Fine Gael in the next election

[Apparatchik]

FG's best hope is that Brian Cowen packs Dermot Ahern or Dempsey off to Europe allowing Mairead to run and win in a bye-election. She is not only the best hope they have, she is the only hope they have.

I agree she'd make a fine leader. But what makes you think FG could win the bye-election?

[turdsl]

She did not make much of an impression the lasttime out, Even Arthur Morgan beat her by around 3000 votes

[jayblue]

with any luck the people of Dublin West will have woken up by then and turf Leo out and return him where he belongs, working in some hospital preferable in a very very far place way

[Defeated Romanticist]

FG's best hope is that Brian Cowen packs Dermot Ahern or Dempsey off to Europe allowing Mairead to run and win in a bye-election. She is not only the best hope they have, she is the only hope they have.

I agree she'd make a fine leader. But what makes you think FG could win the bye-election?

A vague and fairly distant hope with little chance of fruition is still a hope.

[Kite]

Yes it is possible, with a front bench made up of;
Richard Bruton
Olivia Mitchell
Simon Coveney
Michael Ring
Brian Hayes
Leo Varadkor
James Reilly
Denis Naughten
Olivia Enright
Enda Kenny (but not as party leader)

And expel the dead wood that are proving an utter embarrassment to the party;
P.J. Sheehan
Dedrie Clune
Jerry Buttimer

[Dunny]

Yes it is possible, with a front bench made up of;
Richard Bruton
Olivia Mitchell
Simon Coveney
Michael Ring
Brian Hayes
Leo Varadkor
James Reilly
Denis Naughten
Olivia Enright
Enda Kenny (but not as party leader)

And expel the dead wood that are proving an utter embarrassment to the party;
P.J. Sheehan
Dedrie Clune
Jerry Buttimer

Dead Wood? They are are barely in the Oireachtas a wet week!

[Kite]

Dedrie Clune is wonderful person, a great dinner guest, but a hopeless public rep, don’t come back with “the people elected her”. The people elect all sorts, Jackie and Michael Healy-Rae, Charlie Haughey, Ray Burke, Liam Lawlor, Emmet Stagg, Martin Ferris etc.

Buttimer is just a gurrier and a gombeen man, and has proved the fact time and time again in his “wet week in politics”. If not for his daddy!!!

[Adonis]

As a floating voter I would like to see a change of party in power in the near future, I think FF have become too comfortable and dismissive of the Irish people, having said that, in order to vote a new party in (such as FG) I, the floating voter, need to feel confident in the abilities of that party / party leader. Enda does not inspire that confidence in me or some others I've talked to. When I've had this conversation in work they argue that we need to give another party a "chance" to run the country. In these shakey econimic times giving someone a "shot" at being at the helm of the Irish economy isnt really an option for many and I think that without some change in the make-up of the opposition party there'll be alot of people thinking "better the devil you know" as regards FF.

[Kite]

As a floating voter I would like to see a change of party in power in the near future, I think FF have become too comfortable and dismissive of the Irish people, having said that, in order to vote a new party in (such as FG) I, the floating voter, need to feel confident in the abilities of that party / party leader. Enda does not inspire that confidence in me or some others I've talked to. When I've had this conversation in work they argue that we need to give another party a "chance" to run the country. In these shakey econimic times giving someone a "shot" at being at the helm of the Irish economy isnt really an option for many and I think that without some change in the make-up of the opposition party there'll be alot of people thinking "better the devil you know" as regards FF.

I agree with you 100%

[peader odonnell]

Enda will lead the third interparty goverment after the next election ,its the only way to oust fianna fail.