He was crying while giving evidence on the stand last week. 
Its seemingly good to run for another week. Itâll be a right tab to pick up for the loser. Doesnât look the most astute of moves from Paudie. It should have been plain sailing for him next time out with Deasy steeping down. Phelan is very close to the Doctor with Dungravan links and Coffey backed Coveney. Leo must be fairly pissed off with Coffey for following through with this. Heâll fuck him over yet ahead of the next election.
Leo is on the late late tonight chaps. Sure to be asked the hard questions
Not tonight though
Iâm sure ryan will have a load of homeless people in the audience for an ambush like he did for casey
Sure to be lots of questions about Kylie. And socks.
A repeat of the 1959 All Ireland Final as a replay will be needed to find a winner.
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This will certainly pay for upgrading a number of sailing vessels in dunmore east .
Its not a great outcome for Paudie. Presumably he has to pick up the tab for his own legal team - in or around âŹ300k for both sides according to that piece from the Paper of Record. Iconic Newspapers presumably have deep enough pockets.
Fine Gael Senator Paudie Coffey has settled his High Court action over a newspaper article which he said defamed him when he was likened to an 18th century highway robber in an article about boundary changes in south Kilkenny.
Following a 13-day trial last December, the jury was discharged on December 11th after it failed to reach a verdict, having deliberated for 11 hours over two days.
Mr Coffey, a former TD and former minister of state for the environment, now a Senator, sued Iconic New spapers and journalist Sam Matthews, publishers of the article in the Kilkenny People on January 15th, 2016.
The article, headed âCoffey the Robberâ, stated fellow FG TD John Paul Phelan had launched a furious broadside on the then minister of state accusing him of trying to ârobâ a chunk of south Kilkenny.
He claimed the words falsely meant, among other things, he was guilty of misuse of public office and was a person of severe ill-repute, akin to an 18th century highwayman from Waterford. Sen Coffey comes from Waterford and lives in Portlaw.
The defendants denied the article, based on a press release issued by Mr Phelan, was defamatory.
After the jury was discharged, the case was put back into the list to fix dates while the issue of the costs of the 13-day trial was to be dealt with separately.
When this costs matter came before Mr Justice Bernard Barton on Wednesday, Richard Kean SC, for Mr Coffey, told the judge he was âvery relieved and pleased to say the entire matter is resolvedâ and as part of the resolution a statement was to be read out by Rossa Fanning SC on behalf of the defendants.
The statement said the defendants âconfirm they never in any way questioned the honesty of Sen Coffey and acknowledge him to be a politician of integrity and wish him well in his future political career.
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Another whining FG bollox
Very thin skinned is our Paudie
Interesting to see now if Verona runs as an Independent. If she does, Paul Kehoe is goosed either way. Sheâd have a punchers chance of sneaking the last seat, but more likely to split the vote and let someone like Johnny Mythen in.
Jim reeled in a few there
I went to a tech pal
Been waiting a few hours now for @tallback to comment but nothing â heâs usually fast out of the blocks if someone from SF sneezes.