Labour’s Alan Kelly (centre) surrounded by supporters including his wife Regina O’Connor (front row, fifth from left), Labour’s Sean Sherlock and Duncan Smith (front row, ninth and tenth from left) and Jan O’Sullivan (front row, second from left) and Willie Penrose (back row, third from right) on the plinth this morning
Or Teneo’s way?
They must decide.
This afternoon.
Labour’s Alan Kelly tweetz:
“I am delighted to announce that I have been nominated to stand for leader of Labour. A huge thank you to all those who have supported me and especially the people of Tipperary for giving me their confidence once again as, without them, I wouldn’t be in a position to be here today.”
Alan Kelly seeking to return Labour to ‘leadership of the left’ (The Irish Times)
‘Day of apologising is over’ for Labour, says Alan Kelly (Aidan Corkery, Business Post)
Related: Alan Kelly: ‘Power is a drug . . . it suits me’ (Niamh Horan, Sunday Independent, January 31, 2016)
Previously: High Again
UPDATE:
Delighted to see @AodhanORiordain announce his candidacy for @labour leadership. Nominated by @geraldnash & @ivanabacik & backed by a large cohort of activists within the party, I’m looking forward to supporting his bid 🌹🌹 #Labour #AodhanForLeader #LabourLeadership #GE2020 pic.twitter.com/IMyMg4sNwG
— Anna Heverin (@annaheverin) February 18, 2020
Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin says he will contest the Labour Party leadership and will be nominated by Ged Nash and Ivana Bacik
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 18, 2020
.@Labour is at a crossroads – we need a progressive, campaigning, energetic leader who has learned from the past & will build for the future with others who share our values – I am proud to support @AodhanORiordain for leader – for the future of @Labour & the future of Ireland.
— Jane Horgan-Jones (@horganjonesjane) February 18, 2020
It’s on.
Oh. It wasn’t a joke then.
Power is an aphrodisiac
Hahahaha.
Say whatever you like about him, he is very quotable. In a George Bush sort of way.
Anyone recall the rap song he recorded in 2009 for MEP election campaign? It’s as bad as you’d imagine and contains doggerel like this
“His opinion isn’t outdated like lino in kitchens and women like to say he looks like Brian O’Driscoll”
It surfaces every so often but then mysteriously disappears.
http://www.alankelly.ie/press/national/126701774622589914.html
“‘Day of apologising is over’ for Labour, says Alan Kelly”. I wasn’t aware the apologising had ever begun.
Alan Forgets…we won’t…
“Suits are a drug…it powers me”
More FG/ FF mudgards. Kelly will make a crap panel beater His FG record in housing was abysmal
Who are those people in the picture?
Just as the public are looking for change, Labour think of bringing back Kelly??
Jebus Christ!!
Bye bye Labour if he gets into the hot seat.
Alan ‘water meters’ Kelly- a project that couldn’t even pay for itself let alone contribute to the upgrade of the infrastructure- they really are clueless.
Before all the knives get sharpened and clips of Alan Kelly going from imitating Enimen to McGregor start to circulate
AK played an absolute blinder in the Dáil during Oct Nov of 2017 on behalf of Maurice McCabe, and was instrumental in opening up the Tess/ Noirin/ Frances email group – right there on his feet – on his own
And tearing the then Minister for Justice asunder – day after day
More than anyone else in the Dáil
And I’m sure Mary Lou – who wasn’t behind the door herself, would even agree
That Aodhan rhymes with crayon is a typical Labour appeaser, and holds no conviction about anything. Not even his own name.
But at least we’re to be spared Ged. So that’s something.