Even the Village claim he met his non friend ten times in a year. Leo provided alibis for four of them. Six times is still twice as many as the 2/3 times he claimed. Nobody pursued that. I’ve hardly met my best friend 6 times in last few years ffs.
Real smoking gun stuff alright
It proves he’s a liar, not that there’s any doubt anyway.
Politician lies. By God.
Politician leaks confidential document to his friend, then lies about relationship with his friend.
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In fairness nobody in the real world gives an absolute bollocks about this
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SF IRA are still seething about being schooled in last nights debate. Are they that precious that they don’t expect a bit of cut and thrust in any debate and their own shortcomings pointed out.
The lads in Belfast around the monitor were fit to kill.
Politician leaks 
This never happens all over the world since politics began surely? I might fall off the couch here
Confidential documents.
Establishment shill defends establishment. 
agreed
There’s no need for all of his colleagues to say he gave a full and frank explanation all the same when it’s clear he didn’t. I would expect the media to do their job here.
The head of state is not a mere politician, can you imagine if Boris sent a confidential document to a friend who happened to be in a rival org? The British media would be all over it, as would ours probably
how did we get to this. the irish and indeed most "democs " are rotten to the core
Too many people taking drugs and not keeping up with what’s going on around them.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that Boris’s office leaks like a sieve given that Cummings has been broadcasting out via the Spectator since day 1.
FG protecting Leo again isn’t much of a shock. It’s up to the media to do their job properly to hold him to account, but half them have an eye on jumping the fence for a PR gig.
What planet do lads live on, is this place simultaneously utterly cynical and utterly naive at the same time?
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Again, I missed that this was happening but flicked through the transcript just there just to see the main issues. A quick control F, it was mentioned once
I see statements from MLMD (SF), Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Labour), Eoghan O’Brien (SF), Roisin Shorthall (SDs) to name just a few on the matter, I don’t have the inclination to look much further.
ageed buddy. Id say there’s lads on here who take drugs and you wouldnt know. I’m happy with a few wines and jameson.
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It was mentioned by Heather Humphreys, Helen McEntee and one other FG td according to one piece I read this morning. Mrs Humphreys also mentioned the disappearing of bodies by the Ira in her speech, although what that to do with anything is lost on me tbh.
Joe McHugh mentioned men watching the a video in a Belfast room with a straight face as Leo’s friend pulled his strings. You literally couldn’t make the lack of self awareness up in FG ranks.
Putting their faith in a cunt like Paddy was the mistake here. He’s poison
Gavan Reilly
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Three different complaints from SF in the last few hours to the Govt’s proposed appointment of Geraldine Feeney, ex-FF senator, to the board of public standards watchdog SIPO. Job must go to a former office holder but Feeney more recently worked as a lobbyist for NAGP - yes, them
Feeney would therefore become a member of SIPO which is therefore poised to investigate @paulmurphy_TD’s complaint into Leo Varadkar’s leak of IMO document with the NAGP - yes, them
The proposed appointment has to go through both Dáil and Seanad; SF want Feeney’s name withdrawn.
Currently due for ratification in Seanad next Tuesday and in Dáil a few days later
(There’s nothing to say that Feeney would not recuse herself from considering any complaint into NAGP-themed issues, but nonetheless the optics are… poor)
The issue was put to Leo Varadkar himself earlier - Pearse Doherty pointing out that the NAGP was Feeney’s only lobbying client.
Varadkar said name had been put forward by Michael McGrath (as minister responsible) - but her name was approved by Government as a whole last Tuesday
I hear some questions are already being asked within FF circles as to how the name was arrived at - a lot of fondness for Feeney as a former parliamentarian, but confluence of timing has some members furious
Nominated by Cabinet on very same day Varadkar faced confidence motion
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