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    #62
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Dunno, but i want to know what phone plan he's on.
    The reverse call plan ;)


    Prendeville seems to be doing a lot of talking to himself these days, must be an indicator that his listeners haven't played with the knob :D


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    #63
    TBP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭TBP


    He's getting great mileage on the airwaves altogether this week. Every flippin' station I tune into he's on it.

    Some tulip is John O'D!


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    #64
    Clonmel1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Does he work


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    #65
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Clonmel1000 wrote: »
    Does he work

    He hasn't time.


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    #66
    ofcork
    Registered Users Posts: 5,352 ✭✭✭ofcork


    Photographed on the echo during the week at the water meter protest.


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    #67
    Clonmel1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    How (if he's not working) can he claim DSP payment/ Surely being a professional protestor makes him unavailable for work? And a man that clearly despises the government and its institutions is hardly going to accept money from the state?


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    #68
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    ofcork wrote: »
    Photographed on the echo during the week at the water meter protest.
    Throw up a picture of him just to see does he look as stupid as he sounds :)


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    #69
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Clonmel1000 wrote: »
    How (if he's not working) can he claim DSP payment/ Surely being a professional protestor makes him unavailable for work? And a man that clearly despises the government and its institutions is hardly going to accept money from the state?

    Thats a good point.

    Somebody should rat him out :D


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    #70
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Clonmel1000 wrote: »
    Does he work

    Nope. He was questioned by a caller on 96fm who was fed up of him being on every station she tuned into.

    When she asked if he was working he stuttered and said "Painter & Decorator"

    Yeah! He is in his ****!!!


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    #71
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    Temaz wrote: »
    Nope. He was questioned by a caller on 96fm who was fed up of him being on every station she tuned into.

    When she asked if he was working he stuttered and said "Painter & Decorator"

    Yeah! He is in his ****!!!

    If he put more of his energy into looking for employment instead of ringing up every radio station in the country, surely he'd qualify for a CE scheme since he's long term unemployed.


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    #72
    TBP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭TBP


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Throw up a picture of him just to see does he look as stupid as he sounds :)

    I had an image of him in my head and after a quick search on Google there he looked exactly how I thought he'd look. Fond of the sunglasses to it seems!


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    #73
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    John got a mention on the Irish Independent about the water meter protest.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/standoff-between-irate-families-and-irish-water-workers-enters-second-day-30209426.html
    Another protestor, John O’Donovan of the Campaign Against Home and and Water Taxes, said the peaceful demonstration was an example of how "people power can triumph."

    "We stood and blocked them while their were digging. They have no consent from any of the householders to do this," he said.

    "Basically what they are doing is pushing contracts on people and it is a one-sided contract."

    "They have no permission given by anyone...to be putting meters outside people's homes. They are pushing this on us without even asking for permission to do so".

    In the video hes the one in the white cap and sunglasses.


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    #74
    corkonion
    Registered Users Posts: 523 ✭✭✭corkonion


    MAN DOWN ........John O Donovan is on Red fm now with Neil Prenderville and is down, claims an Irish water employee pushed a barrier at him and an ambulance is at the scene... Hope he isint too seriously injured or he wont be able to go on other stations today (Neill seems to be taking it all very lightheartedly) dunno why.
    Maybe this will qualify him for a disability allowance?


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    #75
    Expunge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭Expunge


    Claim coming, no doubt.


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    #76
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    John is martyr to the cause as he lays on the ground injured and talking live to Red FM.

    Ambulance on the way, Gardaí on the way, major accident plan alert on yellow.


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    #77
    Expunge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭Expunge


    Joe might have him on Lavelahn later to recount the full horrific story, leaving out no detail.


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    #78
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    corkonion wrote: »
    MAN DOWN ........John O Donovan is on Red fm now with Neil Prenderville and is down, claims an Irish water employee pushed a barrier at him and an ambulance is at the scene... Hope he isint too seriously injured or he wont be able to go on other stations today (Neill seems to be taking it all very lightheartedly) dunno why.
    Maybe this will qualify him for a disability allowance?

    Let's just hope that his vocal cords haven't been damaged......


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    #79
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Expunge wrote: »
    Joe might have him on Lavelahn later to recount the full horrific story, leaving out no detail.


    Joe can ask him "How's the leg?"


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    #80
    Cool_CM
    Registered Users Posts: 4,937 ✭✭✭Cool_CM


    Video of poor John being taken away can be seen here, neck brace and all:

    http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/cork-residents-continue-tense-stand-off-on-water-meters-629174.html


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    #81
    ThisRegard
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    He's a bit of a nut, I wonder was it the fall or the radiation from the meters that inured him. Actually, maybe he just got his phone bill after the various researchers on the phone in shows stopped calling him.


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    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Someone get him a phone charger quick!


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    #83
    my friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    years ago he would have been sectioned, society has become very tolerant.


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    #84
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    my friend wrote: »
    years ago he would have been sectioned, society has become very tolerant.
    Ah c'mon he's standing up for what he believes in. Society would be very boring if we were all the same.


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    #85
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    I don't think he actually believes in all these causes he associates himself with, it's just something for him to do by all accounts.


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    #86
    Clonmel1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Clonmel1000


    Would he not better off spending his time trying to get a job?


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    #87
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Clonmel1000 wrote: »
    Would he not better off spending his time trying to get a job?
    He already has one - an outraged member of the public :cool:


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    #88
    BPKS
    Registered Users Posts: 16,690 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    Can somebody organise an e-get well soon card for poor aul John.

    I have a feeling that John likes to think of himself as the Irish equivalent of the student standing in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square.


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    #89
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    getwell.jpg


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    #90
    mikeym
    Registered Users Posts: 3,984 ✭✭✭mikeym


    He'll be able to claim disability now for his injury :D

    He did an interview which is on the Red Fm hourly news.

    Im doing a boards collection to buy John some flowers and a get well soon card.


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    #91
    Red Nissan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭Red Nissan


    mikeym wrote: »
    Im doing a boards collection to buy John some flowers and a get well soon card.

    Here's mine :)

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