The government of the apocalypse:
Fianna Fail with THE FUCKING PDs again also with JACKIE HEALY RAE and BEVERLY COOPER FLYNN.
Seriously considering emigrating if this happens.
sweet jesus, can i get a lift with you so?
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The government of the apocalypse:
Fianna Fail with THE FUCKING PDs again also with JACKIE HEALY RAE and BEVERLY COOPER FLYNN.
Seriously considering emigrating if this happens.
The government of the apocalypse:
Fianna Fail with THE FUCKING PDs again also with JACKIE HEALY RAE and BEVERLY COOPER FLYNN.
I don't see why Sargent would have to resign; he always left the option open of coalition with FF. Or anyone else, for that matter.
From RTE:
OMFG! For Real? A TD in a wheelchair? Ah bless.
what fucking year are RTE living in?
why any person wtiha disability would join fianna fail after the 2000 faisco where the european court of human rights had to force the government to enact equality legislation to do with disabilities
i know this as i have strong links within disability groups like CPI (that's cerebral palsy ireland, not the communist party of ireland) and PWDI
In fairness though, the Disability Act has been ten years in the making in its current form. The reason for this was mostly to do with the different disability representative organisations (over 500 of them. 500 for such a small (minded) country!) fighting for their own corner and rejecting the proposed changes as they fel the changes didn't go far enough to suit. Most people see disabilities as beingn very much about wheelchairs. And the law was always biased in that way. Thank God the new Act (and the Equal Status Act that preceded it gave hope for the other groups.
It wasn't that the Govt. weren't trying. They just weren't trying hard enough. And to be honest, although the changes are starting to take place, ignorance still reigns and they're still not trying hard enough.
I know this as I'm smack bang in the middle of trying to make lazy fuckers listen and implement some of the changes. Roll on 2015 and the law suits that will finally make them sit up and realise what sort of pricks we have working for us.
The government of the apocalypse:
Fianna Fail with THE FUCKING PDs again also with JACKIE HEALY RAE and BEVERLY COOPER FLYNN.
Seriously considering emigrating if this happens.
he'll be back.
sunday business post said:That just left red Joan and redder Joe.
Both are high-profile figures and enjoy huge popularity in the suburbs of Dublin West. The returning officer took to the rostrum. Silence all round.
Joan looked anxious. Her daughter rubbed her hand. Higgins was calm, perhaps resigned to defeat.
‘‘I now declare Joan Burton elected,” said the returning officer. Such relief for Burton. A supporter patted Joe on the back. Sadness surrounded him. ‘‘Sorry, Joe,” he said.
All the candidates said nice things about Joe. He wouldn’t have shaken as many hands if he’d won. He was clearly rattled by the loss but vowed to return: ‘‘The fight back starts here.”
it seems like a no-brainer to me. welcome bev back into the fold, take on the PDs, and you only need two more independents. why bother with the greens, who might actually have an ideology beyond "we want an economy, not a society"?
sunday business post said:It is also believed in Fianna Fail that Mayo Independent Beverley Flynn, who was removed from the party following her unsuccessful libel case against RTE, may be invited to rejoin the party ranks. One senior source suggested that Flynn could even be offered a junior ministry in the new government.
Yeah, and the fact that there are national institutions with no provisions for people with disabilities is a disgrace. I'm thinking of the National Museum, which has no wheelchair access above ground floor. Not sure about the national library. But I'd also assumed that Leinster House, of all places, had been made more accessible ages and ages ago. Which I guess isn't true? And which is ridiculous. Has there ever been a hearing or visually impaired TD?
When I went back to the US a few years ago, I hadn't been back in ages, and I was out and about, going, "Christ, do we just have a lot more people with disabilities of all kinds?" And then I realised very quickly that it's just that people with disabilities can function a bit more freely because accessibility is just so much better. I'm sure that it isn't all rosy, but it is significantly better.
Don't worry, Janey. There's a plan in the works for both those cultural institutions. Granted they'll take years to do properly, but they're on the list.
I'm pretty sure Martin Cullen is deaf. Either that, or the cunt never listens.
We can take our lead from the yanks on this issue at least. They're miles ahead of us. And that's primarily due to the fact that they had a very good veterans lobby after the Vietnam War
Re: Joe Higgins
I wonder if the help he gave the GAMA workers went against him?
Helping the Turks may have been perceived as 'those foreigners taking our jobs'.
I think it's more of a case of what nearly happened to John Gormley - he was saying he was going round canvassing and people were saying 'ah sure you're a shoo in anyway, you don't need my vote'.
I'd absolutely love to see the development of a tactile display of objects for the visually impaired.
Re: the ridiculous government. I think they should give Jackie Healy Rae a ministry just for like a week. Maybe something like foreign affairs. Because hell, if they're gonna fuck up the country, they may as well go ahead and fuck it up as fuckedy as they can. Fuck.
RTE said:The final state of the parties is: Fianna Fáil 78, Fine Gael 51, Labour 20, Progressive Democrats 2, Green Party 6, Sinn Féin 4, Independents 5.
I hope so too. Whereas I can't comment on details, it's definitely on my wishlist. But the arseholes that you have to deal with...give me strength....
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