Trevor spills Enda's beans

[Digout]

Interesting timing by Sargent!! Would he call this "mature recollection" I wonder or is he married to FF long enough for one of those yet?

Either he was lying in the Dail, or he is lying for electoral gain now. I think he should clarify his remarks.

[Digout]

Hang on secretly??? Didn't we know this was going on? Enda was convinced he could still be Taoiseach for days after the election. This is a non-story being thrown up 2 days before the election in an attempt to throw mud. That kind of thing is all over the papers today.

Well, Sargents screaming at Kenny in the Dail told a different story. Further proof that the Greens are becoming more FF than FF themselves.

[Toland]

_. P .., .S.
. .:............. ....
....:.................._ ....,
............ .............., .:..
....... . . _:........ :..
_...... . .<........ ....
,...... ....... ..._.
_..... ..:...) .....
:.... ..:.... .....
.... _:..... .....
...... .....U..._.
..... _:..... (
O..... ......
:... ) .......
....._ . ...E:..),
.:.... ).... . _.....
..... ,...... .:....
) ..... ...:.._ .....
....... ..:..... ...+,
. :...... )..:...,. ....
.:....... ..+......., _:...
............?. .............. .....
. .......:............,. :...
. :..............) ...
.. I. .. ,D.

[JCSkinner]

Hang on secretly??? Didn't we know this was going on? Enda was convinced he could still be Taoiseach for days after the election. This is a non-story being thrown up 2 days before the election in an attempt to throw mud. That kind of thing is all over the papers today.

Exactly. This is FF-GP getting their last bite in before the lockdown.
And if that's all they have, Gawd elp em.

[Limerick Lad]

Trevor Sargent can't have it both ways either he stands by his Dail statement that Kenny wouldn't countenance having SF in a coalition with Labour and the Greens post the 2007 election or this never mentioned until the last dying days of an election campaign where the FF/Green coalition are predicted to do badly statement, he can't have it both ways.

Did he mislead the Dail then or is he being economical with the truth now?

[Duth Ealla]

SF have been in the news continuously over the last week with people trying to do them down with the same tired old lines. Considering the state of the country due you think people are going to be impressed to see Enda and Garrett fighting over Sinn Fein's mandate.

We have Pat Cocks and Mata harney on TV and Radio saying dont vote SF cause the PDs say so.

We have the drunken sailor of a leader saying dont vote SF because that will cost jobs when he is presiding over a state with 1/5 workers not working.

Keep it up lads because 24 7 news coverage from such a bunch of has beens is a great recommendation to vote Sinn Fein.

[Digout]

Right David. Very, very old hat. As said above Trevor was berating Enda for not wanting to look at the SF option very early in the present coalition government.

dirty tricks by the organic carrot munchers.

[Thoreau]

This is very strange, when this current patchwork government was formed, Kenny was in the Dail giving some abuse to the Greens for becoming turncoats, and Sargent stood up and said that the SF option was on the table for Kenny, but Kenny refused it, so, was Sargent telling porkies in the Dail, or is he telling porkies now?

There's no contradiction.

Sargent's attitude was "I'm not a Fine Gael messenger-boy - if you want to find out what SF are thinking, go talk to them yourself, or at least send one of your minions'.

Kenny wasn't quite ready to cross that Rubicon so Sargent let fly at him in the Dáil.

[Digout]

There's no contradiction.

Sargent's attitude was "I'm not a Fine Gael messenger-boy - if you want to find out what SF are thinking, go talk to them yourself, or at least send one of your minions'.

Kenny wasn't quite ready to cross that Rubicon so Sargent let fly at him in the Dáil.

Incorrect, Sargent was very very clear in what he said in the Dail.

[wysiwyg]

It was common knowledge within SF at the time that FG wanted to do a deal to get SF votes for Kenny as Taoiseach

The problem at the time was that FG weren't prepared to countenance a SF minister but wanted external support for a FG lead Government and as a quid quo pro they were willing to implement certain policy matters that were important to SF

SF refused on the basis that if they were supporting the Government, they wanted to be in the Government