Senator Lynn Ruane with Katherine Zappone in 2015
ESB writes:
Why has Lynn Ruane not clarified any attendance at the Merrion event and refused to respond to questions on email and social media?
The TCD Senator has also deleted her Twitter account. Regardless of her position. No comment is not good optics IMO.
Anyone?
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She was at the event. She’s Zappone’s protege. You would think someone like Ruane would not only fess up to being there, but would give a list of the names of the powerful people there.
jasus….that’s some amount of photo ops on the chitter link there
meanwhile….
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/former-minister-zappone-to-be-asked-before-tds-and-senators-to-answer-questions-over-un-role-controversy-40853530.html
FG must have finally managed to get their jackanorys lined up
Zappone’s in Lynne’s autobiography. Think Zappone’s a type of hero to Lynn.
Lynn is a graduate of Zappone’s school too.
The school of hard necks?…
haha +1000
FWIW
I think Lynn Ruane stands up well on her own merits
And deserves be viewed as an Independently Elected Senator in her right
Which Zappone never was btw
So what, she got support to further her own education from An Cosán
That’s what they are funded to do
And it shows investment in education works
Zappone was elected a TD as you know.
The educational investment in Ruane’s arts degree, served only to reserve her place at the trough. TCD alumni can feel all warm, fuzzy and ‘with it’ by giving their vote for Lynn to join the profoundly undemocratic Senate.
But not elected a Senator
Nor was Zappone re-elected after her one and only term
Whereas Lynne Ruane was
Was UM from the IT at the event?
Yes, Mullally was there too. Mullally accepted a job from Zappone when she was minister. So much for journalistic independence.
Sara, you seem to speak with a certain assuredness on this subject, were you there yourself?
also, is it just dumb luck there are no photos or is that something a little more
sinistermanaged you reckon?Merrion must have surely been paid by now for the event, kinda amazed nobody has figured out who paid for what as yet
I was wait staff there that day. Not in the garden. But we all saw who was coming and in and out, and later who was going in to the bathrooms. The Hotel has security cameras, so the whole event was recorded, but it’s impossible to get a copy. None of us waiting that day were able to get photos (all of us thought the event was perfectly legal anyway).
Don’t leave us hanging…expecting about 50 more comments from you!
may I ask…
are you being careful/deliberately keeping schtum?
or is it just has nobody thought to ask you for comment/identity parade yet?
either way you’re sitting on some highly useful info there Sara
The only people I recognized were Varadkar, Una Mullally, Neale Richmond and Bacik. There rest were the usual types you see in the hotel who regularly come over from government buildings, senior civil types, advisors like Patrick Geoghegan and Ed Brophy. The Merrion is very strict with waiting, so it’d be a dead give away if you tried to snap someone with your phone.
@sara
“None of us waiting that day were able to get photos”…
Was it a case of no phones allowed, or no photo’s to be taken?
Can we presume that all the staff had the hse covid tracker apps enabled, whilst working the event…?
As I’m sure all those attending the party did… ;-)
This just Lynn?
perhaps we should all just calm down?
it’s clearly nothing personal…
Strictly business, as usual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx1_Add-z4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lx1_Add-z4
actually…
Go get her Giggidy! Attack!
Ah bless. Bitty. https://vimeo.com/115629263