This morning.

Kyiv, Ukraine.

Meanwhile…

Mr Coveney entered Ukraine from Poland last night.

The Polish military provided assistance as far as the Ukrainian border, where he was met by Ukrainian special forces who are providing transport and security during his visit. He is also accompanied by a close protection team from the Garda Emergency Response Unit, and is travelling with the Irish Ambassador to Ukraine, Thérèse Healy.

Simon Coveney to discuss EU membership bid with Ukrainian government in Kyiv (Irish Times)

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22 thoughts on “At The Front”

  1. Broadbag

    Total waste of money, a phonecall would do fine, but no photo-op then, boo!

    How long do we think he agonised over what to wear, full suit – too Boris-esque, sports casual – wrong message, business man on the golf course – yes! But I’ll buy a pair of vaguely military coloured slacks from M+S to show how dynamic I am, nailed it!

    1. TenPin Terry

      Shame he doesn’t get to meet the Big Zee.
      That’s reserved for top dogs.
      Not poodles.
      Still, he has the Garda Close Protection Team to watch his back.
      At the first sign of trouble they surround him, with their voluminous stomachs facing outwards acting as an impenetrable buffer zone.
      The technical term is doughnutting.
      Suit yourselves …

  2. SOQ

    There is something about all this theatre which seems off. For security reasons, the puppet clown does a world tour via Zoom and yet, everybody and their dog is tramping into a war zone to visit HIM.

    Ireland is a neutral country- Coveney has no business being there.

    1. paul

      it must be the lizard empire working with the reverse-vampires. Can’t trust a shapeshifter these days.

      It really should be Zoom calls though, same with any international conference. Save the air miles for things that can’t be done online.

          1. paul

            thanks, Millie :)

            honestly, Harney, SOQ spins yarns that are crying out to be challenged. It’s like hearing a drumbeat in the woods, you go look and find people jumping around a bonfire. You can join in without thinking, have a little think before deciding what to do or just tip the cap and walk away. I mostly walk away, some of those bonfires are too weird for me.

            but you’re following me around now. Does that mean you’ve joined this particular bonfire too or are you snarking from the trees?

          4. SOQ

            Talking about air miles while deliberately ignoring my point is the very definition of ‘spinning yarns’.

            Even air miles doesn’t make sense if everyone has to travel with their secuirty entourages to meet the clown puppet.

          5. paul

            so you don’t like when people disagree with you and you don’t like it when people agree with you? Maybe the internet isn’t the right place for you.

            regarding your above point, he doesn’t leave the country as he is engaging in a war against an invading army. Does it make you unhappy that he has people visiting him?

    2. Kim Cardassian

      So what you’re saying is that it’s ok for Russia to kill rape and murder Ukrainians because you don’t like the Ukrainian leader and Ireland should ignore it because Ireland is a neutral country.

      Ok gotcha Quinton.

      1. jonjoker

        As a matter of curiousity, how many rapes has this visit of Coveney’s stopped?
        He is there providing a show of support for the regime.
        A regime that came about as a result of “regime change” aka a coup d’etat.

        1. Nigel

          Well, he’s coming from a country that violently overthrew a regime and replaced it with another, when you put it like that.

          1. K. Cavan

            You actually, genuinely, believe in the gospel of American Exceptionalism, don’t you, Nigel?
            30 years of ultra-violent, malevolent US foreign policy imposed on the populations of Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan & Ukraine means nothing, the high moral ground only becomes occupied when someone dares resist the CIA by attempting to protect its people from the NATO-sponsored Nazi thugs infesting Washington’s puppet junta.
            Morality becomes perverted, even inverted, when imposed selectively. Such blatant cynicism & hypocrisy exposes your nauseating amorality.
            It’s disgusting.

          2. anti bot

            Invading a sovereign nation and killing innocent people is justified by previous US invasions. Explain why? Ah go on, tell us all, oh wise one

          3. Nigel

            ‘You actually, genuinely, believe in the gospel of American Exceptionalism, don’t you, Nigel?’

            ‘To actually signpost your latest attempt at the summit of Mount Fallacy, carrying your Strawman argument on your back, all the way to the top, now that there represents superhuman levels of idiocy.
            A clown in a dunce’s hat.’

      2. K. Cavan

        “So what you’re saying is…”
        Wow, it’s impossible not to be impressed by witnessing someone actually using this cliché unironically. To actually signpost your latest attempt at the summit of Mount Fallacy, carrying your Strawman argument on your back, all the way to the top, now that there represents superhuman levels of idiocy.
        A clown in a dunce’s hat.

    3. anti bot

      Explain why he shouldn’t be there. Maybe he is supporting the inexplicable invasion of a sovereign nation. Maybe he is a bit more rationale than gobsheens like you. Go on explain why killing innocent people is acceptable and should be deemed unacceptable by an Irish government minister

      1. anti bot

        Despite being on here 24/7 you forgot to explain. Why is that? is this an admission of being a troll?

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