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Deputy President of Students Union on Joe Duffy

  • 21-02-2008 4:03pm
    #1
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Did I hear correctly, was the Students Unions deputy president on Joe Duffy just there defending the strippers ye had for RAG Week? I could of sworn that's the IT Joe said it was from - some women was giving out saying it was "degrading to women". Very amusing, and while he was under pressure he did a great job. Fair play.


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  • #2
    Oirthir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭Oirthir


    Yeah, it was Alan Mulcahy, the Dep Pres / Education Officer.

    Something about a picture being in the Star. They've been doing strippers in IT Tallaght for years and the complaints get worse and worse every year, yet it always sells out.

    Although a 30 minute airing on RTÉ Radio 1 might get the college to try and step in.


  • #3
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Oirthir wrote: »
    Although a 30 minute airing on RTÉ Radio 1 might get the college to try and step in.

    Well, it is one way to increase student numbers. :)


  • #4
    Sully
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    The caller had the worst points though and she was basing it all on women, and none on men.

    I mean, if they want to be strippers - so be it, I don't think they find it "degrading", as Alan said -- its their job and if they felt it, they would not be strippers. The same goes for the men. People pay to go in, so I doubt they feel uncomfortable - I would imagine they know what there getting themselves into when they go in.

    Joe was completely against it, and supporting the caller. I felt the way he spoke to Alan was awful.


  • #5
    Oirthir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭Oirthir


    I feel that Joe Duffy speaking is awful. If I had one legal execution, I'd lean heavily towards Joe "Voice of the People" Duffy.


  • #6
    Giblet
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    Funny, because there are usually male strippers too.


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  • #7
    jawlie
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    Oirthir wrote: »
    I feel that Joe Duffy speaking is awful. If I had one legal execution, I'd lean heavily towards Joe "Voice of the People" Duffy.

    I agree. His show is ghastly and he likes nothing more than tabloid emotions and engineering a scrap between the unfortunate people he sets up on the show.

    Liveline has become a parody of the genre, and should be studied by the media studies courses in all third level institutions as an example of cheap & vulgar tabloid titillation.

    Ghastly, ghastly, ghastly.


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