Leo Varadkar story in The Village??? - Mod Notes and banned Users in OP updated 16/05

skimpydoo · 20-03-2021 02:00AM

jammiedodgers wrote: »

You'll have to ask Phil Hogan.

Hogan leaked once and he resigned. Leo like Hogan leaked budget info and he did not resign. Leo also leaked two other times.

Akesh · 20-03-2021 02:10AM

blanch152 wrote: »

I have plenty of photos with people, who are not friends.

A photo means nothing in this case.

Do you have a photo with someone whom you leaked a contract to?

Traumadoc · 20-03-2021 07:39AM

Fann Linn wrote: »

Gardai are investigating this. Not SF.

Given how Leo led the campaign to support McCabe, I would be more worried about those in the "long grass" than the Shinners.

Jinglejangle69 · 20-03-2021 09:04AM

Traumadoc wrote: »

Given how Leo led the campaign to support McCabe, I would be more worried about those in the "long grass" than the Shinners.

Hold on.

So you're saying because Leo listened and supported McCabe in his fight against garda corruption, An Garda síochána will now be out to get him????

Are you happy they might go after someone for helping expose corruption in the force????

Is that the level people will be happy to go to, to get one up in Leo?

JustAThought · 20-03-2021 09:33AM

the only person leo helps is himself - and his mates. Helped himself to a house for himself and his partner - as though two wern’t enough for them already - had to greedy grab one for himself as well off the hard pressed taxpayers back. Greedy Leo. Helping himself to everything. Brown envelopes of confidential information to his mate - what cut wouod he have got out of that business - or another like Philo and the boys giving away Irish offshore oil and gas reserves to ‘mates’ for free and then being elected as directors into their boards. Greedy leo. Was the house and 100,000 payrise you all gave yourselves while the country was on its knees not enough?

Dempo1 · 20-03-2021 09:43AM

McMurphy wrote: »

Wonder if leak, I mean Leo tuned in, and if he did, wonder if he leaked, I mean liked it?

https://twitter.com/RTERadio1/status/1372959568993607682?s=09

Have to say Callan takes off Leo brilliantly, he's got his smug, Arrogant persona down to a T along with hapless Murphs

20-03-2021 09:52AM

JustAThought wrote: »

the only person leo helps is himself - and his mates. Helped himself to a house for himself and his partner - as though two wern’t enough for them already - had to greedy grab one for himself as well off the hard pressed taxpayers back. Greedy Leo. Helping himself to everything. Brown envelopes of confidential information to his mate - what cut wouod he have got out of that business - or another like Philo and the boys giving away Irish offshore oil and gas reserves to ‘mates’ for free and then being elected as directors into their boards. Greedy leo. Was the house and 100,000 payrise you all gave yourselves while the country was on its knees not enough?

I hate when people talk in riddles. Care to put your rant in plain English with more details, please.
What house did he help himself to? What did he grab off the taxpayer? What brown envelopes and what was in them?

Brendan Bendar · 20-03-2021 10:14AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I hate when people talk in riddles. Care to put your rant in plain English with more details, please.
What house did he help himself to? What did he grab off the taxpayer? What brown envelopes and what was in them?

MaryAnne, with all due respect,it might be best to let sleeping dogs lie.

Just a suggestion, just a suggestion.

McMurphy · 20-03-2021 10:17AM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

MaryAnne, with all due respect,it might be best to let sleeping dogs lie.

Just a suggestion, just a suggestion.

Long gone are the days when Brenner wanted slates lifted on politicians, lights shone on them etc etc, so on and so on.

Strange times indeed.

Brendan Bendar · 20-03-2021 10:23AM

McMurphy wrote: »

Long gone are the days when Brenner wanted slates lifted on politicians, lights shone on them etc etc, so on and so on.

Strange times indeed.

I was referring to the poster MaryAnne was replying to Randle.

You seem very keen to get me banned by the Mods by dragging me down rabbit holes

Lot of anger out there.

Fann Linn · 20-03-2021 10:46AM

costacorta wrote: »

But SF are good at having their own enquiries?? Wasn’t Gerry judge and jury for years ? .

Looks over >>>> and shouts 'but SF..... '

20-03-2021 10:48AM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

MaryAnne, with all due respect,it might be best to let sleeping dogs lie.

Just a suggestion, just a suggestion.

I’m curious about the free house and €100,000 wage increase. I’m only retired 3 months and am getting bored. Thinking of going into politics. The big barrier to any chance I may have of succeeding is my rather low bulls**t threshold.
I thought that it was only dole scroungers who got free houses!

costacorta · 20-03-2021 10:54AM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

I was referring to the poster MaryAnne was replying to Randle.

You seem very keen to get me banned by the Mods by dragging me down rabbit holes

Lot of anger out there.

Ya be careful of Twitterman , Another Freddie I’m thinking ðŸ€”. They had a good few Freddie’s n their ranks ..

McMurphy · 20-03-2021 10:58AM

costacorta wrote: »

Ya be careful of Twitterman , Another Freddie I’m thinking &#55356;&#56340;. They had a good few Freddie’s n their ranks ..

Who is Freddie, and who had lots of Freddie's in their ranks

Hardly another Sinn Fein diversionary tactic is it?

Brendan Bendar · 20-03-2021 10:59AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I’m curious about the free house and €100,000 wage increase. I’m only retired 3 months and am getting bored. Thinking of going into politics. The big barrier to any chance I may have of succeeding is my rather low bulls**t threshold.
I thought that it was only dole scroungers who got free houses!

Think he got the use of a house up in the Park for official stuff.

RandomName2 · 20-03-2021 11:09AM

Fann Linn wrote: »

Gardai are investigating this. Not SF.

Absolutely! Doesn't stop Sinn Fein trying to endlessly make political hay from it. In the context of this thread it is fairly transparent.

It is weird that 'But Sinn Fein' is actually said more by Sinn Fein supporters than anyone else, which is actually a neat way to ensure they never enter critical discussion. To be sure they started this with

'It is unfair to bring up discussion of the IRA when the debate is featuring Sinn Fein'

and seeing that that actually worked, they now simply say

'It is unfair to bring up Sinn Fein when the debate is featuring Sinn Fein'

And how is the debate featuring Sinn Fein? Because all objective analysis of this matter would have taken a back seat until there was something new to actually discuss, but not Sinn Fein canvassers who desperately want to keep the story alive (what about another discussion about the Bobby Storey funeral? Or we could pretend to update it with the Peggy McCourt funeral from January).

So we have Mary Lou coming on the television giving her position last week, Sinn Fein producing its social media perspective in the last weeks, Sinn Fein bringing it up in the last months in the Dail, the vote-of-no-confidence brought to the floor by Sinn Fein last November, and presumably Sinn Fein and its supporters will have a lot, lot more repetition of the subject before the subject finally disintegrates from the volume of kicking it receives. They even have a schoolyard name for Varadkar. They call him LeoTheLeak on social media. These are adults who want to run the country.

Though I suppose the country has been run by someone who likes posing in socks, making Hamilton references, and handed an agreement to his friend in order to disseminate its contents to a union that he had forced out of the board room due to a tiff about medical cards, so I suppose they are in good company.

Come on Sinn Fein people here, I beg you to open up your horizons. There is so much to criticize, and you retreating to your shells of 'But Sinn Fein' is not the type of behavior I would expect from self professed um.. progressives.

McMurphy · 20-03-2021 11:10AM

Dempo1 wrote: »

Have to say Callan takes off Leo brilliantly, he's got his smug, Arrogant persona down to a T along with hapless Murphs

Yea he has Leo's smugness down to a T.

https://twitter.com/olivercallan/status/1373211373782589440?s=19

Larbre34 · 20-03-2021 11:24AM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Think he got the use of a house up in the Park for official stuff.

He did, the Steward's Lodge at Farmleigh. Every Taoiseach since Bertie gets it if they want it, its a secured location with living and working facilities and good IT/comms.

Its also utterly irrelevant to the matter at hand.

20-03-2021 11:39AM

Larbre34 wrote: »

He did, the Steward's Lodge at Farmleigh. Every Taoiseach since Bertie gets it if they want it, its a secured location with living and working facilities and good IT/comms.

Its also utterly irrelevant to the matter at hand.

And, I believe that he paid for the privilege.

I’m still puzzled about the €100k salary increase, though. I’m sure that the poster will clarify and satisfy my curiosity.

20-03-2021 12:07PM

Seems the media is now turning against poor Leo

https://m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/leo-varadkar-becoming-taoiseach-was-a-breath-of-fresh-air-for-politics-now-theres-a-stench-hanging-off-him-40218361.html

Fann Linn · 20-03-2021 01:13PM

RandomName2 wrote: »

Absolutely! Doesn't stop Sinn Fein trying to endlessly make political hay from it. In the context of this thread it is fairly transparent.

It is weird that 'But Sinn Fein' is actually said more by Sinn Fein supporters than anyone else, which is actually a neat way to ensure they never enter critical discussion. To be sure they started this with
'It is unfair to bring up discussion of the IRA when the debate is featuring Sinn Fein'
and seeing that that actually worked, they now simply say
'It is unfair to bring up Sinn Fein when the debate is featuring Sinn Fein'

And how is the debate featuring Sinn Fein? Because all objective analysis of this matter would have taken a back seat until there was something new to actually discuss, but not Sinn Fein canvassers who desperately want to keep the story alive (what about another discussion about the Bobby Storey funeral? Or we could pretend to update it with the Peggy McCourt funeral from January).

So we have Mary Lou coming on the television giving her position last week, Sinn Fein producing its social media perspective in the last weeks, Sinn Fein bringing it up in the last months in the Dail, the vote-of-no-confidence brought to the floor by Sinn Fein last November, and presumably Sinn Fein and its supporters will have a lot, lot more repetition of the subject before the subject finally disintegrates from the volume of kicking it receives. They even have a schoolyard name for Varadkar. They call him LeoTheLeak on social media. These are adults who want to run the country.

Though I suppose the country has been run by someone who likes posing in socks, making Hamilton references, and handed an agreement to his friend in order to disseminate its contents to a union that he had forced out of the board room due to a tiff about medical cards, so I suppose they are in good company.

Come on Sinn Fein people here, I beg you to open up your horizons. There is so much to criticize, and you retreating to your shells of 'But Sinn Fein' is not the type of behavior I would expect from self professed um.. progressives.

So you'd prefer if SF turned a blind eye to Varadkars shenanigans?
Everything is hunky dory and the Gardai are just picking on Leo.

RandomViewer · 20-03-2021 01:17PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Seems the media is now turning against poor Leo

https://m.independent.ie/opinion/comment/leo-varadkar-becoming-taoiseach-was-a-breath-of-fresh-air-for-politics-now-theres-a-stench-hanging-off-him-40218361.html

Beaker abandoning him, Heather FG leader by July?

J.O. Farmer · 20-03-2021 02:08PM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Beaker abandoning him, Heather FG leader by July?

Micheal Lehane with RTE floating Simon Harris today if Leo were to go which would be ironic considering Harris was minister for health at the time Leo leaked a health related document.

RTE news : Wounded Varadkar retains Fine Gael support 'for now'

http://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2021/0319/1205022-politics-analysis/

James Brown · 20-03-2021 02:18PM

Jinglejangle69 wrote: »

Hold on.

So you're saying because Leo listened and supported McCabe in his fight against garda corruption, An Garda síochána will now be out to get him????

Are you happy they might go after someone for helping expose corruption in the force????

Is that the level people will be happy to go to, to get one up in Leo?

After the commissioner smearing McCabe, the paperless contracts, penalty points etc. etc. I think you need revise your hollier than thou image of the Garda.
As unlikely as it might be maybe he should sort them out with the covid rather than talking about what he'll do if he gets back in

RandomName2 · 20-03-2021 02:30PM

Fann Linn wrote: »

Everything is hunky dory

No, no, the Garda investigation is where it's at.

Good things to have happened:

Fact based journalism
Garda investigation

Oh, and what's that? Sinn Fein screeching from the sidelines on a loop like a car alarm.

Fann Linn wrote: »

the Gardai are just picking on Leo.

Sinn Fein fully back Garda investigations? Apart from when Ferris or Adams were arrested, or when the Garda Commissioner talked about the IRA, at which times the Gardai were apparently 'politically motivated'.

But then, that's if you take anything that that party has to say seriously.

Ferris was arrested for driving while inebriated by the way. He didn't even deny being over the limit! I guess the police were supposed to look the other way for an arms smuggler who openly celebrated the murder of a gard.

Wait, 'But Sinn Fein'. Damn, that defense is a good one!

James Brown · 20-03-2021 02:36PM

RandomName2 wrote: »

No, no, the Garda investigation is where it's at.

Good things to have happened:
Fact based journalism

Garda investigation

Oh, and what's that? Sinn Fein screeching from the sidelines on a loop like a car alarm.

Sinn Fein fully back Garda investigations? Apart from when Ferris or Adams were arrested, or when the Garda Commissioner talked about the IRA, at which times the Gardai were apparently 'politically motivated'.

But then, that's if you take anything that that party has to say seriously.

Ferris was arrested for driving while inebriated by the way. He didn't even deny being over the limit! I guess the police were supposed to look the other way for an arms smuggler who openly celebrated the murder of a gard.

Wait, 'But Sinn Fein'. Damn, that defense is a good one!

Wait, 'but Sinn Fein' indeed...
Wasn't MLMD leaked a confidential document to a pal. Not MLMD under criminal investigation, which by the way is recent news.
I can't see how anyone can defend or be okay with Leo and what he did because.. others.

Johnthemanager · 20-03-2021 02:39PM

RandomName2 wrote: »

No, no, the Garda investigation is where it's at.

Good things to have happened:
Fact based journalism

Garda investigation

Oh, and what's that? Sinn Fein screeching from the sidelines on a loop like a car alarm.

Sinn Fein fully back Garda investigations? Apart from when Ferris or Adams were arrested, or when the Garda Commissioner talked about the IRA, at which times the Gardai were apparently 'politically motivated'.

But then, that's if you take anything that that party has to say seriously.

Ferris was arrested for driving while inebriated by the way. He didn't even deny being over the limit! I guess the police were supposed to look the other way for an arms smuggler who openly celebrated the murder of a gard.

Wait, 'But Sinn Fein'. Damn, that defense is a good one!

So if your arrested for something your automatically guilty?

That'll be good to know for when the knock comes to Leo's door!

Would you also mind putting up a link to Martin ferris conviction for drunk driving, unless of course your lying for a bit of what aboutery?

FrancieBrady · 20-03-2021 02:46PM

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

Micheal Lehane with RTE floating Simon Harris today if Leo were to go which would be ironic considering Harris was minister for health at the time Leo leaked a health related document.

RTE news : Wounded Varadkar retains Fine Gael support 'for now'

http://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2021/0319/1205022-politics-analysis/

The vultures beginning to circle lower and lower.

McMurphy · 20-03-2021 02:50PM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Beaker abandoning him, Heather FG leader by July?

The most ironic thing about that article is they're floating Simon Harris as a potential future leader.

Was this the same Simon Harris who was responsible for the collapse of the last government, and FG ending up as the states 3rd largest party afterwards?

Have they learnt nothing?

Larbre34 · 20-03-2021 03:08PM

RandomViewer wrote: »

Beaker abandoning him, Heather FG leader by July?

Heather?

If Varadkar is replaced, it'll be Coveney. It should always have been Coveney.

Leo Varadkar story in The Village??? - Mod Notes and banned Users in OP updated 16/05

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