Liveline Thread from 14th March 2017

Roger_007

shamrockvilla wrote: »

maybe she should lose the condescending tone?

She's probably p1ssed off with the same 'clients' coming back again and again looking for more and more!

TheHomeService

How much did these lads get in redress, even before the CaraNua money is counted?

super_furry

There isn't an ounce of compassion in that woman. She speaks as if the people who she's being paid to help are a nuisance at best and criminals at worst. Horrible to listen to her.

etselbbuns

Only 30,000 calls a year, that's more than Joe gets.

FatFreddy22

Mary made a big political mistake by telling the truth.

Why should today's hardpressed tax payers have to fund this nonsense.

Gravy Train scamming by professional 'victims'.

FatFreddy22

Mary made a big political mistake by telling the truth.

Why should today's hardpressed tax payers have to fund this nonsense.

Gravy Train scamming by professional 'victims'.

Glebee

First liveline ive listened to in a long time. Now I remember why I stopped.

padd b1975

super_furry wrote: »

There isn't an ounce of compassion in that woman. She speaks as if the people who she's being paid to help are a nuisance at best and criminals at worst. Horrible to listen to her.

Battle weary I suspect.

ButtersSuki

super_furry wrote: »

There isn't an ounce of compassion in that woman. She speaks as if the people who she's being paid to help are a nuisance at best and criminals at worst. Horrible to listen to her.

She may be a good administrator (I don't know and unlike Joe I don't make calls like this within 20seconds of talking to someone), but she is a terrible PR/spokesperson for them to put on air.

ButtersSuki

etselbbuns wrote: »

Only 30,000 calls a year, that's more than Joe gets.

Joe only takes around 400 calls per year. But he gets €1000 for each call.

djemba djemba

Could this lad not have used a spokesman

pilly

padd b1975 wrote: »

Battle weary I suspect.

I agree, when you work in that field you do get tired of the people who just want everything in life handed to them on a plate. There are many genuine cases but probably the same amount of chancers who push it and push it as far as they can go.

I know of a guy who got his glasses, clothes, rehab, etc. paid for and walked out of the rehab because they wouldn't send him cigarettes.

Skid X

How many people got €100,000 each before they realised they didn't have unlimited funds to be paying out, and what did they claim the €100,000 was to be used for?

Roger_007

Am I right in thinking that the €15k is in addition to the compo they have already received? If I am, then I think they have a cheek looking for more!

McDermotX

Got a stairlift.....fell off it......couldn't make it up.

Wants a downstairs bedroom. Or an elevator probably.

etselbbuns

"These are *pause* stories"

White Horse

Is Mary Higgins a counsellor?

pilly

Roger_007 wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that the €15k is in addition to the compo they have already received? If I am, then I think they have a cheek looking for more!

You're right yes.

vicwatson

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Local TD for me (same village even, Ratoath). She'll struggle next time around.....and that's even with the lack of competition she has around here.

Fingers crossed, she's already been set up monetary wise pending the downfall of Fine Gael, as are the rest of them

TheHomeService

Has Joe stepped out of the studio?

FatFreddy22

Someone needs to tell this guy to fcuk off.

vicwatson

Michael, you are very loud

ButtersSuki

White Horse wrote: »

Is Mary Higgins a counsellor?

I don't know, but she'll need the services of one after this.

vicwatson

TheHomeService wrote: »

Has Joe stepped out of the studio?

Coffee time

ButtersSuki

FatFreddy22 wrote: »

Someone needs to tell this guy to fcuk off.

He'll be on one of his breakeens soon enough. Oh you mean the caller, not Joe?

shamrockvilla

she's getting a spanking here (excuse the metaphor )

vicwatson

Neither representatives on either side of this debate are convincing to me, typical Ireland - it's a shambles

Sittingpretty

This smacks of much wants more.

These people don't sound traumatised, they sound greedy and (that word again) ENTITLED.

Atlantic Dawn

McDermotX wrote: »

Got a stairlift.....fell off it......couldn't make it up.

Wants a downstairs bedroom. Or an elevator probably.

They were probably going to put in an inshurdance claim for the fall until they realised they would be claming from themself.

ButtersSuki

No chance of GamerCon today I reckon......had such potential.

ButtersSuki

Skid X wrote: »

How many people got €100,000 each before they realised they didn't have unlimited funds to be paying out, and what did they claim the €100,000 was to be used for?

Ah Skid, how are you? You haven't been around here in a while.

McDermotX

Cancer in the house.

Lot of people have cancer.

Sittingpretty

70k of home improvements?!?!!

Roger_007

70,000 worth ohf work done?................that's obscene!

djemba djemba

70k already and his redress...what more does he want

Right2Write

€70,000 for his house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F*uck this. Why the hell am I working day & night, supporting family and paying taxes just to feather these boyos nests????

scargill

Sittingpretty wrote: »

70k of home improvements?!?!!

was Dermot Bannon involved ??!

A Shaved Duck?

djemba djemba wrote: »

70k already and his redress...what more does he want

Paid for to go through college, and private healthcare for the wife.

ffs.

Dan Jaman

Sittingpretty wrote: »

70k of home improvements?!?!!

COST €70K, doesn't mean there was €70K of work done.

McDermotX

Right2Write wrote: »

€70,000 for his house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F*uck this. Why the hell am I working day & night, supporting family and paying taxes just to feather these boyos nests????

Not to slight the experience of others, and not directly related to this subject, but as a man who has worked all his life and never got a thing........it does the blood pressure no good to listen to the likes of Liveline and it's ilk.

Roger_007

I'm thinking that what we're listening to today is a bunch of greedy ba$tards, (including Joe).

Dan Jaman

Ten grand? If you'd had one less bathroom, you could have paid it yourself.

shamrockvilla

Maybe if the government chased down the institutions for the true cost of the redress then these people could be looked after . Church have still a lot to answer for.

Right2Write

Thank God he didn't get the 10K for his counsellor course. He'd be out helping more to bleed the system.

ButtersSuki

Joe deliberately acting the thick and being a b0ll0x again to appease his callers.

Right2Write

This is ridiculous. Mary should tell Joe to piss off and hang up the phone.

Roger_007

scargill wrote: »

was Dermot Bannon involved ??!

If Dermot was involved, it would have cost twice as much!

djemba djemba

Another way to look at this is Ray has gotten €70,000 already

Dan Jaman

"I want to be fair to Mary..."

That'd be a first, for any caller.

FAILSAFE 00

Gamercon is too modern an issue for Joe. He's only comfortable in the usual **** topics.