#GavinDuffy is a fox hunting lobbyist. If anything good is to come of his presidential bid let’s hope it’s a chance to raise awareness and finally ban this cruel and barbaric “sport” in Ireland #marian @MarianRTE https://t.co/6kw8RXa8hQ pic.twitter.com/OELnr2gggq
— Elpenor Dignam (@Elpenor_Dignam) July 29, 2018
Kills foxes too.
Tally oh.
Duffy says he would be a different president to Trump (RTÉ)
Gavin Duffy defends hunting role as he seeks presidential nomination (Irish Times)
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Gavin Duffy looks like he was born wearing make up.
He looks like the dastardly cad in a Jane Austen book.
You must be joking. Wickham was actually good looking.
I do apologise for slighting the handsome fictional character.
and so it begins…
Presidential elections tend to be a blood sport so tally ho!
the last one was good craic to be fair
It’s an exercise in deciding who is best at effective use of soft power with the worst making the most noise and the biggest mess.
I love a good dirty Presidetial race, the last one was fine entertainment from Sean Gallagher’s brown envelope to Dana claiming a puncture was an assassination attempt. Here’s hoping for more of the same.
Martin McGuinness’s reveal when he mentioned the word ‘envelope’ is probably the most gripping television I have ever watched.
It was Séan Gallagher who said “envelope”
He looks like sum’ting out’ve The Irish RM there
Looking ta move inta the big house
An’ Lord of the Manor it for himself
FS
Has he ever done as much as a day’s public service in his life?
Anyone?
If training FF/FG bogtrotters for public speaking is public service… then yes he has.
It looks like he’s antichoice too because Cora Sherlock is liking his posts.
ok
lemme reword it a bit
has he ever done a day’s public service that wasn’t motivated by self-interest?
have you frillyballs?
I entirely misread your question and had to go back over it again.
It was funnier the first time round.
Shur’ what’s that got ta’ do with you
Or anyone else?
I’m not asking for your vote
I’ve just come out’ve a savage weekend there ting
So while you’re up my a55 there would ya gimme a bitta’ve cleanse
Ta
“And for that reason, I’m out”
Really Elpenor? Because the link you give in your tweet mention nothing about fox hunting.
Here you go.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/gavin-duffy-defends-hunting-role-as-he-seeks-presidential-nomination-1.3580694
Actually that photo definitely suggests the confident and assured expression of a man who’s going to enjoy exercising the presidential prerogative of hunting his subjects for sport, as tradition demands.
I’ve never heard of the guy, but if his interview this morning was anything to go by he won’t be a candidate for very long….assuming he can get a nomination in the first place.
This is an ego trip.
One that’s going to be quite bruising, I think.
Are RISE still around?
Within seconds of starting the RTÉ interview he was already comparing the Northern Ireland vs Southern Ireland governance. Nothing to do with a presidency. The usual thinly veiled anti SF rhetoric. FFGer through and through. In the same business as Prone.
regarding your headline – i tried cuddling a fox and the little sod bit me, doctor thinks i now have rabies. thanks a bunch broadsheet, i won’t be taking cuddle advice from ye anytime soon.
He’s hunting a different cuddly creature. Photographed.
If you’re referring to the miggledy in the pic, they may look cuddly but they never shut up and they stink of piss something terrible
Its the silly season. Duffy wont get the votes to be nominated, and only SF will stand up to Higgins. Now, they really know bloodsports.
So who cares if he kills a few foxes or hares or whatever in his spare time. It’s not a criminal or civil offence.
It would definitely colour my opinion of someone, offence be damned.
And what happens if in his Presidential role he has to meet an animal rights group or such like? I’d send him along to the Peta lads just for badness.
“lads”?
Actually it looks like what happens when a Spandau Ballet tribute band ages very, very badly. To cut a long story short, Duffy has about as much chance of being nominated as Eamon Dunphy has of taking over the catering contract for the RTE canteen.
If the presidential election campaign gets boring we can switch over to talking about the referendum to drop or alter the ‘woman in the home’ clause in the constitution – or the dropping of the blasphemy prohibition in the constitution. I wonder which topic is likely to generate the intensest public emotions: a) the presidency, b) God or c) women in the home?
How about we chase this ninny with a bunch of foxhounds and see how he likes his final moments being full of anxiety and fear before being ripped apart alive.
May foxes piss on his grave.
‘Hunting Jacket-Guy: are ya Gavin that?’
Wha’how ya bhoyo Spag!!!
Great stuff
Gavin Duffy denies that stag hunting is a blood sport on the basis that, he claims very few stags were killed in the “sport”…but he also happens to support fox hunting which definitely does involves a lot of killing and cruelty.
What he fails to acknowledge though is that the whole purpose of carted stag hunting (banned in 2010 despite a massively funded PR campaign by pro-hunt groups) was to cause as much pain and distress to the stags as possible without killing them outright, thus maximizing the “thrill of the chase” for the hunters and hunt followers and ensuring that the same stags could be chased and traumatized again the following week or later in the season.
By the end of a hunt, a stag would have collapsed from exhaustion, its steaming tongue hanging out, its eyes bulging with terror; its whole body covered in cuts from brambles and barbed wire encountered during the chase.
Gavin Duffy may be a great businessman and engaging TV personality but his support for blood sports will not help him at all in his presidential bid.