From top: LÉ Eithne and LÉ Orla
Reports that the flagship LÉ Eithne and the LÉ Orla may never sail again due to crew shortages… Govt can’t say they weren’t warned the navy was in meltdown – & if they’d listened last year when I told them it was hanging by a thread we might be in a very different place now… pic.twitter.com/eh6MrtirOK
— Clare Daly MEP (@ClareDalyMEP) July 10, 2019
Yesterday: Derek Mooney: A Coach And Horses To Shift Kehoe
Pics; Rollingnews/Irish Naval Service
Sponsored Link
“if they’d listened last year when I told them”
It’s the Clare Daly show folks! It’s all me me me.
Do she honestly think the Govt didn’t see this coming?
I honestly do think that.
The government is being run like a firesale for the last 8 years.
Basically if the DPER don’t see immediate value they cut.
It probably the biggest reason why all our state functions are in such terrible shape right now.
That and the 200 billion national debt.
Opposition politician holds government to account last year by accurately challenging manpower shortages in the navy. Now that two ships have been taken out of full commission with senior officers (who should know what they’re talking about) saying they won’t be back in service because of the overall manpower shortgages, the opposition politician reminds government what they said last year. Well done Clare. At least the govt can’t now claim this is a totally new issue.
You are talking about Kehoe and Varadkar. No, those two haven’t a clue.
blushirt attacking the messenger again..
…tke a bow Bodger…two bows…
He deserves a fine port
:)
A starboard and a port bow!
I’ll take ’em.
Wasn’t one of the other navy ships sold off for stupid money recently?
110,000.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/ex-irish-navy-vessel-sold-for-110k-in-march-now-on-sale-for-over-six-times-the-price-35717003.html
Yes. I would buy it and teach kids to sail a ship and love the ocean.
Please take me with you. I’ll teach them how to sing sea shanties.
You’re in. I’m going to go round to so many people singing David Gray to persuade them to join my crew. We’re gonna eat lobster every day and dance to sea shanties and when we arrive in the Caribbean we’re gonna be free, free to do what we wanna do. And we’re gonna get loaded and we’re gonna have a good time
I’m in
I can tie knots and cook
“It aint gay once we are underway”
i’ll come too and just be the deck eye-candy for you all
ok I’ll put more olive oil on the stock list
I never said I’d be putting on a show
oh alright
eye candy doesn’t talk back
;)
Man overboard. With his own vanity.
front row seat for you, hoop
Thanks Barn. I’ll bring the crows nest binoculars with me.
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter
Fair play to Clare Daly !
Dáil Éireann will certainly miss her, she highlighted many of the ills we continue to deal with under this regime of Fine Gael aided by Fianna Fáil.
just another example of the fallout from having a government who doesn”t govern. i honestly think FG believe their positions are merely tokenistic and that they don’t have to do actual work, ‘other people do the actual work’
Your rape stuff was funnier
– https://youtu.be/iUuAjGYq_YY
Honestly, it really does seem like the Government (maybe most/all Irish Governments) couldnt give a fiddlers about the army, navy and air corp.
Listening to a guy on about it the other day and if we start to see terrorism return, either some international variant or home grown, we are going to see a lot of MNC shuffle their feet, especially those reliant on data centres and from their point of view, rightly so.
While it can be an overused expression, joined up thinking is definitely not something FG excel at. Among other things.
I do miss the terrorism I must say
That and no johnnies or abortion or divorce
Scarp our “Navy”, make a coastguard instead.
Some of those poorly paid eejits in the army, hanging around on top of a hill near Syria getting a tan, should be handed lifejackets and binoculars.
It’s funny how some in here defend our need for a service we can’t afford and can do without.
It’s like they have a personal stake in it. Besides their taxes being used for it… obviously
+1 The Navy (or a coast guard, as thats whats actually required) is the one branch of our armed services that we actually need.
Get rid of half of the army and nobody would notice, then we could actually staff our ships.
Staff our ships with soldiers ? Marines I think they’re called. They’re not sailors btw, entirely different set of skill sets. Oh you mean hire sailors with the money saved by sacking half the army.
Learn to swim and point at the Spanish fishing boats. It’s not rocket science.
Lets not forget the 300 million paid out in army deafness claims.
Maybe next time they will be supplied with proper PPE then.
The failure here starts with not having a full-time Minister
This and the last Government have been taking the p155 with their Management of and their attitude to the Dept of Defense
Someone above used Firesale
And that’s exactly what’s been going on
And under our noses
They sold off Army Barracks and Army housing that would have served us all better if the were transferred to local authorities / Dept of Environment
Or even the Dept of Justice for direct provision
Or the Dept of Health for HSE/ Tusla for converting into community care centre uses
Instead you have Fine Gael enriching the private sector in preference to the obligations of Government and Ministerial office
To protect State’s Assets
Lads, dance around it all ye like with balanced budgets, confidence and supply agreements, bailouts and brexit
It won’t disguise what it all is
Corruption
Oh you used the c word
V. Which other minister would you chop to make a full-time defence minister? We have reached a maximum.
grow up Cian
They change those numbers around the table whenever they want
Remember when they squeezed in the Minister without Portfolio?
And it doesn’t have to be a TD, a Senator can be called up
Or anyone else elected to either house
you think the problem is Kehoe isn’t spending enough time at his ministerial job
Leo Varadkar is the Minister for Defense
Kehoe is a mini Minister who’s professional background is Ag
Dunno if he has a B.Ag
But he’s an ex of whatever ACOT is now