Katherine Zappone Envoy Gig

Indeed, some of the restrictions because of Covid crumbled because the AG intervened in this in an unprecedented way.

Well said McMurphy. I have been isolating since March 2020 because of health issues. I had the vaccine earlier this year and it did not work on me so I will have to continue to isolate until a solution is found. Meanwhile as I isolate, I note this is the third time Leo has given 2 fingers to Covid legislation. I would love to be able to go out and meet friends in a similar setting to Leo and Co's shin dig.

Texts show Varadkar knew about Zappone envoy job earlier than claimed (irishtimes.com)

The sad truth is that Katherine will have her beak wet one way or another.

Keep an eye out for directorships and consultancy work.

What is Chutzpah? Now that is major deflection. You must be the only person on here to have never heard of this word.

Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning "impudence or gall." Bravery that borders on rudeness is chutzpah, which rhymes with "foot spa." If you have chutzpah, you say what you think without worrying about hurting someone's feelings, looking silly, or getting in trouble.

This absolute Farce is in fact becoming quite surreal.

We've gone from a makey up job to makey up stories. It's now pretty clear, Shenanigans went on re the actual job offer, anyone doubting that is quite deluded at this stage of the Plot. Instead of Coveney admitting what occurred, his breathtaking arrogance has finally caught up with him by what he foolishly believed "by way of an aside" while explaining himself at the committee hearing, namely he deleted messages from his phone has ballooned into quite an extraordinary state of affairs and has backfired spectacularly.

We've gone from #merriongate to #pigletgate to #smsgate to now #hackinggate in the space of a week.

The latest is "Criminal's" hacked the hapless foreign affairs & let's not forget "Defence" ministers phone, one would hardly think it was an order of nun's that allegedly hacked Coveneys phone. It would now appear other foreign ministers called Coveney to say they'd received communications from his number, this is beginning to sound like an episode of Liveline.

Whatever about the absurdity of the initial makey up job, Merriongate, this ALEDGED phone hacking and how Coveney addressed it, has become the story, Michael Martins tetchy response to it is even more remarkable, this is not melodrama as he put it, it is quite serious stuff albeit I seriously doubt it actually happened (the hacking, that is)

Are the foreign affairs committee to call on various foreign ministers to confirm this latest nonsense, I somehow doubt it. Coveney seems to be intent at digging a hole so deep, he could make his way to Europe without

the cost of a Plane, perhaps some good might come out of the Charade, Reduced Travel expenses 😉

Love to be a fly on the wall at the FF think in 😁 FIGHT !!!!!!

But honestly FF leadership seem utterly tongue twisted on how to respond, I guess that's the nature of coalition government politics. The Decision ultimately not MM to make even he wanted to, its Leo's call (that's not going to happen, he's enough enemies within FG, including Coveney, despite the pretence) or Coveney doing the right thing (Definitely not going to happen, arrogance, Merc's & Perks), so to speak 😉

Targeting a party & organisation is not the same thing as targeting an individual as I’m sure you well know. The hashtags on twitter are not just ‘political opposition’ - is that what Sinn Féin call a hate campaign in which they’re trying to drum up violence and hostility against one particular individual who seems to live rent free in their heads. The same Sinn Féin promoting this who also opposed the Criminal Assets Bureau and seem soft on law + order?

I don’t give two dams about the Zappone affair - no one I’ve talked to from quite a wide age bracket does except the twitter mob, egotistical journalists and of course our esteemed Opposition whom I would have liked to support during Covid measures. But who disappeared off into the hide behind NPHET / Zero Covid cave. Only to emerge now not to talk about real issues going forward like Climate Change, housing, world conflict, post Covid repercussions, no to talk about the Zappone affair until the cows come home so they can try & damage Leo as much as possible. What a farce.

The questions keep coming. Why were obligations to inform the DPC ignored?