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    Heather Humphreys del Fine Gael ha evitato una tassa sulla proprietà sul vecchio collegio elettorale

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    1. Inexorable_Fenian on

      But Connolly represented banks during bail out trials! That’s the *real* story, you know, how Connolly… did her job as was required. How dare she!

      What party was responsible for bailing out those banks you might ask? Never mind that. Connolly represented them, that’s the *real* story.

      Preemptive /s

    3. brentspar on

      Somehow I can’t see the Independent picking up this story.

    4. jumpbutton23 on

      Very curious how much this does or doesn’t get picked up outside of Ditch-adjacent circles.

    5. dustaz on

      Hahaha, “fuck off and leave me alone”

      That’s the first bit of personality I’ve seen from HH in this election

      Who says the ditch are completely useless

    6. DunkettleInterchange on

      I don’t know if I care, I expect this type of behaviour from FFG politicians.

      This won’t change anyone’s voting intentions.

      Anyone voting for FFG at this point doesn’t care about this type of behaviour.

    7. StinkyHotFemcel on

      Realistically should be a campaign sinker but probably won’t be. Interested to see how it will be reported on.

    8. pingu_nootnoot on

      what happens if all the candidates are disqualified before the election?

    10. SeasonOpening7042 on

      You don’t pay property tax on a business premise. This is why the Ditch is not a credible source. This was released to muddy the waters and hope something sticks. It is of zero journalistic merit. It won’t be picked up by other sources not because they don’t want to, but because the story is shite. 

    11. RealDealMrSeal on

      >“Fuck off and leave me alone” was her answer to The Ditch after admitting in 2023 she was using two upper-floor derelict flats as “storage for the office” at the same Cavan property without planning permission.

      Very presidential response

    13. Ineedredditt on

      That’s rich coming from the editor at the ditch Roman Shortall who owed 50k to his landlord….

    14. johnmcdnl on

      [Dec 19, 2024 | The Cootehill office for Fine Gael that was run by Heather Humphreys since 2011 is to remain open under Deputy David Maxwell.](https://www.northernsound.ie/news/cootehill-fine-gael-office-to-remain-open-249531)

      Ditch: “She was exempt from paying business rates (also known as commercial rates) till November 2024 while the property was used as her constituency office.”

      So – it’s being used as a constituency for the new FG TD. So what exactly has changed in terms of it being used for a business? Why would she have to pay tax on it now, if it was exempt when she was using it?

      If they are claiming that ‘November 2024’ is because of the election date – Humphrey’s would have still part of the government in the minister role until 23 January 2025 when the new government was finally elected, so her having an office still seems fairly normal unless there’s some specific technical definition of what a constituency office is allowed to be used for. There’s no such reference in the article though.
      Even if there is, it still seems like they had announcements publically that it would continue to be used and so seems quite reasonable to assume this was decided privately sooner and possibly even within the 10 days mentioned.

    15. micosoft on

      The office is vacant and unrentable as it stands looking at [street view](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.0726491,-7.0821586,3a,75y,125.96h,94.4t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqZXYewpRApZMHhFZXdBQ6A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-4.399571468449764%26panoid%3DqZXYewpRApZMHhFZXdBQ6A%26yaw%3D125.96397734431389!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTAwNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D)*. From the part of Cavan’s [Rent fact sheet ](https://www.cavancoco.ie/business/commercial-rates/refund-of-rates/rates-information-sheet-2025.pdf)that “Theditch” left out…

      “Are rates payable if the property is under renovations / closed for repairs?

      If a property is under renovations or closed for repairs, you should contact us in

      order that we can carry out an inspection. Rates are not payable for the period

      that the property is under renovations, subject to verification that this is the case.”

      So in all likelihood she just needs to inform the council of the fact she is renovating the property and she is exempt instead of the Ditch’s “criminal” nonsense. Even if it is just vacant the Council can write it off. Not much of a news story but par for the course with “The Ditch”.

      *Also of note is that there is no way into the upstairs except through the ground floor from the street so hardly two derelict “rentable homes” as alleged previously by the Ditch.

    16. ExampleNo2489 on

      I wonder about the all the people defending her crap tenure as minister and Orange order connections with justify this

    17. ExampleNo2489 on

      I wonder about the all the people defending her tenure as minister and Orange order connections with justify this

    18. MarionberryHappy1944 on

      Why is anyone taking anything seriously from the Ditch? It’s a pro Russian propaganda outlet which clearly tries to so division here. They have been caught lying numerous times. Also they are financed by the pompous self righteous TRINNERS BOY TWAT/CUNT Paddy Cosgrove

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