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Ivan Yates on the Frontline

  • 28-02-2011 10:03pm
    #1
    Slideshowbob
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    With all due respect what is a failed bookie who folded leaving money owed on national television less than a few months after his downfall, doing lecturing on how to salvage the country - the neck of him !!!

    also wasnt he supposed to take a few weeks off newstalk after his receivership - he didnt even do that!!


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  • #2
    Min
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    The last two guests are there for comedy...

    To be fair to Ivan Yates, he was in FG, he was in government and he had a valid opinion.


  • #3
    ThunbergsAreGo
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    did that SF guy just say more houses???

    oh dear God almighty hahah!

    Can we have more of SF and the Lefties?? Comedy Gold!!

    The poor Unions


  • #4
    Sierra Oscar
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    Dessie Ellis really is a plank. He says there are not enough houses in the country? Claire Daly was speaking about devaluing our currency - it seems she does not realize we are in a currency union.

    I mean, really . . . have we elected a circus of an opposition? :eek: :confused::(


  • #5
    mikemac
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    When you become a socialist do this mean you have to be miserable? :(:(:(

    I know it's the Frontline but I don't think I've ever seen Clare Daly smile.
    Same for Joe Higgins

    My post is way offtopic, just something I've noticed. Others have too


  • #6
    the groutch
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    Slideshowbob wrote: »
    With all due respect what is a failed bookie who folded leaving money owed on national television less than a few months after his downfall, doing lecturing on how to salvage the country - the neck of him !!!

    also wasnt he supposed to take a few weeks off newstalk after his receivership - he didnt even do that!!

    he was a cabinet minister in a very successful FG-Labour coalition, so he was very relevant to tonights discussions


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  • #7
    Dannyboy83
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    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Same for Joe Higgins

    Joe Higgins doesn't smile, because nobody smiles at him.

    How could you smile at a man who takes an hour to finish a sentence?
    Joe Higgins has no concept of the word, 'concise'.


  • #8
    c montgomery
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    Slideshowbob wrote: »
    With all due respect what is a failed bookie who folded leaving money owed on national television less than a few months after his downfall, doing lecturing on how to salvage the country - the neck of him !!!

    also wasnt he supposed to take a few weeks off newstalk after his receivership - he didnt even do that!!

    He was a successful politician and after political life he was a successful bookie employing hundreds of people across Ireland.

    A drop in peoples discretionary income has had a massive effect on the betting industry and he could no longer compete with the big firms. He went broke trying to save the business and took 3 weeks off newstalk following the demise of the business.:rolleyes:



  • #9
    ISAW
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    Slideshowbob wrote: »
    With all due respect what is a failed bookie who folded leaving money owed on national television less than a few months after his downfall, doing lecturing on how to salvage the country - the neck of him !!!

    typical Irish attitude that someone whose business fails has no right to talk. In the US they regard that as "experience".

    He is a actually a broadcaster and journalist for several years since AFAIK. Who better than someone who went through it to tell about how it is?
    also wasnt he supposed to take a few weeks off newstalk after his receivership - he didnt even do that!!

    Really? And you evidence is? You are of course wrong.

    feelingstressed wrote: »
    When you become a socialist do this mean you have to be miserable? :(:(:(

    I know it's the Frontline but I don't think I've ever seen Clare Daly smile.
    Same for Joe Higgins

    I saw Higgins laughing for the first time on the Joan Burton Vincent Browne haranguing show. :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFJV9RZ716A
    Hilarious

    Here's a nice twist on it which is fairer on her then the reality:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64lBTR8JxUc


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