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THIS AFTERNOON, Micheál Martin will become the next Taoiseach of Ireland.
The Fianna Fáil leader has been Tánaiste since December 2022 and previously to that, he served as Taoiseach for two years.
A new Cabinet will also be formed today, with speculation rife about who might be getting moved up the political ladder.
It will be a busy day in Leinster House, but The Journal will be bringing you all the latest as it happens throughout the day.
The day will officially kick off at 11am in Leinster House, with the business of the day the first thing on the agenda.
Expect some fireworks from the get-go, with members of the Opposition due to raise serious concerns about some members of the Regional Independent group getting Oppositing speaking time, despite them being in the room for government formation talks.
Sinn Féin will nominate Mary Lou McDonald, but she won’t have the numbers.
Fianna Fáil will nominate Martin as the next Taoiseach, and TDs will then cast their vote on whether or not they want to see him become Taoiseach.
Fianna Fáil won the most seats in the Dáil following the general election, winning 48 seats while Sinn Féin – the main opposition party in the last Dáil – won 39.
Fine Gael was third with 38 seats, so with the addition of support from the Independents, Martin will have a majority in the House to get him over the line and into the top job.
After the Dáil voting process is complete, probably around 1.30pm, Martin will make his way to Áras an Uachtaráin where he will be formally appointed Taoiseach by President Micheal D. Higgins.
After this, Martin will then return to Government Buildings, and begin summoning his new Cabinet members to his office to tell them what ministry they will be getting.
The Dáil begins again at 5.30pm, where it is expected that the new Cabinet members will be voted for and approved by the Dáil. A debate on their appointment will follow.
The new ministers will then travel to the State Reception Room in Áras an Uachtaráin where the president will then present each minister with their Seal of Office.
The incoming Tánaiste is expected to take on a beefed-up foreign affairs brief, with a focus on trade and diplomatic relations as the political world faces a difficult few years.
Fianna Fáil are minded to hold on to the Housing department brief, with speculation that Darragh O’Brien will stay on as minister.
Education Minister Norma Foley is also tipped to stay at the Cabinet table, though there is uncertainty as to whether she will stay in her current position with talk that she could be the new Social Protection and Rural Affairs Minister or possibly take on the Higher Education brief.
Names in the mix and being talked about for promotion are Fianna Fáil’s James Browne, Mary Butler, James Lawless, Niall Collins and Dara Calleary and Thomas Byrne, with some mentioning Catherine Ardagh as a possible newcomer. In terms of Fine Gael options, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Martin Heydon, Hildegarde Naughton and Alan Dillon are also being mentioned.
One ministry that is under the spotlight is Agriculture, with some within both parties stating that Heydon might be elevated to the role, however, some state the moving of Fianna Fáil’s Charlie McConalogue would be deemed unfair.
It is believed that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will exchange a number of Cabinet departments, such as the Justice brief and possibly the Health portfolio.
Dublin Bay South TD Jim O’Callaghan has been mentioned as a possible Justice Minister, but there are mixed views around Leinster House as to whether he could get the nod as the next Attorney General. Most are saying that it would be an unusual move by the party leader, but it would result in the party having another Cabinet position.
The current Justice Minister, Fine Gael’s Helen McEntee, is speculated to be the next Enterprise Minister, though there’s some mutterings she might move to Education.
Meanwhile, Carroll MacNeill is being tipped for Health, although some within her party state that it is not a portfolio she would be pushing for.
As reported by The Journal previously, the current Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will be split, with Integration set to move to the Department of Justice.
During the government formation talks, there were split views among the negotiating teams on whether to put the energy brief into Department of Enterprise, but it’s believed it might not be tacked on now.
Disability and Children will form one department, but it remains to be seen who what party might take on the department, which will cover an area which was one of the central debates in the general election.
In terms of the Department of Finance, it is expected that Paschal Donohoe will take back his old job, with Fianna Fáil’s Jack Chambers heading up the beefed up Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery.
A separate Department of infrastructure, which Simon Harris wanted to establish, is not on the cards.
Donohoe and Chambers’ roles are expected to rotate alongside the Taoiseach rotation, with the draft programme for government stating that Micheál Martin will leave the Taoiseach’s job on 16 November 2027.
You can keep up with all the latest as it happens by following our liveblog throughout the day.
To be honest it beats the alternative – having fake brands which really take you out of the film. Nothing worse than a movie character cracking open a can just labelled “beer”
Ya, the movie world is filled with mind reading barmen aswell. I’d love to be able to walk into a bar and order a “Beer” and get what I want every time!
Go to some restaurants in Italy and that’s what happens. A two page list of wine with two beers at the bottom called small and large.
The product placements in Wayne’s World were satirical and totally over the top for the sake of comedy, this example doesn’t really fit in with the rest!
If this article is giving you a headache, Rob Hunt, you should take two Nuprin.
Ah, Nuprin. Little. Yellow. Different.
Or you could try JIMPRIN, a generic version that may be even better!
JIMPRIN! Almost made in Ireland!!
James Bond Skyfall with Heinekin and the Sony laptops.
I think the icing on the skyfall sell out cake was…
M:What was that?
Moneypenny: Volkswagen beetles I believe ma’m
I thought for a second she was going to add ‘what I can’t believe is they start from only €16K’
In fairness Bond has a noble heritage of schlepping. In Goldfinger You could have a drinking game out of the amount of times Sean Connery during his golf march wit Aurich Goldfinger says the word Slazenger.
I Lol’d at that
I hate product placement just about as much as I love a nice ice filled glass of Bulmers on a sunny day…
The movie producers and companies are out to make money, yet I think this speaks more to human beings and their desire to want something that they see in a movie, regardless of how useless that thing may be.
Have you seen the Product Placement in Fair City :) woaaaaa
Too true they’re shameless!
Some other company were offered the placement in ‘Castaway’, wouldn’t take it because they thought the plane crash would be bad for business.
The guy who filmed castaway was a former marine who served his time in Vietnam with the CEO of FEDEX.
At the time the board did not want the company to go ahead and feature in the movie but the CEO managed to push it through, , From memory it is the only actual airline ever to have a plane crash.
There’s a fascinating development in product placement. A company called Morris’s have developed technology which allows post production placement.
Essentially this means that anything which as ever been filmed wether yesterday or 50 years ago, can have products placed in it.
They have a showreel which includes a Kellogg’s cereal on the breakfast table of a Cosby show episode which predates the product by about five years.
http://www.mirriad.com/tag/digital-product-placement/
This means placement can be sold in different territories for different products.
There was a recent episode of how I met your mother which featured one of the characters carrying a shopping bag. The space on the bag was sold multiple times (down to zip code level) by individual broadcasters & where it wasn’t sold. It was blank with no disruption to the scene.
The Truman show. A very very very large product ad
What a moany article.
Are you seriously suggesting there should be no name brand products in films? Yeah, that’ll make it more natural.
There was nothing unnatural about any of these products. Imagine, a named car in a film about… Cars?!
Sharon’s stones ” Toothless Grin” in basic instinct
Remember a blatant one for Nike, in Heath Ledger’s ‘A Knights Tale’. Crap film anyway but that plug was shameless.
Nike not capitalizing… While they did only release 1500 (not 1000 fact check anyone?) pairs they also sold them in a bidding process for $3,500-10,000 a piece.
That’s a BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough pictured, not the Z3 from Goldeneye.
I am sick to death of the Apple’s product placement. iphone & MACs everywhere. And if the ‘baddie’ in the tv seriesbor movie takes out his phone, it looks like a blackberry.
The most blatant were Cheerios back in the late 70s, the cereal boxes were framed and lit better than the actors
I’m surprised the movie jack and jill with Adam Sandler was left out of this list…. Worst product placements I’ve ever seen. The ones above aren’t too bad… The whole movie was based on trying to get a Dunkin Donuts commercial made.
Because the film was so bad that no one saw it and the placements.
I’m glad no one has seen it. Horrible money grabbing piece of crap.
The picture of Bond was in Azerbaijan in The World is not Enough standing next to the BMW z8 the z3 roadster was in Goldeneye :)
Don’t forget Mac & Me, an entire movie made to promote MacDonalds
don’t get this article?? product placement is all the rage these days to even in lot of tv shows as well, and animated programmes like southpark
Mission impossible in Dubai. BMWs new 1 and 3 series and X5 used alot! Also in up in the air, American Airlines an Hilton are heavily used and advertised but I heard this was for the free use of the hotels and planes
Surely men in black for ray ban has to be there.
The movie Mac & Me should definitely be on that list. It’s an ET rip-off where the alien character spends his time consuming MacDonalds, Skittles and Coca Cola. It even has a 5 minute dance scene in MacDonalds in which Ronald MacDonald joins in on the fun.
Don’t. Forget the subtle method of thejournal.ie to include newstories which are actually adverts…. how dare they provide a free service and try to recoup costs through advertising … don’t forget talkshows like opera and the late late show. I’m also lead to believe that the rte news is sponsored by the sitting government. :)
They’ve nothing on Microsoft, I mean Hawaii, Five O though.
The Miller truck I bad boy’s 2 was so bad just a long dramatic sweeping camera shot of the Miller truck pass in slow motion
In the movie Anger Management, a movie set in NYC that was released shortly after 9/11, you can see several ads for U.S army recruitment.
What about Heineken in skyfall?
Product Placement has been around for years and always will be.
Watched ‘In The Heat Of The Night’ last night and Coca Cola featured prominently, didn’t ruin my enjoyment of the film though and the funding helps get the films made.
Smoking though does bother me, shameless placement in scenes you don’t see anymore, such as people smoking in offices and bars etc and really should be stamped out.
It is easy enough to get any product placement for the goodies in white hats…….try getting some for the the guys in the black hats, sadly the baddies are not really what the advertisers seem to want .
Oh dingleberrycity.com would never bother with product placement.
Transformers, General Motors, Xbox, Nokia, EBay, Burger King amongst others, and numerous references to Michael Bays other films….
Burger King in first Iron Man
The BMW z3 wasn’t in Goldeneye, it was in The World is Not Enough :)
What about Paddy Whiskey in On TheWaterfront?
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