RTÉ to broadcast feature-length documentary on the life of Denis O'Brien

Fred Swanson

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Grand so. No point watching it if we know what's not in it.

kneemos

Fill your boots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_O%27Brien

Wheeliebin30

Always check under your bed before going to sleep, Denis could be there.

I’m so worried.

Ursus Horribilis

I can see this ending well...

Atlantic Dawn

All fur coat and no knickers...

Fred Swanson

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NinetyTwoTeam

A bloody documentary celebrating this corrupt greedy tax dodging parasitic fatcat basically encapsulates what I hate most about RTE, and this country as well.

While ordinary people had their lives ruined he used backroom dealings to amass obscene wealth, tried to fleece every family in with his water meters, moved his residence ton Malta.

He's not someone Irish people should be celebrating. And I don't want his big fat boulder of a head being beamed into my home, ever.

squawker

surprised Ray Burke wasn't in between the two of them

NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »

He's not someone Irish people should be celebrating. And I don't want his big fat boulder of a head being beamed into my home, ever.

spat my beer out laughing at that one

Atlantic Dawn

Wonder will it ever air?

MikeyTaylor

So the Irish Donald Trump is getting his own documentary... making RTÉ great again!!!

Atlantic Dawn

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

So the Irish Donald Trump is getting his own documentary... making RTgreat again!!!

The Don got very few breaks from the US government, he mostly got sued by them with his real estate empire.

Wheeliebin30

RTE constantly exposes dodgy tds and government policy on primetime.

Pure conspiracy theory ****e again.

jacksie66

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TomOnBoard

Didn't Monty Python already make The Life of Brian? Forty years ago next year!!

NinetyTwoTeam

jacksie66 wrote: »

So there is where your TV licence is going. On a denis o Brien **** fest..

i went to their twitter to see if they had any posts about it but all you can see there is rainbows painted over everything, the pride thing is great and all but sheesh they didn't go this mental for the freaking Easter Rising Centennial. they just want to make sure the LGBTQ community keeps paying their fees.

RTE is just so cringey with everything they do. whoever produces that stupid show they put on after the world cup with the fellas in wigs should be shot into the sun.

DOB's biggest fan it seems is Bill Clinton, he's in the ad as well being interviewed about fathead Denny singing his praises. Another straight shooter who never deceived anyone or abused his position. Sickening that RTE would make such a program.

WoollyRedHat

Pisstake.. a documentary about a bully boy corrupt buisness man who has ill gotten gains through a corrupted awarding process that amounted to bribery.

And then you have that even bigger joke of man Lowry singing his praises on this documentary.. who remarkably still has a job despite aiding and abetting Dodgy Denis. Will these chancers and charlatans ever F off?


I suppose we'll be treated to a documentary about that twat , crooked Bertie in the not too distant future.. isn't our public service broadcaster brillant.. these people have cost us millions.

McMurphy

Denis and rte went a few rounds a while back, so people are only assuming that this is going to be a jizz fest Denis worship. Something tells me it could be far from a glory show **** fest.

FGs owner must be one of the most hated men in Ireland all the same.

the purple tin

King Jong Un is more in touch with the common people of North Korea than the top brass at RTE are with the Irish public.

WoollyRedHat

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Denis and rte went a few rounds a while back, so people are only assuming that this is going to be a jizz fest Denis worship. Something tells me it could be far from a glory show **** fest.

FGs owner must be one of the most hated men in Ireland all the same.

I saw the trailer.. the fact they actually went to Lowry for his opinion on DOB already renders it farcical imo.

McMurphy

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

I saw the trailer.. the fact they actually went to Lowry for his opinion on DOB already renders it farcical imo.

Seriously?

This will be satirical television so.

jimmycrackcorm

Dobby will be watching this with his phone in his hand on to his lawyers in case they suggest he has grey hairs

WoollyRedHat

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

Seriously?

This will be satirical television so.

Yep and Usain Bolt who used to run track with the lump. Haha not really, he is sponsored by Digicel...

Funny story about DOB.. he was suspended from school when he was 17 for nicking his mum's Renault and driving it onto the cricket field biut was allowed back due to his sporting prowess to participat in a rugby championship.. so he's always been part of the old boys club.

dd972

Wonder what DOB's doing now, probably making paper aeroplanes out of €100 notes or something, can't think of a bigger waste of money than these tosspots having colossal amounts of the stuff that they couldn't spend in 20 lifetimes, wouldn't it be better employed elsewhere?

Just let them have £10m or so, even £50m, confiscate the rest for useful societal purposes and they can still live like kings.

the purple tin

I hope he washes his bottom before RTE spend an hour and a half kissing it.

WoollyRedHat

Reminder this is on tonight at 2135 on RTE 1. Should be good, I'm sure DOB's lawyers will be on overtime, refreshing social media every second to make sure DOB's good name is not tarnished! Here's Bolt describing the great man in detail- http://www.thejournal.ie/usain-bolt-denis-obrien-2958875-Sep2016/

The fastest man ever timed is now a lifetime Digicel ambassador and will be the chief speed officer. When asked what this means, he said, “It gets things done and gets things done fast and precise.”

Oh my!

sdanseo

Our completely unbiased, politically neutral and hugely open-minded state broadcaster strikes again.

We really are getting great value from the licence fee. Sure it should be €500 a year.

SEPT 23 1989

There must be some dreadful scandal coming up shortly

The boss would have not ordered this propaganda piece otherwise

A corrupt Tax criminal and an ex president pervert vouching for him on the promo

Please take a step back and think about this

It's frightening

Zebra3

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

There must be some dreadful scandal coming up shortly

The boss would have not ordered this propaganda piece otherwise

A corrupt Tax criminal and an ex president pervert vouching for him on the promo

Please take a step back and think about this

It's frightening

Yeh, who the fck would want the Belgrade Bomber having their back?

You’d wanna be desperate to have him or Lowly* vouching for you.


*Not an autocorrect.

Wheeliebin30

sdanseo wrote: »

Our completely unbiased, politically neutral and hugely open-minded state broadcaster strikes again.

We really are getting great value from the licence fee. Sure it should be €500 a year.

I don’t get this.

Prime time has constantly exposed corrupt politicians, homelessness etc.

They always give the government a hard time.

Conspiracy theory nonsense.

Brae100

I met him once during the dot bomb days when he pumped a lot of money into the startup I was working for. Seemed decent enough at the time. He was rather she, but was very encouraging and complimentary to us young techies. I came away with a positive vibe about him. But boy, did he take a tank on that investment.

Yer Da sells Avon

Brae100 wrote: »

He was rather she

Well, I hadn't heard that about him. :eek:

mikemac2

First I ever heard of him was 2003 Special Olympics. He was the top man as I remember and I was a volunteer

Now I'm wondering was it all for personal PR and goodwill, I don't know the full story back then!

Jeff2

NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »

A bloody documentary celebrating this corrupt greedy tax dodging parasitic fatcat basically encapsulates what I hate most about RTE, and this country as well.

While ordinary people had their lives ruined he used backroom dealings to amass obscene wealth, tried to fleece every family in with his water meters, moved his residence ton Malta.

He's not someone Irish people should be celebrating. And I don't want his big fat boulder of a head being beamed into my home, ever.

They should make one about the likes of Duffy they pay €400k^ through his company to cut tax.
And and people can go to jail for not paying the TV licence that pays him and the like that work there.

sdanseo

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

I don’t get this.

Prime time has constantly exposed corrupt politicians, homelessness etc.

They always give the government a hard time.

Conspiracy theory nonsense.

Prime Time Investigates has uncovered a good few scandals alright, relatively few of them about politicians and more along the lines of National Irish Bank etc.

This is a "feature length" - doesn't sound like a disassembly of the man's character although I suppose we could be surprised.

As for RTÉ and your suggestion of a conspiracy - sorry, no. They are consistently poor to unacceptable in their role which is to be unbiased. Watch any Ryan Tubridy political interview and you will see what this means. Even on this morning's interview with Eoghan Murphy Dobson asked why the target for housing hadn't been met and flat out accepted the answer with no further questions - even when the minister basically said he didn't have the figures to hand (which is his job, we're talking about perhaps the single most important key performance indicator for his current role).

I have no agenda here, just calling out RTÉ for their history of halfhearted attempts to challenge politicians and their widely recognised poor level of programming with respect to the amount of money they are paid to create it.

Mikenesson

No sign of this on the schedule

Richard Hillman

Something along the lines of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKu0TVlumcc

_Kaiser_

Mikenesson wrote: »

No sign of this on the schedule

It's on now. Sky EPG has it anyway?

Fred Swanson

Mikenesson wrote: »

No sign of this on the schedule

Did he get an injunction?

Water John

Here very happy with my TV tuned to RTE Radio 1 listening to Creedon, a good Corkman.

SEPT 23 1989

He was expelled from school

_Kaiser_

Looks like they didn't get him to contribute to this anyway as all the soundbites from him seem to be from previous interviews

yosser hughes

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

I don’t get this.

Prime time has constantly exposed corrupt politicians, homelessness etc.

They always give the government a hard time.

Conspiracy theory nonsense.

No they haven't. Not really. Politicians? When they're dead maybe. Fat lot of good that is.

WoollyRedHat

The funny money game..

Zebra3

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

The funny money game..

A bit of honesty, eh?

sdanseo

Gospel according to Denis so far. How surprising.

Worth saying I'm not all against the man, if some of his capitalism had rubbed off in better areas we could have benefited hugely. Public services in this country for example would be unrecognisable if they had a business logic applied to them.

Oh look, a wild Lowry appears.

WoollyRedHat

If it was the best, then why the payments.. incentives to Lowry...

SEPT 23 1989

So beautifully corrupt

WoollyRedHat

Lowry.. Ben there, Dunne that

Dunne nothing wrong.

WoollyRedHat

Ugh what a sniveling, snakey ****....

Brae100

The ESAT license issue is down to Lower. If a license is going to be awarded due to bribery, you have to bribe.