PDs vote to wind-up - 201 votes to 161

[BodyofEvidence]

She is certainly duty bound to hand in her resignation, and then it's up to Cowen what to do. Personally I'd use the opportunity for a major reshuffle. Linehan and Coughlan need to be moved pronto.

A reshuffle is, given the "talent" in the Dail, as useful as arguing what color cushions should be on the deckchairs of RMS Titanic

[wombat]

She is certainly duty bound to hand in her resignation, and then it's up to Cowen what to do. Personally I'd use the opportunity for a major reshuffle. Linehan and Coughlan need to be moved pronto.

Be careful what you wish for -if she resigns from govt., she may also resign from the Dáil

[jmcc]

Be careful what you wish for -if she resigns from govt., she may also resign from the Dáil

But would it trigger a GE or rejoicing?

Regards...jmcc

[wombat]

But would it trigger a GE or rejoicing?

Regards...jmcc

Hardly a GE but 2 by elections in Sth Dublin might

[jmcc]

Hardly a GE but 2 by elections in Sth Dublin might

So the demise of the PDs might ultimately result in SF in government in an FF/Greens/Indos/SF coalition? The irony...

Regards...jmcc

[greengoose]

Be careful what you wish for -if she resigns from govt., she may also resign from the Dáil

O happy days!

[KingKane]

Will there now be a Continuity PDs?

Good riddance to bad rubbish anyway - they made FG look like the Provos of old.

Surely they would be the Provisional Democrats.

[jmcc]

O happy days!

I wonder if this is the Irish version of Obama's "Change"?

Regards...jmcc

[Keith-M]

Yeah. How many of them can claim to have supported FF Taoiseachs who got hauled up infront of tribunals for as long as the PDs did.....

They supported Haughey and the relevelations on his behavious came AFTER he had resigned and (inapproriatly) Harney said that he should be imprisoned. The brought down the first Reynolds government and so far Ahern has only been a witness at the Tribunal and no one with any credability has associated him with any corruption.

[hiding behind a poster]

A sad day for Irish politics. However having said that, the party has achieved more in its brief life that has FG, Labour or the Greens in the last 50 years.

Nonsense. The dying wasp finally stings no more.