Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v 4.0 (08/07/14 to date)

Harry Angstrom

I tuned into Vinnie. Got Riverdance instead.

Lady Chatterton

The Hoff is playing the accordion :eek:

take everything

The Billy Idol of accordion players.

Un Croissant

I wonder will Michael Lowry attend for Tipperary *cringe*

CountyHurler

Given that we know that TV3 will have to have a huge percentage of the hour as ads, to pay for the damned thing, I think it was a really stupid idea to kill the first almost ten minutes by having a band and first ad break....

Fine to have the band at the yoke and play out the show, but everybody at home is tuning in for the debate, which is going to be short enough with the ads as it is...

Un Croissant

Fuuuuucking hell.

Lady Chatterton

I was in the kitchen making tea, is there only one candidate?

RobertKK

God didn't give piped water.

irishfeen

Oh Jesus Christ this is my constituency :o:o I apologise already...

CountyHurler

"God gave us water"...

Yeah, his son turned some of it in to wine as well, but unfortunately he didnt forsee the need for treating it..

Harry Angstrom

MrsD007 wrote: »

I was in the kitchen making tea, is there only one candidate?

There's only 3 TD's in the constituency - 2 of them are Fine Gaelers.

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Can't wait to see the guy featured in the ad for this show tonight.

Un Croissant

irishfeen wrote: »

Oh Jesus Christ this is my constituency :o:o I apologise already...

Looks like ye set yereselves on fire down there.

Harry Angstrom

Good man Conor.

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Moynihan has been a TD since 1997 after a quick wiki read. He presumably opposed FF policy all that time, the way he was talking.

CountyHurler

I bought a 14 euro bottle of whiskey in Lidl on the way. drinking some of it to keep warm.... neat.... it's tough going......

Unimpressed by Cork so far...

irishfeen

At least the accents sound familiar

Lady Chatterton

Michael Collins looks like a Country & Western singer

Un Croissant

MrsD007 wrote: »

Michael Collins looks like a Country & Western singer

I'm seeing Karl Spain.

Harry Angstrom

Un Croissant wrote: »

I wonder will Michael Lowry attend for Tipperary *cringe*

If the pre-debate entertainment involves those dancers we saw at the start of the programme, he'll probably turn up.

take everything

Vinny's from up the road isn't he?

CountyHurler

MrsD007 wrote: »

Michael Collins looks like a Country & Western singer

Yeah I thought it was Declan Nerney as well..



^ Though Declan looks a small bit like JBM in the photo :eek:

irishfeen

take everything wrote: »

Vinny's from up the road isn't he?

Yep, as far as I know he came from just across the Cork/Limerick border ..

Tedddy

This has traditionally been the most rural and conservative constituency in the country, but with a more urban population recently with the growth of Ballincollig in the south east of the constituency.

Lady Chatterton

Did ye hear the Pat Kenny/Enda Kenny interview today?

I was so disappointed in Pat, he gave Enda a very easy time of it. It was like a Fine Gael Political Broadcast :mad:

Lady Chatterton

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

If the pre-debate entertainment involves those dancers we saw at the start of the programme, he'll probably turn up.

Only if they're nice to look at

Un Croissant

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

If the pre-debate entertainment involves those dancers we saw at the start of the programme, he'll probably turn up.

Only had one interaction with him in my life.

"I'm just knocking on doors looking for an auld vote"

That was it. Grand job so. It clearly works too. Didn't get a Lowry for Life or Lowry #1 hat though.

CountyHurler

Un Croissant wrote: »

I'm seeing Karl Spain.

So I'm guessing there wont be another series of Karl Spain Wants A Woman then... ;-)

Harry Angstrom

CountyHurler wrote: »

Yeah I thought it was Declan Nerney as well..



^ Though Declan looks a small bit like JBM in the photo :eek:

That ridiculous fringe looks familiar.....

irishfeen

Tedddy wrote: »

This has traditionally been the most rural and conservative constituency in the country, but with a more urban population recently with the growth of Ballincollig in the south east of the constituency.

Areas around Newmarket, Kanturk, Rockchapel, Bweeng, Banteer, Millstreet etc would be BIG Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael country traditionally .. That independent councillor JP O'Shea who spoke earlier though would walk in - biggest vote in Cork county by far during the last local elections.

Harry Angstrom

MrsD007 wrote: »

Did ye hear the Pat Kenny/Enda Kenny interview today?

I was so disappointed in Pat, he gave Enda a very easy time of it. It was like a Fine Gael Political Broadcast :mad:

It's no coincidence that Denis O'Brien's buddy gets a soft focus interview on Newstalk.

Un Croissant

CountyHurler wrote: »

So I'm guessing there wont be another series of Karl Spain Wants A Woman then... ;-)

Saw him in a cafe in Limerick two or three weeks back. My first thought was 'oh yeah, you exist'.

Keep on truckin' Karl.

Busted Flat.

MrsD007 wrote: »

Did ye hear the Pat Kenny/Enda Kenny interview today?

I was so disappointed in Pat, he gave Enda a very easy time of it. It was like a Fine Gael Political Broadcast :mad:

Dinny owns the station, kenny is not going to bite the hand that feeds him.

coolhull

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

If the pre-debate entertainment involves those dancers we saw at the start of the programme, he'll probably turn up.

A woman, bright, intelligent, and not bad looking either!

take everything

I vont to suck your blood.

Sorry

Lady Chatterton

Un Croissant wrote: »

Only had one interaction with him in my life.

"I'm just knocking on doors looking for an auld vote"

That was it. Grand job so. It clearly works too. Didn't get a Lowry for Life or Lowry #1 hat though.

Michael Lowry was in Ennis for a funeral about 20 years ago, (he was a minister at the time) and he stopped to ask my mother for directions.

She gave him directions to the funeral and he offered her a lift home as it was raining, she declined his offer but she still talks about how much of a gentleman he was lol

sligojoek

Un Croissant wrote: »

Only had one interaction with him in my life.

"I'm just knocking on doors looking for an auld vote"

That was it. Grand job so. It clearly works too. Didn't get a Lowry for Life or Lowry #1 hat though.

I'm from Nenagh originally.The killing part about it is, he gan get enough votes from Thurles, Holycross and surrounding areas to get elected. The last time he spoke publicly in Nenagh he was booed off the stage.

small town girl

coolhull wrote: »

A woman, bright, intelligent, and not bad looking either!

Sounds like the sort of report a horse trader would give, he fell short of examining that her teeth were in situ

Tedddy

This should have been held in Ballincollig and it wouldn't be so rural focused.

Lady Chatterton

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Dinny owns the station, kenny is not going to bite the hand that feeds him.

With regret, PK, you're fired

I'll be switching to Sean O'Rourke from now on.

Un Croissant

I recall reports about local media being hounded out of the Anner hotel by fanatical Lowry supporters during the last election. Loopers.

take everything

Good woman.

Un Croissant

Catchy..... just get to the nutter from the ad

irishfeen

Tedddy wrote: »

This should have been held in Ballincollig and it wouldn't be so rural focused.

Absolute vast majority of the constituency is rural though - it's a massive constituency, one of the biggest in the country id say.

Lady Chatterton

We need to bring back John, this debate is crying out for him.

take everything

Poor oul Mikey Moynihan. /spit
Is he the only one taking abuse there.

Tedddy

irishfeen wrote: »

Absolute vast majority of the constituency is rural though - it's a massive constituency, one of the biggest in the country id say.

Yes it's a massive constituency with many different kinds of areas. Ballincollig is a suburb of the city and then there are the most rural areas in the country.

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Moynihan uncomfortable talking about national issues.

CountyHurler

Lehman Brothers didnt cause a 20 Billion deficit in the Government coffers... That was YEARS of negligence and incompetence by FF... And if we treat the banking crash as a separate and catastrophic event (as Fianna seem to want to do), nobody in Fianna Fail had the ability or the balls to do anything other than take the path of least resistance that night..

Un Croissant

Ace camera work.