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LABOUR COUNCILLOR PADDY Bourke, who represents Artane in north Dublin, has resigned from the party this afternoon.
Bourke, who was first elected to Dublin City Council in 2004, is a former lord mayor of Dublin and is the second Labour councillor to resign from the party in the last 24 hours following Killarney town councillor Seán O’Grady’s departure yesterday.
Bourke was not immediately contactable this afternoon, but a spokesperson for Labour confirmed his departure from the party.
”The Budget that we’ve brought forward is the Budget that will get us out of the bailout,” the spokesperson said.
“It’s unfortunate that some of the people who were elected under the Labour banner will not be with us on December 15 when we say goodbye to the Troika.”
Bourke’s page has already been removed from the Labour website.
On Twitter, his former Labour colleague, councillor Henry Upton, paid tribute to Bourke:
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Excellent! The Ark of the Covenant is exactly what we need to show other economies who’s boss….just remember to shut your eyes guys (not you Bertie, Charlie, and Biffo)
Love it!
Who red thumbed this?! Genius idea, although I think it’s already in Hangar 18…
Actually at the turn of the century, a group of wealthy Americans began excavating at Tara believing that the Ark of the Covenant was buried there. There is still a myth that it is buried somewhere in Ireland having been brought here by Cesair, granddaughter of Noah (yup, the flood guy).
As long as they do no harm, knock yourselves out. Its amazing that for such an ancient building so little of it is known, although to be fair professor Kelly pulled it apart and gave us the Newgrange we have now, some agree some don’t. That Newgrange itself is hardly known outside Ireland may be a blessing, everyone has heard of the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Acropolis etc but ask an American or Englishman have they ever heard of Newgrange, sad, I’d love to see it getting recognition but then could it handle 3,4,5 times the tourist numbers? Who knows?
it wasn’t wealthy americans, it was a religious sect called the “british Israelites”. Supposedly james joyce went up to tara to try and stop them and he was shot at by the local farmer! I prosed a second chamber in newgrange a few years ago to a historian there and I was poo pooed. At the back of the passage tomb there is what looks like to me a second entrance stone. Other passage tombs in the area have two passages so its entirely possible.
Rumour has it that Haughey spent a lot of time there during the works-probably will turn out to be a cave filled with Charvet shirts (size small, with a large neck), fine brandies, and Terry Keane’s smalls.
The title of the article was about Newgrange.
It diverted to sites thousands of years more recent in the Middle East.
No use comparing the Wright Brothers plane to an F16 fighter.
Sounds interesting.
Was it not teconstructed……ie they would know whats in there!
is it not kinda obvious that there has to be more rooms at new grange, a big round building with only one passage in the middle. there has to be something more up there
They found the Ark of the Covenant where Moses placed the 10 Commandments, in a cave under Golgotha.
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