Leo Varadkar and Katherine Zappone
New statement from the Tanaiste on his text messages and freedom of information requests: pic.twitter.com/fz5gDIBftS
— Philip Ryan (@Philip_Ryan) September 2, 2021
Meanwhile…
Interestingly, the Tánaiste’s department previously responded to an FOI request from myself and clearly stated there was no records of any texts between Leo Varadkar and Katherine Zappone about the Merrion event, which we now know was not the case pic.twitter.com/BIilYEQqHw
— Jack Power (@jackpowerIT) September 1, 2021
Meanwhile…
Fianna Fáil TD for Offaly and Foreign Affairs committee member Barry Cowen has said the Taoiseach needs to address the issue regarding the “content” of the texts shared yesterday by Leo Varadkar over a UN role for former minister Katherine Zappone.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, he said that while he accepts Micheál Martin has said that no texts should be deleted if it contains Government business, he believes he needs to “acknowledge” the content of those texts.
He said he did not allude to the “startling information” within the texts, “the amount of knowledge that was known by the parties involved” and that a contract and agreement had been reached with Ms Zappone while no one else was aware of it.
Taoiseach should ‘acknowledge’ content of Varadkar texts (RTÉ)
Yesterday: From The Piglet
what’s the collective noun for liars? A smear?
a tribunal of liars
A Shamble
Is it not an omni-shambles? (Plural)
a political party of liars
i believe it’s just called Ff/Fg
A blushirt?
Nonsense controversy. Time to move on.
I know. People digging for more detail into what appears to have been a very dodgy job appointment and the subsequent lies their government ministers are spinning to try to cover it up. Ridiculous isn’t it??!
FG’s dirty laundry being aired for all to see – Leo trying to put any potential leadership challenges from Coveney firmly to bed.
As much as I dont like Leo, I think I like Coveney even less.
When a talentless blowhard like Barry Cowen occupies the high moral ground you know you’ve a problem.
Ah that’ll be pulled asunder quick enough
Drink Driving
You never stand a chance removing that stain
Someone is telling ‘porkies’.
Saying this here now too
I’m predicting a split in Fine Gael
You can already see come key meja heads togging out behind their chosen boy
→_→ Look who got the texts
→_→ Look who got the Dept letter
Oddly enough a new party out’ve this Government Shamble
Could save some jittery Fianna Fail TDs seats
As well as widen the vanguard against the Shinners
And there’ll be no shortage of real money, like the real real money, to get a start up out’ve the backrooms and whatapp groups
And let’s be honest
Micheal Martin is only Taoiseach because the Fine Gael cabinet cohort support him
His own Ministers aren’t worth a Pooh
As for the Greens
Shur’ they’re compost
Idle sweaty inconvenient mounds that you have to be seen to have about the place
Supposedly helpful but actually unsightly and smelly
A visible nuisance
The Green Party Ministers are the brown bins of Cabinet
You keep them as far away from the front door as you can
that is quite the prediction.
would love to hear people’s ideas for what a name for the new party might be?
Not to mention the split in FF. Barry Cowan has only gone and managed to pee-off some of those close to MM by generating headlines supposedly to make FG sweat but this has had the added effect of drowning out poor Darragh O’Brien (an ally of MM who backed him re Cowan’s resignation) and his crucial “Housing for All” plan. Is Cowan that devious and desirous of revenge? Lol.
Omni-splits – omni-shambles.
He definitely wants revenge
But he’s not smart enough to be devious about it
And from what I’m hearing, he’s unlikely to get any real support anyway
It’ll be Callery v McGrath
But what I’m more interested in is of the two boys – is who will Jim back
Same for Timmy Dooley – he might be stuck within the Senate, but he’s got skills and he knows how to use them
Good craic, but no. They are like the GOP/ too fond of the greasy till
They will come to some ‘gentleman’s’ agreement – you already know this.
There’s no longer room for the two of them
And their corporate overlords n’ handlers won’t put up with not knowing what’s going to happen next
If there’s a gentleman’s agreement at all
It will be when one wins
And the other is gets a going away present
Oh what a tangled web FFG weave when they practice to deceive.
If things aren’t surreal enough today, we now have mad auld GiggidyGums quoting Sir Walter Scott. Chortle.
A trite quote but admittedly unexpected from you Giggz.
Scan the code. Once you extract yourself from the Kiddies Klub.
Bitty.
It’s actually wrong anyway
It’s when first we practice to deceive
Bitty isn’t so well educated so.
Lol. Indeed @Poor aul divil. Still remarkable that mad auld GiggidyGums even has this in his arsenal of literary quotes.
Guffaw!
On apprend à tout âge, eh Giggz!
:-p
Lol
Pair of oul wans
How long,
How long must we sing this song?
https://twitter.com/caulmick/status/1433415194215129093
Roisin Shortall pointing out that Zappone did in fact lobby for the position.
Make Leo go away