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30 May 2007
Peninsula without a TD
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Peninsula without a TD May 30th, 2007 Who would have thought it? … Fáil’s Niall Blaney. When the dust settled after a marathon count at the Mount Errigal hotel... Continue reading »
Election Rundown
Seen on Cllr Damien Blake, Letterkenny Town Council
[ James McDaid with current and former councillors] Things are getting back to normal here after last week’s General Election. We got a great result here in Donegal North East; Dr James McDaid was returned as a Dáil deputy, and Niall Blaney was re-elected to give Fianna Fail two of the three seats, on 50.4% of the vote... Continue reading »
29 May 2007
The Teflon Taoiseach does it again
Seen on Stuart MacLennan
The Teflon Taoiseach does it again [ 1539892.jpg] … for Jackie Healy-Rae, or perhaps even a cabinet position. No Comments yet… Categories: Irish Elections... Continue reading »
Mahon Tribunal Plans New Session Rooms
Seen on A view from Kerry
Our Kilgarvan correspondent has been informed that Jackie Healy-Rae has recommended the “Truth Chamber” to Bertie for all future Mahon Tribunal sessions. He feels it will enable the whole wide... Continue reading »
Welcome To The Middle
Seen on one more hour
Didn’t we do well? Joe Higgins, I will move house to vote for you. Michael McDowell, I will grudgingly admit that your voice will be missed. Ain’t it great that we now have 130+ centre-right public representatives? That’s out of a total of 166. Also shocking is that Beverley Cooper-Flynn (may be bankrupt soon), Michael Lowry (deemed... Continue reading »
28 May 2007
Election Rant
Seen on Can your dog put out fires?
First off - the results (outgoing seats in brackets) FF 78 (80) FG 51 (32) Lab 20 (21) PD 2 (8) GP 6 (6) SF 4 (5) Oth 5 (14) - The others are Bev Cooper Flynn (FF), Jackie Healy-Rae (FF), That twat Lowrey (FG) and two old style Reds: Anto Gregory and some bloke called Finian. Basically with 41% of the votes FF are back... Continue reading »
Well…..that was certainly fun
Seen on The Cedar Lounge Revolution
Well…..that was certainly fun May 28, 2007 Posted by franklittle in Sinn Féin, Irish Election 2007, Irish Politics, The Left, Greens, Labour Party … representatives like Seamus Healy, Catherine Murphy and Joe Higgins are deeply regrettable, but the world... Continue reading »
Fianna Fail and Other Par-tees
Seen on Arse End Of Ireland
It looks like Bertie Ahern is going to remain Taoiseach, a notion which for me holds more dreads than a voodoo hairdresser. At least Fianna Fail didn’t get an overall fuckyouall majority, though. This means that there will be someone in government with them to temper them and such, which in itself is a notion Mary Hanifin isn’t too fond of... Continue reading »
The people have spoken and made Jackie Healy-Rae kingmaker again?
Seen on Finfacts Ireland Blog
The people have spoken as the old cliché goes and Ireland may have Jackie Healy-Rae as kingmaker again - a grassroots politician of tremendous charisma and brilliance - from his humble beginnings... Continue reading »
Jackie Healy Rae and City Folk
Seen on A view from Kerry
It’s started. Gerry Ryan seems to think it’s great gas to take off Jackie Healy-Rae. While there is nothing wrong with mimicry, Dr. Ryan equates looks and speech with idiocy. Shades of the Nazi... Continue reading »
Constituencies Constitutional Challenge - Election result
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Constituencies Constitutional Challenge - Election result Posted by Edward McGarr under High Court , Politics , Department of Environment , … MURPHY and FINIAN McGRATH Plaintiffs And THE MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, HERITAGE AND LOCAL … Murphy just lost her seat in a close race; b) Finian McGrath retained his seat; Thu 24 May 2007... Continue reading »
27 May 2007
Deny
Seen on Too much time on my hands? Crashing into bandwagons
Deny One Independent TD that I was glad to see defeated was Dr Jerry Cowley in Mayo. Dr Cowley virtually hitched his political future to the Shell To Sea mob - and lost. Indeed he polled fewer votes in the Rossport area than Fine Gael’s Michael Ring. How’s that for gratitude... Continue reading »
26 May 2007
The Irish political landscape. All changed…utterly…but oddly familiar.
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The Irish political landscape. All changed…utterly…but oddly familiar. May 26, 2007 Posted by WorldbyStorm in Irish Election 2007, Irish Politics … Murphy and Seamus Healy, both left Independents fell. Tony Gregory did well, but then he was always... Continue reading »
Tony Gregory says Labour will go in with FF
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Tony Gregory says Labour will go in with FF Writes Simon of The Dossing Times on May 26th, 2007 Read More: Labour Party, Green Party, Fianna Fail As the headline says Breakingnews.ie is reporting Tony Gregory is tipping Labour to go in with FF. Would FF want to give up that many ministries? Not sure. But will Labour want... Continue reading »
Sinn Féin: What went wrong?
Seen on Balrog
I wanted to wait until all the results were in before I posted about the outcome, and the outcome for Sinn Féin was not good! We are left in a situation were instead of doubling our number of TD’s, as we expected, we are going into the 30th Dáil with one less TD. The loss of Seán Crowe in Dublin South West is a huge blow and a hard one to take... Continue reading »
Jackie Healy-Rae packs his demands
Seen on A view from Kerry
Jackie Healy-Rae may just have greatness thrust upon him again. The balance of power may be within the Independent Fianna Faillers grasp. Let us hope he will achieve it and bring some manners... Continue reading »
Donegal North East
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Donegal North East Writes Maman Poulet of Maman Poulet on May 26th, 2007 Read More: Irish Election, … who brought him out of retirement, Niall Blaney. Update - McDaid says tension between himself and Blaney made it work - says if he had not come back FF would not have held seat.... Continue reading »
Election reflections
Seen on Julius Geezer
The big story of the election is Fianna Fáil’s performance. The RTÉ exit poll has the party on 41.6% (similar enough to their 2002 performance) … . Jerry Cowley, who championed the rights of the people of Rossport and Eris so ably in the last Dáil... Continue reading »
25 May 2007
Tony Gregory Elected
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Tony Gregory Elected Writes Cian of Where’s Me Country? on May 26th, 2007 Read More: Dublin Central Mary Lou eliminated. Costello and Donohue in contention No Comments... Continue reading »
Election Update(An actual Update this time)
Seen on Once more unto the breach...
… and i feel….fine. As you all probably know the story so far is that McDowell is gone … votes. Currently the numbers are stacking up for the Independant Tony Gregory and Labour Costello andpossib... Continue reading »
Clouds, Silver Linings, Etc
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Well, it looks like we will have to endure another five years of Fianna Fáil in government … , that gobshite Jackie Healy-Rae will be around for another five years, but most of the “hospital... Continue reading »
Jackie Healy Rae a goner?
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On the basis of the first count it looks like Jackie Healy Rae is no longer going to be amusing us with his antics in the Dail representing Kerry South (I’ll miss that hat), with only 15... Continue reading »
Kerry South - Doubled Barrels, doubly lose?
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Kerry South - Doubled Barrels, doubly lose? Writes Damien Mulley of Mulley … Jackie Healy-Rae and Breda Moynihan-Cronin to lose out say the locals. No Comments... Continue reading »
Bertie bulldozing home
Seen on From the Balcony, A Publisher's Blog
TG4 (I’m seated in their Conamara hq) have just reported from the Donegal count that Pearse Doherty is accepting that he won’t take a seat in … . The independents look like they will be wiped. Paudge Connolly in Cavan-Monaghan is only one of the hospital... Continue reading »
Kerry South
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Kerry South Writes Maman Poulet of Maman Poulet on May 25th, 2007 Read More: … out in front any flying. It’s between Breda Moynihan Cronin, Seamus Coasai and Jackie Healy Rae for final seat with speculation that Jackie could be squeezed out. No Comments... Continue reading »