“The Taoiseach said he read some of the online comments about him and his government, from a “research perspective”, and to investigate where certain lines of attack were coming from.”
Micheál’s been lurking. Wonder if he has any comment on the bus/feet saga
Wasn’t Eoghan Harris a senior personal advisor to Micheál Martin? The same guy who incessantly trolled and stalked mostly women and journalists online with awful abuse which led to him being sacked by that newspaper.
The same guy who still advised Martin after being caught trolling and abusing women online.
Hypocrisy and double standards yet again from Martin.
Is this a breach of privacy? He is a public figure and it was in a public space.
What massive scandal are they trying not to talk about today?
So it’s not genuine revenge porn that is ushering in the era of social media rules? It’s the Tanaiste shifting in a night club? Get real.
The creep shouldn’t have been taking that video but it wasn’t illegal. And Jesus christ, the government should shut up and everyone involved should stop playing the victim.
Wasn’t MeHole just complaining about the SF /Mary Lou doco on RTE being shelved and accused SF of being a dictator for not wanting it aired?
It wasn’t a breach of privacy, and Micheal Martin knows this. He just thinks we’re stupid enough to agree with him.
If this leads to a banning of people filming each other I’m all for it. Fuck assholes with camera phones out every chance they get uploading to social media for likes.
Although I’m pro crime filming
Every response to any challenge or controversy in this country is always either banning something or censoring something 🙄
If Michael was opposing Leo in government he wouldn’t give a fiddlers fuck
>Mr Martin said he did not agree with a suggestion taken from evidence given to the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) by the Tánaiste that the Taoiseach of the day has the power to declassify documents at will.
>“I think there are limitations to power and I often say that to people that we have checks and balances in our system,” he said.
>In a submission to the Sipo inquiry, Comptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy said Mr Varadkar suggested in his evidence that “any action in his roles as Taoiseach judged by him to be appropriate/in the public interest cannot be questioned”.
>He said the Fine Gael leader suggested “the Taoiseach has the power at will, and without recourse to any process, to declassify a document at his discretion”.
Martin doesn’t agree with Varadkar’s defence of the leak. Seems like this should be the main story.
What a joke!
That headline is quite a bit of a stretch from what was said…
Are people giving him abuse over the video? Seen it myself and sure what he does in his personal life is personal surely.
The gardai were crying out to not be filmed in the course of their duty and it was shot down, and rightly so. You do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public setting. Leo is an arrogant arsehole and must be a bit thick to think people won’t record him openly shifting some stranger.
The gardai were crying out to not be filmed in the course of their duty and it was shot down, and rightly so. You do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public setting. Leo is an arrogant arsehole and must be a bit thick to think people won’t record him openly shifting some stranger.
It’s the peoples fault Leo cheated on his partner
This has the same energy radiating from it as when a bunch of TDs violated covid restrictions, and then Micheal Martin (or someone similar) came out saying those restrictions didn’t actually exist in the first place.
That this is the reason is hilarious but it’s a great thing, social media has been the wild west for 10 years now with revenge porn, racism, homophobia and misogyny going totally unpunished. The sooner they crackdown the better.
Social media was engineered for Brexit, Trump and the agenda of the Uber wealthy. Social media must now be controlled at the individual level. Odd place to start.
Note that a video of a politician’s private life is condemned but politicians feel free to post videos and/or images of their private lives when they think there is a political advantage to it. Fridges, babies, etc; do your own leg work.
And hate speech legislation is going to prove a tool for suppression of political criticism and the creation of a suffocating groupthink. I can say no more.
It’s gas the way they can make ‘strict’ rules when it’s one of their own.
Is this the first video to go viral?
Maybe they shouldn’t exclusively hire dodgy people and then they wouldn’t be so concerned with creating a special tier of citizen with special privacy privileges.
When will he be putting forward legislation to prosecute plebs who look politicians in the eye?
Wonder if he’d take this stance/action if it was Mary Lou/one of his other political opponents covertly filmed in a public space.
They, more than anybody in this country, need as much time under the microscope as possible. Their policies are ruining so many of the publics ‘personal’ lives, almost every aspect of their lives. This was definitely strategic. More focus on the political lives, with 100% transparency is needed!
It’s a joke. Condemn it all you want, but it wasn’t illegal nor should it be.
Reading the article it seems Martin is more concerned about his own self image. It’s also the first time I’ve seen him acknowledge the criticism he receives online.
>The Taoiseach said he read some of the online comments about him and his government, from a “research perspective”, and to investigate where certain lines of attack were coming from.
>“I’m interested in going through some of the commentary to see where they’re coming from. Is that a far-right kind of trend? Who’s engineering it? It seems that a lot of the reactions can be engineered,” he added.
>Mr Martin said he hoped his family were “immune” from the abuse he received online.
>However he does concede they contact him occasionally when they see some comments about him.
>“I said to them on day one to ignore it but they do watch Twitter and Facebook. But the one thing that worries me at times is the degree to which you can influence thinking almost without people realising it,” he said.
>“So sometimes they might ring and say, ‘What about this?’ and I say, ‘you’re hooked too much on Twitter, get off that, that’s only one perspective, get out there and meet people and talk to people on the streets and you might get another perspective,’” he added.
This cunt just loves making a mark.
They’ve been ‘working’ on this for years. Still nothing. Believe it when I actually see it
Once again the agenda is being set swirling around a mostly non-issue. Bring back the real stuff about housing or the latest power grab into planning law or the bankers bonuses or…
This so-called issue is emotive but has little real impact in most people’s daily lives. Sure, it’s important to some but given the gov. can do fuck all about it, and everyone knows that the discussion around it only serves to obfuscate the the more important stuff they can actually control. Just sick of nobody else calling this what it is… spin, spin and deflection.
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“The Taoiseach said he read some of the online comments about him and his government, from a “research perspective”, and to investigate where certain lines of attack were coming from.”
Micheál’s been lurking. Wonder if he has any comment on the bus/feet saga
Wasn’t Eoghan Harris a senior personal advisor to Micheál Martin? The same guy who incessantly trolled and stalked mostly women and journalists online with awful abuse which led to him being sacked by that newspaper.
The same guy who still advised Martin after being caught trolling and abusing women online.
Hypocrisy and double standards yet again from Martin.
Is this a breach of privacy? He is a public figure and it was in a public space.
What massive scandal are they trying not to talk about today?
So it’s not genuine revenge porn that is ushering in the era of social media rules? It’s the Tanaiste shifting in a night club? Get real.
The creep shouldn’t have been taking that video but it wasn’t illegal. And Jesus christ, the government should shut up and everyone involved should stop playing the victim.
Wasn’t MeHole just complaining about the SF /Mary Lou doco on RTE being shelved and accused SF of being a dictator for not wanting it aired?
It wasn’t a breach of privacy, and Micheal Martin knows this. He just thinks we’re stupid enough to agree with him.
If this leads to a banning of people filming each other I’m all for it. Fuck assholes with camera phones out every chance they get uploading to social media for likes.
Although I’m pro crime filming
Every response to any challenge or controversy in this country is always either banning something or censoring something 🙄
If Michael was opposing Leo in government he wouldn’t give a fiddlers fuck
>Mr Martin said he did not agree with a suggestion taken from evidence given to the Standards in Public Office Commission (Sipo) by the Tánaiste that the Taoiseach of the day has the power to declassify documents at will.
>“I think there are limitations to power and I often say that to people that we have checks and balances in our system,” he said.
>In a submission to the Sipo inquiry, Comptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy said Mr Varadkar suggested in his evidence that “any action in his roles as Taoiseach judged by him to be appropriate/in the public interest cannot be questioned”.
>He said the Fine Gael leader suggested “the Taoiseach has the power at will, and without recourse to any process, to declassify a document at his discretion”.
Martin doesn’t agree with Varadkar’s defence of the leak. Seems like this should be the main story.
What a joke!
That headline is quite a bit of a stretch from what was said…
Are people giving him abuse over the video? Seen it myself and sure what he does in his personal life is personal surely.
The gardai were crying out to not be filmed in the course of their duty and it was shot down, and rightly so. You do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public setting. Leo is an arrogant arsehole and must be a bit thick to think people won’t record him openly shifting some stranger.
The gardai were crying out to not be filmed in the course of their duty and it was shot down, and rightly so. You do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a public setting. Leo is an arrogant arsehole and must be a bit thick to think people won’t record him openly shifting some stranger.
It’s the peoples fault Leo cheated on his partner
This has the same energy radiating from it as when a bunch of TDs violated covid restrictions, and then Micheal Martin (or someone similar) came out saying those restrictions didn’t actually exist in the first place.
That this is the reason is hilarious but it’s a great thing, social media has been the wild west for 10 years now with revenge porn, racism, homophobia and misogyny going totally unpunished. The sooner they crackdown the better.
Social media was engineered for Brexit, Trump and the agenda of the Uber wealthy. Social media must now be controlled at the individual level. Odd place to start.
Note that a video of a politician’s private life is condemned but politicians feel free to post videos and/or images of their private lives when they think there is a political advantage to it. Fridges, babies, etc; do your own leg work.
And hate speech legislation is going to prove a tool for suppression of political criticism and the creation of a suffocating groupthink. I can say no more.
It’s gas the way they can make ‘strict’ rules when it’s one of their own.
Is this the first video to go viral?
Maybe they shouldn’t exclusively hire dodgy people and then they wouldn’t be so concerned with creating a special tier of citizen with special privacy privileges.
When will he be putting forward legislation to prosecute plebs who look politicians in the eye?
Wonder if he’d take this stance/action if it was Mary Lou/one of his other political opponents covertly filmed in a public space.
They, more than anybody in this country, need as much time under the microscope as possible. Their policies are ruining so many of the publics ‘personal’ lives, almost every aspect of their lives. This was definitely strategic. More focus on the political lives, with 100% transparency is needed!
It’s a joke. Condemn it all you want, but it wasn’t illegal nor should it be.
Reading the article it seems Martin is more concerned about his own self image. It’s also the first time I’ve seen him acknowledge the criticism he receives online.
>The Taoiseach said he read some of the online comments about him and his government, from a “research perspective”, and to investigate where certain lines of attack were coming from.
>“I’m interested in going through some of the commentary to see where they’re coming from. Is that a far-right kind of trend? Who’s engineering it? It seems that a lot of the reactions can be engineered,” he added.
>Mr Martin said he hoped his family were “immune” from the abuse he received online.
>However he does concede they contact him occasionally when they see some comments about him.
>“I said to them on day one to ignore it but they do watch Twitter and Facebook. But the one thing that worries me at times is the degree to which you can influence thinking almost without people realising it,” he said.
>“So sometimes they might ring and say, ‘What about this?’ and I say, ‘you’re hooked too much on Twitter, get off that, that’s only one perspective, get out there and meet people and talk to people on the streets and you might get another perspective,’” he added.
This cunt just loves making a mark.
They’ve been ‘working’ on this for years. Still nothing. Believe it when I actually see it
Once again the agenda is being set swirling around a mostly non-issue. Bring back the real stuff about housing or the latest power grab into planning law or the bankers bonuses or…
This so-called issue is emotive but has little real impact in most people’s daily lives. Sure, it’s important to some but given the gov. can do fuck all about it, and everyone knows that the discussion around it only serves to obfuscate the the more important stuff they can actually control. Just sick of nobody else calling this what it is… spin, spin and deflection.