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FF Councillor calls for Willie O’Dea to be sacked
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Limerick Blogger brings us the background to a minor skirmish in Fianna Fáil in Limerick.
The whole thing kicked off this week when Limerick County Councillor, Noreen Ryan, wrote to the Taoiseach Brian Cowan calling for him to sack Minister for Defence, Willie O’Dea.
The call comes after it emerged this week after it emerged that the Defence Minister, during his tennure as Junior Minister for Justice, facilitated representations on behalf of 29 prisoners, including a murder suspect and a number of drug dealers. In all, O’Dea was reported to have made representations on behalf of 29 prisoners. He himself says he was simply relaying requests from the families of the prisoners.
Willie O’Dea says that Cllr Ryan has not been a very busy councillor (’inactivity’ is quoted in story) and the whole thing is a smokescreen.
Stay tuned to Limerick Blogger for more skirmishes between now and next June regarding the fight (handbags, tiaras and high heels) for council seats in the local election.
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Is everyone missing the context that the FF local selection interviews were talking place in Limerick over the last week or so? It was in the Limerick Leader with suitable expressions of disinterest in the process from local FF heavy hitters (in their own minds at least) such as Eddie (I could still get into the Dail) Wade and Jack (only a council seat makes me feel complete) Bourke. I think Wade said something closely along the lines of they can shove their interview up their prostate.
I suspect that Noreen had her interview and picked up the vibe that she is not likely to be selected. I particular think her GE performance where she got barely 200 more votes than in the locals and she canvassed wearing sunglasses (was it the British Army that did the ad about the importance of making eye contact? Perhaps that is why she didn’t see it). And bright young lad Brian Stokes (who works with/for Peter Power) is bucking to get on the ticket in Castleconnell. FF aren’t going to hold their seats by nominating imperious lads and ladies who lunch.
Still it is also better for her to leave the party in a huff because she was standing up for the ‘local people’, run as an independent and if elected to return to the fold triumphant. With the FF logo more toxic than my face on a poster it could be the only winning strategy for her and many others.
No one ever said FFers were thick when it came to looking after themselves, it’s only when it comes to looking out for the rest of us that the brain fails to engage.
I just missed Willie on the door! He is doing the rounds here tonight. Sadly I had popped out to Foster some cold ones and saw a crowd outside the new neighbour’s house, literally missed him having him at the doorstep by ten minutes. I wonder if anyone will ask him about Noreen.
She has compared Willie to Hitler!
http://www.limerickblogger.ie/blog/2008/12/odea-compared-to-hitler-as-ff-row-rages-on
Has no one told her about Godwin’s Law?