Talk:Fianna Fáil Front Bench

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Why did user:CorkMan twice revert my edit, changing the wording to FF being the biggest in the Oireachtas to being the biggest in Ireland? This is factually incorrect. Fine Gael are the biggest party at local and European level, and FF in the current Oireachtas. Snappy (talk) 21:34, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Front" Bench

As someone on RTÉ Radio 1 noted, you can't really call this a "front bench" as it is in fact the entire Dáil membership of the party. There are no backbenchers! Does this have implications for the article title? Lozleader (talk) 20:13, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lol! Everybody gets a trophy day! But I think for consistency with other similar articles and common usage, it should be left at the same title. Snappy (talk)

The "Front Bench" is the Irish equvilent term for a "shadow cabinet" (as used by the U.K). While is does happen for time to time that opposition parties do not have backbenchers by virtue of numbers, the term is still correct. Useriemf (talk) 01:19, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update Required (May 2016)

This article contains information that is outdated due to the results of the 2016 General Election as well as changes to government departments/titles.

See Government of the 32nd Dáil for changes to government departments. Useriemf (talk) 01:25, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I prepped it a tad, announcement due tomorrow I understand. Must check departmental titles in the interim. 3 are different. Wikimucker (talk) 21:49, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Article is currently very unencyclopaedic

Somebody unfamiliar with the topic (and that is the kind of person an encyclopia is supposed to serve) could be forgiven for thinking some of the following:

The FF Front bench begins in 2011, rather than some time like 1926 or 1927
The FF Front Bench is normally or invariably part of the Opposition, when it is usually the bulk of the Government
The FF Front bench is trying to bring down the current Government, when it is actually sustaining it in office
Perhaps much else that I haven't even thought of.

I may eventually try to fix some of this myself, but as it may involve quite a lot of work I'm probably more likely to leave it to people more interested in the topic than I am.Tlhslobus (talk) 02:38, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]