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Terry McGeehan in The Star

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  • 23-06-2008 11:28pm
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    dartsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭


    Can anyone tell me who this fella is? I do buy The Star most days, as I find it the best of the tabloid bunch, normally reading The Independent online.
    He has a column there every day, giving out about the Government and basically anything that's worth whinging about. Quite frankly, it's cringeworthy stuff.
    What is his claim to fame, or how has he got this soapbox to spout such drivel every day?


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    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    He's been doing that column for a good few years, and I've no idea what his 'claim to fame' could be. He's obviously not that great at it though, as he hasn't exactly become a 'household name', despite being permanently angry on a daily basis in a popular newspaper.


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    Newaglish
    Registered Users Posts: 2,734 ✭✭✭Newaglish


    I find that really hard to read - it's very simple to pick holes in what he says, it's rarely in any way fact based and as said above, it's always incredibly cringeworthy

    I'm fairly sure he's just a nobody, but he's probably the leader of the worker's party or something.

    Though, he would still be a nobody at that rate...


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    Overdraft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭Overdraft


    Newaglish wrote: »
    I'm fairly sure he's just a nobody

    Aren't we all? :confused:


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    TheJug
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭TheJug


    A little harsh. I read his column today (Monday October 13) and felt it made a timely and entertaining read. Why does writing a daily column make you a Man of No Importance?


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,327 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    TheJug wrote: »
    A little harsh. I read his column today (Monday October 13) and felt it made a timely and entertaining read. Why does writing a daily column make you a Man of No Importance?

    Because after more than six years (look at the date on the last post before yours), you're the first person to comment on him?

    Q.E.D.


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    Green Giant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    You'd wonder how The Star doesn't get done for defamation with a lot of the stuff that McGeehan comes out with.

    Then again, it's probably impossible to take it seriously...


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    mikeyjames9
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 700 ✭✭✭mikeyjames9


    These controversialists like mcgeehan can change their mind as often as they like and get away with it

    Your head would be spinning and brainwashed if you followed any of that plaver


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