Today’s Wicklow Times is reporting that Senator Deirdre de Burca is packing her bags and heading for Brussels to work in the cabinet of Ireland’s new European Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn . Now you may remember the last time Senator de Burca hitched the parachute to her back and flew. This time she is going further afield.
So another Seanad By-Election coming up? And a very nice €120k salary at a time when salaries here are being cut all round her? I suppose a green politician’s got to do what a green politician’s got a do given the poor poll results expected in 2012.
The Wicklow Times could be wrong but they were very much on the button the last time the Senator moved.
get elected. get paid. do absolutely zilch. do a runner. get paid more.
….wishes I had my hands on an application form before we all knew the green *party* would end.
I’d hold onto that parachute picture btw
bulaidhg bós suzy
nice reporting
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Deirdre is truely shameless, Harry McGee had that gossip Friday apparently, cllr mark deerey Louth to get the golden ticket apparently
Thanks Nick – I’d not heard it anywhere before. Mark Deary makes sense alright.
Deirdre de Burca to be a Green Senator - Page 7 - Politics.ie // Dec 9, 2009 at 01:58
[...] The Wicklow Times really does get the scoops about DeBurca Maman Poulet Deirdre De Burca leaving Seanad for European Commission? [...]
Hatchet job. Line up everyone she’s pissed off and get them to sound off on irrelevencies.
Bertie nominee? No election…
Cheeky, all the same, shows true colours…
Mark Deerey – doesn’t really make sense – Louth is going to be a really tough constituency – with reduction in seats due to Ceann Chomhairle and every party looking to gain with a candidate who is not there at the moment – Lab, FG and FF – would make more sense to give it to maybe Brian Meaney in Claire – or a candidate who narrowly missed out co co elections
Deirdre De Burca leaving Seanad for European Commission? - Politics.ie // Dec 9, 2009 at 03:04
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Louth will be hard for the Greens? Care to name a constituency where it will be easy for them!
The article is quite funny, especially the last line. I could just imagine Deirdre thinking to herself “Hang on, I never have to deal with you pricks again. Goodbye!”
Love the way the paper says she’ll be using her psychology and education background: “look into my eyes, only my eyes, you’re feeling sleepy..”
Did anyone notice that the Green Party has just released a new health policy — in two parts, “Health Care Services” and “Health Promotion and Health Protection”? Who is responsible? Who is the party’s spokesperson on health? Why, it’s Deirdre de Burca!
So… Who will answer questions about the Greens’ health policies? Because there certainly are questions. Like:
Why is it mostly gobbledygook, written in appalling English, with bad grammar, misspellings, and disastrous proof-reading?
Why does it look like a bunch of quasi-Green ideas watered down by Fianna Failers?
(There just might be some good ideas in there, but it’s hard to tell.)
DDB is still the Greens’ Health spokesperson. She welcomed this week’s introduction of the cervical cancer vaccination programme. See:
http://greenparty.ie/en/news/latest_news/greens_welcome_introduction_of_cervical_cancer_vaccination_programme
Until 2007, the Greens were vaccination-sceptics. What new science changed them? The science of coalition!
About that vaccine, check out the unpleasant facts about what taxpayers are forced to pony up for:
http://www.nvic.org/Vaccines-and-Diseases/hpv.aspx
Ah another vaccine sceptic…sigh….
Ah, another one who has no scepticism about vaccination. How odd.
Note what Fine Gael health spokesman Dr James Reilly said (www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2009/0303/1224242142398.html):”From my general practice, I know that vaccination is the most dangerous thing that GPs do because of untoward effects, which are rare, but possible.”
And in Northern Ireland (three years ago — http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/1632m-payout-over-children-disabled-by-vaccinations-13576619.html): “The Government has paid almost £2m to Ulster children left severely disabled by vaccines, despite claiming the routine jabs are safe…”
Why should taxpayers have to pay, willy-nilly, for these dodgy vaccines, AND for the compensation for vaccine damage?
“It’s all for the good.” Really?
Deidre de Burca may not be quitting after all - no job for her in Brussels // Feb 12, 2010 at 11:27
[...] Posted by magic_norhan The Wicklow Times really does get the scoops about DeBurca Maman Poulet Deirdre De Burca leaving Seanad for European Commission? If it can be confirmed that it was de Burca who leaked it… then her resignation today looks [...]
Déirdre de Búrca resigns Green Party and Seanad | election.ie // Feb 12, 2010 at 13:14
[...] happy to run represent the Green Party and its values in the European Parliament. In recent months, she seemed poised to grab the Commission job that went to Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. Both of these jobs would have [...]