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Gaybo does it again. Is there no stopping dinosaur windbag?

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  • #2
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Nothing but time, presumably. Then there'll be reruns.


  • #3
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Labour TD Emmet Stagg said: "He was a very decent fella, a very good fella. This is such a tragedy."

    From the linked piece.

    Puts me in mind of a joke though: the funeral of a man who died suddenly is being held and the usual priest isn't there, so another priest is drafted in. He gets to the eulogy and says 'now I did not know the deceased so perhaps someone among the congregation can say a few words about his character?'.

    Dead silence throughout the church, goes on for about two minutes before a voice pipes up from the back: 'his brother was worse!!'


  • #4
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Hopefully when the alalog goes, gayboy does too!


  • #5
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Spread wrote: »
    Is there any antidote for this old bore's press releases?

    A 12 bore?


  • #6
    Stiffler2
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭Stiffler2


    Sigh, he's a total ****et
    I really hope he doesn't become head of the RSA as all speed limits will be reduced to 10MPH, that's right, miles people. Bloody kilometres.


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  • #7
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    mikom wrote: »
    A 12 bore?

    Ah Jasus mikom ........ go easy. The turkey shootin' season is o'er.:D


  • #8
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Spread wrote: »
    Ah Jasus mikom ........ go easy. The turkey shootin' season is o'er.:D



    ...I don't think theres a season for pests though.....


  • #9
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Spread wrote: »
    Gaybo again at crossed swords with road statistics/gardai.
    Is there any antidote for this old bore's press releases?
    Given his penchant for bad decision making - putting all his eggs in one basket, should this old dinosaur be allowed to head the road safety organization?

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gaybos-warning-on-road-safety-crude-says-senior-garda-2975375.html

    He is doing a good job, road accidents are down.


  • #10
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    44leto wrote: »
    He is doing a good job, road accidents are down.

    With a helping hand from Mr recession.


  • #11
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Spread wrote: »
    Gaybo does it again. Is there no stopping dinosaur windbag?

    But But But.....He invented sex dontcha know


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  • #12
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    44leto wrote: »
    He is doing a good job, road accidents are down.

    More to do with less people driving I think. And increased safety in cars.

    Also, I thought Gay retired about ten years ago. Very active on television for a retired fella.


  • #13
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Jeasus - take it easy on Gaybo!
    ...We haven't finished slagging Jedward yet!


  • #14
    Tonto86
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Tonto86


    44leto wrote: »

    He is doing a good job, road accidents are down.

    The compare accidents from 2006 to now. The amount of cars on the roads has dropped drastically in that amount of time.

    If you took figures taking into account the drop in road usage and I'd guess accidents have actually rose.


  • #15
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    44leto wrote: »
    He is doing a good job, road accidents are down.

    exactly. though i would suspect the cost of petrol and insurance has played its part too, with less people driving.


  • #16
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Deaths are down 50% since 2005, it can't just be down to less people driving. Good awareness campaigns are critical I'd say


  • #17
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    44leto wrote: »
    He is doing a good job, road accidents are down.

    Motorways.


  • #18
    ottostreet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    Chuck Stone wrote: »
    Motorways.

    That too. I know of a stretch of road where three people were killed in 2010, which was a main road. Road was bypassed by motorway shortly after, noone killed on it in 2011.


  • #19
    Ellis Dee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Ellis Dee


    Gaybo is way, way past his sell-by date. They should lock him and Marion Finucane in a room together with a big bag of viagra for a weekend and hope they'd shag or bore each other to death. Or both.:D:D

    That Garda fellow is right; they can get better results with fewer resources by introducing more efficient practices. If only their political masters would let them get on with the job, and if the NRA had a new head with less antedeluvian attitudes and baggage than Gaybo and more open-mindedness and fresh ideas.:rolleyes:


  • #20
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    I, for one, welcome Gay Byrne's comments.

    I'm rather sick of all of these authorities and public bodies which never seem to suffer from internal conflict, or never criticise anybody else in the public service, or never criticise government decisions.

    Two rare examples in the past have been Childrens' Ombudsman Emily Logan and the Director of Prisons Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen.

    We need the chairman of public authorities to be brave enough to speak out when the aims of that authority or public body are undermined by Government policy.

    Personally, I am not convinced by the Garda authority's explanations that they will enforce 'smarter surveillance' without them actually explaining how they can do that.

    And that newspaper article doesn't really tend to overwhelm me with confidence in the Garda Siochana's ability to maintain its admirable standards.


  • #21
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Ellis Dee wrote: »

    That Garda fellow is right; they can get better results with fewer resources by introducing more efficient practices.

    There was no Operation Freeflow this year. Did this affect anyone?


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  • #22
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,848 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    How much of a penison are we paying him on top of his current job? :rolleyes:


  • #23
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,974 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    How much of a penison are we paying him on top of his current job? :rolleyes:

    Special payment only received by old dicks.


  • #24
    Spread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Spread


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    How much of a penison are we paying him on top of his current job? :rolleyes:

    According to the great man, he is skint. Firstly he invested money with a wide boy many many years ago and then he decided to invest in blue chips. Seanie Fitz did for the rest. I guess the powers that be are shoving things his way to save him from the poorhouse. His decision making skills are certainly not as honed as his waffling skills.


  • #25
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Spread wrote: »
    Gaybo does it again. Is there no stopping dinosaur windbag?

    I can't stand that shítehawk, and not just because of that infamously classless stunt with Adams in October 1994. He's so sarcastic, so patronising so wannabe avuncular. He's on Lyric on a Sunday destroying it with his incessant talking. For those of us who used to love Lyric on a Sunday afternoon as a break from all the sports on radio, his inane, vacuous waffle is consistently infuriating. :mad:

    I wish when people retired in this country, they'd stay retired and let a younger generation take over. Byrne, Finucane et al overstayed their welcome in Irish public life years ago.

    /end rant.


  • #26
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Dionysus wrote: »
    I can't stand that shítehawk, and not just because of that infamously classless stunt with Adams in October 1994. He's so sarcastic, so patronising so wannabe avuncular. He's on Lyric on a Sunday destroying it with his incessant talking. For those of us who used to love Lyric on a Sunday afternoon as a break from all the sports on radio, his inane, vacuous waffle is consistently infuriating. :mad:

    I wish when people retired in this country, they'd stay retired and let a younger generation take over. Byrne, Finucane et al overstayed their welcome in Irish public life years ago.

    /end rant.

    He would be retired and very anonymous but for the fact that hes lost squidgillions through dogdy accountants and in the property crash. Why the hell else would be be doing a show in a Dublin theatre where he recounts his late late heyday?


  • #27
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    In answering all the ones who quoted my earlier post.

    He is still a very popular public figure, if his organisation want to highlight a campaign all he has to do is click his fingers and appear somewhere. He will generate discussion and debate. That is worth a lot to a pressure group.

    So I stand by my earlier comment, I believe he is doing a good job.


  • #28
    Kim_Il_Jong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Kim_Il_Jong


    Dinosaur windbag ... :D love it. lol


  • #29
    Senna
    Registered Users Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    He has turn the RSA into a "one trick pony", reduce speed, bugger all else comes out of them. I agree that speed has a part to play, but they just completely ignore driver training, (poor lane discipline, incorrect or no use of indicators, tailgating, no motorway training what-so-ever), poor road conditions, enforcement, allowing an NCT that can pass a car with rubbish breaks as long as the imbalance is small, allowing safety features in cars to be taxed and so giving people the option to get "less" safe cars.
    The RSA could spend some of their radio time informing drivers of the correct driving practices and as most people listen to the radio as they drive, it could have a huge effect.


  • #30
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Senna wrote: »
    He has turn the RSA into a "one trick pony", reduce speed, bugger all else comes out of them. I agree that speed has a part to play, but they just completely ignore driver training, (poor lane discipline, incorrect or no use of indicators, tailgating, no motorway training what-so-ever), poor road conditions, enforcement, allowing an NCT that can pass a car with rubbish breaks as long as the imbalance is small, allowing safety features in cars to be taxed and so giving people the option to get "less" safe cars.
    The RSA could spend some of their radio time informing drivers of the correct driving practices and as most people listen to the radio as they drive, it could have a huge effect.

    While I agree, in part, the speed rush that young drivers get has a very big part to play in road deaths.

    Young drivers speed because they like it, at least I did in the day. I could speed now if I was bothered but I have 20+ years of driving experience. You can-not train for that.


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  • #31
    Zen65
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Zen65


    Spread wrote: »
    Given his penchant for bad decision making - putting all his eggs in one basket, should this old dinosaur be allowed to head the road safety organization?

    Which bad decision-making are you talking about?

    Nobody can deny that since he took up his position in the Road Safety Authority there has been improved enforcement by Gardaí, and the statistics would indicate that this has made a very significant difference to the rate of fatality on the road:


    Year Fatalities
    2011 185
    2010 212
    2009 238
    2008 279
    2007 338
    2006 368
    2005 396
    2004 374
    2003 335
    2002 376
    2001 411
    2000 415
    1999 413
    1998 458
    1997 472
    1996 453
    1995 437
    1994 404
    1993 431
    1992 415
    1991 445
    1990 478
    1989 460
    1988 463
    1987 462
    1986 387
    1985 410
    1984 465
    1983 535
    1982 533
    1981 572
    1980 564
    1979 614
    1978 628
    1977 583
    1976 525
    1975 586
    1974 594
    1973 592
    1972 640
    1971 576
    1970 540

    It's nonsense to point to the economy as being the reason for the reduced rate of accidents; there was no noticeable decline during previous recessions in the country. The difference is down to roads being improved and enforcement by Gardaí. Remember that the previous head of the RSA resigned because he was not getting support from government. When GB was appointed he stated publicly that he was not an expert in the field, but that he was determined to hold the government accountable for their actions, and if they failed to act as they had promised then he would publicly "out" them.

    And in fairness, since his appointment they delivered the dedicated Traffic Corps, and enforcement was improved, and the penalty points system was put in place and people took notice and changed their driving habits.

    In every single year since he was appointed, road fatalities have reduced. That can't be dumb luck. You don't need to like the man, but you have to admit he has got results. How he has done so is entirely down to his skill at getting people to commit to taking action, and then using his skill and position as a respected celebrity to ensure that they honour that.

    And starting a post in which your primary complaint is his age, well frankly that's just immature and ill-conceived.

    Be at peace,

    Z

    PS: I'm not a Gay Byrne fan either, but I acknowledge his success in this role, and I'm staggered that somebody would suggest he's incompetent because he is old.


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