La condanna d’assalto non è un problema per Micheal Martin quando è un Healy-Rae
http://independent.ie/opinion/comment/fionnan-sheahan-an-assault-conviction-is-no-problem-for-micheal-martin-when-its-a-healy-rae/a1244303643.html
di Odhran-J-McAnnick
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The parlimantery staff roles (i.e. working for TDs dealing with consituency stuff) isn’t especailly well paid.
The special advisor roles however are a nice little earner.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/03/17/two-thirds-of-political-and-media-advisers-recruited-by-government-are-paid-more-than-100000/?
>Most junior ministers are allowed to hire one adviser, paid at a slightly lower grade, that of assistant principal officer, which carries a salary of between €75,000 and €104,000.
Standard political practice
Kerry equivalent of ‘owning the libs’ in Dublin. Nice little earner for the family as usual off the taxpayer.
Obviously an assault conviction wouldn’t bother Micheal Martin,..sure he’s defending and accommodated Lowry, a man whom he summed up as follows back in 2011.
“Reading the findings into the record of the Dáil in 2011, the now leader of Fianna Fáil, Micheál Martin, said it was “beyond doubt” that as minister for communications, Lowry gave “substantive information” to businessman Denis O’Brien about the competition for the second mobile phone licence, the most valuable licence ever awarded by the State at that time. Lowry was an “insidious and pervasive influence” who engaged in a “cynical and venal abuse of office.”
https://thecurrency.news/articles/180194/sam-smyth-i-didnt-buckle-when-michael-lowry-sued-me-personally-twice-it-is-sad-to-see-this-government-cave/