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Brian Lawless / PA Wire
Brian Lawless / PA Wire / PA Wire
HUNDREDS OF FIANNA Fáil members have descended on the Citywest Hotel today for the party’s one-day conference.
You’re likely to spot a few familiar faces among the crowd, including a certain former taoiseach who is due to make an appearance, but one was attracting particular attention earlier today – the behemoth of Irish culture Richie Kavanagh.
The Aon Focal Eile star was seen meeting and greeting several delegates.
An unusual sight at a party ard fheis, but he explained he wasn’t just there to meet and greet.
“I’ve always been a big supporter of Fianna Fáil, and of Charles Haughey,” he told TheJournal.ie. ”There was great craic back in the day putting up posters.”
Kavanagh said he has been involved in the election campaign of Councillor Jennifer Murnane O’Connor, who is running in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency.
Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie
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The singer, who is now battling Parkinson’s disease but has vowed that it will not affect his performances, said the area “badly needs” a Fianna Fáil TD to take a seat in the general election.
We’ve been out canvassing with her. We even went up the side of Mount Leinster in a jeep. We’re going places no TD has ever gone before.
“There’s plenty of votes up on the top of Mount Leinster.”
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When they arrested him he was told he didn’t have to say anything but anything he did say would be given as evidence. He said “I’ve no focal at all”. I’ll get me coat
All I want to know is: how much will FF charge us for water. Under legislation passed Dec2014 the current rates end Dec2018. And per jan2019 we pay €3.70 per m3. With avg use at 45m3 per person per year that’s €166 p.p per year. And that is steep.
This comment section is full of trolls from all political parties. Sinn Fein decided a few years back to target all the online debate & comment sections and social media. The other parties realized this started to send trolls onto all online media outlets, but Sinn Fein have had a head start and seem to have it wrapped up.
A party living in the past. I’m sure Mehole must ave been cringing when that clown turned up – his attendence really says where FF are – Living in the Past.
Haughey was a bad one to be sure but he had a vision for Ireland and created the IFSC. The lot we have today are all about themselves and what they can get from us. I would love a visionary rather than this lot.
@Michael sands any party that gets in will have to bow to Merkel and the EU regardless if its FF FG SF LB GR etc. That’s how it is and how it will be as the end of the day we are a island that needs mainland Europe.
Tom that is a lie that the E.U. spreads to create fear to control, look at the U.K. now wanting to leave… http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100241300/whats-the-point-of-a-trade-mission-when-britain-cant-sign-a-trade-agreement/
China, Africa, Middle East, India, Russia, U.S. South America as they aren’t controlled by the E.U., It was Merkel who banned E.U. goods going to Russia thanks to Obama. Obama has more say over the E.U. than its own citizens?
The E.U. is riddled with ex Goldman Sachs employees, the E.U. looks now more like a branch of Goldman Sachs than anything else, the E.E.C. was a good idea but it has turned into a greedy nightmare where Merkel turned bank debt into tax payers debt. Does that not kill the E.U. spirit and what the E.E.C. was about?
There are many Islands outside the E.U. that do well for themselves, Ireland has changed itself to fit into what the Troika, Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin wants. We have not taken proper care of ourselves and did what was good for us because we have lost our sovereignty thanks mainly to the Euro. What is next will be a federation to create a political union as promised by Professor Sinn who is Merkel’s right hand man and you can see that for yourself with his interview. An united states of Europe with Berlin as its political capital… https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/320457-eu-currency-economy-crises/
A political union of the E.U. is the death of democracy…
Ah sure they’ll just get the taxpayers to foot the bill for their knees up, and get to tell themselves how great they are while they’re at it. Meanwhile people sleeping on the streets and cancelled operations for sick kids due to a lack of money are the norm now in so called modern Ireland.
Not at my expense, let them pay for there own drinks, why should they rely on welfare from Irish citizens for their get togethers, they still haven’t cleared the beer and whiskey bill in the dail, sure small cheese to them at thirty thousand Euro, hardly worth the fuss, is it. These parasites are a drain on the rest of us, but you think it’s perfectly fine for financial abuse of our hard earned cash to be spent on expensive wines for our ruling elite, do us a favour and send them a cheque on your behalf to clear the bill so that taxpayers money can be spent on housing children living in b and b’s and to help clear the backlog for children living with crippling illnesses.
Von. Mk76 tough on everyone but politicians, always on here bleating about spongers but remarkably quiet when it comes tackling political fraud and crime.
Yes, Richie will be their director of elections and as his first act, he will force FF to be honest with the public and so all FF TD’s will wear clown suits similar to his own.
At the last election Fine Gael mopped up Fine Fails voters, it won’t be the case this time. It’s really unknown what’s going to happen this time around. I really fear what voters will do. I won’t be voting for either. But who will I vote for????
A gathering of parasites, Mickey Martain,s speech ,would have gone down well at a mafia convention. Very forgetful about criminality and corruption in his own party,
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