Coveney claims to have previously been hacked.

Various authors and insiders will tell you most bugging/hacking of Irish diplomatic staff has traditionally been from British security services. Listening devices inside government buildings/phone tapping, that sort of stuff.

It was endemic in the 70's and 80's. I'm not sure how it is today as it's not written on as much after the northern conflict but with Brexit and Ireland's role in that I don't think it would surprise anyone that diplomats/officials here are hacked/bugged.

In fact I'd be surprised if it's changed that much really.

https://twitter.com/BrianHonan/status/1433062441190141953?s=20

How does he know he was hacked? Is it just his hunch or did he give up his phone to be checked by the Cyber Crime unit in the Gardai to confirm it has been hacked in the past? Did he report it to the Gardai as a crime and whats the status of their investigation? And who do they suspect of doing the hacking?

Theres so many questions for Simon to answer here. He is the Minister of Defence so why isnt he getting to the bottom of who was hacking him, it is a clear national security issue. If he is not taking his phone being hacked seriously then why is he even the Minister of Defence?

I'm in two minds here. On the one hand Coveney is making a needless hash of this whole thing. On the other I think he is the most gifted politician in the Dail who has done great work in DFA particularly over Brexit.

Just sort it out ffs.

Seems like he is playing the old Bertie Aherne trick ( I don't have a bank account ) so no one can check on his texts

If be surprised if the Brits and Americans didn't have some people on their payroll tbh.

Simon Coveney is deleting them. His account was hacked a while back

The dog in your avatar?

Any government business conducted by phone should be done on a secure government owned phone ,all communications should be downloaded and stored and periodic security checks of those phones carried out.

There is a good reason why a civil servant (member of the permanent government) is always present with a minister ,it prevents corruption and scenarios such as the corrupt appointment of Zappone.The permanent government should have a digital presence as above.

GCHQ monitors everything ,Coveney et al make themselves vulnerable to blackmail etc when they make secret deals off the books unknown to the Irish people but recorded by foreign intelligence services.

It doesn't. If Coveney knew his tech he would stop digging.

I don't understand why they don't then just get the senders of the texts to show their conversations, he can only delete his copy, they will still have theirs.

Leo released his copies. That will surely prompt another 1000 posts analysing them.