Responding to the latest defence by Leo Varadkar to the Zappone Gig, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín said that Ireland had “entered the twilight zone” and that “like Dallas and Bobby Ewing we are being told Covid guidelines were all a dream.” “Ireland has entered the twilight zone in relation to what was the law for […]
One of the most baffling things about the Katherine Zappone cock-up (let’s call it what it is) is that it ever got this far. Politicians spend millions of our euros every year on a veritable army of special advisors, many of them ex-journalists, precisely so that they can be advised how to avoid banana skins […]
For many, the recent scandal involving the appointment of former minister Katherine Zappone to the post of UN special envoy sums up all that is wrong with Irish politics. At this point, the choreography surrounding the appointment isn’t clear but some things are. Zappone, who was unceremoniously dumped by the Irish electorate in 2020 is […]
Crisis management.
Perhaps An Taoiseach Micheál Martin now understands what Groucho Marx meant when he said that he would not want to be a member of a club that would have him as a member. I am thinking here in the context of a dinner reportedly hosted by for former Minister, now newly appointed Special Envoy for […]
Former Minister, Katherine Zappone, held a party for 50 friends, including Leo Varadkar, in a 5 star hotel in Dublin just days before her controversial appointment to a new UN position, the Irish Independent reports. Ms Zappone hosted around 50 friends and former colleagues at a private outdoor function in one of the country’s most […]
The folks in Cabinet seem puzzled by the public reaction to the news that former Minister Katherine Zappone had asked for, and promptly received, one of those ludicrous positions that are clearly invented to give one of The Deserving Few another job. Zappone had a chat with Minister Simon Coveney, presumably on the special direct-dial red phone reserved for ex-Ministers who want […]
Katherine Zappone in 2015: “The practice of appointments made with a nod and wink to State boards has no place in our open modern democracy and could damage our economic recovery.”
Aontú Leader Peadar Tóibín TD has called on the Tánaiste Leo Varadkar to answer questions in relation to the appointment of former Minister Zapppone to the position of Special Envoy for Freedom of Expression. The Meath West TD said: “This appointment at the last cabinet meeting before the summer recess will have raised eyebrows throughout […]
It’s been an extraordinary election in many ways, but one thing is very clear from the initial results: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil were not rewarded by the electorate for adopting the most woke positions possible in legalising abortion in Ireland. In fact, the opposite seems to have happened. Many of the most strident voices […]
We all know that the current Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone, has an almost missionary zeal when it comes to spreading the ideology of abortion under the euphemisms of ‘reproductive rights’ and ‘reproductive justice.’ The Minister’s latest jaunt to push this agenda, at the taxpayers’ expense, was her trip to the Nairobi Summit in Kenya […]
The plan by The UN Population Fund to host a recent government conference on “sexual and reproductive health” in Kenya backfired as Kenyans fought back attempts to export Western sexual norms into Africa. The UN Nairobi Summit was greeted by pro-life street protests and accusations of neo-colonialism. The Kenyan legislature forbade UNFPA access to the […]