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Half tidied it for you there.

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guardian have picked up the story, saying its a vindication for gemma o’doherty

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/mar/25/irish-independent-ireland

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Noonan is all over the place on Prime Time. Trying to save shatter is going to bring government down.

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actors play out senior civil servant visiting calinan last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZhYJcXh2I

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Stage 3!

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Can someone briefly recap the whole situation here for those who haven’t been following it unfold?

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Noonan saying that it’s one particular recording of a call that’s the issue :confused:

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Noonan saying Commissioner “retired” for “family reasons” as per his statement.

Car crash interview and I rate Noonan as a Finance Minister but this is shocking shite.

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“Minister Vraddakar”

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numerous scandals involving gardai, most of which occur on FF watch, shatter gives unprecedented extension to gda commissioner who should have retired in 2012 and then either dismisses or attacks any complaints against gardai, embroiling the govt in the scandal which should have been a stick with which to beat FF and a way to give the public faith in accountbility in the gardai

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Ms Daly looking ravishing here on Primetime as always.

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“The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.”
flann o’brien

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[QUOTE=“TheUlteriorMotive, post: 921643, member: 2272”]“The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.”
flann o’brien[/QUOTE]
How fucking dare you give me a bad rating!

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If you withdraw the comment I will withdraw my disagreement.

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[QUOTE=“Elvis Brandenberg Kremmen, post: 919775, member: 1624”]It’s typical Labour. Anytime they’re in Government and the writing is on the wall they’ll stand on a football to give themselves an excuse to bail.

Clondalkin Paper Mills, Harry Whelehan etc in the past.

All the posturing (not of all of it wrong, in fairness) has come from Burton followed by Gilmore followed by Rabbitte and now Quinn.

Classic Labour “give us a head or we’re off” bullshit.[/QUOTE]

As distinct from the civil war partys clinging on to positions regardless of the shit they are in?

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Shatter must have serious power in FG or something because anyone else would be gone under the bus at this stage.
Could get good now though, Governments have fallen for less

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[QUOTE=“Julio Geordio, post: 921681, member: 332”]Shatter must have serious power in FG or something because anyone else would be gone under the bus at this stage.
Could get good now though, Governments have fallen for less[/QUOTE]
This has strong echoes of the Brendan Smith affair.

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we need a head enda, yours or shattsies

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Labour will walk if they can square the fact that the AG is their girl.

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be very difficult for them after they all expressed cofidence in shatter at various stages.

mcdowell is curiously quiet in all this, normally hed be gleefully knifing shatter