Shane Ross: ‘I lost a friendship with Mattie McGrath completely. He got totally personal’

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Always an odd couple of Independents, one fiercely rural and and the other staunchly urban, they fell out after Ross, as Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, introduced drink-driving laws that automatically banned anyone caught driving over the l ...

and Fine Gael to be more antagonistic to Sinn Féin than the other because they see that as fertile territory,” he says.

Ross’s advice to the 21 Independent TDs in the 33rd Dáil is: “Get into government at all costs . . . don’t become one of those people who is permanently in opposition bellyaching.” “It’s wrong. I am more aware of it than anybody else because I used to get in the Dáil and get lynched every day by the Mattie McGraths and Michael Collinses. I mean[Independent TD for Cork South-West] called me a scumbag the other day. It was quite personal,” he says. Collins subsequently apologised.

“I didn’t understand it, because I knew him well and liked him. God, I mean I remember him from nightclubs. That’s the kind of bond [we had] – many, many years ago,” he says.

 

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To the clowns in Dáil Éireann and the NTA, privatisation of public transport services does not work so please stop covering up the appalling standard of service provided by GoAhead Ireland. It’s amazing how the Irish media turns a blind eye to what is going on.

It’s a close run race between himself, Leo and Murphy. We should get them down the country to a Mart. See how they fair? 😊

The man is deluded, helped by . The extended penalties didn’t save lives, and he has not been in politics 39years! He has now a sizable public pension, n his only thoughts is to write a book for personal profit. One needed piece legislation, he has failed to enact

But loved in the hockey courts of south county Dublin. Plus there's the nice ministerial pension ye poor gossun.

There is a massive rural community in the north and transgression of drink driving laws incurs an automatic 12 month ban. Yet I have never seen drink driving laws raised as an issue by country people this side of the border.

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