Great response, you can hide behind the smarter chaps now, you dullard.
Why? I donât think Iâve defended Leo once in here for this, I just find the frothing at the mouth from the usual suspects hilarious as they try and turn a misdemeanour into Watergate.
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The document was one of Leoâs Horcruxes
Jumping up & down tugging the sack off yourself wonât achieve anything.
Trying to ping this on RTĂ is bizarre.
Michael Martin solely has the power to finish Leo but he isnât for moving him off.
Iâd take your outrage a little more seriously if it wasnât so transparently partisan
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He has had to make two apologies for factually incorrect reporting during Covid.
The dead nurses one was sourced from his late who rents out cars iirc.
This is the same Paddy C who was decrying journalism standards in Ireland and was talking about setting up a bursary for journalism students. Imagine learning from a fella like that.
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Was that during another radio show which they dedicated to the matter?
Is Twitter the source of all your information? 
Hmmm⊠The foot would be in the other shoe if certain parties were involved here, so donât be getting too high and mighty⊠I agree that itâs a tad overblown but letâs be honest, FFG would be shouting from the rafters if it was SF.
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Correct.
But, itâs Micheal who has the power to crack the whip here.
Here is a report from RTĂ News, youâre once again wrong.
The media did not publish text messages that in a response to Varadkar asking for an address that one time said Dublin 8 and then another Clonskeagh is another point. Which version of the text would you have preferred yourself?
The story is what it is on the face of it. He leaked it but it was to do with the complex relationships between various factions in the medical profession and the Department of Health. The only benefit to him personally appears to be getting the business of Government done.
Most have taken the story in proportion. Criticism of him for the method but not the motives, which to many is what really matters. Your view is that leaking should mean resignation and thatâs fine, I think itâs a bit weak sauce myself. The thinking theyâre Woodward and Beirnstein and masters at dripping a story are very cringey.
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Probably fair comment. That being said I think this one was oversold from the start as âcorruptionâ
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I think thatâs how most reasonable people looking at this whole story would sum it up. Hence why there seems to be little public backlash to it.
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Premature ejaculation.
Leo wrong a further text message saying âhowâs tricks?â, masterful drip feeding.
Someone from msm should ask Leo what his opinions on direct provision Centres really are? The people will be able to tell if heâs lying or not.
THE LIST of characters in Leo Varadkarâs âconfidentialâ leak story includes the tĂĄnaiste himself, web summit guru Paddy Cosgrave, GP union head Dr MaitiĂș Ă Tuathail and medical professional Chay Bowes. But the unconscious instigator of the controversy that threatened to destabilise the government is the former chief executive of the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP), Chris Goodey, who must be finding it hard not to smirk right now.
It was during Goodeyâs performance at the helm of the NAGP that reports of poor governance and unaccounted-for spending arose. This led to NAGP chairman Ă Tuathail requesting that paramedic Bowes do a report on the organisation, with Bowes saying that Ă Tuathail offered to parachute him in as CEO after the report. At the same time, Bowes was trying to get the NAGP to partner with him in a community health scheme entitled Community Hospital Ireland (CHI).
Bowesâs report showed up debts of âŹ400,000 and reports of Goodeyâs lavish spending in Paris and in casinos â allegations he denied. In Village magazine, Bowes says that he advised Ă Tuathail to wind up the NAGP, following which the council resigned and the company went into liquidation. Still, Bowes and Ă Tuathail pursued the CHI project but, after meetings with former HSE boss Tony OâBrien and individuals in and around the HSE, this fell through.
A dimension to the competing interests and agendas being pursued by various parties is that the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO), with which the government agreed to negotiate on the new GP contract to the exclusion of the NAGP, was close to Fine Gael. The NAGP, alternatively, was seen as pally with Fianna FĂĄil. Varadkarâs friendship with Ă Tuathail was a complicating factor that cut across these party lines.
At what precise point Bowesâs friendship or alliance with Ă Tuathail was fractured is hard to divine from the Village article; was it over the abolition of the NAGP or was it, more likely, when the pair became divided in talks with others about the community health project? Bowes argues that the avaricious, private health sector killed his community initiative and his remarks to Village certainly indicate a hostility towards Ă Tuathail.
Whatever, the entry of web summit principal Paddy Cosgrave added spice to the competing interests at play. Cosgraveâs animus towards FG is unlimited following his row over the Dublin summit in 2016 and, as reported, he recently settled a defamation action against him by Ă Tuathail. Bowes told Village that he had been working with Cosgrave on âother initiativesâ and that Cosgrave put him in touch with the magazine.
Meanwhile, Goodey â who had been presented as the baddie in the NAGP debacle last year â must be allowing himself a sardonic chuckle.
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Thinly veiled âoh fuck what were we thinking releasing it all this week, journalism is hardâ