The European Elections Thread

johnfás wrote:

But wouldn't she be just great PR for them?

A friend of mine once got a phonecall from Sinnott asking her to essentially be her PA in Brussels - she ran a mile!!

Running a mile, a good career move! I cannot stand her! I have heard things from her local area, lots of people not happy about the situation there.

spillercork wrote:

johnfás wrote:

But wouldn't she be just great PR for them?

A friend of mine once got a phonecall from Sinnott asking her to essentially be her PA in Brussels - she ran a mile!!

Running a mile, a good career move! I cannot stand her! I have heard things from her local area, lots of people not happy about the situation there.

I can see the match with Libertas. Did you see Declan Ganley's interview in The Hibernian? For God, Country and the American Irish Way

Does the Libertas Charter still appear on their website? It was heavily about the relationship between Europe and Christendom. I found it bizarre that David Cochrane was so involved owing to the fact that he, for a long time, prohibited discussion on faith on politics.ie. I will bear it in mind when they come looking for support from various groups of which I would have the ear.

johnfás wrote:

Does the Libertas Charter still appear on their website? It was heavily about the relationship between Europe and Christendom. I found it bizarre that David Cochrane was so involved owing to the fact that he, for a long time, prohibited discussion on faith on politics.ie. I will bear it in mind when they come looking for support from various groups of which I would have the ear.

There was an anti-islam piece that was rewritten recently. I have a copy somewhere. Declan Ganley is very religious, very much anti abortion, a bit like european right wing Christian Democrats/Francoists ?

Is David Cochrane still so into Libertas as he was?

Have you heard Declan Ganley talking about faith? I couldn't really care less what the religion of politicans are, what I am interested in is their policies. However, as a Christian, I do get slightly annoyed when people artificially try to court me based on faith politics. That is why I would be interested to hear him discuss his faith.

Being anti-abortion doesn't make you anything, I know plenty of people without faith who are anti-abortion and I know very many committed Christians who consider it the lesser of evils in certain circumstances.

cactus flower wrote:

johnfás wrote:

Does the Libertas Charter still appear on their website? It was heavily about the relationship between Europe and Christendom. I found it bizarre that David Cochrane was so involved owing to the fact that he, for a long time, prohibited discussion on faith on politics.ie. I will bear it in mind when they come looking for support from various groups of which I would have the ear.

There was an anti-islam piece that was rewritten recently. I have a copy somewhere. Declan Ganley is very religious, very much anti abortion, a bit like european right wing Christian Democrats/Francoists ?

Is David Cochrane still so into Libertas as he was?

Interesting Cactus - Kathy Sinnott who is strongly pro-life appeared with Libertas in opposing Lisbon - however on other issues she would be in a very different camp and in fact has said that she was the person who coined the expression 'people before profit'. Keen enviornmentalist and someone I'd have a lot of time for outside her fairly conservative/traditional religious views.

johnfás wrote:

Have you heard Declan Ganley talking about faith? I couldn't really care less what the religion of politicans are, what I am interested in is their policies. However, as a Christian, I do get slightly annoyed when people artificially try to court me based on faith politics. That is why I would be interested to hear him discuss his faith.

Being anti-abortion doesn't make you anything, I know plenty of people without faith who are anti-abortion and I know very many committed Christians who consider it the lesser of evils in certain circumstances.

Yes, I have, he does it all the time. In fact he talks more about religion than he does about his political policies.
This is a long piece about Lisbon, No and religion, that I found a bit hard to follow, but you might be interested.
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:c_lE2VmCnJgJ:cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/the-irish-political-landscape-post-lisbon-all-changed-changed-utterly-apparently-not/+The+Hibernian+Declan+Ganley&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=ie