Junior Education Minister, Fine Gael TD Josepha Madigan has announced that she has resigned and will not be contesting the next general election, making her the 12th TD from the party to do so.
“Last year, in the summer of 2023, I informed the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar that I would not be running in the next general election,” she said in a statement, just days after Varadkar himself announced his resignation.
“We have had many conversations since, but I have not changed my mind. I want to thank him for allowing me the time and space to reconsider my decision.”
She said that the last 10 years as a public representative had been an “enormous honour”, and said she was “very proud” to have been Director of Elections for the 8th Amendment referendum in 2018, and the divorce reform referendum in 2019. She added that she would be supporting Simon Harris to be the next leader of Fine Gael and Taoiseach.
“I am today confirming my decision not to contest the next General Election,” she said.
“I am also resigning today from my ministerial position. I wish Simon the very best in forming a new Fine Gael ministerial team to lead the party into the next election.
“Politics is not an easy profession but that does not mean it is not a rewarding one. I hope that people with strong hearts, resilience and courage will continue to enter public life to help better our country and its people. Over the last ten years I did all I could to achieve that objective.
“Finally, I would like to thank my own team, my departmental officials and my family, whose support has been vital in my work as a TD and Minister.”
Statement ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/bFS79e6URd
— Josepha Madigan ⚖️✨ (@josephamadigan) March 22, 2024
On Wednesday this week, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar made the surprise announcement that he would be resigning as Fine Gael party leader and Taoiseach, and said that he had not yet decided if he would be contesting the next general election.
That announcement, in turn, came just days after Fine Gael TD Ciarán Cannon said he would not be standing for re-election. This followed similar announcements from TDs John Paul Phelan, Michael Creed, Charlie Flanagan, Brendan Griffin, Joe McHugh, Fergus O’Dowd, David Stanton, Richard Bruton and Paul Kehoe. The new total number of Fine Gael TDs confirmed not to be running again amounts to one third of the party’s total presence in the Dáil.
In addition to this, at least two other party TDs are understood to be considering not contesting the next general election. If they and the Taoiseach decide not to run, that would bring the total number of outgoing Fine Gael TDs to 14 out of the total 34.
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Another one with a “transgender” child. She must be heading off to a job promoting the mutilation of children, she will need to keep it going otherwise she will have to face her own conscience.
don’t let the door hit you on the way out
Agreed Paula. Absolutely no loss. The idea that gender ideology is being put on the school curriculum is outrageous. The rights of (biological) females are being decimated in the name of equality – by pure gobshitery. The kind of nonsense that this half wit was promoting.
@paula,well articulated point
All this from an establishment that want more women in politics but cannot identify what a woman is any more than they want a hate speech bill but cannot define hate speech. What did the Irish people do to deserve such a government party?
Well they voted to introduce divorce which allowed the government to sell their houses over their head without their consent. They allowed the government to kill their unborn children without their consent and jail them if they tried to prevent it. What could possibly go wrong?
Another rat leaving the sinking ship. They know what’s coming. They have no good story to tell on the doorstep. What has this government done that could be considered to be even half way successful. What can they say on the doorstep. They can talk about the economy but the fruits of economic success have been wasted on NGOs and foreign freeloaders. Nothing done to relieve the tax burden on Irish workers. A health service in a shambles. The justice department obsessed with censoring free speech. The streets of our cities unsafe due to machete welding thugs. The sexual perversion of the young in primary school. Children’s public libraries stocked with books that could not be read aloud on radio because they are obscene. The highest energy costs in Europe. Rampant inflation. The guards in Revolt against their MI5 commissioner. Half of new Garda recruits leaving before they have completed training. A navy with eight ships that only had enough people to crew one. Farmers under attack by the state for producing food. The national herd being culled by two hundred thousand cattle. The tourist industry destroyed. A housing crisis that is beyond solving at this stage. The fishing industry scrapping new boats to make room for Icelandic fishermen in Irish waters. The construction of the world’s most expensive hospital. The longest COVID lockdown in the world. I could go on.
What story are government TDs going to tell on the doorstep. What great success can they point to. What achievements great or small do they have to point to. In the past governments have failed through lack of resources. This lot don’t have that excuse. They had the money but chose to waste it. They will go out of office soon having in a time of plenty just about wrecked everything they touched.
Jesus you really hit the nail on the head their
Yeah, very well put.
The sad thing about it is that they come away from it with a massive pension and in her case a ministerial pension for providing the State with “service”.
Blood boiling is an understatement.
They should be re hired as a demolition company capable of destroying the most resilient nation.
I wonder how many of these will end up with a well paid position in one of our many wonderful NGOs or perhaps in one of those badly paid positions within the EU.
We will have a General ELECTION soon…….the Homo-Globo Mafia is collapsing all around itself………..down with Globalism…….. the greater reset is NATIONALISM
Why are all these politicians jumping ship if they believe their new leader is going to be a roaring success? Perhaps they see what is coming and they had to find some sucker to take the job? When that pseudo conservative rag, Daily Mail, finds Harris is well qualified because he “is well-versed on social media sites” and parades him beside ex-President Bill Clinton, they clearly reveal they do not have the foggiest idea of the kind of leader Ireland needs.
At least Fine Gael are on the run. Finna Fail now needs to follow in their path. They are pert of the regime as well its not just Varadkers cronies.
and Sinn Fein as well.
Im glad she is so proud of her globalist soros funded referendums and the trail of destruction she leaves behind. Nice cushy job in a globalist organization. The plantation continues with the black n tans blocking roads. https://www.bitchute.com/video/BxTjXGWr0xT2/
People can’t afford houses (some are homeless) nor see their doctor – don’t be proud of your role in this.
Great news another would be born again woke ideologue… 👋 i
At this rate they will soon be looking for a new party as well as a new leader.
Fingers crossed! What a crowd of tosspots.
How many more have told him and didn’t have the balls to announce it?
Do I believe she told Varadkar last Summer… NO!
It was the Ditch that broke the news over her travelling expenses. It was the Ditch who broke the news over Harris & his homeless | crime link going back 14 years, it was the Ditch that broke the attorney generals advice.
I broke with both off you over past few days, on monthly subscription, because Gript held two posts I made in quarantine for days because probably I re-edited them I suspect too frequently. I broke with the Ditch because they don’t have the kind of commenting section you have.
But they were so courteous & genuine in cancelling my subscription, I feel bad now. I really wish you guys would get together – you’d be a sensational team.
What’s stopping it from happening. I’d be glad to support you as a single subscription.
? Why are you not together?
who could dislike what i said without having an argument to put against it?
The Ditch is a Sinn Féin rag (run by the odd combination of an uber-capitalist with a marxist pholosphy). Which they’re perfectly entitled to be, but plurality of voices is better, & while they occasiinally reveal something useful they’re mass-immigrationist wankers, and I don’t think the editorial positions are compatible.
Wouldn’t get too hung up about the commenting issues, everybody has gotten stuck with it at some point, and they don’t block comments for political reasons – unlike the journal. Even that mentalcase secondary school teacher (shaz) was able to post here freely, and several others, despite being almost a sterotype of ‘not a gript reader’. They were/are tossers, but I don’t believe in censuring them for this (better they let their redundancy go naked, as it were….). Whereas if you said something against the editorial on the pisspot.ie you were deleted, and now they turn off all commenting when they run articles that are against general mood/opinion in the country.
Bravo
Thanks – I’m pretty new to all this, so you taught me something. We should learn every day.
But I can tell you one thing – the graciousness of Eoghan from theditch contacting me to tell me that he cancelled my subscription, then thanking me for my support & wishing me all the best will not be forgotten. I’ll be back to them soon, & probably yourselves too.