Brendan Burgess
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I don't agree. Their comments, as I understood them, were circumspect at best. Did I miss direct comments from MLMcD and RBB in sympathetic support of the Kellys?
Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has promised to contact the elderly couple evicted from their home on millionaires' row.
[broken link removed]'s Mary-Lou McDonald and People Before Profit TD [broken link removed] also expressed concerns about the eviction.
Brendan and Asta Kelly, from Killiney, are constituents of Mr Gilmore's in Dun Laoghaire.
The [broken link removed] leader said he was surprised by the force used to evict them.
Putting this in it's proper context, she was sensitive to the subject - mindful of how repossession could affect others in Irish society as she when on to articultate;Both Mary Lou McDonald and Richard Boyd Barrett expressed concern about the eviction. They are simply coming from the populist angle "eviction = bad banks exploiting the people".
[broken link removed]'s Mary-Lou McDonald and People Before Profit TD [broken link removed] also expressed concerns about the eviction.
They expressed concern at the unfolding situation (mindful of the sensitivies of others who are potentially exposed to repossession). Concern ...NOT sympathy.They expressed concern while Michael Noonan and Enda Kenny said that they had no sympathy.
Do we know what information MLmcD had at the time she was asked to comment (particularly in relation to the Kelly's property portfolio) or are we making assumptions about that? As outlined above, it's with empathy towards all others in Ireland who are faced with this prospect that she expressed 'concern' - and not with the Kellys.If Mary-Lou wanted to comment, she should have been equally harsh on the Kellys.
I whole-heartedly welcomed what Michael Noonan had to say on the subject and the way in which he expressed it.While Michael Noonan and Enda Kenny said that they had no sympathy.
. It is an inevitable consequence of his mantra "no one should ever lose their family home".
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