Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v2.0

Callan57 · 18-01-2012 10:34pm

If they thought they had a problem understanding McCreevy in Brussels just wait 'till Enda lets Damien loose on them ....

His surname must be someone's idea of a joke because whatever he was talking last night it wasn't English!

hotmail.com · 18-01-2012 11:34pm

Please nothing about the economy, banks or the Euro tonight, please!

JonathanAnon · 19-01-2012 12:01am

hotmail.com wrote: »

Please nothing about the economy, banks or the Euro tonight, please!

Saw a promo earlier, Vinny said he's had enough of people not taking the recent crisis seriously, that Ireland NEEDS for it to be sorted and he's gonna chair the debate between the relevant parties tonight... Either way, Brian Kennedy and Paul Martin are not leaving the studio until they are friends.. :pac:

dublinman1990 · 19-01-2012 12:05am

I'd wonder what Browne will say about Aengus Fanning tonight. Hmm........:D

Judgement Day · 19-01-2012 12:19am

dublinman1990 wrote: »

I'd wonder what Browne will say about Aengus Fanning tonight. Hmm........:D

Fastest obituary in history and he forgot to mention the gutter press standard of journalism at the Sunday Indo under Aengus Fanning.

http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/nov2011/sunind_30oct05.jpg

Not fit to wrap chips in.

Havermeyer · 19-01-2012 12:19am

More waffle by the lefties that haven't really got a f*cking clue what they are talking about.

No answers from any of them.

JonathanAnon · 19-01-2012 12:25am

This O'Donovan lad is busier now than he ever was when he was working for the IMF... The day they came in to the country he must have said "Ca chinng" to himself.

Patrick2010 · 19-01-2012 12:26am

Waste of time clicking on a link with indymedia in it.

bluefinger · 19-01-2012 12:26am

nummnutts wrote: »

More waffle by the lefties that haven't really got a f*cking clue what they are talking about.

No answers from any of them.

if he's saying that the debt is unstaintable which i think he is then it's not really waffle.

Mr.Nice Guy · 19-01-2012 12:26am

These EU loving die-hards remind me of those brainwashed beaten spouses on the Jeremy Kyle show. We're getting pushed around and they're too afraid to stand up to it because they don't know any better. Depressing.

tayto lover · 19-01-2012 12:26am

nummnutts wrote: »

More waffle by the lefties that haven't really got a f*cking clue what they are talking about.

No answers from any of them.

And Damiken wfrteg English had last night ?

dublinman1990 · 19-01-2012 12:28am

Donal O'Donavan, the former deputy director of the IMF, has said the debt is quite fragile for Ireland. Vincent Browne is saying paying the debt is blackmail.

Who do you think is right? Donal or Vincent?

My Guess is Donal!

Havermeyer · 19-01-2012 12:29am

It certainly seems unsustainable, but we know that already. How many groups do we need to tell us we're screwed?

None of them have answers.

It's so easy to be in opposition. I think I might give it a go myself someday.

bluefinger · 19-01-2012 12:38am

it's not our government that's done this. is she for real?

dublinman1990 · 19-01-2012 12:41am

Who is John Bissett, this community worker from Dublin and where did he come from?

Is he a member of a political party or what is the story?

I've never seen him before on television either RTE/TV3 in my life.

Harry Angstrom · 19-01-2012 12:43am

bluefinger wrote: »

it's not our government that's done this. is she for real?

I'm sick and tired of FG/Lab blaming the previous Government. They've been in power for almost 12 months now. It's about feckin time that they started taking responsibility for their actions. Sometimes I wonder why we had an election in the first place.

JonathanAnon · 19-01-2012 12:43am

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Who do you think is right? Donal or Vincent?

I think Vincent is right.. The EU are happy with Ireland, the "best boy in the class", because we are saving the French and German banks.. When realistically we should be defaulting on a substantial amount of the private banking debt...

We are saving them from having to bail out their own banks..

Good loser · 19-01-2012 12:44am

Vincent objects to blackmail yet he wants to blackmail the EU re the Anglo Irish (now Govt) debts.

Vincent has no idea how power works and how power can be used. Subtlety is beyond him.

Harry Angstrom · 19-01-2012 12:44am

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Who is John Bissett, this community worker from Dublin and where did he come from?

Is he a member of a political party or what is the story?

I've never seen him before on television either RTE/TV3 in my life.

"Community worker"

I wonder if he's related to Jacqueline Bissett??

steelcityblues · 19-01-2012 12:50am

dublinman1990 wrote: »

Who is John Bissett, this community worker from Dublin and where did he come from?

Is he a member of a political party or what is the story?

I've never seen him before on television either RTE/TV3 in my life.

Like his views or not, it is good to have someone else outside of that small clique (Prone, Power, Waters, etc) that dominate TV/radio panels in this country.

take everything · 19-01-2012 12:52am

Just watching this and reading today stuff like the University heads snubbing any request to cut pay. Hard to reconcile.

ballsymchugh · 19-01-2012 12:53am

Christ almighty, ian dempsey looks like he's been dragged in early on a monday after a weekend binge for that ad

tayto lover · 19-01-2012 12:53am

D1stant wrote: »

Did anyone notice what looked like text in blue ink on Damien's left hand?

I will forever wonder what it said. Something profound for sure

He was using his crayons to colour the back of his "Special K(enny) box earlier.

JonathanAnon · 19-01-2012 12:56am

The Government needs to cut hell out of the 20 Billion on Department Of Social Protection... Paying for single mothers to have houses so that they dont have to live with their parents? Dole payments higher than some low paying jobs???

tayto lover · 19-01-2012 1:01am

Yet another waste of time watching that rubbish.

Judgement Day · 19-01-2012 1:02am

JonathanAnon wrote: »

The Government needs to cut hell out of the 20 Billion on Department Of Social Protection... Paying for single mothers to have houses so that they dont have to live with their parents? Dole payments higher than some low paying jobs???

Great idea, slash the dole and finish off the retail sector completely and, of course, jobs would miraculously appear overnight like mushrooms. You must really miss the PDs. :rolleyes:

Harry Angstrom · 19-01-2012 1:06am

JonathanAnon wrote: »

The Government needs to cut hell out of the 20 Billion on Department Of Social Protection... Paying for single mothers to have houses so that they dont have to live with their parents? Dole payments higher than some low paying jobs???

We badly need something similar to the Child Support Agency here. Fathers should be financially responsible for their kids, not the State. If the father happens to be on the dole, then deduct a portion of it, and make the payment to the mother as part of her single parent allowance. If they refuse to state the name of the father, give them a vastly reduced rate.

Lady Chatterton · 19-01-2012 4:23pm

Judgement Day wrote: »

Fastest obituary in history and he forgot to mention the gutter press standard of journalism at the Sunday Indo under Aengus Fanning.

When I was watching the repeat this morning, I thought it was very strange how Vincent dealt with the item on Aengus Fanning, he didn't even ask the panel to make a comment like he would usually do in these situations.

I was also wondering why the SINDO would agree to send someone to appear on the programme and then for that individual to drop out???

The SINDO is one of the few newspapers that Vincent hasn't worked for so perhaps there is some history there......

JonathanAnon · 19-01-2012 6:48pm

Should be a good show tonight lads...

Just listening to Vincent Browne on DriveTime there getting really stuck in to that new IMF guy earlier today.. asking him did he think it was right that they should force us to inflict severe austerity measures our own people (who had nothing to do with Anglo Irish Bank) to pay back unsecured bondholders...

Philip Boucher Hayes then followed up by querying both the IMF and ECB separately as to what their responses would be if Ireland decided to default on some of these unsecured bonds...

Plautus · 19-01-2012 6:48pm

I think Vincent did actually write for the Sindo, however briefly, back in the 80s, Mrs. D. It's just that, like some of us, Vinny might think it's a god-awful heap of **** that launches itself on tedious 'It's PC GONE MAD!' type panics.

You can't even say that Muslims aren't welcome here any more, or that the gays (asylum seekers/single mothers/civil servants) have an agenda. Tsk!

Oh, and there was Gwen Halley's little piece from 2005 - http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/browned-off-with-sexist-twofaced-village-mentality-474322.html - If he's sore about that I wouldn't blame him. She was a vindictive little cow, and is now wife of *gulp* Eoghan Harris.

Anyway, tonight, Vincent appears to have been let into a press conference with representatives from the IMF and European Commission to harangue them. I'm not joking. Mudder of Jaysis . . .

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