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Updated 22:40
ALEX WHITE WILL tomorrow announce his intention to seek the leadership of the Labour Party.
The Minster of State for Primary Care will make the announcement on the Rosie Hackett Bridge in Dublin at 11 am tomorrow morning.
Social Protection Minister Joan Burton is currently the only name put forward to lead the party but White’s announcement means there will now be a leadership contest.
Three people are set to contest for Burton’s current position of deputy leader, Junior Minsters Alan Kelly and Seán Sherlock as well as Cork TD Michael McCarthy
Nominations for the posts of leader and deputy leader are to close at noon next Tuesday before a month-long postal ballot process begins with some 5,000 party members eligible to vote.
The results of both contests will be announced on 4 July.
Originally Published 19:10
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I was wondering what Amy Hubermann was thinking of it all. Thank God for The Journal.
@The Guru: Never mind that nobody Barbara S…FFS.
Went into spar for a cup of coffee, the sun was so strong there was people wearing sun glasses outside. When i came out 5mins later there was a hail shower. Mad stuff that coffee
Oh, that was good for a smile at the end of a working day!
April showers bring may flowers
@Alan Carthy: Hope your right Alan we’ve all the baskets done
@Alan au contraire. Whan that Aprille with his shoures swete / The droghte of Marche hath pierced to the root…and loads of my bedding plants look frost nipped.
Then it got sunny, then the hail returned, then rain, then the sun came back…don’t know what is next, cats and dogs?
@The Girl:
Years ago when roots were thatch, cats and dogs slept in them to keep warm. When it got too wet the cats and dogs would slip out, hence the saying ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’.
@Lily: Yes but where did the expression “It’s p155ing down out of the high heavens” originate.
We have a saying or nursery kind of song in German:
April, April der macht was er will. Mal Regen und mal Sonnenschein dann schneit es wieder zwischendrein, April, April, April, der macht was er will.
Translation lol
APRIL APRIL APRIL DOES WHAT IT LIKES. ONCE RAIN AND ONCE SUNSHINE THEN SNOW IN BETWEEN. APRIL APRIL APRIL DOES WHAT IT LIKES…
and finishes the sentence in sunshine lol
@Christine Klein: heil heil heil…ja ja ja
Lots if hail, thunder and lightning at the minute. Serious stuff
@niall: are you a bit scared Niall?
@Captain kirk: thunder and lightening, very very frightening!
@Rui Firmino: mid twenties here…..nice
@Gus Sheridan: mid forties here…. So a bit older than you.
@Paraic McDonagh: Early 40′s here.
Oops… Someone spilled their Crystal meth all over the road
Looks like Summer’s over. It’s all downhill from here
Only another eight weeks and the nights will be getting shorter.
Amy Huberman giving Flann O’Brien a run for his money there.
That Amy Huberman is a hoot.
How dare you be in Portugal!!
Thunder and lightning is no lark!
https://youtu.be/pd_kAMrB1Gs
April is the cruellest month. Eliot was right. Reckon it was too early to put out the sweetpea.
Ne’er cast a clout ’til May is out. Monkey’s not brass but fralsetto today.
Earth is fu*ked up.
@Paul Radburn: Snow in Turkey today and in Germany yesterday?
https://youtu.be/PIjNB_QYiws DUBLIN sleet today with a blue sky in backround
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