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Minister for Agriculture attends 81-person golf event in breach of health guidelines

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Cute Hoor


    ebbsy wrote: »
    Probably, but he's ****ed.

    When you have to explain your movements then you are toast.

    Not sure, he has a neck like a jockey's bollix so I think he might tough it out, he is away, out of the limelight and no political future here, and can't be sacked, He is on a nice little earner there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Gerry Hatrick


    I'm guessing there is something coming out in the papers tomorrow that's pushed them to make a move now to protect themselves, I wonder if it's proof Hogan didn't isolate for 2 weeks on return from Belgium before going to the event?


  • Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cute Hoor wrote: »
    Not sure, he has a neck like a jockey's bollix so I think he might tough it out, he is away, out of the limelight and no political future here, and can't be sacked, He is on a nice little earner there.

    And he hasn’t got the embarrassment gene, at all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Cute Hoor


    I'm guessing there is something coming out in the papers tomorrow that's pushed them to make a move now to protect themselves, I wonder if it's proof Hogan didn't isolate for 2 weeks on return from Belgium before going to the event?

    You could be onto something there!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Hawthorn Tree


    I'm guessing there is something coming out in the papers tomorrow that's pushed them to make a move now to protect themselves, I wonder if it's proof Hogan didn't isolate for 2 weeks on return from Belgium before going to the event?

    I reckon so! :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,233 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    Oh grand, we'll get the morning radio programmes to discuss it so.

    The judge then is next.

    Hes done as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Dail being recalled.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,132 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Dail being recalled.

    Where did you hear this, thanks?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,233 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    I'm guessing there is something coming out in the papers tomorrow that's pushed them to make a move now to protect themselves, I wonder if it's proof Hogan didn't isolate for 2 weeks on return from Belgium before going to the event?

    Yep has to be the quarantine issue.

    No way back from that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,605 ✭✭✭tigger123


    Dail being recalled.

    Where did you see that?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Where did you hear this, thanks?

    Katie Hannon from RTE posted the email on twitter, it’s under embargo until midnight and the tweet has since been deleted


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Image of tweet attached


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭Jizique


    I reckon so! :)

    Farage, the Mail and the Express will be delighted as the EU is in disarray


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,113 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Image of tweet attached

    MM reacting again. Candidate now for worst Taoiseach ever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,132 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Norma Foley could be the new Min for Ag, betcha. And the quid pro quo for getting out of the upcoming omnishambles of LC results and schools going back is that Bruton is back as Min for Ed!

    You heard it here first, lol just having a laugh on a dry Saturday night.

    Hogan is going nowhere, he is gone back to Belgium and is out of reach, sniggering up his sleeve. But the only saving grace I see there is that he is Trade Commissioner or something, and with his cojones, we probably need someone like him in the EU to fight our little corner re Brexit.

    As a pp said, I'm loving all this, makes a change to have shenanigans going on during the Silly Season.

    Honestly the minute FF got back in power it just disintegrated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74,329 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    I'm guessing there is something coming out in the papers tomorrow that's pushed them to make a move now to protect themselves, I wonder if it's proof Hogan didn't isolate for 2 weeks on return from Belgium before going to the event?

    Something afoot alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,344 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    I'm guessing there is something coming out in the papers tomorrow that's pushed them to make a move now to protect themselves, I wonder if it's proof Hogan didn't isolate for 2 weeks on return from Belgium before going to the event?

    It's not Phil's first resignation rodeo.

    He walked the plank before more than 25 years ago and lived to tell the tale.

    https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0209/678849-phil-hogan-resigns-following-budget-leaks/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Something afoot alright.

    Although by all accounts he has to be “at work” on Monday in Brussels,once again a case of flouting quarantine guidelines....:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,888 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    I was saying a while back that you can be sure there is a table plan, and the picture of it has ome out.

    That means that all the guests looked to check where they were due to sit, and it’s clear as day that there are At least ten tables with up to ten people Per table. Nobody at the meal can offer any excuse for sitting down in those conditions because they must have known

    That should have raised flags.


    I think it’s also telling that the hotel knew a minister was coming, so therefore knew he would be accompanied by a member of the Gardai and still went ahead and allowed the rules to be broken, knowing full well the Gardai were going to be there.

    The same goes for the organisers, they booked the meal knowing the numbers, knowing the Gardai would have to be escorting the minister.

    Fire them all.


  • Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Off at a bit of a tangent, but I have a dim recollection than when Duty Free intra-Europe disappeared twenty something years ago, a certain cohort of EU officials retained this as a “perk”. Am I completely off beam and if not, is it still available to them?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Image of tweet attached

    On the 6.1 News yesterday MM claimed that it wasn't within his power to ask the Dail to reconvene early.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Cute Hoor


    Seamai wrote: »
    On the 6.1 News yesterday MM claimed that it wasn't within his power to ask the Dail to reconvene early.

    He can ask the Ceann Comhairle to do it


  • Posts: 4,238 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Seamai wrote: »
    On the 6.1 News yesterday MM claimed that it wasn't within his power to ask the Dail to reconvene early.

    And he was quickly corrected by AK47, who pointed to Standing Order no 26 iirc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Seamai wrote: »
    On the 6.1 News yesterday MM claimed that it wasn't within his power to ask the Dail to reconvene early.

    Alan Kelly then countered that saying he could...MM probably had Kelly badgering him all day and eventually caved...:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,132 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Cannot believe how many isshhoooos have arisen since the bould FF took office again. It was overnight I think. You couldn't make it up.

    Probably went straight back to Galway Tent mode. And look, I know there were FG there too but what about the Veggies? Ah they have no connections only locks for their bikes. Shoo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,344 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Off at a bit of a tangent, but I have a dim recollection than when Duty Free intra-Europe disappeared twenty something years ago, a certain cohort of EU officials retained this as a “perk”. Am I completely off beam and if not, is it still available to them?

    They certainly did, and you didn't need to be too high up the food chain to partake in the perk.

    The scheme was run by a private company. There was a catalogue of nice things and the stuff was delivered by courier.

    Don't know if it still exists.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭jojofizzio


    Cute Hoor wrote: »
    He can ask the Ceann Comhairle to do it

    What’s the betting he actually didn’t know that he could do it....wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest that it came as news to him that he could :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭physioman


    Read this from dr. Hartys Twitter.... he should listen to his own advice. they have some neck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,885 ✭✭✭DeanAustin


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    MM reacting again. Candidate now for worst Taoiseach ever.

    He’s been in the job for less than a couple of months. Inglorious start but can’t be judged yet. Why is there always a rush to make statements like this?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    I'm guessing there is something coming out in the papers tomorrow that's pushed them to make a move now to protect themselves, I wonder if it's proof Hogan didn't isolate for 2 weeks on return from Belgium before going to the event?
    I read (sorry, some newspaper online I think the Indo) that Hogan met Varadkar in an 'essential' meeting at Leinster house and it was intimating it was during the period he was apparently isolating.
    If true, that is explosive IMO.
    Hogan's timeline must be about to be released.

    LV would have to explain a few things - first thing most ppl ask if someone is back from abroad before/after pleasantries would be 'did you isolate' etc etc nevermind the 'face' of the pandemic, LV!
    Also, this is 2020 not c1900, pigeons and morse code for comms is long gone so face-to-face is not necessary.


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