I just wanted to remind people again of way the Green party have embraced gombeenism. This is a follow on from my Green Gombeenism post of a few weeks back.
The picture is of former Galway city mayor Niall O Brolcháin who was recently gifted a Seanad seat as he was the only government nominee for a vacancy on the agricultural panel.
This is taken from an article by Shane Coleman and Conor McMorrow ... the full article is here and is definitely worth reading.
From the article ...
"Over a third of the Green councillors who lost their seats in last year's local elections have been appointed to state bodies and other plum positions by the government in recent months, the Sunday Tribune has established.
The party, which has long railed against the practice of appointing party hacks to state boards and even demanded that it be addressed in the programme for government, is now being accused of "sickening and appalling... cronyism" by the opposition."
I recommend you read the full article and my "Green Gombeenism" post. Sad for those of us who hoped Green politics would equal clean politics.
Anyone remember John Gormleys "Planet Bertie" speech? You can decide for yourself whether he was lying or simply too stupid to understand what he was saying. Either way it makes him look very, very bad now.
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