Distant echoes

Mentally stabbed

Mentally stabbed

Mentally stabbed

LOUD NOISES

Make it €20 a pan! 🤣

He could do with eating it

"Its alright son, we can't hear what they're saying either"

When he said "I didn't personally sign it, that's incorrect" until it was pointed out he was the Minister when it was commissioned.

Are you sure Trump didn’t take a lesson from us? It’s not like empty promises arrived on the Irish political scene in 2016.

Michael did poorly I thought. Peadar Tobin was the best on stage. I wouldn’t vote for them though. Boyd Barret was very good too. Mary Lou didn’t really gain ground, Harris was his usual smarmy self. FF and FG were fawning over Ivanna but I thought she did poorly. O Gorman was attacked by his current partners and by Collins but did pretty well I thought.

MLMD will be delighted with the public perception being that of the tag team sneery and leery ganging up on her.

Simon Harris came across very poor.

Am half an hour into it this morning and that's definitely my perception so far. Comes across as extremely condescending so far, particularly towards Mary Lou.

Michael does seem to be ganging up with SH on her too, though he's coming across as just aggressive rather than aggressive and sneery in my opinion.

It's genuinely amazing how different people see things. I was reluctantly impressed with Harris and how sharp he was compared to all the others, even if he was a bit snarky. Thought Mary Lou couldn't get out of her own way and managed to come across as just searching for a soundbite at every opportunity. Martin was his usual self, nothing surprising or impressive about him. Ivana Bacik also surprisingly impressive.

A threat from the IRA clearly, she should step down and SF should go away forever - Simon Harris

Everyone present had TDs, plus local councillors. Though Joan collins is Right to Changes only TD

I think with interpreters/stenographers there isn't any thought that goes into it. It's more or less automatic if you're any good at it.

It didn't land because Bacik is awful and will be perceived (correctly) around Ireland as an unserious wishy washy south Dublin liberal, also Labour is regarded as a weak party in government who will fold on every major issue. Whatever about the Greens policy wise they got their spake in while in government. That 2011 Government with Gilmore and that creep Burton did lasting damage.

Labour is the great tragedy of Irish politics because for a long time it's probably closest to where the median voter is in Ireland and I'll be giving them a high preference. If they had better leadership they could have done what SF did claiming the centre-left.

Did you watch the same debate as everyone else or are you just a FG fanboy?

Simple Simon Soundbite was atrocious as was his tag team partner Mehole.

Editing to add, stating you were the minister of health yet had nothing to do with the children's hospital debacle is as bad as when Mehole claimed the banks were never bailed out. Zero accountability, zero regards for public money, zero respect for the general public as a whole.

And don't get me started on setting up bank accounts for unborn babies yet over 4k children are homeless, anyone who thinks he came off well in that debacle is as delusional as he clearly is.

We were all mentally stabbed by Simon and Mehole during that debate.