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LAST MONTH WE brought you the smart-looking videos that Fine Gael produced for their European election hopefuls and while other parties and candidates don’t have the resources for such productions that hasn’t stopped several less-professional efforts.
We’ve come across quite a few in recent weeks and we’re bringing you a selection today.
However quite frankly it’s going to be hard for anyone to top Senator Rónán Mullen, who is running in Midlands North West, dancing to Pharrell’s hit tune ‘Happy’.
1. It’s the very definition of dad dancing from the independent candidate (around 28 seconds in):
2. Mullen faces competition in the same constituency from Labour’s Lorraine Higgins and in the video stakes with her impressive camogie skills just pipping Mullen’s dad dancing:
3. But what about Martin Lonergan who wants your votes and, as his song reminds us, to text your sisters, brothers, and others to get them to vote for him too (includes bonus Mattie McGrath selfie):
4. What’s this! Here’s Lorraine Higgins again as she attempts to climb Croagh Patrick. “This is so easy,” she claims:
5. No such mountaineering from Mary Fitzpatrick. The Fianna Fáil candidate goes for the Fine Gael-esque iconic shot of her looking into the distance and a bit of uplifting music:
6. Finally, and speaking of Fine Gael, here’s their latest effort for Dublin West candidate Eamonn Coghlan. Yes, the former World Champion runner who loves nothing more than running around his constituency in a vest that says Dublin on it. No, really:
Seen anything weird, whacky and wonderful on the Election 2014 trail? Drop us an email hugh@thejournal.ie
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It would be great if we could send Mullen to Europe. Not as an MEP though, I’d really just like to get rid of him.
Could we send him into space instead?
Actually probably not a good idea, if aliens exist and they run into him they could consider it an act of war
Only place in Europe that Mullen should be sent to is Rome and to the Vatican… Let him wax lyrical there to the antiquated peodaphiles about the falling standards in Irish morality as per the Irish pro-life movement
Jesus that Lorraine Higgins is a real dose, and she was unbelievably obnoxious on TV3 last week, makes Lucinda look like a proper lady, and isn’t she supposed to be from Galway? What’s with the D4, 4×4, shades on the head frappa-laté-mocha-chino accent? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
He’d turn a gay guy straight! Ugh gives me the shivers
I’d say he’d be delighted with that
Which one are you talking about?
Please don’t vote for any of these clowns
Mummy, make it stooooooop!!!
Mullen is one awful inbred religious loon that personifies everything about the backwardness of certain elements within this country.
You mean you disagree with him.
Great Mary Fitzpatrick poster on Kevin St with a sign on it reading “make me Richer!”
Kind of says it all.
Mullen looks like a slimmed down Biffo tbh
Please do not vote for the bigot. He is one ultra right wing fascist.
Surprised Enda hasn’t coaxed Katie Taylor yet.Tho she’s as mad as a bag of cats.
How anybody could NOT vote for Ronan after this mystifies me. HAVE YOU SEEN HIM SHAKE THAT BOOTY?
#MullenforEurope
Because the fact that he’s a colossal gombeen outweighs any mad dance skills he has
Why is it that every time I see Rónán’s face I’m reminded of one of those Thunderbirds characters?
He could’ve invented the moonwalk and I still wouldn’t vote for him. He’s desperate to drag Ireland back to the 50s.
Yeh mc guirk whatever. You and iona can go do one pal
Id make dat little fella in da Pharel video go wild in da sack so I wuld
Everytime I see a Mullins poster, I think of our old pal Brian-had-dinner-&-golf-with-Anglo-but-never-once-mentioned-the-pending-collapse-Cowen. Surely I’m not the only one.
both are unforunates who lost the genetic lottery badly :)
God help Ireland when the international community get a whiff of these lads.
Ronan has my families vote anyway. Great candidate for Europe.
Not great if you’re a woman suffering from birth complications
Not great if you’re anything but a religious, straight male.
Just to put Stephen’s political views in context, he once said on a radio show that there was no evidence that evolution is real.
An insight therefore into the mindset of those who vote for that misogynistic clown Mullen.
Stephan has blind faith. He’s lucky he didn’t take direction from the wrong priests as a child or he’d have a very different opinion of these hypocritical zealots.
Good Grief.
Holy. Mother. Of. God.
That Mullen video is deeply disturbing on a number of levels.
Do not vote for that fool
Cheesier campaign videos=less votes, lost mine anyway
I actually think that Senator Mullen’s dancing is pretty smooth; I’ve seen a lot worse. Fair play to him for showing that he’s got rhythm.
Yeah, the rhythm method maybe! Give me patience. I honestly am struggling to find any European candidate worth voting for.
Vote Ireland back to the fifties.
They all make me vomit… All of em
Until we can actually vote AGAINST candidates with only the least hated getting through, Irish politics will remain infested with numpties like these.
Dad dancing lives.
Ronan and his minion! Ha
Hope he got permission to use that song (don’t really care actually)
Then why are you commenting?
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