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Eamon Dunphy claims Dennis O'Brien is intimidating journalists at Newstalk.

  • 31-10-2011 7:50pm
    #1
    samsham
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LsUMS5nRAc


    Dunphy on his last show claimed Dennis O' Brien owns politicians. He claimed Sam Smith was sacked from his radio show at Newstalk for going after Lowery and O'Brien. He also said that the referendum on the Oireachtas to conduct inquiries was bad and stated that Micheal Mcdowell used his position as minister for justice vindictively to get at journalists. A file was sent to the Garda after the moriarty tribunal found that both men, O'Brien and Lowery had "corrupt relationship" but as usual nothing happened.


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  • #2
    Dob74
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    The freedom of speech doesnt exsist in this country.
    No one with a counter opinion to the norm gets air time, from our very few media outlets.
    The editor of the star Ger ? made a good point about the lack of free speech in our society.


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    samsham wrote: »
    A file was sent to the Garda after the moriarty tribunal found that both men, O'Brien and Lowery had "corrupt relationship" but as usual nothing happened.

    Nothing that came up in the Moriarity Tribunal can be used in a criminal prosecution so it's no surprise that 'nothing happened'.


  • #4
    samsham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭samsham


    coylemj wrote: »
    Nothing that came up in the Moriarity Tribunal can be used in a criminal prosecution so it's no surprise that 'nothing happened'.

    The Irish Times - Thursday, March 24, 2011
    Moriarty report to be referred to DPP

    THe Moriarty report is to be referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Garda Commissioner, the Taoiseach has confirmed in the Dáil.

    During Leaders’ Questions, Enda Kenny also said the report would be debated in the Dáil next week. The 2,348-page document, published on Tuesday, found that former minister for communications Michel Lowry, now an Independent TD for Tipperary North, had “secured the winning” of the State’s second mobile phone licence for Denis O’Brien’s Esat Digifone.

    Mr Kenny said the incident concerning the $50,000 donation to Fine Gael was “wrong”, adding: “I regret the circuitous route that it had to follow before it was sent back to Mr O’Brien.

    The report can be used by Garda as a road map to a Garda investigation.


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    samsham wrote: »
    The report can be used by Garda as a road map to a Garda investigation.

    You're very fond of the special effects.

    I stand by what I said which is that in a prosecution the evidence adduced in the Moriarity Inquiry cannot be used.
    coylemj wrote: »
    Nothing that came up in the Moriarity Tribunal can be used in a criminal prosecution so it's no surprise that 'nothing happened'.

    The Gardai can use a TomTom or a Garmin as a roadmap for all the good it will do them. There will never be any prosecution, let alone a conviction, arising out of the granting of the second mobile licence.

    If Moriarity couldn't find a smoking gun after all those years and with a much lower bar (than in a criminal prosecution), how will the DPP get a jury to convict anyone?


  • #6
    Wildlife Actor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 488 ✭✭Wildlife Actor


    OP: clever misspellings of Dennis O'Brien, Michael Lowery and Sam Smith.

    "Dennis" probably has some goon scouring the net daily for references to him or his mates/current enemies so he can intimidate mods ad posters with threats of libel actions.

    Anyway, that's all from me, except to give a prediction: with all the dough he's got, I'm sure his mates in Government will have him back on a pedestal within 3 years...

    .


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