TONIGHT With Vincent Browne

ArtSmart

MrsD007 wrote: »

Noirin Hegarty???

They could do a lot worse - edit, always thought she was a straight shooter.

Lady Chatterton

bluefinger wrote: »

no amount of community centres or bypasses would convince me to vote for a shyster like that

I share your view but he got jobs and planning permission for alot of people and they will vote for him.

Lady Chatterton

ArtSmart wrote: »

They could do a lot worse - edit, always thought she was a straight shooter.

A good Clare woman Art, it is the West of Ireland air....you can't beat it.

No1J

MrsD007 wrote: »

Noirin Hegarty???

Yes, an old friend of Vinny's, should see her on the show soon.

Lady Chatterton

No1J wrote: »

Yes, an old friend of Vinny's, should see her on the show soon.

She took over in the Tribune after Vinny.

take everything

Take the biro out of your mouth Dearbhaile.

Skid

Martin King loves the expression 'kicking off the quilts' something fierce.

Lady Chatterton

Good night folks

ArtSmart

well, time for snoozing. nite all

Skid

Lahm wrote: »

What did she do wrong though tonight?

For starters,

"I leaked some information about a donation made to [The PDs] & I denied that to the Tribunal"

That's lying under oath. And not seeing any problem with it.

Then there's ruining her journalistic reputation by ignoring all the evidence in favour of blindly defending Denis O'Brien.

And laughing about her role in the entire corrupt process.

That, amongst other things, is what she did wrong.

bluefinger

SkidMark wrote: »

For starters,

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And laughing about her role in the entire corrupt process.

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this made my blood boil.

SEPT 23 1989

Jedward on with Vincent on Friday night

Elmo

MrsD007 wrote: »

Her performance was seriously embarrassing, she lost a lot of credibility tonight.

There is some strange reasoning that 18 Civil Servants would not try to save their own skin. Who are the 18? Are they all General Sectaries, APs or POs with in each of the departments involved? In which case they may have lied, just like Sarah Did.

Just because political donations are part of the culture doesn't mean it is right and obviously her letter to Phil Hogan suggests that she and Denis O'Brian felt that many people would see it as buying influence rather than the normal run of the mill workings of party politics.

Also Denis O'Brien was very aware of trying to insure that he got the licence. AFAIK he took out advertising telling people that the licence should not be given to the Comcast/ESB consortium as it would mean another state owned phone provider. These where his main competition, but the Dept of Finance did not want RTÉ being involved in another consortium, I believe they were involved in Persona's bid, at the last moments the Department allowed Person's Consortium to put forward a proposal. However I believe that Esat viewed Comcast as their main competitor.

Skid

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Jedward on with Vincent on Friday night

He's not joking people ...

Speaking of reviewing the newspapers, Jedward are apparently due to do just that on Vincent Browne’s show this Friday. According to a show insider: ‘They’ll be reviewing the news like everyone else. They have plenty of opinions, although they might be a bit more unusual than other people’s’

http://www.newstalk.ie/2011/programmes/all-programmes/breakfast/paper-reviews/wedneday-23rd-march/


Admittedly, the only link I could find was from Newstalk, but the word on the street is that this is going to happen :eek:

SB-08

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Jedward on with Vincent on Friday night

I can only assume you are taking the piss?

jimmyw

Yeah I heard Ivan Yates this morning saying that these morans twins were on Vinnys show.I nearly choked on me cereal.:rolleyes:

Lady Chatterton

jimmyw wrote: »

Yeah I heard Ivan Yates this morning saying that these morans twins were on Vinnys show.I nearly choked on me cereal.:rolleyes:

Not sure if you watched Vinny B last night but if you listened to Billy Kelleher's contributions for the entire programme you would be more than delighted to have Jedward on

JonathanAnon

Elmo wrote: »

There is some strange reasoning that 18 Civil Servants would not try to save their own skin. Who are the 18? Are they all General Sectaries, APs or POs with in each of the departments involved? In which case they may have lied, just like Sarah Did.

I just watched this now myself.. Civil servants are people who have made a career out of keeping their heads down, not making enemies and acting like sheep... so that they dont give any reason for others not to promote them.. It's all about keeping your head down and not pissing anybody off, NOT about doing the right thing..

At the time this competition was going on, the heads of the Dept. Of Communications didnt have the balls to pull Lowry to one side and say to him "look Michael, you meeting with one of the contenders ... ON YOUR OWN and with nobody taking notes .. could be interpreted by other competing parties as you colluding with them.. And this could throw a cloud over the impartiality of the whole process".... They were too busy brown nosing the Minister to do their duty, and protect the objectivity of the licensing process.

And I thought it was completely contradictory that on one hand Sarah Carey should admit to lying to the tribunal herself, yet she then has the gall to say that it is beyond the bounds of possibility that the civil servants lied to save their own asses... Lost a huge amount of respect for her..

bluefinger

JonathanAnon wrote: »

And I thought it was completely contradictory that on one hand Sarah Carey should admit to lying to the tribunal herself, yet she then has the gall to say that it is beyond the bounds of possibility that the civil servants lied to save their own asses... Lost a huge amount of respect for her..

+ millions
the energy required to sustain that level of cognitive dissonance must be prodigous.

Elmo

bluefinger wrote: »

+ millions
the energy required to sustain that level of cognitive dissonance must be prodigous.

back away from the word of the day. Step away! Anyway its spelled prodigious.

Elmo

SB-08 wrote: »

I can only assume you are taking the piss?

What date is Friday? I assume they mean Friday week. Otherwise my rhetorical question does not work. I have put my work of the day calendar back in the right place now!

No1J

Alan is looking well fed.

bluefinger

Elmo wrote: »

back away from the word of the day. Step away! Anyway its spelled prodigious.

and to think i changed it at the last minute from immense, which i can actually spell

jaffa20

Jeez thought your man on the right was a zombie for a second!!

JonathanAnon

oh I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that Elaine Byrne is a big supported of both Denis O'Brien and Michael Lowry...

No1J

This looks good.

bluefinger

yeah michael, the cost of the tribunal was terrible. If only we didn't have crooked politicians that needed investigating.

No1J

"How are you going to get your costs". (maybe casino)? bit annoyed?

JonathanAnon

bluefinger wrote: »

yeah michael, the cost of the tribunal was terrible. If only we didn't have crooked politicians that needed investigating.

What bugs me .. the tribunal is not much more than a trip to the Public Accounts Committee... they can lie or they can tell the truth, it's up to them and the power is not there to convict them of any crime, not even perjury.. why would they need a legal team if they were telling the truth???

bluefinger

JonathanAnon wrote: »

What bugs me .. the tribunal is not much more than a trip to the Public Accounts Committee... they can lie or they can tell the truth, it's up to them and the power is not there to convict them of any crime, not even perjury.. why would they need a legal team if they were telling the truth???

lol

politician telling the truth.

seriously though the legal teams seemed to be more about obscuring and delaying the truth when it came out.