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Tony Gregory for Ceann Comhairle, Mary Harney for Health and Brian Cowen for Tanaiste?
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“Congrats to Bertie with his unequivocal success. I always knew he would do it. I’m a prominent F.F member and i telling you now: Gregory will be Ceann Comhairle, Harney will keep health and Cowen will be Tanaiste! Also I’ll say this the worst thing now that could happen for us, F.F- would be for John Deasy to take over the F.G leadership, he’d be a much more formidable force to overcome!!!”
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More likely Michael Lowry for Ceann Comhairle, Mary Harney for Health and Brian Cowen for Tanaiste, Gregory’s vote will be needed
How about Jakie Healy Rae? Would be great.
Lowry will be CC. Harney back in Health and FF. Deal done with Rae, Gregory and McGrath. Flynn probably left out as her future in doubt. Still will need Greens I think, so Gormley, Ryan or Cuffe for Taniste as Sargent resigns over coalition deal.
Flynn’s future not in doubt, you guys really don’t know how FF works.
She will get loaned a lot of money or will sell one of her properties for an overinflated amount to a developer with FF connections. Thats providing she plays ball, she will as the alternative is bankruptcy and goodbye career.
If she plays it well then in 3 yrs she will get invited back into the party.
FF look after their own and she is FF through and through.
Re: Tony Gregory as CC, would it serve FF to turn Dublin Central into a 3-seater for the next election? Maybe it would, but I’m not so sure. Or would boundary changes make this point moot?
Re: Ceann Comhaile, wouldn’t it make more sense for FF to co-opt a Labour Party TD for the job, thus helping the numbers AND giving Labour in general and Pat Rabbitte in particular a kick in the pants?
Don’t mean this as a shot against Labour (my personal affiliation from long ago & far away) but just wondering if that be tactically and stratically appealing from Bertie’s perspective.
If it’s Lowry for CC, and the PD’s get a cabinet position with 2 TD’s why don’t Mc Grath and Gregory form a bloc and demand a ministry for their support, seems only fair.
Harney I believe was always going to be returned to Health in a FF led administration. And its possible that her and Grealish could return to the FF fold, so it would be a FF ministry.
An FF troll if ever there was one.
FF would laugh for 5 years and coast back into government if Deasy was leader of Fine Gael.
Deasy is a personality-free, surly, cynical, self-obsessed, political non-entity.
His sum total contribution to Irish politics are:
- putting down an ill-prepared motion of no confidence in Michael McDowell, who promptly wiped the floor with him
- a pointless vote against his party whip in the Dail
- a stupid personal protest against a hugely popular smoking ban
- a self-serving interview when he tried to undermine his own party in the months leading up to the General Election
The man would not get a seconder in a vote for FG leader.