Proper doughty battlers, occasionally delivering both seats. Look at the constituency today. Charlatans.
Intellectual heavyweights too though. It was a shame they were in the same 3 seater.
O’Kennedy famously backed Haughey over Colley in the 1979 leadership contest. The only Cabinet minister to do so and it was seen as decisive in Haugheys favour. He was “rewarded” with the Ministry for Finance as we headed into the economic abyss of the early 80s. He hadn’t the mettle for that.
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Tremendously difficult economic times, closure following closure. Very few could have done anything about it.
It wasn’t until MacSharry took the purse strings we got the ship righted. I could never to this day figure out the chemistry between CJ and Mac. MacSharry ploughed ahead with his ideas leaving CJ to do the explaining. We all know how that went.
He lost his seat in late 80s after the closure of the Sugar factories, Thurles and Carlow lost a lot of jobs and I think he got blamed in Tipperary
He was quite bland
He was. And weak with it.
And he had an O in his name where you normally wouldn’t. He must have given back the soup
Putting the O in the name was a big class thing back in Victorian times. The O’Higgins clan a prime example.
Was it a class thing or a nationalist Gaelic revival thing? Or were they one and the same I’d imagine it was easy enough to do
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Coty material
He has to go….,he won’t go anywhere
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We will have to move onto the next Collins
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The @limericks might have to stop voting for him at the very least
ROD has thelinericks vote sown up
Moore is a tax defaulter but his company LMC isn’t by the looks of it. As for the appropriation of the funds… Well.
I’m sure there’s a very legitimate explanation for all this. Niall just needs a bit of time to make it up.
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Niall built on a conservatory for PR purposes. He wanted his house to be seen as open and welcoming. Nothing to see here