This morning.
Slane, County Meath.
New Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee has her first meeting with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris at the down-at-heel Slane Garda station.
Someone‘s playing the poor mouth.
FIGHT!
Meanwhile…
The new minister said people should consider not entering a premises if it is too crowded and leave if they have been somewhere for an extended period of time.
“It means exercising judgement and self-control for your own sake, as well as the collective good,” she told the Irish Independent.
Ms McEntee’s comments follows images of crowds of people gathering outside pubs.
Saturday: Worth The Wait
self-control
yes Helen, that’s really gonna do it
blah blah blahedy blah
Irish people…
Drink…
Self control…
Three phrases that will never work together.
…any comment on the doxing ?
FG really has a firm grip on Justice,she is the most unqualified Justice minister in the history of the state, the chutpaz from FG its breathtakingly,what will it take to pry this ministry form FG’s incompetence.
Shed the most unqualified politician full stop. Exactly what is wrong with politics in this country.
What a beautifully written sentence Johnny. Really helps your point.
For any medical cannabis patients in pain this is the minister blocking you receiving your medicine, she went to work with dad one day and next thing you know,he’s dead she the Minister for Justice with no background or qualifications,shur isn’t Ireland a great little country for nepotism.
Minister for Justice with no background or qualifications
Did anyone say that about Michael Collins?
Or Oscar Traynor
Or Jim Mitchell
– want the whole list of non Legal Professionals in the Dept of Justice?
Tell ye what, she can’t do any worse a job than many that went before her
Like Michael Noonan for example; The Lynch Tribunal remains one of the biggest atrocities of my generation – and Joanne Hayes remains uncompensated.
Do you think anyone will have to wait 30+ years for an apology from Helen McEntee’s years in Justice lads?
I would also add she is not the first Minister for Justice who travelled into the Dáil on their Daddy’s coat tails;
off the top of my head, Gerry Collins, Brian Lenihan, Ray Burke, Maire Geoghegan Quinn, ha, even Charlie Flanaghan
and on a private point, I happen to know she is enormously respected, and actually feared by a number of senior department officials
Minister McEntee has been a Leinster House Insider for over ten years
Look down your noses at her at yere peril
In the meantime, I think I’m entitled to remind ye all of this
The inherent misogyny is as prevalent now as it ever was
Only now its more insulting
further again, I’m developing far more respect for Leo Varadkar than he deserves
Or that I’m comfortable with
The sheer b1ching out of ould back bench eFFers over the last week, should be to all of yere shame
Lads insisting they were entitled to reward
Lemme tell all of ye, Helen McEntee will run rings around 80% if not more of the current FF parliamentary party
And they know it
Sad to see theres still people around to let them off
..one her colleagues just got doxed, by most likely someone in her dept,the silence from her says it all…
If you’re talking about CowandGate
that gobshyster
was grassed up by a member of his own party
who wasn’t a bit shy about not getting a Senior Ministry
Interestingly, the IFA promoted Cowen for the gig
besides which
McEntee in Justice, Donnelly in Health, and a Cowan for Ag Minister, with a Green Farmer as Junior (who will be very prominent for a Junior btw,) is the best going the Legalise Medicinal Cannabis lobby will ever get
If this Government doesn’t get this signed off in the next 3 years
its never going to happen
Everyone is going blame Stephen for the failure to pass cannabis legislation,but its her job,not his,he’s just a clerk issuing lic’s- this is HER job,which she simply wont do as she is totally unqualified.
Well I can tell ya
Jim O’Callaghan definitely wouldn’t have brought to the Cabinet
You do know the Minister doesn’t actually type up the legislation
they’ve people for that
My guess its going to be Sub Committee that will be composed strongly of Finance, Justice, Health, Trade etc & Ag
Then to the Legal Writers, Revenue Commissioners, and the AG
then signed off, mebbe during Leo’s spin as Taoiseach
..its a criminal issue still in Ireland not a medical one,this minister needs bring forward legislation to decriminalize medical cannabis,the health minister does not have that mandate or power she does ,she was on a father and daughter day at work next thing you know she’s the minister….she is totally unqualified and inexperienced its nepotism.
I’m not going to convince you
But at least give Helen McEntee a chance
The people of Meath East have sent her into the Dáil on each occasion she put herself in front of them for a vote
Unlike her Constituency colleague, former Minister for Social Welfare and Government Whip, Regina Doherty.
FYI, the late Shane McEntee only entered the Dáil in 05 (following the retirement of John Bruton) he barely served seven years
She worked for him for only two of those
She was also responsible for shutting down false allegations that he was being bullied and trolled on line. She demonstrated some pretty spectacular integrity and independence at the time when more senior members of Fine Gael and that coalition Government were attempting to exploit his death as a cause to impose unfair and heavy-handed regulations on internet forums and hosts.
Helen McEntee is no fluke
I have a far greater problem with the appointment of Norma Foley – whose own local Comhairle didn’t want
And no stranger to corruption herself
“Lemme tell all of ye, Helen McEntee will run rings around 80% if not more of the current FF parliamentary party”
sure, but given the quality level there Vanessanelle that’s not exactly anything to be shouting about
I couldn’t tell ya what she’s like one way or the other, all I’ve had to go off is her sideshow bob for Coveney, no matter what for me she’s yet another product of a failed system (category: dynasty/nepotism) to be blunt she has her seat in the first place because of her father
Interesting that you mention the quality level
so I’m obliged to take that matrix and state that Helen McEntee could hardly do any worse
So why is her appointment p1ssing so many off
hm. I think I know what you’re scratching at but I don’t think it has anything to do with it, in my head anyway, apart from the dynasty politics n all….
per Wikipedia, the job role consists of leading a department who are supposed to be busy:
Implementing government policy and proposing new policy on crime, immigration, asylum, criminal and civil law reform and the criminal justice system in general.
Implementation of government policy and proposing new policy in relation to national security (an area many countries assign to a separate ‘Home’ or ‘Homeland Security’ minister)
Control and reform of the Garda Síochána
Pardons (which are formally given by the President on the binding “advice” of the government, after proposal by the Minister for Justice – a rarely used power)
Implementation of core elements of the Good Friday Agreement.
Minister For Justice is a heavy heavy gig (see above) a gig that in my view should involve someone that possesses relevant gnarly “tradecraft” of which she has zero of….my view is that it isn’t enough to install a person who simply heads up a team, in this area the relevant person has to lead (and in a situation where the security of the state is involved really lead)
The last candidate fit for that job might have been Nora Owen!? and as for why didn’t Jim O’Callaghan get the gig…I’d speculate because of that Gerry Adams defamation scrape, rightly or wrongly
Ohhhh
Don’t make that mistake
She has more relevant gnarly “tradecraft”
than the entire Green Cabinet Compliment
and all but two – mebbe three of the eFFers
I’m telling ye Micheal Martin won’t be getting any push over
I’m pretty sure she’s as capable of the heavy gig as any of the lads
and incidentally, one of the worst Justice Ministers, in terms of effectiveness was Brian Lenihan Jnr, a Trinity Schol and considered one of the legal minds of his generation- particularly on Constitutional matters. He himself the beneficiary of family patronage, and had no problems sharing it out either.
not saying you’re wrong but it’s a poor poor show when we’re comparing best before vs use by dates innit? if another McCabe scenario went off saying she couldn’t do any worse doesn’t really cut it for me. anyhoo you know my view on the lifespan of this thing one way or the other, if the bookies were offering I’d be laying on 18 months but unfort no timeframes yet (only offers are for “most seats next GE” for which has Sinn Fein @Evens, FG @6/4, FF out to 4/1)
The question should be put to her has she ever taken an illegal drug in her lifetime.
a bizarre appointment to what most would regard as a pretty important ministry
she’s eminently unqualified – sadly, though, there are at least 5 worse appointments in that cabinet
might this be the worst government ever? hopefully also the most short-lived.
Will they drop all the weird hires after another election and get in some heavier weights? Is it a sort of gravy train cum rewards game? Am I thinking too much?
worst.
government.
ever.
Bruddar
Who is qualified then?
good question, frillz
starting at the top with me-hole and leo, it’s not a cabinet blessed with talent, is it?
Nope.
But this is the least flimsiest of the appointments
Note what I’ve said here and on other threads, and BS.tv, about Norma Foley for example
And the one that nobody has had a crack at yet
Our new Minister for Housing
Darragh O’Brien
A former pension broker
Who has far less experience in Leinster House than Helen McEntee btw
I wouldn’t let him change a tyre FPS
Watch Michael McGrath and Paschal Donohue run that department, and keep him peering over their respective shoulders whenever there’s an announcement,
I’d be surprised if he’ll even be allowed appear before PAC or any other Dáil committee without supervision
Why is she ’eminently unqualified’ – she’s been a TD for 7 years.
serious question, is a queue another name for an organised gathering?
people have been ‘gathered’ outside hardware stores for nearly 2 months now and we’re not all dead.
me and the young lad drive around of a Saturday (or Sunday or Monday or indeed any day) and marvel at the length of the queues. We start at Coolock Woodies to ease ourselves into it. Then we go to Airside retail park. Halfords and Woodies there can be up to 80 – 100 long. B&Q similar. We then go to Ballymun and gawp at the queues for Homebase. All the while saving the titan queue that is IKEA until last. The numbers here are beyond comprehension. An organised human snake winding it’s way around the cavernous carpark.
My son calls it ‘queue watch 2020’. I call it the last days of society.
just wait until that young lad discovers porn
The thing about being in a queue of 100 people is most of them are far away from you. The people in front of you and behind you should be 2metres away and everyone should be wearing masks. So yes it is very different to the crowd on Dame Lane.
Also it is about minimising risk overall not reducing it to zero which is impossible. You could use your logic to say “if it was always ok for people to work in food shops then it was always ok for me to work in my office.” That’s misses the point.
wait till it starts getting cold and we have to queue in the lashing rain. – we’ll see how civil ‘civil society’ is when everyone is spluttering and coughing with everyday colds and flus.
Where’s the 2nd wave caused by the BLM protest we were all promised?
Memo to Drew: Heels next time.