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SINN FÉIN COUNCILLOR Mícheál Mac Donncha is the new Lord Mayor of Dublin city.
First co-opted onto the council in 2011, Mac Donncha was re-elected in 2014.
He has been a long-standing member of Sinn Féin, and was the editor of the party’s newspaper – An Phoblacht – from 1990 to 1996.
Mac Donncha ran unsuccessfully in the 2016 general election for the Dublin Bay North constituency.
He is a fluent Irish speaker and a founding member of the council’s Moore Street Advisory Committee.
He is also a board member on the City of Dublin Education and Training Board, the Board of the Hugh Lane Gallery and of the National Maternity Hospital.
Mac Donncha was elected this evening at the council’s annual meeting with 35 votes. He is the 348th Lord Mayor of Dublin. The Labour Party’s Aine Clancy was elected as deputy-Lord Mayor.
Speaking after his election this evening, the new Lord Mayor thanked his fellow councillors and laid out his intentions for the office.
He said the focus of his term would be to try to work towards resolving the housing crisis in Dublin.
He said his first act as mayor would be requesting a meeting with Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy as a matter of urgency.
He said he believed the council should focus on “building more council houses on council” land, and called on the national government to release funding to this end.
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams congratulated Mac Donncha on his election.
“Cllr Mícheál Mac Donncha is an outstanding public representative, a committed Irish republican, and a proud Dubliner with a deep love of our capital city,” he said.
Mac Donncha takes over the title of Lord Mayor from the Labour Party’s Brendan Carr.
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Boo! – Apple have done away with the Irish cailín (pale skin, red hair) who used to represent many Irish women – now we’ll have to choose between a blonde or a brunette. Bring back the redhead!
Tiocfaidh ar la.
Does that mean that only those people who have installed this will see the new emoji ?
Yes is the answer. This is an Irish flag test:
The flags work as special control letters representing the abbreviation for countries. On Android phones they usually show up as just the control letters, so, as always, an Irish flag can be displayed but only as a blue “IE”, not an actual flag. The system (at least before lollipop, not sure if its changed) never supported the actual flags but would just show the control letters instead.
WhatsApp does that too, but only if it encounters a combination it doesn’t have a flag for.
Any for android?
It just requires characters U+1F1EE and U+1F1EA to be entered in sequence ( a special “I” and a special “E”) but the system won’t display them as a flag. Apple hasn’t really added a new character. Just the ability to correctly recognise the combination.
Android, as of 4.4 anyway, doesn’t display any of these combinations as flags (not even U and S). Just as the control letters that make them up. Applications on android that don’t use the system emojis (WhatsApp and Facebook messenger for instance) may add support sooner, since they both support flags
I like that they’re in the kind of pop up menu thing so you don’t spend ages scrolling. Nice one.
I always thought the Irish flag would be a lot nicer without the orange
Go back to Limerick
The davedunne comment above is not me. It is a dam imposter. I am flattered all the same. I in all honesty don’t give a bollix about flag’s.
The davedunne comment above is not me. It is a dam imposter. I am flattered all the same. I in all honesty don’t give a bollix about flag’s.
Fine gael don’t approve ..
Anyone else not have the option of downloading the new update?
Note to self:
Block Brian Tong
Excited to see the Irish Tricolor being represented.
I would be more excited when my Android Galaxy S6 starts representing my flag!
What kind of phone do you have?
Ireland/…Ivory Coast flag
All I can say is
Noooooo. Fail, all the emojis didn’t show up
What a lot of
Erik just point g out he has the new S6
˙˙˙sᴉɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟᴉ sᴉ ʇI
Why don’t android phones have flag emojis?
Flag on WhatsApp is Ivory Coast not Irish
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