14/09/2021 Covid-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus), Ireland. Day 538 since start of lockdown. Day 128 of eased restrictions. Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence Simon Coveney speaks to media over the Katherine Zappone MerrionGate affair, at the Fine Gael Think In outside Trim Castle, Co. Meath. Barry Duggan, head of FG Communications and Press is on Minister Coveney's right. He faces a stormy day tomorrow as Sinn Fein tables a motion of no confidence in him. Pictured with him are party colleagues Richard Bruton and Tanaiste Leo Varadkar, Photograph: Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie