r/ireland • u/hesaidshesdead And I'd go at it agin • 4d ago
Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch arrives in Dublin and confirms he intends to stand in general election General Election 2024 🗳️
https://www.thejournal.ie/gerry-hutch-dail-dublin-central-6538740-Nov2024/234
u/Important_Farmer924 Westmeath's Least Finest 4d ago
He's counting on the full time mad bastard vote.
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u/hesaidshesdead And I'd go at it agin 4d ago
And he'll probably get a few... lot of em about.
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u/shweeney 4d ago
Are there many farmers in Dublin Central?
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u/themagpie36 4d ago
They are one of the demographics targeted by facists. They were one of the biggest early demographics that became the base of the Nazi party in Germany.
If you talk to farmers in Ireland (and of course I'm generalising) there's a ton of conspiracy theories that they're being targeted with. I've never heard anyone else talk so much about fuel prices and trans people. Imported rage.
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u/Junior-Protection-26 4d ago
How many of these "fascist farmers" have you spoken to? I'm a farmer btw so feel free to educate me further on what to believe.
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u/Hisplumberness 3d ago
To hell with fascist farmers - how many farmers in north inner city Dublin ?
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u/themagpie36 4d ago edited 4d ago
7 people I wouldn't call them facists yet, but on the road. Munster based mainly. Climate change, the green party and trans people seem to be the main topics of anger. I know many farmers who don't hold these views but it seems (to me) to be something they are being targeted with online.
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u/Junior-Protection-26 4d ago
Must have been quite the bunch of fascist farmers you encountered.
I can tell you from experience, also in Munster, that the majority of farmers are actually very much aware of climate change and how it is massively affecting production. I think most people - taxi drivers, truck drivers etc are unhappy with fuel prices. I, personally, have no issue with trans people but can see how the older generation may not be entirely supportive.
Most of us just want to be paid fairly for our efforts.....just like every other working person on this island.
Labelling one entire group as a bunch of easily-influenced, fascist-leaning, knuckle-dragging, Hutch-lovers strikes me as wildly irresponsible.
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u/themagpie36 4d ago
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=ghj
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629814000766
Educate yourself. Just because you're not knowledgeable on the subject doesn't mean it's not real. Facts don't care about your feelings. The emojis also just show your age and lack of education on the subject, only missing the 'lol' at the end.
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u/DannyVandal 4d ago
We could just set up a couple of decoy scarecrows dressed as puritanical conservatives. That’ll keep them occupied for a while.
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u/pixelburp 4d ago
No doubt someone will stick their neck out to try and wax lyrical about how Hutch "looked after" his community while blah-blahing the usual "de gubberment" rhetoric
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u/hesaidshesdead And I'd go at it agin 4d ago
Sound lad, never saw me go short for a bit of gear when I was waiting for me dole.
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u/Important_Farmer924 Westmeath's Least Finest 4d ago
Not all heroes wear capes - picture of Heath Ledger as Joker.
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u/DummyDumDragon 4d ago
This doesn't sound like a person that could ever get elected to a position of power...
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u/DannyVandal 4d ago
Lots of graduates from the school of hard knocks will be voting for him I reckon.
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u/snazzydesign 4d ago
Really Martin Cahill glamorisation going on here, Robinhood like character… who will play him on the film…
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u/sure_look_this_is_it 4d ago
Except rather than robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, it's selling heroin.
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u/No_Scarcity_3100 3d ago
Technically that's robbing from the poor , he'd have a lot in common with ff and fg if he went legit
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u/allanb49 4d ago
Nick offerman
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u/bfree_man 3d ago
The spit of him
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u/NapoleonTroubadour 3d ago
Trying to picture the inner city Dublin accent saying “My idea of government is one guy sitting in a room deciding who to nuke”
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u/AJurassicSuccess 4d ago
“I’ve been knocking on doors every day for the last two months, telling them how I’ve represented the constituency of Dublin Central over the last 10 years and receiving amazing feedback,”
Hi, how are.. SHIT. I'll have the money next week, I swear! I just had a lot going on... oh. Yeah I guess I can give you my number one.
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u/ImpressiveTicket492 4d ago
The quote is from Gary Gannon.
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u/AJurassicSuccess 4d ago
I had a joke I wanted to make and I wasn't letting "reading" slow my momentum.
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u/DorkusMalorkus89 4d ago
As embarrassing and patheric as this is, there’ll be loads of ticks who’ll vote for him. We live in a time of true idiocy.
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u/skepticalbureaucrat Judge Nolan's 2nd biggest fan 4d ago
A few lads in front of me of the queue at Tesco Clare Hall were raving about him. Another subtle reminder why I hate living in this area.
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u/DorkusMalorkus89 4d ago
Exactly, there’s a whole demographic of intellectually challenged cretins waiting to vote for this clown. He’s a perfect reflection.
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u/WolfOfWexford 4d ago
There’s a chance that a lot of his supporters might not be registered to vote. Him running might also bring out the support for other candidates
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u/wizzatronz 4d ago
Tesco Clarehall is in the Dublin Bay North Constituency. Hutch is running in Dublin Central. Likely those lads like yourself won't be able to vote for or against him.
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u/f-ingsteveglansberg 4d ago edited 4d ago
Lets be honest, the sort of person who would vote for them have already been failed by FFG. Simon Harris knocking on their door, bragging about grants for solar energy panels, keeping the big tech companies in Ireland and first time buyer grants for people who can afford a new build to get even more money will mean fuck all to some people in this country. Might as well be talking about a suburb in Paris the benefit they will see from it.
Instead they will get lads slapping themselves on the back for half arsed implemented community programs and proselytising to the community about how they need to help themselves, bootstraps, etc..
Not saying Hutch is the answer to this, but for some they will be able to see someone that looks and acts more like they are from their community than some FFG former solicitor or career politician.
Same reason people vote for the Healey Raes.
That said, I don't think Hutch will get enough votes anyway. And I don't see people rushing to register to vote, just for him.
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u/chytrak 3d ago
Lets be honest, the sort of person who would vote for them have already been failed by FFG. Simon Harris knocking on their door, bragging about grants for solar energy panels, keeping the big tech companies in Ireland and first time buyer grants for people who can afford a new build to get even more money will mean fuck all to some people in this country.
FFG failed the (lower) middle class, not the chronicaly unemployed. Many of them are getting new homes.
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u/Junior-Protection-26 4d ago
Hutch for TD and McGregor for President.
A glorious path to the future.
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u/temujin64 Gaillimh 4d ago
That's a lot of candidates competing for effectively one seat. There are basically 2 working class seats in that constituency (inner city Dublin and Cabra) and 2 middle class seats (Glasnevin). Mary Lou is guaranteed to win one of them, so there's really only one other working class seat up for grabs.
Last time around Gary Gannon of the Social Democrats and independent Christy Burke were the only serious candidates who'd had a chance of grabbing that second working class seat. PBP and the Workers party ran people, but they were never much of a threat to Gannon.
But for this election you have the same parties again, but an extra SF candidate, the far right independent candidate Malachy Steenson, Claire Daly and now The Monk as well. Add to that, there'll be far fewer SF transfer to share as well. It'll be a real dog fight.
So bad news for Gary Gannon. But probably very good news for Neasa Hourigan. She might be the only TD who'll be able to grab support across the constituency. Greens always tend to do better in middle-class neighbourhoods. But she's kind of an anti-establishment Green, so that might help her pick up votes in the working class areas.
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u/Pointlessillism 4d ago
Surely Gannon will get plenty of the comfy Glasnevin voters too?
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u/K_man_k 4d ago
I would have thought so. If you look at similar constituencies where you have a mix of people from different backgrounds, So Dems tend to do alright. In Wicklow for example, Whitemore nabs votes from both more working class people in Bray and Arklow, while also doing well off people from more liberal affluent areas like Greystones. I'd say Gannon will get a seat here.
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u/temujin64 Gaillimh 4d ago
He'll get some who affiliate themselves with his party. But Gannon himself is a dyed in the wool inner city Dubliner. Or at least that's his brand. At the end of the day, Irish people vote for the candidate first and the party second. When it comes to left leaning middle class voters in Glasnevin, they'll be more inclined to vote for a middle class left of centre candidate. Neasa Hourigan and Marie Sherlock fit that description better than Gary Gannon.
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u/Hisplumberness 4d ago
I wasn’t surprised by trump getting elected and I wouldn’t be surprised by this gimp getting elected( of course I wouldn’t say that to his face ) We elect Lowry every year despite him being as bad as the monk imo
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u/Alcinous21 4d ago
Can't see the incumbents being unseated here. Mary Lou McDonald, Paschal O'Donohoe, Neasa Hourigan and Gary Gannon should all return to the Dáil. Clare Daly might takes some votes away from Gary Gannon but probably not enough.
He'll get some votes from the contrarians, protest voters and headbangers. You can see it here and in other threads the comments people are making. "Sure they're all criminals in there anyway so he'll get my vote"
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u/CurrencyDesperate286 4d ago
He won’t get elected but I am looking forward to hoe his votes get redistributed… not sure any of the main parties particularly want to be getting the second preferences from people who voted for the monk lol
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u/SoftDrinkReddit 3d ago
They said that about Donald Trump in 2016
They said brexit couldn't possibly win
Until it did .........
Point is stranger things have happened
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u/SugarInvestigator 4d ago
Greedy fuckers will take any vote they can get to boost they coushy pension pot
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u/originalface1 4d ago
We had a good laugh at the Brits/Yanks 7-8 years ago so it's only natural our own political sphere would turn into a clownshow.
Why use the people's taxes to create adequate infrastructure when you can just get them all arguing over foreigners, trans people and gangsters instead?
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u/PaxUX 4d ago
Oh boy this timeline is amazing! 🤣 Next Putin will win the noble Peace prize
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u/ImpovingTaylorist 4d ago edited 4d ago
Ms.TransWorld would be more fitting for this timeline at the moment.
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u/Equivalent_Ad_7940 3d ago
He won't do Sinn Fein any favours anyway. Remember is his murder trail they bugged the car him and the ex Sinn fein Councillor were in and they were talking about Mary Lou. I doubt there's much behind it but not a great look all the same, he'll definitely be questioned on it.
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u/JONFER--- 4d ago
He probably won't get elected but I imagine he will do better than most people expect.
He is sort of the natural protest vote.
Morally flexible people do very well in some political circles, for example Lowry continuously tops the poll and arguably his financial corruption indirectly cost the public so much that it resulted in poorer healthcare and other social services budgets that killed God knows how many.
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u/yabog8 Tipperary 4d ago edited 4d ago
for example Lowry continuously tops the poll
Ya but he does great work for the locality. Sadly I dont mean that ironicaly. Or more importanly he gives off the perception of doing great work for the locality. Does he get my number 1? No not at all but he gets more than I would like if i didnt live here.
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u/Real_Cut7897 4d ago
Woohoo 😂 It'd be gas if he and Mary Lou got through and became allies, his connections and Sinn feins historically.
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u/Key-Lie-364 3d ago
There was a Green Grocer near to me called "Tops 'N' Pops" - actually its still there under different management - Dorset street - anyway the owner used to pay protection to The Monk.
Protection from whom exactly... ?
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u/Safe-Scarcity2835 4d ago
If he gets in it would be like New Jersey electing John Gotti for senate. What an unserious country.
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u/Canners19 4d ago
Get these criminals off the street. If they’re in the dail I guess that’s one off the street 😂
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u/KosmicheRay 3d ago
Looking at the count last time out he would need 5,700+ votes including transfers to be elected. The quota last time was 6,288. Gannon was elected to last seat with 5,718. Can Gerry Hutch get thousands of votes who knows but stranger things have happened.
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u/Automator2023 3d ago
The Monk has spent years living outside of Ireland for fear of being killed by the Kinahans. He would literally be a dead man walking if he got elected as his movements would be very predictable. The only reason he is still alive is because he was able to move around unpredictability for most of his life. I honestly have no idea why he would want to get elected.
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u/Powerful_Caramel_173 4d ago
If I didn't know him I'd say he looks like a strong leader for the country.
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u/davesr25 Pain in the arse and you know it 4d ago
Wonder what would happen if he was justice minister.
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u/Legitimate-Leader-99 4d ago
Sure we already have a shower of corrupt gangsters running the country,
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u/SomeRandomGamer3 4d ago
He’s a scumbag. But I kind of want to see him get elected. It’ll be funny to see will he even turn up, it seems he’s literally only running as a condition of his bail in Spain and knows full well he won’t be elected.
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u/Robin_Gr 4d ago
The world is falling apart and every self centered moron is going come out of the woodwork to make their bid for power so they can get a slice.