Varadkar, Martin & Ryan walking off a stage together to avoid a journalist. Is this acceptable?

Walking away from anyone never mind a journalist mid sentence is very rude it doesn't matter what organisation the person is with or represents. Everyone deserves to treated with dignity and respect, if they had stayed and answered the question this wouldn't have blown up into the story that it is becoming. I wonder how their next encounter will go because all this one has done has added more fuel onto the Gript fire and given them more attention which I'm sure many on here won't be happy about.

Ben Scallan is not a journalist, he is a political candidate

A deeply unpleasant and extremely unsuccessful one, but a political candidate nonetheless

So more disinformation from Gript. There's a surprise. Funny to see Ben desperately shilling for membership undr the tweet as well.

When Donald Trump refused to answer questions from journalist working for MSNBC and CNN in 2020 he was labelled a threat to Democracy.

Regardless what anyone thinks of a media outlet, in this case gript they should be answered and not ignored.

By all accounts he was trying to ask them why Catherine Martin in a previous interview was directly contradicting the stance the electorial commission had taken - quite a valid question that I think any sound minded person would like to hear a valid answer.

As the public it's our job to be informed prior to voting on an ammendment to the constitution. If our elected 'leaders' are too ignorant to answer valid questions regardless of what angle they are comming from then we really are in a sad state of affairs and to quote CNN and MSNBC its a "threat to democracy"

My sentiments exactly

John McGuirk responded to the question of any other context to the situation. What disinformation?

Gript lying to their disciples as usual. I've watched back the end of the press conference : Scallan didn't have the press conference microphone and his question was completely inaudible on the live TV feed (press conference ended at 12.51pm btw). He has uploaded a clip of himself speaking into his own Gript microphone, which would have been barely audible to anyone else in the room.