Gloves are off in Dublin Bay South
Kate O'Connell was a member of Fine Gael for many years. In 2016 she was the Fine Gael candidate and she won a seat. In the 2020 election Fine Gael fielded two candidates and O'Connell just missed out on winning one of the four seats. Kate subsequently graduated from Fine Gael and now she is running as an independent in 2024.
The domain name KateOConnell.com has been taken by cybersquatters and they are offering it for sale at a price of $4,999. The domain name KateOConnell.ie was available and obtained by rival candidate Daniel Pocock for €15.
Every candidate who receives a vote of more than one quarter of the quota is entitled to have their campaign expenses reimbursed, up to a certain limit. Therefore, if Kate has the cash to pay the expense and if she is confident of getting enough votes then she could give the $4,999 ransom to the blackmailer selling kateoconnell.com and reclaim the expense from public funds. The blackmailer wins and the taxpayer loses.
While Daniel Pocock was busy submitting his nomination Kate, who runs a small business, demonstrated her entrepreneurial side by making off with Pocock's motorbike:
When Gerry Hutch, a.k.a. The Monk submitted his nomination, news reports showed him parking his scooter in the same place the day before and putting a lock on it. Why do you need to lock your vehicle when you are a crime boss and everybody is supposed to be afraid of you? Surely people know that scooter belongs to the leader of the Hutch Gang and nobody touches it. Nonetheless, Mr Hutch locks the scooter, even when it is parked outside the office of the sheriff.
Kate O'Connell's wikipedia page goes into more detail about her interactions with her former party, Fine Gael and also the Catholic Church:
In October 2016 O'Connell responded to comments by the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin that TDs should remember their faith when legislating for abortion in Ireland by stating "I don't see why the archbishop's views are in any way relevant. I don't see why Archbishop Martin should be getting involved in women's health issues. It is the same as asking my four-year-old. They [the Church] are entitled to their opinion, but I don't put any weight in them. I don't see what involvement the Catholic Church should have in women's health issues".
In the world of open source / free software, we would say that this is a woman who doesn't obey the Code of Conduct and the cool kids would go off and have a big sook about "harassment" every time she opens her mouth.
Mr Pocock was a mentor in programs like Outreach Program for Women (Outreachy) and he admitted hoping to find talented female candidates who would also be willing to speak their mind. In 2017 he awarded such an internship to Renata D'Avila from Brazil. While most of the interns were in their first job, Renata had formerly worked as a school teacher and then re-trained as a software developer. Being about 30 years old, she was no longer as naive as the 20 year-olds Debian was hoping to recruit in the program. Renata came to the mini-DebConf in Brazil and spoke to the Debian men the same way she would speak to naughty schoolchildren:
After having met some of the candidates, Mr Pocock has made the following observations about Kate O'Connell:
I don't know everything that Kate stands for and I suspect I may not even agree with her on everything. However, she was the only other candidate who immediately asked for my number [2] vote when she realized I was running against her.
Donald Trump told us clearly that American companies in Ireland will be asked to pay their taxes in America at a lower tax rate. Many Irish politicians will be taken by surprise when the revenue they took for granted just disappears. Read the hard facts about this lost revenue on my blog.
We need a new generation of TDs who can think on our feet. Kate, a small business owner, demonstrated with her immediate request for my number [2] vote the same lightning reflexes that helped me seize her domain, along with the domains of our rivals.
Kate demonstrated an outspoken response to the role of men in women's lives. The role of social control media is far worse than anything the church has ever done. Therefore, the fact that she has made social control media a key part of her campaign, without even creating a normal website, demonstrates that she is selling her soul and the souls of her supporters to the clerics of Silicon Valley. These platforms are designed to give strong female leaders like Kate a false sense of empowerment. Artificial intelligence and algorithms will always be one step ahead of her.
Mr Pocock has been consistent in sharing this message with independent leaders around the world. Here is the video from the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights. Ever since then, Mr Pocock's family was subject to stalking and gossip campaigns from the social control media cliques:
Good news, Pocock knew just where to find his motorbike again, right outside Kate's pharmacy:
Look at all the bikes. Bike sheds are a major issue in Dublin right now.
Kate has used her business premises to display election advertising. Mr Pocock wants to ban the election posters but such a ban wouldn't apply to private premises like this. Kate appears a little bit smarter than the FG and FF candidates who put their posters on the ESB poles.
Voters have a choice. If you would like to vote for a professional who can think about the things that mainstream candidates overlook Vote [1] DANIEL POCOCK and remember to follow Daniel Pocock's blog at DanielPOCOCK.com
