Agreed. I canāt understand Coveney for example being moved out of an important portfolio, housing, having only went into it a year ago. All this old pallaver then from Coveney all this time about how theyāre going to build all these new houses imminently under his watch and that he has a plan. I understand Leo wanted his mate Eoghan Murphy in the cabinet but why not put Murphy on something else and leave Coveney where he was? Give Murphy the jobs portfolio after Mary Mitchell OāConnor was booted out. Perfect. But now what we have is both of them on new portfolios trying to get to grips with their new role for the first few months, losing any momentum Coveney had gathered up on housing. It only makes sense if Coveney privately really pushed to be taken off housing. I imagine it would be very boring in comparison to the chief politician on Brexit which would further his profile at home and abroad as well.
I also canāt get my head around that gimp Charlie Flanagan going to justice. It would make you despair if you thought about it too much.
To leave Coveney at Housing would be seen as a massive insult to him and Leo needs to bring along the Coveney backers with him seen as they are most of the party.
Housing is a poison chalice. Murphy canāt be much of a friend.
I read somewhere that Eoghan Murphy is the grandson of the lad that suckered Gaybo into giving him his life savings which leaves me somewhat conflicted on him.
He is. Russell Murphy. He was an awful cad. He diddled Hugh Leonardās money too. Itās hard to fault him over his choice of victim. My recollection is that he spent in on a renowned beauty who used to write for the Sunday papers. His father is either a senior counsel or a judge.
In fairness you can choose your friends but you canāt choose your family.
The father is a silk. The best thing about Russellās ripoff is that heād ring gaybo saying heād found a first edition book or a painting for him and heād send it over by taxi. Little did gaybo realise all of this was coming from his own money
Sorry, when I said āwell spokenā I meant that he has a clipped South Dublin accent, although there is an element of nasal interference in it. He also has a very slight lisp.
Heās a bit like Ed Miliband in that regard, and also in terms of how he looks. His politics are considerably to the right of Mr. Miliband however.
In terms of the content of what he says, heās certainly no better than Mr. Kenny, considerably worse in my view. I havenāt been impressed with him at all when Iāve heard him debating on television and radio.
I donāt see him being a credible future leader of Fine Gael at all.
