jonah
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this was panti bar on saturday when the final tally was announced on the 6 o clock news
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Averil Power has quit Fianna Fail.
I am so pleased to hear this. She was absolutely amazing right throughout this campaign. She frequently gave out shite about the lack of support from anyone in Fianna Fail.
I would vote for her in a heartbeat were she in my constituency. She has a great political future ahead of her.
I would have thought she had a better future in FF. Also, has she only recently discovered that FF are a populist party that won't take a principled stand lest they lose a few votes? Anyone could have told her that prior to her joining the party.
FF are cunts.I would have thought she had a better future in FF. Also, has she only recently discovered that FF are a populist party that won't take a principled stand lest they lose a few votes? Anyone could have told her that prior to her joining the party.
Since her election to the Seanad, she has championed a number of issues including education, social justice, mental health and LGBT equality. She was awarded a GALA for 'Politician of the Year' by the National LGBT Federation in 2014.[6] She has also produced policy papers on youth mental health[7] and increasing female representation in politics.[8]
She has spoken out about her experience as an adopted person and is campaigning for all Irish adoptees to have a right to their birth certs.[9]
Prior to her election to the Seanad, she worked as policy adviser to former Minister Mary Hanafin in the Departments of Tourism, Social and Family Affairs and Education.[10] As an adviser in the Department of the Education, she helped to develop and implement the DEIS programme of extra supporters for disadvantaged schools.[11]
She contested the Dublin North–East constituency at the 2011 general election but was not elected. In a three-seat constituency, she polled fourth on the first count, receiving 4,794 first preference votes (11.5%).[12]
She has announced her intention to run for the Dáil again in the next general election in the newly created Dublin Bay North Constituency.[13]
She has an interest in development issues and volunteered in Mozambique with Voluntary Service Overseas in August 2011.[14]
She also visited the Occupied Palestinian territories with Christian Aid in 2013 and has been a vocal advocate of the rights of the Palestinian people. She proposed a motion recognizing the State of Palestine which was passed by the Irish Senate in October 2014.[15] She is a Jury member for the global Frontline Defenders human rights awards.[16]
She has spoken out about her experience as an adopted person and is campaigning for all Irish adoptees to have a right to their birth certs.[9]
do you have an adoption cert to replace it?I'm one too and I disagree with that position FWIW
do you have an adoption cert to replace it?
Just wondering about the practicalities of it all
FF are cunts.
I don't think you could fault anything she's ever done though.
A: she knows all this - she's just got good media speil and wants to take her voters with here
B: she's joined the long list of people who 'leave' fianna fail to secure a seat and then quietly rejoin later.
I wouldn't have discounted B earlier but its been a pretty vitriolic split. Can't see her going/being invited back so long as the old boys are still influential.
Martin was just on six one there pretty much calling her a liar.
I would have thought she had a better future in FF. Also, has she only recently discovered that FF are a populist party that won't take a principled stand lest they lose a few votes? Anyone could have told her that prior to her joining the party.
About the laughing/badges? It does seem a bit far fetched but then so does the idea of someone making up such a story. Guess we'll never know.
Foolish personyes, fianna fail is the catch-all party here.
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the person in work who voted no was giving out
- we were all sheeple for voting yes
- the government will move to ban couples from having their own children as same sex couples can't.
- we're just showing off by voting yes
- slippery slope and this will lead to other stuff (i previously mentioned his view that this will lead to people marrying dogs and trees)
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