Katherine Zappone Envoy Gig

The rules didn't change. The issue is the guidelines and the law were not aligned because some of the most severe guidelines were not possible to implement constitutionally or to write laws that were coherent.

What the law has stated has always been clear. The government has however used the media to blur the distinction between law and guidelines as it needed people to follow a stricter regime than what they could legislate for.

election would still have ff fg in the mix sf i feel will not get enough to form any sort of stable government lots of people still will vote for the two old parties in the meantime Micky Martin will take any crap from fg as he was so desperate to get the gig he will stay as long as he can .

The AG just handed the crazies a bigger win than any of them could have hoped to achieve on their own.

The entire 'restrictions' thing is out the window, it's do as you please.

Putting the nation in grave danger to save Leo.

A corrupt shithole of a place

Here is Sinn Fein's point of view on this issue

The AG wasn't long being consulted on this one...remember he couldn't be consulted on Leo's leak.

Hugh O'Connell on Twitter: "So the AG has been drafted in to retrospectively green light Katherine Zappone's 50-person Merrion Hotel party attended by the Tánaiste Leo Varadkar. Omnishambles doesn't quite cover it..." / Twitter

“ They were reassured by the hotel that it was within guidelines “

Now they are trying to lay the blame on the hotel . You couldn’t make this up

If only we all knew we could have a party outdoors ! Was it a secret so us plebs wouldn’t find out ?!

Open season for weddings, christenings, communions etc.

Sure ye were never going to fit a bouncy castle in the house anyway.

Was the AG at the party??

God you're a broken record. You do realise that it is far more than Sinn Féin supporters who are sick of this rubbish. This government, along with its predecessor, has stumbled from one fiasco to another. There is no accountability, no responsibility and no leadership. What's worse is that all these bloody scandals have occurred at a time of national emergency. Despite this you have cretins looking to sweep these sorry affairs under the carpet and attempting to portray legitimate public concerns as nothing more than the ravings of the opposition. Tribalism at its very worst. It has poisoned political discourse and led to a culture where nobody is held accountable. Shame on you.

It makes no difference when a GE is called.....FF, FG and the greens will just join forces again...be it a coalition again or supply and confidence agreement.

So unless an opposition party romps home with a huge majority then all the present incumbents have to do is join forces again.

We could have this lot for many more years again.

✔️ Zappone gone

✔️ Govt: "Nothing to see here" (With bonus AG confirmation)

✔️ Leo: "Nothing to see here"

That leaves me 3/4. All I need now is for some more surprising names to pop up on the guest list that make the opposition uncomfortable and I've got a full house.

They're all snakes lads, playing games. Away from the cameras and the soundbites they're eating meals and having pints together and laughing at the each other's jokes.

Well said, I've avoided responding to this SF nonsense, it's everywhere across boards, mother of God there blamed for everything. I'm no supporter but anyone deluded enough to think SF are to blame for this fiasco, amongst others incidentally needs head examined.

Many people are outraged at this disgraceful charade, FF, FG, Independent, Labour voters as to are actual members of all parties.

The arrogance, Down right contempt shown for the electorate by FG stalwarts is utterly breathtaking and down right shameful. I actually emailed Leo at the start of the Pandemic to express my appreciation for his leadership, the last year has proven how foolish I was, both he and Coveney have lost the run of themselves, the constant leaks, undermining and mixed messages is beyond comprehension. Leo once said we're all in this Together, he's certainly not true to his word. I'm personally disgusted and I'm no leftie.

He's constructing I nice little cunning overlords fantasy as I said earlier. Might as well try to get something out of the omnishambles. The other members of FG defence forces are insisting on trying to ignore it all or deflect from it with 'squirrel!' stuff about homopobhia and the Shinners 😁