Press release sent out by Connor Delaney saying that Belton has stepped down, so it’s confirmed she isn’t running in the SEIC. Push or jumped? Nobody knows. My personnel opinion is she was pushed.
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3/4 years ago a push by hard liner’s on Doolan happened because he didn't pay his dues. i.e. he never went to prison for the cause.
Press Release by Tony Williams today:
This week Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny TD dismissed John Deasy TD from his party's front-bench for breaching the ban on smoking in the workplace. Mr. Kenny explained his decision “my business is enforcing standards in the Fine Gael party. Any member of the party who does not live up to those standards will have to live up to the consequences.”
Kenny went on to say “I would urge everybody and everybody associated with my party to comply with the law.” I praise Enda Kenny for his decisiveness in this case.
This week the Fine Gael organisation in three Dublin local election districts – Pembroke, Rathmines and the South East Inner City – breached our anti-litter laws when they erected local election posters.
The erection of these posters was a clear breach of the law as it forbids “the putting up of posters/signs on poles or on other structures in public places unless one has the written permission of the owner of the pole or other structure…” (according to information published by Enfo - the Environmental Information Service). Dublin City Council has spent considerable time and resources pulling down these illegally erected posters.
I am angered at this threefold breach of the law and at public monies having to be spent undoing Fine Gael's public littering. I am now calling on Enda Kenny to show the same decisiveness in this case as he did in the case of John Deasy. I am calling on him to “enforce standards” and to discipline the chairman of the local Fine Gael organisation, Mr. Flor Healy.
Or was John Deasy's dismissal just a case of using a handy pretext to get rid of somebody who had become a political nuisance rather than a high-minded act of “enforcing standards”?
It's nice to see the PD's kick Fine Gael while they are down.
Does anyone know what the rules are for putting posters/flyer up on lampposts?
Does this mean SF can't put those ugly black flags on Pearse Street up over Easter?
As far as I know, you're not allowed to poster until the Election has been called, and then all postering comes under the jurisdiction of the Returning Officer.
He was at a Sinn Fein meeting speaking on the topic of 'Is a Left Alternative Possible', small crowd at the meeting, and it was interesting that both labour attendees Roger Cole and Dermot Lacey thought it better to spend their time at a poorly attended SF meeting, that the Labour Youth agm which was taking place at the same time.saw reference on Mary Lou booed site to Lacey speaking at some SF meeting during the week.
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Heard that the FG meeting on the City Plan last Saturday in Sachs Hotel was a bit of damp squib. anyone else hear about about it?
I heard the one in the Mount Herbert went very well
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Define "very well".
How many attended? Concerned citizens or FG hacks? How did the candidates perform? Did the two candidates try to outdo each other? Any other parties represented?
And anybody know anything about this rumour of an FG private opinion poll in the Rathmines Ward recently?
I see Frances Fitzgerald failed to get selected for the FG Euro ticket last night. "Withdrew ahead of the convention" means "saw the writing on the wall and withdrew to avoid humiliation" in my book. Is that the end of the road for her in elected politics?
From a parochial point of view, this can't be good news for FG in Rathmines & Pembroke. Rejected and all as she was at the last GE, she'd have had some name recognition in DSE which might have had a trickledown benefit for the FG local candidates. I can't see Gay Mitchell having the same effect in the leafy suburbs. He might even be a negative factor.
Also, interesting to see FG opt for a one candidate strategy at Euro level. Perhaps they're learning the lessons of selecting too many candidates at local level. With Sarah Belton having already walked the plank in SEIC, does the same fate await their weaker candidate in Rathmines and Pembroke? How long before Edie Wynne/Lucinda Creighton follow Sarah Belton?
In fairness, Lacey was the Youth Officer with Labour for years (and years and years!), and was (and still is as far as I know) one of the biggest supporters of Labour Youth. He organises their "Summer School" regularly as well.Dermot Lacey thought it better to spend their time at a poorly attended SF meeting, that the Labour Youth agm which was taking place at the same time.
And I think LY's "AGM" is on in November normally, so what meeting are you referring to?
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