Shatter next , I hope.
And about time...
Lets hope Shatter goes with him...
Shatter will certainly be damaged by the fact that he backed him to the hilt... And to a lesser extent Enda..
Simon and Leo come out of this smelling of roses...
Shatter needs to go.
Not alone that but it reflects so badly on Kenny and the Labour party.
Leo V at least has some moral courage.
I am surprised that you think Shatter should resign.
An interesting aside to the issue, which states:
"Today's resignation of Ireland's police chief, Martin Callinan, is a vindication of the reporting of Gemma O'Doherty, a journalist fired by the Irish Independent for her pursuit of the story that has led to his departure.As I reported in September last year, O'Doherty was made compulsorily redundant by the paper after door-stepping Callinan, the Garda commissioner.
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But Stephen Rae, editor-in-chief of the Dublin-based Independent titles (and a former editor of the Garda Review magazine), was furious with O'Doherty. He called her a "rogue reporter" for approaching Callinan without permission
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In September last year, the London-based Irish Post revealed that a car registered to Rae had had penalty points wiped in 2009."
http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/mar/25/irish-independent-ireland
He had to go but it's a shame to see a 40 year career end like this.
Some people still wont hear a bad word said about Haughey, and down here in the south east some think Bishop Comiskey was a great fellow. Only in Ireland ! Callinan and Shatter should have gone last year after it emerged that Shatter used confidential information supplied by Callinan, a clear abuse of their positions imo, about a political opponent,
There is no conflict between saying someone should resign and yet feeling sympathy that a long career had to end in this way. Especially when it didn't have to end like this. And especially when he could have retired last year but stayed on when asked by the Minister (who is still in his job). I am sure that during his 40 years as a Guard he did some good and his offence now, while a resigning offence doesn't mean that we should write off his entire contribution.
I'm obviously very naïve. I am getting very used to institutions telling me they are recording my phone call for "training" purposes. I would fully expect that if I phoned the Gardai, especially, my phone call would be recorded.
I simply don't get it. If I phone the Gardaí I would expect that s/he would at least jot down a note of what I had to say, i.e. s/he would "record" it. The fact that this recording is done by technology is surely a good thing. Now bugging my house, I can see that there is something not quite right about that.My thoughts exactly!! Unless they were taping suspects calls?? I think the Government are looking at deflecting attention. When they say it has been happening for years, they mean it is FF's fault.
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