Historic defeat of Fianna Fail

[8den]

He looks like Jimmy Saville.......

Unnervingly well spotted!

 

[Fisher_Gate]

Looks like recounts are underway in Wicklow and Laois-Offaly ...

(is the latter the first election constituency in the world where 7 of the 21 candidates are called "John"?).

 

[Gingerman]

Politics.....showbusiness for ugly people

 

[bolshiebhoy]

Fucking state of the pair of them, gene puddle gombeen cunts.

I fell of my chair when I read that

 

[Idris2002]

Politics.....showbusiness for ugly people

And remember - beauty is only skin deep. . . but ugly goes to the bone.

 

[Fedayn]

There we have it, living proof why brothers and sisters shouldn't fuck.....

 

[Fisher_Gate]

He looks like Jimmy Saville.......

Jackie Charlton surely!

 

[Fedayn]

Jackie Charlton surely!

Careful......

 

[Idris2002]

What are we to make of this?

 

[Macullam]

How many/any ULA candidates won as yet?

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0228/1224291015357.html

 

[rekil]

FFS! Some people's memories are really short

Catherine Connolly, an independent formerly of Labour, is ok and looks like getting in. And at least they deserted FF's Frank Fahey. Someone on politics.ie posted up his registered interests.

Fahey, Frank - 2009 Dáil register of interests

(1) 2 apts Castlerea, Co. Roscommon: letting;
(2) Apartments 8A, 16 Eglington Court, Galway: letting;
(3) House at Kilbeacanty, Gort, letting;
(4) Apartment at Dun Aengus, New Docks, Galway: letting;
(5) House at Dun na Coirbe, Galway: letting;
(6) House at Rinawade Close, Leixlip: letting;
(7) Shareholding in apartment at Gort na Coirbe, Galway;
(8) Shareholding in extended family owned properties at Moydrum, Athlone: letting;
(9) Shareholding in 4 Apts and Shop, Lower Gerald Street, Limerick: letting;
(10) Shareholding in retail unit, two offices and warehouse at Crowe Street, Gort;
(11) House at Jumeirah Estates, Dubai;
(12) Dwelling house, The Grove, Crowe St, Gort, Co. Galway;
(13) Shareholding in apartment at Tappen St, Boston, Massachusetts: shareholding in Fahey Higgins L.L.C Boston;
(14) Five apartments owned in partnership at Rue Paul-Emile, Janson 1000, ten apartments owned in partnership at Rue du Sceptre 1015, Brussels;
(15) Apartment at Cathedral Place, Limerick: letting;
(16) House at Villefranche, France;
(17) Deposit paid and contract signed on property at Porto De Mos, deposit paid on property at Alcantarillha, Portugal;
(18) Apartment at Irishtown, Dublin.

Well isn't he the fine little jintleman.

Some of those votes are baffling in an ideological sense - first preference Fianna Fail, second preference communist - but the votes of the bewildered count just as much as anyone elses.

A visceral hatred for the blueshirts would be my guess, familiarity with RBB and his personal affability possible factors as well. Where did Clare Daly's transfers come from do you know?

My 11 year old nephew's class had a mock election and Labour (Dominic Hannigan, a gayer) won it.

 

[Iguana]

And the self-entitled sourpuss award goes to; outing FF TF John (the Bull) O'Donoghue, for this gem in his farewell speech. "I hope that the irony will not be lost upon you, that I stand here on my evening of defeat, in a hall, this magnificent sports complex, which I helped to build."

 

[Idris2002]

And the self-entitled sourpuss award goes to; outing FF TF John (the Bull) O'Donoghue, for this gem in his farewell speech. "I hope that the irony will not be lost upon you, that I stand here on my evening of defeat, in a hall, this magnificent sports complex, which I helped to build."

'The people have spoken, the bastards'.

 

[krtek a houby]

And the self-entitled sourpuss award goes to; outing FF TF John (the Bull) O'Donoghue, for this gem in his farewell speech. "I hope that the irony will not be lost upon you, that I stand here on my evening of defeat, in a hall, this magnificent sports complex, which I helped to build."

The irony, the irony!

 

[rekil]

"Paddy likes to know what the story is".

Kenny's size 2s are barely in the door, and he's coming out with cringe inducing shit like this.

 

[Idris2002]

The irony, the irony!

Infamy, infamy, the've all got it infamy!

 

[frogwoman]

And the self-entitled sourpuss award goes to; outing FF TF John (the Bull) O'Donoghue, for this gem in his farewell speech. "I hope that the irony will not be lost upon you, that I stand here on my evening of defeat, in a hall, this magnificent sports complex, which I helped to build."

Jesus

 

[nino_savatte]

"Paddy likes to know what the story is".

Kenny's size 2s are barely in the door, and he's coming out with cringe inducing shit like this.

That's just fucking great.

 

[nino_savatte]

UNITE leader urges Labour to reject FG's overtures

Labour should reject advances from Fine Gael and form a ’game-changing’ left-leaning opposition, one of the country’s top trade unions has said.

Unite claimed Labour should not be propping up a Fine Gael government planning privatisation and austerity cuts, and urged the party to hold its nerve.

Jimmy Kelly, Unite regional secretary, said Labour had an opportunity to lead an invigorated opposition with a potential 60 seats.

He said: “The people did not vote for a Fine Gael overall majority.

“Their policies on privatisation, austerity and income cuts did not attract enough support and should not now be facilitated by the tired old fallback of coalition with Labour.

“The Labour Party has an historic opportunity to become the official opposition in the 31st Dáil, leading a greatly-expanded left-wing coalition.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/election/news/union-labour-must-reject-fine-gael-495483.html

Labour won a pretty handsome number of seats and shouldn't chuck it all away for the sake of a set at the cabinet table.

 

[8den]

UNITE leader urges Labour to reject FG's overtures


Labour won a pretty handsome number of seats and shouldn't chuck it all away for the sake of a set at the cabinet table.

Agreed. Look at how FF's junior partners have faired and labours attempts as a junior partner have been disastrous.

Let FG implode in power the IMF are running the show for the next few years anyway.

 

[nino_savatte]

Agreed. Look at how FF's junior partners have faired and labours attempts as a junior partner have been disastrous.

Let FG implode in power the IMF are running the show for the next few years anyway.

They certainly have been disastrous for Labour. It's time for them to grow and think big.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

They certainly have been disastrous for Labour. It's time for them to grow and think big.

Not going to happen. As far as the distinctly elderly Labour frontbench are concerned, this is likely to be their one and only chance at Ministerial office. They will not turn it down.

 

[articul8]

What do they expect to gain from it, other than the vanity of the positions? Anything? How can they sell it people who voted Labour?

 

[Belushi]

Don't know much about Irish politics but could anyone who voted Labour be surprised if they enter a coalition with FG? It would hardly be the first time.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Ming elected in Roscommon South Leitrim.

That's my part of the world - my sis could tell you some stories about him. Can't believe he's a TD.

He actually speaks a lot of sense though.

Edit again: http://www.tribune.ie/property/article/2010/jul/11/dont-ring-joe-duffy-put-your-name-on-the-ballot-pa/

"Politicians are put there by us and we are in the shit now because of who we put there. In the words of Rage Against The Machine, it's time to take the power back."

 

[Nigel Irritable]

What do they expect to gain from it, other than the vanity of the positions? Anything? How can they sell it people who voted Labour?

They will argue that:

(a) at this time of crisis, Labour's ideas and input will be vital in saving the country and
(b) they will act as a moderating influence on an otherwise rampant Fine Gael.

And it has to be said that the people who voted for them did so with the knowledge that they were planning to go into coalition with FG, having repeatedly ruled out coalescing with Fianna Fail or with forces to their left. A lot of those people will be seriously pissed off very quickly after they go into government and start slashing and burning, but it won't cause big problems with their voters right from the off.

Before the last election was the last time a Labour conference debated coalition and not one single delegate expressed opposition to propping up the right wing parties in government. There may actually be some opposition this time, although it will be pragmatic, tactical, opposition rather than opposition in principle. Even from an entirely cynical point of view, going into this government as a junior partner is nuts but they will still do it.

 

[frogwoman]

so you reckon thats the most likely outcome nigel - for labour to go into coalition with fg?

 

[rekil]

That's my part of the world - my sis could tell you some stories about him. Can't believe he's a TD.

He actually speaks a lot of sense though.

Edit again: http://www.tribune.ie/property/article/2010/jul/11/dont-ring-joe-duffy-put-your-name-on-the-ballot-pa/

I've never liked that clown at all. Looks funny though.

 

[Idris2002]

Me neither. I bet he has a lovingly assembled collection of Bill Hicks CDs. The idiot.

 

[nino_savatte]

Not going to happen. As far as the distinctly elderly Labour frontbench are concerned, this is likely to be their one and only chance at Ministerial office. They will not turn it down.

Aye, true. It isn't like they haven't found themselves in this position before.