Goodbye Willie (O'Dea resigns as Minister)

Tail Wagger

Well lads it looks as do it's only a matter of hours rather than days
that Willie O' Dea will be dumped by Finna Fall.
What do people in general think?
Speak your mind.........
Fianna Fall won't.:cool:

Mr. Incognito

I'll wait till the announcement.

By the way you're spelt bye wrong, unless you meant boy?

peasant

This

hopefully ...

fuelinjection

Karma.

But he will probably still be a TD until the next election.

Pot Noodle =

peasant wrote: »

This

hopefully ...

Please God

Mr. Incognito

Political suicide

Amtmann

fuelinjection wrote: »

Karma.

But he will probably still be a TD until the next election.

He will probably top the poll in his constituency as usual. As an electorate, we get what we deserve.

Tail Wagger

fuelinjection wrote: »

Karma.

But he will probably still be a TD until the next election.

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Yes when he looses his portfolio position
he will become a backbencher,
some backbencher with a huge 20,000 + first preference votes...
Poor Willie... a very well respected Politian in Limerick..

EKRIUQ

Tail Wagger wrote: »

Poor Willie... a very well respected Politian in Limerick..

He should know better then than making comments about people who run/not run brothels

scully74

Tail Wagger wrote: »

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Yes when he looses his portfolio position
he will become a backbencher,
some backbencher with a huge 20,000 + first preference votes...
Poor Willie... a very well respected Politian in Limerick..

I'm from limerick orignally, he's a little prcik..saying limerick does not have a gang problem, ya right... more lies...remember him backing up bertie.....more lies....

moby2101

I'm from Limerick also and a FF canvasser ... Willie will be no loss .. A little bully and a weasel to boot.. He never did anything positive for Limerick. Good riddance..

Tail Wagger

moby2101 wrote: »

I'm from Limerick also and a FF canvasser ... Willie will be no loss .. A little bully and a weasel to boot.. He never did anything positive for Limerick. Good riddance..

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Well to be honest I know very little about Willie?
But it's good to see his people from Limerick having their say
and by the looks of it he will be gone before the night is out!:cool:

sceptre

Thread re-opened given what's likely to be broadcast on the 9pm news. If people could keep it rational and refrain from the silly pictures, that'd be cool (otherwise this thread won't be viable).

byhookorbycrook

according to TV3

Red Alert

The real question then is why the toads in the green party (particularly Ryan and Gormley, who claim to be above reproach) voted for him in the motion of confidence. Were they ill-informed or did the in fact agree with what he's done?

bijapos

rte.ie breaking news has it too on text alert.

Good

Permabear

This post has been deleted.

grrrrrrrrrr

Willie O Dea resigned!!

just heard there!

right or wrong decision?!?!

jhegarty

And he's out of here :

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0218/odeaw.html

johngalway

The Greens, Sweary Mary, Willie....



An election has to be closer after the way this week is going.

rx8

Just got it on Irish Times breaking news....

Willie is gone!

Fiskar

About time too, he might have been a good Minister for defence but there have to be some ethics in office. You simply cannot lie under oath or commit perjury at that level and expect to get away with it.
The Greens did themselves no favours voting with FF on the no confidence vote, they should have excused themselves. Reckon Gormley relayed to Cowen, "don't expect us to vote on anymore of these FF no confidence votes".

Sir Oxman

Good news.
Now, there should be uproar over the sickening way this regime/junta give not one f-cuk about the damage their grubby members do to the body politic and institutions of this country.

hinault

resigned his cabinet post.

big deal.
It's not as if we're going to get that shower of wasters out.:mad:

Dammer

On RTE 1 now!

changes

It must have been pressure from the greens, because FF would have been perfectly happy to keep him in regardless of his perjury.

It wouldn't have taken a flinch of FF to let that sort of shenanigans slide.

maynooth_rules

Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out Willie. Enjoy the backbenches with the Bull

blond45

who's next i wonder. theres a trend going . one more from the green side.

samsemtex

changes wrote: »

It must have been pressure from the greens, because FF would have been perfectly happy to keep him in regardless of his perjury.

It wouldn't have taken a flinch of FF to let that sort of shenanigans slide.

The greens would have been perfectly happy with him too only for Dan Boyles twitter comments. Spineless shower the lot of them.


Where does this leave the government? They just said they have complete confidence in O'Dea and therefore they endorsed his actions. His actions have now made his position untenable yet last night they said they were fine.

How can they honestly stay in government after saying perjury is fine?

moonpurple

'i may be going too far when i say this..' william o dea

r o f l

what a tool, love it, :pac:

Kensington

samsemtex wrote: »

How can they honestly stay in government after saying perjury is fine?

Why? Because this is Ireland. This is Fianna Fáil. They have no shame and they the hardest necks in the country.
No-one will cause uproar.
No-one will demand further resignations.
There won't be protests on the streets.
And come the next general election, they'll be voted back in again.