Mick Wallace running for the Dail

**Mario** · 06/02/2011, 8:50 PM

Hopefully the mods can leave this here for a day or two rather than rush it off to current affairs section as I myself like maybe many others posters here never look in the current affairs section ...

http://www.facebook.com/votemickwallace

**cornflakes** · 07/02/2011, 7:50 AM

He has my vote, told the auld folks he was running the other morning and they said they'd vote for him.
I've heard a few people say they'd vote for him who would have no interest in the youths or football at all, hes an alternative to the usual ****e down here
He'l get the protest vote but I don't think he'l get enough to get a seat. Be great if he did tho
Imagine the big dirty head of hair on him in the dail!!

**Enruoblehs** · 07/02/2011, 8:02 AM

But on the downside - if he won a seat, would he be lost to the Youths and to football for 5 years?

**Spudulika** · 07/02/2011, 8:24 AM

I like Mick as a person. He has some very good concepts and he's a very educated and learned person. However this precludes him from being any use in the Dail. I don't want to see him get in there as he's too good for the place. I'd rather see him appoint a Governmental advisor on community sports development along with Gary Keegan and a few other notables. His energy will be wasted in the Dail with the spoofers and creeps. Then again, it's not too different from LOI football :-)

**John83** · 07/02/2011, 8:58 AM

I read about this in the Tribune yesterday. It also mentioned that he has debts of over €40 million.

Which reminds me, I was on the LUAS the other day, and I overheard a snippet of a conversation "...hair like Billy Connolly...builder..." Who else could they have been talking about?

**pineapple stu** · 07/02/2011, 9:02 AM

Originally Posted by John83

I read about this in the Tribune yesterday.

I thought the Tribune wasn't published yesterday? Sure you weren't reading the Mail?

**D.24saint** · 07/02/2011, 9:06 AM

I thought the Tribune wasn't published yesterday? Sure you weren't reading the Mail?

thought that was a disgraceful stunt wouldn't touch the mail after that.

**pineapple stu** · 07/02/2011, 9:08 AM

You'd have touched it before?

**Macy** · 07/02/2011, 9:40 AM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

I'd rather see him appoint a Governmental advisor on community sports development along with Gary Keegan and a few other notables. His energy will be wasted in the Dail with the spoofers and creeps. Then again, it's not too different from LOI football :-)

I'd rather he was in Dáil, talking about wider social issues. imo he'd be waster with a sports only brief.

Is he ULA aligned?

**John83** · 07/02/2011, 9:51 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I thought the Tribune wasn't published yesterday? Sure you weren't reading the Mail?

No, I saw that, picked it up, did a double take and found the real thing.

**pineapple stu** · 07/02/2011, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by John83

and found the real thing.

Are you sure?

(Just seems strange cos everything I've heard on the radio or read on the internet indicated that it wasn't out at the weekend)

**cornflakes** · 07/02/2011, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by Macy

I'd rather he was in Dáil, talking about wider social issues. imo he'd be waster with a sports only brief.

Is he ULA aligned?

No he agrees with some of ULA's policies/thoughts/opinions/whatever but not everything.

I don't see him being in the Dail with a sports only brief, I think he was proven that with his previous campaigning

**osarusan** · 07/02/2011, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Are you sure?

(Just seems strange cos everything I've heard on the radio or read on the internet indicated that it wasn't out at the weekend)

also: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...289182542.html

**Dodge** · 07/02/2011, 10:29 AM

Nothing against wallace, who seems a decent bloke, but whats the point in another independent fighting for local concerns? Isn't parish pump politics the problem in Ireland?

**John83** · 07/02/2011, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Are you sure?

(Just seems strange cos everything I've heard on the radio or read on the internet indicated that it wasn't out at the weekend)

Not completely - just picked it up to scan over a cup of tea.

Originally Posted by osarusan

also: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...289182542.html

I saw the version in that picture all right. It was a slim, one volume thing for €1. The one I picked up instead was a €2.70 paper with lots of sections - sport, lifestyle, business, an arts/fashion magazine. If that was the Mail too, they've stolen more than a banner.

**osarusan** · 07/02/2011, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Nothing against wallace, who seems a decent bloke, but whats the point in another independent fighting for local concerns? Isn't parish pump politics the problem in Ireland?

He's actually running to reforn the dail so that TDs don't /can't get elected in local issues so much.

EDIT: Not only that issue I'm sure, but that also.

**Longfordian** · 07/02/2011, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by John83

Not completely - just picked it up to scan over a cup of tea.

I saw the version in that picture all right. It was a slim, one volume thing for €1. The one I picked up instead was a €2.70 paper with lots of sections - sport, lifestyle, business, an arts/fashion magazine. If that was the Mail too, they've stolen more than a banner.

The editor of the Sunday Tribune has been all over the media complaining about the shameful act of the Mail taking advantage of the Tribune not being out so it seems you may be the only person in the country to have gotten one this weekend! Did you check the date?!

**Enruoblehs** · 07/02/2011, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by John83

It also mentioned that he has debts of over €40 million.

Does this not preclude him from taking a seat in he Dáil?

**John83** · 07/02/2011, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Longfordian

The editor of the Sunday Tribune has been all over the media complaining about the shameful act of the Mail taking advantage of the Tribune not being out so it seems you may be the only person in the country to have gotten one this weekend! Did you check the date?!

I wish I'd kept it now. Can't imagine what it could have been if it wasn't the Tribune. Definitely not last week's - Wallace article, sports results, etc rule it out.

Originally Posted by Enruoblehs

Does this not preclude him from taking a seat in he Dáil?

I've never heard of such a rule. No word of that in the article I read either.

**plankton** · 07/02/2011, 11:40 AM

I saw Mick Wallace on Vincent Browne on Friday night, he speaks more sense than the rest of them put together. Someone with a bit of passion and a sense of justice for the people is exactly what we need in the Dail