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Where in the World is the Minister?
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I missed this last week; (hat-tip Dec)
In case you were thinking of taking a weekend break over the long weekend you may want to consider avoiding the following destinations
* Taoiseach Bertie Ahern: Washington
* Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern: Washington
* Tánaiste and Minister for Justice Michael McDowell: Savannah
* Minister for Agriculture Mary Coughlan: New York
* Minister for Finance Brian Cowen: Chicago
* Minister for Transport Martin Cullen: San Francisco
* Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey: Dallas and Houston
* Minster for Education Mary Hanafin: Boston
* Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív: Phoenix
* Minister or State Patthe Cope Gallagher: Atlanta and Philadelphia
* Minister for the Environment Dick Roche: Toronto,
* Minister for Arts Sport and Tourism John O’Donoghue: London
* Minister for Health Mary Harney: Norway, Sweden and Denmark
* Minister for Social and Family Affairs Seamus Brennan: Italy and the Holy See
* Government Chief Whip Tom Kitt: Warsaw
* Minister of State Brendan Smith Manchester
* Minister of State Seán Power: Birmingham
* Minister of State Conor Lenihan: Edinburgh
* Minister of State Mary Wallace: Vienna
* Minister of State Brian Lenihan Paris
* Minister of State Noel Ahern: Bucharest
* Minister of State Seán Haughey: Moscow
* Minister of State John Browne: Hong Kong, Shenyang, Shanghai and Beijing
* Minister of State Tim O’Malley: Tokyo and Osaka
* Minister of State Frank Fahey: India
* Ministers of State Michael Ahern: Kuala Lumpur and Singapore
* Ministers of State Batt O’Keeffe: Vietnam
* Ministers of State Tom Parlon: South Africa
* Attorney General Rory Brady: Buenos Aires
Oh great so if we have a major crisis in Ireland. Who becomes Taoiseach. Enda oh wait he is in NYC is he not?
Tim O’Malley must have pissed someone off! I notice no one is going to Australia - normally the most wanted destination after Washington & NY.
Well the good news (again from Dec) is both willy o Dea and Micheal Martin are still here. excellent.
I think (fortunately) that Micheál Martin has rank. God help us if Willie was left in charge. At least with Martin we know that there won’t be any decisions taken on anything (although 120 consultants reports may be commissioned, if his record in Health is anything to go by).
Are they not all in the FF tent at Cheltenham?!?
Martin may have been a minister for longer but Willie has the army. 120 elite rangers would beat 120 PWC management consultants any day. Willie for dictator!
Hey, I want to see O’Dea in charge. It’s been along time since we had a leader who knew how to handle a revolver…
(I completely forgot to post this here myself, I had meant to, duh, anyway made it in the end :-))