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The stolen jeep. Justin Kavanagh via Facebook

"They've taken her bit of independence" - Son issues appeal after disabled mother's jeep stolen

Justin Kavanagh issued a public appeal on Facebook two weeks ago for help in locating his mother’s stolen jeep.

A MAN HAS asked for the public’s help in locating his mother’s jeep which was stolen from outside her home two weeks ago.

Justin Kavanagh issued a public appeal on Facebook two weeks ago for help in locating his mother’s stolen jeep.

It was taken from outside her home in Wolfe Tone Street, Mountmellick, Co, Laois in the early hours of Wednesday morning on 14 September.

Justin’s mother suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and he bought the jeep as a gift to enable her to leave the house more frequently.

The jeep has a small 1.1 litre engine and automatic gears. It has a registration of 96 – KE – 7092 and is a dark bottle-green colour.

“Since our Dad died she didn’t go out as much as she used to, then our sister passed away in 2012 and she almost stopped going out,” Justin said in his post.

The jeep was bought to get her out and about and try cheer her up and now these heartless thugs have taken that away from her.

His Facebook appeal has since been shared about 1,100 times.

Speaking today on RTÉ’s Liveline, Justin said that the jeep was taken from outside his mother’s house at about 2.4oam Wednesday two weeks ago.

He said that the battery was dead in the jeep, so it wouldn’t start.

14322724_1217064568315691_5244927725683632236_n The stolen jeep. Facebook Facebook

He said that the thieves had taken the battery from the jeep and replaced it with a different one.

“They actually replaced the batteries in it,” he said.

They actually went to the trouble of putting a new battery in it.

He said the thieves were seen on CCTV pushing the jeep away from the house around a corner, onto nearby Manor Street, where they replaced the battery.

“They haven’t just taken the jeep, they’ve taken her bit of independence as well,” he said.

A garda spokesperson confirmed to TheJournal.ie that the jeep remains on the stolen vehicle list and no arrests have been made.

Anyone with any information on the missing jeep can contact Mountmellick Garda Station on 057 862 4140.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:21 PM

    Surprised its taken this long but who else have they got? All 6 of them are in serious danger of losing their seats at the next election. Bacik has been anonymous since she got elected, apart from attending Merrion gate and Aodhain ORiordan… enough said. They should probably merge with Fine Gael.

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    Mute Paul Shepherd
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:58 PM

    @Richie56: maybe Catherine Martin might defect given that she’s in the market for a leadership position? Comes with all the right qualifications, useless, incompetent etc etc…

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    Mute Charlie Murphy
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:37 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: tell us who in your opinion is useful and competent etc etc, be interesting to see if there is a woman on your list..populist throw away comments like this are sad, I have no party affiliation

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    Mute Sean Stevenson
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:55 PM

    @Richie56: shows how little you know about Labour if you think they should merge with FG.

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    Mute Martin Smith
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:07 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: or hazel chu considering she stands in any election

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    Mute Eugene Comaskey
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:49 PM

    @Richie56: Well Kelly should join FG, — that’s it if they would have him,and I suppose they would. He was very much a Blue shirt when he was trying to force the water charges . The Labour Party is finished .

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 10:05 PM

    @Martin Smith: I hear Hazel has been randomly turning up at GAA AGM’s all around the country in the hopes of being elected to any sort of position.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 10:24 PM

    @Richie56: .should amalgamate with Social Democrats.

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    Mute Paul Shepherd
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 11:28 PM

    @Charlie Murphy: nothing to do with the fact that she’s a woman. There are equally incompetent male TD’s. As for a list….you’ll have to leave that with me given the dearth of available talent.

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    Mute Great White Hope
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    Mar 3rd 2022, 1:04 AM

    @Richie56: bout the same performance as our Taoiseach- without the profile that Taoiseach attracts

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    Mute William Tallon
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:42 PM

    The Labour Party? I think I remember them. Weren’t they the party of working people at one stage? At least they claimed to be back in the 70′s and 80′s when I used to vote for them. Not sure what the ‘Labour’ part of their name means these days given that they now seem to represent the guilt-ridden, hand-wringing, liberal middle-class…

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    Mute Dean
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:12 PM

    And to think that the wealthy parts of Dublin Bay South voted for Labour in the last by-election instead of voting for FG tells you how far they have come from being a party for workers.

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    Mute Frank McGlynn
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:38 PM

    @William Tallon: That just about sums up the reasons for their decline.

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    Mute Siobhan O'Sullivan Morrin
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    Mar 3rd 2022, 11:28 AM

    @William Tallon: to an extent they (Labour) have gone they way of the Labour Party in England but more so, if you get my drift. The majority of people they used to represent, the original ‘working class’, (factory workers, farm laborers, dockers, shop workers etc) prior to 1990 have by and large moved into a different social and economic sphere thanks to access to second and third level education and social improvement up to Celtic Tiger years.
    The Labour Party need to sit down and decide who and what they are for today and they need to display a social conscience in order to win support. There are many good party members and representatives out there but these days the party is up against Sinn Fein and their policies, particularly with younger people.

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    Mute William Tallon
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    Mar 3rd 2022, 1:29 PM

    @Siobhan O’Sullivan Morrin: The original ‘working-class’? Working-class people still exist as in unskilled low-paid general operatives, factory workers, shop and service workers etc. Thousands of them are part-time or zero-hours contract workers open to exploitation. I think it’s safe to assume that their parents and grandparents were also working-class people and the problems they’ve always faced haven’t gone away or changed much either. Individuals may have benefited from social improvements at different stages but as a demographic, the working-class hasn’t gone away or morphed into something else. That’s something the Labour Party chose to do and consequently lost working-class support. Your rosy view of how the lot of the working class has improved doesn’t hold water I’m afraid…

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:29 PM

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer fellow,
    “Power is a drug and it suits me!”
    A famous quote from the Egotist.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:16 PM

    Nice one

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:18 PM

    @Fr.Todd Unctious: Who is he ?

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:38 PM

    @Fr.Todd Unctious: It’ll be Ivana Baczik guarantee ya!

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:21 PM

    @FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: Ah yes. She should be the one to transform Labour from low single digits to..slightly higher low single digits.

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    Mute FiannaFáilness FineGaelness
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:27 PM

    @Toon Army: Hahaha.. Yep. Maybe, if they’re lucky.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:32 PM

    @Joe Johnson: Caesar

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:20 PM

    Gilmore,and Burton sowed the seeds for the destruction of Labour.They have totally disbanded the old Labour principals and what they represented

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    Mute Robert Moore
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:54 PM

    A poisonous party who in no shape or form represented a worker’s vote. A consistency of brown matter exiting from between their (other) cheeks when they speak. Untrustworthy and unforgivable to the end. Vote for labour and you may as well flush your ballot paper down with their promises.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 11:03 PM

    @Robert Moore: In fairness, you could put every Irish political party in the same sentence there…

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:48 PM

    @Vestigial: He had his chance when last in government. The so called Labour Party became more Blueshirt than the Blueshirts. Kelly’s Road to Damascus came when they were anilaleted at the ballot box.

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    Mute Liam Byrne
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:21 PM

    He will probably join the Mother Party, just like that other leader Michael O Leary did. They are dead, Bury them. Water Tax :)

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:23 PM

    @Liam Byrne:
    Oops! Fine Gale.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:48 PM

    The Labour Party couldn’t even make headway in the polls when RTE treat them like the main opposition party, they shafted their core support when in govt, allowing the loss of double pay on Sundays, reduction of minimum pay etc etc etc. They’re no loss.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:28 PM

    @ian mccarthy: the labour party don’t recognise God let alone Sunday

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 8:23 AM

    @Liam O Connor: “That which can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof”.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:11 PM

    He will not be missed. As a once staunch Labour supporter he was the complete antithesis of what the Labour Party once stood for. His ego, arrogance and his utterly blinkered stance on water charges were his downfall. I doubt there will be much sympathy for him.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:54 PM

    And this is news why? Irrelevant leader of an irrelevant party. Slow news day.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:20 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: thoughtless, cliched, irrelevant comment on an ‘irrelevant’ article. my favourite type of post and I am now pleased to be able to add my own one to this online landfill.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:36 PM

    @alan: I was just feeling bored and looking for something to do until the Angelus…..

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:24 PM

    @Paul Shepherd: why are you commenting?

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:24 PM

    @Vestigial: it’s no doubt down to his combative style but I actually like that about him.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:53 PM

    He’s clearly stepping down as he knows he won’t be in government again…. I wouldn’t be suprised if he eventually jumped ship to another party…

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    Mute Liam Byrne
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    Mar 3rd 2022, 10:00 AM

    @M.J. O’ Neill:
    He probably has enough time served to get a leaders Pension.

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    Mute John Kavanagh
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:12 PM

    Makes announcement outside Leinster house ….. no one cares .. he could make it outside a chippers

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    Mute EillieEs
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:56 PM

    @John Kavanagh: yet here you are commenting

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:00 PM

    Looks like he’s going back to his true home. Watch this space for Stephen Donnelly style defection to the FFGs?

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:33 PM

    Alan Kelly’s record as leader is one by-election contested and the seat won? Odd call to oust him but I won’t complain if Labour are infighting and pressing the self destruct button.

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    Mute Niall Power
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:35 PM

    Imagine the absurdity of a “ Left wing” party that voted to abolish medical cards for disabled children!
    Yes that’s the Irish Labour Party, they did this and would like you to forget it!

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:22 PM

    Who?

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    Mute Fr.Todd Unctious
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:53 PM

    @leartius: Alan Kelly. It says it in the article.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:18 PM

    @Fr.Todd Unctious: who??

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:21 PM

    Gilmore,and Burton sowed the seeds for the destruction of Labour.They have totally disbanded the old Labour principals and what they represent

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    Mute Daniel Roche
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:26 PM

    Never voted labour,I’m from limerick,Jim Kenny was a legend,Jan O’Sullivan is a joke.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:19 PM

    @Daniel Roche: Jim Kemmy.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:48 PM

    “Anybody who says that power isn’t attractive is telling you a lie. Of course it is,” he grins.

    “It’s obviously a drug. It’s attractive. It’s something you thrive on. It suits some people. It doesn’t suit others. I think it suits me.”

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 11:08 PM

    @JusticeForJoe: You can feel his friendship with John Delaney coming through the quote

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:04 PM

    Labour are nothing like what they used to be, once upon a time they had decent leaders and stood for something now though, they are a joke of a party clinging onto the idea that they once mattered while refusing to look to the electorate for guidance on what they want rather than what this lot think they want.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:15 PM

    Won’t be missed

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    Mute Albert Brennerman
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:46 PM

    There was a push for awhile to promote Kelly as a kind of radical loud mouth as though Ireland would forget austerity. Now Power in Ireland is worried because of lack of housing the country has swiungi left.
    Due to Labour’s performance the past 10 years and no credible alternative they are sunk and the left consolidates in SF. The pendulum of a government with every few years labour in government no longer works. Its reduced now to SF vs FG+FF. I suppose the hope was people would take up the safer labour option but they have not.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:22 PM

    @Albert Brennerman: which is a completely false differentiation. in reality, FF/FG/SF are all centrist, market oriented parties.

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    Mute Local Ore
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 11:14 PM

    @alan: I don’t think that’s true. FF and FG are sort of centralists, they swing a bit left and a bit right and really, in the past 2 decades, don’t have any real core values so never make any real change. While, SF are populist, they will say whatever they think will appeal to their base – free houses, tax the rich, increase social welfare, the lot – very much like Trump appealing to his base as much as he can. Ireland doesn’t have any real political spectrum, it’s a mess, an identityless missmash of terrible political parties and worse choices, crying out for a new party and a new wave but too cynical to support anything new

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 12:12 AM

    @alan: FFG are neo liberalist, that brand of thatcher/ Reagan politics which they try to tell us doesn’t exist but they implement on a daily basis. They have no social conscience as they believe Thatchers doctrine that “ who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.”

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:48 PM

    He must have discovered a new drug

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:23 PM

    I wonder will Labour soon follow the path of the PDs and fade into obscurity. I was just reading about the PDs, I hadn’t realised they were disbanded in 2009. I’d have said 2013/14. Hard to credit it being 13 years.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:15 PM

    Another pension

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:57 PM

    @Ciaran Goggins: Yes, please…

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:56 PM

    Always irritated me listening to his arrogance when highlighting the flaws of other parties. Never had any solutions to the problems he liked to highlight. Very negative leader.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:33 PM

    Bye

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:15 PM

    On a nice fat pension no doubt. Supplied by us working saps.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:35 PM

    Labour are totally irrelevant as a political party. People will never forgive them for their stand in austerity and water charges under Joan’s leadership. So his resignation makes absolutely no difference they will probably merge with FG to have any hope of getting elected next time around and stay a drain on the country going forward.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:44 PM

    They should just hand that party over to Labour Youth and let them build a progressive movement for the future. The alternative is a SF stranglehold for years They’ve been a nothing party since Burton.

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    Mute Vincent O'Halloran
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    Mar 3rd 2022, 1:19 AM

    @Vonvonic: Burton is one of the reasons Labour died. Kelly tried to redeem his part in the death. However, he was not able to revive the party. Labour is dead. RIP

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:21 PM

    Totally unrelated:
    My wife claimed she was late coming home tonight because she was ambushed by a group of elderly men who pinned her down and repaired her shoes.
    Sounds like a load of old cobblers to me.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:08 PM

    Aquaman is gone. No loss.

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    Mute Brendan
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:58 PM

    Interesting looking at the sneering at Labour. FF bankrupted the country, FG want to privatise as much as possible and would have us in NATO in the morning, SF still glorify the paramilitary wing, and collectively they are on 70% in the polls. Interesting people can forgive parties of far worse things than Labour have ever done.

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 7:30 AM

    @Brendan: FF and FG are consistently at less than half the vite share they have been at for years. People haven’t forgiven them at all and I don’t know where based on the comments here you come to that opinion. They are 3 parties I will never ever vote for again and I know that many of my friends and family feel the same

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    Mute Seoirse Ó Staighe
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    Mar 3rd 2022, 2:04 PM

    @Gerard Smith: soul
    Sounds very much a Trol

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    Mute Franny Ando
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:17 PM

    Sherlock seems to be enjoying it sneering behind Kelly’s back. Obviously not going to be any tears from him tonight:)

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    Mute Sean Walsh
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:52 PM

    @Franny Ando: I think he had his name in the hat last time around, but withdrew it in the name of unifying the party.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:25 PM

    @Sean Walsh: That worked well!

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    Mute Christopher Byrne
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:23 PM

    Good riddance to Alan “power suits me” Kelly. Now if we can just turf out Leaky Leo and Michael that money was just resting in my account Martin please?

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    Mute Jerriko17
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:40 PM

    What is it about “left” wing parties in Ireland? Labour infighting, the SOCDEM spin off, SF internal “discipline”, PBP joins up with Solidarity after Murphy quits Socialist party!!! & a motley crew of oddball independents…. They can’t even get their own individual parties together!!! Doesn’t bode well for a left coalition after the next election…. They’ll present an open goal for FFG again and even if they manage to cobble together a programme for government it won’t last!!!!!

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    Mute Seoirse Ó Staighe
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:15 PM

    @Jerriko17: spoken like a true trol

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 9:25 AM

    @Seoirse Ó Staighe: if you look up the definition of what you accuse me of.. it’s “people who leave intentionally provocative or offensive messages on the internet in order to get attention, cause trouble or upset someone.”

    Just to let you know I didn’t, I’m just expressing my opinion as a left leaning voter but maybe your “reply” fits the definition more. I notice on forums like this that people who have nothing constructive to say resort to name-calling as a first resort…

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:49 PM

    Will always be known as the water meter wa—er

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:19 PM

    And will retire on a nice fat pension courtesy of us poor saps.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:27 PM

    @Paula Dunne: 100per cent and whose paying it,,Joe soap as usual

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    Mute Nameo Maximus
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:35 PM

    Did the Journal just delete a comment off this article that had 500+ likes?…

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:39 PM

    @Nameo Maximus: Other commitments also deleted.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:41 PM

    @Nameo Maximus: Shocking censorship. An intelligent comment, just not an opinion endorsed by the biased moderator.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:42 PM

    @Nameo Maximus: @Nameo Maximus: Shocking censorship. An intelligent comment, just not an opinion endorsed by the biased moderator.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:42 PM

    @Nameo Maximus: @Nameo Maximus: Shocking, an intelligent comment…. Just not an opinion endorsed by the biased moderator.

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    Mute Sean McCarthy
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:49 PM

    @Vestigial: I never thought about it in that way before but you’re spot on. Let’s face it the past the past as well, if do really want an alternative to the established parties then we have to move on from the past term in government

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    Mute John Fairclough
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:34 PM

    Alan Kelly is giving up the drugs

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    Mute Sean Doheny
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:01 PM

    Remember Gilmore anyone (my way or the highway)where is he now gone like the rest of them Spring,Howlin,Finlay, though he wasn’t leader,but he’s gone like the rest of them like the party they led

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 10:42 PM

    Don’t worry Alan…it will soon just be Irish Water under the bridge.

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    Mute Steven Powell
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:50 PM

    The fact it was a surprise might be one of the reasons your going. It’s kind of like saying you had no idea you were doing a bad job and about to be sacked. Your job is to know what’s going on.

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    Mute Eddie Feeney
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:09 PM

    Some good news in a world of turmoil.

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    Mute Ian Byrne
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:44 PM

    Shocking censorship. An intelligent comment deleted, 500+ likes… Just not an opinion endorsed by the biased moderator.

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    Mute Sean McCarthy
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:01 PM

    @Ian Byrne: noted that your comment was deleted. Terribly biased. It seems everyone is entitled to an opinion as long as it doesn’t disagree with the moderator. The comment wasn’t even offensive.

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    Mute Mark Murphy
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:49 PM

    Another’ liar he be no lose up the rebels haha

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    Mute Lar Lough
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:33 PM

    Rumours have it he’s going to Apply to join Sinn Fein ?

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    Mute Donal Desmond
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:51 PM

    @Lar Lough: FG. Kelly’s natural home..It’s a bit of a tradition for former so called Labour leaders.

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    Mute Paul Brierley
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 10:43 PM

    @Donal Desmond: just like Dimple’s O Dreary!

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:44 PM

    An intelligent comment deleted, 500+ likes… Just not an opinion endorsed by the biased moderator.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 5:32 PM

    Kemmy.

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    Mute Paul Fanshawe
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    Mar 3rd 2022, 6:36 AM

    The Labour Party began to lose its direction when the Cruzer and the other Smoked Salmon Socialists came on board.

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 1:07 AM

    Labour will join Sinn Fein, like Democratic Left joined Labour and Sinn Fein the workers party joined Democratic Left.
    It’s the only way Labour will become relevant again. Power Mercs and Pensions.

    Labour as we know it died after Joan and Alan screwed the people a few years ago.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 11:42 PM

    More like being a b.e.l.l e.n.d Alan. Covid had nothing to do with it

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:29 PM

    Well done Alan an excellent leader and servant of the Labour Party

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:46 PM

    @Donal O’Carroll: He resigned because he couldn’t do the job.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 10:51 PM

    @Donal O’Carroll: In what way? Or is this sarcasm. Definitely not factual.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 11:53 PM

    I know Alan Kelly I wrote to his home address for help but I never heard from him. Well its just as well because I wouldn’t have got the help I needed all he is was doing in the dail was confusing the Tds and objecting to what they are doing this of course I think was getting his own back on them because they had but him out of the dail and that was the end of the labour Party.

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 7:54 AM

    @John Scully: ¯\_(⊙_ʖ⊙)_/¯

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 10:00 PM

    Alan Who?

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    Mute David A. Murray
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 6:35 PM

    @Vestigial: Kelly was Minister of the Environment. In opposition, a politician will market themselves to voters and accuse the government of being out of touch, etc. In government, a politician will resort to “We need stability. We need consistency. We have to prioritise the bigger picture, etc.” Kelly is not lacking in intelligence or work rate. He is also not lacking in arrogance (as an MEP also), personal ambition, etc. I think the biggest problem Ireland faces is too many voters haven’t figured out the rules of the political game yet.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:59 PM

    Great news… A self opinionated

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    Mute John B
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:29 PM

    Who?

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:03 PM

    Time to send for Jeremy Corbyn

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:15 PM

    I would respectfully suggest that labour select Ged Nash as the new leader of the party in succession to Alan Kelly. Of all their TDs, he has the best chance of reviving working class support for the party.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:28 PM

    @Dick Barrett: ah, ha ha ha ha.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:28 PM

    @Dick Barrett: dead in the water party.

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 9:52 PM

    @Dick Barrett: he’s a terrible public representative. Does nothing for the constituency especially not for working class.

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    Mute Ian Byrne
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 8:45 PM

    ?

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    Mute Lar Lough
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    Mar 3rd 2022, 7:23 AM

    He Alan was telling Me hole Martin to get rid of the Russian Ambassador and was GONE SECONDS LATER HIMSELF

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 10:32 AM

    The other five TDs and their 10 remaining supporters thought he wasn’t doing a good job.

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 8:04 AM

    This is YOUR comments community. Stay civil, stay constructive, stay on topic. Please familiarise yourself with our comments policy here before taking part.
    Just saying.

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 12:26 AM

    Irelands my h@ted l@ndlord,

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    Mute TomTraubert
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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:38 PM

    @Vestigial: he was aligning the party as a coalition partner to sf (plus whoever else they needed) that was very clear in his language this last year or so and this scared the party imo.

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 7:26 AM

    Must have been Russian Roulette ???

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    Mar 2nd 2022, 7:33 PM

    @Donal Desmond: they were in the minority, but I thought they did well in difficult times, under the circumstances.
    I liked Kelly, he isn’t a muesi-knitting sandal-wearer, more a representative of people who actually work. But if they want to play the game, Backik is their best option.

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    Mar 3rd 2022, 8:50 AM

    Thought he was doing okay

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