Politics 2017
So David Drummās trial is expected to hear from almost 100 witnesses and could last up to five months. Will probably collapse after four, he will walk away as will our esteemed legal profession, massively enriched ā¦
Donāt you know it. Wonder if destroyed documents from the OCE will affect this trial also.
Quite likely but letās have it run for three or four months before we spring that particular baby.
Pretty damaged if ya ask me over the McElduff brain dead act. She was made to look like a tit after he resigned. I would think Toibin or Pearse Doherty would of been better.
Her vocal delivery is deplorable. She tries to sound like what sheās not and comes off as sounding like she thinks weāre all idiots who need to be spoken to slowly. She wouldnāt be a bridge builder either.
Agree, he should have been chucked right out on his ear. Though on Alans points, i canāt listen to her for more than 20 seconds without having to stick ma pencil in my ear to stop the pain.
Barry McElduff is an odd one. And not far from me in Aghagogan.
Heās posted a series of videos with items on his headā¦water, chocolate bar etc.
Even made a video of himself buying a chocolate bar from a vending machine beside the DUP officeā¦as if he was on a spying mission.
Also sees himself as the class clown in Stormont.
For that reason I donāt think he set out to cause a storm - certainly no gain in it.
But the leadership shouldāve seen that events would snowball. SF were blind-sided big time.
Pearse Doherty or Eoin OāBron are serious performers in the dail. Mary Lou has a touch of the Eamon GIlmores about her. All she can do is hurl from the ditch and not particularly good at that either.
To be honestā¦McGuiness tried at reconciling with the DUP and got nowhere.
Even liberal Unionist commentators criticised them for not reciprocating.
I genuinely mean it that the only time Iāve saw the DUP act with manners is when govt was pulled down.
Iād say there are lot of DUPāers wishing they could go back to when McGuiness was in charge.
Neither do I.
And even if I did. Heās a bloody member of parliament. What kind of carry on was he at? The whole lot of them should stay the hell away from social media and have a bit of dignity.
Twitter is without a doubt that greatest scourge of the internet.
But who was he appealing to and what way could he have gained.
He had 41 other anniversaries to do it and didnāt.
At their party convention at the La Mon hotel a year ago, the DUP danced and sang āArleneās on fireā.
12 people were killed in a fire at the La Mon hotel following an IRA bomb in the 70s.
Co-incidences happen.
Despite that, I agree McElduff shouldāve resigned.
Alternatively there were 364 other days he could have done it and he didnāt.
Makes him the unluckiest man in politics if he didnāt know what he was doing.
I agree. Heās an idiot.
But Iāve never picked up a Kingsmill loaf of bread and thought of the Kingsmill massacreā¦until now.
And I couldnāt have told you when that anniversary wasā¦until now.
If McElduff meant itā¦heād have absolutely nothing to gain from it.
If Republicans had sang āGerryās on Fireā at the La Mon hotelā¦people would never have believed it was unintentional.
As I say, just for being so stupid he shouldāve resigned. But not because I think he meant it.
If it was intentional he deserved the boot, full stop.
If it was unintentional he deserved the boot for being an idiot, on so many levels.