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Cabinet reshuffle

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  • #52
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Gilmore, Rabbitte, De Rossa et. al were originally members of the Democratic Left, a party founded following a schism within the Workers Party. There was a perception within the traditional Labour Party (not unfounded, I think) that those who came in from the cold soon took over the Labour Party. An Irish political trojan horse.

    The Lost Revolution by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller does a wonderful job of explaining how many of those now finding themselves out in the cold within Labour came from a background in the Official IRA and the Workers Party.

    It's a great read, and a very balanced account of the machinations taking place within the broad socialist and republican churches during the 70's and 80's.


  • #53
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #54
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭Davarus Walrus


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    It's a great read. A balanced and nuanced perspective on Modern Irish history is always worthy of a read. I doubt you'll be casting off the the shackles supposedly imposed on you by capitalism though and extolling the virtues of socialism!!

    Enjoy.


  • #55
    emo72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,319 ✭✭✭emo72


    why is irish water being taken by dept of finance?

    http://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-health-minister-reaction-1567257-Jul2014/


  • #56
    comongethappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭comongethappy


    PurvesGrundy wrote: »
    Are you for real?

    Prove me wrong.


  • #57
    InReality
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭InReality


    Thought Rabbite was incredibly petty by leaving the dail before the end of bruton's speech.


  • #58
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    InReality wrote: »
    Thought Rabbite was incredibly petty by leaving the dail before the end of bruton's speech.

    He's an arrogant little arsehole. Always has been and always will be.


  • #59
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    comongethappy wrote: »
    Prove me wrong.


    How much more debt do you want?
    http://www.financedublin.com/debtclock.php


  • #60
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


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  • #61
    howiya
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,325 ✭✭✭howiya


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    She's a woman. Joan wants to promote women for the sake of their gender. Be thankful for small mercies, though. There was talk of Kathleen Lynch being given the Education job. That would have been the ultimate irony.

    There in lies the inherent problem. Ministers promoted because of gender and/or electoral pandering rather than based on ability


  • #62
    nc6000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭nc6000


    I noticed on the RTE news last night when he was congratulating Ged Nash on his appointment that Gerry Adams seemed unable to pronounce the word 'Louth'. Twice he called it 'Lout'. Considering it is his constituency you think he could get the name right.


  • #63
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    emo72 wrote: »
    why is irish water being taken by dept of finance?

    http://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-health-minister-reaction-1567257-Jul2014/

    If they do that it will just be getting rid of any pretence that the money will be spent on local services and will instead disappear into the black hole of the overall tax take. As we continue to repay the gambling debts of German banks and pension funds who flooded the Private banks of Spain and Ireland with cash our water tax is is more likely to pay for a new water treatment plant in Berlin than in Dublin.


  • #64
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,533 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    InReality wrote: »
    Thought Rabbite was incredibly petty by leaving the dail before the end of bruton's speech.

    Very telling that he didn't take up his backbench seat but instead chose to sit behind the railings on the opposition side of the house.

    Watch out Joan.


  • #65
    Good loser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,212 ✭✭✭Good loser


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    He's an arrogant little arsehole. Always has been and always will be.

    Petty and vindictive. And wrong.


  • #66
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    Good loser wrote: »
    Petty and vindictive.
    crowning achievement is his sustained verbal assault on pat carey on prime time.


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  • #67
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Very telling that he didn't take up his backbench seat but instead chose to sit behind the railings on the opposition side of the house.

    Watch out Joan.

    The OFIRA/OFSF/OSFWP/WP/DL/ LPDL, finished hopefully.


  • #68
    petronius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭petronius


    howiya wrote: »
    Why is Jan O'Sullivan being promoted? It's not as if her previous brief of Housing has been a roaring success

    Failure was never an obstacle to promotion in our government - sure Hogans massive successes has got him a massive pay rise with his EU Job

    Same old same old, not new politics, jobs for the boys and girls, to keep vested interests (labour) happy

    Junior ministries used by government to help people get get reelected, or reward for voting with the government (and not along lines of your promises)


  • #69
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,186 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    what about the Politician that stopped off in knock on his way to the dail and said "our lady" looked after him...should we really have people like that in government?


  • #70
    touts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭touts


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    what about the Politician that stopped off in knock on his way to the dail and said "our lady" looked after him...should we really have people like that in government?

    Well we have voters like that (as the Reform Alliance mass public meeting proved) so it stands to reason we have politicians like that. However if the demise of civil war politics is the big change in Irish political life at the next two elections I suspect the demise of traditional catholic fundamentalism will be the big change in the two elections after that. They are literally a dying breed and while the catholic youth elements are vocal they are tiny in numbers.


  • #71
    Riskymove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,899 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    what about the Politician that stopped off in knock on his way to the dail and said "our lady" looked after him...should we really have people like that in government?

    He probably didn't do it at all but the little soundbite got him a lot pf press and it will go down well with a lot of his constituents.

    He knows what he is doing.


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  • #72
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    what about the Politician that stopped off in knock on his way to the dail and said "our lady" looked after him...should we really have people like that in government?

    Don't knock the power of prayer. Ring will not be the only government T.D. praying this summer.


  • #73
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    That's why Rurai done a legger, over his relationship with the guy that had the bonfire years ago. It was a long time coming.

    Who, pray?


  • #74
    Busted Flat.
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    nuac wrote: »
    Who, pray?

    DeRossa.


  • #75
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    Ash.J.Williams wrote: »
    what about the Politician that stopped off in knock on his way to the dail and said "our lady" looked after him...should we really have people like that in government?

    Ml Ring was joking. He probably drives to Dublin along the N5 which does not go thru' Knock

    Prayer had little to do with it.

    He always polled well, even in opposition.

    He was one of Kennys strongest supporters in the 2010 heave.

    He puts great energy into his work, and deserves his place on the team


  • #76
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    Busted Flat. wrote: »
    DeRossa.

    Thanks; any more details e.g. about the bonfire.


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