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THE MESSAGE COMING from Fine Gael’s parliamentary party meeting this evening is that members are “ready to move on” from the disappointing presidential election campaign.
In a statement, party chairman Charlie Flanagan said that lessons from the campaign will be “digested” and “taken on board” but the contest is now over.
The election was discussed, he said, but it was from from the dominant item on the agenda.
The situation in Greece and the Eurozone crisis is of far more concern to Fine Gael parliamentary party members, and the general public. This was discussed in far more depth tonight, and remains the primary concern of anyone who has Ireland’s best interests at heart,” added Flanagan.
A spokesman for the party confirmed to TheJournal.ie that the party’s presidential candidate Gay Mitchell did not attend the meeting.
He is currently in Strasbourg fulfilling his MEP duties, said the spokesperson.
A report on the election campaign will be compiled by Flanagan in the coming weeks.
He said there were a number of different views on the campaign, which saw Mitchell receive just 6.4 per cent of the electorate’s first preference vote.
Earlier this week, Flanagan who also serves as the party’s Director of Elections told TheJournal.ie that “probably the greatest reason [for failing to win] is people opted for someone who wasn’t active in parliamentary politics”.
He said the party had not made the wrong choice in selecting Mitchell ahead of fellow MEP Mairead McGuinness and former European Parliament president Pat Cox.
Tonight’s meeting was a regular Wednesday evening party event and was planned ahead of the election defeat.
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1 month ago Antonis cries out in parliament “Georgie, youre sellin out our sovereignty”
George “on yer bike anto”
a few days ago
george “quit ur shit anto or im gonna cry referendum”
anto “u wouldnt dare georgie”
referendum said georgie
anto “de balls on ya georgie. ok, heres de deal me aul dormitory pal. clearly de scum cant decide this. so, u cancel the empty threat,,jesus georgie we didnt think ud go so far…make way for me, ill back up the bailout..well u knew my real take on that anyway…and you go on to head up a chairmanships, like our brother bertie ahern… he’s well placed now georgie to make a right killin for himself. landed chairman for the international forestry fund, so when irelands forests come up for sale, he has all the old connections to make it happen…. anyway georgie, who am i tellin, sure u know the score…
Blah blah blah……just turn on the printing presses, flood the place with money, get 15% to 20% inflation going and these debts will feel like small change
Yeh the Germans will jump at that one alright
NEDISY (Fina Fail of Greece) wrecked the country and George and his party are under the wreck now…
We have a really good guy with figures maybe he could help grease. Bertie may not have had a bank account and lived in a bedsit but he apparently was well qualified according to the cert he produced. I think it was one of the FAS Certs for accountancy that we’re given out by some relative of the board member of FAS who was appointed by FF. anyway he is available for a brown envelope.
How pathetic is is that every conversation gets turned around to include Bertie,
We also have another guy called Cardiff who would love to help with the bad figures in Greece. He can count it to 10 don’t let him near millions and certainly not billions as he gets confused – all that said we promoted him and look how well we are now doing.
It’s actually ‘Karolos Padoulias’ not ‘Caralos’. :)
Oops, my mistake. Thanks Evan!
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