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No election for Scully as FG stick to two candidate campaign
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Fine Gael have finally decided on how many candidates they will be running in Limerick East, and it has left one hopeful disappointed, and considering giving up politics altogether.
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has recommended that only two candidates run for the party in the upcoming election, thus meaning that Scully will not be running.
“I believe this is a mistake and one that may well cost Fine Gael not just a second seat in Limerick, but quite possibly the election.” said the former mayor.
“I had hoped to be given the opportunity to represent the people of my native city in Dail Eireann. I wanted to speak for their interests. I wanted to work in government to improve the Accident and Emergency services in our hospitals, to tackle drug addiction and the crime it breeds, to provide affordable childcare, to ensure our older citizens are treated with dignity and respect, to fight to get Limerick a fairer share of the National Development billions and to extend the city boundary and restore Limerick to its rightful place as the 3rd city in the state.”
It has now left councillor Scully contemplating his political future.
“I have dedicated myself fulltime to politics for the last three years in the hope and expectation of being given the opportunity to run for the Dail. I have put my life on hold since June of last year waiting for Fine Gael Headquarters to make up their mind. It is time for me to resume my life. With two young children at home, I can no longer remain a fulltime politician at local level. I intend to continue to serve the people of Ward 3 to the best of my ability, but I must also serve the needs of my family. In other words, I’m now looking for a job. I wish the two selected candidates, Michael Noonan TD and Cllr Kieran O’Donnell the very best of luck””
Shame on you Enda Kenny. Scully would have been an asset to the Fine Gael ticket. Enda Kenny has given up the chance to put some charisma, new ideas and an intellectual, articulate speaker forward for his party. Who do we have now - Noonan who is past his sell by date!!
This has less to do with Enda Kenny and more to do with Noonan putting the screw on Kenny to keep a rival down. There is one safe Fine Gael seat in Limerick and Noonan wants to make sure that it is always going to be his until he is carried out of the Dail so he picks no hoper running mates. Scully has too high a profile and has Noonan looking over his shoulder.
We need young candidates like Scully if Fine Gael is to have any future. Fine Gael should be after Power’s seat instead of protecting Noonan’s. O’Donnell hasn’t the support base outside of leafy Castletroy to come close to taking a seat when the election is across the city as a whole. I hope Scully sticks it out and runs again. When Richard Bruton replaces Kenny as leader after the election he will not allow himself to be bullied by Noonan.
Shame on you Kenny. Shame on you Noonan. Your day will come Scully
Ah yes, Scully, the man who presided over the sale of the People’s Park. Does Enda know more than we do?
Scully was not in fact Mayor when the deal for the 150 sq yards (that would be 10 yards by 15) of the People Park was sold for 1.5 Million which was used for parks across the city. Something the city gets very little money for in large part due the boundary. Plenty of people use the parks who are not in the city area. And it was a decision that was not taken by the councillors as far as I’m aware but instead by the city manager. The big parcel of land that the apartments adjacent to the People’s Park was built on was owned by the OPW - Tom Parlon of the PDs department a colleague of junior minster Tim-Tom O’Malley who was strangely silent until the construction was almost complete. Odd that!
Thanks for that Dan. My misunderstanding was actually caused by Scully himself by something he said to me which led to me beleiving he had some sort of oversight of the thing. I’m stunned that the people of Limerick allowed this development to happen (and I’m as guilty as the rest). Can you imagine what would happen if someone built apartments in Stephen’s Green in Dublin? Whatever about the responsibility we have as individuals surely we would have the right to expect that our public representatives would actually at least make a fuss when something like that happens?
It seems that the bandwagon on this may be rolling in last week’s Post: “Referring to the controversial development in the People’s Park two years ago, the Minister (Tim O’Malley) said that the people of Limerick felt intense annoyance at what they perceive to be public assets being surrendered or sold to private developers.”
I don’t accept the financial argument. The thing should have been killed before the first spade was stuck in the ground.
Also as far as I can see the Corporation’s Parks department seems to have a hatred of trees. All of the mature trees in Shelbourne Park were cut down a couple of years ago which turned it into a horrible place. There was a story in the print edition of the Post which I can’t find online, about the corporation cutting down trees in the Kennedy Park area becuase they couldn’t find a tree surgeon to prune them. But that’s all right - they’ll plant more. We’ll just have to wait 30 years for them to grow.
and see http://www2.limerickpost.ie/fullnews.elive?id=84&category=news and http://www2.limerickpost.ie/fullnews.elive?id=103&category=news for more on the efforts of the Parks Department.