Minister 'misinterpreted the requirements' after failure to declare second house in Longford

I don't believe one TD or Senator from FFGG have condemned a single thing re #TroyStory or Robert Troy's behaviour, some will say , a sure he misinterpreted things but there's one particular thing that is indefensible, almost 11 years of errors and lack of understanding of very simple rules 😳

But it's fine , Leo & MM getting the flack now from all directions & I for one perfectly happy with that 😏

Actually ,whilst I'd like this to have dragged on a little, I've no doubt FFG planned for Troy to stay quite and if nothing else was revealed, by the simply fantastic, The Ditch ,they'd have let the opposition start to scream, let another MONC vote occur, gather their Independent buddies, win the vote and yet another nothing to see here, Hollow victory, completely ignoring the shenanigans exposed (Again)

This result means Troy & FFGG are tarnished with the same , Ugly, sordid brush 😏 The Main opposition played a Blinder ,its more than "Delicious " 😁

Think the point is I asked the poster a question..

A simple yes or no would be good.

I can answer no to your question,a chara.

The Thick Of It is full of them. :) One of the reasons that the media seems to like Varadkar is because he makes statements like that.

Regards...jmcc

I don't buy that as an explanation. There were plenty in FG with their knives out for Dara Calleary, despite all of your points applying to him just as much.

I would suspect that its a lot more likely that a lot of FG TDs are wary of having their own property investments investigated to the same extent as Troy and thats why they're staying unusually quiet.

FF and FG have to play nice with each other. The Troy Story was a major test of whether they could. Calleary wasn't as much as a liability as Troy. He went quickly as did Cowen. Troy hung on and tried to brazen it out. Varadkar was praising him as was Martin. That's damaged their credibility and even the Indo, a particularly pro-FG newspaper, was criticising the pair of how they dealt with Troy. FG had been acting like the senior party for some time and even the Zapponegate thing didn't stop it. If there's one thing that politicians hate above all else, it is being made to look like idiots. Martin's and Varadkar's praise of Troy did that. The FG TDs with property portfolios wouldn't want the attention either but when the electorate start thinking of political leaders as weak they can shift their votes. That's one of the biggest problems for FFG and it is directly down to Troy trying to hang on rather than having, in The Thick Of It terms, a "good resignation".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8t6KRstWIk

Regards...jmcc

In the meantime, Prime should make for interesting viewing tonight 🍿

Ate we back onto fake accounts on Twitter 🙄

I couldn't be bothered reposting links from verified users, Journalists, Commentators, News organisations , if after all that has been highlighted, Fact Checked and now Troy's resignation is all makey uppy and spurned from fake accounts, it's a crazy world we live in , Indeed

100%.

FF and FG's instincts were to kick this under the carpet. It is a great day for this country that they were not able to.

I don't see it as a witch hunt. Troy's difficulties are of Troy's making. You can be sure he didn't misinterpret his allowances and expenses yet he can't properly understand requirements of disclosure. It's just not plausible. We, the public, who pay this guy's wages are sick to the back teeth of having the pee taken out of us. This guy had at least three streams of income where most of us have one. He even attempted to influence Government policy to further feather his nest. His actions are sickening and his greed seems to know no bounds.

I have some sympathy for those connected to him ie parents, siblings and maybe even his wife who may not have been aware of his shenanigans.

You are quite correct.

What has his number of siblings to do with it all?

I wondered that when he himself without any prompting brought it up in a media interview.