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FIANNA FÁIL LEADER Micheál Martin has said that the new Tánaiste lost out in her reshuffle negotiations as Labour ministers are now in charge of things they promised to oppose.
Speaking after the new look Cabinet was announced this afternoon, Martin has said that Joan Burton failed to secure Eamon Gilmore the position of EU Commissioner and and also failed to obtain the Jobs portfolio for her party.
He added that Alan Kelly’s appointment as the Minister for Environment and Local Government means that the party has now gone back on its election promises:
Tha Tánaiste sought the position of EU Commissioner for Eamon Gilmore and the Department of Jobs for the Labour Party. She has successfully negotiated responsibility for the property tax and water changes in terms of responsibility for the Department of Environment.
“Two major issues that the major party opposed in opposition and said they would not implement. How often does the Labour Party have to roll over in this Government?”
Martin said the the Tánaiste has herself has attempted a “conjuring trick” by “bot being part of the Government and distancing herself from it”.
Gerry Adams said that the Government has been losing control at an even faster rate since the Troika programme finished.
“Your Government have been good little boys and good little girls doing it Frankfurt’s way. The big boys in Troika are now gone,” he said.
Martin is a muppet but he’s spot on…FG will let the Labour Party do all the dirty work…Bruton has started where Gilmoe left off….change my ar*e…the Labour Party will be destroyed in the next General election
bye bye!
They’ll only be replaced by people just as inept.
yea but alan kelly implementing hogans fascist policies will speed things up…we have been sold out by the Labour party
I have to be honest, in the last few hours I’ve found a new found respect for our beloved leader Kim young kenny, I swear if that man had a fox tail it would be wagging like mad now,
1. He gives labour the poison chalice of water tax
2. Poor Leo is on suicide watch and packing his bags for Angola, where he will be a unic
3. A little bit of parish pump thanks for having my back politics by shipping Montgomery Byrnes aka big phil off to the retirement home, ( I truly despise that smug excuse for a man)
4. And foot in mouth o’reilly spending most of his time in Africa looking and wheat fields and out door toilets,
So enda I tip my hat to you, those late night chats with Michael Collins ghost have stood you well, but I still look forward to seeing you walking out in 2016 with a hesshin sack over your shoulder, but for NOW I salute you ginger fox
Super comment. The Taoiseach Terry Prone via her hand up the orifice close to the ginger wagging tail has rightly shafted Leo the Advark with a one way ticket to Angola. He was showing a bit too much promise.
Spot on. Labour never learn. I thought they were unhappy with having to take all the blame for everything. Now they have more or less secured sole rights on that blame.
Well put …. You took the words out of my mouth …
Contender for comment of week well said
What you gotta do to get a Garth Brooks story on this site?
If you are really good and go to bed early there might be one in the morning.
Well done Joan. … stupid enough to take on the Dept. of Environment after all big Phil the dick did… They will get all the blame for his actions. ….. foolish woman
I thought they would set up a special dept for Garth Brooks
Doing any boxing Butter bean?
In other developments Joan Burton expressed delight in the news that her Labour colleague was announced as the New Minister for Concert Licensing with special interest on C&W Music.
Michael Martin would know all about being Europes good little boy after getting us into this mess and bailing out the banks with taxpayers money. What a hypocrite.
Prom night wasn’t his idea. I’m guessing that’s gonna cost us more than Fianna Fáils mistake.
Only problem is FF signed up to Trioka in Dec 2010 for water and house taxes in Dec 2010. Lenihan & Cowen thought our problems were only liquidity issues ?
Big Mickey doesn’t remember that far back!
And now that hogans done his dirty work, he’s been sent out to grass in Europe. How convenient. The gravy train rolls on.
Oh & in answer to Martins question…….. about as much as the Green Party did when FF were in charge………
no mention who is the minister for garth brooks concerts
I am sure the negotiations were pretty straightforward.
Enda tells Joan that Labour have little or no support and if she doesn’t toe the line, he will call a general election and Bye Bye Labour.
The long delay was for Enda & Joan to break the bad news to O’Reilly and Rabbitte, respectively.
By the way, what happened to the promotions for Senator Ivana and Galway’s Ginger (aka Derek Nolan)?
I don’t think anybody wants an election, if the the choice is either SF/FF/Ind or FG/lab most people would vote to hand the sorry mess back to the British
Pierce it will be FF/Fg next time round
and here’s me thinking fianna fail signed us up to property tax and water rates
Is this Butcher Burton completely stupid ??? If Enda Kenny is running rings around you then you are in trouble !
She takes Environment – water charges and property tax from Enda – and promotes that donkey Alex White.
It’s curtains Joanie baby.
Is the concert going ahead
Hopefully having Labour in charge of this portfolio might stop the privatization of Irish Water.
Hard to believe they think it’s a fresh cabinet hard to believe Joan thinks she will win voters back if there was any chance it has all but gone .
To put Reilly as children’s minister makes my stomach turn
Leo he’s like a black labadour running in a field , to put him into health really puts his career in finegael health is hard transport was hard for Leo 3 of state owned company’s striked Leo has alot to say all time never concentrated in matters that concerned him always stuck his noise in everything
As for Alan Kelly & labour nice knowing yas haven’t heard much from him
Not likely we will .
I can’t see Enda Joan lasting they have no direction , & Enda showed that clearly , he bullied Joan into excepting hogans mess just a joke to say the least
As for there statements saying they want to create jobs build houses but where are jobs going to be got from ? Where will money come for building ? They can’t keep borrowing
The major concern I hold is Kenny is a receipy for disaster , house prices soaring , rents soaring again cost living up again but no wage increase so how are people set to spend with project tax , water tax , car tax , USC tax . That’s a receipy for disaster = meltdown again but he fails to see it
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