Simon Harris 'failed his way right to the very top' - Sinn Féin criticises Taoiseach appointment

Simon Harris has been confirmed as Taoiseach by the Dáil.
Mr Harris was nominated as Taoiseach by the Dáil with a majority vote of 88 to 69 after he was proposed by Fine Gael and supported by Fianna Fáil, the Green Party and a number of independents.
Before the vote was held, opposition parties and independent groups voiced their opposition to the change in leader and continued their calls for an election.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said Deputy Harris had failed his way to the top.
“Out there in the real world, the experience I, if you fail and fail again, you get your P45; however, in this government it seems you can fail your way to the very top,” she said.
Minister Harris will now make his way out of Leinster House towards the plinth where he will get into a car and make his way to Áras an Uachtaráin to get his seal of office from President Michael D Higgins.
On Newstalk Breakfast this morning, presenter Jonathan Healy said he cannot remember a Taoiseach arriving to power with less fanfare.
“Of all the years that I've been covering politics and all the years that I've been speaking on radio, when a Taoiseach comes in, there is a sense of enthusiasm, a sense of excitement, a sense of change - and that is missing today,” he said.
“It seems as if we are caught up in something internal within Fine Gael that has resulted in Simon Harris taking the reins.”
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[@jayfbee]

SF are no better.

[@FraudRackateeringandTreason]

😂😅

[@jamesogorman1952]

Mary loo she's bought by the elites,

[@GaryDineenBLUECITY]

Really SF have not been in power yet ... Lets go to the poles

[@TheLiamMurphy]

"What is your policy Sinn Féin"? Put your finger in the wind and see what way the wind is blowing ...

[@kurtpunchesthings2411]

ikr the nerve of her to talk down to him for " failing his way to the top " and you Mary have you not failed your way to the top of Sinn Fein

[@ShiftDrift-kh6wb]

Are you for real?

[@Veritas353]

@@kurtpunchesthings2411 -she came across as a bully ....lack or no respect for men

[@philipmulville8218]

Whar a depressing bunch of clowns- both government and opposition. I’ve never seen worse - there is a complete disconnect between politicians and the electorate. Dark clouds are gathering.

[@mariehaverty8209]

Agree 100% who do we turn too with the genuine mindset and the stills to fix this?

[@chrisdillon3439]

The dark clouds have been here for about a decade

[@djcheckmate1]

The next 10 won’t be any better. We need a new generation of politicians and a possible exit from the EU.

[@usernextuser5385]

All nonsense, she is in lock step with everything they are doing.

[@terrysadlier8456]

100% backing of all the major government policies, hate speech laws, amendment to the constitution, open borders, on and on, they are the uniparty.

[@life_happens_reviews]

​@@terrysadlier8456shin shame fèin the islamist loving rats

[@lindalonergan7887]

It reminds me of north korea ,a few parties with the same policies.

[@chapman3713]

"We were always against the Hate speech bill that we voted for."

[@martymartin2894]

She is all mouth that one, didn't she vote for the new law to ban free speech.

[@Kevin-lf4xx]

SF are all bluster.

[@MaryCawley-o9x]

Prosperty for the migrants only. Out Mary looo

[@johnhiggins779]

Sinn Fein demanding that we bring in thousand more when we have no home for our own people. Vote them out next time around.

[@johnhiggins779]

Many of these people are strong young men who are coming from countries where there is no war but are attracted to the Irish social welfare system. One of those lying around Mount street was quoted as saying " I am fleeing war in "Scotland".

[@Veritas353]

Roll on Aontu a true republican party......Mary Lou will run with the hair and chase with the hound . Sinn Fein don't know why the referendum were defeated ...

[@FraudRackateeringandTreason]

You mean Sin Fein LITE

[@Ronny.81]

Mary do everyone a favour and just resign too

[@renegademaster32]

Mary lou your a joke your gone too hahahaha

[@colyzee]

Hi Newstalk, did ye get Paul Connollys phone back yet. There will be a day of reckoning for all traitors

[@andrewnevermind4902]

Well said.

[@Rumpleforeskin77]

I was about to make that comment on my phone which I haven't lost trying to engineer a story

[@beautifulpeople7369]

💚🤍🧡🇮🇪

[@rol1517]

Exactly 💯

[@KeithNolan]

SF part of the problem,yes!

[@brefomaher2713]

Traitors that's including newstalk

[@andrewnevermind4902]

Yes! The media are as culpable. Just their admin staff.

[@lindalonergan7887]

They got caught rotten.

[@ashleigh3021]

All of them, SF included.

[@chapman3713]

I see traitors criticizing traitors (not really, they all have the same destructive policies and are all as useless as Harris) in a parliament of traitors being reported on by traitors. All media and politics here is rotten to the core.

[@paulfitzpatrick2572]

Ask her what a woman is ?

[@annettereddall8982]

She struggles with that one😂😂😂😂

[@Rumpleforeskin77]

Has Paul requested Newstalk buy him a new phone on expenses after losing it on your agitation job you sent him on ??

[@Gabriel.-qf4ik]

Homeless crisis...and yet they still Bringing them in...

[@DublinDan]

I know....they can't be accommodating Refugees while they can't house the Irish first in our own country!! 🇮🇪

[@andrewnevermind4902]

6unt5?

[@deadpanbarry5442]

They all know who the NGOs are and could put a stop to it at least.

[@TheLiamMurphy]

"They" are working ...

[@elianioriofarrell]

"They" are paying taxes

[@TheTimdoyle]

It’s amazing that on the Sinn Fein YT channel the comments are turned off. We don’t need Sinn Fein or any of the Uniparty.

[@brenketsu]

Who are you gonna vote in? the same robbing cnts?

[@ansar4454]

yeah because the comments are filled with very smart, tolerant individuals whose views are championed by the likes of the pleasant Conor McGregor.

[@FerdarPleaseSubscribe]

@@ansar4454 the old lady provoked him, he had no choice but to defend himself against the 50kg menace.

[@silverkitty2503]

you dont want a united ireland ?? you are not irish then

[@life_happens_reviews]

​@@ansar4454fk islam

[@fitzerelli1]

The circus continues

[@Rumpleforeskin77]

With the same clowns acting on the instructions of foreign ringmasters

[@polmacmathuna369]

Bye bye Mary Lou

[@eamonnbarrett7995]

Sinn fein are full of fiction too

[@ashleigh3021]

Mary Loo McShiteTalk

[@CloudedIntentions]

It's a shame for me personally. I originally backed Mary to lead Ireland into a new era of prosperity and unification. What i got was the worse oppisition party in the history or the state. They are so far off the sinn fein party i respected and became a traterious party that looked after themselves. Bring on the elections, but i fear that all parties sing to the same european tune.

[@gerardorourke52]

Does it matter? They all do what their masters in Brussels and beyond tell them what to do.

[@paulwalsh610]

Well, let us do something about it, we are not quitters.

[@forianproductions6113]

The EU has rules like every other alliance, if a country doesn't like it, nobody is forcing them to stay. Also, every country is represented in the EU parliament, so who are the masters again?

[@givemeabreak8784]

Poland said no to the illegal immigrants and that's the view of the people.

[@gitfitz2028]

​​@@givemeabreak8784exactly there prime minister and went on channel 4 and said out straight and proudly not 1 illegal imigrant will get in Poland is safe and will stay that way because that's wat they expect.

[@gerardorourke52]

@@givemeabreak8784 That was before Donald Tusk was installed last December.

[@PsychedelicPigeon]

Yeah Newstalk, talk about Paul Connolly , and antifa , 🇮🇪

[@silverkitty2503]

antifa in ireland? you sure?

[@Xylophone8]

Maga is in Ireland for sure, trying to divide us! There’s no antifa here, sounds like you’re a fascist!!

[@chapman3713]

Lol... None of the mainstream media will talk about that because it exposes everyone as guilty traitors: The media, the government, the guards, the immigrants themselves and foreigners from across the Irish Sea. Your only bet is Gript, Burkean and social media.

[@sandraredmond2895]

We do deserve better, and that is not you many loo.

[@damiancanning8696]

Who is it then miss 2895.?

[@zenden6584]

What’s happening with Paul Connelly?

[@NoreenRaftery-oq6jo]

Why does Mary Lou sound like she’s very jealous 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kathleenmccollum4040]

She is jealous Agree.

[@paddy3762]

Moo wanted the throne, she is so angry she doesn't give a dam about the people don't buy anything she says.

[@Micker375]

Talks a good game but she wouldn’t be able to change anything either

[@JN-om6rw]

Still whinging on.. non stop

[@tallwaters9708]

In fairness that's all you can do when you're not in power.

[@Iccapod]

She’s right on all points though.

[@ashleigh3021]

@@IccapodShe’s done nothing. Both parties full of farcical nonsense and clowns top to bottom.

[@Iccapod]

@@ashleigh3021 Without any real power what exactly can she do? Everything she said is correct about the health service, housing etc and the fact that the current government are more focused on anything but the people of Ireland. They are disconnected from the realities of Ireland because they live in a different Ireland. For Harris to say healthcare is getting better in his speil is shameful. My Dad is currently on a trolley in James’s since Friday last, no dignity in there. This is a man who’s paid his taxes for over 55 years.

[@PP-xg1je]

The change you speak about Mary is only offered to foreigners not the Irish people

[@jeffd3473]

That plump cow wants the borders open aswell, scandalous

[@NicholasMulvaney]

Vote independent, the party whip doesnt give us representative democracy.

[@PeterBeatty-su8ux]

Mary ur no better than whom ur giving out about , if ur not push out before the next election SF will suffer big time and set out a new agenda for Ireland , people look at ye and are fed up and so disappointed by ur policies

[@Ronny.81]

Yep Sinn Fein need a snap election because it’s only getting worse for them and especially her

[@taphhedrof1045]

In a previous speech today by Mary Loo, (where Comments are Closed), in outline the Failures of the Government, Mary Loo of Sharia Fein, totally forgot to mention the Catastrophic problem with immigration and Undocumented immigrants. Selective Amnesia.

[@FerdarPleaseSubscribe]

i dont think sinn fein supports the adoption of sharia law

[@jaydublin-wf5jr]

@@aipo9910 The problem with it is its not right to stick immigrants in tents in inhuman conditions esp when we cannot even house our own people I am all for helping other countries and people but when we cannot even help our own homeless population is it crazy to think maybe we should stop bringing more people into the country ?...

[@dublinbay2362]

@@aipo9910open your eyes and look at what this open border policies has done to safe countries such as Belgium, Germany, France, UK especially the poor unfortunate people of Sweden.

[@BabyCowGoingmadinafield]

If you think the country is in a jocker now,Wait until Sinn fein gets in lol.

[@paulwalsh610]

Can you provide evidence?

[@aidangriffiths5075]

There isn't any, but they've never been voted in for a reason. A dog chasing a car, all bark and wouldn't know what to do when they catch it

[@forianproductions6113]

@@aidangriffiths5075 They haven't been in power because they started as a third party and grew up to the point where now they are projected to win. That's the reason.

[@anthonybarnes706]

They’re all as bad as each other really. They all suit their own agendas.

[@davedaly3863]

Get out and vote the Out out

[@tvpc3194]

mary loU Turn

[@martinbrennan4489]

She's really needs help 😢😢

[@garyallen9901]

Ireland open to everyone. Says it all really

[@EFFORTINDUSTRIESINC.]

We need a Sinn Fein government and more foreigners to do the work the lazy tracksuit wearers and racists won't

[@Rumpleforeskin77]

" I don't want my country turning into Sweden " G Allen 2016.

[@prophetsnake]

But it's not, so you're iterating a lie. That makes you a liar.

[@prophetsnake]

@@Rumpleforeskin77 I don't want it to turn into a place where hateful morons fun free, but here you are.

[@Rumpleforeskin77]

@@prophetsnake well you're not lying about yourself with that name.

[@davidclarke9783]

She voted yes?? right choice LOL hypocrite

[@bodyer2120]

She doesn't praise the people of Ireland she cynically flatters them. It would hardly be to get votes now, would it?

[@joebloggs1321]

And what u done, praying 2 Muhammad, in hq,

[@nancyjason8159]

It once was a great country and it took the irish only the last 20 years to destroy all of ireland and what is irish after hundreds of years of horrible history and fighting to be free and irish and now that was all pointless

[@nancyjason8159]

Im sorry but leo should be in jail for all the illegal things he has done same with most of them they can get away with anything its weird

[@GerryMcglynn]

CHALLENGES WE FACE, AS IRISH CITIZENS COME FROM SINN FEIN WHO I FEEL LET THE IRISH CITIZENS DOWN .😮 😮 😮 😢.

[@AubreySkelly]

Will she U-turn this narrative next week? And kiss his ares to get into Government. Mary Lou, you are full of Bubbles

[@marybrady7661]

All for one. one for all disgusted by all political parties no trust in any one of them. 😢🤢🍀💚

[@annmcl5119]

and if this party were able to form a Government they would subject everyone in the country to Higher Taxes and punitive cots to realise their goals. Who in their wildest dreams would buy in to that. THEY NEED TO THINK AGAIN.

[@marksullivan2314]

Check your party Mary the floor is getting dirtier by the day 😉you know what I mean mary

[@tomgreen2737]

We need to leave the EU if we have any chance of saving this Republic.

[@davidkavanagh189]

Considering the disaster that Brexit has been, no, we most certainly do not need to leave the EU. Educate yourself

[@buddymacbuddington]

And kick out any bstrd having secret meetings in WEF

[@User-r5g5f]

@@davidkavanagh189Brexit hasn’t been a disaster. The Remainers think moaning enough and saying disaster, disaster over and over will work. When pressed to explain how the UK would be better off in the EU (whose largest economy is in the middle of de industrialization) Remainers are left without much to say. Not because it is self-evident, but because there’s not much of a practical argument for an economy as large as the UK in remaining.

[@davidkavanagh189]

@@User-r5g5f You've your head in the sand if you think Britain is better off after Brexit. Anyway, you're free to believe what you want to believe.

[@User-r5g5f]

@@davidkavanagh189 Again, no argument to make how Britain would be better off in the EU.

[@terencebrady2928]

🇮🇪NUREMBERG2.0 🇮🇪

[@patriciareilly8841]

Mary wanted stronger lockdowns + quarantine. Turbocancers....

[@AnnLawton]

There is a reason why we are losing any confidence in Sin Fein.

[@budweiser600]

If an English politician said this, I'd cringe at every blatantly manipulative word.

[@budweiser600]

You think they were bad, get a load of this hag.

[@FerdarPleaseSubscribe]

simon harris is amazing, he will fix all of irelands problems, mary islam lou mcdonald doesnt like him because she wants to be islam, and ireland islam, immigrant, jobs, irexit, keyword, keyword, buzzword

[@dhockedy1273]

What did she say that was wrong though?

[@budweiser600]

@@dhockedy1273 ChatGPT - write a speech for me that allows me to manipulate people get myself into power (my personal feelings will be completely irrelevant in this speech).

[@robertmaguire-so3ep]

And yet Mary you fail to address the major problem off the mass migration into this country something your party supports. How could the Irish people belive you.

[@givemeabreak8784]

Correct

[@chrisdillon3439]

A new government won't fix the problems, the increase in cost of living, increase of homelessness and increased number of non Irish nationals into the country, the past few governments have failed the Irish people, this country is on the verge of collapse financially and in every other way

[@LoonZoomBoo]

Leo is looking grey. Harris is such a bad leader. I don't like Mary-Lou, but she's not wrong here.

[@annmcl5119]

How can you say Harris is a bad leader. He hasn’t been in power 24 hours yet……..????????

[@Tomtraubert2009]

He's been leader for 4 days, give him a chance, you can't say he's a bad leader seeing as he's not been leader before.

[@CitroenC407]

@@Tomtraubert2009 well he's been bad at every other job he's ever had so it's a fairly safe assumption that he'll also be pretty bad as Taoiseach too. We're open to being surprised by him but I sincerely worry for the future of Ireland while guys like this are chosen as leaders.

[@djcheckmate1]

He is a weak man. Not a strong leader like we need. He will just be another EU lapdog, no backbone, a college dropout. When he was minister for health he thought 18 covid’s preceded covid-19.

[@djcheckmate1]

There is just a fly buzzing around in his head.

[@aq803]

Just hot air from SF. What are SF going to do? Nothing! The public's love affair with SF is over. Ireland and the people of lreland deserve the government they get .

[@mtw9471]

SF argue like politicians in the 1980s. Negative broken record moaning.

[@alexdonohoe5292]

Ireland certainly does deserve better. Ot degrees better than the choice or Socialists or Socialist lite. Ireland deserves representative's who put Ireland and its people first

[@TheTimdoyle]

That’s not Mary Lou and the alphabet crew.

[@samsmith1580]

Caught in false flag framing of protesters.

[@givemeabreak8784]

It's about diluting Irish identity with the help of NGO's.

[@lindalonergan7887]

As though the shinners would be any different.

[@aq803]

Why do Irish politicians always read from a prepared statement? It's so embarrassing.

[@charlesduffy1894]

Man never positive these ones hahaha she’s always angry lol

[@robmcdonagh8367]

It would great to have democratic opposition in a democracy.

[@usernextuser5385]

Sinn Fein are by far the richest party in Ireland and they have done nothing for their members who suffer mental problems because of the troubles. Most of the Shinners I've met are mentally disturbed and she hangs with them. So what can we expect from her except crazy.

[@Xylophone8]

Bull$hit!!

[@usernextuser5385]

@@Xylophone8 I know the truth hurts. Get yourself some therapy or try some meditation. There's lots to choose from on you tube free of charge.

[@maximusnotsure8282]

Next time I feel nauseous and want to just get it over with I'm going to look at these videos 😂

[@lc86_65]

Politics is theatre indeed. They are all acting!

[@bjohnson1489]

Gerry lou bellering about nothing

[@majellasorensen4554]

We need an election. Let the people speak

[@misswomble]

Clean up on isle 3

[@punkeasy]

"The opposition" 😂

[@fofaasmr7586]

Very bad health service and public transport Very high rent of house

[@gerardoconnor8462]

What a muppet 😂

[@Craigo-g5n]

Talk talk and more talk please get them out please 😭

[@Judgementday-qp1ol]

Sinn Féin would be a Great Political Party if they would reconsider their Open Borders Policies on Mass immigration. The Ordinary People just don't want it, even if it means leaving the EU. You have been warned now!

[@davedaly3863]

Never their liars sold out the the irish people

[@davedaly3863]

SINN FEIN SELLOUTS AND LIARS

[@Judgementday-qp1ol]

@Eliteswanteverything That Card doesn't work any longer on Irish People, who were never Colonialists, and were once the White Black's of the World. Away to England or America with the likes of you .

[@juicebox-autoworks4996]

Dont tell me im still on this fecking island! - Father jack hacket (Frank kelly)

[@manishkanojia7497]

I wonder how she will fix homelessness and housing crisis if she comes in power 😂

[@DerekObrien-tk7we]

Sf brits out everyone else in

[@Tyr-not-mars]

Tidy Towns says no to homeless hostels in Harris constituency...Harris agrees !

[@gerrylamont3653]

Such a pity the man sitting to her right isn't SF leader.Mcdonald is the biggest windbag I have ever seen, all bluster with no end result.Such a pity for the SF party.

[@keithp6699]

Mary Lou and none of her front bench even have any ministerial experience to begin with!!! And they think they can run the government better? 😅😅😅

[@jackbuckley-oj5dp]

Who " elected" Mary Lou as leader.? Oh forgot she was anointed by Gerry.

[@Dollarg11111]

Get rid of all top governments

[@Vanessa-bu6vh]

Mary Lou never stops complaining but SF are not capable of doing anything different or better

[@patrickheneghan2794]

Sham and shameless 'opposition'...Vote them out!!

[@JohnMadden-d1c]

Sinn Fein will make no more decisions for or on behalf of the Irish

[@kjpcrow]

Long overdue compensation to the U.K. they are t constantly moving Goalposts

[@DerekObrien-tk7we]

What a disgrace a gov not for the people the incompetence is deafening

[@brianlundy2068]

Blah blah blah

[@johncummins3860]

Traitors berating Traitors !!

[@Mistyfire]

You don’t have to like her. But….

[@Rumpleforeskin77]

But what ? She's literally promised more of the same . SF voted with the Gov on everything woke and anti Irish

[@041mikey]

@@Rumpleforeskin77 another dope fretting over the "woke" Boogeyman.

[@user-mjys8lh8xr2i]

MARYLOU WHY BETRAY US

[@patriciareilly8841]

Dressed like Diddy-Girl. Any of your friends give spiked drinks like Diddy?

[@GG-jw8pt]

Opposition? 😂 it's a communal trough! 🇪🇺 💶 🐽 💶 🐽🇪🇺

[@ciaranmccormack4434]

Mary Notaclue McDonald

[@andrewmurphy2289]

This woman really hates herself and wastes a lot of paper.

[@stephenguinane6565]

Like it or not, she is not wrong here.

[@declanfeeney7814]

A real leader. Haven't had one in years

[@Ronny.81]

She’s a joke of a leader

[@Chromosome999]

I believe her!!!!!!!!!

[@johncummins3860]

No mention of the Plantation in her criticism !!