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Brian Cowen first interview since leaving office

  • 27-08-2013 12:05pm
    #1
    Mister Saturday night
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭


    Brian Cowen will give a candid interview on TG4 Thursday September 5th at 7.30pm.


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  • #2
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    Mister Saturday night wrote: »
    Brian Cowen will give a candid interview on TG4 Thursday September 5th at 7.30pm.

    Sober?


  • #3
    Mr.Micro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    Mister Saturday night wrote: »
    Brian Cowen will give a candid interview on TG4 Thursday September 5th at 7.30pm.

    What about? Is he returning to politics?


  • #4
    COYW
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭COYW


    Decided to do it now since the Banks tapes scandal has blown over. Interesting that he chose TG4.


  • #5
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    If it's on Thursday night I presume it's going to be on Comhrá.

    Comhrá with Máirtín Tom Sheáinín is like eavesdropping a chat between the post mistress and the postman. Comhrá is not a difficult encounter. It's basically stuffed with light hearted, rose tinted anecdotes about the inevitable "good old days", heritage, and family life trí mheán na gaeilge.

    It won't deliver much as a political interview.


  • #6
    washman3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,646 ✭✭✭washman3


    Just to remind us all that everything was the fault of Leamahn Brothers...


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  • #7
    bumper234
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    washman3 wrote: »
    Just to remind us all that everything was the fault of LENIHAN FAMILY...

    FYP


  • #8
    COYW
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭COYW


    Cody Pomeray wrote: »
    If it's on Thursday night I presume it's going to be on Comhrá.

    Comhrá with Máirtín Tom Sheáinín is like eavesdropping a chat between the post mistress and the postman. Comhrá is not a difficult encounter. It's basically stuffed with light hearted, rose tinted anecdotes about the inevitable "good old days", heritage, and family life trí mheán na gaeilge.

    It won't deliver much as a political interview.

    Ah, so it's more of a chat across the hedge than a thorough political interview. He'll probably spend more time talking about golf than politics.


  • #9
    Mr.Micro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Mr.Micro


    COYW wrote: »
    Ah, so it's more of a chat across the hedge than a thorough political interview. He'll probably spend more time talking about golf than politics.

    He is probably on safer ground there, lol.


  • #10
    raymon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,774 ✭✭✭raymon


    The only interview that I would like to see with Cowen , Martin or Bertie is where they are strapped to a polygraph.


  • #11
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    According to an interview he did with the Indo. He is still saying that he defends the bank guarantee which costed the state €64 billion.

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/we-never-saw-crash-coming-we-had-no-plan-b-cowen-admits-29532242.html

    Would you believe him if his government had no plan B. I wouldn't think so!

    Probably too lazy not to implement anything.


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  • #12
    armchair fusilier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭armchair fusilier


    It will be a damp squib. Back in 2008 some ff spin doctor dreamt up how to apologise for ruining the county without really apologising at all.

    "Brian are you sorry?"

    "If I did anything wrong then of course I'm sorry."

    Admit nothing. Eamon O'Cuiv was trying out the same trick on Newstalk this morning.


  • #13
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,036 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    It'll just be some pathetic TnG crap. There's bugger all on that channel worth bothering with.

    Any kind of decent Irish political programming died when 'Questions and Answers' went off the air.

    All Cowen will do is just hold up his hands like a muppet and say "we didn't know"

    Didn't know, me arse.

    We need a Jeremy Paxman in this country.


  • #14
    Cody Pomeray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    Yep. Pat Kenny gone, John Bowman (all but) gone.

    Claire Byrne? ffs. From 'showbiz' on The daily Show to being the voice of political accountability...


  • #15
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Will he mention this tribute?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHHZ6ed_eco


  • #16
    Icepick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,456 ✭✭✭Icepick


    The only interview I want to see him in is a welcome chat with a prison officer.


  • #17
    Hedgemeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Hedgemeister


    raymon wrote: »
    The only interview that I would like to see with Cowen , Martin or Bertie is where they are strapped to a polygraph.
    which in turn is wired directly to a nuclear power station.:D


  • #18
    Sand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,895 ✭✭✭✭Sand


    It turns out Cowen and his government essentially had no idea what they were doing and had no plan or clue. He admits to just ignoring dissenting views - not evaluating them and finding them wanting, just plain out ignoring them. Embarrassing for the green jersey brigade who I understood criticized others for not having a fully detailed and costed solution to the Irish crisis.
    “Well, the truth is that we didn’t believe it. We thought the economy would have a soft landing, that economic growth would continue and we could pay for it through the growth that was to come,” he said.
    “other things started to happen, which we hadn’t foreseen”.

    It's like I say - In Ireland, no one ever asks the government to justify its policy. The burden of evidence is always with those who disagree with the government. We get the government we deserve.


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