We've pissed off Michael O'Doherty....

dr.bollocko

What's funny is his initials are MOD and he appears to love acting the prick all the time.

brummytom

I've no idea who this tosser is, but he couldn't sound more up himself if he was doing an impression of David Hasselhoff and Piers Morgan's lovechild.

Blogger? For fuck sake. For that reason alone, accusing boardsies of being 'bloggers'; he needs to be shot.

Pride Fighter

I have read this thread and still dont know who this guy is.

What a waste of 5 minutes.

Aidric

Because unless it can adapt its content to cater for witless, charmless nerds, whose only use for newspapers is to catch the drips coming through the ceiling of their squalid bedsits, as they pour out the contents of their underdeveloped little minds on a blog, while chowing down on reheated slices of pizza, then the days of traditional newspapers and magazines are over.

This was the highlight of the article for me.
Hi Michael. I'm sitting here in my well lit, well appointed second floor apartment. It has two bedrooms and a sexy bathroom. I've just finished a meal of duck breasts with potato gratin, had pizza last friday though. I poured over most of the contents of The Sunday Business Post for the arse end of the bank holiday weekend. I like to mix my media intake between traditional and non traditional. I also like to have a pop at societies tossers on the net now and again. You are right up the top of the list but you knew that already.

Mossy Monk

Hurray, for I am blogging.

Terry

Dear Mr. O'Doherty.

I am blogging here for two reasons.
The first is to call you a clueless dick.
The second is to state that I will call you a clueless dick to your face.

PM me for my phone number and I'll meet you at the bus stop after school.

Yours lovingly, Terry.

Yes. It is my real name.

Blush_01

My name is URL wrote: »

http://i33.tinypic.com/2cxxapk.jpg

There may be a grammatical error contained within, just to keep Mr O'Doherty entertained.

Eh, before this thread I'd never heard of him. What am I missing?

Terry, TV3 is owned by ITV's owners iirc - hence the huge crossover in awful TV shows, and the often shockingly Harry Enfield-esque TV presenting.

pebbles21

Terry wrote: »

I'll meet you at the bus stop after school.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^FIGHT ! FIGHT ! FIGHT!:D

Terry

Blush_01 wrote: »

There may be a grammatical error contained within, just to keep Mr O'Doherty entertained.

Eh, before this thread I'd never heard of him. What am I missing?

Terry, TV3 is owned by ITV's owners iirc - hence the huge crossover in awful TV shows, and the often shockingly Harry Enfield-esque TV presenting.

I'm aware of the ownership.
3e is good of a Monday night though.

Terry

pebbles21 wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^FIGHT ! FIGHT ! FIGHT!:D

Ahh no.
I'm just going to call him names to his face.

I threw my back out on Saturday, so I'm in no fit state to fight, even if I wanted to.

I don't want to give the impression that I am threatening violence against Mr. O'Doherty.
I'm simply giving him what he is asking for, and that is someone to call him names to his face instead of from the safety of their home.

I'm quite serious too. I'll do it.

I'm going to look for his e-mail address now and let him know.

Gaspode

Free advertising for the herald and its 3rd rate opinionators. Job done Michael.

Handsome Bob

Gaspode wrote: »

Free advertising for the herald and its 3rd rate opinionators. Job done Michael.

TBH no-one here is going to be running out to buy the society page known as The Evening Herald. They have Ronnie Whelan as a football columnist, enough said!

pebbles21

Dear Mr O Doherty,

Is there any chance you could do me a massive favour?I know loads of people have probably already asked you and i know im really taking the p**s,but if possible,is there any chance you could lend me your face for Halloween?

Regards

Pebbles21(not my real name)

dr.bollocko

I think he's just too proud to take constructive feedback on board. This crank has just gone and abused his position as a crayon holding journalist to take a snipe back at a few people on the internet who think he's a total fucking asshole.
I don't stand behind anonymity to take a snipe at famous people for the sake of it. In fact I think that the power to be anonymous on the internet is one of the greatest freedoms one could have hoped for. It advances people's ability to speak out when things are just plain wrong for whatever reason. Sometimes these people save lives. Sometimes they are keyboard pounding idiots desperate to have a go at anyone or anything that they are confused by or are afraid of.
Think of the reality of the situation here. Semi-famous person googles own name. Gets angry because a bunch of people thought he is the biggest prick on the world. Rather than broaching the situation with a bit of navel gazing or at least some righteous anger he decides to abuse the reason for his semi-fame. He goes to a keyboard and not only abuses those who posted, he also abuses the entire culture that has developed on the internet over years which has
a) Rendered his career as completely unimportant and useless because any idiot with a keyboard could do it and
b) Given people a shared voice to speak out about people who have no idea what they are talking about inexplicably being given a stage to spout their tripe and
c) had a few people from Ireland express that they disliked him on a random saturday sitting at home doing nothing.
And it's actually C which really irks him. Not the fact that the people who post here make a mockery of his entire career simply by being just as or more belligerent than he is in defending a point.
TL;DR F*ck it terry. Name the place and I'll show up too. I don't want to lynch the guy. I just want to show him that I don't have to hide behind anything at all to let him know that I think that he's a small minded cretin.
Yours sincerely,
Nick, Galway.

Borneo Fnctn

Great post doc.

Terry

e-mail sent to letters - at - herald.ie.

With regards to this article on your website, I would like to take this opportunity to meet Mr. O'Doherty in person and call him a ponce, tosser and cretin.
I would also like to explain exactly what bloggers are, because he doesn't seem to quite grasp the concept of blogging.
Posting an opinion on a public internet forum is not blogging. It is, in fact, doing exactly what Mr. O'Doherty does for your newspaper.

In fairness to Mr. O'Doherty, we may not all be as verbose or well educated as he is, but we are all just giving our opinions about certain things.
On the flip side, I know of many, many people with the ability to write far better opinion pieces for your paper. However, they choose to use the internet as their medium for communicating their views. They do it for free too.

So if Mr. O'Doherty would like to meet one of these "bloggers" in person, he can contact me on xxx xxx xxxx (yeah. like I'm gonna put my number on boards again.).
My name is Terry O'Dowd and I would quite willingly meet him face to face.

Please note that this is not in any way a threat of physical violence against anyone.
I have absolutely no intention of causing any physical harm to Mr. O'Doherty or anyone else.

I'll meet him in a public place and he can bring as many people and camera crews and whatnot with him for safety is that is his wont.
I'll still call him a ponce, cretin and tosser to his face though.

Your move, Michael.

enniscorthy

not another michael jackson thread :mad::mad::mad:

stepbar

Don't know what people are getting annoyed about.......

WHO FCUKING CARES WHAT MICHAEL O'DOHERTY THINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

themadchef

Christ, lets hope he doesnt prick the spire as the meeting place, and switch photos for the morning paper :eek:

Terry

stepbar wrote: »

Don't know what people are getting annoyed about.......

WHO FCUKING CARES WHAT MICHAEL O'DOHERTY THINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I personally couldn't give a flying ****. I just want to meet him and call him names.

galwayrush

Some new blood to tease.

john-joe

Whats a blogger?

This guy writes for the herald come people he has no credibility at all !! :rolleyes:

I never heard of him till now, ill go with the majority and say he is a tosser...

jumpguy

I think the poll speaks for itself. From reading this thread (well, Terry's email) I gather he's a journalist for The Herald the general public (err, sorry, no, geeky "bloggers") think of him.

Why is there so much hatred for him, and Terry, if he does respond, will you record it? Also, he criticises "bloggers" but where does he mention boards?

Cadiz

Bambi wrote: »

Is this the fella who's magazine ssaid bad things about yer man tiger woods missus in a desperate attempts to shift some copy? If so, lolz, the ironing etc

No, Trevor White was the owner of that venerable organ at that time. Similar personality type.

Liam Byrne

I post under my own name.......would he acknowledge that ?

Dudess

Michael O'Doherty wrote:

I Googled my own name (I've hardly ever done it, honestly ... )

Despite his use of the word "honestly", I'm not convinced...

hooradiation

Terry wrote: »

When I stand for election, and I will someday, you can call me whatever you want.
I'll start a thunderdome thread just for you to give me all the abuse you want.

Don't sell yourself short terry, you'd be in the public eye, that means you get all the same perks as anyone else in that position.

The right to have your physical appearance ridiculed and your name dragged through the mud by the hooting jackanapes of After hours.

No mere thunderdome obscurity for you, it's the big leagues.

parasite

I had heard of him before he was mentioned on boards, yet I still voted no :cool:

Terry

jumpguy wrote: »

I think the poll speaks for itself. From reading this thread (well, Terry's email) I gather he's a journalist for The Herald the general public (err, sorry, no, geeky "bloggers") think of him.

Why is there so much hatred for him, and Terry, if he does respond, will you record it? Also, he criticises "bloggers" but where does he mention boards?

He doesn't mention boards directly, but there are links in the thread to the posts he talks about.

hooradiation wrote: »

Don't sell yourself short terry, you'd be in the public eye, that means you get all the same perks as anyone else in that position.

The right to have your physical appearance ridiculed and your name dragged through the mud by the hooting jackanapes of After hours.

No mere thunderdome obscurity for you, it's the big leagues.

I'll have to ban you if you abuse me in AH. You should know that by now.

Oh yeah. Someone mentioned my appearance.
I don't care. See spire thingy for evidence of that.

Anyway, back to the dude.
Your call, Michael.
I've e-mailed my phone number to the herald.
I'm waiting for your call.

nkay1985

I'm amazed he even managed to get into that list because, judging by the poll results, I'm not alone in having never heard to him. Here are the standings that he talked about by the way, if anyone's interested.

If he had any balls, he'd register, come on here and debate the issues that made people think he's a díckhead. But no, he cowers off and writes a sob story about how someone was mean to him on the internet in a national newspaper not fit to wipe my arse with!

Dudess wrote: »

Despite his use of the word "honestly", I'm not convinced...

This made me LOL. A lot.