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FINE GAEL TD Regina Doherty is to make a formal complaint to the leader of the Seanad following comments by the independent senator David Norris in the upper house earlier today.
Doherty, the deputy director of Fine Gael’s Seanad referendum campaign, was the subject of a foul-mouthed tirade by Norris in the chamber earlier today and admitted she was upset by the remarks.
“I have to admit that I was upset by the personal nature of the remarks that Senator Norris made about me in the Seanad earlier today. They were contrived and intentional,” she said in a statement this evening.
Norris said earlier today: “The idea that someone who has been a member of this house… has to listen to ‘The Regina Monologues’ from somebody who’s not a wet week in this house, talking through her f***y, I object on the strongest possible basis.”
Doherty, a TD for Meath East, said she will be making a formal complaint to the leader of the Seanad, Maurice Cummins, and made a point of saying that the remarks by Norris did little to bolster his argument for retention of the chamber.
She added: “Senator Norris’ sexist and deeply inappropriate language certainly brought public attention to the Seanad today.
“But his comments have done absolutely nothing to strengthen his claim that the superior level of debate in the Seanad means the Upper House is worth saving.”
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Give me sunshine any day no matter how cold it is. It’s possible to miss lots of things about Ireland except the weather.
@offside again: So true… the difference it makes to your mood. Personally, I prefer to be too cold than too hot but I understand why others hate it. As my used to say ‘it’s fresh Donna’. Not sure but I think the low temperature gets rid of some germs too.
Was just thinking I hadn’t seen any sun in over a week. Glad it’s not only me that noticed
I go to work in the dark and go home when its dark,so its nothing new for me in winter,,,
@Luke Littler: I’m on to you luke LITTER. You spend your days on here fishing for likes.
Poor Dublin. God love them
@Ed H: From all of us, thank you
@Ed H: We know we live rent free in all the rest of the countries heads…..people in rural Ireland can’t finish a sentence without mentioning Dublin.
@John Paul: which countries are those Ed?
@Fionn Bohane: John Paul probably won’t understand that.
@Fionn Bohane: counties…..spell check.
@Ed H: Better than living in the “Shticks”, where it’s a 30 minute journey to the nearest town to do the shopping from the one store that has a monopoly and charges Dublin prices, seen it in many a rural area
@Ed H: hope it doesn’t affect all the cash we send your way
@Ed H: Your power been reconnected yet? Lol.
Hate to live in Dublin …. Jaysus the hours of wasted life in traffic alone heartbreak
@D: I have no problem putting up with traffic to have everything on my doorstep….pro’s and con’s to both but I’d take urban vs rural any day.
@J B: You can always stay out of it!….typical culchie up here working but wouldn’t have a good word to say about it or its people.
@J B: Good,pity you wouldn’t take the rest of them with you.typical culchie.
@D: I make it to the office in 20 minutes, can also work from home, lunchtime has a whole host of options if I fancied going out for it, the rhetoric of gridlock is in your head
@John Paul: your type are the worst thing about Dublin. West Brits with a chip on their shoulder.
@D: traffic doesn’t affect the woke dublin elites like myself who cycle to work it’s great
That’s most weeks in Leitrim but it’s news when it happens in Dublin.
@Tony: plus the west.
@brendan C5: The weather in Mayo is class.
Nothing a good carbon tax won’t fix, I’m sure.
Caller ” It’s a diiiiis..’grace Joe! They should do something about it.
Joe : “They?!?”
Caller “The government Joe!”
Why am I still living on this fkn island
@Le Merchelant: As someone who has worked mostly outside of Ireland for the past 15 years I ask myself the same EVERY SINGLE DAY – Why…….????
Got that right! Month of Mordor…. gloomy kip.
Been living under cloud in Dublin for last two weeks but we have a weekend break in Galway this weekend just as the sun moves to Dublin, it’s me, isn’t it, it’s me, I know it’s me.
Typical.
Kip will always be kip
High flying aircraft busy spreading chemicals blocking out the sun US government now banned this activity Chemtrails over whole country ..people need to know about this
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