A decision that would go down well with some people we’d wager, but it’s not going to happen.
Irish politicians are due to discuss the prospect of banning US Presidential candidate Donald Trump from the country following his controversial comments about preventing Muslim immigration that caused such a stir last month.
Following Trump’s comments, two separate petitions, Ban Donald Trump from Ireland and Ban Donald Trump from entering Ireland, were lodged by members of the public to the government’s Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions.
Both petitions will be discussed by the various senators and politicians on the aforementioned committee but are unlikely to go any further than that because, as is explained in The Journal, standing orders dictate that petitions can’t be considered if they contain the name/names of individuals.
Petitions of this type have been causing plenty of debate in the Irish political sphere of late. Only yesterday, a petition to put Conor McGregor’s face on the €1 coin was deemed inadmissible.
A previous petition to enter Father Ted’s My Lovely Horse as Ireland’s Eurovision entry, sadly, never saw the light of day either.
Keep ‘em coming folks, surely one of them will end up passing through at some stage.
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