Conor George deletes twitter account

trouttrout · 16-03-2013 12:08AM #1

Called Heaslip a "knob"

http://balls.ie/rugby/update-conor-george-has-deleted-the-tweet-where-he-called-jamie-heaslip-that-absolute-knob/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

He's worse than some of the bad trolls we get here.

Should be interesting the next time the Indo send him to interview a Leinster player. Or even a Munster player in the Irish squad. What a silly move

P_1 · 16-03-2013 12:11AM

Seriously how did that man get a paid job as a journalist. Who has he got dodgy photos of?

Risteard · 16-03-2013 12:11AM

Hey, he's an accredited journalist with a respected news publisher. Typical vile comment from an anonymous online troglodyte....

sydthebeat · 16-03-2013 12:14AM

P_1 wrote: »

Seriously how did that man get a paid job as a journalist. Who has he got dodgy photos of?

most biased national journo ive ever read.....

thomond2006 · 16-03-2013 12:14AM

It's a lesson to all of us. Be very careful what you say on social media. There's a record of it forever. It's easy for someone to call you out on it and then you're in trouble.

Cienciano · 16-03-2013 12:33AM

Looking at some of his tweets, the guy seems to be a bit of a joke. He'd be banned from here in about 10 minutes for trolling.

locum-motion · 16-03-2013 12:58AM

Who's Conor George?

awec · 16-03-2013 01:03AM

locum-motion wrote: »

Who's Conor George?

An indo journo who is very pro-ROG to the point of trolling.

locum-motion · 16-03-2013 01:10AM

awec wrote: »

An indo journo who is very pro-ROG to the point of trolling.

Oh, OK. Thanks. Never heard of him. Then again, I don't read the Irish Oxymoron.

.ak · 16-03-2013 01:22AM

Cienciano wrote: »

Looking at some of his tweets, the guy seems to be a bit of a joke. He'd be banned from here in about 10 minutes for trolling.

How do you know he hasn't been?

fitz · 16-03-2013 01:23AM

Wouldn't surprise me if that was the end of his rugby coverage for the Indo tbh. Completely unprofessional behaviour.

EDIT: Ah, I see it's from a year ago. Unlikely to affect his position so, except for how welcomed he'll be by players.

Reflects badly on the Indo tbh...appointing a "journalist" who's calling players names...not the greatest move.

P_1 · 16-03-2013 01:29AM

fitz wrote: »

Wouldn't surprise me if that was the end of his rugby coverage for the Indo tbh. Completely unprofessional behaviour.

If he hasn't gotten the bullet yet I can't see him getting the bullet over this tbh. Totally par for the course with him

awec · 16-03-2013 01:30AM

Having never met the guy I may be wrong, but from his twitter and his indo articles he comes across as quite an irritating chap.

fitz · 16-03-2013 01:34AM

P_1 wrote: »

If he hasn't gotten the bullet yet I can't see him getting the bullet over this tbh. Totally par for the course with him

As per my edited post above, just noticed its from a year ago, before he got the job, so yeah...I'd say you're right.

Can't say I'm surprised though, given the standard of his work and the attitude that comes across in it.

Profiler · 16-03-2013 01:37AM

locum-motion wrote: »

Who's Conor George?

Exactly what I was thinking...

MolBee · 16-03-2013 01:54AM

To be honest the Indo hired him even though his actual skills as a writer seem very limited, so I don't know if they care much for journalistic standards of any kind. All of his pieces read amateurish.

Hagz · 16-03-2013 06:53AM

So let me get this straight. According to the media, it is us that are the vile troglodytes? Good luck finding that kind of vitriol on this site.

BBDBB · 16-03-2013 06:58AM

its clear we need to up our game lads

ya bunch of..............:D

Sundy · 16-03-2013 07:16AM

A total one.

The problem is he is a professional journo for the biggest selling daily who earns his crust from the very players he likes to insult on a personal level. Sure criticise there performances but a players personality doesn't really concern us once they get the job gets done on the pitch.

He relies on having a good relationship with them and this like this will get him isolated from the squad and hopefully lose his job with the indo.

sydthebeat · 16-03-2013 07:44AM

the write ups he gave yesterday on the players capped by kidney is one of the worst pieces of journalism ive see in a long time.

of POM he says

This player gets better and better the more he plays. He is a hugely honest performer who is a phenomenal line-out operator and tremendously brave and effective ball carrier. He was magnificent against France.

'honest' player??? not quite sure what that means, nor am i sure 'honest' is how id like my blind side flanker described

i suppose any player can get better and better from his pretty much anonymous starting point.

of ian madigan he says

Apparently his performance for Leinster in Newport convinced Mark Tainton that he was suddenly ready for international rugby, which the senior assistants had doubted until that game. He is a talent, no doubt. His test will be in next season's Heineken Cup

apparently?? sure dont offer your own opinion anyway conor .....

Sundy · 16-03-2013 08:01AM

sydthebeat wrote: »

apparently?? sure dont offer your own opinion anyway conor .....

I dont think its part of an Irish rugby journo's employment requirements to watch the Rabo.

ConFurioso · 16-03-2013 08:14AM

In fairness, that game wasn't televised.

16-03-2013 09:06AM

It really doesn't matter at all if it's accurate or not, it's a terrible lapse of judgement.

If he has deleted his twitter account as a result then I think he is well aware of how poor taste his comments were. If it is his own twitter account he is entitled to say what he likes, If it is something the Indo created for him or that he uses in an official capacity he has opened the paper up to some legitimate complaint.

At his age and given the small profile he has built up, it really is astonishing that he doesn't have the sense to stay off social media after a couple. The Heaslip comments aside, he comes across like a pretty unpleasant individual and incredibly immature.

I don't trust the Indo to prioritise standards over popularity any more, so who knows if they will drop him - but they certainly should at least move him away from Rugby Commentary.

molloyjh · 16-03-2013 09:20AM

The guy has said all sorts of stuff on twitter. He even slagged off the Indo at one stage before being employed by them for having a massive Leinster bias (????). His ridiculously red tinted glasses are not just an embarrassment to the Indo and Irish media in general but an embarrassment to the game and the country. This is one of our big 2 national papers that is sold abroad. And the standard is truly appalling.

Regard Heaslip himself I've never met him in person, but I've heard he's quite nice from a number of people who have. Personally I couldn't give a monkeys as long as he performs well on the pitch and in front of the media. How vile and troglodyte-y of me....

Sinbad_NI · 16-03-2013 09:45AM

Only saw his recent stuff but his coverage of the ROG debacle was a disgrace.

Don't think I'll miss his "insightful" articles too much.

CGD · 16-03-2013 09:55AM

His coloumn could be considered comedy sketches! Absolute joke of a rugby journalist with little or no knowledge of the game or how it works. His facts ate completely wrong 80% of the time and proper journalists must wonder how thi joker got a job!!

PhatPiggins · 16-03-2013 10:14AM

trouttrout wrote: »

Called Heaslip a "knob"

http://balls.ie/rugby/update-conor-george-has-deleted-the-tweet-where-he-called-jamie-heaslip-that-absolute-knob/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

He's worse than some of the bad trolls we get here.

Should be interesting the next time the Indo send him to interview a Leinster player. Or even a Munster player in the Irish squad. What a silly move

Not a great career move for him but in his defence many would have a similar view of Heaslip.

16-03-2013 10:26AM

stop

reading his work
talking about it
tweeting links to it
mentioning it on here
checking it for the laugh

He's poisonously bad. Let him flounder and disappear. Himself and Farrelly are a credit to the inability of a national newspaper to realise how ****ing dire their journos are.

Quint2010 · 16-03-2013 10:26AM

His problem is that now people will be reading what he says set against the context of people knowing he hates everything Leinster and loves everything Munster. So basically if he writes something nice about Leinster or a Leinster player it'll bring into question his integrity and the same if he writes something bad about Munster. His comments about being "Unashamedly in the white corrner" before the HC last year to The Indo being the most "pro Leinster paper" in the country" are just about passable but to make personal insults about the future Ireland captain on a public forum seriously calls into question his ability to be a journalist.

Panda Moanium · 16-03-2013 10:29AM

awec wrote: »

Having never met the guy I may be wrong, but from his twitter and his indo articles he comes across as quite an irritating chap.

That must be the nicest thing anybody has said ever about Conor George..;)

Podge_irl · 16-03-2013 10:36AM

CG doesn't have any integrity to question.

Quint2010 · 16-03-2013 10:39AM

Deleted User wrote: »

stop

reading his work
talking about it
tweeting links to it
mentioning it on here
checking it for the laugh

He's poisonously bad. Let him flounder and disappear. Himself and Farrelly are a credit to the inability of a national newspaper to realise how ****ing dire their journos are.

Yeah that's fine but clearly the knives are now out for him big time in social media land. He has clearly been given far to much rope than is good for the man...

CatFromHue · 16-03-2013 11:24AM

He should have deleted his account when he got the job with the Independent. It was naive not to think something would come back and bite him, now it just looked like he panicked.

He hasn't dealt with the situation either (of calling Heaslip names) and so it's going to fester i.e. he should have done a thorough clean out of his Twitter account and then apologized for calling Heaslip names, then he should have shut it down.

Cienciano · 16-03-2013 11:28AM

Deleted User wrote: »

stop

reading his work
talking about it
tweeting links to it
mentioning it on here
checking it for the laugh

He's poisonously bad. Let him flounder and disappear. Himself and Farrelly are a credit to the inability of a national newspaper to realise how ****ing dire their journos are.

Fully agree. There's a type of journalist in ireland that doesn't have a clue what they're talking about, but generate publicity by talking shíte like Conor George writes. God forbid they get people reading their stuff because it's good, they can't do that. They get people to read their stuff because it's "controversial" (i.e., terrible).
Dunphy is the master at it, Hook is terrible at it, the entire daily mail is devoted to it.

trouttrout · 16-03-2013 12:20PM

He just tweeted, account not deleted apparently

" Am distancing myself from tweets. They are apparently over year old. I have utmost respect for Jamie Heaslip &will apologise to him@ 1st opp"

"I acknowledge they are on my twitter feed but as I have no way of proving or disproving theories I can do no more except apologise"

sydthebeat · 16-03-2013 12:29PM

trouttrout wrote: »

He just tweeted, account not deleted apparently

" Am distancing myself from tweets. They are apparently over year old. I have utmost respect for Jamie Heaslip &will apologise to him@ 1st opp"

"I acknowledge they are on my twitter feed but as I have no way of proving or disproving theories I can do no more except apologise"

fair enough, good man for apologising..... now please try to be a better objective journalist please.

molloyjh · 16-03-2013 12:32PM

sydthebeat wrote: »

fair enough, good man for apologising..... now please try to be a better objective journalist please.

Ha!

Cosmo Kramer · 16-03-2013 12:33PM

trouttrout wrote: »

He just tweeted, account not deleted apparently

" Am distancing myself from tweets. They are apparently over year old. I have utmost respect for Jamie Heaslip &will apologise to him@ 1st opp"

"I acknowledge they are on my twitter feed but as I have no way of proving or disproving theories I can do no more except apologise"

So, he's not outright admitting that he wrote the tweets himself then?

sydthebeat · 16-03-2013 12:37PM

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

So, he's not outright admitting that he wrote the tweets himself then?

nope, tin foil hat time....

CatFromHue · 16-03-2013 12:39PM

trouttrout wrote: »

He just tweeted, account not deleted apparently

" Am distancing myself from tweets. They are apparently over year old. I have utmost respect for Jamie Heaslip &will apologise to him@ 1st opp"

"I acknowledge they are on my twitter feed but as I have no way of proving or disproving theories I can do no more except apologise"

I see he's gone for the auld the Twitter machine is awfully confusing excuse. He might as well have said he'd mixed aspirin and a glass of wine and can't remember anything!

The correct response would have been "I foolishly made those comments last year before I'd met Heaslip. Since meeting him I have found him to be (insert any term that is positive) and I do apologise for any offence caused".

totallegend · 16-03-2013 12:50PM

sydthebeat wrote: »

fair enough, good man for apologising..... now please try to be a better objective journalist please.

"fair enough"??

Read his "apology" again. He could at least be man enough to stand over his comments and maybe say they were made in a personal capacity, not intended for public consumption.

Instead, he's trying to muddy the waters with some sort of twitter-hacking suggestion.

Would expect nothing less from this clown.

tolosenc · 16-03-2013 12:57PM

I'm pretty sure Jamie is crying himself to sleep over that tweet.

arodabomb · 16-03-2013 01:03PM

totallegend wrote: »

"fair enough"??

Read his "apology" again. He could at least be man enough to stand over his comments and maybe say they were made in a personal capacity, not intended for public consumption.

Instead, he's trying to muddy the waters with some sort of twitter-hacking suggestion.

Would expect nothing less from this clown.

North Korea have been trying to hack into Conor George's account for years. They used the FBI servers and general US government computers as practice. Having mastered their skills there, they then moved onto Conor's twitter account, successfully posting a comment they new would hurt him. They also attempted to edit his "news" stories to destroy his journalistic credibility but were unable to find a five year old with sufficiently bad linguistic skills to make the grammar any worse.

jamiedav2011 · 16-03-2013 01:07PM

totallegend wrote: »

"fair enough"??

Read his "apology" again. He could at least be man enough to stand over his comments and maybe say they were made in a personal capacity, not intended for public consumption.

Instead, he's trying to muddy the waters with some sort of twitter-hacking suggestion.

Would expect nothing less from this clown.

Exactly, as well as being an awful, biased, illogical journalist, he's also a coward.
Who the fcuk else would have tweeted on his account ffs? :rolleyes:

lologram · 16-03-2013 01:12PM

arodabomb wrote: »

North Korea have been trying to hack into Conor George's account for years. They used the FBI servers and general US government computers as practice. Having mastered their skills there, they then moved onto Conor's twitter account, successfully posting a comment they new would hurt him. They also attempted to edit his "news" stories to destroy his journalistic credibility but were unable to find a five year old with sufficiently bad linguistic skills to make the grammar any worse.

I would have thought Kim Jong-Un would have a preference for red not blue given his crazy communist ways.

This must mean... the Leinster bias must be even greater than we feared! If only there were journalists at a national newspaper who could defend us.

Podge_irl · 16-03-2013 01:12PM

I wonder if comparing someone to Conor George counts as personal abuse.

decisions · 16-03-2013 01:18PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

I wonder if comparing someone to Conor George counts as personal abuse.

It should warrant a ban.

RandolphEsq · 16-03-2013 01:54PM

The fact the Indo persist with him is a reflection on the paper itself. One has only to read the first few pages of the paper to see what passes for news with them. Extremely anti-Dublin paper too.

.ak · 16-03-2013 02:12PM

Off topic posts deleted - just a reminder people, abuse of players and/or pundits (or anyone) will not be tolerated. I really couldn't care less what you think of a player outside of the rugby-sphere, and I don't think anyone else does either.

thomond2006 · 16-03-2013 02:21PM

That 'apology' is one of the biggest pieces of bull**** I've ever seen.

opinionatedfan · 16-03-2013 02:28PM

love how he tries to insinuate that the tweet wasn't tweeted by him

Conor George deletes twitter account

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