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DUBLIN MEP GAY Mitchell will not contest next year’s European elections, he revealed in Strasbourg today.
“I believe this is a good time to allow new candidates to emerge,” he said.
“I am making this decision public so as to allow for consultations and arrangements to be made well in advance.”
By 2014, the Fine Gael party member will have been in the European Parliament for ten years and prior to his stint in Strasbourg, he served as a TD for 26 years.
He noted that in 2004 when he first took the seat, Fine Gael only had three Dáil seats out of 43 in Dublin, one of which was his. The party now has 16 TDs, three senators and 36 councillors in Dublin.
Ireland is to lose one of its seats in the European Parliament next year so there will be just 11 people elected.
The parliament currently has 754 MEPs, distributed between all 27 member states, but the entry of Croatia into the union this year – combined with the implementation of parts of the Lisbon Treaty, which limit the membership to 751 – means some countries must lose seats.
Gay Mitchell was one of the seven candidates in last year’s Presidential race but after a disappointing campaign, he picked up just 6.4 per cent of the vote. He has also served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin.
The Taoiseach has paid tribute to his colleague this morning, stating he is a politician of “deep conviction” who has approached his roles in public life with “great commitment and integrity”.
He thanked him for his years of dedicated service to his Dublin constituents and wished him and his family “every health and happiness in the future”.
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(in 18 yo D4 girl accent) Omg! I knew there were famines and dictatorship and stuff but only 18 hairstyles for girls! We’ve GOT to help these people…… It’s like totes oppression?
Ha, the men’s choice doesn’t really look that different from the choice available to Irish men up until the 80′s. My class confirmation photo (1987) will back this up.
Yes, trimmer setting 0 to 5 now is such an improvement! :-)
It’s the same haircut, just combed a different way. And are blondes barred from North Korea?
Sod the begrudgers Aoife, keep up the good work.
Thanks Noel :)
Aoife you should send them a photo of your hair style and tell them to get with the programme! ;)
Ha! Thankfully my hair now is much longer and dare I say better than it is in my horrible photo ;)
The journal.ie seems to get an awful lot of its stories or ideas for stories from reddit. For readers of both, it’s gets a bit déjà vu-ey at times.
Hey John – I actually saw this on Twitter, being RT’d by a lot of people.
I checked out where the photo came from (the photographer’s name and agency), then got it from Press Association. I noticed that the caption was wildly different from the one being tweeted, so I googled it and found the Reddit/Imgur and Guardian pieces.
Also, Reddit is a site with multiple forums where people share a huge volume of information they want other people to see, either original stuff or things already on the net
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So it’s only natural that there will be crossover between it and other sites to some small extent. If people don’t want their videos/images shared by anyone, they probably shouldn’t put it on Reddit ;)
Thanks
Aoife
Boom! John just got served!
I find this site is brilliant for catching up on what happened on the internet a couple of days ago.
Ok then. Off to the shop with you, to buy yourself a newspaper if ye want the news!
No 11 is obviously the pick of the litter.
Are you joking, she looks like a teacher?
I’d throw #3 around the place
I wonder what their policy is on Brazilians or Hollywoods and do they have photos of them too ;)
The journal is a complete joke of a news source, have they traded in journalism for reddit users?
In Ireland, women only wear 2 to 3 types of haircuts. Boring… : /
Actually I think Irish women are very diverse in their style and colour choice. Perhaps that’s not the case in your locality but is certainly not the case of Irish women in general.
АЛЕКСАНДРЪ ХАИШ , are you only looking at the auld ones? Or are you living in the back arse of nowhere? LOL. Irish women are very experimental with their hair! Different colours, different styles….generally speaking our hairstyles reflect our personalities so there’s no way we all have the same style :)
No
If you say so Sean. Aoife just confirmed that at times there can be a crossover.
I don’t see the most popular irish style here . The old arrive on the back of a motor bike look.
Can’t imagine Toni & Guy doing too great a trade
#Toni&CreamOfSumYungGuy
What about the vo5 adds :O
It makes perfect sense, in a dictatorial North Korean line of thinking…
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