Zappone job saga is not going away as Piglet confirms 

As Simon Coveney boarded a plane on official business, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar released a series of text messages which he hoped would draw a line in this sorry saga. Picture: Sam Boal

“Hi Leo, from the Piglet,” came the text from former Minister Katherine Zappone to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar at 9.06pm on the evening of Friday, July 16.

The Piglet is a fashionable wine bar in Dublin’s Temple Bar, where the former Children’s Minister who had just arrived in from the US penned a text to her former Cabinet colleague and chum.