Shepherds Pie

Any one rush out to buy the book shepards pie? Listening to Tubridy yesterday,it seems it a story of a spoilt boy,who got what he wanted from daddy,and fcuked it up?

darragh o meara

Deleted User wrote: »

Any one rush out to buy the book shepards pie? Listening to Tubridy yesterday,it seems it a story of a spoilt boy,who got what he wanted from daddy,and fcuked it up?

Exactly what I was thinking

Vizzy

And Daddy wasn't too pleased either when George was running a Nissan dealership and driving a Merc.

Cerbera

Who is it about?

Vizzy

George Mordaunt has written a book about his economic downfall

darragh o meara

I doubt it was the only thing daddy mordant wasn't happy about. A lot of their old customers won't deal with them anymore due to the antics of the sales people.

Pure and utter greed,He said in the interview with Tubridy [available to listen again on Tubridy on the 2fm site,Wennesday I think] that he bought houses in an estate to control the rent.It comes actross in the interview that he put pressure on his father to let him take over the business..The result being ,his father said " If you want it take it "...Akick in the arse might have been the better option.He is now describing himself as an author and public speaker.He is looking for sympathy now,the sympathy he didnt give to customers,if they had a problem with a purchase.Why are the Nissan lights still blazing,if he is not connected with any company now?

tippspur

Well said Chakra Blue,It amazes me how this guy is being treated as some kind of hero of the recession.he got greedy and nearly ****ed up the business.Simple as.Another one who thought the good times would never end.

Amtmann

Why did you post this in the Tipperary forum? Locked. Explain via PM and I might reopen it.

Amtmann

Reopened.

digzy

think i heard him explain his 'new business model'

customer contacts him and says he wants say a vw passat with a certain milage and other details. he then sources a few in the uk or ireland and presents the options to customer who has paid a deposit already!!:rolleyes:

jesus it's revolutionary

darragh o meara

digzy wrote: »

think i heard him explain his 'new business model'

customer contacts him and says he wants say a vw passat with a certain milage and other details. he then sources a few in the uk or ireland and presents the options to customer who has paid a deposit already!!:rolleyes:

jesus it's revolutionary

That's it alright. Makes a change from a few years back. I went in to buy a car and struck a good deal with the salesman. He then tried to get me to sign up for finance which I didn't need not want. The poor lad put up a serious speil about finance being a better idea so I could keep the cash for something else. In the end I left and told him I'd be back the following day to finalise the deal. I arrived with a bank draft and funny enough not one salesman would deal with me as they were all busy. I was promised a call back and I'm still waiting to this day I also know of people who had bought cars previously from them who had very pushy salesmen call to them at home with a brand new car and finance already pre approved on the car!! I've been in the motor trade a long time and never heard the likes if this carry on. Marketing or sales ploy, a lot of their previous customers were lost and deservedly so.

The current strategy is hardly revolutionary but seems to be making money for a lot of dealers in the country.

He has been in the national papers,he was interviewd on National television and radio,but haven't heard him on the local station Tipp Fm.

ANSI

when it was known to the dogs in the street his business was going down the tubes he went to the local paper and Tipp FM and denied it. what is the word for someone who says something that is not true and then goes back on it to sell a book?
Author? LOL. Daddy's boy more likely

see here from kilkenny forum

ANSI

Vizzy wrote: »

And Daddy wasn't too pleased either when George was running a Nissan dealership and driving a Merc.

lol

ANSI

Deleted User wrote: »

He has been in the national papers,he was interviewd on National television and radio,but haven't heard him on the local station Tipp Fm.

Maybe this is why

JabbaTheHut

From ANSI's link.

He also confirmed that the Gardai had been notified and that meetings had taken place with the Gardai in an effort to trace the origins of the rumour.

Lol. Brilliant stuff. Go to the extent of asking the Gardai to find out what he knows already. Tell ya what though; he's got some serious coverage over the book. Must have been from connections made when he was on the radio himself all those years ago.

ANSI

JabbaTheHut wrote: »

From ANSI's link.



Lol. Brilliant stuff. Go to the extent of asking the Gardai to find out what he knows already. Tell ya what though; he's got some serious coverage over the book. Must have been from connections made when he was on the radio himself all those years ago.

the 'journalists' have short memories

DT100

ANSI wrote: »

Maybe this is why

I can remember that interview.I put the question to him [on the birdy network ] why he was not interviewed by Tipp FM.He said they told him,he had to make a pitch for an Interview.The presenter of Tipp Today in reply to a text said he never sent the book to them.[The presenter said this live on air]???? But then again Tipp FM can be pretty poor at times too.

DT100

JabbaTheHut wrote: »

From ANSI's link.



Lol. Brilliant stuff. Go to the extent of asking the Gardai to find out what he knows already. Tell ya what though; he's got some serious coverage over the book. Must have been from connections made when he was on the radio himself all those years ago.

On radio himself???He spent a wet day in the west gate!!!!

ANSI

DT100 wrote: »

I can remember that interview.
I put the question to him [on the birdy network ] why he was not interviewed by Tipp FM.He said they told him,he had to make a pitch for an Interview.

What is birdy and is that conversation public

The presenter of Tipp Today in reply to a text said he never sent the book to them.[The presenter said this live on air]????

when was this?

But then again Tipp FM can be pretty poor at times too.

first for news lol

JabbaTheHut

DT100 wrote: »

On radio himself???He spent a wet day in the west gate!!!!

Lol. I know. Just wondering did anyone else remember his radio "career".

charlemont

Daddy's Boy alright and those salesmen are pure smarmy.

JabbaTheHut

JabbaTheHut wrote: »

From ANSI's link.



Lol. Brilliant stuff. Go to the extent of asking the Gardai to find out what he knows already. Tell ya what though; he's got some serious coverage over the book. Must have been from connections made when he was on the radio himself all those years ago.

He has claimed that radio was his real calling,and when the pirate station in Clonmel closed,everyone was sacked,except him and two other's.Can anyone here confirm/deny that.I find it amazing the stuff he comes up with.

ANSI

Deleted User wrote: »

He has claimed that radio was his real calling,

where did he say that?

ANSI

ANSI wrote: »

where did he say that?

Today,on LMFM Radio.

ANSI

Has anyone read the excerpt? Says he was sexually abused in schools and admits to burning letters when working as a postman. What a thing to admit and then expect people to buyy cars from him? In the intro Fergus Finlay says he never knew any of George's troubles when they were giving money to Barnardos when a car sold. Was that just a a stunt to sell them and was Finlay Hornaswaggled?

I heard today that he will be on the Frontline on Monday, explaining why emigration not required.I am sure that will go down well with viewer's,that have son's/daughter's making a living outside of Ireland.

ANSI

Deleted User wrote: »

I heard today that he will be on the Frontline on Monday, explaining why emigration not required.I am sure that will go down well with viewer's,that have son's/daughter's making a living outside of Ireland.

he was on tipp fm last week. apparently the bank are now coming to him to help them deal with people in debt and his business model of bringinga car from the uk is new and one of a kind in Ireland:DThe book is in reprint he says

ANSI

Deleted User wrote: »

I heard today that he will be on the Frontline on Monday, explaining why emigration not required.I am sure that will go down well with viewer's,that have son's/daughter's making a living outside of Ireland.

was he on frontline

florryfox

Yes he was, for about 3 or 4 minutes.

It wasnt worth the drive to Dublin.Neck like a jockey's £$%%$££......

ANSI

Deleted User wrote: »

It wasnt worth the drive to Dublin.Neck like a jockey's £$%%$££......

he might give this guy a job

touts

He was on Rte news a couple of nights ago moaning about how tough his life was but then went on about how he got out of trouble by selling some of his property empire and how lucky he was that his book was successful and how his remaining 3 or 4 businesses were doing well. He was shown smiling and laughing in his boutique and barbers. I swear that spoiled little rich kid is starting to remind me more and more of Seanie Fitz or Sean Quinn complaining about how tough it is making ends meet on just a million a year. Next thing he will be advising unemployed people that the best way to budget for next Christmas is to sell one of their less used holiday homes early in the year and make sure to ringfence that money for Christmas and be disciplined not to go beyond that.

ANSI

touts wrote: »

He was on Rte news a couple of nights ago moaning about how tough his life was but then went on about how he got out of trouble by selling some of his property empire and how lucky he was that his book was successful and how his remaining 3 or 4 businesses were doing well. He was shown smiling and laughing in his boutique and barbers. I swear that spoiled little rich kid is starting to remind me more and more of Seanie Fitz or Sean Quinn complaining about how tough it is making ends meet on just a million a year. Next thing he will be advising unemployed people that the best way to budget for next Christmas is to sell one of their less used holiday homes early in the year and make sure to ringfence that money for Christmas and be disciplined not to go beyond that.

and you believe him? after all he siad that about his car business whennit was going down the pan. Won't be on boards again leaving due to scummy mods happy new year all

charlemont

He's milking it..

berrypendel

I have not read it but had a look in shop where there are plenty left despite his best seller claims. Would be thinking it was ghosted . Can't see him writing a book, how could someone who admits to being no good at school/spelling etc write a best seller first time? Unless he had a talent for writing previously which is not the case as far as i know

Vizzy

I have a serious problem with this guy now complaining that the banks almost hounded him to a nervous breakdown etc given that when you bought a car from him (unless you were buying for cash) you were almost forced to take out a purchase agreement with the very same banks.
Not much sympathy from George for the people who were saddled with massive payments.He was happy enough once the cars were being shifted.
Also he is currently on a rant about how expensive it is to operate a business these days( and it is I know) but he has not reduced his prices in any of his businesses to encourage trade.

berrypendel

Vizzy wrote: »

I have a serious problem with this guy now complaining that the banks almost hounded him to a nervous breakdown etc given that when you bought a car from him (unless you were buying for cash) you were almost forced to take out a purchase agreement with the very same banks.
Not much sympathy from George for the people who were saddled with massive payments.He was happy enough once the cars were being shifted.
Also he is currently on a rant about how expensive it is to operate a business these days( and it is I know) but he has not reduced his prices in any of his businesses to encourage trade.

why not go public/contact a journalist, a real journailist not the sort writing about him son far who appear to believe all he says and " hes the great fella"
And look at his forecourt. ar all the cars priced ? Should be by law

I don't know if they are priced or not but from where i come from many dealers seem to not know that law they should have a price

Vizzy

berrypendel wrote: »

why not go public/contact a journalist, a real journailist not the sort writing about him son far who appear to believe all he says and " hes the great fella"
And look at his forecourt. ar all the cars priced ? Should be by law

I don't know if they are priced or not but from where i come from many dealers seem to not know that law they should have a price

No point TBH,it would only be seen as sour grapes.
The people of Clonmel know George well and what he is like.I'll console myself with that.:)

berrypendel

Vizzy wrote: »

No point TBH,it would only be seen as sour grapes.

wouldn't say that . Not many sweet grapes on this thread

The people of Clonmel know George well and what he is like.I'll console myself with that.:)

not much consolation. if you have a good story tell it. so far it seems a lot of sleepy 'journalists' who cannot or are afraid to asll him on inconsistencies. real journalists are few and far between

He has a thriving barber and boutique but was near driven to sucicide from his garage failures? Why not sell the boutique/barber he admits no education but can write a best seller. He admits burning post but wants people to trust him with a car.

I think he might be a bit psychotic given his statement he saw himself as a captain of industy in the good times

all I can say is LOL

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

He has claimed that radio was his real calling,and when the pirate station in Clonmel closed,everyone was sacked,except him and two other's.Can anyone here confirm/deny that.I find it amazing the stuff he comes up with.

I have done some digging on this claim.When the pirate radio station closed down in 1988,due to new regulation's,there were five full time member's of staff who got their p45's.There were no sacking's,and he wasnt a full time member of staff anyway.I hope the details in the book are researched better than his memory of the radio claim.What he said about the closing down of C.B.C is total fantasty.....I wonder what else is?..He was interviewed very late in the day by the local station Tipp Fm.As was said in the interview,he had complained about the station some year's before,because of some caller they had on air,complaining about after sales provided by his company.I think the only reason Tipp Fm eventually talked to him ,was because,he had been on radio and television,all over the country,and they thought it would reflect badly on them.He got a run of the mill interview,no real hard question's,maybe they didnt want to open old wound's..who know's.An earlier poster spoke of real journalist's asking question's.Do we have that locally on radio? Do they go and look for the story,or just take it from whatever feed they are paying for? From what I heard on the radio,and from what I haven't read on the local paper,do we have any journalist's who are prepared to find and report what is not fantasty

berrypendel

Good for you on the digging of nthe CBC. send it to a paper you might get lucky

Deleted User wrote: »

.An earlier poster spoke of real journalist's asking question's.Do we have that locally on radio? Do they go and look for the story,or just take it from whatever feed they are paying for? From what I heard on the radio,and from what I haven't read on the local paper,do we have any journalist's who are prepared to find and report what is not fantasty

They will not ask many hard questions on Tipp FM and the guy who interviewd him is a smug bastard who if anyone disagrees with him cuts them off as he did when someone rightly referred to him as a small fish journalist. He did not ask Mordaunt any hard questions and i have not seen in any report anyone calling him on the admission of burning letters. The local paper ar ethe same they seem to have forgotten he said that his business was sound when it was failing. the link is on this thread i think. That makes him a liar but no journalist asked him that. i have seen it said he claims his 'concept' of bringing cars from theb UK is new and only he does it


Tipp FM only publish the comments that agree withem. the y claim to be 'first for news' but had no news over xmas/new year except a feed from Dublin? and one of their journalists who sounded like she was reading the news off the internet, nothing local. they also claimed the assault in the town on new years eve/morning was a stabbing. they were wrong.

You will see elsewhere on this board,how "First" they are for news,when it include's a member of their staff..

later12

I think some people are being a little hard on the man.

I don't see what the relevance is of his background; I have respect for any man who can pull himself back from the wall and have the courage to persevere, as Mordaunt has done. The Lancet published a startling graph recently demonstrating a correlation between suicide rates and the recession in the E.U.



In the Western EU, suicide was up over 7% in 2008, and increased again in 2009. I believe there are and have been a lot of men in George Mordaunt's position. If you're set to lose your home and your assets, frankly it doesn't matter whether you were a millionaire last week, or a pauper: you're still going to end up at rock bottom in a financial sense.

berrypendel

What about people who killed themselves who were never rich? Or because they did not have all he had? is their life worth less than that of a spoilt brat jumping on the suicide bandwagon when his greed broke him?

later12

berrypendel wrote: »

What about people who killed themselves who were never rich? Or because they did not have all he had? is their life worth less than that of a spoilt brat jumping on the suicide bandwagon when his greed broke him?

Suicide "bandwagon"?

I didn't realise suicide was such so restricted. Don't be so ridiculous. Nobody said anybody's life was worth less than anybody else's: except perhaps some people on this thread.

berrypendel

later10 wrote: »

Suicide "bandwagon"?

I didn't realise suicide was such so restricted. Don't be so ridiculous. Nobody said anybody's life was worth less than anybody else's: except perhaps some people on this thread.

return the compliment.

I didn't realise suicide was such so restricted

smart arse comment of no meaning

later12

You're spouting rubbish.

Explain what "suicide bandwagon" is supposed to mean.

berrypendel

later10 wrote: »

You're spouting rubbish.

you too

Explain what "suicide bandwagon" is supposed to mean.

do not have to explain anything to you. busy, no time for your nonsense.

berrypendel

Deleted User wrote: »

I have done some digging on this claim.When the pirate radio station closed down in 1988,due to new regulation's,there were five full time member's of staff who got their p45's.There were no sacking's,and he wasnt a full time member of staff anyway.I hope the details in the book are researched better than his memory of the radio claim.What he said about the closing down of C.B.C is total fantasty.....I wonder what else is?..He was interviewed very late in the day by the local station Tipp Fm.As was said in the interview,he had complained about the station some year's before,because of some caller they had on air,complaining about after sales provided by his company.I think the only reason Tipp Fm eventually talked to him ,was because,he had been on radio and television,all over the country,and they thought it would reflect badly on them.He got a run of the mill interview,no real hard question's,maybe they didnt want to open old wound's..who know's.An earlier poster spoke of real journalist's asking question's.Do we have that locally on radio? Do they go and look for the story,or just take it from whatever feed they are paying for? From what I heard on the radio,and from what I haven't read on the local paper,do we have any journalist's who are prepared to find and report what is not fantasty

Have you read all of the book?