James Geoghegan (centre) flanked by Simon Harris and Frances Fitzgerald in Ranelagh village
Fine Gael Dublin Bay South by-election candidate James Geoghegan hasn’t lived in the constituency for over three years.
But he keeps telling people he lives in Ranelagh. Fine Gael says he does too.
Why? pic.twitter.com/I1fQ631k1e
— The Ditch (@wereontheditch) May 26, 2021
This morning.
Interloper!
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
James himself is registered to vote in Ranelagh (even though he doesn’t live there) and had a day out at the Beechwood polling station with his family during the 2019 local elections.
He lives in a different constituency. pic.twitter.com/cPeSM5A3Ap
— The Ditch (@wereontheditch) May 26, 2021
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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.
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.
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.
The website was changed last night to remove the Ranelagh lie.
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.
sounds like there might be a market for that type of article.. whatever floats your boat
Was he lying with what he posted in the twitter comments above? ‘I was out canvassing my home area of Ranelagh…’
If he now live in Cobh or Claremorris or similar – yes.
If he now lives somewhere else in in the southside of Dublin – no.
I’ll get you a larger spade – or would you prefer a JCB?
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.
oh stop it,do you think he now lives in Ballsbridge,but calls Ranelagh home:)
@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.
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?
Wouldn’t it be great if he was registered to vote in both constituencies, and did so?
Giggidy, are you getting yourself upset over things that have only happened in your feverish imagination again?
Naw, just asking the question
You’re very upset yourself though over things that have happened, which you’re in denial of.
You can register in every constituency in the country. It’s only illegal to vote more than once.
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.
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.
did the win the case or was it dropped?
(Blue)Shirt straight out of the packaging. Has he no man-servant to iron it?
I came here to make the exact same comment. Are we the same person?
I am us too
Oh he’s not first chap lie about living in Ranelagh,tells you all you need know about his character.
FG candidate for DBS, along with a FG Minister & MEP, ignores beggar in background to get a photo opp in country’s wealthiest constituency…..
https://m.independent.ie/news/photoof-fine-gael-by-electioncandidate-and-a-person-who-appeared-to-be-begging-removed-from-twitter-as-it-gave-wrong-impressionof-party-40468332.html
Ahh it’s only a bit of lying, sure aren’t we all in this together.
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.
He’s not the only politician in the Dail who doesn’t live in the constituency he represents.
He’s not in the Dail though. He has the FG credentials though.
Not that unusual.
March 30 2015 03:22 PM
Sinn Féin has selected a surprise candidate to contest the Dublin Fingal constituency in the next General Election, in the shape of Crumlin woman and union official, Louise O’Reilly.
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/sf-parachute-in-candidate-from-crumlin-31105227.html
The problem is that James Geoghegan’s website said he was living in Ranalagh.
I seem to remember some politician from Belfast doing something similar one. Can’t quite place him tho… think he sported a beard…
The fellow whose voice never really matched his lip movements?
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
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.
Don’t forget the time Geoghegan, one of the founders of Renua, a party born solely from antichoice sentiment, celebrated Repeal! https://mobile.twitter.com/GeogheganCllr/status/1397136306417934339
So what?
Great, a new snout looking to get to the trough.