flypanam
Sausage to fortune
I saw RTE were lauding, Kevin Humphrey's as the nerd's nerd in the tally. RTE always representing the elite.
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flypanam
Sausage to fortune
He got one vote so far.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I'd say 100+ votes for NP isn't too bad at all, or at least it could have been a lot worse - remember that ours is a country with no real collective memory of what fascism really was, and what it meant.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
True, but any encouragement is a bad thing.
Looking at the FF vote, even though she possibly was the worst candidate they could have put up their proper fucked now 4.6%.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Nelson Muntz: ha ha
I saw a tweet (can't be arsed to embed) that said 91.5% of the vote is now tallied, and IB is on 30% or thereabouts. It's not over until the banshee sings.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Alan kelly is after ripping off his shirt, snorting a lungful of chonk and predicting the resurrection of Labour.
Anyway Bacik won this.
If at first you don't succeed try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, lose in DL, try, try again. A new Hilary is born, the best of us...
Anyway Bacik won this.
If at first you don't succeed try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, lose in DL, try, try again. A new Hilary is born, the best of us...
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Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Expect her to be a permanent fixture on RTE from now on out to the next GE.
SF will still form the heart of the next government, mind.
www.irishtimes.com
SF will still form the heart of the next government, mind.
What will Dublin Bay South result mean for each of the parties?
Analysis: It’s all over bar the counting and Bacik looks to be coasting home to victory
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
That "today is a good day" is all very Klingon, isn't it.
I, for one, welcome our new warrior overlords.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Umpteen "Labour back from the dead" pieces must already be flying out of their missile silos. But is it? Someone like IB has "entitled to the leadership position" written all over her, and I can't see Alan Kelly, who is covered in the exact same motto, really going along with that one. . .
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
What was interesting about her campaign is that they seem to have tailored the campaign posters to the various locales in the constituency. Closer to the city centre the slogan was "worker, rebel, socialist", while out in Sandymount the colour theme was green not red, and the slogan was environmentalist, not revolutionist. That's decades of SWP bandwagon jumping at work, of course.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Yeah outsider looking in, but yeah the Labour is back stuff tends to remind me of the same message in UK after Bately & Spen, or how the PS is "back" in FaneExpect her to be a permanent fixture on RTE from now on out to the next GE.
SF will still form the heart of the next government, mind.
What will Dublin Bay South result mean for each of the parties?
Analysis: It’s all over bar the counting and Bacik looks to be coasting home to victory
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
So Dessie O'Malley died yesterday. The Irish Times is falling over itself to mourn his passing.
And he deserves credit for "I stand by the Republic" and the conversion to pluralism that preceded it.
But if the PDs had been able to fully implement their Thatcherite world view, the results would have been disastrous.
And he deserves credit for "I stand by the Republic" and the conversion to pluralism that preceded it.
But if the PDs had been able to fully implement their Thatcherite world view, the results would have been disastrous.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
They did though, didn't they? The PD's might not have finished it, but they won the argument.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Not really. The course was already set by Charlie's Program for National Recovery in 1987.
At least that's how I remember it.
flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Well it looks like another social gathering is ruining one ex TD's hope for pension inflation! Also wtf is up with Leo, he's government approves the legislation, it's almost as though he a lazy venal muppet. And people have had to relations they can't go to communions or funerals.
www.thejournal.ie
And Ivana just breezes and and out...hopefully she'll be out soon.
Katherine Zappone says she will not accept UN envoy role after days of mounting political pressure
Today’s reports of a 50-person event led to increased pressure over Zappone’s appointment as a UN envoy.
www.thejournal.ie
And Ivana just breezes and and out...hopefully she'll be out soon.
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
Well it looks like another social gathering is ruining one ex TD's hope for pension inflation! Also wtf is up with Leo, he's government approves the legislation, it's almost as though he a lazy venal muppet. And people have had to relations they can't go to communions or funerals.
Katherine Zappone says she will not accept UN envoy role after days of mounting political pressure
Today’s reports of a 50-person event led to increased pressure over Zappone’s appointment as a UN envoy.
And Ivana just breezes and and out...hopefully she'll be out soon.
Simon Coveney.. massive idiot. How he thought he would get away with giving / creating a job for Zappone is beyond me.
The arrogance is astounding. And he wasn't the worst of them.
Leo is turning into a shit.
Micheal Martin looking gornless not knowing what's going on.
splonkydoo
Well-Known Member
This is the bit I least understand tbh. With a looming backbench rebellion on his hands, and having already been done over by FG more than once in the recent past, why so aimless and rudderless? There is little in the way of self-preservation in his way of strategy.
splonkydoo
Well-Known Member
Anyway +1 to Zappone for showing up to teach the general pop. just how shameless social liberals also are, compared to the usual gombeen cronyism in da mix.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Always took people in fg as shits - and never yet been proved wrong. Imo people in ff often start off sounding nicer but prove to have the same lavatorial quality
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
Yep. It's looking that way ....again.
It's the same old shit repeating over and over.
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
I hope that's tongue in cheek sarcasm...
She looked for a job...and would have been happy to take it no questions asked without advertising or interview.
She threw a party after she got it. Leo was at it.
She's not squeaky clean in this.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
So. Katherine Zappone sleeps with the fishes.
She has now declined the UN sinecure the govt. created at her request.
cedarlounge.wordpress.com
Her decision to decline this particular ride on the gravy train comes after her exposure as a lockdown-busting party thrower:
www.independent.ie
Ivana "Woman of the People" Bacik was a guest at this party, apparently.
She has now declined the UN sinecure the govt. created at her request.
Government appointments: the buck apparently stops somewhere else…
There’s a lot to unpack in the appointment of former Minister Katherine Zappone as special envoy for freedom of expression. For example, there’s the problem with who knew what when. The…
cedarlounge.wordpress.com
Her decision to decline this particular ride on the gravy train comes after her exposure as a lockdown-busting party thrower:
Katherine Zappone ‘assured by hotel’ that party with 50 friends, including Tánaiste, was in line with Covid-19 restrictions
Katherine Zappone has said she was assured by the Merrion Hotel her private party for friends and former colleagues was in line with the Government’s Covid-19 restrictions.
www.independent.ie
Ivana "Woman of the People" Bacik was a guest at this party, apparently.
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