Watchdog ignored objections of top officials to reject Varadkar leak inquiry

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  1. What need you, being come to sense,

    But fumble in a greasy till

    And add the halfpence to the pence

    And prayer to shivering prayer, until

    You have dried the marrow from the bone;

    For men were born to pray and save:

    Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,

    It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

    Yet they were of a different kind,

    The names that stilled your childish play,

    They have gone about the world like wind,

    But little time had they to pray

    For whom the hangman’s rope was spun,

    And what, God help us, could they save?

    Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,

    It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

    Was it for this the wild geese spread

    The grey wing upon every tide;

    For this that all that blood was shed,

    For this Edward Fitzgerald died,

    And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,

    All that delirium of the brave?

    Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,

    It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

    Yet could we turn the years again,

    And call those exiles as they were

    In all their loneliness and pain,

    You’d cry, ‘Some woman’s yellow hair

    Has maddened every mother’s son’:

    They weighed so lightly what they gave.

    But let them be, they’re dead and gone,

    They’re with O’Leary in the grave.

  2. >In his statement, however, Mr McCarthy said Mr Varadkar implied that “any actions in his role as taoiseach” that he judged appropriate or in the public interest could not be questioned.

    That sounds very dictatorial, nobody can question the great leader.

  3. This always came across as very dodgy/corrupt and it was clear Leo was doing a mate a favour. He has a feeling of invincibility that he’s shown time and time again with stuff like this. Not shocked at all that there was collusion to cover it up.

  4. This is probably why people were trying to go after him for the club video – because he seems to get away with all the actual corrupt stuff he does, so any opportunity to try to “get” him, however misguided, is seized upon.

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