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

MM was down at some gig in or around Mullingar.

Troy arrived with him in his (MM’s) state car according to one journo on Twitter.

I'd agree. The Troy scandal is everything FF have been desperately trying to escape since the 2008 crash - dodgy property deals and tax avoidance/evasion (take your pick). They've spent a decade+ trying to kill that public perception of them as "gone with Bertie", only for Troy to show its still completely accurate today. And its even more damaging now in the middle of a housing crisis.

Keeping Troy in the public eye, and tied to MM, this way is only likely to hurt FF nationwide more. If they shoved him out of the way somewhere away from the cameras at least it'd keep most of the damage to just his seat.

FF are fcuked anyway, MM will be gone to Europe/retirement soon enough and its the likes of Troy who they have/had trusted as the future of the party. Sh1t sticks, and FF have been swimming it for near 15 years now. They were gifted an opportunity to present themselves as, basically Not-FG, but (and i hate giving him credit) Varadkar and co ran rings around them.

It is bizarre that FF and Martin especially has put Troy front and centre of this think in, I don't get it, is it that Martin is so arrogant that he just doesn't give a crap how this is seen and is just giving 2 fingers to the electorate? It's nuts, we had FG ministers running back into a hotel at their think in when protesters were walking up the street and then you have FF putting Troy front and centre of their think in. As you say "its Bizarre".

MM sold out FF to become Taoiseach, I think that is pretty clear to most people except those it seems who are hanging onto Martins coat tails. Varadkar and FG have ridden FF solid in the coalition, it looks like FG can do what they like, Varadkar leaking confidential documents, Coveney getting Zappone a job, Varadkar having AG change covid rules because he attended a party when he shouldn't have to name but a few whereas you have Dara Callerly go to a golf dinner and gets sacked. Now we have this Finance Minister fiasco coming up, do they give away another influential position in Europe just so Varadkar can be Taoiseach or do they screw FF and say this is too important and Donohue needs to stay as finance Minister, but alas that is all for another thread.

The TD declarations is still rumbling on. According to the Journal (not a Twitter dump) 7 TD's have declared rental properties but have said that they did not receive any rental income from the properties. Its a bit strange unless they have people living in the rental properties for free. One TD who has 18 of these properties must be running some sort of charity, 18 rental properties but doesn't have any rental income from any of them. hmmmm

Send in Revenue for heaven's sake. Utter chancers. Saying they have no rental income above 2600 in the current housing crisis is simply fraud.

€750 a month for an entire apartment? Is the development in a timewarp to the year 1998?

it is a one bed Apartment in Market Point Mullingar, and I lived in a one bed there and my rent was €650 a month, till I got notice in Aug 21 to quit in April 22 as they were selling the Apartment.

For the record my landlord put her ground floor one apartment up for sale at €125,000 and has gone sale agreed since mid-June 22.

The development has 260 apartments made of mainly two bed apartments followed by a number of one bed apartments and three bed apartments.

In my block there was 35 apartments broken down to 20 two bed apartments, 10 one bed apartments and 5 three bed apartments.

Yeah, seems to be a deficit in information coming from that quarter for a long time.

unfortunately Pat has a great regard for the ‘lovable rogue’ and the ‘fixer’.Is high in his book of heroes.So instead of of dealing those chancers with the proverbial well planted deck shoe into the bollox they are revered and admired.

Cannot understand that mentality mesell.

Thats why so many of them get elected

This is the reason why successive FFG governments have not brought in recommended reforms. Recommended by expensive tribunals. They create bills and then block them. It's a joke. There is still a massive culture of Cronyism and Corruption. They hide it better but there are very few agencies policing it anyway. Look at SIPO, begging for more powers for many years. FFG elites ignore them.

Or forgetting they own all the houses.😀

Uh oh, as happened with previous stories, The Ditch is drip feeding the juicy stuff. Now we learn that Collins' wife has difficulty spelling her own name, including, crucially when signing it. Can't pin that on a planning agent. Add to that a letter from a non existent company.

Has Niall/Neil Collin's/O'Connor come out of hiding yet? I wonder who will be thrown under the bus.

Yes but FFG have also normalised corruption and cronyism so much that the public aren't shocked anymore.

See how they have resisted all calls for reform. They know they have it good.