Results 161-180 of 445 for speaker:Eoghan Harris

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: One of the many valuable functions of the Seanad is to revisit questions that may have dropped off the screen. In that context, I remind Senators that the Northern Ireland football team beat Slovenia last night. It has barely registered on the radar of Irish newspapers, which gives the lie to the lip service that many people in the Republic of Ireland pay to the notions of republicanism and...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I will not. It is infested with Real IRA fronts. It is infested with them. The Senator should go away and read the Éirígí website.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: It is ridiculous.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I strongly support Senator O'Toole on the Shell to Sea campaign. Over the past several weeks, three groups of men wearing balaclavas have gathered in this country without any apparent fear of the law. In Limerick, 20 to 25 men intimidated Stephen Collins whose son was shot to death by a murder gang there. Last week in County Mayo men wearing balaclavas broke into the Shell site. Anyone...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Senator Norris is what Lenin called a useful idiot.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: A useful idiot is what you are.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: The third group of people wearing balaclavas were a group of a dissident republicans who broke the windows of the Sinn Féin Northern Ireland Assembly Member, Daithí McKay, the other night. He had been standing up for Protestants who had been subjected to sectarian attacks. The Limerick group has links with dissident republicans. The Shell to Sea campaign is infested, as I told Senator...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: -----that if he keeps on playing with these people, they will blow up in his face some day.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: A useful idiot.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: In front of Anglo Irish Bank.

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Apr 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I hope the severity of the Leas-Chathaoirleach's ruling on the naming of persons outside the House does not extend to saluting great men and women. I ask the House to join me in saluting, on one of her visits to Ireland, the great Edna O'Brien who was last night presented with a lifetime achievement award by Seamus Heaney on behalf of the Irish Book Awards.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Everybody over the age of 40 is aware of her importance in the modernisation of Irish society. She lifted the lid on all types of dark and sexually suppressed areas of Irish life and returned us to the broad and earthy sexuality of pre-Famine Ireland. She is a work in progress, a beautiful woman and a beautiful writer. After some period of controversy, I hope the darling girl from Clare is...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I abhor the kind of anti-clericalism which seizes on atrocities such as this. However, as one born and reared as a Roman Catholic, I ask is there something special in the religion of my childhood that allowed this systemic abuse. At first glance, it would appear there is. Although there was a large proportion of Protestant children in institutional care in the Republic, abuse of them was...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Under British rule, these abuses were not practised in Roman Catholic institutions and Protestants did not practise them. The responsibility belongs to the Republic as a whole. I will not rehearse any political indignation but I challenge the assumption that this cover-up is new. Daniel Corkery said Irish identity was made up of land, religion and nationality. These three factors operated...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: I read in a newspaper this morning that the head of one of the religious orders thought the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse would be off the table by the end of the week. The report will not be off the record of the Irish republic in my lifetime, and the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: It is important we are allowed to debate and reflect on it. It is the equivalent for us of what the Germans went through. The reason the Germans can hold their head up in Europe is because in the 1950s, there were trials all over Germany, which are not mentioned much in the media and are not part of the Holocaust porn industry one sees on television. In every major town in Germany, there...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2009)

Eoghan Harris: Hear, hear.