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DAVIS NORRIS has confirmed that he received a disability pension for almost 16 years – explaining that the allowance, paid by Trinity College, was in respect of a Hepatitis diagnosis the Senator was given while abroad.
Launching his campaign officially this morning, Norris addressed reports carried in this morning’s Irish Independent, when it was reported that he had received an allowance from Trinity – while a full-time member of the Seanad.
Norris told reporters he had contracted the illness in 1994 while travelling in central Europe, as a result of ingesting unsafe drinking water.
He was unable to return to his academic duties as a result, and had been advised by Trinity College – where he was still on the payroll, though he had been in the Seanad for five years before that – to apply for “permanent disability”.
He was therefore replaced by another member of staff and had been put on a disability pension by the college. Norris stressed that he had not claimed a state allowance for his condition, which he described as “non-A, non-B, non-C”.
Norris also read a prepared statement on his outstanding letters seeking clemency for his former partner Ezra Nawi, explaining Israeli legal advice which said that the Israeli courts would have to approve the publication of the letters before they could be released.
He said that the letters which had already been released had been done on the basis of qualified privilege, but that this qualified privilege would be lost on a worldwide basis if other letters were released.
Norris also said that in the modern era, the letters could easily circulate around the world, which could cause anguish for Nawi and his victim.
The Senator also named the parties who had offered him legal advice in that regard, in both Ireland and Israel. In Ireland, he had been advised by Michael O’Higgins SC; in Israel, he had been advised by a firm based in Haifa. Norris refused to state, however, when their advice had been sought.
In earlier remarks, Norris has described Ireland as an “empty shell, like the unfinished Anglo headquarters a mile or so from here”.
“The Ireland of the bright baubles has sadly passed away,” he said, adding that the forthcoming election was “a referendum as much as an election, a chance for the people of this wonderful country to change.
“No independent candidate has ever won a Presidential election. A vote for me is a vote to change Ireland for the better,” he said.
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That headline hurts my head
@MRhino82: pretty sad alright. Time for AI me thinks
@MRhino82: it’s ASUFUTIMAEHAEHFUTBW.
Anyone that thinks this man is running American, I have some magic beens to sell you.
Blinken was sent to Beijing in order to try and halt the slide in relations between the two countries . To the amazement of me and many others he appeared to pull it off . Then his boss President Biden completely wrecks everything 48 hours later . The question is did Biden do this because he isn’t Compus Mentis or was it deliberate , and part of the power struggle between different Neoliberal factions in Washington ?
@Des Hanrahan: Biden has done something similar to this before (although I can’t remember the specifics – it might have been Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia – I can’t remember now) shortly after Blinken met with a foreign government. That time it appeared to be a co-ordinated and deliberate strategy. This time I don’t know. It could be a repeat of the previous strategy, or it could be a random or solo run by Biden without consultation with Blinkin or his administration. We don’t know.
Tip to author sent. Proof read. Twice.
If Biden meets Xi, it is pretty certain they won’t have a joint press conference afterwards.
Biden is too slow witted for that!
Agent Biden is great.
Biden and Pelosi seem determined to undo any good relations between China and US. Inept in the extreme as they know as well as anybody else that relations have to be maintained for both countries sakes
@alan: soooooo your plan is to let China take full control of the south China seas at the expense of the other 7 nations and ignore an agreement with Taiwan. China is only a few steps behind Russia. Maybe if China wasn’t threatening anyone, then the US would not have to stand up to the bully..
@Paul Furey: what possible benefits do bidens and Pelosi’s actions and statements have? Don’t they seem at odds with blinken’s trip
@Paul Furey: I really admire the way you are challenging yourself and are willing to see more than just your own spoon fed perspective. Well done Paul, you will become a better, more rounded person.
surely sleepy cannot beat the Don again, tragic figure Biden is.
Great that Hunter Biden’s Laptop scandal is now all delt with.. No federal charge for unlawfully owning an unlicensed firearm and no mention of the 5 million paud to Joe & Hunter from Ukraine ‘business interests’
afp.. commande in chief.. afp.. this man gettin free pass jaysus..
I see the lying treacherous sex fiend orange things lackeys are out in force trying to dish president Joe at any opportunity. Sados
Xi learning he’s not the 500 pound gorilla in the room.
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