Enda Kenny with Paudie Coffey during the 2011 General Election campaign
Paudie Coffey: “I think he has done the right thing to avoid any confusion because I think because I think the integrity of Irish Water and the directorships and that must be kept intact. He is now a civilian again and he is remaining as my driver and that’s the way it is, so I’d like to leave it at that.”
Newstalk: “Did you know he was a director of Irish Water?”
Coffey: “Yes I did, I did, so we’ll leave it at that… No I didn’t understand exactly the conflict of interest.”
Junior Environment Minister Paudie Coffey to Newstalk on the resignation of his chauffeur Hilary Quinlan as a director of Irish Water.
Previously: Hilary Duff
Pic: Fine Gael
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His defence is that he’s not a shyster, he’s just thick.
Yeah, but sure that’s how is works. Shysters in power put stool pigeons like this gombeen in positions of power so they’ll do what they are fecking told. Then when shit hits the fan, thicko takes the blame. They get dropped, shyster replaces thicko with another thicko and the cycle repeats.
Irish politics; where intelligence and common sense is for suckers.
That’s pretty much it and always has been.
I’m just amazed that Hillary Clinton has time to drive this fella around the place.
The magic words have been spoken: “let’s just leave it at that”. No further questioning!
I think an elected official should lose their seat as soon as they say “let’s leave it at that”.
he willdo sometime in the next 18 months
You clearly hold the Irish electorate in much higher esteem than they’re due.
Pull up in your fast car, whistling my name. Get over here and play a video game.
I’d say the lads, Paudi and Hillery, were a handy pair t’have in your hand when lobbing in a planning application
ah now careful there!
you’re hardly suggesting there’d be any notion of brown coloured A4 envelopes changing hands there now would you?
So we’ll leave it at that…
; D