General Election 2011

Mary from Fine Gael showing a good bit of leg here. Right up to the hasp of her arse. Well nearly.

Dangerous enough looking character this Victor the independent.

Who on this forum had the hots for Ivana Bacik. Was it the Puke?

Better entertainment at the Clayton in Galway

ye are all ff up there sure don’t ye shoot blueshirts on sight.

Funny, the middle class urban voters are just as parochial as the rest of us.

Jesus, our political system is rotten to the core. I’m looking at the candiates that will be running my area… nothing appeals to me.

The FF publican in Tubber is staying quiet this weather, people have very mixed views on him.

Things are bad when FF have to get a lad in from dublin to run KP, but they will still get one seat here no matter what

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Is that the chap that grew up in the same orphanage as Paul McGrath?

Greens are not at all happy with the FF shennanigans last night.

Dempsey, Aherne and Killeen all announced their resignation from their ministerial positions last night, following Harney and Martin. It was a clearly orchestrated move to create jobs for those who are running for election again and supported Cowen in the recent vote.

Greens had already sought assurances that there would be no reshuffle to reward Cowen’s loyal followings with a nice ministerial status for their cv pre-election. Gogarty was on RTÉ this morning and declared he was annoyed “by about 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.”

They’re meeting this morning to see what their next course of action is. This might just force them to pull the plug today because FF seem determined to drag this out as long as possible.

Rumours doing the rounds now that Batt O Keffe has resigned as well. Fucking swines the lot of them.

Christ they are getting more detestable by the day.
These morons are still living in cloud cuckoo land.

Like a Batt out of Hell he’s gone when the morning comes.

Unbelievable that they’re chancing their arms with this. This is such a clearly orchestrated, calculated move. Greens should get the hell out of there. Even if the cabinet positions are given to existing junior ministers (as might be slightly more palatable) it’s still a deeply cynical and exploitative move from FF that should not be tolerated.

They’ve treated everyone like fools for ages but this is just so blatantly wrong it’s unreal.

how long would these new gimps have to serve as ministers to be entitled to ministerial pensions?

Think it’s 2 terms Mac so no worries on that front

but this would get one of the terms out of the way? How long does a term have to be?

Rumours abound that the Greens are about to pull out. I doubt they have the balls to do it.

you read Rockos post too?

Rocko’s starting rumours now?

Newstalk saying this morning that one has to be in a ministerial position for 30 months, however if they have spent time as a Junior minister then this is also taken into account