La candidata presidenziale Heather Humphreys ha fatto causa per diffamazione al TD Paul Murphy
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/presidential-candidate-heather-humphreys-sued-for-defamation-by-td-paul-murphy/a357970273.html
di lifeandtimes89
26 commenti
Hes too right to sue, too. Im sure he’lll delight in taking a few quid from her. She should know better and has doubles and tripled down on the defamation. Im sure this will work wonders for her campaign.
Murphy really is an idiot. (not specific to this incident)
FAFO basically after the RTE presenter twice had to correct her and still said stuff
Absolutely right. She shouldn’t have doubled down when the host was trying to protect her, that’s what she gets. Very professional of her.
Good its time for him to face the consequences of riling up an angry mob
Less a Presidential race, more multiple Sideshow Bobs walking into rakes.
Heading into the last few days of canvassing …Distractions for FG/Heather starting to pile-up like so much road-kill…
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If the jury didn’t convict I doubt another one will have any problems finding in his favour. Both FF and FG seem determined to outdo each other in incompetence this election cycle. Really making the unifcation of the left parties against them easy.
The timing of this is designed to hurt her presidental campaign, not to actually win a defamation case. Murphy is a chancer and a clown
What’s he suing her for?
By saying that he and a mob trapped Joan Burton in her car?
Considering there is a video of it with him saying “when will we let them out”
You’d think to double or triple down on it she’d be confident about a defamation challenge but isn’t Irish law particularly soft when it comes to defamation? Seems a really stupid point for HH to have been staunch in defending.
What did she actually say?
Pool aul’ Heather, it’s just getting worse every day.
I know Murphy’s a regular target for FF/FG but this specific issue has been so thoroughly debated and, of course, contested in a court of law. She was quite obviously on the attack in that debate but that seemed like a fairly lazy, half-baked attempt to point score on CC – which the host twice tried to coax her away from doing. Obviously in a debate like that she wasn’t going to walk her comments back on-air, but after he alluded to sueing a few days ago, if she had half a brain in her head a quick, lip-service retraction would have served her well.
This is what happens when you play American politics where the legal system protects people. Politicians can’t say and do whatever they like.
The polls are showing more and more in favour of Catherine as time goes on. They suggest that Heather’s chance has gone.
With this in mind I wonder if she’ll change tact and show a bit more grace during the final week and try to come out of this with some dignity at the very least.
I listened to that radio debate and Humphreys went completely off-piste.
Perhaps they thought it was a clever idea to try and attack Catherine Connolly. She didn’t bite and it just came across as Humphreys not being a safe pair of political hands.
For being the architects of their own downfall, both FF and FG are at Grand Designs level.
A true masterclass in own goals.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he (or she) is making a mistake”
Two career politicians sniping at each other for political gain before an election.
Meh.
He can sue all he likes and point to the court judgement. But there’s still an almighty stink off Comrade Murphy for his actions on that day that’ll never go away.
He’ll never admit it, or maybe he’ll wait til the autobiography, but if could do it all over again I’ve no doubt he’d have done it differently.
Based on her comments he’s well within his right to sue. The article is damning.
She’s a nasty yoke and is being found out. We must not let American style politics take root here.
Has SIPO given any advice to whether a settlement for this would count as an election expense?
Last thing you want in week leading up to voting day
It’s a pretty pathetic attempt to attack Connolly by association. Given Heather’s own connections to the Orange Order, that’s not the sort of thing that I think would be sensible. Connolly doesn’t seem like the type of politician that’s going to go on the attack in that direction though.
She is having a disastrous run isn’t she?
Watch Humphries withdraw from the race now too.
She said she wasn’t physically up to being a TD, yet ran for this post anyway, having a pretty woeful campaign, no way she faces down a court case. Apology to Murphy along with a withdrawal now I predict
About fucking time. Fine Gael is in the find out stage