‘Political Earthquake’ News at 12? March 20, 2024
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Reports the Taoiseach is holding a press conference at midday. Subject unknown. Political ‘earthquake’ promised below.
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Indo reporting now that he’s stepping down.
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Yeah he’s going!
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So Ireland will have the only cishet white male leader on these islands.
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Helen McEntee might disagree with you!
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cishet. I had to look it up.
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Ireland already has a female leader, a wee blonde woman from Tyrone!
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My prediction: Micheal Martin and Eamon Ryan have been teed up. Orderly transition. Leo remains as Taoiseach while FG elects a new leader, vote on Dail in a few weeks on that leader as Taoiseach, mini reshuffle to fill newly vacant minister in PER, FHERIS, Justice, or Enterprise, and then on to the next elections.
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RTE reporting he’s gone. Does this mean Coveney is Taoiseach?
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Don’t think so – they need a leadership election – he stays on as leader til a new one is elected
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Yeah. Would Coveney be the front runner then? I suppose a few others who would want a look in.
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Reckon the brother in RTE may have damaged Coveney
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Yep!
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[…] ‘Political Earthquake’ News at 12? […]
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So Coveney, Donohue, McEntee, Harris? One of those four presumably.
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There’s another isn’t there but yeah, that’s the line up pretty much. Would anyone of them work for FG
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Can’t imagine McEntee getting it with her record (or lack of) in Justice – the smart money may well be on Harris, if Donohue continues to concentrate on the Eurogroup.
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Btw don’t the phalanx behind him look like they’ve just had plates of lemons to eat? Not a happy crew!
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Oh my mistake. I thought it a resignation statement but actually it’s his/FGs party political broadcast.
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100%
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Humphreys looks distraught. Coveney a bit more stoic.
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Thought coveney was even smiling a little! Did you understand whether he was contesting tte next election?
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Definitely didn’t make that clear.
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I thoughtI heard Heather Humphreys mentioned.
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Quite the selective interpretation of his time in charge in this speech. I didn’t realise the cost-of-living crisis had been solved!
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Wow yeah. Very very selective.
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When RTÉ Radio 1 went back to its delayed music programme, the first song they played was this:
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I look forward to reading his boring articles in the Irish Times.
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🙂 even paschals reviews are better!
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Step forward, EU Commissioner Varadkar?
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Just reading the Guardianwhich suggest la those jobs already allocated – but who knows. Maybe they’d give an old pal a hand
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A bit of a step down for a former premier perhaps?
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Not always.
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As to succession.. Heather Humphreys as the first female Taoiseach? Harris I don’t think is popular. Coveney has been damaged by a few things. I’d guess Paschal Donohoe or Heather Humphreys
Also , is this an opportunity for FF to jettison Martin?
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There is a question. Humphrey’s, yeah that might work
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There seems to be a rural/ urban divide which is something Humphreys may cross, Donohue might too. Harris would be more of the same. A total outsider Jennifer Carroll MacNeill could be a possibility.
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Interesting suggestion – a Presbyterian, whose father apparently is an Orange Order member, so an added bonus of unionist outreach?
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Yeah that would be funny… A Catholic First Minister in The North and A Protestant Taoiseach here!
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What’s the real reason?
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Losing.
He oversaw the highest ever defeat of a referendum in Ireland and his parliamentary party had been announcing decisions not to run at a remarkable rate.
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Still waiting on the earthquake …🤷♂️
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It’s been very strange timing. Varadkar says his reasons “are both personal and political”. Hmmm … I wonder did he do something inappropriate or unorthodox that has yet to be exposed?
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He’s a gay man. You can be sure the far right and their hangers on will be putting out stories online.
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Most likely lots of lies.
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True enough but the substance of my point is that there may be another unknown reason that this clever and ambitious politician resigned in such an unexpected way.
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Really frustratingly I had an open day to run that started just as he arrived at the plinth. And no one to gossip about it with over here.
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Course not. It’s not as if Daniel Farke announced he was stepping down.
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Bielsa going was actually an earthquake here: even non-football people were chatting about it.
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I’ll say one thing for him unlike his recent fellow Tory PMs here in the UK, he left before he was pushed – or at least before the push was public.
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Hahahah brilliant
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There’s something fascinatingly elusive about Varadkar as a politician. In a lot of ways a really unlikely person to rise to the top of Irish politics (and I don’t mean because of his ethnicity or sexuality). By his own admission socially awkward, and not one of the lads by any stretch. He’s clever, obviously, but also sometimes completely unaware of how he sounds to those with fewer advantages than himself. With someone like Micheal Martin or Paschal, you can see they are political animals through and through and it’s really easy to find figures from the Irish political past that they resemble – Conor McCabe said to me once that Paschal was FG’s Bertie, and that made immediate sense. But Leo? I can’t think of a precedent really: perhaps Garret a bit in the wonkiness, but Garret was a complete insider, which Leo isn’t.
Much to ponder.
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The cleverness got him into the cabinet, and the party rules got him into the leadeship. He wasn’t the choice of the members.
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True. I wonder if Harris is the choice of memebers?
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