Dublin Lord Mayor Críona Ní Dhálaigh
Louisa McGrath, in the Dublin Inquirer, writes:
Independent councillor Mannix Flynn has put forward a motion to the council’s protocol committee to decommission the title Lord Mayor and replace it with the more inclusive title of Civic Mayor.
“This would be in keeping with a much more democratic description and title. The days of Lords go back to a time when Ireland was under foreign rule and in many respects it is an alien colonialist term,” the motion states.
This motion will come before all councillors for debate at next month’s full council meeting.
Is it time to delete the “Lord” from Lord Mayor of Dublin? (Dublin Inquirer)
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Civic Mayor? Oh for f……..so tired of this politically correct garbage. Just drop the ‘Lord’ part if you must. And leave it as ‘Mayor’. Civic Mayor my h*le.
Poor Eoin, the world must seem a scary place. It’s ok.
i’m not scared but I’m with eoin. Ideally i’d like my councillors to debate more practical matters than this nonsense…cos nonsense it is.
I’m only surprised said fool didn’t request the title be mayor-person.
It’s more nonsensical to think that they can only debate 1 issue at any given meeting
Removing titles originating from feudal monarchies from common use in a republic has absolutely nothing to do with not being allowed call someone a cripple or a poof.
It’s okay Eoin, it’s tired of you too.
To see a female Sinn Féin councillor wearing the Chain that King Billy presented to the people of Dublin in 1698 shows how far we have come. From what and to where, I’m not sure, but people seem to think that we should always be progressing…
Oh…. King Billy bit is news to me.
She’s a good Councillor is Críona.
Top class lady. Great Irish, great local attention and well able to represent the Unionist citizens of Dublin as well
no she isn’t.
TLDR
I don’t know – King Billy was a progressive sort, wasn’t he? First gay king of Great Britain and all that.
LOL :)
Amazing what keeps people busy!!!
Mmm, colonialist. Because if Ireland hadn’t been under foreign rule it would have been an egalitarian meritocracy and would never have enforced a crushing, inescapable social hierarchy.
A bit of Stockholm syndrome exhibiting itself there Caroline. Up the free Republic that gives us our freedom to celebrate and the freedom to whinge.
Tony’s right. We are never allowed to whinge in the colonies, that’s a floggable offence.
Stiff upper lip and all that.
Can’t have the natives revolting
What are you wittering about now Don? Didn’t you move to the mainland?
You mean Continental Europe?
Look at Tony chatting away to women. G’wan Tony.
Sure didn’t I spend all day yesterday teaching you. No problem to me.
Don’t listen to her. I, for one, really appreciated it. I have since reflected on my life as a woman and will endeavor to be a woman more like Tony.
And could you maybe give the republic a little kiss while you’re at it? Little peck on the cheek for all the freedoms it gives you.
A little peck for Handsy Uncle Republic? IT WOULD BE A JOY!!!
Tá fáilte romhaibh, as we say in the Republic. You complete me.
Duolingo has a lot to answer for.
for some reason I expected you to say “learning yis “
He’s loosened the tie, Janet, but we haven’t it off him yet.
Can we just abolish the position altogether and have a proper democratically elected Mayor and city executive? Dublin is really poorly served with all major infrastructure decisions made by central government, with an eye to the rural vote.
exactly this.
Ah, god be with the good old days, when you didn’t have to worry about the plebs beyond the pale… Thank god she didn’t fall on us.. The only people responsible for Dublins ills are the forgotten spawn of British soldiers who inhabit her..
Cool cud-chewing rant, bro.
It’s not about plebs beyond the pale, it’s about Ireland not having any actual local government system worth talking about.
Dublin is Ireland’s engine, it funds itself and it funds the country. All I’m suggesting is local areas be responsible for local expenditure, that’ll apply to Belmullet just as much as Dublin, even though Belmullet’s money comes from Dublin.
But you’ve just demonstrated why a national government has a conflict of interest around Dublin and other cities, they’ll be worried about slackjawed yokels such as yourself wondering why there’s not a Luas running down the ditch you live in.
A luas? We are only getting used to Zebra Crossings still.. Steady on with your new fangled ways. As it happens, I am all for decentralisation. All for local pride and local investment. But the truth is, rural Ireland has no future as an employment base beyond basket weavers and gate welders. Dublin, Cork, limerick, Galway are going to see a huge surge in population and they will need the autonomy to steer their own affairs.
Then we’re on the same page!
If there’s to be a mass exodus from the country to the cities I’d like to see Cork and Limerick have powers to compete with Dublin, I think it’d be beneficial if we had more than one city-sized city in the country. But national governments have proven absolutely woeful in planning and development, they’ve too much on their plate, while we have 40 councils doing feck all and losing talent and experience by the day as their powers are continually eroded.
thank god they are rubbing out the republican scum in the streets of dublin, not a day too soon if you asked me.
Hear, Hear!
Phew, thats a relief, for a min there I thought it would be related to de wemens rites n’stuff
https://twitter.com/InvestDiva/status/701825722298585088
Do feminists do ‘sex sells’ stuff…. that would tell me they do.
How odd….
Feminists hate sex and everything to do with sex, unless it’s talking about women
Who (obviously) really hate sex.
Lord Mayor is normally the title when it’s a city with a Corporation, isn’t that right? And Dublin suddenly decided to copy London and be a Council instead a few years ago… so shouldn’t it just be Mayor?
As for local powers, all for that, yes; have local politicians answering to the constituency and doing work like replacing leaky lead water pipes with non-leaky non-lead ones, having working local roads and transport and housing, taking anxious constituents’ calls and helping them.
And let us vote for a central executive Dáil on a random basis – nothing to do with the locality – so our Dáil members will deal with legislation, not the parish pump.
Mannix Flynn, didn’t he play the John Gilligan based character in “When the sky falls”?
Long time reader, first time poster here ;-)
Some of you fine folks might like to listen to my podcast interview with Críona (who was totally lovely and is super-passionate about what she does).
She’ll be featured in Episode 2, released at the start of next week: http://www.facebook.com/HODCast