Prime Time Investigates

newman10

Has anyone got an opinion on last nights programme

SilverBER

I felt awfully bad for some of the people featured in the show. Its no fun being in that position of hanging over a financial cliff but I didn't think it served anyone any good to witness those poor construction employees being lined up and handed their p45s live on TV. I think that the producer of the show and the builder involved should be horse whipped because of this glaring display of ignorance. The stole these poor men's dignity for the sake of a TV show and it is wrong. Something needs to be done about stuff like this. I didn't get the builders name but, judging by the brand new safety jacket and helmet he wore, I would wager that he doesn't spend all that much time on the job. Going by the size of his well fed stomach I would suggest he spends most of the day in the kitchen.
Someone said this morning that this builder was a mate of Bertie Ahern - is this true?

kc66

Have to agree that it didn't feel right showing that on TV. I thought he would just give them a letter but he proceeded to read it in front of the cameras and co-workers.

stepbar

SilverBER wrote: »

I felt awfully bad for some of the people featured in the show. Its no fun being in that position of hanging over a financial cliff but I didn't think it served anyone any good to witness those poor construction employees being lined up and handed their p45s live on TV. I think that the producer of the show and the builder involved should be horse whipped because of this glaring display of ignorance. The stole these poor men's dignity for the sake of a TV show and it is wrong. Something needs to be done about stuff like this. I didn't get the builders name but, judging by the brand new safety jacket and helmet he wore, I would wager that he doesn't spend all that much time on the job. Going by the size of his well fed stomach I would suggest he spends most of the day in the kitchen.
Someone said this morning that this builder was a mate of Bertie Ahern - is this true?

Jeremy Beades. And yes he's a member of the "Drumcondra Mafia".....

nadin278

It is terrible programm to watch.

And it does not show the banks in the best light either.

I mean, they have just been bailed out. AGAIN, and yet, we see poor woman who is a single mother, whose house will be repossessed. This is just dreadful

Gambler

Can anyone give a quick recap? Don't watch RTE but the posts have got me curious!

homeOwner

I wasnt sure if we were supposed to be feeling sorry for most of them (apart from the builders which were let go).

The woman stopped paying her mortgage in 2002 - its now 2009. 7 years of non-payment during the biggest property boom. She could easily have sold the house for double, triple what was origally paid for it, paid off the debt to the bank and walked away with a lot of money. Why she didnt was never explained. It was presented like she was a victim of the banks which was totally not the case (unless I missed the point).

The property speculator chap that owned 15 properties in the most expensive parts of DUblin was complaining he was close to loosing his family home on Pembrook Road (on the market for E1.5 million, he paid E3million for it).....sorry but I cant work up any sympathy for him gambling his family's financial security on 15 properties to rent out during the boom years. Anyway his story didnt ring true, he bought some of them in the early 90s he said. They are worth multiples of what he paid for them, why doesnt he sell them. Really not sure what his gripe was. He mentioned receiving rent of 200K a year on one of his properties.

As for the trader looking down on the homeless people below his office....

Really didnt get the point of it all.