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Just listened to her on RTE- nothing she said made any sense!
You sound surprised that a FG politician wouldn’t make sense
She was canvassing for votes, as she will get none here
offering to pay for the calls makes her sound like she’s got something to hide. maybe they should dig deeper
She needs to resign her post as a TD
This type of thing needs to be wiped out.
We need legislation that says if a person in public office gets caught using tax payers money for personal use not only are they fired they lose any state pensions they have weaselled from the irish public.
Can someone help me hear, from what I understand she said she was on the phone with a person in Kenya because that person was connected to her and a news paper wrote an article about them and that’s why she called? But there are calls pre the newspaper article. Anyone else confused
why would she be happy to offer a ‘refund’? after all they’re are ‘apparently’ of a political nature.
i knew it was her. FG will try to wiggle out of it like they tried with Shatter.
Jaysus i hope you took a biro from the office before.. What about sticky notes?? Stealing is wrong regardless of value surely? Or is stealing under a certain amount ok?
As a citizen i think all stealing is wrong of any amount.
Besides the deputy was (as already mentioned) probably just helping out nigerian prince who has mislaid his fortune.
The most I’ve ever taking from the Castle Black stationary press is 2 biros, 1 A4 notepad, 2 pink highlighters…. oh an a photocopying machine that no one was using anymore
Exactly so how is this not personal calls. What has this got to do with her political post. So is she saying as a TD you can use taxpayers money to discuss an article about her personal life that a newspaper wrote even if it was before the newspaper ran the story. Confusing it is.
That counts as stealing Mr Snow, off to the Nights Watch with you
This sad pathetic woman needs to get out of politics and the public eye and stop exposing herself to ridicule.
Pure arrogance ! Sooner or later power turns your head regardless of party, most of them are the same !
You know nutin’ Jon Snoooooo
Doooh I was driving along and got a load of speeding fines for €2000…..will the tax payer pay for these for me….its not personal.
….its worth the 2K according to recent recommendations from other TDs… she must have pass their good looking skill test.
how did you know it was her?
Perhaps she was being scammed in one of those fake inheritance offers….silly girl !
The great thing about Edward Snowden is that we know the call is recorded ….. and they were oh so helpful in providing evidence to the Smithwick Tribunal .
King Geoffrey will have your head for that….
You’re full of it john snow
Our money why should she care, probably a boyfriend.
They have all got something to hide
How stupid was she to think making personal calls to a mobile phone in Nigeria was OK?
These people are too naive to be TDs.
Ba ha ha ha ha ha ha….couldn’t have happened to a better person. Hope some more salacious details come out from this. There’s more to this story #fornication
Offering to pay for the calls confirms her guilt. She should resign if she had any principals but that is something very scarce in Fine Gael .
How can they not be personal? He’s her boyfriend.
No he’s not. He’s just riding her.
He’s fornicating her….
Personally I did not personally make personal calls to some one with whom my relationship is formerly personal !
After being elected last time Michelle and her partner were photographed in Ballina , the same partner she was phoning in Kenya ..
Heard on The Last Word that they called Danson Kole and he confirmed that these calls were personal, he was surprised of the phone calls as well. The issue is not the €2000, but the arrogance to take us for idiots using Leinster House’s phone for a sex chat is ludicrous.
Let her pay the bill and it do it agin . Use your own mobile if you feel the need to sweet talk your boyfriend of better still get him to call you .
Official Business? What business or care is it of the Irish taxpayer if some politician in Kenya is been defamed? Lets the Kenyans sort that out, ring your boyfriend on your own dime!
You people are sooo cynical.. There is obviously a nigerian prince in some distress.. The deputy from Mayo was merely helping him out.
Maybe she just likes to get on the Soul Train during lunch hour.
You know nothing john snow.
Don’t call me Lord Snow
Jon how do we know Dan was her boyfriend?
Jon – I have bad news for you .
Your girlfriend faked her own death and changed her hairstyle and got new more modern clothes and hey look – there she is at the top of this article ….
Wildling reared – Wildling shared ?
Poor Michelle,
I think I’ve actually never seen her name in the news for anything good.
Ah yeah. The Minister for Fornication is great entertainment value at least.
Phoneication more like
Trust me, “Fornication” is better. This Kenyan phone caper is the very least of the unintentional comedy gold Michelle Mulherin has provided me with in the last few years. Google her and her views on fornication (her words, obviously). It’s priceless.
I see what you mean:
‘The latter, being fornication, I would say, is probably the single most likely cause of unvouched for parliamentary expenses in this country.
If she was in the US, with all those bat shit crazy ideas she’d be welcomed into the GOP with open arms.
She’d probably run for President over there. God that’s a scary thought; right up there with Palin with her finger on the button scary. It’s mad that such a person is a TD I think.
She also wanted unemployment benefit to be cut , 10 and a half weeks at €188 nearly €2000…
watch this space, she’ll be elected again, i’d put money on it!
Let’s assume that all the calls related to the issue she mentions. Let’s also assume that the full Eircom Band 10 rate of €2.25 a minute inclusive of VAT applied to every call. To run up a €2000 bill, she would have had to spend 15 hours dealing with the issue. That’s longer than the Bank Guarantee took.
So I would suggest that either (a) she’s really inefficient at dealing with problems, or (b) she’s lying through her non-fornicating teeth.
Nice to know that an Irish politician can spare so much expensive time dealing with matters several thousand miles from home.
If such an assiduous attitude were to be applied to our domestic problems we might not be in the mess we now find ourselves in.
A lot more thought will be needed when we visit the polling station – ask, “What sort of politicians do we want?”
For myself, I wouldn’t want Mulherin.
Non foricating teeth lol actually spat my tea out Emily lol
Kenya is only 25c a minute with tesco mobile.
Does she not have Skype?
They’re all getting the new desktop WhatsApp
Why get something for free when someone else can pay for it?
If Enda tells the truth he will sack her because he promised us a new kind of politics . Holding my breath and turning purple!!!!!!!!!
Last month has seen an historical record number of homes seizes by the banks with all the stress, and lasting damage that does to families. In many instances €2000 would have gone a long way to help one of them.
Yet this Nasty Party TD must have been raised with such a silver spoon in her mouth that wasting €2000 making phone calls to her friend in Kenya does not seem to play on her conscience. Most decent people would be ashamed and embarrassed, but not this one it seems.
Another one that’s needs to go ..the taxpayers cant afford these freeloaders ..sick of them all
Her arrogance is incredible! Does she think people are stupid!
licked it off shatter.
She makes Shatter look positively humble
Aaaaaaaw, me so Forni,
Love you long time.
Just shows you – even the most fundamentalist Catholics (Mulherin) and Born Again Christians (Mr. Kole) get a bit forny from time to time. It’s only natural, innit? The only real problem here is that she’s denying it to the point of unbearable hypocrisy to save her arse. I just wonder how duuuuuurrrrrrrty the phone calls to Kenya were…
Why would she refund the money if they are working related calls ? I know I wouldn’t . Something doesn’t add up
indeed, same as i thought.
Disgusting abuse of taxpayers money. How are the calls not personal. Ends needs to get FG to believe in what they preach. What else could be done with that €2k
If this was a private co she would face disciplinary action.
From the article above “During a Dáil debate on abortion on Wednesday, the Mayo TD, who holds strong Christian beliefs, said ‘fornication’ was the single greatest cause of unwanted pregnancies in Ireland” oh so that’s were babies comes from? Thank you for clearing that one up.
Michele,, this smells, these are words that go together well.
Pity she didn’t just tell the truth….
You do realise this is a Fine Gael politician we are dealing with? When have any of them ever told the truth?
The minister for fornication… Isn’t she going out with a guy from Africa… and the casks weren’t personal? What a stupid woman. Get her out…
Now that she has been caught out she is willing to refund the money if that is what she is required to do……really? This TD is a solicitor. She knows the difference between right and wrong. Time that an Garda were called in.
the offer of refund now leaves her wide open. no confidence in her own story.
Great stamina them Kenyans ! I know exactly what she was calling for .
No mention of the fact that Danson Kole was her boyfriend then Hugh no?
Potential whistle-blowers my ass.. Grrrrr.. I’m truly sick of this partys ineptitude. Pathetic.
I just googled ‘Michelle mulherin partner’ and there’s an article about herself and danson. Talk about being liberal with the facts.
She should immediately be forced to resign.
But sure she is in FG. They do whatever the hell they want.
You couldn’t make this up… The comedic value is priceless… It’s a shame I’m not living in Mayo, I’d love to see her arrive at my doorstep…
Has she never heard of skype or whatsapp FFS !!
You hang up…no you hang up..no you first…no you first..
That’s comedic value… Well done… Can’t stop laughing
She said that she wasn’t in touch with him .She lied! Gosh!
I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti ….I seek to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that I’ve become ….
€2k of tax payers money …. there’ll be LOT “Hail Marys” for that Michelle Mulherin!
It has come to the stage that i’m not surprised any more by any of this plundering of tax funded privilege by our TDs. They see themselves as an elite with a warped sense of entitlement. With the salaries, multiple pensions, expenses, allowances, they award themselves, public service as a TD is no more than a gravy train.
and then like fidelma healy eames they dont even bother with tickets for the gravy train
Have never warmed to this lady since the ‘fornication’ comments
” What I am maintaining is I didn’t act outside the jurisdiction of what I’m allowed to do as my job as a politician”.
Roughly translated : I’m entitled.
Disgraceful.
Dial 1890 990707 to use cheapcalls.ie a calling service which only charges you Lo-call fees to Kenya and other countries instead of paying the barbaric Eircom fees. Things like that has to be the norm. But of course, this is not their money so they don’t care. That’s why we need a Michael O’Leary.
Leinster House should obviously have a bundle deal with eircom for international calls,calling lo-call numbers wouldn’t be great for privacy/security with perhaps confidential info.
Using that lo-call service traces the number from an external server, is untraceable.
Imagine O’Leary found out one of his underlings was using a Ryanair deskphone in this manner! You’d hear him roar down in Kerry.
The calls were referring to her boyfriend then? She has been caught out ripping the taxpayers off!
i know, and she expects us to believe it wasn’t personal, “maligned and defamed in the media” hahahahaha where do they get these from. another shatter we have, another solicitor! i’d be more inclined to use a solicitor from the UK than any of the yokes here. just can’t trust them.
This woman speaks with forked tongue.
As my dear ‘ol dad used to say Paudi, “to be a solicitor in Ireland you have to be a crook to defend a crook”. I have found this to be true on more than one occasion.
Isn’t it gas when those solicitors become judges?
No Paul, it’s scary.
If they weren’t personal, why is she contemplating refunding the cost? They were work related or they weren’t. Sounds like she’s lying
The Corruption and Arrogance of FG / Lab, is palpable – the woman wouldn’t answer a straight question on RTE Radio – kept referring matters to – An Ceann Comhairle ? – and we know where we will get with that Gobaloon ?
That reminds me of a certain gentleman with a grizzled beard and an armanilite suit, Ciarraioch
Thomas – What is it that Santa Claus wears ? – “An Armanalite Suit”
Is that what a Red Suit with a Black Belt is called ?
Aquinas – You are a laugh a minute a Chara !
In fact , you are the funniest Blueshirt I heard , since listening to FG’s Michelle Mulherin on Sean O’Rourke’s Radio Programme , trying to divert her Kenyan ExBoyfriend Phone Calls away , by referring the whole matter to An Ceann Comhairle Sean Barrett . He already. with enough problems on his hands with his own mega incompetence and Pat Rabbitte trying to steal his Free Dail Seat from him !!!
What has that to do with a FG TD defrauding the taxpayer?
I don’t care if the said TD is buggering his dog, that’s not what’s being discussed here.
Less of the red herrings.
Sure reminds me of the case of some missing ink cartridges
If its business, then she will have no issue elaborating further.
If its state business, then no harm the people knowing.
If ringing the father of your child counts as business…..
http://www.sexualhealthcentre.com/2012/04/mulherin-women-are-using-abortion-as-birth-control/
Plus, if it was state business and everything is above board then why would she offer to refund the cost of the phonecall? Makes no sense!
That’s not actually her kid though, he had that kid with a different woman.
Still agree that it doesn’t seem to be work related calls.
In a real job you’d be facing disciplinary procedures for misuse of company equipment,finances. This doesn’t seem to apply with our tax monies though. Also if someone was caught lets say thieving 2000 euro from a private enterprise would they expect to be able to get away with it by saying ok I’ll put it back and that’s the end of the matter,I don’t think so.
In my last job someone ran up a phone bill awful close to the one mentioned on a blackberry. They almost lost their job and had to pay the whole lot back. The only reason they weren’t sacked was because it would take to long to replace and train up someone new. Plenty more solicitors, teachers and publicans in the country with ideas of a political career to replace her!
Dear td mushers, I have a million euros needing to be moved to a bank account in ireland, call me!!!!!
*td mulhern!
hahaha, I liked td mushers better!
“Ah, hello Mr Kenya, may I speak to the Prince of Nigeria?
Of course I’ll hold.”
Poor Michelle…
So to clarify she rings her friend in Kenya Danson Kole from her office in Dublin at a time when she was the only one in the building. She in no way fornicated with taxpayers money. 2,000 euros spent ringing this mans mobile was good value for money for the taxpayer. Firstly the people of Ballina gave us the flynn’s now history is repeating itself. It seems that female politicians are even better than their male counterparts when it comes to entitlements.
In fairness to the people of Ballina the Flynn dynasty popped up in Castlebar, the hometown of our Taoiseach. Poor auld Ballina gave us the Calleary dynasty hence the difference between roads and infra structure in North and west Mayo… Of the 4 FG TDs returned in Mayo at the last election only Ring is certain to be returned. Has bought reelection with money being poured into Westport area and Greenway in particular. Lisa Chambers will take Our Leader Beyond Reproach out of it if he hasn’t scurried off under Merkels protection. Mulherin and John O are beaten dockets considering the fact that the number of TDs elected drops to 4 next time. Between youth emigration, unemployment, pylons and everything else FG have ignored all parts of Mayo except the western part of the county. Big trouble ahead for them
Couldn`t happen to a nicer group of guys
Flynn was from Castlebar.
But that’s regardless. She is a liar and now trying to con her way out of it. That guy was her boyfriend and everyone in Ballina knew that.
What political matters would he have to do with the irish person or the irish government. She was caught red handed and needs to steep down now
So how is this not personal calls. This woman should be made to resign immediately. This is disgraceful and her trying to justify it is pathetic.
Fully agree she should be made to resign. And that would be letting her off lightly. Politicians have to answer to some standards. How can we allow them to run up thousands of euros of our money in phone calls to their love interests considering the austerity/perpetual debt that they introduced – that has left so many struggling to make ends meet?
It’s this sort of nonsense that leads rational people to conclude that many of the establishment politicians live in a bubble. This bubble incidentally has already started to burst and many of them in it have no idea.
Kenny & Co (including FF) are looking increasingly irrelevant and not dealing with the key issues of fairness in society and ultimately a required redistribution of wealth.
It’s worrying that FFG still have over 40% of the electorate support,,,
But did you see what Cameron said about the polling companies and how much they get paid …
They no more have 40% than the cat in the moon –
what was their returns in the last two bye-elections – that average is the only poll and it can be reduced since ……..
The climbdown on the conservation made the whole thing very clear to those who hung on in hope that Enda was the man !
polls herd people thoughts towards safety ……. and more importantly away from the lower and perhaps better candidates !
How the bloody hell is that not personal?! The sheer veracity of lies is what pisses me off. How do they stand there and just lie lie lie. It must get tiresome. But I suppose they get well paid for their lies.
You got it Doc.
Who does she think she is fooling?
Ahh the poor women was only trying to collect her fortune from the African prince that she inherited via email the other week.
Dammit!
Got there before me!!!
This African Prince story is as bad as the Temple Bar Receipt at this stage.
But it happens all the time still…. and pints do cost that much in temple bar…..
On the plus side, nobody has mentioned IW yet ;-)
Whoops!
“absolutely no problem making a refund if that’s what’s required”.
ie. – ‘catch me if you can’
Ireland a great little country to do corruption in.
Ireland a great little country to fornicate the electorate in.
Fornication by phone?
Would she have made these calls from her home phone ? I think not ,this is typical waste from the public service that has this country in ruins by the spending of taxpayers money like it was confetti ,no accountability for there actions the only reason she is offering to pay it back is because the media highlighted it,this is only a small example of how public servants behave with other people’s money ,the amount of expenses these goons are allowed claim for is criminal and no other modern society would allow it.
Exactly, in ANY other modern country she would be made resign.
2k of tax revenue wasted.
But no… this is Ireland… we are special ….. let this waster keep her job.
What a clown.
Maybe she was having Phone Fornication.
Is she Jimmy Hills love child with a chin like that
Priceless !!!!
As ugly as iphone Joan and with the same respect for the electorate.
lol, was going to say Joan Burton and Jay Lenos love child!
2k in taxpayer funded calls to her boyfriend would be the equivalent of 21 fraudulent weekly social welfare claims. I wonder what her views on the latter would be?
That’s a very interesting observation. I wonder what would happen to Joe fraudster should they get caught at that lark?! Couple of years in the Joy I’d say. Why should her penalty be any different? Misappropriation through abuse of resources at her disposal. That should be a criminal charge for the whole country. Right across government, industry, the whole shebang!
If I made calls to Kenya and if they were not personal I still would have to pay for them !!!
It was just booty calls to her ex. Give her a break!!
http://www.sexualhealthcentre.com/2012/04/mulherin-women-are-using-abortion-as-birth-control/
Michelle Michelle Michelle relax.
Nobody is accusing you of a crime.
Nobody is saying you broke rules.
What I seriously question is your judgement. My boss allows me use my work phone for personal calls. He never specifically excluded mobile phones in Africa but I think I can make a judgement call on that. Common sense prevails. Even for a work related call I wouldn’t call mobiles in Africa without very very good reason.
You tweeted that you don’t have a personal life outside of politics. Perhaps you are looking for sympathy but I think that might be your problem. Perhaps if you had a life outside politics you might be more in tune with the real world. When you’re in a hole, stop digging.
You should never have made €2k worth of calls to Africa. Stop defending it on technicalities.
Lies!!
If Michelle’s friend was maligned in the media it is for him to take it up with the media company involved and failing that it is a matter for legal advice, not political. She was asked if she had made all the calls to the sa\me number and said that she didn’t know even though she admitted making the calls. Charity prevents me from commenting on that answer.
Another “Deep Burn” Hugh?
Deeeeeeeeeeeepppp! Ya gotta love Hugh!
Toy boy tales.
Do Fine Gael not even have PR? The correct response is:
“I made those calls to a very dear friend of mine, whose support and guidance I have always found invaluable. It was remiss of me not to check how much the calls cost, and I have already made arrangements to repay the money in full. I will also work with the Taoiseach and my other colleagues to ensure that, in future, all TDs are aware of and accountable for the costs of any calls they make. I apologise to the people of Mayo and to the Irish taxpayers for this lapse in judgement.”
Pretty good Derek. That happen to be your game?
Lies!
Is it bad that I am hoping something terrible would happen to her? I mean, like, end her political career, having her arrested for misuse of public funds. Dunno.
Heard her on RTE Radio this morning.
She needs to go…..why the silence from Enda?
Because apparently BellEnda was not polling as relatively well as his fellow constituency cronies, including Mulhearn whom it appears has hung herself up to dry!!
Press release tomorrow …
John Mahoney offers to train Dublin for free if Mayo meet them in the championship !
and ………………Michael Ring retires to hoop ing cough !
Just listened to this yoke on RTE news at 9 pm.
” TD’ s phone records should be off limits”!
“it’s a witch hunt” and she’s “taking legal action”.
You will have plenty of time to visit Africa when the people sack you at the next election…….
As I’m a taxpayer who has to foot the bill for your chinwags, your phone records are, and should remain subject to FOI.
Just another FG member who believes that we the tax payers are here to subsidies them.
Lets pay them their wages… ANY spending after that needs to be out of their OWN pockets and NOT MY MINE!
A god obsessed solicitor and member of legislature but not bright enough to steal public money without getting caught ( by RTE!) and not brave enough or honest enough to admit the game is up. For the love of god go with what little dignity you have left.
Dignity? She doesn’t have any. Let her call her advisor in Kenya, he might have a dictionary handy.
Jaysus Hugh…We never would of guessed!
Is there any reason you forgot to mention she was calling an ex boyfriend Hugh???
I would have thought as a journalist that would have been a main part of the article.
Just curious Hugh.
Interesting to see what our mute leader does with this one…..
“journalist “?
Hahahahahahaha!
Good point Alan D.I left out the words
“Pro Government” before journalist.
Where are all the blueshirts gone?
They were out in force when their parties went up in the polls…..
The Blueshirt heavies will be kicking the Journal door down if they report the truth. Ahhhh the rewards of living in a democracy!!!!!!
Then politicans talk about the cynicism of the public towards the political system, this is precisely why, and hasen`t she ever heard of Skype?
There should be no chocolate allowed during work hours
Why would this surprise anyone? Disgust is perfectly reasonable, surprise is not. This lady is (a) a Fine Gael Politician and (b) a godbotherer. What can we deduce from this? The only morality that interests her is pertaining to sexuality. Apparently “thou shalt not bear false witness” or “thou shalt not steal” are not even on the horizon to these people.
Why don’t you repay it instead of the ‘if required’. You know nobody can ‘require’ you to pay it back.
Why don’t you even pay 1/2 it back?
I suggest you are sitting it out and hoping the story will fizzle out.
If none of the call were personal why is she offering to pay for them? LIAR!
Well she’s a politician who has now claimed that it was entirely for business purposes, and this has been demonstrated to be untrue for at least one very expensive call. Therefore, she needs to go.
Gooooooood afternoooooooon to you sir….maybe she was just pranking them back….
Her relationship with a Kenyan gentleman is merely a coincidence.
When this story first appeared and Hugh asked commentators not to speculate on the politician responsible, I speculated that “because of the authors already established political bias, that it won’t be a FG\Lab politician that is at fault” I was wrong and i feel the need to make amends and offer my apologies for my wrongful presumptions, sorry about Hughie.
*sorry about that Hughie*
She was calling a Prince that has come in to some money people. She didn’t want to email bank details and felt calling would be a safer option.
Voters in Mayo, you know what to do next time at the polls
Calling your boyfriend / ex-boyfriend who lives in Kenya is a political matter? How exactly, Michelle? In what way do the people of Ireland benefit from yer fella talking you off?
It’d be less bad if Skype or Viber didn’t exist – it’s 2cent a minute to call any mobile anywhere in the world, but she didn’t have the respect or decency to do that, oh no, she’s worth it. Or else she’s just too dim, which is quite possible, since the only time this total cretin is in the news is either cringey or downright embarrassing.
Scrounging bint.
If he’s her “political advisor” is he on a salary paid by us?
I wonder who she was calling:
Wouldn’t be anything to do with her boyfriend Danson Kole who lives there?
Know this woman from old , she was one of the first to bring multicultural musings to Ballina and for that reason would never get my vote , that said , who among us haven’t availed of ‘on the job perks’ …him without sin cast the first stone.
that wouldn’t surprise me, considering. theres also what is now more clearer than ever, a fine business here for solicitors using asylum seekers for repetitive appeals. it all stinks as per usual. FG are just as corrupt as FF.
A fair slither of last years 50 million I’d reckon , yesterdays news gets old pretty quick http://www.thejournal.ie/criminal-legal-aid-1899447-Jan2015/
@ugly truth when our business grew we started using skype to call abroad,someone making thousands of calls to foreign mobiles is not availing of a perk ..it’s called taking the pi$$.
“I’d just like to make the proviso, all calls have been made in the course of my work, nothing else.”
One question; many Irish taxpayers in Kenya ???
or maybe stalking an ex boyfriend……. ?????
Also I thought official business of state being carried out abroad had to be conducted through official channels of the department of foreign affairs and by the embassy or consulate of Ireland in that state. Why would a low level TD need to be in such prolonged direct contact with someone in a foreign state on official business?
Probably trying to contact some evangelical Christian cult to find out the next target for her moral outrage.
And of course I was phoning a constituent on constituency business!!!
What does it cost to call a mobile in Kenya? €1 / min?
My back of a fag pack calculation is calls lasting over 30 hours.
That takes even more explaining.
That’s all most an entire working week. She wasted almost an entire working week calling her boyfriend?! No wonder she doesn’t have a life outside of politics, she wastes so much f*ing time when she’s supposed to be working!
Lowry Ming this woman I’m sick to death of hill billy politics
The TD preacher against fornication rides all the Irish taxpayers.
Jaysus Michelle even Debbie, who did Dallas, didn’t manage that……………….
She looks like a dolphin with a wig on.
She should refund the money & apologise
Dan Kole #Stud………..Is there ANYTHING to be said for another Mass!!!!!
IF theft
THEN sackable offence
ELSE Teachta Dála
LOOP AD INFINITUM
The dirty fecker, making sexy calls while at work.
Another reason not to vote for this lot again. .
Can someone at least please teach this woman how to use Skype
Bloody nutter! How did she ever get elected!! Doesn’t say much for us the electorate, did we get what we deserved???
Utter fornication !!!
This saga reminds me of the guess the word/phrase joke as told by David Brent.
She said she is the victim of a “witch hunt”! How could anyone looking at that photo possibly confuse her with The Wicked Witch Of The West? For shame.
She’s more like the wicked witch of the East …….
Hugh explanation on why my legally entitled opinion was removed – It was nothing more than an opionion based on historical fact ….
I AM annoyed by this !
A fair and rational reason will un-annoy me Hugh – nothing personal !
As I thought ….. so predictable !
This puts the theft of €50,000 of printer toner into perspective.
O’Snotty has nice little earners in many areas. Apparently, he makes a nice income from organisations posing as charities collection old clothes.
She was ringing that African prince that emailed her saying she won the Ugandan lotto. The money hasn’t transferred to her account yet!
Ring the fornication party line, single Kenyan guys waiting to take your call!
Who was the African man hugging her in the photo RTE News showed?
She should refund the outlay without delay or be fired by ENDA!
Will we now have a Mobilegate?
Ha bet she’s Danson now … on hot Koles …
Blatant abuse of her post and of tax payers money !
NIce picture here of the two phone buddies….
This woman is a disgrace to the entire human race, She should be banned from using, looking at or even being in the same building as a phone. She should never have any contact with anybody from this day forward. Lock her up and throw away the key.
Or everybody should chill the F@*# out And focus on more important issues.
Also pay for your water and stop moaning.
Cheers
Could she not have made a collect call! Or better still go to an Internet cafe to pay like the rest of us have to do, to ring abroad, worlds worse best liar now a the moment. .resign now please. .
Maybe she was contacted by an exiled Nigerian prince about a large sum of US Dollars he has stuck in a bank account and she decided to solve Irelands financial problems by helping him liberate the funds to an Irish bank account, in return for a %age… All we need is the “release fee” money to be sent off and Ireland will be debt free!!!
She msu be a fan of The BBC (big black c…)!
End of the day nothing will happen and come the next election she will be probably be elected again……
I reckon the guy in Kenya just waned her bank details so he could deposit 100million dinar into her account and she was just obliging !!!
She is acting like Bertie Ahearn. When in trouble, defend yourself against things you haven’t even been accused of. Let’s keep this simple.
How many times did you call this number? Publish the dates and more importantly, how long were the phone calls?
I guess this adds up to many many hours of phone calls. That needs to be explained.
All this talk of I don’t have a personal life outside of politics is a side show.
It’s a lot of money but it’s acceptable if you have good reason. For that we need to know how many calls were made and over what period of time.
Maybe she won the lottery and was just claiming her prize
another lying Blueshirt!!!
Strange she should mention the potential damage to whistleblowers considering her parties shameful treatment of same when they did come forward….the word “Disgusting” springs to mind.
Ok.
€80 per month gets me unlimited any network calls. That’s €960 per year.
If an elected politician wants to call somebody anywhere in the world, I’ve no problem with that.
If a phone company has a contract with Dáil Éireann that permits them to screw the tax payer for a number of phone calls and or data usage then shouldn’t the contract be in question, not the business of the politician?
I mean, it’s not as though Denis O’Brien is benefitting is it?
This is a unreal insight to her life. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133351/Fornication-row-TDs-little-secret-Deputys-partner-lovechild–girlfriend-17-years-junior.html
Doesn’t this woman own 6 or 7 properties, could have easily afforded to pay for these personal calls on her own mobile, I’m not paying for them, get her out
In case you missed her pathetic defence, here is the link… “Eh, what I would say is …. blah blah shameless arrogant stomach-churning snivelling excuse for wasting tax payers money on calls to my special friend blah blah ” Her definition of Danson as a third party is priceless.
http://m.rte.ie/news/2015/0126/675651-mulherin-kenya/#media
Thats all cleared up now ,not ,Its ok the taxpayer will pay for it ,Another greedy snout in the trough ,
We only have her word for that???
I like chocolate!
How she has the cheek to say they weren’t personal calls is beyond me.
Another example of an Irish politician brazenly treating us like fools.
Why are people acting like she was taken in by the Kenyan Prince email scams and was calling him and wiring money to his account?
Hello, I hope you’re not at your tea. My name is Michele Mulherne and I have been a TD for this constituency since the last election. I was hoping I could count on your vote in the next election and do you mind if I use your phone to make a quick call?
Never seen so many green thumbs and so few red
If she needed to get in touch with him so badly why didn’t she email him. It wouldn’t have cost the TAXPAYER €2,000.
Has it got to the point where there needs to be a rule like with kids “you must seek the billpayers permission to use this service”
Or maybe….he was taking part in a celebrity reality show……
When its taxpayers money it matters . These people taking the taxpayer for mugs
Type Michelle Mulhern boyfriend into google images … who is that guy she is with ?? Danson ? that you bruh ?
Fire brigade and 4 squad cars outside her Ballina office tonight
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