Minister 'misinterpreted the requirements' after failure to declare second house in Longford

No surprise at this man's behavior, the really shocking thing is he has no fear of any reprisals for getting caught.

Sad that there seem to be so many on the fiddle.

How do career politicians get the funds to make this many property purchases? Is it mortgages or perhaps family wealth? I don't know anything about Mr. Troy's background.

There is something distinctly distasteful though about politicians privately profiting through arrangements with public bodies or county councils, potentially using their unique knowledge and connections to gain advantage over the general public.

How do the people of Mullingar feel about their Minister driving up the cost of houses beyond the reaches of their own children?

Questions also need to be asked of county councils who knowingly buy properties at prices vastly inflated over what was paid just months prior. Why didn't the council buy it at the earlier stage first?

I have no party affiliation but FF and FG just seem to be abusing all public trust.

I've two simple questions, and sorry if they have been answered already, but I didn't spot them.

1. What does he gain by not having listed these interests?
2. Why has he have income from the rent-a-room scheme? Surely with all this property, himself and his wife don't need, or want, to rent out a room in their home to someone.

And your 100% correct , whilst some might think what's occurred is all fine and dandy and it's his business , this is a former westmeath county Councillor who had access to information other's would not , he retains close connections to this day. He also voted against recent legislation with regard to Rents , essentially in my humble opinion a conflict of interest but perfectly legal, he's clearly profited handsomely in certain transactions (this is not the luck of the Irish) , and there's as many questions to be asked of public bodies as there is of Troy, he's failed miserably with regards to his obligations as an elected representative & even had the neck to pose sleeping rough. Let's not forget he's a Government Minister too.

But aside from all this , serious questions remain and if anything Twitter has done is expose the appalling laziness, some might say Bias in our media Generally and still after all that's been revealed our National Broadcaster continue to tip toe around this fiasco. Well done The Ditch & Twitter

It's nothing to do with whether I like it and what they have posted to date, quality is not the word I'd use. Even the Troy stories, which I would be interested in, are pretty uninformative and basically just a listing of facts. There are many sites and media sources I read that I don't necessarily like but I do respect well-written journalism anywhere.

That Labour piece is tawdry clickbait and the core story is Labour activist shows up at vote count with no ticket. There are no clicks in that dullness but mention they are a sex offender and off you go. Even at that it's still little better than gossip with no story.

MSM has plenty to be criticised for but it also has people who can write well. That's really not the case here.

Two fantastic movies 👍😏

Ben Bradlee was one hell of a journalist and editor who was also never afraid to take risks.

I can also highly recommend Spotlight a great movie about Catholic Church Child Abuse in America.

All those movies showed what can be done if you are brave and go against the establishment. We need more of that in this country.

As I said before 7 deadly sins.

Could you imagine what Vincent Brown would be doing now? He would be sticking his teeth in to this and not giving up till he drew blood. We need more political journalists like that. But I must say Aoife Grace Moore, Paul Hosford and Ciaran Brennan give me some hope.

I would t call it “tiptoeing” pal.

I would agree with some radio contributor who said, and I paraphrase ‘What’s the point in having rules if there are no consequences when they are broken’

And that should apply to all parties as obviously those ‘involved’ won’t do the honorable thing.

Think his statement lists all of those properties now but his own fault he got into this mess in the first place.

I'd no Idea Minister Troy has his occupation down as a Post Master, the man should be presenting Operation Transformation, how does he do it. I was aware he owns a property in Ballynacargy with a post office , I'm surprised we've not seen him compete in Iron Man.

Me neither, often wonder what Dessie has his occupation down as.

TV repairman maybe ?

Hmmmm…

No idea bro….better not derail this thread though.