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

Yes, exactly. The voters who a lot of our politicians have zero respect for. It must be great for them to know that once they are not in handcuffs, it does not matter how corrupt they are, loads of people will make up any reasoning to defend them.

Corruption goes well beyond legalities. Just because a politician is not in jail does not mean that they are not corrupt.

Wrong, if something is not deemed illegal it can still be corruption. And I don’t know where you are going with this line that if you complain about politicians you must become a politician to change things. I already have a career and I make sure every day I don’t do corrupt things at work.

Do you consider Varadkar leaking a document to his friend to be illegal? (It gets somewhat confusing trying to keep track of all these arguments on this thread.)

Regards...jmcc

Thank God for that. Can you imagine the DPP coming out with some of the nonsense that has been posted.

"It wasn't illegal because the other negotiating party also had the document"

"It's okay that he leaked, because the overall result after the leak seemed good for everyone" etc.

She'd be hanged.. 🤣

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I hope so.

We already know he leaked and it was illegal. It just needs to be reviewed as to how illegal or what severity of crime was committed.

Even without the review, I'm pretty confident that something doesn't become legal because the resulting outcome seemed okay.

Can't say he would have made a great Doctor. Breach of Confidence is something that they take fairly seriously.. 😂

We know he leaked, that's definite, but it appears you are not allowed to say it was corrupt or illegal until after the trial (if it goes to trial of course)

I know what I can say, and I now know what I can say here.

What has you expecting what the outcome of Ms Pierse's look at the file will be, have you access to what is in the Garda file, or Ms Pierse's office. I haven't a clue what's in the Garda file, nor Ms Pierse's view on it, nor how Ms Pierse will progress her investigation. I hope in the interest of the integrity of the process that you know no more than me, so 'expecting' your preferred outcome might be just political bluster. I hope this is OK.

Can't say it a surprise, it's been obvious to many that this would be the case.

Leaky Leo gets off scot free.....

I wonder if I leaked confidential information would I be prosecuted?

Very good day Brendan. From the start, we called this as not being worthy of going to court.

A pity though that the two who started this charade weren't charged with wasting Garda time. I note that the report says that "the Garda Press Office confirmed that the DPP had directed no prosecution against any individual". At least it seems that they may have considered prosecuting those chancers.

We certainly did, never wavered despite over 12k posts delivered onto these pages, on Twitter, and I’m sure on other platforms.

Not one to ‘crow’ but I hope this ‘Leo the Leak’ rubbish can now put to bed along with the other graffiti from the Water Charges era.

Time to turn a new page and look to the future where those who get up early get rewarded.