LIVELINE Thread - (05/10/11 to 14/02/2012)

kitsy13

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Probably something to do with the book

Its out next thursday, wonder if he's signing in easons

http://www.omahonys.ie/catalog/just-joe-my-autobiography-p-310454.html

bijapos

kitsy13 wrote: »

Its out next thursday, wonder if he's signing in easons

http://www.omahonys.ie/catalog/just-joe-my-autobiography-p-310454.html

We ought to organise a demo outside, loads of placards with €408,000 written all over the place with no subtlety whatsoever. "We should be out on the streets Joe!".

I'd say that book will be a mix of Angelas Ashes and The Greatest Story Ever Told.

Whats with the cover photo? Is he letting one off? :pac:




EDIT: Heres the blurb from the dust jacket: vomit inducing stuff.....

Dignity was our most valuable possession." Joe Duffy is a household name in Ireland. As the presenter of RTE Radio One's "Liveline" programme, he takes the pulse of the Irish nation every day, often delving into highly controversial topics. Whenever somebody wants to get something off their chest, the advice is often: "Talk to Joe". Writing with raw honesty, Joe here recounts his difficult upbringing in working-class Ballyfermot. He paints a poignant, heart-breaking picture of family life with a hard-drinking father and hard-working mother. Aspirations for a better life were rarely encouraged in Ballyfermot. Despite this, Joe was determined to escape to a different future. He became one of the first from his area to enter the hallowed halls of Trinity College Dublin, where he developed a strong sense of social justice, eventually becoming President of the Union of Students in Ireland, leading protests on campus highlighting access to education and spending two weeks in Mountjoy Jail as a result

SEPT 23 1989

"Aspirations for a better life were rarely encouraged in Ballyfermot."


What a load of rubbish

kitsy13

bijapos wrote: »

We ought to organise a demo outside, loads of placards with €408,000 written all over the place with no subtlety whatsoever. "We should be out on the streets Joe!".

I'd say that book will be a mix of Angelas Ashes and The Greatest Story Ever Told.

Whats with the cover photo? Is he letting one off? :pac:




EDIT: Heres the blurb from the dust jacket: vomit inducing stuff.....

"raw honesty" "social justice"

Thats a classic lol

bijapos

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

"Aspirations for a better life were rarely encouraged in Ballyfermot."


What a load of rubbish

Indeed, its actually grossly insulting to anyone from Ballyfermot, look at the Fureys, they made something out of themselves and they came from a worse situation than him.

Its insulting to anyone who scrimped and saved to send their kids to school in decent clothes and with something to eat to say that that they never aspired that their kids would be succesful in life. There are loads of people who got on very well in life who came from the Coolocks, Ballyfermots and Tallaghts of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and indeed small towns of Ireland that don't feel the need to blow their trumpets off about it.

Jaysoose

Just Joe

"the diary of a childish spoofer"

SEPT 23 1989

unsavory pornography

joe316

Did this fella "stumble" on some filth and is blaming "research"??

bijapos

Muff? :pac:

europa11

What town in Northern Ireland?

europa11

Pornadown?

That_Guy

What's this about?

qwert2

Will you put it up on the liveline website Damien?

SEPT 23 1989

That_Guy wrote: »

What's this about?

A red faced Damien discusses pornography

surferdudz

kitsy13 wrote: »

"raw honesty" "social justice"

Thats a classic lol

will be a christmas best seller ..

pc7

surferdudz wrote: »

will be a christmas best seller ..

Fools and their money...

surferdudz

U Tube do have a social responsibility... kids can so easily access innapropriate material

europa11

"are you there" asks Da Omen......wonder is he talking to your man or the dwindling listenership.

Donahg

Ffs would he give them a chance to remove it

mike65

Any ideas?

Spudmonkey

Got distracted???

I'm sure he did.

joe316

lol

"i got too distracted by all the porn!!"

Donahg

That course sounds like another waste of tax payers money

JonathanAnon

The real story of Joe Duffy's life..

SEPT 23 1989

Pornography and next up unmarried mothers

Damo will need a lie down after this

SEPT 23 1989

JonathanAnon wrote: »

The real story of Joe Duffy's life..

Thats going to get stolen and used again:D

JonathanAnon

This poor woman... The state is really doing a terrible job spoonfeeding her and giving her loads of free money..

neris

bloody hell this sucks. What does she want? The college at the end of her garden and a money tree?

pc7

I'm sorry her grant was cut, but that's just how things are. Lots of people have to put themselves through college, do it at night, work etc. Its just life. Lots of people in her position just have to work and study at night or wait until the kids are grown.

europa11

Maybe the kiddies dad might cough up a few Euros towards the Course.