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Catherine Connolly (IND) wins Leas-Cheann Comhairle vote

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  • 24-07-2020 12:31pm
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    Snow Garden
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    https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2020/0723/1155156-ceann-comhairle/
    Independent TD for Galway West Catherine Connolly has said she is in shock after her election as the new Leas-Cheann Comhairle or Deputy Chair of the Dáil.

    She beat Fine Gael's Fergus O'Dowd by 77 votes to 74 in the secret ballot.

    It is being seen as a surprise result in Leinster House, considering the coalition parties have 84 votes between them.

    Ms Connolly is the first woman to be elected to the position of Ceann Comhairle or Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

    Historic moment. She will keep them honest.


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    doggerland
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    Never thought the same of her, after she gave her council seat to her sister after she became a TD. Healy Rae stuff


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    LiquidZeb
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    Snow Garden wrote: »
    https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2020/0723/1155156-ceann-comhairle/



    Historic moment. She will keep them honest.

    Call me when there's a female taoiseach, then we'll see Ireland actually join the 21st century like new Zealand.


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    doggerland
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    LiquidZeb wrote: »
    Call me when there's a female taoiseach, then we'll see Ireland actually join the 21st century like new Zealand.

    Or the 20th century, like our nearest neighbours.


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    Water John
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    She has been an excellent contributor to debate in the Dail and is well thought of across the House.

    BTW I don't want a female Taoiseach if she turns out to be a Maggie Thatcher.


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    splinter65
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    LiquidZeb wrote: »
    Call me when there's a female taoiseach, then we'll see Ireland actually join the 21st century like new Zealand.

    What relevance to the stewardship of the country does the sex of the Taoiseach have? It’s over 40 years since Mrs Thatcher became the PM of one of the G8 countries and they’ve had another female PM since then, lots of females PMs in the EU over the last 40 years and it’s just not a big deal.
    Why can’t we just grow up a bit and accept that sex is not an impediment to advancing in the world of politics anymore?


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    doggerland
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    Water John wrote: »
    She has been an excellent contributor to debate in the Dail and is well thought of across the House.

    BTW I don't want a female Taoiseach if she turns out to be a Maggie Thatcher.

    It's almost as if... the gender of the person doesn't matter, rather their abilities... Dangerous stuff to say :D


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    Fann Linn
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    More cracks in MM Fianna Fail. This is great drama.


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    Water John
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    Ah Fann, this is senior hurling, there always be a few digs. That will keep things lively and interesting.


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    riffmongous
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    splinter65 wrote: »
    What relevance to the stewardship of the country does the sex of the Taoiseach have? It’s over 40 years since Mrs Thatcher became the PM of one of the G8 countries and they’ve had another female PM since then, lots of females PMs in the EU over the last 40 years and it’s just not a big deal.
    Why can’t we just grow up a bit and accept that sex is not an impediment to advancing in the world of politics anymore?

    Very weak argument


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    Water John
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    Might have been a bit of pay back there to Leo too, half thinking he was still Taoiseach with his pronouncements.


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    ohnonotgmail
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    riffmongous wrote: »
    Very weak argument

    very generous to call that an argument.


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    Quantum Erasure
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    LiquidZeb wrote: »
    Call me when there's a female taoiseach, then we'll see Ireland actually join the 21st century like new Zealand.

    That was put to the people, they decided against what was on offer


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    KiKi III
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    doggerland wrote: »
    Never thought the same of her, after she gave her council seat to her sister after she became a TD. Healy Rae stuff

    I didn’t know you could gift council seats.

    I thought you had to get elected.


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    KiKi III
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    That was put to the people, they decided against what was on offer

    There’s a pretty strong argument to be made that the public backed Mary Lou McDonald for Taoiseach.


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    Rodney Bathgate
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    That was put to the people, they decided against what was on offer

    Sure didn’t she ‘win the election’?


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    McMurphy
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    Seems to have been a sizeable enough amount of TDs from within the govt party's that voted against poor auld Fergus.

    Dáil Éireann right now be like.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcb4_QwP6fE


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    blanch152
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    KiKi III wrote: »
    There’s a pretty strong argument to be made that the public backed Mary Lou McDonald for Taoiseach.

    Eh, no there isn't.

    It is one of the silliest and weakest arguments made recently on these boards and shows a complete lack of understanding of how democracy in Ireland works.


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    KiKi III
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    blanch152 wrote: »
    Eh, no there isn't.

    It is one of the silliest and weakest arguments made recently on these boards and shows a complete lack of understanding of how democracy in Ireland works.

    I'm no shinner, but there are three roughly equal major parties now; two of them have consistently lost ground over the last few years and one has consistently gained ground.

    So which of them would you say has been given the greatest mandate by the public; those losing front benchers or those making historic gains?


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