{"id":235,"date":"2008-09-30T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T10:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2008-09-30T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T10:23:25","slug":"let-battle-commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/2008\/09\/let-battle-commence\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Battle Commence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great Selection Convention in <a title=\"The Mansion House\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dublincity.ie\/YourCouncil\/LordMayorDublin\/Pages\/MansionHouse.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Mansion House<\/a> for the Pembroke-Rathmines and the South East Inner City wards.\u00a0 The Selection Conventions were chaired by well known blogging politician, <a title=\"Senator Dominic Hannigan\" href=\"http:\/\/dominichannigan.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Hannigan<\/a>, and hosted by the <a title=\"Labour Dublin South East\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labourdse.ie\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin South East Labour Party<\/a>.\u00a0 <a title=\"Cllr Kevin Humphreys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labour.ie\/kevinhumphreys\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Humphreys<\/a> and Maria Parodi were selected for the South East Inner City &#8211; which inexplicably now includes half of Sandymount &#8211; and <a title=\"Cllr Mary Freehill\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labour.ie\/maryfreehill\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Freehill<\/a>, <a title=\"Cllr Ois\u00edn Quinn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oisinquinn.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Ois\u00edn Quinn<\/a> and I were selected for the new Pembroke-Rathmines ward.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dse-wards-map.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-236\" title=\"Pembroke-Rathmines Ward Map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dse-wards-map-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Pembroke Rathmines Ward Map (click for PDF)\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dse-wards-map-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dse-wards-map.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pembroke Rathmines Ward Map (click for PDF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There was a good atmosphere and, while in no way complacent, we all felt that three seats out of the six in Pembroke-Rathmines is an achievable goal. The fact that we are all from different parts of the new area and that we are all very different in terms of our interests and backgrounds will, I believe, add to the possibility. \u00a0 I know that we will all work together for what can be a great <a title=\"Labour Party\" href=\"http:\/\/www.labour.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Labour<\/a> victory.<\/p>\n<p>In my own speech to the Convention I spoke about our achievements over the years in terms of housing provision, protection of green spaces and creation of new parks &amp; playgrounds and the initiation of various community development grant schemes.\u00a0 However, I also acknowledged that we have a long way to go in terms of developing a truly inclusive society and the need for better housing and planning services in the City.\u00a0 I also emphasised, as I always do, the need for fundamental reform of our Local Government system itself.<\/p>\n<p>Quite simply, <a title=\"Fianna F\u00e1il\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fiannafail.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Fianna F\u00e1il<\/a> has let down the people of Dublin.\u00a0 In Dublin South East they have failed abysmally to use the Celtic Tiger years to deliver at all.\u00a0 The advent of a <a title=\"Green Party\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenparty.ie\" target=\"_blank\">Green Party<\/a> Minister has had no impact except the crazy and self-serving (for the Greens) division of Sandymount in terms of Local Government representation.\u00a0 I intend to use the next nine months to highlight their failures and to offer positive, sensible and practical solutions to our problems.\u00a0 Dublin is great City and deserves better.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the challenge over the next nine months.\u00a0 I look forward to working with a great team of people who have already started to form around my candidacy.\u00a0 I look forward to being out and about and<br \/>\nmeeting as many people as possible in Pembroke-Rathmines and I look forward to a truly great victory for Labour next June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great Selection Convention in The Mansion House for the Pembroke-Rathmines and the South East Inner City wards.\u00a0 The Selection Conventions were chaired by well known blogging politician, Dominic Hannigan, and hosted by the Dublin South East Labour Party.\u00a0 Kevin Humphreys and Maria Parodi were selected for the South East Inner City &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,171,162,105,34,150,146,128,129,167,169,126,164,161,25,166,165,81,168,163,172,102,52,53,76,94,160,170],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-ballsbridge","tag-community-development","tag-dermot-lacey","tag-dominic-hannigan","tag-donnybrook","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-south-east","tag-fianna-fail","tag-green-party","tag-green-spaces","tag-harolds-cross","tag-housing","tag-kevin-humphreys","tag-local-elections","tag-local-government","tag-mansion-house","tag-maria-parodi","tag-mary-freehill","tag-merrion","tag-oisin-quinn","tag-pembroke","tag-pembroke-rathmines","tag-ranelagh","tag-rathgar","tag-rathmines","tag-sandymount","tag-selection-convention","tag-south-east-inner-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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