This morning.
Solidarity-People Before Profit’s Ruth Coppinger, who lost her Dáil seat last weekend, announces that she will run for a seat in the Seanad in the for the National University of Ireland constituency.
In fairness.
Meanwhile…
Ruth Coppinger is to run for the Seanad on the NUI panel… and @hugo_macneill (husband of new FG TD Jennifer Carroll MacNeill) is to run as a independent in the Dublin University panel
— Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly) February 14, 2020
Previously: The Ruth Gets In The Way Of A Good Story
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As distinct from Zappone, who will also probably try the Senate. Route planner extraordinaire .
Given that they are different people she is indeed distinct from Katherine Zappone.
“Coppinger says that the Socialist Party intend to emphasise that most people never get a vote on the Seanad regardless of their education. She added that people now actually have a chance to vote on the Seanad and they should use the opportunity to abolish what she described as a ‘classist institution’.”
https://www.thejournal.ie/seanad-referendum-2-1082424-Sep2013/
Maybe she’ll nationalise it once she’s on the inside
Hugo MacNeill – rugby player – now you know why those Dun Laoghire numpties voted for his missus.
Ruth is a national hero.
I like Ruth a lot but I don’t think this seanad backup plan stuff when it’s FF/FG hasbeens and I can’t contradict that even for her! That said, at least she won’t be parachuted in by the government
The great socialist wants to sit in the Seanad. Lol lol lol lol
Some very prescient comments in the link.
Anyway, best of luck Ruth.
So PBP lost
a seat as we gave a chance for left wing government while Harris and Murphy kept theirs
Can we deport them? To darfor
an idiot. good riddance