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Meanwhile at the Fianna Fáil Adare-Rathkeale cumann selection convention last Thursday…

The decision resulted in a straight contest between the two remaining candidates – sitting councillor Kevin Sheahan and barrister Emmett O’Brien. Mr Sheahan marginally won the vote. However, the convention descended into chaos over the party’s pre-selection strategy. A number of Mr O’Brien’s supporters formed a human chain in a bid to obstruct a party official from leaving the room to count the ballots. The official was left with no option but to count the ballots at the top table of the meeting, which was being chaired by the party’s children’s spokesman, Robert Troy.

“There was holy f***ing war but if party headquarters think they can act like a dictatorship, they have another thing coming,” said one member who asked not to be named.


Chaos at FF selection contest as human chain formed to block count (Niall O’Connor, Irish Independent)

Watch exclusive footage here.

5/12/2012 Budget DaySenator Darragh O’Brien (left) and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin.

 

Where’s Winelake when you need him/her?

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

Meanwhile…

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Senator O’Brien and Cameron from Modern Family.

Uncanny.

14/5/2012. Campaigns For Fiscal Stability Treaties Minister of State Brian Hayes (left) spoke on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight on Friday with presenter Ritula Shah.

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Ritula Shah: “There are a lot of people emigrating. A lot of people are voting with their feet and getting out and there is a question if austerity is to continue, you know how much more can people take?”

Brian Hayes: “Well, emigration has been a feature since our independence from Britain. In the last 12 months, yes, 80,000 people have left. But 50,000 people have come back. And of the 80,000 who have left, half of them were non-Irish nationals who were going back to third countries where they had come from originally in the European Union. There is a lot of churn within the population figures and I think what we need to do is to keep those people in Ireland because they’re going to be the social entrepeneurs, they’re going to be the business start-up people of the future.”

Right so.

Listen in full here.

Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

donovan[John Donovan, who was forced to kill and barbecue pigeons to survive, according to yesterday’s new York Times]

Not hungry.

But he has a certain set of skills.

Faced with an expensive separation and medical costs for his ill mother, who has since passed away, he sold his five-bedroom house.

“I decided I was going to cut the bills to nothing. I thought, ‘I’m going to fend for myself’. I have a fully licensed shotgun. I’m an experienced hunter so I started shooting a few pigeons in the fields around Shankill, so that’s where that came from.

“I fish as well so I catch trout and caught loads of mackerel so I filleted and froze them,” he said.

 

‘NY Times was wrong: I don’t have to hunt pigeons to survive’ (Independent.ie)

Via Gavin Daly

Previously: Meanwhile, In Shankill

Thanks Fluffybiscuits

court[John English described as a “serious threat to the women of Cork” was granted bail yesterday against the reactivation of the suspended portion of his 18-year sentence]

Counsel for English, Dominic McGinn SC, yesterday told the Court of Criminal Appeal that the obligation for English to abide by all recommendations of the probation service was placed on him for five years from Jun 28, 2004 — the date of his sentence — and not the date of his release from prison in Sept 2012. He said this was the only bond entered into by English.
Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman, presiding, said this “elegant and narrow” point, an unusual structural matter concerning the constitution of a court order, appeared to be arguable.
He said the court considered Mr McGinn had raised a substantial point, albeit “an entirely technical one”, which allowed English to surmount the hurdles by way of getting bail pending an appeal. As any release on bail would also have to be under terms and conditions, the judge said the court itself would take the bond…

Anyone?

Legal Coffee Drinker’s verdict to follow.
‘Threat to women of Cork’ freed on bail (Brian Kavanagh, Irish Examiner)

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