My Type Of People
Mr Gormley asked in relation to the Love Ulster rally why gardai had not monitored the internet which had predicted trouble in Parnell Square.
Mr McDowell said he was “not acquainted with the websites Deputy Gormley stares at in the early hours of the morning, but one of them, www.indymedia.ie, has in the past produced interesting footage.”
The website produced footage - from outside - of the PD Party offices being ransacked by “a group of Deputy Gormley’s type of people,” according to Mr McDowell.
Mr Gormley said that remark was out of line. “I would not condone any such behaviour and I politely ask him to withdraw his remark.”
Needless to say, McDowell didn’t withdraw the remark and was ably helped by the Ceann Comhairle (one of McDowell’s type of people, I presume) who quickly moved things along to the next order of business.
I used to think of Michael McDowell as a sort of an intellectual boot boy but I think now I was being a bit too generous. He is only one of those things.
And, by the way, we’re still waiting to see the FOI request made by Sam Smyth (another of McDowell’s type of people) in relation to Frank Connolly’s (definitely not one of McDowell’s type of people) passport application. Maybe Smyth that can make the request ‘ex post facto’ since McDowell is so fond of the term.
Mark Waters marked time at 9:22 am on March 10th, 2006 .
Needless to say, McDowell didn’t withdraw the remark and was ably helped by the Ceann Comhairle (one of McDowell’s type of people, I presume) who quickly moved things along to the next order of business.
Yes, the visibly-smirking O’Hanlon (Ardal’s da)
I thought McDowell’s remarks were his most disgraceful to date, and that is saying something. The last vestiges of my respect for him slipped away. He’s picked the trick up off the likes of Noel Dempsey who like to mischaracterise their opponents and their remarks rather than do the intellectually decent thing of engaging with them on the issues.
Someone should play the trick on him by aligning him publicly and despite his own wishes with drug promoting, pro pre-1922 Ireland, anti-poor libertarians in the blogosphere. And then just ignore his protests with a smirk and perhaps two fingers.