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MEP SEAN KELLY and Senator Deirdre Clune have been selected by Fine Gael as their Ireland South candidates in the European elections.
They were the only two candidates to submit their names to run in the constituency.
Kelly, proposed as a candidate by Minister for Finance Michael Noonan, was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 and currently holds a seat in this constituency.
He recently waded into the neknomination debate, calling for legislation at European Union level to control content on social media.
Clune is currently the party’s Seanad spokesperson on Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation.
She was proposed for the position by Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney, who called her ‘very smart, honest & committed to public life’.
The selection convention was held this afternoon in Clonmel.
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Clune – another dynasty candidate like Coveney. Clune lost her Dail seat in FG General Election landslide. What does that say about her chances. Another closed shop operation!
The gravy trains rolls on for the chosen few.
GRAVY train! A complete insult to a woman devoted to coffee, tea and cake mornings. Caffeine and sugar train maybe
“The gravy trains rolls on for the chosen few.”
The chosen few who put themselves before the electorate it should be noted. There’s nothing stopping you or any of the crowd on here from running against them.
Yes there is. We don’t have the millions needed for the über campaign..for the p.a. and spin doctors
@ Leslie: Marian Harkin, Kathy Sinnott and Dana all got elected to the European Parliament without parties behind them.
@Ryan They all had huge money behind them from vested interest groups. Dana is a multi-millionaire in her own right anyway.
Ryan
Don’t bother with anything sensible on here. Hurlers on the ditch best describes most who manage to find the negative in absolutely everything.
Most of the whingers won’t stand for election because they wouldn’t get enough votes to get their deposit back.
Truth is the electorate want people who offer solutions not negative defeatism. Thankfully Ireland has plenty of the former.
So much negativity about the govt!! I’d like to see people offer real solutions to our problems rather than just diss anyone who runs for office.
Truth is the electorate want people who offer solutions not negative defeatism. Thankfully Ireland has plenty of the former.”
- sure they have – they solve the problems of the Rich – which is what they are paid to do , and tax the Plebs big time to pay for this ” socialism for the Rich ”
And don’t say I have no solution – put them up against a wall .-
and lets start again .
@gary, I would like to see an update on the 5 pointer
Put them up against a wall- hmmm
That’s was a Nazi solution, do you subscribe to Nazism ?
Really Ryan? I met Ms Clone…I mean Clune and have to admit I was underwhelmed. More a case of carrying on the family political business than of any great desire to achieve or improve in politics. Maybe a “steady as she goes and don’t upset the trough” rather than truly representing her electorate. And now wants us to send her off to the best paying half way house in Europe? No thanks!
I can’t for the life of me understand why people would be so negative about a government that has bent over backwards to fulfill all its pre-election promises, has run the country with a steady even hand, with honesty, transparency and shown real concern for the children and elderly of Ireland. A government that has been steering a bold economic course that has led to the greatest economic recovery in Europe.
Unfortunately, said government is not in power in Ireland at this time.
Gary blueshirt Walsh.
Fine Gael: fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
This knobnomination must be the new craze in Irish politics…..
Every politician should be pro-abortion or GTF! These bigots should be run off the streets!!!
If Kelly is running again we can expect to see him again at every gaa match up and down the country, just behind the presentation ceremony and in full view of the camera. The man has lost his internal cringe barometer device.
Is Kelly still in Europe, he must have got lost because we never hear him say anything, and Deirdre Clune is living off her fathers name.
Try listening to Raidio na Gaeltachta
No and no thank you.
You’re not even living in the constituency…
I am well aware. Doesn’t stop me from voicing an opinion.
Sean Kelly wants to censor online media. Another clueless Irish politician completely out of touch with modern society. Great, he will fit in perfect.
His opinion on neknomination was chringe worthy
I’m afraid I didn’t even read the article because I will never, ever vote for anyone in FG. They are absolutely disingenuous. I almost gave them a preference in the last general election but I genuinely fear their desire to control the police, the media, the internet, the judiciary, all of us. They are control freaks.
They had a great opportunity coming in after the disastrous FF but lied throughout their election campaign – as did their minions in the Labour Party. I nearly fell for it but didn’t.
Why click on it then? I don’t care enough to read the article… but I care enough to leave a long, ranty comment below it… Hmmm…
Ryan you are a pathetic shill/hack I’d imagine. Can you honestly say that FG are good for the Irish people? whats wrong with you seriously, have you no morality? do you not care about your fellow citizens and how they’ve been treated…
Ryan, this may be above your teenage head but I posted on it because I feel so strongly against FG that I try never to lose an opportunity to (a) upset morons who still vote for either them or their buddies FF and (b) because I choose to. I know the concept of ‘choice’ is anathema to FGers but deal with it.
“Ryan you are a pathetic shill/hack I’d imagine.”
It amuses me that some days I’m accused of being SF, other days FG. Yet in reality I take things as I see them, rather than just joining in the anti-politics rants on here. I also try to correct facts that I know are wrong, like the one below about public schools. Sometimes that means my position agrees with SF, sometimes with FG, sometimes with Labour and even sometimes with FF.
I never said anything pro-FG. I’m just anti this anti-politics attitude that dominates here as it means people who could and should get involved don’t.
Why do Sinn Fein supporters almost uniformly brandish anyone who says anything positive about the Government or any other party than Sinn Fein a ‘shill’?
They do not suffer fools, apparently.
I think it is due to their lack of empathy with people who have different views to theirs. Probably deeply rooted in their psychopathic past. Anyone who differs in perspective to them is a shill, troll or worse.
Johngahan, you want to talk history? Including the Labour party name the only main party in Ireland NOT founded in violence. If you answered SF you’d be correct.
I for 1 would never vote for FG pack of money grabbing sh111tes
Both Clune and Coveney are part of a dynasty alright..its called the private school system of which both have attended and whose children have and will go…only one of the supreme court Judged went to a public school and you will find that half of the Cabinet would have attended also….Thats whats wrong with this Country
As far as I am aware, Ruairí Quinn, Richard Bruton and Simon Coveney are the only Ministers to have attended private school. So that is 20% of the Cabinet.
Ran, one doesn’t have to attend private school to become a liar.
I never said anything about lying.
I just pointed out that Finbarr’s assertion was incorrect and got loads of red thumbs for doing so.
Facts are bad it seems.
No Ryan, idiots like you defending the indefensible are bad.
This constituency covers from Killarney to Bray….. Its a massive constituency.
There is no mis-judged bandwagon Kelly won’t get onboard… Plus some Senator.
Kelly has a chance, but no chance of getting 2 seats.
2 is possible.
FF a certainty with Crowley, SF probably get one. That leaves 2 seats openwith Labour to get none.
They’ll more than likely add somebody from the eastern side of the constituency. Simon Harris maybe though he seems reluctant.
Clune is there to contain Crowley in Cork more than anything it seems.
I’d predict 2 FG, 1 FF and 1 SF with Labour losing out. Though it depends on how SF and Labour run their campaigns.
None of the above
Kelly, a cousin of Inda’s wife and a supporter of Sean Quinn until he saw how the wind was blowing.
Clune, from a dynasty, proposed by a member of another dynasty.
Nothing like a fresh start!
Well Kelly I never met, Clune I met a few times when she was on cork city council I could never take to her at the end it will come down to the votes of the people
Clune looks like a bad “Spitting image” caricature of burton.
Kelly looks like David Blunkett.
European Election? A chance for wannabes and has beens.
No. That was, and still is, the senate
They don’t even hold proper elections.
The GAA elected Kelly the first day not his looks or ability because he hasn’t any.
Fight back – regain control of your country – don’t support party politicians.
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