Trevor Sargent in hot water over headed notepaper letter to Garda

[FakeViking]

Pat Rabbitte suggested that it might have been his constiuency office without the knowledge of Sargent!
Did he sign it or know about it in other words?

Why would the consituency office have Dept of Ag headed paper?

[White Horse]

Well, where this could all get very interesting is to get to the bottom of where, when, and how, the Herald got hold of their info...

I suspect that this is the question that will be exercising the minds of the Green parliamentary party.

[darkknight]

Rabbitte following the 'not the Trevor we know' line on RTE.

The same Rabbitte (in the notorious 'Rabbitte eats his Greens' video) was scathing about Sargent's deviousness in promising never to lead the Greens into coalition with FF, only to reappear as a Junior Minister!

[David Cochrane]

[birthday]

According to Charlie Flanagan (FG) interference should not take place after the summons has been issued.

So by implication its ok to interfere before the issue of the summons? Unbelievable!

I suspect that the Gardai may have something say on this idea of interfering before it goes to a summons?

[Kerrygold]

I seriously doubt some assistant or secretary would write such a letter without his prior knowledge.

Perhaps now Trevor will have more time for the gardening?

[MPB]

I'd love to hear Dan Boyle today.

He is currently locked in the toilets in Leinster House with his mobile stuck up
his bum.

[Hound]

Can we expect to see Maire Geoghegan Quinn resigning ? A court found her guilty of influencing the administration of justice to benefit FF voters.

Should misuse of power debar EU hopeful? - The Irish Times - Tue, Nov 17, 2009

As minister, however, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn operated a very large-scale system in which she altered or overturned court decisions. In 1993 alone, she dealt with 4,050 petitions, mostly from TDs on behalf of constituents. In well over half of these cases (2,283 to be precise) she mitigated the punishments imposed by the courts.

In 1993, in one of the most extraordinary episodes in Irish judicial history, district justice Patrick Brennan, recently retired after long service on the bench in Mayo, felt impelled to take Maire Geoghegan-Quinn to court because she had set aside or changed so many of the sentences he had handed down. He cited, merely as samples, four cases – two of driving offences, two of fishing offences – in which she responded to representations from Fianna Fáil TDs Seamus Hughes and Tom Moffatt. In one, the civil servant who handled the TD’s representations noted: “Serious offences, moderate fines imposed . . . I consider intervention inappropriate.”

[David Cochrane]

[SilverLining]

This sort of behaviour, if proven, is inappropriate for Trevor Sargent. On the other had, FG seem to be running a smear campaign to get cartoon character Enda in as taoiseach. FG are not worthy of running a pick 'n' mix stall with this sort of reactionary looney carry on.

An interesting fact is both Trevor and Enda in previous lives were school teachers.