Wonder why he exposed himself to this at all. Tarnished his legendary status a tad.
“Return to the arms” of his family. Poor fella was slaughtered.
So we have two candidates now, dull.
Wow. Michael Martin count your days.
Well, he wasn’t going to win, it was a question of how badly he was going to lose
Embarrassing all round. Worst presidential election in the history of the state?
All that talk of him not bucking under pressure due to his experience in sports is very funny in hindsight.
Truly a terrible candidate, although seemed like a decent man and I hope he finds peace. Shows this politics stuff is brutal and requires serious thick skin.
Edit: didn’t read much into the rent thing. So I take back the decent man. Chap didn’t have a notion.
“I have decided to withdraw from the presidential election contest with immediate effect and return to the arms of my family”
Given that Jim’s such a big military man, I’m not sure whether he’s referring to guns or hugs here lol
What story do / did the papers have lined up for next week? 🤔
Billy Keheller must be quite smug right now.
Serious egg on Míchael Martin’s face after this.
How does this impact the actual ballot? Does he remain on the paper?
Connelly needs to win this now; Imagine listening to Heather banging on about the Credit Union for the next seven years.
Poor aul Billy Kelleher will be fuming
See ya
Surely this is because of the money allegation his former tenants made against him?
His posters will be a collector’s item now. Off to the streets.
Turns out he probably owes that chap 3 grand.
A right shitshow from FF in going with him. Baffling that they thought he was a worthwhile candidate in the first place.
Éamon Ó Cuív refusing to endorse Gavin makes me think we’ll see some FF drama over the next few days. It’s almost impressive how badly Chambers did running Gavin’s campaign
You ran for president while that poor tenant was supposed to be in Lourdes!
The big counterfactual of this election is how would Mairead McGuinness be faring. (Hope she’s doing ok.) No big theory on it, just interesting to consider.
I’d say there were a lot more skeletons in the closet that were to be revealed
It really is unreal how Fianna fail can get so many things wrong and still be the largest party
Whoever votes FF will surely go with FG so will this not just bolster FG’s vote?
What an absolute shit show this presidential race is.
As per Gavan Reilly:
>It is not possible, at this juncture, to officially withdraw or to remove a name from the ballot paper. Jim Gavin’s name will remain on the ballot for Friday 24th, merely with no campaign behind it.
Again with the money. All the ways you can get yourself in trouble in politics but for FF it’s always the money. Tremendous consistency.
Well that settles it. I’m definitely voting no
The farming must have taken up too much of his time.
Some say that on this night there was a mysterious sound heard across the planes of Drumcondra.
The sound of someone cackling with laughter emanating from the deepest depths of their belly. The unmistakable sound of the creature known as Mr. Ahern.
The smugness will be radiating off him for weeks that and the smell of all the champagne he shall drink on this most sacred of nights.
I bet he wished he wasn’t a prick of a landlord now.
For god sake just shave Billy Kelleher’s head and pretend like nothing’s happened.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there was more dirt yet to land on him over the coming weeks to influence that. Micheál will be in an awkward spot over the next few days 🍿
The knives will be out for Martin over this.
Wonder if there’s a guy on a barstool in Drumcondra having a little chuckle to himself..
How was the issue with the tenant not sorted out before all this? Surely if you’re going to become a candidate this should have been disclosed/vetted beforehand and sorted out before it could become an issue
Is that it?! Pay the man his money back and carry on…
Pathetic reason to drop out unless there’s more to come…?
This is the end of Micheal Martin as well.
He pissed off a lot of FF people by pushing Jim Gavin and it blew up in his face.
I saw guys putting up Gavin posters earlier today. They’ll be sorry they didn’t wait 24 hours.
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The next FF parliamentary party meeting should be interesting.
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A good auld Drumcondra hit.
Wonder why he exposed himself to this at all. Tarnished his legendary status a tad.
“Return to the arms” of his family. Poor fella was slaughtered.
So we have two candidates now, dull.
Wow. Michael Martin count your days.
Well, he wasn’t going to win, it was a question of how badly he was going to lose
Embarrassing all round. Worst presidential election in the history of the state?
All that talk of him not bucking under pressure due to his experience in sports is very funny in hindsight.
Truly a terrible candidate, although seemed like a decent man and I hope he finds peace. Shows this politics stuff is brutal and requires serious thick skin.
Edit: didn’t read much into the rent thing. So I take back the decent man. Chap didn’t have a notion.
“I have decided to withdraw from the presidential election contest with immediate effect and return to the arms of my family”
Given that Jim’s such a big military man, I’m not sure whether he’s referring to guns or hugs here lol
What story do / did the papers have lined up for next week? 🤔
Billy Keheller must be quite smug right now.
Serious egg on Míchael Martin’s face after this.
How does this impact the actual ballot? Does he remain on the paper?
Connelly needs to win this now; Imagine listening to Heather banging on about the Credit Union for the next seven years.
Poor aul Billy Kelleher will be fuming
See ya
Surely this is because of the money allegation his former tenants made against him?
His posters will be a collector’s item now. Off to the streets.
Turns out he probably owes that chap 3 grand.
A right shitshow from FF in going with him. Baffling that they thought he was a worthwhile candidate in the first place.
Éamon Ó Cuív refusing to endorse Gavin makes me think we’ll see some FF drama over the next few days. It’s almost impressive how badly Chambers did running Gavin’s campaign
You ran for president while that poor tenant was supposed to be in Lourdes!
The big counterfactual of this election is how would Mairead McGuinness be faring. (Hope she’s doing ok.) No big theory on it, just interesting to consider.
What an absolute clusterfuck for FF.
Even more so, my reading of [this](https://www.presidentialelection.ie/nomination-process/index.html) is he can’t officially withdraw now and will still be on the ballot.
The weirdest election everrr🗣️
I’d say there were a lot more skeletons in the closet that were to be revealed
It really is unreal how Fianna fail can get so many things wrong and still be the largest party
Whoever votes FF will surely go with FG so will this not just bolster FG’s vote?
What an absolute shit show this presidential race is.
As per Gavan Reilly:
>It is not possible, at this juncture, to officially withdraw or to remove a name from the ballot paper. Jim Gavin’s name will remain on the ballot for Friday 24th, merely with no campaign behind it.
Again with the money. All the ways you can get yourself in trouble in politics but for FF it’s always the money. Tremendous consistency.
Well that settles it. I’m definitely voting no
The farming must have taken up too much of his time.
Some say that on this night there was a mysterious sound heard across the planes of Drumcondra.
The sound of someone cackling with laughter emanating from the deepest depths of their belly. The unmistakable sound of the creature known as Mr. Ahern.
The smugness will be radiating off him for weeks that and the smell of all the champagne he shall drink on this most sacred of nights.
I bet he wished he wasn’t a prick of a landlord now.
For god sake just shave Billy Kelleher’s head and pretend like nothing’s happened.
Wouldn’t be surprised if there was more dirt yet to land on him over the coming weeks to influence that. Micheál will be in an awkward spot over the next few days 🍿
The knives will be out for Martin over this.
Wonder if there’s a guy on a barstool in Drumcondra having a little chuckle to himself..
How was the issue with the tenant not sorted out before all this? Surely if you’re going to become a candidate this should have been disclosed/vetted beforehand and sorted out before it could become an issue
Is that it?! Pay the man his money back and carry on…
Pathetic reason to drop out unless there’s more to come…?
This is the end of Micheal Martin as well.
He pissed off a lot of FF people by pushing Jim Gavin and it blew up in his face.
I saw guys putting up Gavin posters earlier today. They’ll be sorry they didn’t wait 24 hours.
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