Well….he would say that..would’t he!

if I was a member of Fine Gael I’d be a lot more worried about the rift from the electorate than any rift, perceived or otherwise, within the party

If Kenny doesn’t get rid of the likes of Creighton, Hayes and Varadkar, who have a crafted image of being bright young things, go getters, off the bench, then he and FG deserve everything that comes there way. This is the 2nd time that these 3 numpties and their hangers have dragged their party through the mud.

No rift, time will tell.

No rift in Fine Gael Paul? That well could be true , because Labour are saving your blushes , & Fine Gael back benchers don’t have a back bone or spine. As for the Joker that is Gay Mitchell he did not want to be seen with the Party Leader Enda so not to upset Fianna Fail voters Eh? James Reilly Minister for Health because he’s closing down accident & emergency departments , Noonan Minister for Finance because those of us lucky to be still in work paying taxes giving away monies to Zombie (for the day that’s in it) banks , so Kehoe could well be right telling us that all the good girls & boys in their blue shirts not to rock the boat because we’ve 4 more years + of TD salaries & expenses to dispense & don’t expect any rift over this forthcoming Budget from Fine Gaeler’s we’ll have to look to Labour back benchers to do that but atlas that could be me expecting the spirit of James Connolly & Jim Larkin running through the veins of the reds on 100k plus a year ?

Enda has been strengthened immeasurably by the events at the weekend, he never wanted Mitchell as the candidate in the first place as he knew FG wouldn’t win the election with him. Although the press might be obsessed with trying to find a ‘rift’ within the party so they have something to write (ink never refused paper) about I suspect that the party will move on pretty quickly from this. There are bigger problems to worry about than this.

Yeah right! Big worry for FG is not the presidential election result but the dublin west election. Makes one wonder if FG would hold their dublin seats.

Serious action needed FG
1. Replace kenny, noonan is running the show
2. Kick in the arse to creighton, varadkar, covney, hayes and shatter to remind them they are playing senior football now

If people who voted for Fine Gael (or indeed Labour) thought they’d be able to “solve the crisis”, then they are quite simply, idiots. Which again goes back to my point of people being too lazy to make an informed choice. The “Occupy” movements currently taking place in over 1000 separate locations around the globe are also made up, primarily, of uninformed idiots who believe that “anti-capitalism” is actually some sort of solution. Capitalism didn’t cause this crisis, NOT following the rules of capitalism caused it. But that’s a different argument.

The electorate might be pissed off with the world and its mother, but a change of government didn’t make it better or worse. The situation in Europe is only just beginning to take shape and is a much larger problem than Ireland alone. What should we do? Leave the Euro? Rely on a Sinn Fein/ULA/PBP government to give us all a job?

Yeah right. Unfortunately his pants were on fire at the time.

If there is a”rift” in the Government, so what? There are rifts in every business in the world yet we still get on with the job. The despicable reporting by Corcoran et al in the Sunday Independent gets read by over one million people every week. Sensationalist statements like “Kenny’s leadership is now under threat” are actually being taken seriously by the majority of their readers who are simply too lazy to form their own point of view.

We voted (I include myself in the “we”) for a new government. I am not a member of FG or any other party but my preference was for an overall FG majority government. That didn’t happen and inevitably we have compromise, which results in a watered down Programme for Government.

However, the government are in Year 1 of their first term and people are expecting them to save the world? Lads, this is going to get worse before it gets better. At best, we’ll have 3 more savage budgets and at worse, the Euro will collapse and we’ll be back to the punt, which, as much as David McWilliams believes, is not a solution to our problems.

We need to at least give them a chance to implement the policies in the PFG. We won’t agree with them at times but the very least we can do is give them more than 8 months before we go asking for a change of leadership or unnecessary referenda (a la Greece).

well i voted for change/ well let me say i went to vote the other night an guss what all the people giving out the vote papers an crossing off the names not one new face how njce it wood have ben to gjv e some one else a break r a few e to pay a bill how much do these people get r how do u get the chance