New Taoiseach Simon Harris expected to keep Helen McEntee in Justice, but two other women are in running for ministerial posts

by PoppedCork

25 comments

  1. Dissappointing that he hasn’t the backbone to remove a failed Minister for Justice. he is the leader of the disorder party

  2. In the 2002 General election, FG lost 23 seats dropping from 54 to 31. Is Simon going to get crushed in the next general election? FG currently has 35 seats btw.

  3. We can all ignore this charade until the GE. This is like a child who found someone else’s car and is driving it around for a while thinking they’re hot shit. 

  4. Golden opportunity to lay down a marker and he missed it. Fluffed his first lines. Left wing right wing, very few people in this country thinks she should still have this role. As mentioned in other threads, it’s seems to be borne out of fear of vindicating the criticism she has faced for the last few years. A true leader will always hold their hands up and say, yeah we fcuked up. Now we need to fix it and make it better.

  5. The *next Irish* general *election* will be held by 22 March 2025 to *elect* the 34th Dáil, the lower house of *Ireland*’s parliament, the Oireachtas.

  6. Slim pickings but when I see Hildegarde Naughton in the running… Lord above… Hopefully somebody, anybody else 

    Edit: if I’m going to give out about her, I may as well spell her name correctly!

  7. “Westmeath TD Peter Burke is viewed as a “shoo-in” and may take up the Department of Enterprise post left vacant by Simon Coveney. Fine Gael colleagues expect him to be put into Enterprise as he is a trained accountant”

    Absolute LOL. Because he’s a trained accountant they deem him qualified for Minister for Enterprise.

  8. If Jennifer GoldmanSachs-McNeil gets a ministerial position lord help whatever department she gets.

    It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic.

  9. “I’m proud to keep this deeply unpopular, universally panned failure in my cabinet, because some of the people whose support I need liked her dad. Besides, since when has crime been a problem in Ireland? Be grand!”

    Yeah cheers Simon, nice one.

  10. How is she still in power? Dublin City was set on fire under her watch. She’s a failure. Ireland is more dangerous than ever thanks to her.

  13. She’s been an utter fucking disaster in the role, and shuffling her away back to the back benches would have been an easy win, but no, that would require making a decision that might be mildly unpopular within his party, and would involve the effort of finding someone to replace her. Not an inspiring start Simon.

  14. Mistake number two, mistake number one was the housing promise !

  17. She has a good track record apart from the riot,  which would have screwed any minister because it was unexpected. The hate crimes legislation is important in the context and being shit on as “woke” – even with another foreigner being killed this week “for not speaking English”. She finally changed how domestic violence and rape was being tackled in the courts and strengthened laws on domestic abuse – affecting up to 1/3 women in there lives but I don’t know if this is what for some is a “woke issue”. And garda numbers and pay have gone up in response to what happened. She has done loads of stuff, just has a hard time selling it and because she is female apparently isn’t “tough enough” which I think has a lot to do with the criticism. 

  18. So all that talk about tackling crime was just that, all talk.

  19. Really disappointing . Thought he’d maybe come out with a “tough on crime” attitude but showing it doesn’t seem to be a priority keeping that clown as minister

  20. I think most politicians have a shade edge but there is something about Harris that turns my stomach. As usual, he will talk the talk and nothing positive will come of his time in the hotseat

  21. Christ on a bike, the one minister I was sure would get the boot. I suppose this cabinet will be made up of career politicians that fail upwards, much like Harris himself.

  22. Could be a good thing overall, someone competent might have changed the fortune for FG.

  25. His credibility is shot already. What a very weak and pathetic start.

    I think Harris will actually be an even more PR blustery Taoiseach than Leo. That’s saying something.

    I guess Leo was his mentor.

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