Katherine Zappone Envoy Gig

Doubt we will be hearing anything from Zappone except maybe to say that this whole situation has affected her mental health or some such BS and she won't be able to attend. The usual excuse when folks like this are caught pulling a stroke.

Not sure how you're imagining things I never even posted, I havent mentioned Matt Carthy in any of my posts yet you're claiming Im defending him, bizarre stuff.

As for the journalist, he got a leak direct from Simon Harris in a cabinet meeting and he reported the Zapponyism as Harris wanted him to do. Are you claiming how that this whole story that this thread is based upon isnt true or something. This seems to be what you're aiming at, its even more bizarre given its been discussed on here and right across the Irish media for weeks now. The journalist was right in his reporting and if he says it was leaked from Cabinet there is no reason to doubt him when what he reported on Zappone was 100% on the money. You might not like it but as Hugh o'Connell said during the week leaks are bread and butter for political journalists, if you dont believe it goes on then you're being unbelievably naïve here.

The story of Harris being the leaker and Varadkar hauling him into a meeting to openly accuse him was an open secret around Leinster House. It wasnt just one journalist who reported it, it was several. One in the Sunday Times, Philip Ryan in the Indo and Daniel McConnell in the Examiner. So by questioning the integrity of these political correspondents who spend their working days inside Leinster House you're really just going down the Donald Trump 'Fake News' route and we all know how much credibility that has. If that story wasnt true then why would either Varadkar or Harris allow damaging lies to be published about them and not speak up? They both said nothing becasue they both knew how true it was, simple as.

Tell us then blanch if (as you are claiming) it wasnt Simon Harris then who was it? The Zappone leak didnt happen in a vacuum so if you're on here claiming that it wasnt Harris then who do you actually think it was? Varadkar himself? Suppose he does have form for leaking but you'd think a leaker under an open criminal investigation would at least try to keep their nose clean. Given it wasnt Coveney leaking on himself then that leaves either Heather Humphries or Paschal o'Donohue.

Thank God Zoom was invented.

There are only 5 FG ministers in cabinet (Helen Mc is on leave)

Leo

Simon Harris

Paschal

Heather

Simon Coveney (hardly leaking on himself)

Who else could the leak be? FF&Greens say it's a FG leak. Everyone knows its SimonH. If not he would have outed someone else or made his complaint.

I did notice that Hildegarde is getting lots of time in the press lately. She 'attends cabinet' so perhaps they are setting her up for a reshuffle...

Red rotten FG.

Meanwhile MM heading off to NY for a few days R&R,god bless his cotton socks. he certainly needs a break, He's due to chair a meeting were I presume he might at least try an attempt at coherent messaging.

I wonder is Coveney joining him on the trip, that would make for an interesting conversation, I wonder will Zappone have MM over for Tea & Crumpets whilst he's in NY 😏

I see not no FF or FG representative available for the week in politics, all very shy it seems 😏

I hope that was sarcasm Murph

Green voter LOLZ

It will be like another thread on Boards about the Fr Molloy case,she will be rushed of to hospital by a friendly FG Doctor before she can give evidence

She's still a W***N 🤣🤣

Its like that time John Delaney bought business class tickets for himself and all the blazers in the FAI and then stuck all the players into economy class.

Finding new ways to spend days doing feck all for the children and parents of Ireland, her entire stint in that role was a sham, just glad she's being finally exposed as the sham that she is

Zappone was / is an utter disgrace. Let’s not forget whilst minister for children, she:

1. Went to the airport for a photo op with that Ibrahim Hallawa character, who accidentally found himself giving a rousing speech in Cairo. The gormless look on her face when he and his clan started roaring ‘Allah Akbar’ was quite something to behold.
2. Embarked on a mercy mission to Calais to survey the bearded children. She returned to Ireland with the intent to scoop them all up and bring them ‘home’.

That woman never served Ireland. The only loyalty she ever had was to herself and her twisted agenda. This saga has really exposed her for what she truly is. Thankfully, it means she has zero credibility here going forward and is unlikely to sully our nation with her despicable presence in future.

That was my point...lol....people were saying sure the new role is only 15k of salary...but with her the expenses would be astranomical