Ah yes the beginning of the end.

Eamon Gilmore is too far removed from the values of grassroots labour members at this stage. He has publicly backed Reilly, showing he has no interest in labours values. He has sacrificed one of his own TD’s for the sake of Fine Gael. Stupid move Mr Gilmore.

Dr. Reilly, was excellent when he was in opposition! But then second he got elected! He went on the Public Attack! He used and abused his powers! And let the people whom voted for him down miserable! Shame on him! Get him out!

its about time, labour grass roots should also be seriously considering there own front bench and there anti labour behaviour, pat rabbit stands out as the ultimate example of power at all costs, bunch of traitors

This is were change needs to happen! From grass roots! The future leaders of our country the ones who haven’t been completely corrupted by the system, yet!

Really must go. And take all the other unless servants with him.

Clean your own house first Gilmore, Howlin, Quinn and Rabbite have sold out completely and then Reilly

FG and Labour have broken their election promises. I’m not surprised with FG as they are FF in disguise. But Labour are complete sellouts. Traitors to the people who voted for them. And the grassroots know it.

Get him out. Roll on the day and Labour if ye don’t there is no salvaging the devestation ye will will get int eh next election to an already mortally wounded party. Ye have abandoned the essential Labour party principles continuing with the coalition. Do something now or face the wrath of the electorate.

Well Eamon will have to take note and listen up if he doesn’t want a split in the labour party and the formation of a new labour….. It’ll be interesting to see the outcome as someone pointed out he and several other labour ministers publicly backed Reilly

I am one of the people that voted for labour and fg aand I am bitterly dissapointed in the total shambolic mess they are making.
Our government have went back on pre election promises and shown such disregard to the people that voted them into power.
I voted on an “anybody but ff” basis and actually thought kenny and co would make the difference.
Don’t get me wrong,I know well we are in the s**t but I wish to God kenny would grow a pair and start doing something other than jumping up and down shouting “it’s your fault” .
The electorate feel so disheartned and annoyed at the sleeveen politics,ar*e covering and general attitude to us that we will attack anything they propose.
We are sick to the teeth with the c*ap they feed us…
Do they seriously think we are uneducated idiots ?.
Don’t know who audited anglo !!
Don’t know who the bondholders are !!!
Happily paying out BILLIONS in unsecured payments.
Labour have lost any credibility and will be going down the same road as pd’s,greens,ff.
I will never as long as there is a breath in my body support them. I would rather spoil my precious vote .
I wonder if kenny and gilmore are looking as smug now.
Btw. I omit capital letters when refeering to them as I have no respect for kenny and co.

James used to give Mary Harney an awfull time when she was in charge .And now hes worse.

Labor is hemorrhaging at it’s core…….is there a doctor in the house …………oh!

The problem is, so what if any of them leave/ are pushed/ stay and completely destroy OUR country even further? WE will foot the bill and carry on paying them for the rest of their lives. Politicians need to be accountable for their past actions and large pensions is not the punishment required to deal with it.

I think its endemic of irish political life that the minute you cross the door in leinster house things change. the one thing that amazes me the most is that a party campains on a set agenda and the people vote them in based on that agenda. Accountability once in power is completely and utterly disregarded and this is the cancer in our society

Get rid of the Philly also, go one or two further and get rid of Hitler Hogan!

Labour old guard were in opposition for so long that now they are in power they are prepared to do anything to stay there. power corrupts as the saying goes

I know there is a mad clamour to get him removed , but politically with the budget fight ahead an health needing to make more savage cuts I think they’ll want Reilly in place as the punchbag to take the hits , after that storm they’ll probably fling him to the wolves and let him be the fall guy..

I will never ever vote Labour again…. Both my grandfathers would be fuming by now.

Unless we take a stand against these lying TD’s and change the way the Dail works and holding the TD’s accountable for their actions, they will continue to abuse their power. The Dail needs to go. It’s outdated.

Nothing new here. These people didn’t want Labour to put party before country and go into coalition.

Labour TD for Louth Ged Nash has stood by and defended the actions of Health Minister Reilly in closing respite beds in Drogheda Cottage Hospital . Elderly residents in the Cottage hospital, many consider this to be their home, will be requested to leave in the near future. The people of Drogheda have been let down by one of their own, shame on you GED, shame on you.

They shouldn’t stop there. They need to stand up to the direction the party is being dragged in too. If the members of Labour forced the leaders of the party to follow the policies and principles that Labour is meant to stand for, they could provide a proper alternative to the direction we’ve been getting taken in. They could probably come pretty close to wrapping up the next election pretty quickly.

I can never understand how someone like Reilly defiantly stays put when it’s obvious that so many want him gone. It’s just downright cheek and arrogance, putting two fingers up to the Irish people. Ignorant looking git.

I can’t help thinking that the only reason Minister Reilly hasn’t resigned already is because there is something coming down the line within the Health Service, probably cuts that will be very, very unpopular, and he is being basically saved so he call “fall on his sword” when these occur. Someone else will then take his place, more promises will be made and the government will be saved. Life will go on.
If Reilly goes now and there is something else coming, something bad and unpopular, which is likely, then whoever replaces him will face that, it will look incredibly bad as he/she will be expected to face down the storm of protest. In short, it would drag out and never go away.

Two words I wouldn’t really put together; ‘Labour’ and ‘values’

Sooner or later FF will get two pounds of flesh for the price of one from their confidence vote….. I wonder will the acts of contrition from commentators here ring as loudly as the derision that greeted the confidence vote in Reilly in the first instance. I’m truly a dissatisfied labour voter at this stage. There won’t be a credible left to vote for next time round.

Another sham . Isn’t it amazing we all saw it coming too . Like the rest , not a clue about how the real people of this city exist . It’s time we stood up to all this crap . I’m 39 and sick of seeing the damage being done to our country and not doing something about it . When is enough , goin to be enough .

it’s as simple as this, until such time as he has his 2 years as minister done James reilly will go nowhere. he will wait until he can go on his ministers pension. he won’t make the same mistake shorthall did.

What does it matter we come on here say a few things which no one in power really ever takes notice of and that’s it because in Ireland we are to afraid to protest properly for our livelihood in case we get our name in the paper and our neighbour sees it this is why government will get away with anything they. Want that and the fact they have no brains to think up anything useful for the country they are just doing what Germany wants and getting f@€k all back for it they should remind Germany we took a bullet for Europe

Sometimes i think fg/labour are more in competent then ff and thats saying alot. I wont ever vote for any of dese 3 parties again..so who do i vote for nxt election??sinn fein..any new parties in sight?..they should sell government buildings to The Wright Venue cause it always seems to be a party in there!

We all have a real problem! We seem to be all agreed that we will never again vote for Labour, FF, Greens or FF. no one in their right mind can vote for a party that includes Adams and mad
Marylou?!?! The whingers from the
sidelines e.g. Fintan OToole lost their chance lady time around….we have to do it ourselves guys!!

don’t like x factor anyway. was watching winning streak. a lovely lady just win 100k. Great to see..

It’s people like you, playing anonymous behind a screen waiting to jump on someone’s clear comments that make me laugh . If you have nothing valid to say , don’t say anything . That’s simple .

Imagine a county run by the Labour backbenches and grassroots. If that happens I will quit my job and go on the dole. because they would screw over anyone who works hard and makes even a half success of their life, and give it all to the lazy parasites who have never done a hard days work in their life.

Well Mike you could always visit OReilly , if you got that cold , maybe he might assist you in a lobotomy . As you make no sense , and of course you don’t even check your spelling either .

Labour’s a dead duck heading for PD/Green type oblivion. The Party that perfected ” Economic Treason”. They’ll suck from the trough as long as they can fill their pockets and copperfasten their pensions. As for FG what else would you expect from a pig but a grunt!

How can someone who is clearly a bit on the heavy side be the health minister? His hardly the picture of health!!

Also Gav. I never said you weren’t entitled to your opinion. my point was until people like you with an opinion, get up and get elected things won’t change.

Sometimes ya just get sick of all the red tape around getting something done! I think that’s what Reilly did -is that such a big sin when you are the minister? I bet the people in Balbriggan are in the Reilly camp!

how come no one is talking about roisin shorthalls severance package. she didnt loose her job she couldnt hack the pressure she is still getting her td salary

she couldnt do her job so she went to the back benchs were she collect her wsges for doing nothing. if dhe had a problem with minister reilly she should have stayed on and fought her corner not leave collect a severance package while still getting a ludicrous td salary & expenses