All change.
Via Irish Election Stats and Merrion Street
Meanwhile…
This evening.
The new government convenes for photos at the Aras.
From top: Enda Kenny and Shane Ross; President Higgins with Katherine Zappone; group shot; Michael Noonan and Simon Coveney.
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…shane féin abú
Ah you’d miss Polyphonic Spree all the same…
Could get in something about The Fragile Army but…ah
Fu€king face on Kenny. It”s hard not to take it personally.
don’t
for me its the face of a fink who knows its all a bit fake
the game is up, won’t be long
What are you talking about? He’s a brilliant leader and statesman
He appointed mary mitchell o’connor to the cabinet ffs. Weak, sel-serving and stupid more ya.
Haha my trolling was really excellent on this one if I may say so myself. I’m getting the hang of it now :(
Like some characature from Punch of a sleeveen, gombeen Irishman
Fu3fing face on Zappone. Perma-smile old geebag..
Michael Noonan farted again. Pong!!
And finance goes to the thatcherite lizard. Again.
He’s in good company.
Of that lot, 15 are unadulterated ladyparts. And 2 may be.
And social “protection” to that most warm hearted of FG onanists, Varadkar. Still, at least Kenny will be in charge of defence. I’ll sleep better tonight in that knowledge.
We’ve gone from Pitt the Even Younger to Pitt the Toddler with the Health Portfolio – Pitt the Embryo is next.
Another reason to repeal the 8th….
I’m astonished. This will be the worst cabinet in many years.
Best Taoiseach over the last 25 years?
Disagree?
Who was better?
Bit like saying “that lad is the nicest rapist I ever met”
Or “Aston Villa’s best defender”.
Or “the most dignified bout of diarrhoea I’ve ever had on a first date”
Favourite Brian McFadden single.
I was starting to think nobody would ever ask…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipMPJ42vyYs
He’s the best so
The VERY best!
I has wimmins!
A binder full of them!
The Mafia of the mediocre.
It has (only) taken us 100 years to descend to this shower!
6 women and 13 oulwans.
Ah you’d miss Rumours all the same…
+1994
I think you mean Barry’s Hotel….aka Jurassic Park
The real deal was Sachs hotel.
You walked in a boy and staggered out as a man :)
I thought you’d be more a Braemor Rooms man Bert
Never darkened the door Frilly.
To be honest I kinda lost interest in going out after they blew up Nelson’s Pillar.
Leo Neo-liberal for Social Protection. Bring on the austerity!
That snivelling runny snot Harris for health. Hope I’m not sick during this term.
? It’s a majority government. This is the democratic result.
You’re blatantly wrong. On purpose? Do you need attention?
So they’ve approved all of those positions with a minority of support?
I give Zappone a week before she breaks out and oversteps
And when they fall apart
Zappone will have sum’ting to do with it
That’s an incredible unimpressive line-up and match up.
Fine Gael appointed two experienced medical doctorsin the last five years to Health – and they fupped up. Wonder how a child with zero real world experience gets on.
Varadkar, while totally mixed-political-marriage husband material (Leo, I’m single) is not, shall we say, wired, for caring about the vulnerable and needy.
Heather Humphrey’s is Mary Coghlan 2.0, as is Mary MItchell O’Connor – weak, unbrief, uninformed.
Bruton see’s all sentient life as units of biddable labour, god help our poor kids in school.
Noonan I’m sure is sort of a Weekend At Bernie’s situation. Guy looks/speaks/acts three weeks dead.
Zappone will rue this.
If Ross every meant anything he wrote in his books or columns, I give him a month before a incidence of cronyism or obfuscation has him on the plinth.
Strange to say, and though they may have betrayed everything they claimed to stand for, when you omit Labour from an FG cabinet the on-the-face-of-it quality really plunges.
Aodhan ORiordan and marriage referendum.
Alan Kelly and COP21 on climate change.
Ruaei Quinn focus on literacy and education reform.
Ged Nash and collective bargaining, Labour relations reform.
Brendan Howlin public sector reform
Joan Burton social protection at a time of extraordinary crises in this county.
All are hugely significant pieces of work.
Yes Irish water blah blah blah
Let’s see what this crew achieve of any significace.
You really are a Loony, aren’t you? – not Dublin though.
Joan Burton part privatised Dept of Social Protection with JobPath. Not very Labour
Didn’t Joan cut the rent supplement while in social protection at a time of extraordinary crisis in the country?
At at time of falling rents?
Waw Waw where’s my free stuff.
No, at a time of rising rents, falling availability
Great, the Minister for Children is someone who’s never had any.
Noel Dempsey was once Minister for Education.
HA!
The shaaaaaade!
Literally THE stupidest comment of the week.
It’s early days yet.
Excellent comment actually.
Made me laugh
And she has a wife! All schoolgirls will be brainwashed into getting wives and then the men will all become extinct and it will be Enda’s fault.
Mourinho never played at the top level
Sexist or not, that ‘Regina Monologues’ bit by Norris was THE standout parliamentary funny since the foundation of the state.
Shows the dearth of wit available in our Oireachtas, so. BTW, I detest Ms Doherty, in case you think I’m defending her. yeuuuuch.
They look so damn smug! Forming a government after months of taking the plss is nothing to be proud of lads. Enjoy the summer hols, ye shower of prats.
OMG yes. This picture is tooootally in bad taste in the context.
They’re not smug, they’re just flushed after doing the conga.
Look we ALL want to dance on Labour’s grave. But there’s a time and a place.
John Lyon’s gaff – half an hour?
Lyons’ even :)
Oh #HEYA John Lyons
That’s not the kind of rubbing in I’d be doing round his manor
#gerrup
Oh Ahjaysis, you do make me laugh!
#YADURT
The electorate voted in loads of independent loons so you can blame them for the delay.
As opposed to the non independents loons who couldn’t work together despite no real reason?
Yes, SF and FF also deserve blame.
Glad you recognize it.
When we mock and deride their representatives we mock and deride the people who voted for them. Just take it as read.
& more piss take – they immediately took a weeks HOLIDAY.
Yeah the adjournment until May 17th, when I read that it was like getting punched in the stomach. 70 days of taking the piss, now ten days more while the crises get crisisier and then just 8 weeks of “work” before 8 weeks summer holidays/”constituency work”. Is it not time that we insist that only half of TD’s get the full 8 weeks every second year so that we always have operational government. (Also add on the time from when the election was called, 3 weeks or so, did nothing for the country those 3 weeks either.
Presumably to allow ministers to read up on new briefs and for departments to be reorganised.
Poor auld Finian Mcgrath, Tommy Broughan was laying into him earlier. I’d feel sorry for him if he wasn’t a repeat offender.
The thought of that Thatcherite snot Harris in charge of health is giving me chills.
Hopefully Frances as Tánaiste indicates she’s ahead of Leo in the leadership race.
Look at Mary Mitchell etc cut her out’ve the line up
the boy harris in health that’s really funny but couldn’t be as bad as oreilly and leo was bad as well. social protection always cleans a minister c.v.
No minister for Environment, no natural heritage. So is the climate change thing sorted or is God above looking after that now?
Shameful.
A Journalist Graduate in Health? Arts under a Rural brief? Ireland has traversed backwards.
Ah sure we’ll be grand
I can’t see how this will last at all
It will because these independents have gotten their snout in the trough and liked what they got. Now they will bend over whenever Enda comes calling.
Too many Dubs btw
You can never have too many Dubs, Frilly. Never.
Well Bruthur
If is not Zappone or Ross that shuts down this party from within
It’ll be the Mattie’s and the Ray- Nuas and a very sore Ring
+1 = eh 11
is it? anyone…
I hear you.
I’ve stopped caring, to be honest.
Looking forward now to just sitting back and watching this poofest implode from within.
Moi aussi. The ministries alone are absurd.
Dublin isn’t one of twenty six counties – it’s a third of the fecking country.
Finian McGrath should be ashamed of himself, selling his soul to get something for his own family. Two fingers up to the people that voted for him in his constituency. I was right not to give the slime ball a vote.
Mummy, make it stop.
I kind of just copped that the cabinet has over 10% gays. That’s kind of awesome, actually.
#silverlining
No. Don’t do that.
Rumour has it that Leo’s going to come out as straight on next Friday’s Late Late.
Zappone, Varadkar… Who else?
Ok, wait, 2 / 19 is technically over 10%
“technically”?
Well to show how sad I am – I was counting them – aren’t there 21 members of Cabinet? The Taoiseach is a member as is the AG and Chief Whip?
Nah constitutionally it’s 15 – the others attend but don’t vote!
We’re more than 13% gay so!
I’ve been telling people that for years.
Then what the hell are they doing there Ahjaysiz – are there really any limits to what they are allowed to do in this country?
Pascal Donohoe. flamer
Nearly ten isn’t ten