Taioseach to resign

[HoreTore]

Sadly, there is. The tanaiste, Brian Cowen is popular in his own party and likely to get the leadership. The opposition once described this gentle soul as "the only man left in Ireland who still believes Ahern" after his defence of his beloved leader.

Found this on wikipedia, now help translate from weird irish to english:

The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann (the lower house of Oireachtas), and must, while he or she remains in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil. The current Taoiseach is Bertie Ahern, TD, leader of the Fianna Fáil party. On 2 April 2008, he announced his intention to step down, as of 6 May 2008.

So... Translating this into standard euro parliamentary systems... "dail Eireann" would be parliament? Or just a part of it? So Taoiseach would be a PM, who is elected just like any other PM, ie not by direct election, election is for MP's, and then one of the parties says "hey, we're gonna have the PM!", they pick a guy and parliament then either votes for him or ditches him. So to get a new Taoiseach from a different party, there would have to be a new election for parliament and that parliament would have to get a different majority. Right?



Do excuse the rambling... It's in the middle of the night and I just woke up to get me a good-night pint...

[InsaneApache]

I'm no expert but it sounds about right.

[ICantSpellDawg]

As far as I know the Irish system just has funny different names for things and places. They are trying to reclaim the culture that the British shat all over for so long. Most people probably couldn't have told you what those words meant before the resurgence of Irish Gael on signposts, TV and in schools.

[Tribesman]

As far as I know the Irish system just has funny different names for things and places.

No thats the Norwegians that just have funny names for things and places, apparently for some reason they use a different language

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Well it looks oddly similar to the Queen's Prime Minister, when he forms a government because he leads the largest block in the house. You just wrote it out in a constitution and changed the emphasis as far as I can see.

[HoreTore]

No thats the Norwegians that just have funny names for things and places, apparently for some reason they use a different language

Yeah, we've got weird names too, but they're translated, so that others know what we're talking about

[Tribesman]

Yeah, we've got weird names too, but they're translated, so that others know what we're talking about

what ,you mean Stortinget is the norwegian for Oireachtas ????
thats just too hard to understand .


But anyway , just as one caimileir steps down another rejoins the soldiers .
That lying swindling Mayo bitch is back in the party again

[Banquo's Ghost]

But anyway , just as one caimileir steps down another rejoins the soldiers .
That lying swindling Mayo bitch is back in the party again

For the foreigners amongst us, that means this.



Added to which, the leader-presumptive wants TDs (our version of representatives or MPs) to get to choose their own constituency boundaries.

I was going to note to a previous poster that we had a standard parliamentary system, but who am I kidding? We have a banana republic for crooks.

[HoreTore]

what ,you mean Stortinget is the norwegian for Oireachtas ????
thats just too hard to understand .

Bah, now you're just being difficult, tribes.

If I say "Storting" to an irishman, he won't have a clue, so I say "Parliament". If an irishman says "Oireachtas" to me, I won't have a freakin' clue either, so if he(the irishman) wants people to understand him, he should use the term "Parliament".

Also, "Storting" isn't the norwegian term for parliament, it's the name of the norwegian parliament...