“I thought it was Avril Lavigne at first when I saw this girl approaching with a skateboard and a smoothie,” Mr Varadkar said when asked about the incident at a press briefing this evening.https://t.co/gdaVbTFaHn
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) September 18, 2020
This evening.
Asked about the incident (see below), Tánaiste Leo Varadkar told journalists that what was thrown at him was a smoothie.
He also joked that he thought the person approaching him was singer Avril Lavigne because she was holding a skateboard; and explained that he understands the gardai want to speak to him about the incident and that conversation will likely take place next week.
He also said he was just after shooting a video about the new Covid-19 restrictions when the incident occurred and [the video] will be posted online later this evening.
He also said he luckily had a spare suit.
Earlier…
You can dislike Leo Varadkar, you can criticise his policies, you can disagree with him, but this is nasty and unnecessary thing to do. pic.twitter.com/ze8eVByU3S
— Darren Cleary (@RadioCleary) September 18, 2020
This afternoon.
Tanaiste Leo Varadkar gets a smoothie chucked on him at some velocity for reasons too numerous unknown at an unidentified park in Dublin.
His skateboard-toting assailant then turned and legged it.
Bodacious if pretty gnarly.
Any excuse.
I hope she’s arrested. That’s not how we instigate change. Disgusting.
She really excuse
Hope he is as clever as Noonan, and had a spare suit handy so that he could complete his organised photo-shoot.
You are an absolute shinner bot awhole. Is it okay to physically attack someone if you don’t agree with them… oh sorry I forgot the shinners are allowed to do so.
Ah MaryLouArmalite – it’s yourself. Where did I write that?
Yes that was very nasty. Who knows what could have been in that liquid! Very wrong.
small bit of widdle maybe
Fair play, Varadkar’s a right wing vandal.
Advocating physical violence, how very lefty commie keyboard warrior of you.
…ah here…there’s a noble tradition of pouring milkshakes over populist right-wing politicians…it’s not as if she hit him with a flagpole…
But yet everyone here cackled like hyenas when Nigel Farage got milk-shaked.
Shove your fake outrage where the sun don’t shine.
Brad Pitt is the same age as Nigel Farage. Being a hateful xenophobe ages you.
Farage got off easy. He was also due a boot up the hole and a smack round the neck with a rotten fish
I have difficulty not having a chuckle over Nigel and the milk shake to this day.
whilst I might not be the one to douse Leo in coffee, I have no difficulty finding reasons why one might feel so inclined.
It must be difficult for you knowing that most people don’t seem to think Varadkar’s anywhere near as much of a horrible little toerag as Farage.
Eh, no, not everyone.
Condemned such behaviour then, and condemning it now.
one is a government minister, the other is a professional twit
I wouldn’t worry too much about the outrage, charger old cock. Leo has all the YFG troops registering their disgust on all the usual comments sections this evening – how many of these guys comment regularly on here? Sod all, I’d say.
It’s despicable behaviour but I’d make an exception for Farage. Infact, I’d make it mandatory.
Description of assailant – “She was wearing a mask and could run like bejayzus”
We need serious consequences for the type of scumbags who carry out these acts, no matter who the victims is, you can’t have it ok for one side and not the other, physical assault is never acceptable.
Sad case. An adult with a skateboard.
:)
LOL
Not cool
Guess what’ll be a main news item on the 6One
As if Leo needed anymore help with his poll numbers
Yeah that’s right. He probably did it just to get votes? Seriously. What is wrong with you people. Its okay to be violent as long as you don’t agree with their politics.
Similar comments were made on here about sexual assault of politicians. No condemnations.
Go to Murica if you want to think like that. You will have lots of friends.
Think you got the wrong gist of my post there AntiBo
No I didn’t despite you trying to twist it below. “Not cool.. but good for poll numbers”, as if he tried to gain poll numbers by being assaulted…? Assault of anyone should be condemned outright and not laughed, sneered at, or saying they deserved it.
Vinny doesn’t have to think it’s staged in order to also think it’s not cool and regret that it’ll be good for his poll numbers.
Looks like Not cool has a very different meaning nowadays
Getting old lads
Stale and past it
It awaits us
Smoothies are violent
Would the person have done this if they weren’t wearing a mask?
Whose idea was it for us to wear masks?
Maybe think again.
The worst thing is how much Leo is going to enjoy giving out about this. He’ll have his fingers crossed for it to be a member of Sinn Féin.
Read my comments above. Hey, lets physically assault anyone if you don’t agree with them….?
So which YFG branch are you from?
The MaryLouArmalite division.
How long before the usual conspiracy freaks start squawking about it being a False Flag inside job?
Going by the reply to my original post above
About 12 minutes Daisy
Haha!! Everything’s a conspiracy to some.
delicious ironing there Daisy
leo got a tea shock.
ill get my coat
+100
Headline of the year
Doesn’t matter what political leaning the skateboardist had or whatever reason that Varadkar was doused, it will be still be blamed on the Shinners by the FG bots.
‘Tánaiste in TEA-SHOCK!’ And then they’ll have a sexually suggestive pic of a semi naked Leo Varadkar behind a semi naked Michael Martin. Both drinking cups of tea with their pinkies hanging out.
That’s a snakey thing to do, regardless of who he is.
You wan has a bang of antifa off her- well he is right wing I suppose.
A right winger would have used a two by four wrapped in a flag.
An’ an antifa left winger would use a U-lock to the head.
Tag you’re it.
Nah antifa use wildfires and milkshakes filled with concrete.
Unladylike behaviour is unladylike behaviour. It has nothing to do with right, left or centre. If she came from the Fatima Mansions area, she’d be called a gurrier.
this is so fake.
totally staged.
I’m just surprised the girl wasn’t wearing a ‘i love sinn fein’ tshirt
Those trees – the RA planted them.
Staged on the day they have to have the ‘don’t know what they are doing with covid so they are shutting the capital down’ conversation.
Varadkar said he thought at first it was Averil Lavigne, unfortunately it wasn’t her he said, he did have a spare suit, not a fan of his in any sense but shouldn’t have to be subjected to that. Assailant was thinking of many politicians who have been custard pied or egged in the past?
She looks no more than 18, no real harm done, maybe Varadkar can show some magnanimity and let this one slide?!
Sorry, didn’t mean to repeat the above from the article, there must have been an update to the article that I hadn’t seen :-(
Says a lot about his thinking when all that goes through his head is a list of celebrities, no matter what his situation. It’s a wonder he hadn’t a phrase from a song to describe it.