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Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v2.0

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    #2552
    ahal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭ahal


    A bit disappointed with the clarification are we? :rolleyes:

    We might have had a disagreement on the economy forum, but hey, it's the internet ... don't take it personally.


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    #2553
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    ahal wrote: »
    It's not; that was my point. The way she cut into a small bit of chat regarding the man taking his life was rude and disrespectful imho for that very reason. Death is kind of serious too.

    i could imagine vincent not wanting to touch the mayo story with a barge pole due to the social backround of the family , no negative storys about travellers allowed on VB,s show


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    #2554
    ahal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭ahal


    irishh_bob wrote: »
    i could imagine vincent not wanting to touch the mayo story with a barge pole due to the social backround of the family , no negative storys about travellers allowed on VB,s show

    OMG I actually agree with you :eek:

    This won't do at all ... next we'll be wishing each other a Happy Christmas :pac:

    The best one from Vinny was that FG ... wait for it ... helped to move nice people out of the worst of housing projects! Shocking! (FF abolished the scheme in 1987 as soon as they got in power, despite not abolishing the grant (5k. iirc) being an election promise)

    Now Vinny was basically saying that families should instead have been made stay in areas where their front doors were kicked in night after night, personal property damaged, children bullied / attacked, parents bullied / assaulted and so on ... in order to somehow hang them out to dry in order to satisfy middle class guilt.

    He portrayed the scheme to help families buy private houses and get out of these corrosive kips as a national tragedy!

    By his own (warped) 'logic', Vincent should have stayed down in Limerick and spent his life helping as a farm hand rather than being a turncoat and training as a Barrister / Journalist, in order to enrich his local community. He's typical of a certain mindset: crap is okay as long as someone else is in the middle of it and then the happy - clappy social analysis can begin from afar!


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    #2555
    Plautus
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Plautus


    Keep a date in your diary folks, 21st December 2011 -
    http://twitter.com/#!/lydiamurph/status/146288683610419201/photo/1

    ^_^


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    #2556
    Plautus
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Plautus


    Karen Devine is back tonight folks ... eh, good response to the last programme I'd say. Yup.


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    #2557
    Lapin
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    Ah FFS.

    Does Mary Lou have no home to go to ?

    She's on the box more often than the ads. :mad:


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    #2558
    Lady Chatterton
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    Lapin wrote: »
    Ah FFS.

    Does Mary Lou have no home to go to ?

    She's on the box more often than the ads. :mad:
    I wish Pearse was on instead, it is just not fair :mad:


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    #2559
    DuckStab
    Registered Users Posts: 327 ✭✭DuckStab


    Plautus wrote: »
    Karen Devine is back tonight folks ... eh, good response to the last programme I'd say. Yup.

    Enrobed in something festive and form-fitting, ahh. And Vinny has skipped her :mad:


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    #2560
    Jess16
    Registered Users Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    What's Mary Lou's point? Her proficency in waffle is her clearly her biggest selling point as a politician


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    #2561
    Plautus
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Plautus


    Mary Lou used to be seen right through by various electorates - she got through in this General Election on the huge anti-government swing. Third time lucky. They keep parachuting her into constituencies she's not known for doing bread and butter work in ...


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    #2562
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Karen Devine, a lecturer on economics in some college or other. Didn't hear a word she said but thought she made perfect sense and should be a permanent fixture.

    Things are looking up.


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    #2563
    Good loser
    Registered Users Posts: 3,198 ✭✭✭Good loser


    Mary Lou takes an age to get to the point.

    Tbh all SF are. She's smarter than Pearse.


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    #2564
    DuckStab
    Registered Users Posts: 327 ✭✭DuckStab


    Jess16 wrote: »
    What's Mary Lou's point? Her proficency in waffle is her clearly her biggest selling point as a politician

    Correct me if I'm wrong but proficiency in waffle is the only selling point of any politician.


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    #2565
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    Good loser wrote: »
    Mary Lou takes an age to get to the point.

    Tbh all SF are. She's smarter than Pearse.

    I think Mary Lou has more substance than Pearse.

    Pearse looks and sounds well when he is delivering soundbites, but not so much when he is engaged in a proper debate.


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    #2566
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Plautus wrote: »
    Karen Devine is back tonight folks ... eh, good response to the last programme I'd say. Yup.


    I'm not sure I like her as much (maybe it's the red) :rolleyes: :D:D


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    #2567
    Plautus
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭Plautus


    Lapin wrote: »
    Things are looking up.

    She's the new, and (I don't say this lightly) more intelligent Elaine Byrne.

    Talking eminent sense tonight: a separate intergovernmental compact relating to but not operating under EU Law will have tremendous difficulties. The ECJ might even rule that it has no force and should be derogated from in preference to community law ... if a conflict was ever to arise 'twixt the two (Britain to take the case.)

    I think that they'll have to call all the heads back into the room and get Britain onside. Before we even get onto the matter of what it is a new treaty should look like.


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    #2568
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    vicwatson wrote: »
    I'm not sure I like her as much (maybe it's the red) :rolleyes: :D:D

    She's hot but she's no Lorraine Higgins eh vic ? ;)


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    #2569
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Lapin wrote: »
    She's hot but she's no Lorraine Higgins eh vic ? ;)


    Is she anything to Joe Higgins ?;) :eek:


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    #2570
    Jess16
    Registered Users Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    I really fail to see Mary Lou's logic -of course Cameron is going to prioritise saving domestic Capitalism rather than a currency that the UK had the foresight not to become involved with in the first place.


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    #2571
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    That gimp from The Irish Times does my head in, where did he get the accent, sounds like he has a hot potato in his mouth !


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    #2572
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Is she anything to Joe Higgins ?;) :eek:

    God no.

    Lorraine is politically related to the presidential side of the Higgins clan. :)


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    #2573
    nudger
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    Skid wrote: »
    I think Mary Lou has more substance than Pearse.

    Pearse looks and sounds well when he is delivering soundbites, but not so much when he is engaged in a proper debate.

    Not sure about that Skid, she is a more polished politician but the guy has a bright head on him, did you notice during the budget all the gang were reading the cuts, he was doing the numbers and throwing them across to Gerry and co.


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    #2574
    artful_codger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭artful_codger


    Socialist in 'spend other peoples money as a solution' shocker!


    meanwhile down at Croke Park....

    elephant_room2.jpg


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    #2575
    Jess16
    Registered Users Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    Skid wrote: »
    I think Mary Lou has more substance than Pearse.

    Pearse looks and sounds well when he is delivering soundbites, but not so much when he is engaged in a proper debate.

    Are you actually serious? This is the same woman who replied 'Growth' when asked what she considered an alternative to austerity -that's pretty much the definition of a soundbite. Unfortunately for her, it only reiterates her incredible lack of economic awareness, considering unsubstantiated growth is precisely what gave rise to these austerity measures in the first place


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    #2576
    nudger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,449 ✭✭✭nudger


    artful_codger wrote: »
    Socialist in 'spend other peoples money as a solution' shocker!


    meanwhile down at Croke Park....

    elephant_room2.jpg

    That is the biggest problem in the country at the moment, reality check guys.


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    #2577
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    karen ... just.....devine.

    *sigh*


    :)


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    #2578
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Jesus. Even poor Santa isn't safe anymore. :(


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    #2579
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    The Liberal Democrats are going to end up like the PDs and the Greens.


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    #2580
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Lapin wrote: »
    God no.

    Lorraine is politically related to the presidential side of the Higgins clan. :)

    Immediate turn off alert.

    Not that the Joe Higgins side is a turn on mind :)


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    #2581
    ahal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭ahal


    Note how vexed our Vinny got, not once but twice, at the headline in one of the papers about 2,000 refugees doing a legger instead of being deported. I suppose the paper in question have a 'racist agenda' :rolleyes:


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