This is not that.
This morning.
Staff in Leinster House begin the count in the Seanad By-Election to fill the seat left vacant after the resignation of the Labour’s Jimmy Harte.
More as we get it.
Maria Cahill set to replace Jimmy Harte in the Seanad today (Highland Radio)
Yesterday: How Do Solve A Problem Like Maria’s Appointment?
(Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie)
Update:
Maria Cahill (centre) with Labour Party deputy leader Alan Kelly (left) and Senator Ivana Bacik (right) following Ms Cahill’s ‘election’ as Senator.
(Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie)
Update:
From top: Labour Leader and Tanaiste Joan Burton (left) and Senator Maria Cahill and unknown bloke; Defiant Maria on the plinth outside Leinster House.
(Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie)
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Labour are making such a cynical move with this and the Shinners will use this to take victimhood…
Shinners use *everything* to take victimhood. You’d swear they’re the real victims of the Troubles.
I really really can’t understand how labour pay some 100k to come up with an idea like this. Stupidity all round. It’s absolutely breathtaking how stupid a move this is
Doesn’t this just mean both houses of parliament have former british terrorists in them !
Ah Irish politics
Shup Joan
the biggest terrorists are in The Dáil as we speak
Right on panga! The daily beheadings at the plinth are really getting monotonous at this stage.
Go back upstairs and finish your homework!
partial democracy….who got to vote? We’re over a year on from the vote to get rid of the place and that reform they spoke of….. waste of space, time and money.
Get in line. We’re over 40 years from the referendum to expand the right to vote in Seanad elections.
Disclaimer: actual democracy may not be in action
so why is she being nominated as a senator?
No one knows but Labour… as far as I can tell.
And Labour appear rudderless, so, anyone’s guess.
I think it has something to do with the gay feel good factor.
And to think we had a chance to get rid of this pointless gravy train.
all the more reason to wipe Labour out at the next election!
Labour have lost any respect on this one. How can anyone support a party with ethics like this?
Labour now have Shinners in their ranks.
They’ve had ex-Shinners in their ranks for years, ever since Democratic Left took over.
Cynical and opportunistic move by Labour..
They are using her as a weapon against Sinn Fein.. everyone can see that.
I have no affiliation to any party but this kind of derisive politics is what has the country in the state its in…
Stinks of desperation on Labour’s part, and Cahill is taking victim-hood to a whole other level here with this appointment, and Labour are giving her the platform to display it… I find the whole escapade is quite disturbing..
I agree. A very stupid move by Joan Burton.
what level of expertise does she bring as a senator?
actually….. when you see Fidelma there I think I have answered my own question!
Fail to understand how she posseses the qualities to make her a suitable choice to be a senator. Have voted Labour for many years but wont be voting for them this time. I am running out of choices definitely no shinner, no Fianna Fail and now no Labour candidate getting my vote.
social democrats are the only ones worth a damn.
What a farce.
jaybs .. this really shows how farcical everything is in this country. i despair at the thought of who makes decisions effecting all our lives. absolute joke shop.