“The cover-up by Fine Gael needs to end. We need total openness and transparency – something that has been lacking from the very outset of this debacle” – @johnbradysf says Minister Coveney must appear before Foreign Affairs Committee tomorrow #MerrionGate pic.twitter.com/nj8ooq2iQJ
— Sinn Féin (@sinnfeinireland) September 2, 2021
This morning/afternoon.
Earlier: Make It Go Away
Meanwhile…
The missing FOI officer has just been appointed Special Envoy for Data Protection. €15,000, free travel, expenses and Nokia 5110 #Merriongate #ResignLeo further details can be accessed via Tribunal https://t.co/ADEcdGKEC5
— annfarrelly (@annfarrelly32) September 2, 2021
Meanwhile…
You'd think @k_zappone who is a 'progressive' with a professed interest in 'freedom of speech' and 'transparency' would make a statement to clarify her role in the #MerrionGate affair, and maybe answer a few questions.
Instead she's been…mute for weekshttps://t.co/hyMS8uRAmo— Village Magazine (@VillageMagIRE) September 2, 2021
Fight!
Well, the Shinners would know all about cover-ups. Fuppin’ hell, from anyone else!
by that logic, if they are calling out this cover up, it can only be a cover-up ?
as they know all about cover-ups……..
This is what focus falls on when Twitter drives journalism
Are you implying that holding Government ministers to account is a bad thing?
It would appear only when séin féin are involved
No, it’s a good thing. Chalke it down and remind voters at the next election.
It’s not earth shattering though and is getting a disproportionate amount of coverage because it’s trending on Twitter. Twitter is not real life. Talk to real people and they have other concerns they’d prefer to see covered.
It’s a symptom of clickbait media and poorly paid journalists.
Cheers for articulating what I couldn’t.
Holding government and ministers to account for housing, health and education should be our priority.
But no! Everyone is obsessed with a f*cking tea party. What the hell is wrong with everyone?
this is what happens when ministers aren’t informed of proposals from other ministers till they are in cabinet.
I feel that messers o’brien,donnelly and foley may well be held to account, just not today
You must realise that the tea party is really just a symptom of the disease.
One more time, make up job, give to budy without any proper process,run and hide when fallout starts,be at least economical with varying truths – there have been more than one truth after all. all this involves arguably two of the government’s heavy hitters pulling the wool over the eyes of the head of their coalition partner and the leader of government who seems happy to sit on his hands and nod along.
at least the people of rome had nero’s sweet melodies to soothe them as rome burned around their ears what have the irish eloctorate got to listen to ?
End of summer hangover. . In so many ways
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/simon-coveney-denies-misleading-tds-over-text-messages-about-katherine-zappone-appointment-40812373.html
Coveney denies misleading etc. etc. etc.
The same fellow who denied his Da had a secret offshore bank account (remember those days). He had $175,000 on deposit in the secret Cayman Island-based bank
FG – Liars ‘r Us
For context:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/coveney-shut-cayman-account-two-years-before-becoming-td-1.243895
Imagine that!
The Ansbacher-banking, tax evading Foley mentioned in the same article as Coveney-Père is none other than the father of the current Minister for Education.
Where the hell did Village Magazine get the impression that Progressives are committed to Freedom of Speech? Zappone herself, when she wasn’t pushing her own LGBT agenda, including that peculiar obsession with school toilets that Progressives have, was constantly pushing for censorship, via “hate speech laws”.