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SENATOR JAMES HEFFERNAN is searching for a new office after his former Labour colleague John Gilroy packed up his belongings and told him to vacate the room they share in Leinster House.
Heffernan, who lost the Labour whip after voting against budget cuts in December 2012, returned from the Christmas break to find all of his personal belongings packed into boxes.
Cork-based Gilroy said that Heffernan’s decision to vote against the Water Services Bill last month was the final straw. He said that he told him at that point to get out of the office they share on the Labour corridor of Leinster House.
“Jim voted against the party on the Finance Bill and, after that, there was considerable pressure on me for him to be moved from the Labour corridor,” Gilroy said.
I thought at the time that Jim was a young man with a bright future and the pressure of the Finance Bill got to him and that he’d be out for a while but then he’d come back. But twelve months later he voted against Water Services Bill and I decided he had to go.
Limerick-based Heffernan said he was surprised to see all of his belongings packed up when he returned to Leinster House after the break.
He is now seeking clarification form Oireachtas authorities as to what he can do and whether there is another office space available to him.
Gilroy said that he packed up Heffernan’s belongings “very carefully” and insisted his decision was justified as others who have lost the Labour whip lost their offices and “the privileges of the party”.
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Give over stop worrying about cyber attacks and threats on the national security and all that hse crap. Now we have more cycle lanes. What’s not to love!! Eamonn Ryan ye legend.
Was the name ever released of the big company that was hit by the ransomware hack ever released and the sum they paid?
I thought a private company was brought in to do the clean up
The defence forces could have retained the personnel that they lost through stupidity on their own behalf in not granting these personnel with an extra €20 in tech pay which they were value for money so the same were head hunted by private companies.
@Noel O’Neill: €20 a week. You think people are leaving over €20 a week?
A CIS technician can be on as low as 40k in the DF, while their counterparts in private sector are getting 80k plus.
€20 a week…. That gave me a giggle….
It only takes one rogue machine to bring a whole network down. As long as the antvirus software is kept continuously up to date, systems shouldn’t be compromised.
@Mike Dunne: Seriously you think anti virus works like that. It is a game of cat and mouse.
You cant have an antivirus program that stops a virus it does not know. Hence the updates.
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