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THE SINN FÉIN party has handed down a six-month suspension to renegade TD Peadar Toibín.
The Meath West TD decided to vote against the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013, which Sinn Féin was supporting.
As a result, Sinn Féin party whip in the Dáil, Aengus Ó Snodaigh, announced just after 1am today that Toibín would be out in the parliamentary cold for the next six months.
Ó Snodaigh said in a statement:
Sinn Féin has supported the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill and all Sinn Féin TDs were mandated to vote for this legislation.The decision this evening by Peadar Toibín TD to vote against the Sinn Féin position is a serious breach of party rules.
As a consequence Peadar Toibín has been suspended from Sinn Féin for six months with immediate effect.
Minister for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton also lost her party whip when she was kicked out of the Fine Gael parliamentary party for voting against the Government’s Bill. She handed in her resignation as a Minister of State shortly afterwards – she told TV3′s Vincent Browne that Taoiseach Enda Kenny had asked for her resignation and “I responded”.
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he’ll be rich. won’t have to give most of his pay cheque to the party!
But he’ll lose his driver so it’s swings and roundabouts I guess
€900 per week take home pay for being a TD is rich???
Good man Kev, rich? Yeah I’d settle for that!
Skip – you set your sights very low.
I seen peadar cycle to the dail so I don’t think he will be too upset about that
It’s rich to me, wish I got even half that take home.
Guys, haven’t you ever heard the phrase “don’t feed the troll”? Thought in this case, with the way the rich have screwed this country, we’d be more likely to want to feed Richie Rich Kevin Cooney to the trolls.
Cycle???? from Navan??? I don’t think so mate
Yes
…six months should be a sufficient recovery time for his legs…
Driver? Ah come on! I’ve seen him cycling thru the park on a couple of occasions…. Very much doubt this guy had a driver!
Im not anti abortion but I cant help looking at this and wondering how a democtaric nation can have a vote in parliment and if you dont agree you can f off outa here ….. very srrange
Fair play Peadar for sticking to your convictions. Rather have a clear conscious than vote for something I believe to be wrong!
*conscience
Dont worry about a mis-spelling. The Journal cant even spell “serious”.
A pro life shinner? No wonder they threw him out
There’s plenty of pro-life leftists: but we’re drowned out by the zealotry of some others. A broad ‘church’ indeed – not in Ireland!
Voting your conscience Six months losing the printer inks ?????
So the people in his constituency voted for him to represent them , and now the party can send him away for 6 months . What about the people who see him as their representative . Does it not seem unfair? I don’t support him or his party , but he was voted in , and I respect that process. As far as I’m concerned the people who voted for him should be the ones to decide his fate.
He’s still a TD
But did his vote represent the will of his constituents or his own personal view?
Politics is all about personal views
Peadar will get voted back in without the party support anyway, very well respected politician in Meath.
Sinn Féin take one of their strongest spokesmen off the bench in the run up to the next budget. Madness on their part.
One down, far too many to go !.
He will be back in the party for the next general election so he can avail of the party machine to try and get reelected – a joke of a sanction. Seems like SF are too small of a party to take a real stand with rebel TD’s. This decision lays the foundations for chaos in SF in the future.
Chaos in the future…SF is a joke party ALREADY …tragedy is you can’t see that down South…
I’ve always seen them as jokers. Dangerous but still jokers. My comment was directed at how any political party discipline can imposed in the future. Not expressing support for SF whatsoever, ever and never.
As I stated before, suspending etc of party members for voting as they believe I correct s well beyond a joke…. Disband and ban all political parties and also politicians who have past records that are questionable…
Thats harsh
Ok… This was always going to be a controversial subject, but one TD forced to resign, another suspended for six months – Why? Because they voted against the new Bill, soooo, let me get this right here now… Firstly there is no woman’s right to choice here, and never will be, and secondly there is no right to vote how you like either … Hmmm gun to the head at the ballot box springs to mind!!!
Clearly there is as a right to vote as they want but there are consequences to voting against their party. No TD resigned.
Sorry for being flippant, but he looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy in that photo!
:-D
This is not something I wanted to hear from a Party I was turning to as an alternative to the Same Ole Politic.
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