Deirdre de Burca to be a Green Senator

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[quote=David Cochrane]

The green negotiating team never told the councillors about the 2 Seanad seats in return for their votes for FF candidates. The senate deal was deliberately kept from Green councillors ahead of the vote in the Mansion House.

This is not what I have heard. There was a meeting between the councillors and the negotiating team before the debate (and just before the party NEC meeting) where at least some of the details of the Seanad deal were laid out

My source is 100% watertight.[/quote:13vaw91n]

Your source is 100% wrong. It was clear that our cllrs would have to vote for FF candidates in order for us to get 2 Taoiseach's nominees.
There was no talk of the votes being inspected, which is where the problems arose.

[SPN]

My source is 100% watertight.

Oooops!

More lies and misrepresentations about the Greens! Seems to be the latest fashion or something.

[Matisse]

David,
Your source may watertight, but they are also wrong. There was a meeting of Green public reps at the Mansion House. Not all attended and there was some confusion about whether we would directly contest the Seanad election, but the necessity of having to vote for candidates of a government that we would be part was made quite clear at that meeting. Some people may have a different recollection or be selective in their memory, but that is how it was.

I was talking to Deirdre last night and it is true alright. Looks like both Burrell and O'Brien both Green councillors on Bray town council are fighting over her County council seat. As far as i know there is only 1 person intrested in her town council seat a fella named Stephen not sure of his surname.
I think this is the end of the Greens at local level in Wicklow as these are all yes people, unlike Deirdre.

[enterprise002]

The Wicklow Times this morning has broken embargo and announced that Deirdre de Burca has been appointed (or will be) a Senator by An Taoiseach. They have quotables from de Burca saying she is 'delighted'.

The Wicklow Times have said they'll email the article over, and it'll be online as soon as I get it.

It's widely assumed that Dan Boyle will be nominated by An Taoiseach as the other Green Senator.

Wicklow Times jumped the gun and published a press release she had issued IF she was to be nominated.

[enterprise002]

This appointment is sure to raise her public profile and make sure the Greens do not take a seat in Wicklow. The more voters see her, the more they reaise what an idiot she is. She is unelectable. N OB would have a better chance of taking a seat.

Well said

[red365]

It should have gone to O'Brolchain. But I guess De Burcas Y cromosome won it for her. Se won't win a seat in Wicklow, NOB could in Galway

There was sh1t in the water.
He just had a very high profile year as mayor
All the other parties were in disarray

And O'Brolchain STILL couldn't win a seat for the Greens. If it didn't happen this time, it never will.

[Defeated Romanticist]

red365 Posted:

Defeated Romanticist wrote:
[quote:3vt7r8k2]It should have gone to O'Brolchain. But I guess De Burcas Y cromosome won it for her. Se won't win a seat in Wicklow, NOB could in Galway

There was sh1t in the water.
He just had a very high profile year as mayor
All the other parties were in disarray

And O'Brolchain STILL couldn't win a seat for the Greens. If it didn't happen this time, it never will. [/quote:3vt7r8k2]
The water crisis hurt NOB harder than it did FF. I don't think he was to blame but it hurt him. He was always up against it. DDB had the seat handed to her. She messed up. Now that FG have the Fox seat they will be much harder to dislodge than it will be for NOB to take the Labour seat assuming Michael D retires.

[gryffindor]

Gryffindor here! This is my first post.

I picked up on one of the discussions regarding the two possible contenders for Deirdre De Burca's Bray seat on Wicklow County Council.

I don't think it's fair to describe Caroline Burrell as a "yes person". If memory serves me correctly, shortly after she was elected to Bray Town Council, she staged a sit-in at an illegal development and managed to get the thing stopped.

I have always found her approachable and hard working - we definitely need that!

Gryff. :P :P

[FutureTaoiseach]

It should have gone to O'Brolchain. But I guess De Burcas Y cromosome won it for her. Se won't win a seat in Wicklow, NOB could in Galway

I doubt that. The Greens seem to have got the blame from the electorate of Galway West for the water-crisis and I doubt they'll forget that fiasco any time soon.

[erigena]

Several of us who know and care for Deirdre wish she'd stop making a show of herself and go back to being a counsellor (not councillor) , which by many accounts she was very good at.