From top: Senator Jillian Van Turnout; Senator Katherine Zappone.; TDs from left, Catherine Murphy, Stephen Donnelly and Roisin Shorthall
Via Irish Independent:
The three TDs are linking up with Senators Katherine Zappone and Jillian van Turnhout, who are both the Taoiseach’s nominees in the Seanad.The new centre-left party is likely to be set up by the end of the month.
The party will lean heavily on centre-left economic policy, social justice campaigning and political reform.
Finally.
FIGHT!
Also a name anyone?
New party to be headed by Murphy, Donnelly and Shortall (Niall O’Connor, Independent.ie)
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Stephen And The Donnettes.
Murph and the magictones
Zappone and The Mothers of Invention
Yes!
Winner.
THIS is the one.
Tell me cuando cuando cuando…
Last one to leave turnout the lights
Stephen Donnelly and the high flying birds
LOL – very good
Wins the thread.
Righteous Indignation.
Yipee another left wing alliance!! slightly less left wing than the other left wing alliance or sinn feinn but more left wing than the “only the public sector unions vote for us now” labour. its just what this country needs!!
Yeah but Stephen wears glasses, we’re golden.
This sounds promising, better than Lucinda’s party anyway. Catherine Murphy and Stephen Donnelly have a lot of credability.
+ 1 Good news! I’d campaign for them, show me where to sign up.
+ 100% they already have my three votes
+1 yeah count me in – i’d vote for a party with that leadership!
I’d vote for anyone with a cool name like Van Turnout.
You haven’t seen Donnelly’s sidekick Jennifer Whitmore
donnelly is changing his name to ‘glint steele’.
“Glint’s Gals” have my vote.
Doctor Millar and the Cute Hoors
re-renua ?
The Peoples Front of Renua you mean.
Or the Renua’s People’s Front
I doubt they’ll be asking for donations totalling one million euro though
Or threaten to imprison the unemployed…. like someone quickly removed from their website when it was smeared all over t’interwebz
DA- NUA crowd
Not a bit’a Tiocfidh t’be seen
No ta
Dump the Senators
n’ye might be onta sum’ting tho
Good idea, dump the Senators.
Boom. Reputable folk otherwise. Great news for political discourse in this country anyway.
but someone needs to pay for the posters!
Katherine Zappone has credibility and integrity… I don’t know the other one at all.
Only saw Zappone on a ref debate but looked good. Van Turnhout has an interesting wiki entry
…and the first item on the agenda is?
Prison for people on the dole over 6 months.
Sorry, wrong party.
How about calling it ‘Democratic Left’?
Progressive Donocrats.
Interestingly both of them were against the DL-Labour merger but on different sides, Murphy from the DL side cause it stopped her getting selected (which is why she left in a nutshell) and Shortall on the Labour side
Dennis’ Menaces?
yes!
That’s v good!! …someone had their Weetabix
Integrity matters?
Ahem! “Integrity matters” ?
right the first time goosey..
The Social Justice League
I like that.
Ha ha , picturing their outfits! Like
The Murphellys!
Roisin and the Pussycats
….if Stephen Donnelly is ‘centre left’ then socialist Bertie Ahern may yet make a comeback…
Drop the senators (do they have superpowers or what?) and you’ve got yourself a winner there.
Has to be Tua Nua
I suppose they’ll probably be better than the auld socialists, Sinn “let’s turn Kilmainham Gaol into the Guinness Brewery Part 2” Féin.
“Stephen Donnelly, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich)
So much for gender quotas… will someone please think of the poor menz.
…Oh, and yes, I would vote for this crowd on the strength of Stephen alone. Catherine in their two is just brilliant. The rest… not so much ‘meh’ but a start.
Fuppin’ typos !
Its just another useless party. They’ve failed before they’ve begun as they’re working within a system which has utter failed this country. We need ‘direct democracy’, not the same old ‘Representative democracy’ crap.
Shit
We’re not Switzerland….Never will be.
I would deffo vote for them if any pre election promises which were broken could be punished financially
YESSSSS! This is what I’ve been waiting for.
Didn’t Shortall think increasing the price of alcohol was the solution to the problems alcohol causes in society?
Heads Up
By the Sundays….
5 ( at least) more NílAonTiocfidh candidates will be looking for cameras to gom inta
Zappone is left-wing? One of the worst abusers of the expenses system in the Oireachtas.