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FINE GAEL HAS said it wishes Lucinda Creighton well after the former junior minister decided to let her membership of the party lapse and not renew it.
Creighton has confirmed that she will not be renewing her membership of the party before tomorrow’s deadline after earlier reports that she would.
The Dublin South East TD was expelled from the Fine Gael parliamentary ranks nearly a year ago after voting against the abortion legislation but she has retained her membership of the party up until tomorrow when it will lapse.
She said today that she will not be renewing it.
Since being expelled last summer Creighton has formed the Reform Alliance with other expelled Fine Gael TDs and Senators fuelling speculation that a new political party is in the offing – talk that has been consistently played down, though not denied by the members of ‘The RA’.
Fine Gael said today that it is a matter for any individual member of the party as to whether or not they continue their membership.
“If she’s made that choice [not to renew], then that’s obviously her decision. We wish her well,” a spokesperson said.
Of the other RA members, senator Paul Bradford, Creighton’s husband, has also decided not to renew his membership of Fine Gael while Roscommon-South Leitrim TD Denis Naughten let his membership lapse having been expelled from the party two years ago when he voted against local hospital cuts
However, Wicklow TD Billy Timmins has confirmed he has renewed his membership along with RA colleagues Terence Flanagan, a TD for Dublin North-East, and Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames.
Another RA member, Dublin South TD Peter Mathews quit the party last year.
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Good response, don’t allow the guy to become a martyer.
They said the same about Bin Laden.
They also did the same with Che Guevara. Cut him up and scattered him so there would be no grace to worship. Well that didn’t work out so well did it!
*grave
May he rot in hell .
Roast?
He didn’t deserve to be buried in European soil. He’s body should have been cremated and the ashes flushed down the toilet like sewage!!
They wouldn’t do that to a crisis actor.
Exactly.Considering most muslim leaders have said his actions were unislamic I dont think anyone would have minded if he was not afforded a muslim burial.Being buried in an unmarked grave might sound bad to non muslims but its standard practice in Islam.The late Saudi king will be buried in an unmarked grave later today.
It was a great idea to bury him with his ass sticking out of the ground, outside a Synagogue, – for Jews to park their bikes.
What an incredibly bizarre statement.
I am quite intrigued by your creativity.
Bizarre, creative, – thank you…
- the ultimate compliments…
Perverse
his body should have been put on the plane to Mali and let them worry about it
I guess with an unmarked grave this piece of trash won’t get his virgins and paradise after all. All he got was an unmarked piece of rotten soil no good for even growing on. He got his just deserts.
And yet they refused to bury a baby last week…
Great point Charles !
A particular cemetery refused. Not the whole country.
Should have been fed to a load of pigs
Will the leaders of the West who were responsible for the Libyan intervention and the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, not just a few, will they be buried in unmarked graves?
Big difference between collateral damage and intentionally setting out to kill innocent people.
Whilst I am no America basher or tin foil hat wearer, just a history enthusiast, there are countless cases of Americans targeting civilians purposely, especially in the Vietnam war. Although most of it was probably never sanctioned from the top, it certainly did happen. Look up the Mai Lai massacre for one example. Unbelievable that the commanding office of the unit involved in that massacre is now a senator.
Some really classy comments here on this story. Makes one wonder and despair in equal measure.
Should have left the carcass in a field and let the wildlife feed off it.
Sorry two weeks ago.
Throw his remains to some starving dogs
Burning in Hell… What more could evil people deserve… He was autopsied too and might have been shot by a police woman…
Should’ve just tossed him into the sea for the crabs to chew on
Burn the fecca
He would be accepted in Dundalk.
Wanna qualify that statement Tap?
He won’t. He always makes weird little comments then runs off without trying to back them up.
@tap you are a thick ignoramus out looking for attention, get a life and act your age!
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