‘Voice for generation locked out of housing market’ Fine Gael candidate lives in €730,000 house in different constituency
https://t.co/IteQ830fGX— Philip Ryan (@Philip_Ryan) May 27, 2021
This afternoon.
He wanted to be the ‘voice for the generation locked out of the housing market’.
How’s that going?
Via Irish Independent.ie:
…the Price Property Register shows the Fine Gael barrister and his wife bought a house three years ago in Clonskeagh in South County Dublin for €730,000.
House prices in Dublin have risen 2.8pc in the last year with the median price in the capital now standing at €390,000 and rising to €540,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.
While he is running to be elected in Dublin Bay South, Mr Geoghegan’s home in the neighbouring Dublin Rathdown constituency.
‘Voice for generation locked out of housing market’ Fine Gael candidate lives in €730,000 house in different constituency (Independent.ie)
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Lovely. Just what we need
lol
he’ll get voted in with some margin to spare so
Heehee. My first thoughts exactly! I wonder if the Clonskeagh residence was his first purchase? Still, he is a good catch. Lol.
I don’t really think this will do him any damage in DBS (although he is not entirely a shoo-in). It’s mostly an older electorate and his credentials will go down well bar certain areas of Ringsend and Irishtown and most of these folks would not have voted for him anyway. The more candidates on the ballot the better for Geoghegan. A sea of lefties is to his advantage.
Still, unpleasant reading for struggling first time buyers, who at best can aspire to a flung-up soulless semi-D tacked onto the edge of a commuter town.
yup
in that particular zone
(unless he gets notions about installing a halting site)
the breeding will get him over the line
nothing else really matters
the inverted begrudgery of new Ireland
a smack head gifted a home courtesy of the tax payer via Peter McVerry is a great fella
a person paying their way housing themselves is a figure of hate
marvelous marxism
I think the point here is that he probably doesn’t really understand the people he’s claiming to be “the voice” of as well as another candidate might.
Ah he can though!
A 730k budget isn’t going to buy anything in Ranelagh so he had to go to Clonskeagh. Imagine Jaysus. The shame of it.
He’s lucky he didn’t have to cross the river. heaven forbid.
He’s definitely going to be able to identify with the poor members of his constituency. Being forced out of Ranelagh. We are all victims of the property market inflation.
lol.
we wouldn’t have him cross the river
We should buy him a speedboat.
He’ll find a cliff to sail over.
I’m so tired of these clowns.
They have no grip on the masterwheel.
Not the point. He’s no clue what it’s like to work a responsible median wage job and have no access to decent shelter.
This is true of the vast majority of people elected to the Dáil currently, including (even especially) PBP (for example) so not sure what your point is, tbh.
So ,can he do his job thats what matters not his house
If you live,work,play and say raise your family,packed or jammed into a terrace house but on a tree lined historic street in Rathgar,your just different from someone who chose to live BIG in the ‘burbs,
How can you possibly pretend represent something,urban living which is so diametrically different than how you live your own life?
Parts of Clonskeagh are in Dublin Bay South. So he must be close enough…
He’s in Dublin Rathdown constituency though. :-)
Does anyone know if Mary Lou lives in her Dublin Central constituency?
…still struggling to comprehend how he mixed up a suburban soulless kip,overrun with broke students,oh and a mosque with one the most desirable address in Ireland.
What’s the limit we’d allow him, a house worth 200k? 400k? Or does he have to reside in a squat to be able to have an opinion? Health minister should be sick, minister for finance should be broke, minister for foreign affairs can’t have left the country… it’s a great way to build a cabinet.
btw I think he’s a plonker and won’t deliver anything if elected, just like the rest, but this argument is pretty stupid.
He does not have to “reside in a squat to be able to have an opinion”.
But he can’t claim to be a voice of the people locked out of the property market any more than Healy Rae can claim to be a voice of young tech company workers or Varadkar can claim to be a voice of Gaeltacht communities.
regardless of where he lives and the value of his gaff, how can a FG candidate claim with a straight face to be the ‘Voice for generation locked out of housing market’ when FG have been in govt for the last 9 years?!
to quote the corrupt governor in “O Brother where art thou”
“How we gonna run reform? We’re the incumbent!”
This argument is not so stupid. His compass will be set towards capital and business like the rest in FG.. He will have no understanding of the struggling classes who cannot save a deposit for a home because they are being charged throughout nose for rent. In the same way Leo had no understanding of those on welfare with his cheats campaign
No better insurgent. He’s just trying to take ’em down from the inside, ya know? Real double-agent stuff. If you can’t trust a smug WASPy millionaire to champion the interests of the common man then I don’t know who you can trust
A three bed house would cost more than €740k in most parts of his constituency. This isn’t news. If anything it shows you can’t buy where you are from which people complain about so it will probably endear him to the Sandymount kiddos.
For the record, I think he is a complete twat coming from a long line of Judges and former TDs which is exactly what we need more of in the Dail.
They couldn’t have picked a better candidate for the other parties to tear strips out of.
The founder of the anti-abortion Renua party now claims he led the Repeal campaign.
The DBS constituency had the highest YES vote in the country. Coincidence?
Not to mention weasely runt Barry Walsh of “you women are all bee-atches fame” had a letter in the Irish Times reminding Harry McGee that James Geoghegan is the actual favourite to win. Harry had the brass neck to suggest it might be a struggle for FG to retain the seat.
I’m tempted to set up a brand new one-policy party.
Our goal would be to decimalise the week and make it 10 days instead of 7.
The benefits are enormous.
:
– There would only be 36½ weeks per year instead of 52¼
– The weekend would be 5 days long..
– Nobody would notice.
And also, I wouldn’t look as ridiculous as this clown.
I believe in Boomerangs.
You can’t just throw them around will-nilly and not expect them to hit you in the back of the head eventually..
It’s science.
You can count on my vote. I do love a good gimmick.
Stop it.
You’re getting Bertie excited.
Nobody should do that.
I think the word we’re all searching for is ”disconnected”.
When your ‘representative’ is this good at his best, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
I have no problem with the guy being wealthy. Fair play to him.
However, he tried to frame himself as the ‘voice for the generation locked out of the housing market’. Despite being nowhere near the typical situation, young first-time buyer is in. For a party that is so concerned with media and narrative presentation, optics and to be honest, pure spin. The fine Gael press and PR department really dropped the ball on this one.
It’s a reminder of how out of touch these people can be.
Touch of the Eoin McLove smile about him… he’ll be a hit…
TD Pepsi Ryan
Dublin is incredibly territorial.
What sort of house he lives in is nobody’s business but the fact he doesn’t live in the constituency he proposes to represent is an electoral fail. Caring about suburbs and constituents several kilometres away cannot be faked.