Media silence over Niall Collins story

Pooty Trumpgrave it is so. Who are we talking about lol

Hard to believe after 26 pages and all the news coverage, that someone could type something so bereft of the facts of this story, and think it summarises it.

Paddy Cosgrave; styles himself as a mix between Trump, Musk, Gates and Putin. Funds The Ditch website because of his personal vendetta against Leo Varadkar. Currently alluding on twitter to himself having some sort of revenge porn material about Leo Varadkar.

Nobody cares about Cosgrave. Most care about The Ditch doing some great investigative journalism which is very rare these days in Irish media and western media in general. The up and coming activists sorry I mean journalists are happy to be lapdogs for the establishment once they have a cushy job that pays well.

Its good to have investigative journalism for sure. Dont kid yourself though. Cosgrave has his own agenda on it. The Ditch is very biased. Theres lots of legitimate questions about Cosgrave and the ditch

This latest tweet from The Ditch may upset some people.

Regards...jmcc

Saw a reddit comment on this that perfectly summarises whats likely happened here

What wrong doing did collins partake in? He agreed with literally everyone else in a meeting that the land in question should be sold. Fair enough he probably shouldn't have attended that meeting but the land would have been sold regardless. He affected no change in this situation to benefit him or his wife and did nothing illegal that we know of.

Paddy cosgrave tried to shake down the government for back handed funding to keep the web summit here(which he now receives to the tune of 11m in portugal) and to use the gardai as private security for the web summit and his own personal events during it. He was told to eff off by FG and has been on a hissy fit about it ever since.

Also his texts about leo sound very likely to contain nothing of wrong doing or his propaganda wing would have published them straight away, im guessing they are solely personal in nature and if he does publish them will end up making cosgrave look even more like the pitiful, hate filled, conspiracy theorist, narcissist many know him well to be.

I agreed he probably should have not attended the meeting but there is nothing illegal about him being there. Answer me this did he affect any change in the situation that you are aware of?

We do know, the senior engineer recommended it be sold and everyone else agreed, if you are aware of some evidence that disproves or calls into question this version of events you should take it to the gardai.

What about all the other facts related to this?

• There were many expressions of interest in the property.

• Neither Collins nor his wife had any pecuniary interest in the property.

• There was no vote.

• The local committee meeting he attended had absolutely no powers to dispose of the property.

• The property was placed on the open market.

• There were multiple bidders, it sold to the highest, which is the industry norm.

• Collins was not a county councillor when it did sell and played no part in the sale process.

When considered in the round, his only wrongdoing, if you want to call it that, was not saying that his wife was one of the many interested parties during that local area meeting. There is no doubt that he should have informed them, but is it evidence of political corruption? Only on the Ditch and for some of its less inquisitive readers.