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

It is 100% right to call out those who make up lies about you. Fair play to him I say.

Paddy and Chay should be worried about ending up in court themselves given their own history but to them its all a consiracy.

A nothing burger from the start. Why they wasted so much time on this is baffling. Questions really need to be asked about how it went so far and for so long.

SF, Paddy Cosgrave and all the pirate flag “brigade” have been left with egg on their, collective, faces. Pierce Doherty, himself, must be feeling particularly foolish.

Now, instead of moving on, and tackling the matters at hand, we have SF talking of wasting more time with a vote of no confidence. After which, they’ll be screeching about how not enough is being done to tackle housing or the cost of living. With deadly seriousness too, no sense of irony.

Like a johnny dogs with a bone.

In case you werent aware blanch Varadkar is a serial election loser. As leader of Fine Gael he has led the party in five six elections and he has managed lead them to a loss in every single one of them, there's not a single win to be seen anywhere.

In the last one he shafted a highly electable Kate o'Connell and instead ran an inanimate carbon rod by the name of James Geoghegan, Varadkar thought he was playing 4-D chess but somehow managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. In 2019 he led Fine Gael to losing Francis Fitzgeralds seat to Sinn Fein and make them transfer friendly and he also ran a loo-lah called Verona Murphy in Wexford and lost that one too. The other two by elections were also contested by FG and again Leo led them to defeat, they were trounced into 3rd place in North Cork central and an embarrassing 4th place in Fingal after Varadkar backed the dinosaur Dr.James O'Reilly and the electorate roundly rejected him.

In the general election his campaign was so bad that FG imploded from 32% in the polls a month out from the election all the way down to 21% on election day itself. He couldnt even manage to get elected himself with a full quota on the first count while he was the sitting Taoiseach. Enda Kenny did it, Berties did it multiple times, Albert did it, Haughey did it but Varadkar ballsed it up becasue he doesnt know how to win elections. Like if he couldnt even top the poll when he was a sitting Taoiseach then there is something seriously wrong.

Yesterdays DPP decision now paves the way for Varadkar to lose his seventh election in a row as Fine Gael leader. You'd wonder why Fine Gael supporters continue to back someone who has proven himself incapable leading the party to winning elections but there you are.

This doesn't make a jot of sense. You are saying he is guilty of wrongdoing purely for giving someone a document but it is irrelevant as to why he gave it to them? Like you have to admit that's a pretty fringe view. Like he'd be equally guilty of wrongdoing in your mind if he gave it to his secretary to put into a safe?

You don't believe his explanation but it isn't relevant to your judgement, but you still don't believe it despite having no evidence and being told an 18 month investigation searching his phone and other device found no evidence. Again this is a really wild opinion.

Look, politicians pass on information to the press all the time. Sometimes it’s done with party permission, other times they go “rogue”. It happens.

No one benefited financially here and it had no effect on government policy. It’s, almost, the opposite end of the spectrum to having an elected official walking out of the government offices to meet with a retired, presumed, member of a terrorist organisation to find out which way he should be voting on a certain “motion”.

A far cry from that, you could say.