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

The Hypocrisy is breathtaking 😉

LOL, says the Poster who spends 99% of their time critising posters and their posts and rarely ever has something constructive to say.

Need I remind you (again) of your expertise in copying and pasting previous posts from contributors from various Threads in quite bizzare attempts to prove your points, your last attempt didn't end well did it.

But back to point, you have repeatedly critised Twitter, actually made some bizzare comments about fake accounts (Knowing the accounts quoted from are ligitimate and verified accounts) and also have (when it suits) a problem with posters attaching links to Tweets which you know full well is permitted on Boards. What is clearly apparent is you assume a Twitter account is fake if the account holder dares to disagree with your point of view.

I simply pointed out the Hypocrisy is Breathtaking and my word it is.

You really can't have it both ways.

Apologies, point Taken and accepted

It's not a position she or anyone else in that role or other senior justice positions should be placed in by circumstances like this. If nothing else, it's unfair to the individual to ask them to adjudicate on something involving someone who was directly or indirectly involved in their selection.

Key roles like that should be wholly independently appointed so that there can be not even a suggestion of a potential bias or conflict of interest, if for no other reason than to not give one side or another something to "moan" about in the first place.

It has gone from "nothing to see here" to an apology in the Dail and from an apology in the Dail to a criminal investigation which has now resulted in a file being sent to the DPP who will decide what to do next. And yet there are FGers trying to convince people that there's nothing to see here.

The fact that the Gardai submitted a file to the DPP is interesting. The lack of a recommendation seems conveniently political in that it is now the DPP's problem. Whatever the DPP does, this matter is highly political and it doesn't particularly matter if it proceeds to Varadkar being charged and prosectuted. The damage to FG has been done and even FF is beating it in the opinion polls. Varadkar's track record with FG has been one of continual loss. He has continually lost seats in every election since he has been leader. He even managed to lose at least two safe FG seat (DBS and one in Wexford during the GE) due to petty feuding. Will FF be getting itchy feet if its polling figures continue to improve at the cost of FG's?

Regards...jmcc

Meanwhile the actual situation: There is no allegation that he leaked a document marked 'CONFIDENTIAL/NOT FOR CIRCULATION' to his buddy, it is a FACT, it wasn't leaked by SF, JC, or anybody else, it was leaked by Varadkar, he admitted it, there should be no confusion there in anybody's mind, no matter how warped their thinking is.

It was investigated by The Gardai, quite properly, they investigated if the leaking of the document broke the law, which is what should happen in any democracy, and they determined that there was some merit in the case and they passed it to the DPP for her consideration, without recommendation - if there was no merit to the case the Gardai would have dismissed it without consideration.

They quite rightly passed it to Ms Pierse who must now make her decision

This is not rocket science

Trumpian???????????

Worth noting that "leak" is not a legal term, or in fact a term that has any weight beyond journalistic hyperbole.

When your Ma tells the neighbours that you're having a baby even though you asked her not to, that is also a "leak".

There's no any argument over whether Varadkar sent the document to MOT. So continuing to shout "leak" as if it's a gigantic scandal is pretty dull. It's with the DPP, let them decide if there's merit in the case. If there's not, then the "leak" is immaterial.