Full room – packed with media – in Russian Embassy to hear reaction of Russian Ambassador to expulsion of diplomat @rtenews @rtepolitics pic.twitter.com/tgv1ein1r1
— Martina Fitzgerald (@MartinaFitzg) March 27, 2018
The Russian Ambassador, Mr. Yury Filatov, leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs after being told by the Secretary General that a named diplomat had ten days to leave the coutry as a result of the Salisbury attack.
“In essence Taoiseach, you are asking us to trust Boris Johnson, and I dare say that this may not be the wisest course of action,” [Mary Lous McDonald told the dail]
Ms McDonald accused the Taoiseach of attempting to dismantle Ireland’s neutrality.
However Leo Varadkar said the decision was taken following an assessment carried out by Irish security services, including the defence forces and gardaí.
“This is very much an act of solidarity with the United Kingdom,” he said, but added that Ireland had no quarrel with the Russian people.
He said the decision on the individual person asked to leave was based on advice from gardaí and military intelligence….
Sorry.
Too silly.
Taoiseach says expulsion of diplomat is act of solidarity with UK (RTÉ)
Earlier: ‘Neutrality Hardly Compatible With EU Membership‘
Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews
Meanwhile…
Stand to be corrected but did the BBC know about the expulsion of one Russian diplomat an hour before the Dept of Foreign Affairs issued a statement. William Crawley (BBC Talkback, below) tweeted at 11.09am. https://t.co/qtLEcIRtYA
— NAMAwinelake (@namawinelake) March 27, 2018
William Crawley of the BBC reporting that Ireland will expel one Russian diplomat. So, no prior consultation with the Opposition then!
And Coveney was obviously acting on decision made at European Council level, rather than on yesterday’s “security assessment”. https://t.co/qtLEcIRtYA— NAMAwinelake (@namawinelake) March 27, 2018
Anyone?
Something very wrong when a toerag like Leo can become the Taoiseach of this failed state.
You have obviously never been to a ‘failed state’ if you think Ireland is one. The parochial hyperbole of the left never ceases to amaze.
it’s a failed state where the keepers of it prefer to line the pockets of vulture funds, tax nom doms, themselves rather than invest in its own nationals. So Gringo is absolutely correct. On all points.
You can add… Mary Lou still in a seat after her denial of her parties operation of kangaroo courts, and expulsion of those on “trial” in them into another country… All to protect her party regardless of the actions of those expelled.
Add that too, yeah.
Ooohhhh ‘Look over there’. You want a few ‘look over there’s’?
Sitting Government Minister takes illegal loan from her company?
Fancy being glassed by a FGer?
Dublin and Monaghan bombings – why no release of information?
Revenue fines FG over tax evasion?
I have oodles of them. You do the ‘look over there’ posts, and i’ll revert to you. Look out behind you.
Dunno why you be tellin’ me.
You can add them too.
At least you’re not denying what she did, which was no different to RCC denying Bishops moved paedos around the parishes, in all fairness. She’s cut from the same cloth in that regard.
Change the record clampers. Nauseating having to read your crap rants about Sinn Fein and Kangaroo courts. We get it. You don’t like SF.
Ooooh. And keep looking over there.
Is it Russia you are on about ya dirty communist?
Ah my little stalker. Still can’t put any thoughts together on the discussion? Calling someone names is just, well just plain stupid. Sometime, please post something intelligent.
No it’s yer ma
haha!
Hyperbolic drivel aside you all will delighted to learn that Ireland is placed 172nd out of 178 in the Fragile States (formerly the Failed State list).
South Sudan sits top of the tree. And having had the pleasure of visiting Juba, all statements suggesting Ireland is a failed State are not just idiotic but also disgraceful.
Failed state gets handouts from IMF. We owe more now than we did when we got the handouts. Is that success?
Your nonsense is comical.
Absolutely brilliant GG, +1..
It is a failed state kept alive on the drip as creditors suck the life blood out of us.
200 billion of Irish distressed assets sold off since the crash,but none taken off our debt
So where has the 200 billion gone?
I know the fiscal space
Moronic.
Something very wrong that Leo will rely on Boris for the facts.
Boris has been sacked twice from jobs for lying.
+1 RB
“In essence”….said Mary Lou, so, he didn’t actually relying Boris, who is a liar.
But you’re taking a known liar like Mary Lou as fact…. oh, please :)
Sorry for the typos
And keep on ‘looking over there’.
No problem though with Israeli spies who use an Irish passport to assassinate a Muslim in Dubai.
+1 M
They expelled an Israeli diplomat for that too. So ‘no problem’ in what respect?
“He said the decision on the individual person asked to leave was based on advice from gardaí and military intelligence….”
That would hardly fill you with a great sense of confidence.
Just out of curiosity, how many cars are stopped and searched in Dublin resulting in firearms being recovered? How many assassination attempts are foiled?
That all comes from garda intelligence. There’s nothing random about the cars that are stopped and searched.
That said, they did go to the wrong political meeting last week.
Please, they can’t even count the number of homicides committed in Ireland.
+1
It’s more than +1
Well they didn’t actually. The two meetings were taking place in the same venue.
Actually they did, it was the same venue but they still went to the wrong meeting.
And we’re supposed to trust these morons..
They put their watches back on the wrong date.
Bit like the drink driving .
Maybe Tulsa got involved.
Its clear ,the reward is the new seat on the UN security council that Canada are after. More Irish government corruption .
Agreed – someone is being lined up for the cushy UN post. I wonder who will it be? Hmmm, (sits back, fills pipe!)
the diplomat was stopped and breathalysed 8000 times.
Hah. Good one.
Winner 7ollo
following an assessment carried out by Irish security services, including the defence forces and gardaí.
Up in Phoenix Park, all the photos were laid out on a table and the lads went…
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
Catch a Russian by the toe,
If he screams then let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
That’s probably what happened, literally a lottery..
Shur aren’t we the muppets of Europe..
we always do as we’re told.
A Shinner accusing Boris Johnson of being economical with the actualite or no fount of common sense? Stroll on, chica.
Like their stance in the referendum ,pro choice, from the party that evolved out of murdering people
They bombed their way to the political table.
And hopefully they will be in government after the next election.
Might as well bring back the RCC. There’s little difference in operation of either…. top down, do as you’re told or be bullied out, or suffer “expulsion”.
Ah here, there’s no need for that.
So then we will be truly a failed terrorist state
“from the party that evolved out of murdering people”
If you read a little Irish history you’ll find that your pals in FFG evolved in exactly the same way.
….And stopped murdering many, many, many decades ago and sought a purely constitutional route, unlike SF/IRA. Also, no history books are needed to look up Paul Quinn, for example.
David, I seem to remember learning in school that FF and FG also bombed and shot their way to the political table.
Hysteria hysteria hysteria
When you’re near.
I’m now officially annoying you Nigel.
You’re like my shadow, only much more gullible.
And your shadow is PRETTY gullible amirite?
Def Leppard brah
Anyone else like the look of that Def Leppard/Cheap Trick double header later this year? I normally just go to poncy jazz gigs but I’m willing to embrace power pop with a featherlight touch of metal.
The dicks in the foreign office should be expressing their heartfelt sorrow at the death of the 41 Siberian children in Kemerovo not expelling Russian diplomats for the suspected involvement in the murder of a spy.
My friend from Latvia (who like all former USSR country men & women living in Ireland and elsewhere, speaks Russia) told me Putin has vowed to line the perpetrators of the accident ‘up against a wall’ – which means he will order their executions.
Russian justice, hard to argue with.
ps. The Guards and the security forces know that Putin ordered the execution of a double agent in London but they don’t know how many breath tests they faked or where the previous two commissioners mobile phones are??. Right so.
He’s still alive.
It’s fairly easy to argue with Russian justice, actually, given it’s often completely arbitrary and politicized.
The irony of Putin complaining about safety standards in a Russian shopping centre, when him and sizeable group of oligarchs have stolen the country’s resources and lined their own pockets. Maybe if they spent some of that money on social services/infrastructure instead of on Mayfair mansions, Russia wouldn’t be in the state it’s in.
Every Russian is significantly richer since Putin took power.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_of_Russia_since_1989.svg
mussolini made the trains run on time, too.
ah, the benefits of oligarchy…
So did electricity
I take it you have never been there?
You are also clearly not an economist.
Russia has huge resources systematically asset stripped by a tiny minority.
Run by an autocrat. Corruption rife. Police stop tourists for bribes. A truly horrible place to live.
Not all down to Putin, but him and his cronies have not helped.
I presume you have citations to refute the above graph, if not I can’t accept any of those claims, thanks all the same though..
we don’t have a “Foreign Office” – that’s the Brits.
@david: you might very well think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment save to say that I don’t think the evolution is yet complete.
Can someone keep an eye on Maurice McCabe? Let’s make sure he’s not bundled onto a plane to Moscow this week…
I’m just saying someone should have dressed up as St Patrick and chased the guy to the airport waving a crozier and screaming ‘I cast thee OUT foul serpent of espionage!’
LOL Nigel !
I am getting worried about Ireland’s neutrality. This and PESCO…..it feels like it is been dismantled. Anyone got a link as to what exactly is the evidence that points to Russia? Would be interested to read. I read one article that Russia asked for samples of the poison but were refused.
There’s no evidence Alan, none whatsoever…
And we’re supposed to believe these clowns, even after the sexed up Iraq dossier..
You won’t get a link to that. You will get some links to what the UK’say’ which is completely different to what you want. ‘Everything matters’ is a saying that a guy named Brian Tracy’ teaches. So, May is under pressure over Brexit. You get very strange ‘pas de deux’ week in, week out. One week the EU and the UK are at loggerheads.
The next there is some white smoke of some sort of deal. The next week it’s back to loggerheads. May actually wants (in my opinion mind) to find a way to stay in the EU to try save UK from a severe economic kicking, while saving face. The EU also wants the UK to stay. So – an incident like this is a way to show the UK and EU populations that ‘we are stronger together’. And that will be the next few months line on the media.
Did the Russians, or did the UK do this? It will never be known. But i guarantee you that Brexit will not happen the way commentators are telling us it will. It probably won’t even happen.
Bit diversions such as this are helping the EU and the UK come to a ‘remain’ arrangement.
Of course there is a conspiracy theory that brexit was all just a scam to keep the European far right in check?
Dum de Dum.
Naw. Brexit was voted on, and the vote was Brexit. What you have now is May and the EU trying to wangle a backtrack. So, no, Brexit wasn’t a scam. But what’s now happening is.
+1 GG
Brexit was most definitely a scam, but not a conspiracy of that sort. Not a word about reducing immigration these days, mainly because Brexit won’t change it one iota.
SOQ. Brexit was a game that Cameron lost. He was oversure that the vote would be remain. The success of Farage was the result of something bordering on a scam, but the blame for the failure of remaining was down to disorganized mainstream parties.
May was left with the poo, and Cameron disappeared. She’s caught between a rock and a hard place. She has to be seen to accept the will of the people, but that will has probably switched to remain now, so she has to find some way of retrieving the situation.
It may well come down to some sort of temporary exit, and a few years of pas de deux again until they call another referendum. She could of course take the nuclear option of not going with the referendum result (she’s entitled to do that i believe).
Or she could call another election, which Labour would probably win (which would suit her) and the question could be once again put to a referendum.
Me too Alan. Our neutrality is what made our UN missions possible. This squarely puts us with NATO. And the Brits are big and bold enough to fight their own battles.
The Swedes and Finns (not NATO members, and an actual authentic neutral state in the case of Sweden) also expelled Russian diplomats. Our future UN missions will be grand.
They have no proof only accusations
The spy spied for both British intelligence and the Russians
So both sides would have the same reasons
As for samples in Syria I remember they were blaming Assad for chemical weapon attacks in Aleppo
Again when Russia asked for samples they were told no from the UN team of inspectors
Also none of the bodies of victims were tested which was strange
They tested samples of rubble handed over by the rebels
and the exact site was not forensically examined I believe with all sides present
Govt expels Russian diplomat based on Gardai intelligence that he may be an agent
BROADSHEETERS : Where’s the evidence?
SocDems claim their taxi driver was a mossad agent
BROADSHEETERS : It’s a conspiracy!!
don’t ever change guys. this is great fun
+1
hahahaha
stop mansplaining
The apathetic contrarion corner here..
That Garda Intelligence line was hilarious.
I got a good laugh out of that, b.
Are you a Broadsheeter then?
+1 b :)
-1, a staunch fg supporter siding with rubbish fg policy, foreign and domestic, quel surprise..
“Ask a Journal Commenter” time.
It’s worth reading the front page of the Sunday Times and the planning permission at the Russian embassy in this context. And the massively disproportionate number of staff they have here.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/russia-has-nothing-to-hide-with-dublin-embassy-plans-just-dont-ask-if-big-brother-is-watching-36710989.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/state-to-conduct-assessment-of-staff-at-russian-embassy-1.3438371
and if you are willing to accept it from me anecdotally, the lads have made themselves known and there are reports of intimidation
Harry Apathy cites the Indo and the Times, both infested with Leo’s grimey SCU.
I’m hardly surprised Harry, your getting more right wing by the day..
only one other poster used to call me apathy :-)
you can read what is referenced in the articles, then of course you can take it or leave it.
probably wouldn’t seen real to you unless it was in a YouTube video I’ll admit
Harry cites the Indo and the Times, both govt mouth piece’s and than tries to crack a joke at my expense..
trust me pal the joke is on you..
Argue your point and quit trying to pigeonhole him.
my days of arguing on the internet are over, just general chats and sharing of tidbits
I’ll accept tha’
thanks for links
Why would accept the links clamps?
Reminds me of that fine old song from the Steve Gibbons Band – please don’t lose your balls down in the bunker.
He’s a big effin’ Tory, he’s only delighted to be showing ‘solidarity’ with them. It’s more than solidarity he’d like to offer .. if he could, he’d have us rejoin Britain, and he’d try work some way to become sitting in Westminster. that’s what that tit would really love, to return to ‘the mainland’
Someone asked a legitimate question….”Just out of curiosity, how many cars are stopped and searched in Dublin resulting in firearms being recovered? How many assassination attempts are foiled?”
Based on the Garda figures 2 million cars were stopped, 5000 Kalashnikov guns were recovered and at least 100,000 assassination attempts were foiled….about as valid as dumping out a Russian diplomat by Boris Johnsons little lictor (pardon my Latin) Varadkar :)
I am wondering if Anne Marie McNally and possibly other members of the SocDems and that “Spidey Sense” might have been used to identify the person concerned.
Allegedly.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2018/03/26/my-taxi-driver-was-a-former-mossad-agent/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=web&utm_content=popular_posts
For a second I thought they had expelled “Stephanie Knox”.
This expulsion gesture is some kind of a ledger entry by Varadkar. Whatever we think about it is likely wrong, we know nothing. Get over it and welcome the easter bunny in the coming weekend.
Heeeemmm
Who was it that cracked into the Revenue Ashtown Gate Block and made off with a few laptops……
T’wasnt a few retired Russians
S’all I’m saying
Ireland is not neutral. Ireland is defenceless.
Defenceless people need friends.
Mary Lou McDonald declares trusting Boris Johnson ”may not be wisest course of action”
Whereas, we are safe with the wise counsel of Gerry Adams, ex TD Barry ”Kingsmill” McElduff and Senator Maire ”Stack” Devine.?
In my opinion the last 3 named are capable of starting a war anywhere.