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JUSTICE MINISTER CHARLIE Flanagan and Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone are heading to Irish college this summer to brush up on their Gaeilge.
The two ministers are due to spend a week in the Gaeltacht in a bid to improve their Irish.
While Flanagan has been to Irish college as a child, this will be Zappone’s first time.
Dáil business permitting, Flanagan and Zappone will be joining Government Chief Whip and Minister for the Irish language, Gaeltacht and the Islands Joe McHugh in Gleanncholmcille in Donegal.
When taking responsibility for the Gaeltacht office, McHugh was criticised for not being fluent in Irish.
At the time, he admitted his grasp of the teanga was “not great”.
But instead of letting it hold him back, McHugh asked the public to join him on his “journey” to bring his standard of the Irish language up to scratch. The minister is now fluent.
Flanagan told TheJournal.ie that he is looking forward to his few days in Donegal.
I’m really looking forward to casting the suit aside and immersing myself in Gaeltacht life. I love the Irish language and I don’t use it enough.
I did 5th and 6th class in Ring and even did a court case in Irish at one stage. I have become rusty since.
Flanagan said he is excited at the prospect of brushing up on his Irish. adding:
I am just hoping the busy justice schedule will allow me an uninterrupted few days.
Brushing up on their Irish
The news that two members of Cabinet want to learn more Irish comes as the government launches its five-year action plan for the Irish language 2018-2022.
Launching the nine action areas today, McHugh said the implementation of the plan is critical to the survival of the Irish language.
“The spirit of cooperation is central to this endeavour. By supporting each other, we, and the Irish language and the Gaeltacht, will thrive and prosper,” he said, adding:
And in a symbol of that deepening interest at Cabinet level both Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone and Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan will join me at the Gaeltacht summer college run by Oideas Gael in Gleanncholmcille in the coming weeks.
There you have two ministers leading by example and taking the plunge and coming to Donegal, for the crash course in our language.
McHugh said that like him, he expects the ministers to pick up a few extra words as Gaeilge.
“I’ve no doubt they’ll go away with more than a cupla focail and an important story to share with family, friends, colleagues and constituents. There’s plenty to learn in Gleanncholmcille and no shortage of craic – and anyone who ever spent any summers in the Gaeltacht will tell you that’s what it’s all about,” he said.
This is the kind of leadership you need to inspire revival. We hear talk about grassroots revival and here you have three members of Cabinet becoming part of that, taking the initiative themselves and trying to act as an inspiration for others.
Five-year action plan
Within the plan itself there is a deep focus on education and early years.
New initiatives will see €3 million in support packages for the use of Irish in creches, nurseries, naonraí (playschool) in the Gaeltacht, schools and parents wishing to raise families in the Gaeltacht through Irish.
In addition, there will be two Irish language Early Years posts created within the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to further the development of Irish language provision in the early years sector in non-Gaeltacht areas.
A new grant system to cover 95% of cost of building a crèche in the Gaeltacht will also be established.
A digital strategy for the Irish language will also be set up, and RTÉ are to set up a new Irish language section on the RTÉ Player. A new RTÉ Irish language APP for kids will also be launched.
TG4 will continue to commission content from the independent sector in Gaeltacht areas,
with the expectation of establishing 300 jobs.
Publication of a new dictionary
Other aspects of the plan include a publication of a new English/Irish dictionary, and the establishment of an Irish language centre in Dublin.
Targets, which are contained in the 20-year strategy for the Irish language 2010-2030, have been incorporated into the five-year action plan.
In the next twenty years, the government wants to increase number of Irish speakers outside education circles from 83,000 to 250,000. It also wants to see a 25% increase in Irish speakers in Gaeltacht.
By 2030, the aim is to have two million people competent in Irish.
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Murphy wasn’t defamed by the Taoiseach, he was owned by the Taoiseach.
@Honeybadger197:
Didn’t Leo himself say on Primetime that the garda evidence was very questionable.
Why is he speaking out of two sides of his mouth?
One voice on media and another in Dail Eireann is that it?
@Mark DeFriest: Because he’s Leo (Not another red cent) Varadkar and he’s a Blueshirt, that’s what they do.
@Honeybadger197: Leo’s childish hyperbole and points scoring should have no place in “new politics”. I certainly don’t think that sort of nonsense from our leader should be celebrated.
@Mark DeFriest: can he not question the Garda evidence while at the same time thinking that Murphys actions on the day were wrong?
Murphy was all for defending free speech on twitter for the jobstown lot, but now he is against free speech from the Taoiseach. Can’t have it both ways Murphy.
Murphy had a bad day in the Dail on Wednesday and is still smarting over it. Lol.
@Rochelle: yea Leo scored a lot of points on Wednesday. All at Murphy’s expense. Lol
@P C: Ah you’re PC today. James Connolly should be in now soon enough so you can agree with yourself :-)
Noted!
@Jane:
In his defensive rant yesterday Leo accused Paul Murphy of actions he did not commit, including hitting Joan Burton with a water balloon remarking that these actions were unbecoming of an elected representative of Dail Eireann. It’s there on record.
Varadkar owes Paul Murphy an apology.
@Mark DeFriest: lol. You need to listen to it against. The only one who owes an apology is Murphy to the 2 women. And he also owes the tax payer for his legal expenses.
@Rochelle: childish hyperbole and points scoring? are you serious? that’s your argument to put varadkar down in defence of murphy??
@Mark DeFriest: Pfft… the poor Jobstown Martyrs are very delicate souls.
Oohhhhhhh the hypocrisy. He pathetically hides behind Dail Privilege to make claims that in the real world could have him sued, but then tries to play the victim when someone correctly called out the behaviour in Jobstown.
What a pathetic little man.
@Honeybadger197: Owned by the him? telling untruths is not owning anything except telling a lie but then again FG’s police force also did that – in court. And then there is yes Joan the “real” victim – taking selfies and smiling at the camera all the while in mortal fear of the out of control mob. Leo is a great fiction writer all the same he calls it the truth but its really only fiction.
@Austin Rock: You’re wasting your time. You are arguing with people you still believe Enda Kenny was great. It’s like arguing with the religious, doesn’t matter if it’s wrong.
@MK76: Leo you mean?
It was the judge that found statements from 3 senior Gardai to be lies, not Paul Murphy.
Paul is a buffoon. But that still does not excuse the Gardai from answering to Dail Eireann for committing perjury.
When the hell are the middle to senior ranking officers going to be hauled before the courts for falsifying evidence, destroying evidence (penalty points), defamation (against McCabe and Co.), or any more of the thousands of CRIMINAL acts being carried out within the force?
@P C: Scoring points and your loving it they should be running the country but Leo the lion and his friends couldn’t run a bath properly and you have clowns like you still supporting them open your eyes and see what’s going on the country is in a mess and you people are to foolish to see it
@time to wake up: I wasn’t the one who brought up scoring points initially. Not my words.
@time to wake up: They couldn’t care less about the country. All they care about is someone they don’t like getting shafted. Forget the consequences of having a corrupt police force. They are indoctrinated Blueshirts, it’s a religion to them. They are like Catholic’s trying to make excuses for their church covering up child abuse.
@Mark DeFriest: Leo is famous for being able to talk out both sides of his mouth and his arse at the same time.
@Rochelle: it’s exactly what we need
@Good Early Your comments are based on opinions and hearsay. If Paul Murphy has definitive evidence, then why have de behind Dail Privilege?
Any why is their no uproar about the social media campaign that went on during the trial? Disgraceful.
@Mark DeFriest: why he never said that.
If you bothered listening he said a balloon was thrown he did not say Murphy threw it.
But why bother getting the truth in the way.
@Mark DeFriest: listen to what he said. He didn’t accuse Murphy of anything beyond being involved in thuggish behaviour.
@Jane: yes he can brains and dangerous comes to mind
@Honeybadger197: comment of the week !
@Mark DeFriest: listen back on what was said ..he doesn’t owe Murphy an apology at all .
@Mark DeFriest: questionable, means in his opinion questions should be asked and answers analyses , Murphy the little coward , under privilege , accused them of a crime, perjury, big difference .
Up the bandits and cutthroats of u know who Lou
He was not defamed and he is trying to make himself out to be a working class martyr.
@Paul Fahey: well said Paul .
@Paul Fahey: I bet he was kicking himself that he won the case, a few weeks in prison and he be martyr for life!
@Paul Fahey: whoever it was…like him or not…he was found not guilty by his peers…yet people still seem to be throwing false allegations his way
@Dan: He was found not guilty of the false imprisonment charge. I think that much of his other behavior that day is not in dispute.
@Dan: he was not guilty of false imprisonment but that doesn’t mean his actions were ok. He was engaged in thuggery.
@Dan: cannot see where I said any different.
@baz newham: Leo and his blueshirt colleagues together with the Labour Party were caught out by the decision of the courts. Perhaps Leo should be brought before the courts for refusing to accept the decision and maybe questioning the judge -innuendo
@Paul Coughlan:
Just to be clear Paul on this. Yes the were acquitted of the allegations of false imprisonment but are you actually saying that their behaviour on the day was ok and not at all questionable??
@Reg: what behavior would that be reg?
@Paul Coughlan: imagine how dangerous you’d be if you actually read the articles that you comment on. Leo said he accepted the decision of the court.
He also said that Murphy et al behaved like thugs.
Both positions are true
@Derek Poutch:
Wow !!
What behaviour?? Yes it’s completely acceptable to shout, scream and abuse the guards and 2 women.
Clown !!
@B9xiRspG: And with his “Peaceful Protest” rhetoric he would become the Irish Gandhi in his own mind !
@Dan: he was wring on both counts
@Paul Coughlan: bla bla rubbish
Poor Paul. Likes to dish it out but can’t take it back!
It ok for him to harass another TD but when he’s called out as a thug he goes crying to Daddy
@Tweety McTweeter: the courts decided he was not a thug. Leo’s the thug here
@Paul Coughlan: Thuggery is not a criminal offence.
@Paul Coughlan:
The courts decided that he was not guilty of false imprisonment. Any neutral person looking at the video of that day will confirm that he was acting like a thug
@Paul Coughlan: A jury decided that he didn’t hold two women prisoner. It didn’t make any decision on his thuggery
@Paul Coughlan: He was found not guilty. He wasn’t found innocent. There’s a big difference!
@Paul Coughlan: No, the court didn’t. He was found not guilty of false imprisonment. He was there as part of a protest that got out of hand. He should be man enough to take responsibility for that. His supporters decry Burton for complaining at her treatment, yet Murphy is whining like a little whipped puppy over some words in Dáil Éireann. In my opinion, he’s a weasel, a whiney, whinging, cowardly little weasel who wouldn’t even defend himself in court. Poltroon!
@Tweety McTweeter: brilliant statement … you have made !!sure look at the example he is showing other tugs to get away with ?
@Paul Coughlan: he wasn’t on trial for being a thug so how could the courts find him not guilty of being a thug.
Try to keep up Paul
@Diarmuid: It can be.
@Paul Coughlan: that’s not what the courts ruled on.
@Tweety McTweeter: don’t believe he was called a thug it was the behaviour which was described as thuggery, Paul is far to precious
He’s a clown of the highest order and is too childish to hold a seat in the Oireachtas
@Anraí Russell: murphy that is (as if clarification was needed)
@Anraí Russell: It wasn’t!
@Anraí Russell: along with the lot who sit next to him in the Dail.
@Anraí Russell: Leo is it
@Anraí Russell: You mean Leo right? probably applies to both really
@Anraí Russell: no more childish than any fg to or indeed even Enda..you mean some of Enda’s porkies in the daily don’t bother you
@Anraí Russell: Who, Varadkar ?
@Anraí Russell: Murphy is a clown but Leo is a high and mighty sack. Proved that with his behaviour in the Dail.
@Robert Harris: best comment EVER. Sitting at a bar in Croatia PMSL with everyone staring at me.
Brilliant
@Paul Lanigan: hi Paul glad you enjoyed the joke seems The Journal did’nt as they took it off,enjoy Crotia sounds nice
@Robert Harris: was scrolling back to see it, pity it’s gone!
@GClare: hi sorry you did not see it ,i used no unlike Jobstown i used no foul language but i did mention an ice pick which in communist history looms large
€90,000 a year (he does give some to “charity”…including his own party). And he gets €80 a day expenses whether he attends Leinster House or not. He attended ONCE in May and claimed €80 EVERY DAY.
@Paddy Murray: Yes but he was in Court for a number of weeks I belive
@Paddy Murray: have you access to the dail records.
@Paddy Murray: Why is the word charity in inverted commas ?.
@Pat Price: Because a political party is NOT a charity
@Dan: I wouldn’t be paid for work if I was up in court, neither would most working people, so why should he?
Mr Murphy needs to stop digging that hole, clearly unhinged it’s extraordinary he can’t see there was obvious thuggery at the jobstown event, further more he got a fair trial. If every defendant had the platform he has to moan and whine about being hard done by, the country would come to a stand still, actually the Dail has by all accounts with this nonsense taking up valuable time. Grow up Mr Murphy, is this really what your constituents voted you in for.
@Joseph Dempsey: and the Gardai put up with a lot of nonsense on that day. If this was any other country they would have been baton charged at least.
@P C: Well they should have baton charged them – but why would they all they did was make the story up.
@P C: Murphy reminds me of a lefty posh Boy who has about as much awareness of working class hardship as lord Lucan. Great man for stirring desent , run for cover when the poo hits the fan. Ghastly individual really who should resign or just jump into that enormous hole he is digging.
Private school gives you a belief that you are superior and cannot be questioned. This is the debating society for these guys.
@marg fitzgerald: I know plenty of people who came from fee paying schools who don’t think they’re superior. I think that is a very sweeping not to mention bitter statement…
I went to a public school FYI.
@Fabio Dillon: so did Paul Murphy
@JJ O’Carroll: Paul Murphy went to an expensive private school and should be able to speak fluently when the Germans take over (don’t know why people are worried about that when people like Mr Murphy are voted in here!)
Will he just go away.
A man on over 80 grand a year getting free legal aid while also claiming dail expenses of €80 per day while at the trial.
What fools voted for this man? His issues are based on people not paying for services.
@Blah blah: The judge who granted him free legal aid, the guards who tried to pin a very serious charge on him, the court who heard the case ,legal representation on both
@Liam Dempsey: hadn’t finished: All had to be paid by you the taxpayer. Paul Murphy on over €90,000 a year, again paid by the taxpayer, should have better things to be doing than this stupid carry on. If any of the people mentioned had to fund this carry on out of their own pockets they would be whistling a different tune. It’s very easy to make decisions like these when someone else pays.
I’ve said it before this guy would fight with a paper bag
@6ljJQRRU: I’d back the paper bag.
@6ljJQRRU: Which guy please name him it can unfortunately apply to both Leo and Paul.
Love the way the establishment say ‘You had a fair trial, you received justice’ completely ignoring the fact that the trial never should have taken place in the first instance.
If Murphy had been convicted, thank God the public saw through the stitch up, then the establishment would be claiming his conviction was just.
Fine Gael are playing a dangerous game here. The public know what’s going on.
@Mark DeFriest: FG did not decide to charge him with False Imprisonment, you do actually know that don’t you? Or do you have evidence to suggest otherwise, which may support your ludicrous conspiracy.
@Mark DeFriest: oh the public know what’s going on alright. I think Murphy should be worried about his seat.
@Mark DeFriest: Does your Tin Hat protect you from the Big Bad Establishment?
@Mark DeFriest:
I fully accept that the trial was fair and he was found not guilty of false imprisonment but don’t forget that it was his thuggish behaviour that got him he charges in the first place.
Don’t go causing trouble and the Gardaí won’t have any reason to charge you for anything
@Paul Fahey: open your eyes. It was FG and LABOUR who orchestrated this
@Paul Fahey:
Obviously you supported the privatisation of water. You lost – get over it.
@Mark DeFriest: Thought you’re not a fan of Snowflakes?
@Mark DeFriest: as other commenters say have you anything to support the conspiracy you are claiming or is it other wise a hollow comment? Your magic bullet could blow this wide open!
@filthypete:
A dog in the street told me.
@Mark DeFriest: Don’t be defaming the dog, he never said that at all!!
@Mark DeFriest: Or don’t forget the police lied – we really shouldn’t forget this part, they lied that is the most worrying part of this charade – the police lied – in court.
@Mark DeFriest: Some of the public don’t want to see what happened here , doesn’t suit their agenda , Varadakar strikes me as a Thacher like person , a them and us attitude ,
@Mark DeFriest: well said mark..it’s so Irish the way people are playing the man not the fact..we have 3 Garda perjuring themselves and we’re more worried about what was said in the dail…open your eyes let ye..this is exactly the distraction fog want to get safely to the summer hols..
@Pat Price:
Too right Pat, they tried to crush a butterfly and stirred up a hornet’s nest.
@Paul Coughlan: big words. Back it up with some big evidence thankupleez.
@Paul Coughlan: does it not get very sweaty wearing a tin hat all day long?
@Paul Gurney: where is the evidence the guards lied? What I read was that there wasn’t any video evidence to support what they say they heard or saw. That’s hardly the same as lying but perhaps someone has come up with some form of mechanism to prove something didn’t happen?
@P C:
If he ended up with Bonzo in a cell in the Joy he would worry about his seat
@John Brennan: boom boom! Lol
@Mark DeFriest: so nothing. Game over. Empty vessels.
I know murphy was found not guilty of false imprisonment of John Burton and her assistant but how come on video evidence he is clearly heard saying “will we let her go” does that not imply he thought he had power to control her movement therefore he did feel he was holding her against her will. Courts apply the law not justice therefore I am not sure justice was served by the verdict, which was based on the fact that did Burton and her assistant have a way out, my feeling is she did if the Gardai used riot tactics but then this would have been a propaganda coup for Murphy and Co. Murphy is now setting himself up as a martyr when in fact he is a coward when he and his cronies attacked 2 women, maybe murphy should shut up and give us all a break
@Kevin50: ET (Murphy) phone home urgently
Can’t stand Paul Murphy. Creep
@Andrew Christian Troy: and there in lies your problem…the fact that you don’t like him doesn’t alter the facts..try to separate the two like a good man
If Murphy is so concerned about defamation why doesn’t he deal with the defamation that takes place every day on his FB page ??
That Murphy fella is like a spoilt pup. He is only looking for votes like the rest of them
He knows what he’s doing… he has them all rattled… The courts have vindicated him
@Ciarán FitzGerald: the only rattle Murphy has caused is from the one he threw out of his pram!
Who has he rattled?
All he did was pathetically hide behind Dail Privilege to do onto others what he is now accusing others of doing to him.
Silly little man.
@Ciarán FitzGerald: he looked like a rabbit caught in headlights in the Dail on Wednesday after the roasting he got from the Taoiseach. Lol
@Ciarán FitzGerald:do you know the meaning of vindicated?
Can’t stand Paul Murphy. Creep
Watch this space while Mr Varadker attempts to turn the Irish people in a bunch of obedient, humourless servants. Something similiar to the germans perhaps…you can hear it in his voice.
@Jim: I think you must be hearing voices, lots of them in your head.
@Jim: you complained about his humour a few weeks ago and now you suggest he will make us humourless. ????
@Paul Fahey: Mark my words Paul, Leo Varadker has his ideologies of how Irish people should be and it is not going to be good for this countries identity.
@P C: You can be sure that while I may have commented on his “humour” it certainly was not to give him any standing ovations.
Typical schoolboy bully; happy to dole it out but as soon as somebody fights back he goes running to teacher. Kudos to Leo Varadkar for standing up to this bully..
He seems to be under the impression that if a court clears you of a particular criminal charge, you are then exempt from any criticism whatsoever for the rest of your career.
Don’t know what else you would call that riot in Jobstown. It certainly wasn’t a demonstration & thuggery was certainly order of the day. I am all for protesting if people feel aggrieved but this was no protest it was a riot. Mr Murphy & co need to take a good hard look at themselves for their part in this riot. A bit less of the self pity, playing the victim& throwing his toys out of the cot from Mr Murphy. There have been plenty of demonstrations in this country & there was no thuggery like Jobstown
This lad is an attention seeking charlatan who misrepresents his supporters.
@Bognor regis: yes! He’s trying to extend his 15 minutes in the lime light. Nobody likes a bad winner!
@Bognor regis: he represents his supporters. As does every TD in the dail. What’s wrong with that.
@Paul Coughlan: He represents himself, as shown by his pathetic accusations of defamation, incidentally while he himself was defaming the government, the Gardaí and the justice system. He is a coconut of the ordure…
Like it or not Leo got it spot on Murphy is a champagne socialist looking for any excuse to stay in the spotlight.
He is only a tick WITH No
Policy nothing he has to say makes sense ABSOLUTELY no sense he will continue to go after easy voters who feel entitled to everything without contributing anything just like the rest of AAPBP who will work very hard for 1 thing and 1 thing only their OWN TD’S JOBS AND MURPHY IS A COWAED AND A BULLY WHEN HIS MOB IS AROUND HIM
@owen kirwan: You can surely do better than that!
Aside from the fact that people may or may not like Paul Murphy. Does it not bother anybody that the level of corruption that was exposed as a result of this case is horrific. This case was held to teach the Irish people a “lesson”, that being that if you kick up or try and rise against us, we will come down on you hard..so shut up and stay in the little box we provided for you.
@Jim: If Paul Murphy believes there was corruption in this case, he should have the courage of his convictions and make a formal complaint, rather than using Dail privilege to make the accusations to a public audience without any comeback. He’s nothing but a militant little weasel
@Alan Roddy: To who? The Garda Ombudsman? Dont make me laugh Alan. You’re hardly that naive….
@Jim: What I learned from this trial is that the tin foil hat brigade are far bigger that I had ever imagined.
Ah gway murphy. Talk about not knowing when to stop digging a hole…
@Darren Murphy: Defamed is always better to say than deflowered lol.
Good ol’ Paul, can see him sitting at home listening to Lennon’s “working class hero” on his iPod. While sipping from a multipack of Dutch Gold and reading an original of ” My Pet Goat”
Looking at all the coments there is one omission only for the likes of P ul Murphy and the rest of the Good people of IRELAND who marched and took dogs abuse from the bully boys in Irish water and pursued by the garda who it was established could not get their evidence straight it was just a political stitch upthat failed but for those people the true men and women of this country you would be paying the dreded water rates now
@James Mc Loughlin: I marched,I didn’t do it for my political agenda.
@James Mc Loughlin: Couldn’t agree more James, the begrudges are upset because the cosy cartels are being exposed, by people like Paul Murphy, he is also far more educated than a lot of the government cronies who for a long time managed to limp along with a nod and a wink of corruption. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK PAUL.
Didn’t he get all his legal expenses paid by the taxpayer?
@Grace Gleeson: yes another joke €90.000 per year of taxpayers money and expenses of €80 per day on top of that
And gets Free legal aid
WHAT A FUC#KED UP COUNTRY
AND HE’S MEANT TO BE A SOCIALIST
(POWER TO THE WORKERS) MY AR#E
Didn’t Murphy have all his legal expenses paid by the taxpayer? So I suppose they re the only people who lose when he plays the victim again and again.
I’m actually sick of seeing this goblin.
What a d#ckhead
@Bob Murphy:
Which one?
@Mark DeFriest: obviously Murphy.
If it was in France or any other mainland country, Joan’s car would’ve been overturned and burned. The protest was handbags at 40 paces. Nobody died, as Joan laughed away in the back of her car. We as a nation, have been strategically seperated and dumbed down. Anyone who is anti- protest, is not thinking of the nation as a whole.
What a whinger Paul Trapper Murphy is . He is devastated that he was acquitted .
I’m not a fan of Murphy but it was very clear in Varadkars face, body language and tone of voice that he was mighty p^ssed off. The Government circled the wagons around Burton and used the mechanisms of the Gardai, DPP, Minister of Justice Fitzgerald and her BFF Commissioner O’Sullivan to send out a signal to people about water protests. Only trouble was the jury were Joe Public & thwarted the plan.
For Varadkar to so visibly be rattled and angry showed frustration at not only Murphy personally but the failed stitch up. Naturally the complicit Commissioner won’t be looking at the perjury of her officers – God no, sure what’d be the point of that.
As far as i can see Murphy is a time waster… well all of them are but he is the worst now. He is just looming for more media attention.
Murphy was found not guilty but he is still not innocent of any wrongdoing on that day in Jobstown.He and his crony buddies have the right to protest but his behaviour on that day was appalling.He and his anti austerity buddies can’t be against everything but this is the line they are taking…water..bins… what next ????It’s popular for the type of electorate they represent to be on this bandwagon.The majority of the hard working people of Ireland have total disdain for this type of politics.Murphy & Co.are a disgrace and waste so much Dail time waffling on and on about the same thing day after day.There will always be a few gougers or furriers elected to Dail Eireann,but unfortunately the last election put in too many of them….can’t see that happening come next election.
Murphy likes to flaunt Dail protocol when it suits him: utilise the Chamber to review court proceedings, utilise Dail privilege to accuse Gardai of perjury
… yet funny how all of his charges against other TDs rely on claiming breaches of that same Dail protocol.
So which is it Murphy? Defiant Rebel? Martyr? Man wronged?
Similar to your court case, I watched a few minutes of tape from the Dail yesterday and it never showed Varadkar saying your were a thug.
Same as watching a few minutes of Jobstown, I never saw you say ‘shall we keep her here for the night’
It’s hard to tell what might have been said in all those other minutes that I didn’t see of course, whether of the Dail or of Jobstown. Certainly tape unseen proves nothing.
Paul had no new battle. The water issue has been addressed. The non charges are very solvable . He is running out of issues that attract his type of supporter.
After he defamed the Gardai?
The establishment political classes, and official Ireland would need to be very careful with their comments both inside and outside the Dail. Paul Murphy and co are not your usual gombeen political class, to be put down and ostracized by the establishment. They are articulate, educated, and know how to rattle the cosy lifer politico’s in Leinster house. With all the various Tribunals, Inquiries, and court cases going on at present there will be interesting times ahead, and the establishment political classes better get their facts right, for bulling, and heckling, the left will cut no ice with the citizen’s. New politics it is then from here on.
@James Doyle: LOL Murphy and Coppinger will lose their seats in the next election
@P C: Could i borrow your crystal ball.
The establishment are trying to brazen it out and attacking Murphy is actually populist rabble rousing. I see by the comments it is succeeding. I’m not a Trot or even a socialist but it would be nice to think that if I ever got involved in a court case that I could expect the Garda evidence to be accurate.
@Simeon: your not the victim here
What an absolute tit
He’ll probably get free legal aid for that too. Little upstart.
Pity nobody from fffg remember d countless enquiries reports lieing in leister house? Now Noonan and Kenny are gone does me hole Martin or his nemesis vara dear want to talk about moriarty??? Thought not….just like their avid frame room boys!!
All the FG trolls on here I see
It was loud mouth Durkan as usual that shouted this
@Jonathan Yeo: Of course – more of the same behaviour – anyone who doesn’t agree with you is obviously a troll..
I think the thugs Leo were in the back of a car laughing .
any good restaurants in longford..
Poor little rich boy like Barrett. Feeling guilty because he was sent to elocution lessons and can’t manage the Dublin working class accent when addressing the useful idiots of the Left
Wish to God he could be Kicked out!
What did “thugs” ever do to be lumped in with this champagne socialist?
Who is this nuisance?
Who voted for this fool?
He is NOT working for the working class.
He’s a troublemaker.Disrespecting our gardai.
@gerry fallon: he wouldn’t get elected in the middle class constituency he hails from.
@P C: same for Mary Lou Mac. I somehow doubt that she would get elected in Churchtown or wherever she comes from. Hence the house purchase and relocation to Cabra. The accent needs a lot more work though
@Sean @114: So you are saying there are 2 Ireland’s and the address you have determines your status. Are there no workers in Churchtown? are they all upper and middle class? and think they are above the good honest people living in Cabra, i doubt if the vast majority of people in Churchtown would agree with your stupid comment, Did you learn anything in school about class division and the causes, i suggest you read some books on the subject then you might have a different prespective, but judging by your comment i doubt it.
@James Doyle: I’m not talking about Churchtown in particular I’m talking about the constituency. To prove my point is this the constituency that elected Shane Ross, another FG TD and a Green Party candidate in the last election? SF polled 7% in that constituency in the last election 7th out of 9 candidates. I rest my case.
@Sean @114: I wouldn’t vote SF ever, but then again I most certainly did not want Ross or Greens!! Like voters in many constituency I despair at who supposedly represents me.
@GClare: totally agree. I think most of us have that problem.
Murphy should keep his big gob shut.His behaviour was a disgrace on the day.He was acquitted and should just crawl back under the rock he came from.
Gfy Paul Murphy. So sick of your self absorbed martyrdom shiot.
Murphy is a rabble rouser. Some hero for frightening a 60 year old woman in fear of her life. It is irrelevant if she was a labour t d seeking left wing vote nobody should be subjected to the rabble insults is c you next Thursday. These degenerate knucklescrapping, low lifes only want to establish their entitlements and fail to contribute Cos society owes them. Care for those in need but these degenerates need to contribute and stop feeding off the natioon
If you talk like a thug, act like a thug and look like a thug you are probably a thug! Good man Leo- a man for the squeezed middle class- not that vermin, he does not represent me!
kettles and trots calling each other black
I used to like Paul Murphy!
Had the verdict gone the other way Leo and the Blueshirts supported by F.F. The party that brought this country to it’s knees would preaching from the rooftops that the status quo was preserved. What part of this trial does not the Blueshirts understand. Jobstown 7 were found NOT guilty of All charges. Judge stated the evidence given by guards was dubious at best. Leo and Martin shocked at Paul Murphy’s allegations, but when documents concerning the criminal trial of a banker Sean Fitzpatrick collapsed after shreading of documents by a government department these paracites were deafening by their silence. Well done Paul and all the defendants in trial .Well done to the jury.
And he was, our Taoiseach had a fit in the Dail, a p155y fit…
This is getting more like Mcgregor Vs maywether all the time.
Two TDs slagging each other and hundreds of clowns commenting on here about who got the better of who.
Shut da fck up yill do nutin.
@Stephen Maher:
Dail TV should make it pay-per-view.
@Stephen Maher: Class ! Making animal balloons with both hands
He’s an arrogant jumped up little shithead-who voted for him ? Really hope he wont get in next time
In the great words of Mr Gogarty, F**k you deputy Murphy , F**k you.
In the words of mr gogarty , F**k you deputy Murphy , F**k you, and the bunch of idiots that follow you. If Leo could lower his iq, you could possibly join him in conversation
@Paddy Murray:
@Andrew Christian Troy:
have your say