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blond45

is there anyone watching eamon dunphey on tv3?he was in tears when he was chatn about mum and dad, i always thought he was a hard git. as in heart of stone but no quite the other way.what do ye think ?

That_Guy

I am watching it at the moment.

Well he's human after all.

SprostonGreen

I'll catch it on the many doubtless repeat showings.

Lemondrop kid

He He He, he's funny:D

Mossy Monk

blond45 wrote: »

is there anyone watching eamon dunphey on tv3?he was in tears when he was chatn about mum and dad, i always thought he was a hard git. as in heart of stone but no quite the other way.what do ye think ?

He cried on the Late Late Show not too long ago.

That_Guy

I didn't know he did coke.

And sang. :eek:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Was he watching highlights of a Liverpool match?

Aidric

That_Guy wrote: »

I didn't know he did coke.

He only did bad coke.

Mad_Max

Can't believe how candid he was about the coke and booze.

Politicians should take note of how to answer a question.

Lemondrop kid

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Was he watching highlights of a Liverpool match?

Funny

Aidric wrote: »

He only did bad coke.

Very Funny

That_Guy wrote: »

I didn't know he did coke.

And sang. :eek:

Toooo Funny

blond45

didnt know his only brother is dead. no wonder he was so upset before. he is the only one in his family alive.thought it was agood interview.

the long lad

I thought it was an excellent interview, Ursula Halligan asked questions that kept the conversation nice and natural, but deep. I think he's a bit of an attention seeker, but you'd have to respect him for being straight (as someone said above, pity our politicians aren't the same). Bit of a rags to riches story, but he hasn't forgotten where he came from.

That_Guy

the long lad wrote: »

I thought it was an excellent interview, Ursula Halligan asked questions that kept the conversation nice and natural, but deep. I think he's a bit of an attention seeker, but you'd have to respect him for being straight (as someone said above, pity our politicians aren't the same). Bit of a rags to riches story, but he hasn't forgotten where he came from.

He's only attention seeking when it comes to his "controversial journalism" it would appear but I thought he composed himself very well in the interview and handled the drugs questions very well.

Lemondrop kid

Yeah, he came across well. Said he wasn't much of a drinker bar the 'mid-life crisis' - not sure if that's true.
Good at the footie commentary though

dartsfan

Deep down Dunphy is a wimp, have seen this before when he's been challenged head on.
Thought it was a good interview, though he contradicted himself regarding having friends in high places, regardless of the spin he put on it.
The episode about his coke taking was well known as it was through this that his chat show was eventually pulled.
Hard to know what to believe about him at times, but I'd imagine he was keen to downplay his partying days anyways.
The whole Roy Keane episode must be fairly cringeworthy for him, it was obvious that he wanted to court Keane's friendship and when Keane wanted nothing to do with him Dunphy turned against him again....just my take on it.
Never read his main stream newspaper columns but his football columns in The Star are always well worth a read for entertainment alone and well written

JP Liz

good interview

iguy

I thought it was a very good interview. Ursula asked all the right questions. Also it was a good production by Tv3 standards,Tv3 is improving!

bonerm

I had to turn it off after about 10minutes. It was very badly put together. Dunphy would be answering a question for about 5 seconds and then it would cut away to Halligan asking another question. The amount of times it happened meant it actually looked like one of those hyper-speed parody interviews you might see on youtube. Were they afraid the average TV3 watching moron would switch off if they stayed on any one point for more than 5 seconds?

It just skimmed over everything. For example he spent a year writing a book called "Only a Game?" which went on gain critical acclaim as well as breaking the mold for football biographies but more or less was the genesis of his journalistic career, yet Halligan didn't even seem mildly interested in it.

Halligan "so you wrote a book?" . Dunphy "yeah it was about my final year Millwall. My career was winding down and I wanted to keep a diary of how I felt and ..."
Halligan "So anyway moving on .... you got your NUJ card and ...."

:rolleyes:

SoupyNorman

"Would you let him (Steve Staunton) drive the train to Cork Bill, would ya?" -Eammonn Dunphy, Irish quote of the century.

Lemondrop kid

bonerm wrote: »

I had to turn it off after about 10minutes. It was very badly put together. Dunphy would be answering a question for about 5 seconds and then it would cut away to Halligan asking another question. The amount of times it happened meant it actually looked like one of those hyper-speed parody interviews you might see on youtube. Were they afraid the average TV3 watching moron would switch off if they stayed on any one point for more than 5 seconds?

It just skimmed over everything. For example he spent a year writing a book called "Only a Game?" which went on gain critical acclaim as well as breaking the mold for football biographies but more or less was the genesis of his journalistic career, yet Halligan didn't even seem mildly interested in it.

Halligan "so you wrote a book?" . Dunphy "yeah it was about my final year Millwall. My career was winding down and I wanted to keep a diary of how I felt and ..."
Halligan "So anyway moving on .... you got your NUJ card and ...."

:rolleyes:

Yeah, would have to agree with you there Bonerm. It seems to be the new way forward - ask a Q, give it an allocated timeframe, then move on regardless. I wonder if the Irish Meeja are taking advice from one of the 'media consultant' scumbags, as RTE have become affected also. " Don't stay on topic too long - remember the punter now has 300 channels and a remote control".
Having said that seen a couple of good interviews on Sunday morn ('one to one', i think) which were close to been very good. 'Course I imagine the meeja moguls felt the demographic would be 'more suited' to a real interview and so let it happen.
Meeja mongrels - people aren't that dumb! OK? Not the ones watching a current affairs program anyway...