Tá ráite ag Pat McFadden, ball de pharlaimint Westminster de bhunadh Ghaeltacht Thír Chonaill, go bhfuair sé bata agus bóthar ó bhinse tosaigh Jeremy Corbyn toisc nár aontaigh sé le ceannaire a pháirtí maidir leis na hionsaithe sceimhlitheoireachta ar Pháras.
Fógraíodh aréir go raibh a phost mar Scáth-Aire na hEorpa caillte ag McFadden agus atheagar déanta ag Jeremy Corbyn ar bhinse tosaigh Pháirtí an Lucht Oibre i Sasana.
Post tábhachtach a bhí ag McFadden go háirithe i bhfianaise na díospóireachta faoin ‘Brexit’
Tá aithne mhaith ar an bhFeisire McFadden i gceantar an Fháil Charraigh i nGaeltacht Thír Chonaill agus is mac é le beirt de mhuintir na háite – Jimmy Den Rua Mac Pháidin (nach maireann) agus a bhean chéile Annie. Cainteoirí dúchais Gaeilge arbh as an Dún Mhór iad beirt ab ea a thuismitheoirí a d’fhreastail sna 1930idí agus 1940idí ar Scoil Náisiúnta Mhín Doire, scoil bheag Ghaeltachta atá dúnta anois.
Thugadar beirt aghaidh ina dhiaidh sin ar Ghlaschú na hAlban, áit ar rugadh agus a tógadh Pat McFadden.
Chaith McFadden cuid mhaith dá óige i nGaeltacht Thír Chonaill agus tugann sé cuairteanna rialta ar an bhfód dúchais. Is i reilig an Fháil Charraigh atá athair an Fheisire do Wolverhampton Thoir Theas curtha.
Sa bhliain 2011, craoladh clár faisnéise ar TG4 faoi shaol agus faoi shaothar McFadden, The Right Honourable Pat Jimmy Den Rua MP.
Tuairiscítear gur chaill an feisire a phost in atheagar na hoíche aréir toisc gur measadh nár fhan sé dílis do cheannaire a pháirtí, agus dúirt McFadden féin gur thug Jeremy Corbyn le fios dó gur ráiteas a dhein sé faoi chúrsaí sceimhlitheoireachta ba mhó ba chúis le cinneadh an cheannaire é a bhriseadh as a phost.
Cheistigh McFadden dearcadh a cheannaire i leith na n-ionsaithe ar Pháras i ráiteas a dhein sé i Westminster anuraidh:
“May I ask the Prime Minister to reject the view that sees terrorist acts as always being a response or a reaction to what we in the west do? Does he agree that such an approach risks infantilising the terrorists and treating them like children, when the truth is that they are adults who are entirely responsible for what they do?” a d’fhiafraigh an Feisire dá cheannaire an uair sin.
Ar an gclár Today ar BBC Radio 4 inniu, dúirt McFadden gur ghlac Corbyn leis an ráiteas sin mar ionsaí pearsanta.
“He [Corbyn] clearly feels that me saying that terrorists are entirely responsible for their actions, that no one forces anyone to kill innocent people in Paris, blow up the London Underground, to behead innocent aid workers in Syria, that when I say they are entirely responsible for that he clearly interpreted that as an attack on him,” a dúirt McFadden.
Ina measc siúd a nocht tuairim ar na meáin shóisialta faoi imeacht McFadden, bhí an Scáth-Rúnaí Gnóthaí Eachtracha Hilary Benn.
Pat McFadden made an outstanding contribution as shadow minister in arguing the case for Britain’s place in EU. Privilege to work with him.
— Hilary Benn (@hilarybennmp) January 6, 2016
Bhí tuairimí éagsúla ag daoine faoi chinneadh Corbyn an ‘Right Honourable Pat Jimmy Den Rua MP’ a bhriseadh as a phost.
#PMQs Pat McFadden was not sacked for condemning terrorism but for wrongly implying the JeremyCorbyn didn’t. #bbcdp — Noel McGivern (@Good_Beard) January 6, 2016
Jonathan Reynolds, who just quit frontbench, tells me Pat McFadden was “the hardest working frontbench MP” & sacking him was a”real mistake”
— Sophy Ridge (@SophyRidgeSky) January 6, 2016
The sacking of Pat McFadden is a significant moment. His comments on terrorism define a profound philosophical split on the Left.
— Martin Bright (@martinbright) January 6, 2016
What Pat McFadden said in HoC re terrorism was a clear rebuke to his own leader, & thus sackably disloyal. It was also tremendously sane. — Gaby Hinsliff (@gabyhinsliff) January 6, 2016
Corbyn has just sacked Pat McFadden. Did you know McFadden’s parents are Gaeilgeoirs from the Donegal Gaeltacht? #LabourReshuffle
— Barton Creeth (@bartoncreeth) January 5, 2016
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