Leo Varadkar story in The Village??? - Mod Notes and banned Users in OP updated 16/05

Marine Layer wrote: »

Or the Gardaí are doing their job well,unhindered discovering no crime (according to the British Times source)
Simpler still

Gardai collect evidence and the DPP decides whether it's a crime and prosecutable.

Premature of the source and you to be pronouncing a verdict.

Marine Layer wrote: »

The source said the document wasn't protected and that vradakar had no gain,so wheres the crime?
Theres a reason the garda source said its going to contain no recommendation
This ones slipping from your grasp I'm afraid and the government knew this all along which is why they were happy to move on
My advice is to find a new boxset

The 'source' could be the cleaner.

The DPP will decide on this not the Gardai.

You have to sit on tenderhooks for a while longer. Not a good look.

Mod - off topic post deleted.

Please bring general criticism of government to the relevant thread

Middle Stump, Doc.

Of more concern is the rubbish that passes for journalism these days. Our tánaiste is the subject of a criminal investigation and idiots like Ryan engage in whataboutism and deflection . It's shameful.

The nonsense being spouted on this thread is incredibly depressing. People should be angry and people should be curious and that curiosity should not be satisfied until there is a reasonable answer for our tánaiste leaking government documents. We're quickly descending into tribal politics in this country and that is incredibly dangerous. Everybody should be accountable. Everybody.

It was the same with golfgate. There we had a flagrant breach of the separation of powers, along with covid restrictions, and pockets of the public and media were telling us to get over it.

You only need to have a quick look to see the way things are going globally, Britain has descended into a despotic ****hole and Australia is right behind them. The less said about the US the better and as for Eastern Europe... That's what happens when politics descends into pathetic point scoring and tribalism. People need to stop treating political parties like football teams. Don't excuse poor behaviour just because "your side" is under attack. Demand accountability.

Rant over.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I HATE Twitter dumps. They dilute any argument. This is Boards. Not Twitter.
Rant over!

Twitter is a cesspit.

Pity anyone who follows that garbage.

I wish rants would be over.

Rant over.

jmcc wrote: »

"Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has been questioned by gardaí over the leaking of a confidential Government document, while detectives also took possession of the Fine Gael leader’s mobile phone after he handed it over in a major upscaling of the investigation." Sindo. 18/April/2021.

Varadkar was interviewed under caution on April 9th. His friend, O'Toole, was interviewed on April 5th. The pro-FG media has been pushing a non-story about an SF electoral database and has completely avoided the story about Varadkar being questioned under caution and his mobile phone being surrendered.

Regards...jmcc

By completely avoiding a story, you mean having it covered on two major Sunday Newspapers and RTE?

I know you have mad conspiracy theories about the Irish media, very Trumpian views on Mainstream media being in the pocket of FG while they give out about poor SF. But your last point is nonsense and false.

There is no conspiracy at play here.

RandomName2 wrote: »

Just stuck my head in quickly to see if the quality had improved.

In fairness I don't see any echo defense, but the 'But Sinn Fein' defense is in full flow. 'How dare they mention X about Sinn Fein!'.

• Er.. Spanish Civil War.
  
• Using the Independent covering the story today as evidence of the Independent being unwilling to cover it is an interesting.. sorry.. I mean 'fascinating' take.

What else is here..

• Denis O'Brien
  
• Margaret Thatcher
  
• General Franco.

Look, it's really dumpster quality, but I think it's genuinely unfair to criticize it as it is showing a bit of originality and effort, it's not just saying the same thing over and over again in order to avoid answering questions.

I have to agree, this is thread is just another, "I want to give out about FG" thread.
We have one of those.

The thread should be locked unless there are any new developments, imo.

skimpydoo wrote: »

Ah the Mother and Babys home in Tuam?

Ah, that old chestnut.
What political party buried babies in Tuam.

markodaly wrote: »

By completely avoiding a story, you mean having it covered on two major Sunday Newspapers and RTE?

O'Toole was interviewed on April 5th. Varadkar was interviewed on April 9th. The story about them being interviewed was published on April 18th. Between April 9th and April 18th, Varadkar's hagiographer was banging the drum about SF's electoral register database.

Regards...jmcc

It's worth noting the Sindo journalist who wrote the Leo interview story was also one of the journalists that broke the story that Leo was moving home because of death threats.