Local Man Not Local

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 James Geoghegan (centre) flanked by Simon Harris  and Frances Fitzgerald in Ranelagh village

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38 thoughts on “Local Man Not Local

  1. Rob_G

    He’s a dose, but the fact that someone is trying to make political hay over the fact that he now lives (I presume) a few miles outside this constituency illustrates everything that is wrong with Irish politics.

    1. curmudgeon

      Gonna hard disagree with you on that one Rob and yet we usually see eye to eye. Calling out politicians caught lying to the electorate is in all our best interests.

      1. Rob_G

        Where is he lying? He was asked if he lived in Ranelagh, and he said he didn’t any more.

        This gombeenism about ‘blow ins’ and ‘parachute candidates’ when someone lives even 100m over the constituency boundary is why we end up with TDs doing the work of local councillors.

          1. Rob_G

            I think his children are older than 3 & 1 years of age too at this stage – I can’t believe the national press is not running with this bombshell.

        1. GiggidyGoo

          Was he lying with what he posted in the twitter comments above? ‘I was out canvassing my home area of Ranelagh…’

          1. Rob_G

            If he now live in Cobh or Claremorris or similar – yes.

            If he now lives somewhere else in in the southside of Dublin – no.

          2. Cian

            I would sometimes refer to the place I grew up as “my home area” (or similar). I don’t have a problem with that kind of usage. e.g. a lot of people would say “I’m going home for Christmas” to mean their parent’s home (aka their childhood home).

            I do have a problem that his website explicitly said he lived in Ranalgh, which is a lie.

          3. GiggidyGoo

            @Cian. People that I know of who have settled in the town I live in, but go back to the area they were brought up in would say that they’re going to [town/county/country] for Christmas or whatever. I’ve never heard them refer to going back ‘to my home…’ [town/county/country]. e.g. Someone would say – I’m going up to Galway for Christmas – not ‘up to my home area of Galway’

            The only difference would be a single person (student or the like) who does actually go home.

          4. Bitnboxy

            I can’t help but think this is much a-do about nothing – he is likely a hop, skip and jump from DBS probably near Boxy in DLR (which by the way is teeming with clutchies-gone-native – the famed Dalkey hurling Mom is a real thing -lol). Do the Shinnerbots realise that all this malarkey is keeping his name in lights? BTW, Ivana Bacik, a native of Waterford, ives in Dublin 8 so perhaps she too is not a DBS resident (although Portobello proper is within DBS boundaries). She would have my vote were I in DBS.

            There is one thing about Geoghegan that makes my skin crawl, namely the fact that none other than weasely runt Barry Walsh (memba him) had a letter published in yesterday’s IT taking Harry McGee to task for having the temerity to suggest FG might have a bit of trouble in the DBS bye-election. Like a bad smell, is FG rehabilitating this troll?

    2. GiggidyGoo

      Wouldn’t it be great if he was registered to vote in both constituencies, and did so?

      1. Rob_G

        Giggidy, are you getting yourself upset over things that have only happened in your feverish imagination again?

        1. GiggidyGoo

          Naw, just asking the question
          You’re very upset yourself though over things that have happened, which you’re in denial of.

      2. Daisy Chainsaw

        You can register in every constituency in the country. It’s only illegal to vote more than once.

        1. Cian

          Are you sure?

          The Electoral Act (1992) says you need to be “ordinarily resident” to be registered.

          8.—(1) A person shall be entitled to be registered as a Dáil elector in a constituency if he has reached the age of eighteen years and he was, on the qualifying date—
          (a) a citizen of Ireland, and
          (b) ordinarily resident in that constituency.

          and also
          11.—(1) (a) A person shall not be registered as an elector more than once in any registration area nor in more than one such area.

          1. Daisy Chainsaw

            Yup. I know people who fought in court to register both at their home address and where they were in college. I was dual registered in Dublin and Wexford when I lived in Dublin.

  2. Johnny

    Oh he’s not first chap lie about living in Ranelagh,tells you all you need know about his character.

  3. RT

    FG candidate for DBS, along with a FG Minister & MEP, ignores beggar in background to get a photo opp in country’s wealthiest constituency…..

  4. eamonn

    Is he in good company with his untruths ?
    If a person tells porkies the first time you meet them, they are kind of warning you, are they not.
    My mum used to say, ” show me your friends and I will tell you what you are”
    It is up to the electorate to decide whether it matters or not. Not my constituency.
    A barometer moment perhaps.

  5. John

    He’s not the only politician in the Dail who doesn’t live in the constituency he represents.

      1. Rosette of Sirius

        I seem to remember some politician from Belfast doing something similar one. Can’t quite place him tho… think he sported a beard…

  6. goldenbrown

    ah leave the chap alone

    I’m sure he just “misspoke” lol

    the bigger joke however is that his breeding line ensures that he could get caught beating up small children livestreamed and he’d still get elected for that particular constituency

    my money says anyone expecting a surprise result here is gonna be very disappointed

  7. Broadbag

    Sure isn’t that what you do during an election as one of the great charlatans once admitted. There’ll be bigger fish to fry than this hopefully, slim pickings.

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