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Gerry Ryan

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    #62
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,024 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    k_mac wrote: »
    Victims of what?


    Over-charging.


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    #63
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Gerry Ryan. RIP. Lovely man. Decent chap. Disliked by idiots.

    And people with taste.


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    #64
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,024 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Gary Rowan. RIP. Lovely man. Decent chap. Disliked by idiots.

    Who?:confused:


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    #65
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users Posts: 9,556 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Do I have a problem with his cocaine addiction? No.

    Do I have a problem with the extortionate fee he commanded from RTE? Not really, we shouldn't be too fast to begrudge and punish success in this country.

    Do I have a problem with the anti-drugs and anti-crime stance and pontification on his show? In light of recent disclosure, you bet.

    Gerry Ryan was a hypocrite who came from a long tradition of hypocrisy in Irish public figures, from Haughey telling us to tighten our belts through to Bishop Eamonn Casey denying he fathered a son.

    As long as it's showtime, the Irish collective media have no problem embracing and rewarding these types of people, but just watch them scatter when the wheels come off the wagon so publicly.


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    #66
    flag123
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭flag123


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Gerry Ryan. RIP. Lovely man. Decent chap. Disliked by idiots.

    I don't want to be an idiot. R.I.P Gerry Ryan.


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    #67
    snickers
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭snickers


    Don't get me wrong, i wasn't particularly a fan of his, but this implication that the state of his financial affairs was entirely his fault rankles me.[/QUOTE]

    It rankles me that you seem to think that Gerry had anyone else to blame but himself for his financial crisis even if he was giving morah say half that still left alot to spend on his lavish and over indulgent lifestyle . Im sure gerry managed to get his fat paws on the finest powder available you want top notch product you pay top notch prices.


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    #68
    thebullkf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭thebullkf


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Gerry Ryan. RIP. Lovely man. Decent chap. Disliked by idiots.


    loved by idiots :rolleyes:


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    #69
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    thebullkf wrote: »
    loved by idiots :rolleyes:

    You saying his family are idiots?:confused:


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    #70
    thebullkf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,006 ✭✭✭thebullkf


    galwayrush wrote: »
    You saying his family are idiots?:confused:

    of course not, rabble rabble's enlightening comment influenced my reply.

    what do you think of him?


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    #71
    BengaLover
    Registered Users Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭BengaLover


    Didnt like the way his wife came across in last nights 'tribute' programme..
    She seemed a tad false.


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    #72
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    thebullkf wrote: »
    of course not, rabble rabble's enlightening comment influenced my reply.

    what do you think of him?

    Thought he could be a pompous git at times, but didn't dislike him. Hopefully some good will come out of this as regards drug awareness.


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    #73
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    DublinWriter wrote: »
    Gerry Ryan was a hypocrite who came from a long tradition of hypocrisy in Irish public figures, from Haughey telling us to tighten our belts through to Bishop Eamonn Casey denying he fathered a son.

    Or Vincent Browne living in Dalkey. I am with you comrade, on the hypocrisy of Irish public life but, nevertheless, there was a bit of fun to Ryan and none to the professional hypocrites.


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    #74
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    By the way it is funny to be accused of a troll when i was less than critical of the recently deceased. Unless we are all bitter folk hating the famous behind our pseudonymous monikers, we troll apparently.

    The drugs are an excuse. Ryan was disliked anyway.


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    #75
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,165 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    I watched the doc last night, and all it really did was remind me why I never listened to the guy.

    "How big is your willy? Is it huge?":rolleyes: That's all Gerry had to offer.
    Radio for the morons. But, weren't there plenty of them.


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    #76
    geespot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭geespot


    can we exect the same witch hunt for his dealer like katy french while the scum dealing to joe soap or allowed to continue uninterrupted


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    #77
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    geespot wrote: »
    can we exect the same witch hunt for his dealer like katy french while the scum dealing to joe soap or allowed to continue uninterrupted

    Do you not read the news? There is seizures and arrests every week.


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    #78
    OutlawPete
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    Last nights special was decent enough, didn't gloss over the cocaine use.

    http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1087850


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    #79
    breadandjam
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    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Or Vincent Browne living in Dalkey. I am with you comrade, on the hypocrisy of Irish public life but, nevertheless, there was a bit of fun to Ryan and none to the professional hypocrites.

    How does Vincent Browne living in Dalkey make him a hypocite? Has he claimed somewhere that he doesn't live in Dalkey?


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    #80
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    I dunno it all seems odd that the last posterboy for the Celtic Tiger died early,penniless and as a result of illegal activities.

    Gerry Ryan's death will hopefully mark a turning point in the way people view the vapid fallacy of "success".


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    #81
    geespot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭geespot


    k_mac wrote: »
    Do you not read the news? There is seizures and arrests every week.

    so what your telling me is that the gardai arent aware of drug dealers who they allow to operate freely


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    #82
    Degsy
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    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Last nights special was decent enough, didn't gloss over the cocaine use.

    http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1087850

    Ah but they made it appear that he resorted to cocaine recently due to "stress and family troubles".

    A tragic figure who just found it all too much one day and started experimenting with drugs.

    The fact is that the man was shovelling bugle up his hooter for the best part of two decades...his cocaine use was part and parcell of his percieved place at the top of the tree in Ireland's social scene.."I gots money so i uses cocaine".


    I've met dozens of people(some who work in rte including a TV presenter) who take cocaine because they thought it befitted thier "status" in life as high-earners and social lions.

    All bullshiit of course.

    They lived day to day on thier credit cards and couldnt see the sheer stupidity of spending 600 quid a week on rubbish cocaine that turned them into even bigger arseholes.


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    #83
    wealthyman
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭wealthyman


    Well as long as we keep getting to see pictures of his hot ex wife in the papers then I don't mind.


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    #84
    MagicSean
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    geespot wrote: »
    so what your telling me is that the gardai arent aware of drug dealers who they allow to operate freely

    Knowing someone is doing something and building a case and proving it are completely different things. Sure it would be great if Gardaí could go into peoples home and search people whenever they want but that isn't the country we live in.


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    #85
    Tucking Fypo
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭Tucking Fypo


    Disappointing. I thought this thread would be about the vileness of the ads broadcast about that documentary avec vomitty backing music.

    I personally think it is disgusting to 'celebrate' the life of a drug abuser on a special program, no matter who he was professionally.

    Oh sure it wasn't poor Gerry's fault, blame the drug pushers.:rolleyes:


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    #86
    Mike 1972
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    galwayrush wrote: »
    No, pushers are scumbags, users are addicts and victims.

    There are still people who believe there is such thing as a drug "pusher" :confused:


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    #87
    geespot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭geespot


    k_mac wrote: »
    Knowing someone is doing something and building a case and proving it are completely different things. Sure it would be great if Gardaí could go into peoples home and search people whenever they want but that isn't the country we live in.

    but dont they let them operate because the dealers or passing on information to the gardai and the gardai love information. dont get me wrong its not all the gardai fault the courts or to lenient and we dont have enough prison space to keep the scumbags in. if only we could go back to the days when there was no ceasefire and the ira would sort them out


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    #88
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    geespot wrote: »
    but dont they let them operate because the dealers or passing on information to the gardai and the gardai love information

    No


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    #89
    geespot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 257 ✭✭geespot


    k_mac wrote: »
    No

    isnt it true when you say no you mean yes


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    #90
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    There are still people who believe there is such thing as a drug "pusher" :confused:

    The term confuses you?:rolleyes:


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    #91
    MagicSean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    geespot wrote: »
    isnt it true when you say no you mean yes

    No


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