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JUNIOR MINISTER AODHÁN Ó Ríordáin has accused Fianna Fáil of acting as if it had never been in government.
Off the back of what is widely viewed as having been a good campaign for the party, Fianna Fáil is on 20% in the last Red C opinion poll before Friday’s vote.
Party leader Micheál Martin has also surged in popularity, going from 33% to 54% following two strong performances in the TV debates.
Ahead of the final TV debate on RTÉ tonight, Labour has launched a social media campaign reminding voters of Martin’s association with the most recent Fianna Fáil governments.
Speaking to reporters at the launch of Labour’s sports policy in Marino today, Ó Ríordáin said Fianna Fáil had no right to criticise the record of the Fine Gael-Labour government.
“I think Fianna Fáil are trying to give the impression that they were founded in 2011, as if they didn’t exist previously,” he said.
“I think if people are honest about their politics, they should look back on their records in government and the mess that we had to clear up.
I’d rather be more positive but, to be honest, it can be a little frustrating when people are trying to give the impression they were never in government or that they have no track record that they have to defend.
The coalition parties are stepping up their attacks on the main opposition parties with just three days to go.
The parties’ local campaigns across the country are warning voters of the consequences of voting for Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and independents.
In a leaflet being dropped in Dublin Rathdown over the next 48 hours, Fine Gael is warning voters of the possibility of a Sinn Féin-led government.
- additional reporting from Hugh O’Connell
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The fact that there is an article made up of 99% of journalist filler and no actual news or analysis, means they are generating site content from your comments (and mine).
Although I don’t mind that, what it really means is the Journal have no problem in stirring comments and using trolls.. very different to their comments policy. But if trolls have a use for them, why the commentary control? To push their own ideals..
So the Journal is an agenda pushing, monitoring, subjective and controlling media site that is one of the most popular in Ireland. And people think there is no problem with todays media.
@Lad: fully agree and well said!
@Lad: I don’t know about the Journal planting trolls, like myself, I just think we all think our opinions are the greatest and we can lecture the rest of you
@Lad: And you got to say it..proving the point it’s open and honest..not what trump the narcissist dictator wants tho = “don’t listen to them, just believe me”!!! Media is always a work in progress. Britain’s right wing media needs to be demonopolised.
@Lad:
Spot on..Can’t beat a straight talker, just like Trump.
@Lad: I am a Russian troll. Das Vidanya!
@Otranto: Bare faced lying is not straight talking by a long shot.
Great man and doing exactly what he said he would …Pity our leaders can’t take a leave out of his book
@Martin O Donnell: how’s that wall coming along?
@Martin O Donnell: and he hasn’t started a war either unlike some other US presidents who get plazas named after them
@Dave Thomas: He just stated in that video that they’ve started construction on it.He wouldn’t be telling a lie now,would he ?
@Martin O Donnell: i just loved how he ‘repealed and replaced ‘Obamacare’ ..oh wait,he didn’t…there’s a few others that come to mind,too…what did you think of his permanent tax cut for the rich ?
@Kevin Moylan: but he has expanded America’s military presence abroad, increased bombings and boots on the ground. Why start a war when you can expand the ones that already exist.
@Francis Mc Carthy: he’s been saying that for months… Still no funding coming from congress though.
@Dave Thomas:i heard a while back that they’ve been doing up an old fence..maybe that’s what he is going on about..
@Martin O Donnell: You’re just being silly now.
@Martin O Donnell: get your head examined ya clown
@Francis Mc Carthy: ahh, what he meant to say was ‘fixing the fence’.
@Martin O Donnell: You are too ill-informed to even begin to educate, both on his attempts to destroy US liberal democracy, but worldwide democracies
@Kevin Moylan: I don’t recall a war that Obama started, though. He just oversaw the continuation of wars started by the previous administration. So far under Trump they’ve had the most serious nuclear threat against the US in years and a complete breakdown of international relations.
@Martin O Donnell: He’s full of it for the mid term elections…
Poor guy probably thought that he was at one of his rallies..
@Tom Doyle: Its the first time the UN spoke for us all in a long time.
@Tom Doyle: If he had a brain cell it would die of loneliness.
He’s literally a laughing stock
How did this muppet become President?
@Anthony John Cotter: Muppet? A self-made billionaire and President of the United States.
@WreckDefier: a self inherited billionaire who has decreased in wealth since he took over the family business
@WreckDefier: He’s not the brightest with an ego bigger than some U.S states & devoid of tolerance & sympathy.
@Y U no spell good?: Redo your research, he rebuilt the empire and made it what it is today-HUGE!!!
@Anthony John Cotter: because another load of muppets voted for him
@Anthony John Cotter: it’s called democracy , he won the vote.
@WreckDefier: Donald Trump is the epitome of the american capitalist culture.Yes he is doing a very good job fof the american economy and employment.He is not the normal run of the mill smerican president but he is doing a goid job forbthe american people
@WreckDefier: Donald Trump is the epitome of the american capitalist culture.Yes he is doing a very good job fof the american economy and employment.He is not the normal run of the mill smerican president but he is doing a goid job for the american people
@WreckDefier: You have ZERO idea of his wealth because he refuses to release his tax returns.
@Brian Smith: no democracy would have been the person who got the most votes (Clinton) becoming president. Nothing democratic when your vote is worth more if you live in Nebraska than it would be if you lived in New York
@Anthony John Cotter: Obama followed by the prospect of Hilary Clinton – that’s how he became President
@WreckDefier: he plays with daddies money. If he had to rely on himself he d have been broke long ago
@JimmyMc: that did play a part..just like promising immigration reform ,repealing and replacing Obamacare & bringing jobs back to the rust belt did…
@Y U no spell good?: And what can you do
@Anthony John Cotter: like all the other Muppets before him – MONEY.
@WreckDefier: A 6 times bankrupt, destroyed countless incomes and pensions
@WreckDefier:
And how do the multiple bankruptcies and unpaid US contractors fit into that narrative?
@WreckDefier: I highly doubt he’s a billionaire, He count’s thinking his name is worth 3 billion as an asset. Sure we are all billionaires so.
A great President and certain to get a second term in the Office.
@WreckDefier: lol
I’m no trump fan but you are misquoting him. He said “maybe” more than any other. If we criticise him surely we have to uphold proper journalistic standards ourselves? Makes the story better but not factual.
@John O’Regan: He didn’t say maybe.
He said ‘In less than 2 years my administration has accomplished almost more than any administration in the history of our country”.
The world just laughed at the most powerful man in the world…so sad…let the twitter storm begin
@MyDreamEscapade: why is it sad to laugh at someone, no matter how powerful, who’s making a laughing stock of himself?
@MyDreamEscapade: Putin?
Comedic as well as a stable genius
Can’t believe I’m about to say this but a lot of what he said around energy,manufacturing and the UN made sense.
@Roger Wynne: obviously somebody wrote that bit for him.
In fairness now I listened to every bit of his speech. It was cogent precise and very well delivered. He knows what he wants to do and has set about doing it. He is not the big buffoon people make him out to be. He seemed at ease addressing the UN and was given a generous round of applause at the end. He is a worthy president in my view based on what he has said.
@Micheal S. O’ Ceilleachair: he’ll probably change his mind tomorrow. It’s usually better to judge on actions.
Can’t wait for the twitter rant.
@Dave Thomas: I’m sure he didn’t like it one bit. He’s now going to be even more critical of the UN. A year ago he was just pissed with them because his New York company didn’t get the contract to do renovations at theUN building. Now he’s going to complain non stop that the US is paying too much to the UN (28% of its budget) and it’s a waste of money
Cant help thinking also that maybe who ever wrote that part of his speech deliberately wrote it for him knowing it would get laughed at…?
All hail. Lord Trump. #MAGA #Trump2020.
@Michael Smith: Not sure if the troll or the 72 likes scares me more.
Surely the article can contain a bit more more commentary about the reaction of the other members of the assembly to his speech, not just that laughter was heard.
He rejects all bad news, and has his aides only bring him good news to make him feel good, he’s already mentally ill, and then he’s being enabled all around him, the only place he feels safe is in his rallys, surrounded by the cult
@ianglen: Gibberish comment
@Michael Maher: I think he was expecting a standing ovation for that speech. Wasn’t expecting to be laughed at..his face said it all.
An actor but a bad one The world is laughing at him,,
I can’t understand why Pat Kenny ,Sean O Rourke,
Ryan Tuberty, Chris O Donaghoue,Matt Cooper and any other DOB lackie hasn’t signed up to the “journal” to publish their biased hate for Donald J Trump at every opportunity
It would be fair to call this comment section a mass triggering event lol.
I particularly liked watching the Swedish fake feminist UN reps along with the other Socialist clowns squirm as Trump layed into their socialist degeneracy ideology.
Great to see a straight talker at the UN for once.
@neilo:
Hahahahaha
Here, Karl Marx, a man who never worked a day in his life……This is what Marx called socialism and he defined it as: (1) the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned, by force if necessary, and regulated by the state.
Your as dumb as a rock. Hahahahaha
@Otranto: You’re
@Otranto: You might want to find out who owns the means of production in Sweden.
@neilo: Yawn you have to be the most boring person on here everyday without fail. “You didn’t finish school, did you?” So witty and edgy, I bet you read vice and the huff post lol
Yea more fake news from the tango man
Comedic as well as stable genius
@Paul Fahey:
And he does say that the administration has achieved more than any other administration in history- this level of bombast removes any possible value from the rest of his speech. He is only credible to his core voters, in my opinion.
Journalist “Mr. President, are you familiar with the term “delusions of grandeur”?”
Trump “I believe I coined the term yes”
@Paul Fahey: it’s the way he tells them
World clearly loves a comedian, a tragic one at that.
Is this “the emperor has no clothes” moment?
Embarrassing a Nation
This one time, at band camp.
So if anyone is wondering why Trump and America are being allowed to behave as they are it’s about blackwashing the idea of sovereignty.
In a similar way to the word republican means many different things to different people today, but means nothing like what it meant 200 years ago.
Even Trump found it funny!
Everyone should watch this speech, like him or not Trump is spot on…….
He has not started a war but continues but please find out the countries that they supply with weapons also check infant mortality rate USA also life expectancy rate USA the richest country in the world
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