The Naked Presidential Election - RTE1 [9.35pm tonight]

Plautus

This promises to be the TV event of the week (apart from eh ... the Presidential inauguration, right?)

A fly on the wall documentary following journalists and the candidates with some not-seen-before footage. Including what Sean Gallagher said to Sharon Ni Bheolain ahead of the Six One news ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hobh46Asxz8

Can't wait!

JonathanAnon

hmmmm.. I'm not sure if it is right to use a private conversation between Gallagher and Ní Bheoláin ??

I'm gonna watch this anyway, just to see if Gay Mitchell decks somebody, or gives some child a clip round the ear..

Plautus

I'm just delighted that they got it on camera. You imagine that the 't's have been crossed and 'i's dotted and they sorted out legal waivers to allow this stuff to be used. It was an independent crew for the documentary maker following everyone around, so you'd think everyone knew that their utterances might be used.

If not, that'll be a whole other scandal. Mwuhaha.

Skid

JonathanAnon wrote: »

hmmmm.. I'm not sure if it is right to use a private conversation between Gallagher and Ní Bheoláin ??

As I said before Jon, you should treat every microphone as if it is live. Sitting in the Six-One studio is not the place for off the cuff remarks.

Skid

Early days, but my money is on Michael D

Lady Chatterton

Skid wrote: »

Early days, but my money is on Michael D

There is always one smart @rse in every classroom

Plautus

Spoilers Skid, FFS!

Revelation so far: Jedward don't care about the Presidential election ...

JonathanAnon

If I had it over, I would have given Mary Davis' daughter one... I mean my number one..

Lady Chatterton

I wonder did Vincent ever return those books to the library.

Plautus

Nice persecution complex there in the Davis family - there's nothing 'cheap or nasty' about earning multiples of the average wage for serving on a diversity of boards (many semi-state) when you can't possibly have relevant qualifications for each. Bank of Ireland Mortgage division and the Dublin Airport Authority?

Also, there's my first love, Vinny B *swoon*

JonathanAnon

The big sneery head on Mitchell when Vincent was putting out the books on the table...

Skid

It's not Fine Gael and Labour you should be worrying about, Seanie ...

Lady Chatterton

Plautus wrote: »

Nice persecution complex there in the Davis family - there's nothing 'cheap or nasty' about earning multiples of the average wage for serving on a diversity of boards (many semi-state) when you can't possibly have relevant qualifications for each. Bank of Ireland Mortgage division and the Dublin Airport Authority?

Also, there's my first love, Vinny B *swoon*

Julian Davis is a Director in one of Ireland's leading Public Relations Companies (Fleishman Hillard), he should be fully aware of how these things work.

Plautus

Kiss of death from Norris to Dana there ... 'Hear Hear!' I can only imagine her then thinking 'Oh no, now I'm just like him, the big Protestant quare fella' '

Also: first 'Sit-u-ation' bingo of the night.

Skid

Marty throwing in a cheeky sit-e-ation for you there, MrsD

Lady Chatterton

Miriam looked very nervous there.

Skid

Would have been nice to catch Marty McGuinness's 'quiet word' with Miriam there.

On reflection, he might have had a point. 'Do you go to Confession?' was a bit off the mark.

red dave

Was that bono or gallagher in the back of that car?

Plautus

Some seriously damaging stuff in tonight's programme. Can you imagine if George Hook's fawning endorsement of Michael D had broken before polling day? :eek:

Love Gallagher telling us about authenticity from the back of his chauffeured car with Bono-shades ...

Edit - Snap!

Lady Chatterton

red dave wrote: »

Was that bono or gallagher in the back of that car?

To be fair, he has a congenital eye condition.

Plautus

Skid wrote: »

Would have been nice to catch Marty McGuinness's 'quiet word' with Miriam there.

On reflection, he might have had a point. 'Do you go to Confession?' was a bit off the mark.

That and 'You know EVERYONE in the IRA'

JonathanAnon

MrsD007 wrote: »

To be fair, he has a congenital eye FF condition.

fyp MrsD...

David McCullough seems like a bit of craic... he was only short of saying "bit the fuk" when he say that RedC poll..

Skid

Dana looked well on that Record Sleeve :eek:

Plautus

Skid wrote: »

Dana looked well on that Record Sleeve :eek:

Catholic I'd like to ... Fillet [/vinb]

Lady Chatterton

Skid wrote: »

Dana looked well on that Record Sleeve :eek:

I think she looks very well for her age, she is 60 now.

Lady Chatterton

JonathanAnon wrote: »

fyp MrsD...

David McCullough seems like a bit of craic... he was only short of saying "bit the fuk" when he say that RedC poll..

I like David McCullough too, a cousin of mine went to college with him, he is supposed to be a very sound guy.

Skid

Don't say envelope, Sean, don't say envelope ...

Sunnyisland

No recollection of this programe

Sunnyisland

Skid wrote: »

Don't say envelope, Sean, don't say envelope ...

:D

Lady Chatterton

The radio interview with Pat finished Gallagher off.

ontheditch2

The way RTE Frontline was a disgrace that night when they screwed Sean Gallagher. Pat kenny quoting a fake sinn fein twitter account, is a disgrace.

p.s. I was hoping for michael D anyway.

Sunnyisland

Your man from the indo looks like a real snaky type of guy

Plautus

What were those gesticulations in the Pat Kenny studio all about? Glenna Lynch didn't have an agenda, he couldn't accept that it wasn't all a big conspiracy against him.

Looked like he'd hit someone there ...

Skid

Sour puss on Noel 'calls himself an independent, but shared a house with Sean Gallagher, and ran for Fianna Fail in a General Election' Whelan, there.

Sore loser.

Lady Chatterton

ontheditch2 wrote: »

The way RTE Frontline was a disgrace that night when they screwed Sean Gallagher. Pat kenny quoting a fake sinn fein twitter account, is a disgrace.

p.s. I was hoping for michael D anyway.

I have no sympathy for Gallagher, Fionnan Sheahan raised the issue of the cheque a week before the Frontline Debate so he should have been prepared for questions on it.

Sunnyisland

Skid wrote: »

Sour puss on Noel 'calls himself an independent, but shared a house with Sean Gallagher, and ran for Fianna Fail in a General Election' Whelan, there.

Sore loser.

Fianna fail were caught out doing a backdoor job and i am delighted.

Skid

Did they skip the advertised Sean Gallagher v Sharon Ní Bheolain dust up?

Shame.

Sunnyisland

Not much about GM, tis a shame.

Corsendonk

MrsD007 wrote: »

I have no sympathy for Gallagher, Fionnan Sheahan raised the issue of the cheque a week before the Frontline Debate so he should have been prepared for questions on it.

As Fionnan Sheahan can be heard muttered to Gallagher as he leaves. Ihave to say the SF dirty tricks dept really won the election for Labour with expert timing.

JonathanAnon

Interesting to see the face of Enda Kenny as Michael D was making his acceptance speech.... I think he was saying "where the FUK is he?"..

Doinker

Corsendonk wrote: »

As Fionnan Sheahan can be heard muttered to Gallagher as he leaves. Ihave to say the SF dirty tricks dept really won the election for Labour with expert timing.

Other way round. Gallagher made some comment along the lines of ..hope your happy now, or the like (i re-winded it a number of times). Gave a fierce dirty look altogether!

Gary 11

I just watched this and was pretty impressed. It was a good week for political coverage on RTE if you include the Monday night documentary on Cowen's Government.

I find Gallagher to be feeling a little too sore about his treatment. I think if he had handled it more directly and dare I say 'positively' he could have turned it around and got across the line.

irishh_bob

Plautus wrote: »

What were those gesticulations in the Pat Kenny studio all about? Glenna Lynch didn't have an agenda, he couldn't accept that it wasn't all a big conspiracy against him.

Looked like he'd hit someone there ...

i didnt want gallagher to win but glenna lynch is - was a labour plant , shes been busy building a profile since her debut that night and i wouldnt be surprised to see her run for election sometime soon , she ticks all the right labour boxes and the media clearly love her

female
middle class
south dublin

Lady Chatterton

irishh_bob wrote: »

i didnt want gallagher to win but glenna lynch is - was a labour plant , shes been busy building a profile since her debut that night and i wouldnt be surprised to see her run for election sometime soon , she ticks all the right labour boxes and the media clearly love her

female
middle class
south dublin

She is going to be a regular panelist on the Vinny B Show too I'd say. She was on the show last night and Vinny seemed rather taken with her.

irishh_bob

MrsD007 wrote: »

She is going to be a regular panelist on the Vinny B Show too I'd say. She was on the show last night and Vinny seemed rather taken with her.

well of course he was , she was singing from the same hymn sheet as him on the subject of tinkers , a sure sign of a labour party champagne socilist

Plautus

Do you have any evidence that she is a 'plant' apart from her liking the 'tinkers'?

Champagne socialist? So you've seen her P60 or Self-Employed tax returns?

irishh_bob

Plautus wrote: »

Do you have any evidence that she is a 'plant' apart from her liking the 'tinkers'?

Champagne socialist? So you've seen her P60 or Self-Employed tax returns?

thier an easy indentifiable bunch , they religously subscribe to a particular pc creed on certain subjects , tinkers are one of them

Plautus

I'm not a Labour party activist or 'champagne' socialist. I just don't judge every member of a group without ever having met all of them. It's Travellers, by the way. Oh, sorry, too busy reading my Bible of PC that you think exists.

But back to the point - where's your evidence, by which I do not mean 'hunch'.

gavmcg92

Wow RTE really are raising their game. Two fantastic political documentaries in one week.
Really enjoyed this one.

JonathanAnon

irishh_bob wrote: »

i didnt want gallagher to win but glenna lynch is - was a labour plant

I dont think we have any clarification that she IS a Labour plant, Bob... though I had HUGE suspicions about her myself, given that she knew more about Sean Gallagher's account than he did himself, and that she spoke like somebody who was very comfortable at addressing a crowd...

On a side issue, I would have loved if Fergus Finlay, spin doctor turned bleeding heart, had won the Labour ticket... At least then we might find out what Barnardo's pay him for pontificating to us..

280special

MrsD007 wrote: »

Miriam looked very nervous there.

Reckon it was a "ohh sh*t, I said WAYYYY too much there....." moment !

Dana ? not the flaming assination thing again, I wonder if any of the tyre specialists here would offer an opinion ? I saw similar damage to a tyre that had hit a damaged cats eye, in fact if anything it was worse.and another time a blow out caused by a pot hole left the tyre in total flitters !

Mary Davis looked as nervous as a cut cat during that radio interview she did, shown towards the start of the programme.

Curly McGuinness didnt come across too bad, pretty controlled in the face of some fairly intense moments, and the wee shake of the head when Gallagher was trying to weedle his way out of the crap said a thousand words,

Did you ever see anything like the gloating look, during the Vincent Browne book show, on ...on....what was that FG berk's name again??:) Really showed gimself up for what he is/was, an arrogant, self important fool with nothing to offer apart from his "poor" background and how he would be able to see his old home from the Park.

Gallagher ? He looked like a spoiled brat (in a huff )when the proverbial hit the fan on the Frontline debate...I really thought that he was going to either burst out crying or stamp his feet and stalk off the stage, when the laughter started from the audience.But the head of him ,and the antics on the Pat Kenny Radio show....What a prat !

Thankfully Michael D. got in instead of that ar**wipe !