This evening.
Government Buildings, Dublin 2
Helen McEntee, new junior minister for European affairs (top third front right), joins her fellow freshly-minted, all-male junior ministers following their appointments this afternoon.
Above from left: Brendan Griffin, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport with special responsibility for Tourism and Sport; Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran TD; Michael D’Arcy, Minister of State at the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with special responsibility for Financial Services and Insurance; Leo Varadkar; Ciarán Cannon, Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with special responsibility for the Diaspora and International Development; Jim Daly, Minister of State at the Department of Health with special responsibility for Mental Health and Older People; John Paul Phelan, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government with special responsibility for Local Government and Electoral Reform.
FIGHT!
Update:
“Who was that lady person?”
Rollingnews
(Don’t blink. Don’t blink. Don’t blink.)
Damn.
Try again. Take another one.
(Don’t blink Don’t blink.)
Ah feckit.
Jaysus wept.
Ye?
And the award for “Most Awkward Handshake” goes to…
His handshake brings mostly boys to the yard
snigger snigger snigger
King for a day.
In the unlikely happenstance I became a TD & was offered a Junior role . I would resign my place & nominate a female colleague in distrust of Leo’s new politique of the locker-room ??
Sneaky, Andy, very sneaky :-)
Jesus. It’s like a Maurice Pratt convention.
He’s going to fall so far I kind of…Nope.
Fupp him.
“Who was that lady person?” It made me giggle!
Boxer Moran, he’d shake hands with the corpse at a funeral. Cringetastic.
Is Michael D’Arcy sporting the ‘Skinny Leg’ pose?
and not an ounce of compassion to be found amongst them
who cares whether they’re boys or girls
they’re all púcing rubbish
poor Leo must be bricking himself
Don’t forget that that young go-getter woman TD only got the job because it was her dads seat before he died (just as was the case for Enda Kenny, Brian Cowen etc….). We may have a gay son of an immigrant in charge but Ireland’s politics are as backward as ever. We need a Macron to sweep away FF/FG/LAB. At least all the old dynasties would be gone.
And what are you going to do with majority electing them?
Exactly. The gender balance of the cabinet is almost exactly the same as the gender balance of FG TDs
FG (and the other parties) are doing nowhere near enough to reach out and recruit a wider base of candidates.
It still feels as if their candidates are almost all:
male
white
from families associated with the party
auctioneers/publicans/teachers/lawyers
dress in poorly fitted suits with badly looked-after shoes