Looking back at the winners and losers of a term that was full of departures, arrivals, celebrations, apologies and the usual catfights
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald wins the Pot Calling Kettle Black award for accusing Simon Harris of playing to the gallery. Photograph: Damien Storan/PA WireIt was an uneventful first half. Just the resignation of a taoiseach, the coronation of a new one, a couple of elections, some opinion poll shocks and obsessive speculation about an impending general election to keep us going.
Seán referred to them as “Putin’s puppets” and Paul Murphy, Richard Boyd-Barrett and Bríd Smith lost it. The Ringer abandoned his bell and suspended the House.Former minister of State and TD for Longford-Westmeath Kevin “Boxer” Moran made a triumphant return to local politics and Westmeath County Council in the local elections, topping the poll with one of the biggest votes in the country.
“The world stands by while 15,000 children are being slaughtered. It’s unbelievable, the genocide that’s happening – and they say it’s a mistake!” He said he suggested to the Taoiseach to consider giving one of them to his fellow Mayo man, Alan Dillon. Which was big of him. Former Mayo footballer Dillon is well able to look after himself.looked to be on shaky ground at the start of the year as Opposition politicians focused on the aftermath of the November riots in Dublin and her repeated assurances that crime was not an issue in the capital, despite alarming evidence to the contrary.
“That is an assumption that I don’t accept. I was delighted to see the portal located off the main street of our capital city. I feel that the very small number of people who have been involved in inappropriate behaviour have let us all down.” He should be used to it. The Senator from Donegal rarely gets any attention in the Seanad either, but that’s because he never says very much.Not Simon Harris, because he’s winning everything. Thirty-seven and Taoiseach. Thirty-eight in October. A birthday election would be nice.of Commerce as his deputy leader and Minister for Finance and who continues to perform well in the leadership popularity roles.Senator Michael McDowell: Winner of the Political Season.
Bakhurst, by the way, can never escape the RTÉ payments scandal. Recently, at a Lyric FM evening in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, MC Marty Whelan told the audience that the DG was in the house.
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