Tag Archives: Fine Gael

This afternoon.

Mansion House, Dublin 2.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin accompanied by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and the Lord Mayor of Dublin Alison Gilliland visit a display of items to mark the 100th anniversary of talks that would lead to the end of the War of Independence, including a typescript memorandum (above) with the proposed terms that came into effect on 11 July 1921.

What the UN and EU flags are doing there – other than demonstrating a dependence – is anyone’s guess.

Fight!

Julien Behal/RollingNews

The privilege is all his.

This afternoon.

A desperate last-minute plea handwritten appeal to Dublin Bay South voters from Fine Gael candidate James Geoghegan.

Richard writes:

The sore wrists in YFG after this will be disappointed to hear that the cringiness of this letter alone has ensured James an even lower place on my ballot this Thursday.

Earlier: At Bay

This afternoon.

Ranelagh, Dublin 6.

Frances Fitzgerald MEP (top in mauve ) and Neale Richmond TD (top right) watch as James Geoghegan, Fine Gael Councillor and election candidate in the the upcoming Dublin Bay South By Election, recreates a scene from The Firm (1993). The by-election is being held on Thursday, July 8.

Earlier: With Purcell, You Know What You Get

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

Newly ratified DUP leader Edwin Poots at Dublin Castle last year

“They took photographs of blown up border posts to impose upon Northern Ireland people a harshest form of customs, and an internal market that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world.

“They’re going to starve Northern Ireland people of medicines, no less, cancer drugs and other materials such as the food that’s on our table.

“And I’d say that’s a shame on the Irish Government that they done that. And that belongs to Fine Gael under the leadership of Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney. So relationships are really, really bad with the Irish Government as a consequence”

Edwin Poots

A promising start.

DUP leader Edwin Poots says Irish Government will ‘starve’ NI of medicine (RTE)

RollingNews

This afternoon.

He wanted to be the ‘voice for the generation locked out of the housing market’.

How’s that going?

Via Irish Independent.ie:

…the Price Property Register shows the Fine Gael barrister and his wife bought a house three years ago in Clonskeagh in South County Dublin for €730,000.

House prices in Dublin have risen 2.8pc in the last year with the median price in the capital now standing at €390,000 and rising to €540,000 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.

While he is running to be elected in Dublin Bay South, Mr Geoghegan’s home in the neighbouring Dublin Rathdown constituency.

‘Voice for generation locked out of housing market’ Fine Gael candidate lives in €730,000 house in different constituency (Independent.ie)

Yesterday: Local Man Not Local

 James Geoghegan (centre) flanked by Simon Harris  and Frances Fitzgerald in Ranelagh village

This morning.

Interloper!

FIGHT!

Meanwhile…

Yesterday.

Sandymount Strand, Dublin 4.

A Fine Gael Dublin Bay South by-election photo shoot with, top from left: Tanaiste Leo Varadkar, Frances Fitzgerald MEP and the party’s candidate James Geoghegan.

Thanks Sauvignon Blanc

Meanwhile…

Hmm.

Saturday.

The novel suggestion of introducing ‘wheelchair accessible’ park benches was made by Galway City Fine Gael Councillor Clodagh Higgins.

To help the disabled get that prized middle seat?

Or deter the homeless from having a kip?

We may never know.

Meanwhile…

Anyone?

This morning.

Today with Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio One.

Kate O’Connell said over the years she has faced personalised commentary and attacks on her and thinks there was a “pushback” against her to replace her.

At one Fine Gael meeting, she said, her team arrived before her and someone had got a sod of turf and was going to present it to her in front of people at the meeting.

She said that was “designed to diminish” and tell her she was “not from here” but from the country.

She said a sign was also erected outside her pharmacy pointing towards the M50 saying “Westmeath this way“.

Ms O’Connell said attempts were made to label her as “undesirable, unsuitable and not good enough”.

Anyone?

O’Connell will not run in Dublin Bay South by-election (RTÉ)

RollingNews

Fine Gael’s Maria Byrne (left) and Fianna Fáil’s Gerry Horkan

This afternoon.

In the Seanad by-elections.

Via RTÉ:

Fianna Fáil’s Gerry Horkan was elected to the Industrial and Commercial Panel, receiving 114 first preference votes and was elected on the first count, with the quota set at 101.5.

Green Party Chairperson Hazel Chu, who contested the election as an independent, got 10 votes.

Fine Gael’s Byrne, from Limerick, won a seat on the Agriculture Panel receiving  118 votes, finishing well ahead of Independent candidate Ian Marshall, who got 69 votes

Democracy.

It’s a beautiful thing.

Byrne and Horkan elected to Seanad following by-election (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…