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Pádraic Nally: After the Headlines - RTE2 9.30pm

  • 12-03-2012 9:23pm
    #1
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭


    Might be interesting. You would think he has been through enough without having to suffer Charlie Bird.
    Charlie Bird revisits the story of a Co Mayo farmer who shot a trespasser dead in 2004, investigating whether the case is still as divisive as it was at the time. Despite being sentenced to six years in prison for the manslaughter of traveller John Ward, Padraic Nally had his conviction quashed 11 months later after maintaining he acted in self-defence.


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  • #2
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Forgot this was on - just switched over, cheers skid! :)


  • #3
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    Charlie Bird really likes to get himself on camera.

    Walking to the Station, getting on the train, sitting on the train ...


  • #4
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Just tuned in now, very interesting.


  • #5
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Skid wrote: »
    Charlie Bird really likes to get himself on camera.

    Walking to the Station, getting on the train, sitting on the train ...

    Agreed - I'll suffer him though for the sake of watching this :)


  • #6
    Lago
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭Lago


    Ah this will be excellent. For the next hour I'll find myself screaming abuse at the TV. And yes, the second shot was necessary. Can those two lads please stop talking ****e


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  • #7
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Really was a huge story at the time though, wasn't it? You'd forget about it til it all surfaces like this again.


  • #8
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    I might of dodged a bill here or there but i never killed a man:D.


  • #9
    Skid
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    They could do with going over the facts here, like how many times he was shot, and how far from the house.


  • #10
    NickDrake
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    Charlie is looking very deshevled .

    First words he spoke " in MY time as a journalist I have seen many stories come and go"

    It's not about you Charlie


  • #11
    Skid
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    'I won't tie my Donkey to that entirely' :pac:

    I'll must remember that expression.


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  • #12
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Charlie didn't last too long in Washington himself.


  • #13
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Poor aul divil going about his business :(


  • #14
    JONJO THE MISER
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    I think he looks well.


  • #15
    NickDrake
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    Have you ever been to America? Charlie you didn't last two weeks there


  • #16
    JONJO THE MISER
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    Off to the mart with us.


  • #17
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Those two travellers fellas were a refreshing change - considered and sympathetic, dare I say - a far cry from the usual defensive fightin' talk from Martin Collins and co.

    Dunno what to make of Padraig Nally... seems a sandwich or two short of a picnic, but equally it's very hard to imagine him getting wound up enough to fire a gun at someone....


  • #18
    Galwayguy35
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    Good to see that Padraig is doing ok and getting on with his life. He seems a quiet man who just wants to live out his days in peace.


  • #19
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Poor, poor man - I feel so sorry for him


  • #20
    DeepBlue
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    NickDrake wrote: »
    First words he spoke " in MY time as a journalist I have seen many stories come and go"

    It's not about you Charlie
    If you had the misfortune of reading his book you'd be forgiven for thinking that it's always about Charlie.
    He mentions covering the tsunami in thailand in 2004 and his difficulties getting back to his hotel which, from reading his book, appeared to be as great a tragedy as the quarter of a million people who died.


  • #21
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Jesus this is tragic, I have a lump in my throat listening to him, he reminds me of all our old neighbors where I grew up.


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  • #22
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Good to see that Padraig is doing ok and getting on with his life. He seems a quiet man who just wants to live out his days in peace.

    ... And I hope he gets to do just that, Galwayguy


  • #23
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    'If someone broke into your house, would you protect your home?'

    A loaded question Charlie (excuse the pun)

    What do you expect him to say? 'No, I'd make him a cup of tae and help him load up, Charlie'


  • #24
    NickDrake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭NickDrake


    DeepBlue wrote: »
    If you had the misfortune of reading his book you'd be forgiven for thinking that it's always about Charlie.
    He mentions covering the tsunami in thailand in 2004 and his difficulties getting back to his hotel which, from reading his book, appeared to be as great a tragedy as the quarter of a million people who died.

    How did you read it? Is there a story in there about every journalist sharing their hotel room with loads of families and Charlie didn't let a sinner in his?


  • #25
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Oh gwan Charlie, keep digging there and you (and only you) will get to the REAL story.

    Honestly, this programme is good despite, not because of, CB - he really is a piece of work.


  • #26
    NickDrake
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    Ya enjoying it so far but Charlie keeps twisting everything back to himself.


  • #27
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Oh gwan Charlie, keep digging there and you (and only you) will get to the REAL story.

    Honestly, this programme is good despite, not because of, CB - he really is a piece of work.
    I cringed at that crap about getting at the real man there at the break, totally unnecessary.


  • #28
    Skid
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    I think Pádraic is a bit smarter than he is letting on here.


  • #29
    HeidiHeidi
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    Charlie would give Joe Duffy a good run for his money in the melodramatic sighing stakes


  • #30
    twirlagig
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    Slept in the shed to keep an eye out.... God love the man! A state of fear like that must be absolutely terrifying... :(


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  • #31
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Very interesting programme,Charlie isnt probably the best fella RTE could have got to do it,he hasnt a clue about country life,


  • #32
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Thats a bit disturbing the sleeping in the shed stuff, he needed a psychiatrist definitely.


  • #33
    JONJO THE MISER
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    He was a good looking man, petty he did not get married.


  • #34
    johngalway
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    Skid wrote: »
    I think Pádraic is a bit smarter than he is letting on here.

    That's how he is in real life, off TV.


  • #35
    NickDrake
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    Thargor wrote: »
    Thats a bit disturbing the sleeping in the shed stuff, he needed a psychiatrist definitely.

    Well they were tormenting him for years.


  • #36
    JONJO THE MISER
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    Well said.


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  • #37
    Thargor
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    NickDrake wrote: »
    Well they were tormenting him for years.
    I know, it was scary when he said he'd seen their tracks twice before.


  • #38
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    johngalway wrote: »
    That's how he is in real life, off TV.

    Fair enough.


  • #39
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    Kerrydude1981 wrote: »
    Very interesting programme,Charlie isnt probably the best fella RTE could have got to do it,he hasnt a clue about country life,

    I'm trying to think who would have been good to do this.... not easy.


  • #40
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Charlie is a rite tool "Do you know who it is by the sound of the car?"


  • #41
    Kerrydude1981
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    twirlagig wrote: »
    I'm trying to think who would have been good to do this.... not easy.

    One of the Ear to the ground presenters would have done a good job I reckon


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  • #42
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Gawd, the armchair by the range.... just like both my Granny's houses (also Mayo/Galway)... it's like a timewarp or something


  • #43
    whatever99
    Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭whatever99


    I don't get why you all hate Charlie Bird so much! He seems fairly benign to me.


  • #44
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Padraig was only getting started and the pinkos took his shotgun


  • #45
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Fair play to people for supporting him.


  • #46
    twirlagig
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    Has Charlie no proper reading glasses than that pair with the +2.00 on them??:D


  • #47
    Kerrydude1981
    Registered Users Posts: 14,193 ✭✭✭✭Kerrydude1981


    Well said Padraig


  • #48
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    Very sad case, must be thousands of people living in similar isolation and fear out there.


  • #49
    twirlagig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,374 ✭✭✭twirlagig


    I'd be afraid of me sh1te to go on air like that again if that was me


  • #50
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Ah Charlies doing okay here, he's asking the right questions.


  • #51
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,528 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Skid wrote: »
    Very sad case, must be thousands of people living in similar isolation and fear out there.

    Makes me thankful for urban living and eircom phonewatch :eek:


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