FG pressure mounts on Taoiseach over Vatican embassy

[BlueSapphire]

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has come under sustained pressure to overrule Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore’s closure of Ireland’s Embassy to the Holy See from disgruntled Fine Gael voters and from within his own party, documents released under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act reveal. Records released to The Irish Catholic show that of over 3,154 representations made by members of the public to the Taoiseach up to the end of December 2011, just 14 were supportive of the decision. The overwhelming majority (99.5 per cent) were supportive of reopening the embassy with many loyal Fine Gael supporters insisting they will no longer vote for the party if the current situation remains.
Some Fine Gael local authorities have also written to the Taoiseach asking him to reverse the decision while a Fine Gael parliamentary aide has accused Labour of pushing a ‘‘secularist’’ agenda the documents also reveal.

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[saveusfromhell]

we now need American catholics to contact the Irish emabassy to show there dissatisfaction with the decision. i think he is presently visiting the USA it couldn’t be a better time to do it as he is presenty over there trying to promote investment in Ireland.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

we now need American catholics to contact the Irish emabassy to show there dissatisfaction with the decision. i think he is presently visiting the USA it couldn’t be a better time to do it as he is presenty over there trying to promote investment in Ireland.

Sounds like meddling in another country’s internal affairs to me. I wouldn’t want Irishmen to tell us what we should do.

 

[Brendan]

Sounds like meddling in another country’s internal affairs to me. I wouldn’t want Irishmen to tell us what we should do.

That happens all the time. Just look at the pressure US citizens put on the government of South Africa to end apartied and free Mandela.

Or those who are calling on China in regards to human rights issues. The list goes on, Turkey and acknologement of the Armenian genocide, Rights for political prisioners in dozens of countries.

Do you thing that such efforts were wrong? Should US citizens just keep silent?

I agree that the embassy issue doesn’t rise to nearly the level of imprisioned journalists whose only crime was publishing an article in opposition to the government.

But if you oppose ‘meddling’ in other countries internal affairs, you would have to oppose those efforts as well.

 

[saveusfromhell]

Sounds like meddling in another country’s internal affairs to me. I wouldn’t want Irishmen to tell us what we should do.

Enda is talking to Irishmen in America, also it was American Government who told the irish government we the irish people must not burn the bond holders, but pay the money the private banks lost. i really wished they had minded their own business, a very sore point here.

 

[Rich_Olszewski]

That happens all the time. Just look at the pressure US citizens put on the government of South Africa to end apartied and free Mandela.

It wasn’t American meddling that brought an end to apartheid.

Or those who are calling on China in regards to human rights issues. The list goes on, Turkey and acknologement of the Armenian genocide, Rights for political prisioners in dozens of countries.

Turkey still doesn’t acknowledge the Armenia genocide.

Do you thing that such efforts were wrong? Should US citizens just keep silent?

Say what you want in the U.S., but it’s meddling when addressed to those countries.

But if you oppose ‘meddling’ in other countries internal affairs, you would have to oppose those efforts as well.

Say what you want in the U.S., but it’s meddling when addressed to those countries.

 

[Brendan]

It wasn’t American meddling that brought an end to apartheid.

Turkey still doesn’t acknowledge the Armenia genocide.

Say what you want in the U.S., but it’s meddling when addressed to those countries.

Say what you want in the U.S., but it’s meddling when addressed to those countries.

It doesn’t matter if Americans writing letters to the gov of South Africa ended apartheit or not; my question to you is ’ were Americans wrong to write those letters in the first place’?

Or would an American be wrong to write a letter to the Turkish embassy urging them to admit the Armenian Genocide?

Would you criticize such letters as a wrongful meddling in the internal affairs of other countries?