t exactly encourage people to move to the county or for business to grow.
You joke about wanting the Luas, which is fair enough, but we can’t even get the Western Corridor railroad reopened under a Mayo Taoiseach, not even simply for freight, despite Mayo being one of the main producers of freight traffic in Ireland.
We’re also having a number of our bus services slashed, which doesn’t just hurt “da roordle paypel”, it hurts Tourism. Tourism is something Mayo has been working very hard to develop in recent decades, in particularly the pushing of Westport as a major get away town/tourist destination. We need some kind of niche to fill and make our own, and again, if we don’t develop what we have, we’ll blow our chance at that. We’re just looking for some way to play an equal role in pulling this country forward.
I don’t want a “Connaught Healy-Rae” representing Mayo, but (if you are) don’t belittle rural people for wanting someone to speak for their issues, because otherwise we’ll never develop, and we’re stuck being “inbred roodal peypal”. If no investment ever comes our way, how are we supposed to be anything more than that caricature you’re painting of us?
You Sir are an idiot
I’m Alright Jack
Just heard them on the wireless
The Candidate Selection process was (IMO) interesting and unique. And probably exactly what Ireland needs right now, especially if we really want to see an end to the over and back over and back over and back from a FG coalition to an FF coalition. ( or, from one shower of grubby useless pigs to the other shower of grubby useless pigs)
A series of town halls where potential candidates put themselves up in front of the constituents, take questions etc.
Had to hop out of the car so I didnt get to hear the end if the segment. But I am assuming that each Townhall assembly then vote on their preferred Candidate. I imagine a debate format will also whittle down candidates. Eventually there will be one left standing.
Its a great idea afaic anyway. Genuine Grassroots Candidates. Exactly what every constituency needs to do.
A government made of up independent candidates would be a disaster. Everyone would be pulling for their own little parish with absolutely no national interest. Like Labour and FG, their national interest is how do we get all our TD’s elected again. What promises can we make to please most of the people some of the time.
How you fix that is with real local democracy – take the micro-management out of central government, bring governance closer to the people and have a national parliament that actually deals with, shock horror, national issues. It’s hard to parish pump when your parish is pumped from within your own parish, y’know?
Yes like that doesn’t happen at the moment
First time I’ve seen an actual job spec for being a TD. The main points are around ability to communicate.
Actual politics not mentioned.
“A spokesman for the group Eddie Farrell, who has campaigned on the development of wind farms and pylons” –
i would guess its campaigning against Wind Farms and Pylons –
That’s such a loopy position – “We want rural infrastructure and services! We don’t want the things that enable rural infrastructure and services!”
Ssshhh
Interesting the way it doesn’t mention any track record of public service in any field or an interest in contributing to some greater good. It is like the criteria for any politician really.
I’m okay with no track record of ‘public service’ – that usually translates to someone being a ‘full-time’ county councillor for twenty years or some shit.