He probably just hasnât been given a platform yet. Expect him to be rolled out by tomorrow afternoon.
If Shatter was incandesant with rage because GSOC didnât come to him with their bugging suspicions straight away than I look forward to his reaction now over this? Someone in his department sitting on a letter for two weeks or a cabinate colleague since November. Either way he should be suitably outraged one would think?
Not that any of this is relevant as hs should have known from June 2013 if he was up to the job.
[QUOTE=âSpecial Olympiakos, post: 921761, member: 366â]If Shatter was incandesant with rage because GSOC didnât come to him with their bugging suspicions straight away than I look forward to his reaction now over this? Someone in his department sitting on a letter for two weeks or a cabinate colleague since November. Either way he should be suitably outraged one would think?
Not that any of this is relevant as hs should have known from June 2013 if he was up to the job.[/QUOTE]
If he didnt know then it makes, even more, a mockery of the assertion that he is a master of his brief and a very dilligent minister. The GSOC report is served on him in march every year. If he didnt read it then he wasnt doing his job
Kinvara native Maire Whelans position is looking pretty shaky this morning now tooâŚ
Knowing about recordings since last November but sitting on it for so long???
Sounds like the working relationship between herself and Shatter is non existent.
How did somebody in Shatters department reportedly sit on this letter for the past 2 weeks?
Itâs inexcusable really, the timing of the release was either deliberately delayed by the Government or there isnât a functioning department of justice.
They may have thought it would be a good diversion, but it looks like theyâve only gone and gotten themselves in deeper shit. Alot of those FG heads come across as too smug for their own goood, and I think this may be their undoing.
On the flip side, do FF really want to bring down the Government at this point in time? Granted they would see a bounce given the nature of the collapse, but they would still probably rather the current Government rode this out and FF got another couple of years to keep rebuilding. If this does result in an election then by default SF & the independents will be the big winners.
What time is Shatter speaking today?
As others have pointed out, he has to be fucked from either lying or from incompetence. Thought Cathal fairly flummoxed Simon Coveney on Morning Ireland this morning, asking him what others would think if An Bord Bia sent him a letter about a serious meat quality issue and he claimed not to have seen it for a couple of weeks.
[QUOTE=âRocko, post: 921780, member: 1â]What time is Shatter speaking today?
As others have pointed out, he has to be fucked from either lying or from incompetence. Thought Cathal fairly flummoxed Simon Coveney on Morning Ireland this morning, asking him what others would think if An Bord Bia sent him a letter about a serious meat quality issue and he claimed not to have seen it for a couple of weeks.[/QUOTE]
Itâs some time around 11, maybe 10:45.
When are we going to revolt lads?
Whatever is to come out in the Ian Bailey case must be huge. The Government sound half-gleeful in bigging it up, presumably in the hope that it deflects more attention away from the current Government back to previous ones.
Yeah⌠Simon kept using the word âexplosiveâ this morning, so they will try and use the Bailey case as a smokescreen.
Shatter has some fucking neck.
[QUOTE=âTreatyStones, post: 921773, member: 1786â]How did somebody in Shatters department reportedly sit on this letter for the past 2 weeks?
Itâs inexcusable really, the timing of the release was either deliberately delayed by the Government or there isnât a functioning department of justice.
They may have thought it would be a good diversion, but it looks like theyâve only gone and gotten themselves in deeper shit. Alot of those FG heads come across as too smug for their own goood, and I think this may be their undoing.
On the flip side, do FF really want to bring down the Government at this point in time? Granted they would see a bounce given the nature of the collapse, but they would still probably rather the current Government rode this out and FF got another couple of years to keep rebuilding. If this does result in an election then by default SF & the independents will be the big winners.[/QUOTE]
The longer FG stay in power the stronger FF get.
And we are off? Bad start for Shatter, pays tribute to the commissioner but not a word about the whistle blower.
Can someone qualified please assess the level of RATTLED that Shatter is displaying here and inform the forum.
Mattie McGrath just roared âDead man walkingâ 
Not rattled, just seething he finds himself explaining himself to lesser beings, including eunuch kenny
Mattie is tremendous fun. Itâs a joke that heâs actually a TD but tremendous fun all the same with his funny accent.
Fucking idiot. This kind of yahooism makes it easier for the cunt to deflect
He doesnt seem rattled, he has just come out swinging at the opposition. 
Niall Collins points out that it is strange that former Commissioner Martin Callinan gave Shatter information about Mick Wallace being stopped in his car â but not about the potential ramifications of gardaĂ recording all phone calls in and out of a large number of stations.
I reckon he is gone or government falls. The AG is a Labour appointee. She doesnât get on with Shatter.
Trying to shift blame to her will mean Labour will start to move against Shatter. Even FG must regard him as toxic.
More details will emerge. Possible file re his breathalyser test or something to show he had to have known before he says he did.
I reckon he is gone by the weekend. He lacks any credibility now.