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

Stop digging Francie, it’s unbecoming of a supposed grown up person.

There was no due diligence in taking the witterings of a nonentity and repeating them, that is the issue I have with it.

I mean, if I was to come on here and say that a man down the pub told me that Francie Brady was seen in a hotel with a woman not his wife, you would be outraged that I was repeating a nonsensical allegation. By repeating something, you give credibility to it. Pretending that saying you are not sure it it is true absolves you of the responsibility is nonsense.

A man claiming to be a journalist posts a scurrilous accusation on Twitter and you repeat it with the prefix "if true", gives credibility to the scurrilous accusation and takes credibility away from your seriousness as a poster. That is all.

You treat allegation as fact on this site. I don't and never do, even though it might suit me to. And at no stage did I treat this breaking story as fact or share the source material, due to my own standards. I posted every single post I made to prevent lies being told about them.

I don't care or pay the slightest credence to what you have issue with. As a result of your previous behaviour you don't get to take the high moral ground here, not with me anyhow.

End of interaction with you on this.

Just stating facts, yet you dismiss this. Care to show that what I said is wrong?

Michael D Higgins???? What are you talking about?

As for McCabe, some of what I said was backed up in the reports, some was not. I was clear on that.

You called Michael D Higgins "a danger to humanity" on here as well you know. Which strangely enough would be a pretty similar opinion held by the far right group who were issuing him with death threats earlier in the summer, that's some bedfellows you've got there blanch.

So where's your so called standards now because I don't see any with that type of posting.

Seems to be the ‘Good Republicans’ best line of defense Mr B.

Accuse one of something one didn’t say.

Carry on.

That's the one Francie, blanch is fine with holding the same views as the Irish far right who were literally issuing him death threats but then rides in here on a high horse going on about posting standards. The hypocrisy is astounding.

Maybe he will enlighten us as to what damage Higgins has caused to humanity? I won't hold my breath 👍

It is never long before the homophobic references arrive around here when Leo's name is invoked. What does it matter what taste in music he has?

They are your words blanch, I just find it interesting that your bedfellows are the Irish far right. And you still haven't explained how Higgins, a man who has spent his entire life fighting for social justice caused damage to humanity. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and you have provided none, instead preferring to throw out slurs on a persons character without being able to back it up. That's some standards blanch, maybe take a look in the mirror before you fall off that high horse.

'Somebody else made me say it', isn't really an excuse.

What in the bejaysus bearing does this have on anything?

As much as it pains me to defend Varadkar, who he sleeps with and what music he listens to would be somewhere around the absolute bottom of the list of things to judge him on as a politician. I'm all for criticising the cronyism, the leaking, the talking out of both sides of his mouth....but who gives a f*ck if he listens to sh*te music and likes his partner to have swinging bits? Why should he have to hide it away to the extent that he has to, "let it out" once a year?!

It completely undermines legitimate criticism of Leo, as can be seen by one of his usual supporters jumping in and using your nonsensical post to dismiss all of the other criticism he faces.