So it’s wrong for Dublin politicians to care primarily about Dublin as MHR stated above, but it’s only proper that MHR should care primarily about Kerry? #kerrylogic

The point is that you are giving out that he only cares about Kerry and saying this is some culchie conspiracy to screw the country. It’s not. It’s called proportional representation. His job is to represent us. The better he does it the more we vote for him. #logiclogic

No we’re giving out about him complaining about Dublin centric politicians while in the same breath stating that he will remain staunchly Kerry centric. It’s pretty much a dictionary definition of hypocrisy.

I have no problem with him looking after his constituents. However, when his businesses, his family’s or friends businesses are getting financially rewarded with grants, tax incentives etc it’s no different than the brown envelope politics we had under FF. It’s disgusting

Dublin politicians: 44 Kerry politicians: 5 Politics is Dublin centric.

Sweet Jesus, I think I’m beginning to understand how people like the Healy Raes get elected! We won’t know for certain till the upcoming census has been conducted, but I have a sneaking suspicion there might be a few more people living in Dublin than Kerry. Do you think this might have something to do with Dublin being afforded more TDs than Kerry, or is it just a conspiracy by the smart alecs?!

44 voices are louder than 5. That is all I was saying.

Yes they are, because the concerns of 1.25m people are more important than the concerns of 150k people. And it’s not like Kerry is forgotten or anything, most of ye are on the medical card, your roads have improved, we made sure to keep you on the EU handout list. What more is it ye want, and why the shameless dependence on handouts? Parasites electing the chief parasite in an effort to extract ever more ill gotten gains from the actually productive members of Irish society.
Personally I was surprised Kerry didn’t elect more business friendly TDs who might use their sway to encourage the locals who wish to provide for themselves and their community – joking of course, any Kerry folk with any manner of drive flee that ambitiousless cess pit the first chance they get.

You stay classy there Liam. Thanks for improving our roads. I know we don’t really deserve good roads here. That’d make us feel like we mattered. As for the rest of your biilious rant, enjoy the centenary celebrations over the weekend. If the dubs had their way we’d be kissing the Queen’s backside and remembering the traitors who almost cost us paradise.

And you keep voting for whoever promises you more of my money. Don’t worry about little things like providing for yourself, or any remnants of the sense of pride you might once have had, you just live out your days on handouts and criticising those on whose charity your very existence depends for not providing you with ever increasing comfort in exchange for your persistent whinging.

Go back to the Brussels subsidised cows there Patrick. You have no idea as to how the world works clearly. And at national elections the interests of the entire nation is what they all should be thinking of and not the little villages they came from, country will never improve with that narrow mindset

Patrick can I point out that you raised the issue of proportional representation yet complain about the the amount of tds for dublin while defending the kingdom’s new rulers. Ah come on.

I’m just saying that’s the system we have. Under this system everyone has to scrap for their constituents or they don’t get reelected. It’s not the Healy-Raes or Kerry’s fault that this is our system. But the absolute bigotry shown by Liam and his cheerleader above show the mentality that MHR is giving out about in all of its naked bigotry. I’d be perfectly happy if all the dubs dug a big canal around the M50 and declared themselves West Britain and rejoined their spiritual masters. We’ll manage grand without your begrudgery and self importance.

You are missing the point completely Liam. ALL of rural Ireland is overlooked, not just Kerry. MHR speaks for his constituents but what he says is representative of the experiences of ALL people outside The Pale. And I would add, that there are lots of communities within The Pale which are severely under-represented because elected representatives are too busy lining their own pockets to serve the interests of their people.
Don’t get sucked into an immature Dub vs Country argument, we’re all getting fukkkked by the politicians.

Ha you might manage grand without our begrudgery and self-importance, but how exactly do you think Kerry would survive even a year with Dubliners’ charity?

Charity? Does it help to think it’s our unemployed stealing your tax money and not the heroin zombies wandering the streets of Dublin? It’s my taxes that are being used to build a LUAS and homes for your homeless. Get back under your rock.

Let’s not forget that Enda, Noonan, Kelly, Hogan etc are all from outside the Pale and all sat in the highest offices in the land……just because they got voted in does not mean they looked after their roots, it appears they shafted the whole country, no favouritism at all…..except when it came to their Ministerial pensions.

Well stick your name before electorate and see how you do – democracy wins and to hell with D4

Anyone know what glue he uses to stick his cap on?

Zzzzzzzzzzzz.

Kerry tax take cant even come close to supporting Kerry, and you think you’re funding homes for Dubliners? Get up outta that sunshine, your very existence is dependant on how much we earn in Dublin to support our dependants down the country. Voting Healy Rae is like a petulant, ungrateful child complaining about the brand on their Christmas present.

And Irish Water,

Fairer would to give every county in the republic an equal amount of seats, so about 6 per county.

He does have a point about rural affairs.

@pat, its a national parliment, not for local issues.

Kerry Group, Kenmare Resources, Oil and Gas fields, Fexco, Stockbyte, all local. No FDI required. The amount of tourists landing in Dublin on their way to experience Kerry is in the hundreds of thousands. Ye need us Liam. Ye need all of Ireland to feed ye and give ye water and power. We have entrepreneurs, not gifted beggars cadging jobs of America in exchange for sweetheart tax deals and access to the best of our minds. Keep living in your ivory tower up there in the big smoke. You’re a self aggrandising idiot and a clichè dub.

Seàn. That’s what it should be. But it’s not. The system we have is not suited for national government. Maybe voting for parties only and proportionately doling out seats to those parties is the only way beyond this mess.

Does he actually think that the Dail is comprised of Dubliners? No he doesn’t. Does he know that the electorate of South Kerry are stupid enough to believe that it is? Absolutely

Er, no Ted. No. *Proportional* Representation.

I trust you just weren’t thinking and I don’t have to explain what proportional means.

Er, no Ted. No. *Proportional* Representation.

I trust you just weren’t thinking and I don’t have to explain what proportional means.

How about proportional spending based on tax returns? Dublin bails out the rest of the country. It is the hub. It is the European hq for ireland. Kerry is kerry. If we were to just allocate kerry on its tax returns the county be broke. The country piggy backs on the cities. Same as any country. Healey Rae Is a hypocrite

stop it Patrick your embarrassing yourself good chap.

Patrick if you had any ambition you would be in new York.

Cholly to take your point. There is no motorway between cork and limerick. Our second and third biggest cities. Investment isn’t charity, regardless of what the red thumbers think. Investment is disproportionately biased towards Dublin. Not based on population but based on power. There is a disproportionate distribution of our resources towards Dublin. It’s a fact. The fact ye load the dice in your favour is the issue.

Liam , I’m guessing you don’t like Kerry so ?

No Suzie. He is not prejudiced against Kerry. He calls all culchies pathetic in another post. He doesn’t discriminate against any one county. He disdains all equally once you leave the Utopian centre of his world.

And Liam farmers only pay a small amount of tax compared to PAYE and yet they get the most grants

You seem a little tense Liam. What you need is a nice relaxing weekend in the Kingdom. Sure isn’t that where every Dublin politician goes of a long weekend. Make sure to include a good spare tyre though, as the roads are fairly shocking. We could do with more Dubliners’ charity- if you have it spare……

You should drive around the centre of the capital some day Louise. You’d need a Massey Ferguson to negotiate the pot holes around the main streets. We need Michael to run for Dublin City Council. He sort it out soon enough. Free drink passes for all too. Then again he has so many businesses, farm land and property rented out in Kerry I don’t know where he gets time to come up to Dublin to be a TD at all.

Every constituency gets to vote for a representative. He was voted in to power in Kerry. What’s the probelm with him helping his local constituants? Your representative should also look after your local needs.

by our logic do Liam healy-rae is right because 3.35m outside of dublin people should take preference over the 1.25m in Dublin

Liam, kerry man here. I didn’t vote healy Rae, my reasons being that they have no policies on anything of national importance. I’m disappointed that they got voted in,but can probably understand disaffected people especially in rural areas being frustrated with governments down through the years. I don’t think they are right to vote HR but that’s democracy. Please don’t lower yourself in painting every person from the county with the one brush, it is the tool of the ignorant. I take great offence to being called ‘ambitiousless’ by someone I have never met. Luckily I have managed to get a job in my profession near home and I promise you I am not lacking in ambition.

a cute kerry hoor elected by stupid kerry hoors.

Want some salt with that chip?

The kerry Donald trump

Judging from the number of Dublin TD’s in the Dail, I would say that they always think that the world ends at the Red Cow roundabout otherwise they would have a proper light rail service into commuter places like Meath.

Tougher sentencing, may deter a lot of this and prevention is better than cure.

Very true David, criminals certainly know that the world doesn’t end at the Red Cow.

All politics os parish pump, it’s just the rural ones get blamed for it… Dublin never suffered under Bertie, the former minister for health stuck two primary care centres unnecessarily in his own constituency in Dublin.. All dublin tds return with pockets full and dole it out to their areas, they don’t get reelected for nothing…. The healy -raes are doing the same thing and getting lambasted for it. Some of the geniuses here giving out about them also voted for independents in the election, voting independent is a vote for filling the potholes

We may win a cup yet, Stupidity World Cup and without breaking a sweat.

Jasus he’s a twonk

So liam your telling me a company coming to Ireland is going to set up on the dingle peninsula over a place in Dublin? Yes there was business before broadband, but this is modern day! You do realise that in modern day business access to faster reliable broadband is a major part of a business strategic planning? Read the business post or listen to business news on the radio and you will here this…. Also does Dublin produce it’s own food? You may be able to point out grammar mistakes (or autocorrect issues), but have a distinct lack of understanding of business.

Well you certainly appear to understand business perfectly. I had never realised just how uniform the needs of business were prior to meeting your good self. So all businesses require broadband networks you say? Astonishing, I wouldn’t have thought a large factory producing socks wholesale would necessarily require a fast broadband connection.
You cut your cloth to suit your needs, and the failure of culchies to do this is why culchies will always be dependant on handouts. If you had broadband, motorways and an international airport you’d be moaning about not having a seaport and use that as an excuse for your failures. At some point your problems must stop being everyone else’s fault.

Good man Liam and now you don’t understand society. A lot of business is online so fast reliable broadband for orders, and order processing is essential. Including sock factories! A key demographic of business being based in Dublin is access to population, this leads to them setting up there and then also to people moving there. Have a look at the housing crisis in Dublin, a side effect of dublin centric policy. I’m not sure what moaning and complaining your on about, but politicans are supposed to look after the whole country so why wouldn’t rural politicians highlight rural issues? You seem to possess a confused anger and lack of understanding of where to place it.

I’m not angry, I just think most culchies are pathetic, and you’re illustrating why. All you can see is reasons you can’t succeed, and people to blame those reasons on. Like MHR in the article, you’ll blame it on Dubs, or government, or anyone or anything but yourself.
Lots of business can survive without broadband, it’s only really retail businesses for whom it’s essential. I’m not going to change any minds I doubt, but in 50 years time when the whole country has magnificent broadband and good transport links culchies will just have found new excuses for their failures. The constant readiness for disappointment and the external enemy on whom to blame your woes will never disappear.

What failures? You still haven’t made a logical point, all your doing is moaning without anything to back it up? Your basically the dublin healy rae from your own ranting

@Mark Ryan Of course Dublin has the highest welfare bill it has the largest population. A town with a population of 100,000 and a low unemployment rate has a higher welfare bill than a town of 100 people with 100% unemployment. I think the key word here is per capita… Dublin creates enough tax to pay its own welfare bill and then subsidise rural areas with the change

So every working person in Dublin is from Dublin Vinny? is it also send sufficient in food production too? Is every business brought in by Dublin people? What’s your point on tax anyway? Do you think rural areas should be ignored?