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The PDs: From Boom To Bust

  • 21-06-2010 9:43pm
    #1
    Elmo
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    Not the biggest fan of the PDs.

    However this documentary was piss poor. Ok if you really really loved the PDs in a demented fashion under which you were unable to take any reasonable criticism of the party.

    A hugely one sided love in with the party. Were Sam Smyth guided us around the party which was to provide an alternative to FF and FG.

    I didn't see all of the two episodes I plan to watch them fully on the RTÉ Player during the week.

    I note how Colm McCarthy praised Mr. McDowell for stopping the Bertie Bowl (probable the only unrealistic thing not to be build during the boom and one thing that was never going to happen.) But some how I remember Mr. McDowell over spending (even for the boom times) on Thornton Hall's land, something that is costing the state now.

    Ah well the PDs were the good guys.

    Outside of my dislike for these people, I would hope that those who did vote PD would realize that the Doc was purely a White Wash.


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  • #2
    mike65
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    It wasn't much of anything, I didn't see last weeks so don't know if it touched on things like the parties social enlightenment as compared to the dark ages of FF but it felt like just a bit of gossip tonight really. Summer schedule filler.


  • #3
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    mike65 wrote: »
    the parties social enlightenment

    I promise not to get political and while I will accept that the Party did certain things like supporting contraception even though AFAIK Charlie Haugey brought it in before the PDs existed. Or perhaps its putting a mental hospital next to a prison while over paying on the land that such an institution would be built on. I mean you need to balance your arguments regardless of the POV. I really felt this "documentary" lack criticism.

    It didn't even give a good exploration as to the use of the media by the PDs. Pure waste of time, it looks like RTÉ will be happy to follow TV3 in terms of light fluffy news docs that say nothing about the subject matter.


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