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CAMPAIGNER GEMMA O’DOHERTY has announced she intends on running in the upcoming European elections.
She made the announcement at a meeting on 10 April before confirming it in a live video on social media.
In the video, she said she will “fight to the death to save [Ireland] from the desecration that we are seeing all around us”, which is why she has decided to run in the European elections. She said she will be putting in her nomination papers in over the coming days.
She continued:
I announced this last night after many sleepless nights because it is the last thing I want to do. Being a journalist, stepping into the dark side of politics has been extremely difficult for me, but I know that it is the only way that we can change things – bar a revolution. It may be left to the next generation or the generation behind them, to bring about a revolution. I hope not for their sakes, but for us now it is about entering the political arena unfortunately and it has to be done, and I am willing to do it.
O’Doherty said she is going to offer her group Anti-Corruption Ireland to the Irish people and “if they don’t want it I can say that I tried but they didn’t want it, they wanted to continue to pursue the death of their country”. But she said she “can’t do it on my own”.
Liberal politics
O’Doherty had tried to run in last October’s presidential election, but failed to secure enough nominations from county councils to get on the ballot.
In the video, O’Doherty described herself as a liberal whose politics are probably more inclined to the traditional left.
“Because I have always stood up for the poor; I see the inequality. That’s my academic background,” she said. “That’s why I’m against mass immigration, mass uncontrolled immigration as opposed to controlled immigration.” She said that mass uncontrolled immigration drives down wages.
Last year, O’Doherty was criticised by the brother of murdered journalist Veronica Guerin for her comments on her killing. Jimmy Guerin said that O’Doherty’s comment – that she believed Guerin was murdered by the State – was “disgusting” and “offensive”.
In the video, which is filmed on a beach, O’Doherty said that rural Ireland “is signing its own death warrant” but that people living in rural Ireland “are more awake to what’s going on than their cousins in Dublin”.
She criticised wind turbines in the video, describing them as sinister, saying “there’s a criminal cabal working to make us think our planet can’t cope”. She also said she had seen a sign for an autism-friendly town, but that it is “very hard to know what to say when you see things like this” as people should question the reasons for autism rates in Ireland.
In February, O’Doherty and a small number of followers protested at the Google offices in Dublin over changes to her YouTube account.
The European elections will be held on Friday 24 May in Ireland, on the same day as the local elections. Thirteen MEPs will be elected. Ireland currently has 11 out of the 751 seats in the European Parliament. After Brexit and some reorganisation of seats, we will gain two more seats, meaning we will have 13 MEPs – however, due to the UK’s exit date being extended, the two extra MEPs may not immediately be able to take their seats.
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“were called on by CER to reduce their prices, ”
“Called on”
CER.
Commission for Energy Regulation.
High sounding titles.
Useless, toothless quango “regulators”
Good at rubber stamping increasing prices.
Unable to enforce reductions.
Is this the same CER that granted a price increase to the energy companies without being asked? Irish regulation is a contradiction in terms.
Back in 2009 Simon Coveney asked in DE-
notes the decision of the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) during July 2008 to grant electricity and gas price increases of 17.5% and of 20% respectively, due to spiralling oil prices at $147 a barrel;
is disappointed at the failure to reduce energy prices in the most recent review of prices as oil has collapsed by over 80% to approximately $40 a barrel;
notes that approximately 10% of every electricity bill is directly attributable to energy companies being compelled by the regulator to factor in the cost of carbon (emitted during generation) into their electricity pricing, despite the fact that they themselves are not currently required to pay for carbon allowances for emissions (until 2013 when a carbon trading market will function across the EU);
Shane Mac Diarmada is not only ignorant, he is arrogant.
Regulators of a market do not set prices. You would know that if you knew anything about economics.
More scaremongering from Eirgrid…they must be applying to bord pleanala to carve up the country some more soon.
And yet no mention of them in the article?
Staring at my plug socket now. Let me know when someone else starts staring at theirs so I can stop and get a cup of tea. Strong shift work and we’ll beat this price rise lads.
Lets watch them carefully so.
Second cheapest electricity in europe before regulation…. regulator appointed and prices go up to make higher profits for subsidised private companies. Nice
That’s the Irish way :D more money out the door for the average man and woman. For feck sake…
More wind mills = Bills goes up
Someone has to subsidies those useless and ugly things
Never mind if they wreck environment and rural communities. We need them you ve been told !
We pay more in PSO subsidies to subsidize rural electricity than goes to windmills. They only pay a small fraction of the additional cost to provide electricity to extremely rural houses.
Plus we have done this for decade after decade.
It’s a tiny payback to a have a few windmills.
I be no problem with some wind mill farms if it s done in a sensible manner and as part of a mix renewable energy plan. What I m against is the steam rolling of those at the minutes without any considerations just because few fat cats have vested interests and / or get fat brown envelopes.
Here are 3 facts that disturb me :
1) France Germany and England have a segregation zone of 1.5 km between wind mills and residences yet Ireland has 500 m which isn’t much considering the size and noise of those monsters.
2) abp is accepting projects even when their own inspectors told them it doesn’t make sense
3 ) when a wind mill company applies for planning permission they produce an impact statement , those are put together by “independent expert ” employed and paid by those wind mill company ? How is that suppose to be fair and independent, I might be naive but I feel the results of such “independent” researches might go only one way
That’s because Irish Water will be billing them more than they are paying now.
That doesn’t even make sense.
Electric Ireland uses huge amounts of fresh water.
The discounted rate they get at the moment will be gone soon.
When the discount is gone they will be paying a fortune to produce electricity.
Of course we will have to pick up the cost there.
That is the sense that I think you are missing?
Did they stick a water meter into Ardnacrusha dam?
No jimmy,
That would be very silly wouldn’t it.
Why don’t you Google how coal, turf, oil electricity power stations work.
You will see all you need to know.
Water for cooling turbines is drawn directly in from rivers, lakes, etc.
Electric Ireland is one of a half dozen electricity supply companies and there are another dozen electricity generators. You’ve no idea how the market works in Ireland do you ?
Also none of them pay a penny to Irish water for the water they use in their plants. The provide the water themselves. So they don’t get a discounted rate on water.
You are complete spoofer and a blatant liar. Say sorry for lying.
There is only one electricity power station company in Ireland. Plenty of so called suppliers. And they will be charged for there use of water in the future, regardless if they take it out of a river or lake.
Bord na Móna own Edenderry power station, so that makes two companies.
That power station is basically a subcontracted station. Like so many others. There is only one power grid.
Only one real power supplier.
And yet the deluďed raucous mases turn up in their NIMBY droves when there is the mere mention of;
wind:farm;solar:green;
Thank you for allowing me read perhaps the most vacuous comment on the journal today.
Btw it’s ‘masses’ not ‘mases’.If your attempt at insulting others is to succeed you have to be above reproach.
Its ok, no one takes “Ruth” seriously anymore, not even the trolls.
Well of course she misspelled a word so obviously nothing she says can be taken seriously.
No Neal the incorrect spelling is amusing considering the contempt she levels at the ‘masses’.
But wind was going to make electricity cheaper or so eamonn Ryan says
Blame smell check!
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