This afternoon.
Convention Centre, Dublin.
New ministers arrive for a Dáil session. From top: Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe; Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney; Chief Whip Dara Calleary; Minister for Education Norma Foley; Green Party Leader and Minister for Climate Action, Communication Networks and Transport Eamon Ryan.
Meanwhile…
Via RTÉ
The Government is seeking Dáil approval for €483 million.
The money is aimed at making the reopening of businesses as easy as possible, the Tánaiste told TDs.
The Dáil heard that the vast majority of the funding is as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.
….Sinn Féin said it would support the revised estimates today.
However, party spokesperson Imelda Munster said grants and interest free loans should be provided to small and medium sized companies.
Earlier: Michael Taft: Follow The Money
No time to waste over economic stimulus – Varadkar (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
New Lord Mayor of Dublin, Green Party’s Hazel Chu leaving the Dail in the Convention Center, on one of her first assignments as the capital’s first citizen.
Earlier: Eileen In
How many of the new Ministers were elected on the first count?
How many of the new Ministers were returned without reaching the quota?
How many of the new Ministers were runners-up to Sinn Fein or other candidates?
Answers on a postcard to Talk2Joe
How many people did SF/IRA kill?
DRINK DRINK DRINKDRINKDRINK!
you didn’t get that fresh air did you?
You just can’t stop eating can you…in Kate’s words nothing tastes as good as skinny-be better,thinner healthier ….gosh happier even ..Mount St sends there regards but not regrets:)
ahh now Johnny, can you not get out and get some fresh air because your knees aren’t the best, never quite recovered from a punishment beating some years back. You didn’t do nothing wrong, but they had to be sure. No grudges, eh?
Don’t think SF killed anyone. If you have information to the contrary, the best place to bring it is to the Gardai or Police. If you haven’t, then maybe spend a nice quiet evening in and do the equation FF=FG=DUP=UDA. What does FF=? (Hint – it’s not the Republican Party).
..they did ‘kill’ Willie O’s career …and his advisors ain’t that right ‘Mary”….
“Willie O’Dea apologised unreservedly to Mr. Quinlivan for the harm done to his reputation and accepted that Mr. Quinlivan is a person of exemplary character.
The Minister withdrew the misleading allegations made by him in his affidavit to the High Court.
The settlement sees O’Dea paying damages to Maurice Quinlivan and discharges Quinlivan’s legal costs.”
https://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/21067
Next stop Belfast,then Glasgow onwards and upthe…:)
I’m quite sure it wouldn’t be hard to find one among collection of shysters and scum bags who attended to funeral of Bobby Storey in Belfast today.
MaryLou
you’re like one of those kids who can’t resist kicking the neighbours gate as you walk past, aren’t ya ;)
just to rile up their yippy yappy snarly terrier
maybe even poke a stick in at it thru the railings if noone is looking
that dog has been terrorising the neighborhood for decades
Another bleeding survey.
@GG – I bet all of those ministers at least showed up to work; Mary Lou didn’t bother her hole.
Wasn’t that Dimmy Tooly, the Phantom Button Pusher?
But, what a motley crew we have as Ministers.
The only two that topped their poll were? Heather Humphries, FG and Eamon Ryan, Greens. Of the rest of the Ministers, it was an assortment of 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 15th count. The two Wicklow lads bringing up the rear.
And a further look at the departments they are Ministers for throws up a barrel of laughs. Square pegs trying to fit round holes.
What point do you think you’re making?
That Ireland shoud have a voting system that returns a less representative parliment?
Giggidy, as he has demonstrated time and again, has a very tenuous grasp on civics.
Ministers don’t even need to be elected officials
How many parties wanted to be I government and had 80 or more candidates?
What party has most TDs?
I don’t like Hazel Chu- she is a race baiter- so lets see her now climb down off her identity pedestal and get to work.
Start with an affordable reliable public transport which should be a core Green principle except they won’t take the state within the state otherwise known as CIÉ on.
Lets go.
I’m sure you’ll be able to produce examples of the “race baiting” done by Hazel Chu.
She’s a big meanie to Irish racists who are predominantly white, so she’s baiting whitey and whitey don’t like it.
If it wasn’t such an important issue it would actually be comical how fragile these guys really are.
So easily triggered, the pwecious wittle snowflakes.
I most certainly can but that would be diversionary and Hazel has done enough of that while climbing her career ladder.
Fair enough
You don’t like Hazel Chu
Don’t vote for her
The remainder of your post inc the one above again, is a foul rancid chum line
No surprise of course
But that doesn’t make it any easier to pass it by
And I hope it never does
From now on lads
This type of race baiting and
whatever it is this time Sexist Hate’ist trolling
I’m going to call Chumming
Remember it wasn’t Hazel who introduced her ethnic background to her profile, and Political identity
She was dragged into it
And by the likes of people not unknown to ye here
And on whose behalf you were a particular activist Same oh
Good luck using the the mask slipped now lads
Sometimes I think tis backwards we’re all going
But tis days like this I’m glad ye killed Frilly off
Wrong- I actually do like Hazel as a person but it is pretty obvious that she used her minority status to at the very least, increase her public profile.
People are fed up of this identity stuff so if she continues to play the POC victim card, she won’t get very far. Its boring and stale and to most of us, it is downright friggen insulting.
Stop it Same Oh
You’re making it worse for yourself
As if that were possible
Yet you’re managing it
it is pretty obvious that she used her minority status to at the very least, increase her public profile.
Explain over four thousand 1st preference votes in an election that had a quota of barely 2,000
And that’s before most of the Councillors in Dublin City Council even heard of Hazel Chu
Show me anything – anywhere, from her joining the Greens up to becoming the party Chair, and from her campaign in the Locals, or her professional career,
up to when The National Party and the ACI or whatever the Barrow Street singers are now
made Hazel Chu respond and defend – and to reuse your own expressions Minority Status …. POC victim
You’re some piece of work
You really are
Local Elections 2019 ran on the same day as the EU elections
As the counts came in and in the days after, all anyone was talking about was the Green Wave
Except for – D’you know I can’t bring myself to say it
I never denied Hazel’s or anyone else’s electoral mandate V- and like quite a number of others I expect, I wasn’t really aware of her until that race thing kicked off. She definitely put herself forward as a spokesperson.
My point is that if she continues in that preachy theme it will be divisive is all. She is employed to represent everyone, especially now when the economic poo is about to hit the fan.
Again
You’re making it worse for yourself
She didn’t make herself a spokesperson
You did
You and all those chums you were only too happy to be seen with
Please don’t make us go through all this again
It wasn’t Hazel that took to Social Media to rally supporters agitated by pigment
It wasn’t Hazel that took to the City Centre streets to protest. rally and pontificate – drunk or sober, to rouse up support for a General Election Campaign, or a Party or a Paypal account, or a Website, or a Webstream,
If you want to introduce Preachy Themes well go for it Chum
All the Preachy Themes I need to know or will ever need to know to sort who what where and from are all on your side of the Street
g’wan
Chum
Yawn.
I assume top dollar is being paid for. the use of the Convention Centre?