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    Re: Sinn Féin Transport Minister gets praise for a "good start"

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    Great to see Conor getting credit for his performance in the job.
    Well, indeed.

    One or two of them actually manage to traverse party political lines and not cock things up.

    In the previous Executive, Brid Rodgers was pretty good as Agriculture Minister during the Foot and Mouth outbreak. Conor Murphy actually makes sense in the context of Transport.

    No one, yet, has covered themselves in glory with the Education portfolio, however.

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    Re: Sinn Féin Transport Minister gets praise for a "good start"

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    Quote Originally Posted by factual
    Great to see Conor getting credit for his performance in the job.
    Well, indeed.

    One or two of them actually manage to traverse party political lines and not cock things up.

    In the previous Executive, Brid Rodgers was pretty good as Agriculture Minister during the Foot and Mouth outbreak. Conor Murphy actually makes sense in the context of Transport.

    No one, yet, has covered themselves in glory with the Education portfolio, however.
    Without being partisan I think its fair to say that Michelle Gildernew has done a good job as Agriculture Minister.

    The education minister is being covered in a differnt thread and I will not start to discuss her performance here.
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    Re: Sinn Féin Transport Minister gets praise for a "good start"

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    Without being partisan I think its fair to say that Michelle Gildernew has done a good job as Agriculture Minister.
    I have to confess that I haven't noticed Michelle Gildernew, but that's not a bad thing, because you kind of hope for, in the main, steady invisibility from ministers. It shows a quiet getting on with the job kind of approach.

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    Gildernew turned up at the Balmoral show there the last weekend. Suppose the real test for her is going to be if there is an outbreak of Blue Tongue. So far, it has been fairly unremarkable, except for at the start.
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    Re: Sinn Féin Transport Minister gets praise for a "good start"

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    I think the upside for this oversight/stupidity on Labour's part will be seen in the Republic in the mid-term rather than short term polling. Think next Euros, especially if the Yesses carry the referendum.
    No, it's not an anti-Mary Lou thing (though it's rarely a good sign when most of your own party hates you.)
    It's an anti-SF thing, of course.
    Just one remark: it is wrong to say that Mary Lou is hated. Quite wrong and i don't knwo where you are getting that idea from.
    The Dublin SF members I know. FYI. I've no idea whether their opinion is representative of the party's or of the party's within Dublin, or not. Certainly, it is representative of the Dublin Central electorate's opinion, however.
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    Re: Sinn Féin Transport Minister gets praise for a "good start"

    Quote Originally Posted by factual

    Without being partisan I think its fair to say that ... (goes on predictably to praise a SF representative)
    FFS, Factual. If you weren't going to be partisan, then the example you should have given was that you're impressed by a member of some OTHER party than your own.
    The fact is you're EVER partisan. It's what you do. You are the walking press release from Parnell Square.
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    You are the walking press release from Parnell Square.
    Or connelly house
    "The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).

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