One candidate had a great night. Some others did not.
“Our Taoiseach needs to act.”
“The Department is not forcing them to leave the country.”
Said the government didn’t want to fall into “complacency”.
TD “sorry if people were offended”
Leo Varadkar has been finding allies in unusual places, this morning, following last Friday’s publication in Village magazine of allegations that he had acted unlawfully by sharing details of a draft contract for GPs with a rival group of GPs: Former minister for agriculture Barry Cowen has said Leo Varadkar is “entitled to make a […]
____________________________________________________________ Note from Editor: In recent days, Thomas Byrne TD has denied many of the allegations made in this piece, as reported here. However, given that Mr. Byrne is a member of the Government, and that these allegations are being levelled, credibly, by a long-term associate of his, and given that they go directly to […]
If you missed this delightful little story last week, then let me refresh your memories: After Barry Cowen suddenly, and four years after the event, found himself receiving media attention for his drink driving conviction, Minister for Europe Thomas Byrne went on Virgin Media and said how terrible it was that this had happened to […]
Last night, the Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne, went on the Tonight Show on Virgin Media to defend Barry Cowen, the Minister for Agriculture, after the stories in recent days about Cowen’s drink driving offence four years ago, and absence of a full driving licence. While Byrne was on the programme, Ken McFadden, a […]
This might be the classic Irish scandal. Here’s the update from the Independent’s Philip Ryan: PARC road safety group chair Susan Gray says Barry Cowen told her he never sat a driving test before his drink driving ban in 2016. — Philip Ryan (@Philip_Ryan) July 8, 2020 We don’t know how long the Minister for […]
Trouble in, well, not paradise, but certainly trouble in whatever lifeless room the negotiations for a new Government are taking place in: A senior Fianna Fáil negotiator involved in the talks to form a government has accused Fine Gael of selfishness and of putting their party before the country. Barry Cowen made the charge after […]