Very funny and also he’s out 300k by selling them when he did
And so their downfall begins
Candidate selection is vital for small parties and is where they can often go wrong.
I worked for a US multinationals that supplied governments and militaries and got shares as part of my pay, so do tens of thousands of people in Ireland. Literally anyone working for a big multinational probably does.
That does not mean these people work directly with something like the Israelj military.
This whole story is ridiculous, the man got paid shares for his work, there is no evidence he worked with anything related to Israel, only that the company did.
Are we all expected to answer for the actions of our employers now?
Also he sold his shares when the price was rocketing and lost probably €300k in profit had he kept them and not sold. The way the price was going he had to know about the potential loss he was making but sold anyway.
It is clearly not good that he didn’t tell the truth on the declaration.
However, personally I would view people like this being involved in politics as a good thing. They are different compared with the stale older brigade in a lot of parties. I.e. relatively young working professional opting to run for the Dail)
The Soc Dems could be shooting themselves in the foot if they are overly harsh in terms of this. Could be off putting to other potential candidates. I would assume the fact that Palintir are linked to Israel is the major factor. They wouldn’t suspend him if he had sold shares in Google later than he said he did.
A friend of mine once attended a bat mitzvah. He’s worried about being unpersoned and social death. Does anyone know if they IPSC will come after him? He has a mortgage and two kids.
Asking for a friend.
Are they going to vet everyones pension fund who also invests in PLTR?
What does a TD suspension actually entail can anyone tell me?
Fair play SocDems for the swift response. He has the look of a sneaky fecker so will there be more I wonder
Who’s bothered? I don’t see what the huge issue is.
This must be some kind of a record as the shortest term as party TD ever
SocDems are a joke. Suspend Eoin but worship the likes of Catherine Murphy who objected to every housing development planned in Celbridge……what she was doing is much more damaging to this country than what Eoin did.
Oh man. Socdems not ready for government.
Hard to see how Soc dems could coexist with Sinn Fein in a government if they deal with this stuff so swiftly and transparently
The amount of people here either not getting, overlooking, or purposefully ignoring the issue is that he lied about it is pretty interesting.
What are the odds that those now saying it’s ridiculous they suspended him, would be castigating the Soc Dems as hypocrites if they hadn’t suspended him?
You mean the guy who’s campaign posters were stylised like Grand Theft Auto artwork wasn’t clean? Well i’m absolutely shocked.
“I’m also a chemical engineer by background and most recently did a lot of work in climate technology. Imo, climate change is still the most important challenge we are facing and we’re behind on the investments and transformations we need to halt it.”
And there goes Soc-Dem’s only meaningful connection to the private sector.
What a cock up by Hayes.
This country is hilarious. Fuck around with the planning system and brown envelopes for decades and they love you. Flog privately held shares you earned and they hang you.
A fucking storm in a tea cup that he somehow managed to give some credibility to.
This is ridiculous tbh. He fudged it by a month, so what? He was elected. Plenty of people in here are working with companies with ties to Israel, its not like they’re proud of it.
Is the issue that it was palantir or that he said the wrong date. Which is worse.
I don’t suppose there’s a weird things where the trade execute date and settle date crossed the month boundary is there?
Awful look for the Soc Dems though. Maybe they’ll scrap their CGT proposed raise now 😉
If he didn’t lie it’s a non story.
I feel completely out of the loop on this one despite reading the article and all the comments here a few times. Is the issue something legal or in some kind of breaking of Social Democrat rules? Had never even heard of Palantir before this article tbh
Wer hat uns verraten?
Sozialdemokraten!
When I first saw PLTR I thought he was a wall street bets autist like myself, I was disappointed to see they were just company shares.
As a constituent of his who gave him a high preference, I’m feeling a bit let down that I don’t seem to have had a way of knowing that he used to work for Palantir. The company has been among the most controversial in tech for several years. It would have been good to have an opportunity to reassure myself about his attitude to privacy, surveillance, data security and tooling up international bad actors when his campaign arrived at my doorstep.
Let he who hasn’t has 200 grand in shares cast the first stone. Champagne socialist indeed
I’m struggling to see the issue here. It says he sold them before entering politics and they were issued shares from working with them in the US years back. Do people expect him to give the money away or something.
He’s not going to resign his seat and there won’t be a by-election. This will be forgotten in a few eeeks and he’ll slowly go back into the Soc Dems
We need sanctions against Israel.
I don’t know if that would have helped, but jeez horrible.
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Seems a massive overreaction.
In and out quickly
Very funny and also he’s out 300k by selling them when he did
And so their downfall begins
Candidate selection is vital for small parties and is where they can often go wrong.
I worked for a US multinationals that supplied governments and militaries and got shares as part of my pay, so do tens of thousands of people in Ireland. Literally anyone working for a big multinational probably does.
That does not mean these people work directly with something like the Israelj military.
This whole story is ridiculous, the man got paid shares for his work, there is no evidence he worked with anything related to Israel, only that the company did.
Are we all expected to answer for the actions of our employers now?
Also he sold his shares when the price was rocketing and lost probably €300k in profit had he kept them and not sold. The way the price was going he had to know about the potential loss he was making but sold anyway.
It is clearly not good that he didn’t tell the truth on the declaration.
However, personally I would view people like this being involved in politics as a good thing. They are different compared with the stale older brigade in a lot of parties. I.e. relatively young working professional opting to run for the Dail)
The Soc Dems could be shooting themselves in the foot if they are overly harsh in terms of this. Could be off putting to other potential candidates. I would assume the fact that Palintir are linked to Israel is the major factor. They wouldn’t suspend him if he had sold shares in Google later than he said he did.
A friend of mine once attended a bat mitzvah. He’s worried about being unpersoned and social death. Does anyone know if they IPSC will come after him? He has a mortgage and two kids.
Asking for a friend.
Are they going to vet everyones pension fund who also invests in PLTR?
What does a TD suspension actually entail can anyone tell me?
Fair play SocDems for the swift response. He has the look of a sneaky fecker so will there be more I wonder
Who’s bothered? I don’t see what the huge issue is.
This must be some kind of a record as the shortest term as party TD ever
SocDems are a joke. Suspend Eoin but worship the likes of Catherine Murphy who objected to every housing development planned in Celbridge……what she was doing is much more damaging to this country than what Eoin did.
Oh man. Socdems not ready for government.
Hard to see how Soc dems could coexist with Sinn Fein in a government if they deal with this stuff so swiftly and transparently
The amount of people here either not getting, overlooking, or purposefully ignoring the issue is that he lied about it is pretty interesting.
What are the odds that those now saying it’s ridiculous they suspended him, would be castigating the Soc Dems as hypocrites if they hadn’t suspended him?
You mean the guy who’s campaign posters were stylised like Grand Theft Auto artwork wasn’t clean? Well i’m absolutely shocked.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1fvuc21/cllr_eoin_hayes_social_democrats_ama_saturday_5th/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1fvuc21/cllr_eoin_hayes_social_democrats_ama_saturday_5th/)
“I’m also a chemical engineer by background and most recently did a lot of work in climate technology. Imo, climate change is still the most important challenge we are facing and we’re behind on the investments and transformations we need to halt it.”
And there goes Soc-Dem’s only meaningful connection to the private sector.
What a cock up by Hayes.
This country is hilarious. Fuck around with the planning system and brown envelopes for decades and they love you. Flog privately held shares you earned and they hang you.
A fucking storm in a tea cup that he somehow managed to give some credibility to.
This is ridiculous tbh. He fudged it by a month, so what? He was elected. Plenty of people in here are working with companies with ties to Israel, its not like they’re proud of it.
Is the issue that it was palantir or that he said the wrong date. Which is worse.
I don’t suppose there’s a weird things where the trade execute date and settle date crossed the month boundary is there?
Awful look for the Soc Dems though. Maybe they’ll scrap their CGT proposed raise now 😉
If he didn’t lie it’s a non story.
I feel completely out of the loop on this one despite reading the article and all the comments here a few times. Is the issue something legal or in some kind of breaking of Social Democrat rules? Had never even heard of Palantir before this article tbh
Wer hat uns verraten?
Sozialdemokraten!
When I first saw PLTR I thought he was a wall street bets autist like myself, I was disappointed to see they were just company shares.
As a constituent of his who gave him a high preference, I’m feeling a bit let down that I don’t seem to have had a way of knowing that he used to work for Palantir. The company has been among the most controversial in tech for several years. It would have been good to have an opportunity to reassure myself about his attitude to privacy, surveillance, data security and tooling up international bad actors when his campaign arrived at my doorstep.
Let he who hasn’t has 200 grand in shares cast the first stone. Champagne socialist indeed
An objectively hilarious situation all round.
I’d say he’ll be ok. To get expelled from the Soc Dems you need to be full on Jewish https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/05/01/jewish-social-democrats-candidate-claims-she-was-dropped-after-raising-concerns-about-anti-semitism/
I’m struggling to see the issue here. It says he sold them before entering politics and they were issued shares from working with them in the US years back. Do people expect him to give the money away or something.
He’s not going to resign his seat and there won’t be a by-election. This will be forgotten in a few eeeks and he’ll slowly go back into the Soc Dems
We need sanctions against Israel.
I don’t know if that would have helped, but jeez horrible.
Has issued a personal statement:
https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1866588817299214670
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