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Great news. The Green party is gone. Is it any wonder nobody wants to be associated with it.
Cheer up! Things are never so bad that they can't get worse.
Rather more ironic is the former senator who has airbrushed her party past from her background entirely. Twice appointed to the Seanad by FF Taoisigh in the form of a certain Charles J. Haughey and Bertie Ahern but now that's all entirely forgotten and elected to the Dail and local authority as a Progressive Democrat but not a mention of that fact now.
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There is nowt wrong with a little political experimentation in one's youth, I was in the Greens myself in the mid 90s but I'm happy to come clean about it on by my site. Yet spending the vast majority of your elected and appointed political existence in a party that was at Fine Gael's throat only to later deny it three times once there is the remotest prospect of election again is a bit much.
Dan Sullivan. I was back but we still couldn't all have a vote.
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I'm not sure there was a party to be in contact with.Originally Posted by Stating the Obvious
Dan Sullivan. I was back but we still couldn't all have a vote.
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Does a party need the 2% quota to be able to nominate a candidate for the Seanad? Could this be a reason why they wouldn't nominate a sitting Senator? Did they nominate anybody? What about Boyle and Dearey?
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"To be is to do"-Socrates; "To do is to be"-Sartre; "Do Be Do Be Do"-Sinatra
As has already been stated, Trinity and NUI Seanad candidates never run on party tickets.
Its long standing tradition, but obviously not long enough to be idiot proof.
http://www.nui.ie/news/2011/SE2011candidates.asp
Check it out. No parties mentioned.
A demagogue is someone who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Says who, exactly? And how do you explain Gemma Hussey and Shane Ross (as two examples)? Was I hallucinating when they ran on party tickets? Or do you know someone that the rest of us don't?
The fact that no candidates on the NUI/Trinity panels have ever cited party affiliations.
They didn't run on party tickets.
There is a difference between being a party member and running on a party ticket.
If I'm wrong, find a candidate on the current list, or the last list, or the one before that, who ran on a party ticket.
A demagogue is someone who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Sigh.
Hussey ran as an FG candidate for the NUI panel in 1981.
Ross ran as FG candidate for the Trinity Panel in 1993.
Both had been unsuccessful candidates for FG in the immediately preceding general elections.
A man rejected by the people of Galway in 2009 and gravitated to the Seanad thanks to the political hunger of the Greens for extra wages. Nobody outside of Galway and the obscure world of politics.ie even know who he is.
He's the Green's answer to then Senator Ciaran Cannon's time at the helm of the P.D.'s and how well that worked out.
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