Claire Byrne Live (RTE1)

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Sinn Fein abstaining in this vote is an absolute disgrace.

washman3

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Jeez I don't know, I never came across him before but I couldn't listen to him.
I despaired at how someone like that could get enough votes to be a TD.

He was actually a very active,promising and interesting individual before being elected, but since becoming a TD he definitely has swallowed the entire jar of pills and now displays all the swaggering arrogance that is, and always has been, the trademark of the blueshirts. He has become a horrible, despicable and unlikeable young man.
Delighted Dunphy put the boot into him, pity that Claire protected him so much.

Un Croissant

Would she ever say that Joan rang her though? Yer wan benefits from distancing herself from government and Joan avoids looking like she was desparate to keep Labour seats.

Kirby

hotmail.com wrote: »

Sinn Fein abstaining in this vote is an absolute disgrace.

Political manoeuvring. It makes sense for them and I can't say I blame them.....Its just that its a cowardly move.

vicwatson

Harris is a twat on twitter

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Kirby wrote: »

Political manoeuvring. It makes sense for them and I can't say I blame them.....Its just that its a cowardly move.

Political manoeuvering on such an important issue for women just isn't good enough for a party that seeks to get into government. They claim to be a pro-woman party.

It's shocking for a supposedly left wing party. (Not to mention the irony of Sinn Fein being a so called "pro life" party).

efb

I'll ask prospective candidates how they voted in this bill when they canvass me

Oops69

Harris is even more arrogant now than Varadkar was when he first came on the scene.

K4t

hotmail.com wrote: »

These people just don't understand the word choice.

You could say the same about the National Women's Council of Ireland and Ruhama's efforts to criminalise the purchase of sex. They, like the pro-lifers, believe they know what is best not just for society, but for other women. It's always worrying when these groups come along so certain in their convictions and that their belief is correct above all others. Because that is what pro life is, a belief. It is the religious belief to the atheist who would rather simply allow all beliefs to exist together and not decide which belief is right or wrong.


What a woman chooses to do with her body is not for society to decide on. It is sadistic to force a person to carry around a foetus for months and then to give birth to a baby when they explicitly state they would prefer not to. If every woman in the world decided tomorrow they didn't want children then that is their choice. It is for us as men to attempt to change their mind if we wish to further the existence of humanity. It is not for us to force any woman to have sex, or to force any pregnant woman to give birth.

CatFromHue

washman3 wrote: »

He was actually a very active,promising and interesting individual before being elected, but since becoming a TD he definitely has swallowed the entire jar of pills and now displays all the swaggering arrogance that is, and always has been, the trademark of the blueshirts. He has become a horrible, despicable and unlikeable young man.
Delighted Dunphy put the boot into him, pity that Claire protected him so much.

He talked in figures, Dunphy talked in emotion.

Figures are real.

Smidge

mojesius wrote: »

Jaysus. Simon Harris an awful prick. He makes my skin crawl.

I have never heard of nor encountered him before this tonight(goes to show how many of these gougers there are about taking a fine state salary and none of us have a clue who the feck they are )

He made me sick. He was like something from Alan B'stard ffs. If it wasn't so serious it would be hilarious. This is the type of arrogant pup representing us??
No wonder we are fecked :mad:

Corholio

CatFromHue wrote: »

He talked in figures, Dunphy talked in emotion.

Figures are real.

Selective figures.

VERYYYY selective figures.

mikom

kefir32 wrote: »

Simon Harris has an unusual jaw shape lol he also comes across as the know it all brat

Head like a vicegrip.



and the attitude of a prick.

NIMAN

Just watched it on the player.

First thing, those pieces of film can always make somewhere sound like Utopia, but its easy to mention all the good things, and say nothing about the bad points of a country. Every country has both. France is no different.

Dunphy is so one-sided in this debate. No good him saying look at Greece now, doing their own thing. Yeah well we will see how they manage to do their own thing with no money. Its crazy economics they are proposing, a bit like Paul Murphy and his ilk.

And Dunphy rants about stuff like water tax here, then goes on to say that you can pay betweeb 600 and 1500 in France for water. Then why's it such a great country Eamon ya fool?

As for Murphy, not a fan of his. Just playing popular politics knowing he will never have to introduce any of his ideas. A common tactic of the anti-everything brigade. They hate the fact that Ireland is looking good in the media and running a surplus again, doesn't suit their argument at all.

As for that Harris fella, I thought he made a lot of good points and had the facts to back up his claims, unlike some of the other panelists. Yet there was something definitely annoying about him, far too smug. I thought that Dunphy was holding back the urge to cross the floor and knock seven shades of sh1t outta him.

yipeeeee

Smidge wrote: »

I have never heard of nor encountered him before this tonight(goes to show how many of these gougers there are about taking a fine state salary and none of us have a clue who the feck they are )

He made me sick. He was like something from Alan B'stard ffs. If it wasn't so serious it would be hilarious. This is the type of arrogant pup representing us??
No wonder we are fecked :mad:

you see if you listened to him and not eamons and Paul's doom and gloom and crazy ideas you would realise Ireland is far from fecked at the moment.

Skid X

I was very pleased to see Simon Harris going toe to toe with Eamon Dunphy last night. Dunphy is an arrogant man who has no respect for anyone elses opinion. He changes his views to suit the prevailing mood of the time and he is full of bluster, with little to back up his rants.

Baggy Trousers

yipeeeee wrote: »

He was the only one with a plan and making sense.

Did you actually listen to Harris? I never came across him before but I have him pigeon holed from now on as a prick.

HamsterFace

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

Did you actually listen to Harris? I never came across him before but I have him pigeon holed from now on as a prick.

Fair enough if that's how you feel, but had you any issues with the content of what he was saying? Or can you refute any of his points?

I honestly would find it difficult to

Baggy Trousers

HamsterFace wrote: »

Fair enough if that's how you feel, but had you any issues with the content of what he was saying? Or can you refute any of his points?

I honestly would find it difficult to

I thought he was right about Jack Charlton yes. The rest was just bluster.

gladrags

CatFromHue wrote: »

He talked in figures, Dunphy talked in emotion.

Figures are real.

Emotions are human.

Harry Angstrom

Baggy Trousers wrote: »

I thought he was right about Jack Charlton yes. The rest was just bluster.

And Harris can so easily remember those heady days of Irish football... He was wasn't even 2 years old during Euro '88 and he was the grand old age of 3½ during Italia '90. Such an ignorant arrogant little twerp. Let's hope he did some major damage to his re-election prospects after last night's performance.

Mezcita

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

And Harris can so easily remember those heady days of Irish football... He was wasn't even 2 years old during Euro '88 and he was the grand old age of 3½ during Italia '90. Such an ignorant arrogant little twerp. Let's hope he did some major damage to his re-election prospects after last night's performance.

His point was spot on though. Dunphy has been criticising success just for the sake of being controversial for years.

Interesting how the people criticising Harris can't get further than the "prick", "arrogant" and "twerp" comments in terms of why they dislike him.

What specifically in terms of what Harris was saying about France not being an amazing place to live was wrong?

Harry Angstrom

Mezcita wrote: »

Interesting how the people criticising Harris can't get further than the "prick", "arrogant" and "twerp" comments in terms of why they dislike him.

His ignorance stems from the fact that he knows nothing about the everyday struggles of ordinary people. He's a career politician. He lives in a cosseted world. He comes from a comfortable middle class background. He's got very little experience of real life.

His arrogance is self-evident. He seemed to be under the impression that he alone could dictate the content of last night's debate, at times usurping Claire Byrne's role as moderator.

His twerpiness is also self-evident.

CatFromHue

Corholio wrote: »

Selective figures.

VERYYYY selective figures.

Maybe but they were still more convincing than anything Dunphy said.

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

His arrogance is self-evident. He seemed to be under the impression that he alone could dictate the content of last night's debate, at times usurping Claire Byrne's role as moderator.

Just like Dunphy and Murphy tried to overrule Byrne?

I don't it matters where he comes from either when he can back up his opinion like he did last night.

mikom

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evilivor

Yiikes wrote: »

Is Eamonn Dunphy married to someone in RTE or something. He sounds like a big mouthed idiot. How they allow him on a current affairs show makes little sense to me.. He should be kicked out the door of RTE so we can be done with him

Not sure if serious but yes, his wife is the Commissioning Editor, Drama at RTE.

Mezcita

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

His ignorance stems from the fact that he knows nothing about the everyday struggles of ordinary people. He's a career politician. He lives in a cosseted world. He comes from a comfortable middle class background. He's got very little experience of real life.

I'll admit that I only heard about Harris for the first time yesterday but the suggestion that he knows nothing about the struggles of everyday people is a bit mad considering he was elected onto Wicklow County Council with the highest percentage vote of any county councillor in Ireland. (Wiki). I mean, he must have been doing something right to get that type of support and to subsequently get elected as a TD.

How you know he lives in a cosseted world is beyond me. Equally his background is irrelevant. I don't like Paul Murphy, not because he went to a private school but because I don't agree with his politics. Where he went to school, lives or who is da is has nothing to do with what whether I'd vote for him or not.

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

His arrogance is self-evident. He seemed to be under the impression that he alone could dictate the content of last night's debate, at times usurping Claire Byrne's role as moderator.

His twerpiness is also self-evident.

All of them with the exception of Murphy were interrupting constantly. If anything it's up to Claire Byrne to actually moderate the debate. Fact is though, that he was speaking an awful lot more factual sense compared to Dunphy and his bar stool pontificating.

Yiikes

evilivor wrote: »

Not sure if serious but yes, his wife is the Commissioning Editor, Drama at RTE.

...... speechless. Id laugh but Im more annoyed.

I knew some strings had to have been pulled somewhere to get him a job on current affairs show. He should be made seat the Leaving Certs economics test before hes allowed watch the show never mind participate.

Yiikes

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

His ignorance stems from the fact that he knows nothing about the everyday struggles of ordinary people. He's a career politician. He lives in a cosseted world. He comes from a comfortable middle class background. He's got very little experience of real life.

His arrogance is self-evident. He seemed to be under the impression that he alone could dictate the content of last night's debate, at times usurping Claire Byrne's role as moderator.

His twerpiness is also self-evident.

Say any of those things about poor Paul Murphy and people lose their sh*t.

The Wild Bunch

Thread needs more screen caps of Byrne in those tights

Gits_bone

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Thread needs more screen caps of Byrne in those tights

I didn't see the show. Pls...

The Wild Bunch

Gits_bone wrote: »

I didn't see the show. Pls...

Jaysus. You missed out man

Gits_bone

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Jaysus. You missed out man

Popped it up on the player. My god..

The Wild Bunch

SCREEN CAPS LADS

tylercheribini

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

The weirdo at the back of you man.

Which guy? Just watching it now

Un Croissant

**** that green jacket.

Gits_bone

Claire looking ridey again. Great hair tonight.

coolhull

Mary Lou answering a question she wasn't asked

Gits_bone

Leo is my favourite politician.

CountyHurler

Is it possible to ever turn on a TV or radio these days without having Ciara Kelly on it...

coolhull

Gits_bone wrote: »

Leo is my favourite politician.

There isn't much competition

nagel

Poor program, never thought I would like to have Pat Kenny back, Claire is poor enough,
With regard to Leo, is he not all talk no action?

fire_man

Sick of Ciara Kelly at this stage.

Gits_bone

nagel wrote: »

Poor program, never thought I would like to have Pat Kenny back, Claire is poor enough,
With regard to Leo, is he not all talk no action?

I like this program actually.

TallyRand

Gas stuff from Mary Lou, the government brought child benefit back up €5 per month an it's mocked as derisory pittance. I tell you now if they had cut €5 a month it would be a huge political football, uproar about poor families that can't cope

Personally I favour tax breaks for people who work, why would unemployed people need to avail of childcare?

CountyHurler

Revenue will be on to this lad in the morning for Benefit In Kind.

CountyHurler

Leo has such an excellent manner in speaking. He really should give lessons... He comes across as sincere, direct, honest, empathetic... just an excellent media performer.. When you think about it Fine Gael should have had HIM giving media training to Gay Mitchell when he was running for President, not Terry Prone....

Un Croissant

CountyHurler wrote: »

Leo has such an excellent manner in speaking. He really should give lessons... He comes across as sincere, direct, honest, empathetic... just an excellent media performer..

Next Taoiseach? I wonder could the spin doctors withdraw him from public debate like they do Enda, after such constant appearances.

take everything

CountyHurler wrote: »

When you think about it Fine Gael should have had HIM giving media training to Gay Mitchell when he was running for President, not Terry Prone....

Terry Prone could do with lessons from his as well tbh.

take everything

Fair play to Denis Hickey
Extremely well-spoken guy.