Taoiseach’s comments on the media can’t be taken seriously
■ With every year that passes, the silly season seems to get sillier.
I simply cannot take seriously the current controversy about Leo Varadkar’s comments on the media.
We have just emerged from the abortion referendum campaign, where the media and the political establishment worked hand in glove to achieve the desired result.
Neither the Taoiseach nor the Health Minister were asked a single difficult question by the media during the whole campaign.
Every week another celebrity was given media prominence for his or her pro-repeal views. When the pro-life campaign on social media was proving too effective, it was closed off.
Mr Varadkar did not have a word of complaint about the media while all this was going on, and the media did not have a word of complaint about him.
Abortion is now to be legalised here, following victory for the Yes campaign in the recent poll, without proper research from the politicians or proper scrutiny by the media.
Who cares, in these circumstances, if the Taoiseach thinks that journalists peddle gossip and if the journalists are upset about this?
Jim Stack Lismore, Co Waterford