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Brendan Carr pictured at A Siptu protest against Greyhound Recycling in 2014 Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland

'Dublin without her people is nothing to me': Dublin's new Lord Mayor enters office quoting Connolly

Brendan Carr also thanked his mother and father.

DUBLIN’S NEW LORD Mayor has started his term in office by thanking his mother.

Elected by his fellow councillors at a meeting of Dublin City Council this evening, Brendan Carr said:

“She was the one person who taught me that I could never be content as long as others less fortunate than myself needed help,” he said.

I just hope Mam that I served you proud.

Carr also thanked his father, who also once ran for election as a councillor for the Labour party. 

He will now serve in the position for the next year, taking over from Sinn Féin’s Críona Ní Dhálaigh and independent Deputy Lord Mayor Cieran Perry who served throughout much of the 1916 Rising centenary celebrations.

Thanking the former mayor, Carr said:

Both ensured that the progressive ideals of those who led the Rising were to the fore in commemorative events that focused on community involvement.

In his address, Carr said that introducing a living wage in the city would be something he would aim to advocate for during his time in the position, saying that it was something he would aim to make businesses make clear they were abiding by.

He concluded his maiden speech by saying he would work to make Dublin “one of the best places in the world to live and work” and paraphrased James Connolly, saying:

Dublin without her people is nothing to me.

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    Mar 30th 2021, 6:24 AM

    No smoke without fire. An eradication of morale would fit with the recent reports on banning its members from partaking in a dance that every other emergency and voluntary rescue service in the country took part in. Publicising the organisation for all the wrong reasons. I don’t think I’d have much confidence in the management.

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    Mar 30th 2021, 6:17 AM

    “The official ‘Great Place to Work’ survey, commissioned by the Irish Coast Guard…”

    One would have to wonder if there are any connections between management and the company behind their own survey.

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    Mar 30th 2021, 6:56 AM

    @David Corrigan: wow that’s a fairly baseless accusation, one would have to wonder if there’s any connections between yourself and the unofficial survey that has no accountability or transparency (see I can do it too)

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    Mar 30th 2021, 7:02 AM

    @Anto Curran: Their own commissioned survey paints them in good light while the “unofficial” survey says that things are not so good within camp. Couple this to the fact that there is plenty of evidence of underhanded behaviour in this country means that there will always be suspicions around internally driven surveys.
    It’s not that hard to understand Anto is it?

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    Mar 30th 2021, 7:21 AM

    @David Corrigan: those ‘Great places to work’ are a joke. A company I worked for won it once. They had more staff out on mental health issues due to senior directors and bully boy tactics.

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    Mar 30th 2021, 7:34 AM

    @Madra: Stone cold. There are a lot of people in this country who refuse to believe that kind of thing. It just couldn’t be true they say!!!

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    Mar 30th 2021, 10:41 AM

    @David Corrigan: An unofficial survey might easily have a bias, being started by and forwarded to people with a grudge already.

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    Mar 30th 2021, 12:48 PM

    @Madra: but it’s a great place to shop??

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    Mar 30th 2021, 8:30 AM

    Why use a picture of RNLI boat and crew? Very different organisations.

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    Mar 30th 2021, 6:40 AM

    How many people actually use or know about the Coast Guard. Very few I’d imagine they do a great job when needed.

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    Mar 30th 2021, 7:15 AM

    @Mick McGuinness: tbh here, everybody knows how good a job the coast guard and their volunteers do and luckily not many need to use their services

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    Mar 30th 2021, 10:21 AM

    Just as an aside, any sign of the official report on R116 crash in March 2017 (that would be fully 4 years ago) ever being published?? Not aware of any equivalent accident where within a couple of days they had the wreckage + a rough idea of what had happened, yet four years on people still waiting for the official accident report.

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    Mar 30th 2021, 10:17 AM

    Ask the right question, get the right answer?

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