Eoghan Harris lieutenants - one last throw of the dice - for Sean (5,000 envelope) Gallagher

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Friday October 28, 2011 11:11

by Napper Tandy

With obligatory attacks on RTE and Martin McGuinness

Eoghan Harris destroyed Gay Mitchell's campaign by advising him to launch a reactionary blueshirt assault on Martin McGuinness. See:

Gay Blueshirt Mitchell becomes Eoghan Harris's candidate
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/100648

Never a man to allow sentiment to delay him, Harris switched at the last minute to the one reactionary he thought would win, Sean Gallagher. Just like in 1997 when 'tribal time bomb' Mary McAleese won, the Harris touch turned to dust.

Higgins will win and Martin McGuinness will elect him on transfers - the worst of all Harris worlds. Higgins lifted Section 31 censorship restrictions on Sinn Fein in 1994 and paved the way for the peace process and Sinn Fein electoral advance. Harris hated all of that.

Comment on Eoghan Harris in Independent Newspapers publication

Is this a straw in the wind in independent Newspapers? After harris elevated a crank attack into a threat to his precious existence, a letter in THE DUBLINER, handed out with the Evening Herald (Independent Newspapers) asked pointedly 'Does anyone still listen to this tosser' (issue 171, 27 October 2011) - see graphic.

Is this a straw in the wind in independent Newspapers? After harris elevated a crank attack into a threat to his precious existence, a letter in THE DUBLINER, handed out with the Evening Herald (Independent Newspapers) asked pointedly 'Does anyone still listen to this tosser' (issue 171, 27 October 2011) - see graphic.

If no one listens to the 'tosser', if even the political classes who find him a useful idiot have no more use Harris, Harrisisms and the Harrisites, will Independent Newspapers keep publishing him?

Tom Carew and Niall Ginty (whose letters are below) only appear in print in the guise of Eoghan Harris support team - Google them: bash Sinn Fein, bash the independence struggle against Britain, support Israeli attacks on Palestinians, support war and misery inflicted on anyone who stands against western imperialism - and now despairing little letters in the Irish Independent.

Harris and his pals switched to a man who conned rich business people in to forking out 5,000 Euro for a photograph with Brian Cowen (where is the photo now?), but not the Irish people into voting for him. As the saying goes, "You can fool some of the people some of the time"

Read and relish these letters from two political shills.

Race for the Aras Irish Independent Thursday October 27 2011

RTE's 'Frontline' debate was yet another example of how vulnerable broadcasting is to manipulation compared with newspapers, where time permits checking.

Sean Gallagher was blackened live on air, with a massive TV audience, and although next morning the truth emerged -- that Gallagher could not have either sought or taken any cheque from this man after a FF fundraising event, because that same cheque had already been lodged by the party on June 30, before that July Fianna Fail event had happened, the damage was already done.

The only way we listeners can now make amends, fooled as we were via this RTE broadcast -- as was RTE itself -- is to vote for him.

And to treat further allegations from McGuinness -- about anything -- with the greatest suspicion and rigorous scrutiny -- unlike RTE.

Tom Carew

Nothing could have prepared me for the sheer level of dog-baiting that passed for debate on Monday's 'Frontline' programme.

From what I could make of McGuinness's "expose", some twittering between fellow travellers of the ex-IRA leader, and RTE researchers, set the scene for an ambush of candidate Sean Gallagher.

It would seem that the final resting place for a ?5,000 cheque was of more concern to some elements in the audience than the final resting place of brave Irish garda Jerry McCabe. This was certainly not the national broadcaster's finest hour or two.

Niall Ginty

So much for the dismal efforts of the the great manipulator and his pals.

The latest is that some twits are blaming RTE for broadcasting a tweet on the Frontline programme last Monday - making Gallagher think Hugh Morgan, the guy he took 5,000 Euro from, was going to appear at a Sinn Fein press conference.

Gallagher was spooked, appropriately so this close to Halloween. The voters took fright. Harris couldn't save Gallagher from Martin McGuinness.