Colm Keaveney

A tentative answer to the question: “what does Fianna Fail stand for?”

Mick Fealty on March 24, 2015, 2:38 pm

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So miles away from the talk of pacts and sectarian games last Friday, East Galway Colm Keaveney, the former Irish Labour Party Chair who has been one of the few movers across to the Fianna Fail whip in the Dail, had an interesting grilling from NewsTalk’s Sean Moncrieff in Galway: It takes a while to get started but this section in particular caught caught my ear, not least because it has been one of the few lucid public attempts by …

Former Labour Party chair applies to defect to Fianna Fail…

Mick Fealty on December 3, 2013, 12:33 pm

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Interesting developments in the south. East Galway TD Colm Keaveney, the former chair of the Labour Party, has applied to join Fianna Fail (whose parliamentary are currently invovled in rapidly prepared meeting to discuss his application). Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn has expressed disappointment at news. Mr Quinn said the move was a personal decision for the Galway East TD, but he said he was sad that Mr Keaveney had left the Labour Party, and sad that he had now …

Irish Labour’s growing defections: and then there were five….

Mick Fealty on December 17, 2012, 12:13 pm

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Given the post ideological nature of politics in the Republic, it’s not surprising bits fall off every government that goes through a rough patch. Mattie McGrath in part survived the flushing out of the last FF led government because he jumped early and put constituency before party. Now it is Labour’s turn. And being less practised in the art (and having a long long way to fall at the next election), the loss of their own party chair Colm Keaveney …