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Minister Shatter and Commissioner Callinan should both resign in disgrace

Muahahaha · 2014-02-19 00:13:14

Below, courtesy of Broadsheet.ie, is the full conversation between Garda Whistleblower Maurice McCabe and the confidential recipient Oliver Connollly. It gives a huge insight into why Shatter is so close to Martin Callinan and why he is trying to make this scandal go quietly away. IMO this is explosive stuff because it…

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#2702 22-09-2015 6:25pm
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kbannon wrote: »

Any leader facing a motion of no confidence and doesn't do what Enda has just done should not be Taoiseach.

Is there any actual point to it? It isn't as if he there's any danger whatsoever that he'll lose it.

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#2703 22-09-2015 8:31pm
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K-9 wrote: »

Is there any actual point to it? It isn't as if he there's any danger whatsoever that he'll lose it.

It's all about PR.
The news headline was presumably* something like "the government today won a confidence motion in Enda Kenny" rather than like "the government today won a motion of no confidence in Enda Kenny". Aesthetics really.

Like I said earlier, it is all timewasting when they all (i.e. all parties) have so much else to do.

* I've been working all day and haven't heard the news!

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