Katherine Zappone Envoy Gig

Can we get Tony Connelly home to interview Leo?

Katherine "long way around" Zappone not in it for the money - pull the other one!

I wonder if I slip Zappone €50 will she allow me use her name as the "host" of my son's Confirmation? Can't go ahead if we host it ourselves but apparently it's OK if she wants to do it.

It would be a handy little earner for her with all those tens of thousands of communions and confirmations currently banned.

They must be worn out by now. It's been non stop. This zappone party is starting to gather pace, I wonder who will be the sacrifice for this one.

@Amirani wrote:

It's irrelevant though. No rules were broken. This isn't a "little people" issue. Venues all over the country are ignoring the Failte guidelines and doing what they are legally permitted to do. I have an outdoor event booked for 30 people in a few weeks' time.

Strictly speaking, even the Failte guidelines do not prohibit outdoor events, it just depends on which set of guidelines you read. Is it the ones for hotels, or the one for event organisers, or for visitor attractions? Because they're basically all the same document, they've just omitted some bits. A reasonable comparison of the documents makes it clear that Failte guidelines do not ban outdoor events at hotels, rather they fail to address them at all.

I appreciate that it looks like government officials ignoring guidelines they helped develop, but the screw up here is Failte's. They have overlooked an obvious niche in hotels hosting outdoor gatherings and failed to provide any guidance on it.

Moving onto "this looks bad" is shifting the goalposts. The whole furore over this was whether covid rules were broken. They weren't - the bigger issue here is the claim that this was a solo run by Coveney when Leo met her a few days beforehand. All seems a bit too close to be coincidence. But that's being overshadowed now by something irrelvant.

So, that was an interesting morning 😁 a few feathers ruffled so to speak.

I suppose when Leo & Co make it easy, it's hard not join the party (no pun intended)

The story is gathering pace now, RTE, even got their fingers out.

Looking forward to tommorows headlines 😁

Oh how naive I was.

FG gone into hiding no one available for RTE news there, another FG TD was lined up to go on Niall Boylan at lunchtime and they then withdrew. If nothing wrong has been done either with the appointment or with the Merrion party then what is the problem with defending this.

So that quote is from a year ago.

Riiiight.

Probably Leo and Simon.

'You may approach the dais where the King and Queen of Ireland will then bestow a title upon you...'

Zappers is already a Knight of the Order of the Grift.

Just heard the Archbishop of Dublin mentioning the little party at the Merrion and yet communions restricted 😂😂😂

The wrath of God