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FORMER DUBLIN MEP Lynn Boylan and former Mayor of Derry Elisha McCallion are among seven Sinn Féin nominees for the upcoming Seanad elections.
They join sitting senators Paul Gavan, Máire Devine, Fintan Warfield and Niall Ó Donnghaile in seeking election to the upper house of the Oireachtas.
Mayo councillor Gerry Murray completes the Sinn Féin line-up.
Boylan served as a member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019, but lost her seat in last year’s election.
A staunch supporter of the families of victims of the Stardust disaster in recent times, she will run for the Seanad on the Agriculture Panel alongside Murray.
Gavan and Devine will run on the Labour Panel, Warfield on the Culture and Education Panel and Ó Donnghaile on the Administrative Panel.
McCallion, a former MP for Foyle, is running on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said: “Sinn Féin senators will help to advance the party’s agenda of giving workers and families a break, building homes, reducing and freezing rents, tackling the trolley crisis securing the state pension at 65 years of age and preparing for Irish unity.”
Tomorrow is the deadline for proposals of nomination to the vocational panels for the Seanad elections.
Polling for the vocational panels on the 60-seat Seanad closes on 30 March.
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Shiners buying into the gravy train ethos. Make room at the trough lads.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said: “Sinn Féin senators will help to advance the party’s agenda of giving workers and families a break, building homes, reducing and freezing rents, tackling the trolley crisis securing the state pension at 65 years of age and using all of this as grist to the mill of their reunification project.”
A special plea: as well as ‘giving workers and families a break’, could you ever give me one too. sick of this pseudo socialist drivel
@alan: If you earn less than 100 grand their tax policy will give you a break. If you earn over that, do you really need a break ahead of somebody on minimum wage?
@alan: What exactly is pseudo about it?
@The Risen: only single earner families over 100k . A two earner family earning 199999 will be better off as long as their both on 99999.50. Very well thought out that one. It won’t be long until the 100k becomes per family though as they will need money to find all the give aways. Nothing about the fact that a 100k person is already paying 40k a year. Those terrible super rich on 100k, how dare they work hard all their lives . They should have said enough is enough and turned down a few promotions and overtime. But I suppose the only good thing out of its is very rich families like the MacDonalds will be paying lots more.
@Shelly Levine: they dont reject free market politics. they just offer more money to heal its ills. all this will ever lead to is more and more compensatory expenditure as the damage will never slack off
@alan: Properly regulated and taxed capitalism funding socialist policies delivering world class services to citizens. Works fine in other European countries.
@Shelly Levine: sinn Fein are not socialist by any stretch of the imagination.
@The Risen: like where? Homelessness, health, housing are international problems. We aren’t unique. Germany has a massive problem with homelessness, as does Spain.
@Connoroconner: Reread my comment please….
@The Risen: Taxed capitalism. You have to be joking. If that is the future I am not looking forward to it. I woudln’t mind if SF dropped all this socialist pretense. at least it would be honest
@The Risen: if you think we don’t have a fair taxation system for individuals you’re deluded.
How are we going to solve this trolley crisis when doctors on over 100k won’t come to Ireland?
And no, the answer is not to tax corporates, even Sinn Fein want to keep the 12.5% rate. Once you take off your tinfoil hate you’ll see we have done considerably well from our clever corporate tax policies as a small country and it has been central to our economy.
@alan: I’m amused that she’s running on the agricultural panel. Will she look after farm workers? 40-hour week, paid holidays, training, minimum wage, safety statement, written contract, protective clothing, sick pay, pension etc? Pigs will fly, if you pardon the pun.
@alan: lynn also voted for water charges in the EU
@Patrick O Connell: We all know she didn’t Patrick. That spoof got laughed out of the conversation 5 mins after FGHQ put it out there…
@The Risen: hi Risen, I earn a little over €100k, having set up a business in 2004, which is now doing well and employing 18 people.
The thing is, things went a bit tits-up in 2011 and I had to remortgage the house to get some cash to keep the business afloat.
We kept the doors open for three or four years only because of the cash I kept pumping in, and now that we’re back in profit, Of course I have to pay the equivalent of 2 mortgages out of my after-tax earnings.
I’m not complaining, but I haven’t got an extravagant lifestyle or a lot of disposable income, and I’m kind of at loss as to why you think that I, or many other countless thousands of small businesses owners or risk-takers should be punished with punitive taxes? We already have some of the highest income tax rates in Europe.
@The Risen:
So first I pay tax at ~52%, and THEN I pay back the loan on the business.
So, if you turn that 52% into something mad like 70%, there’s nothing left in the pot. I might as well just sell up.
You can’t realistically expect to bleed businesses dry, even if it is a vote winner.
@The Risen: how can they fix the health service if they tax every doctor, specialist and consultants over to canada. 0
@James Brady: “So first I pay tax at ~52%”
No you don’t. That’s the marginal rate. People pay tax at the EFFECTIVE rate, which is lower. Get back to us when you’re ready to have an honest conversation
@The Risen: apologies, you are technically correct.
First, I pay tax at a marginal rate of ~52%
@James Brady: james , the poor risen account is just a little happy bunny , following his happy little party. It’s a little blip, dont be stressing about it..like SF get best results in the last 100 years, but ultimately not enough to lead, but let them have the little moment. It will blow over and the risen will disappear like scary mary and her disciples. Your better off just agreeing with them. Its easier, dont hurt the little brains they have but dealing with truth
@James Brady: Marginal is meaningless. Effective is what you actually contribute. Again, a bit of honesty please.
@alan: yea and there are fairies in Ireland
@The Risen: why you write so many
@The Risen: it is. It’s as meaningless as 1st preference votes.
@The Risen: a bit of honesty on your behalf when you are talking about the tax rate . You are quoting a party that 75% of the people did not vote in so I’ll ask you a question. Do you believe those taxes will be the only taxes this left wing party will bring in when the find out they won’t have enough to fill their supersized kitty of give aways?. Also I said earlier that a person on 100k pays 40k which is about right. Lastly.Me. Started work as a labor out at 16. Took 35 years of working very hard to get to where I am, no business owner but a hard worker. Can you tell me in all your wisdom why I should now be punished for that and a two earning family earning 80% more me are not. They should not be by the way. Hard work reaps reward and rightly so.
@The Risen: I wasn’t replying to your comment
@Connoroconner: unless you have 2 accounts, of course.
@Connoroconner: the risen is an organisation not an individual. But taxed capitalism..i cant believe that this defeatist attitude is part of their way of thinking. It puts them squarely in the ff fg camp.
@The Risen: the Boylan/OBroin household will be pulling in well over 100k.
@The Risen: ″Mr President, I just have said to the Tabling Committee that we want to put forward an oral amendment for paragraph 92 and the amendment is;
calls on the Member States to introduce, in accordance with World Health Organisation guidelines, a pricing policy by the application of a progressive charge that safeguards people’s right to access a minimum quantity of water for living and reduces waste.″
Lynn Boylan – Sept 2015
Try laughing that out of the conversation. You are telling porkies again.
Wow. A failed politician shop. SF want to send their failed politicians there, to the exact place they always slagged off as being a place for failed politicians. Love to see how their sheep reconcile this.
@Bernard Sweeney: hahah, exactly! But dont worry they will spin it somehow and the little sheep will believe them.
A tidy income for the O’Broin/ Boylan household.
@D: Blackrock College educated Little Lord Fontelroy would hardly need a raise in income
@D: I never knew they were partners wow
send the losers in there . same as everyone else
@ed w: SF wanted to abolish it. The public decided to keep it. Maybe it’s the public you should be giving out to.
SF is a growing party – do you want them to put forward Oige members?
@Peter McGlynn: no FG and Labour wanted to abolish Seanad
A former mayor of Derry? Being teed up for a job in our Seanad?
Wtf are they playing at?
@John Mulligan:
What are you blathering on about? Ian Marshall – a unionist farmer – was appointed by the government, with SF support, to the Seanad in 2018 and is widely accepted to have made a successful contribution to political life in this State.
There is a long tradition of appointing eminent northern politicians and non-politicians to the Seanad including John Robb, Seamus Mallon and Gordon Wilson. I’m sure Miss McCallion will add to this list in a positive way. It doesn’t matter whether these appointees are unionist or nationalist, they all represent a particular stand of Irish society and are welcome in our Seanad.
I don’t understand all this resentment against a different platform to deliver our Country as a leader in socio economics for the rest of tbe world to follow- why are Irish people quick to rubbish an alternative – the past hasn’t worked so time to move on – that’s the end game- park up and move forward
@Brian Purcell: the rest of the world follow Ireland? Give us a break? Very few countries in the world will want a party with their own private army in power. Usually when that happens it’s called a junta not a democracy.
@Brian Purcell: full employment, fastest growth in Europe, working quite well? Don’t through the baby out with the bath water. Of course loads to improve but the change lads have no plan.
Once on the gravy train ……..
This hoisting an elected candidate lark and bouncing them is embarrassing.
@Barry Teehan: I agree. Quite triumphalist. These people we elect are there to serve us but so many see it as a ticket to power and wealth. That’s what the hoisting lark by the supporters is all about… we made it into the inner cabal… let the good times roll…
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