Leo Varadkar resigns as Taoiseach

He's actually not being pretty specific. Of course that's his implication. But if he has such pictures, do you really think that Cosgrave is the kind of person who would think "oh god, we can't publish those!"? He's already made specific allegations of sexual impropriety against two of his former Web Summit founders, without providing any evidence, so it's not like he has form in holding back on his claims.

Earlier, he tweeted a vague The Ditch story from the end of February about a "Fine Gael Politician close to the hierarchy" who is under Garda investigation for paying sex workers with money appropriated from a publicly funded body.

There may well be truth to that story - but Cosgrave has repurposed it in his tweet to make it look like it might refer to Varadkar specifically, and the reason behind his resignation. When it's clear that it's not Varadkar.

100%, but Leo has resigned. He’s hardly making a claim like that and promising more without something.

Edit: maybe he is, who knows.

Lol, he's still promising a "press conference" for last Monday that never happened about the "sex and drug scandal" he claims he has.

I know for a fact that as postgrad student in major university in early to mid 90s, that entire years in certain course had their grades inflated as otherwise half would have failed. Junior lecturers were told it and TAs knew it from just dealing with ones in say second year.

At the time it appears the goal was to make sure young people stayed in education and off the live register.

Then when celtic tiger tech economy took off the aim was to provide number of graduates to keep tech companies happy.

You had lots of conversion courses to IT popping up.

Except quality of some wasn't great, but it looked to outside world like we had huge highly educated workforce.

Then over the years we had the knowledge economy mullarkey which again necessitated large numbers of graduates.

Yes some courses are still damn hard to get into and even harder to qualify out of, but they are lots of courses that really are fillers.

Then second level education has taken a hammering.

I was frankly shocked at how easy some of the junior cert questions now are.

No matter ones political leanings that place is a cesspit. It is bullying no doubt about it.

He pissed off the Israelis by supporting hamas, hes yesterdays man looking for attention.

Christ on a bike, don't tell me Boo-Boo Harris is going to be Taoiseach? You could quite literally shave a chimp, stick it in a suit and it would do a better job than that utter, utter charlatan.

Ask Liz Truss how that worked out for her?

People want the top job for the prestige. But there is little prestige with taking the job and getting wiped out a few months later, it leaves you a laughing stock not a man of prestige.

Politicians choosing their timing is nothing new whatsoever.

Financial storm clouds were already gathering when Brian Cowen took over FF leadership in 2008: do you think that is why nobofy else put themselves forward, or was it because the other 'contenders' knew he would have blown them away? And do you think Cowen regrets reaching for the crown at that stage, even though he could have foreseen his tenure was likely to be brief and ill-starred?

If Coveney in particular thinks he is 'keeping his powder dry' and intends to run for leader at a more opportune moment then I think that's a bad call. He's yesterday's man now, will never be a serious contender again...

Harris will take the same electoral hiding for FG that was due for Varadkar until he ran away. He's getting coronated because no one wants to be the leader to take the flak.

Will the electorate somehow warm to Harris in a way they clearly did not with LV? Highly unlikely as Harris comes across as a transition year student on work experience and he's been there for every cut, every incompetence and every piece of nastiness associated with the LV era.

Its that there's no consequences for anything and a small but increasing number of students are at a frankly incredible level of laziness, petulance and dont see the pointness etc etc

they mirror the way society has evolved and system has to bend to that to some degree, you cant actually expect much of a standard from them now, its the teachers have the standards now.......I may not agree with everything that poster has to say (I mean that factually as I haven't read much of anything else they have to say) but the JC has been dumbed down massively and I assume the LC will be to some degree as well.....

its all part of a trend of not being an adult with personal responsibility until you reach increasingly older ages and a certain cohort of the population having no responsibilities or meaningful consequences at all if they are too much trouble to deal with and are useful as an income generator for other cohorts of society while getting handouts from yet another cohort.........

Tony Blair used to make a million a month, he was able to quote 330k for a 20 minute speech. Go look at the likes of Gordon Brown and see what they make per speech.

A former PM only making 250k a year makes my point more than it does yours, Liz Truss is bargain bucket relative to her peers, all because of her timing.

The original point was about why some people didn't want the job now, why they would wait for better timing, and somebody said politicians would always take the job if they could.

Showing that Truss made a balls of it just reinforces my point made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgLoFEU5mI8