Paul Murphy on The Late Late last night

ted1

Personally for the working class I would prefer to see the removal of PRSI for those with private pensions and health insurance along with the removal of property tax being payable by lsndlords after all it's the tenants that avail of the service. These are much more pressing issues but those that it affects ate to busy working and can't afford to protest all day

conorh91

ted1 wrote: »

I would prefer to see the removal of PRSI for those with private pension...

Do you also propose the abolition of contributory pensions? What do you propose should happen if said private pensions should be wiped out, as has happened many pensioners retiring from public and private sectors?

storker

BunkMoreland wrote: »

Why is it the statement of not having watched the late late show is always qualified with the explanation of one being on a night out.

Is it really that vital that we know you were out? Why are people are so proud of and love to announce they have been or will be out?

I'm never out when the Late Late is on. Nor do I ever watch it...

Karl Stein

It was a failed attempt at an interrogation rather than an interview.

ted1 wrote: »

for the working class I would prefer to see the removal of PRSI for those with private pensions and health insurance along with the removal of property tax being payable by lsndlords after all it's the tenants that avail of the service.

There's quite a lot going on in that sentence - any chance you could break it down to its individual points?

Lapin

BunkMoreland wrote: »

Why is it the statement of not having watched the late late show is always qualified with the explanation of one being on a night out.

Is it really that vital that we know you were out? Why are people are so proud of and love to announce they have been or will be out?

Eh, maybe because they were out.

If someone asks you a question, do you only reply with a blunt yes or no ?

wretcheddomain

I immediately lose respect for anyone who says they have respect, however small, for Paul Murphy.

He's a parasite - sucking political blood out of the lower social classes to feed his insatiable appetite for media attention.

NachoBusiness

Someone recorded it with a Nokia 3310 and uploaded it to the YouTube..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MTfcszYyCg

celticcrash

Can you promise us Paul Murohy, that in the mext 5 years, that one one will step out of line at these protests.....Ah really where did that crap come out of......And another one from Tubbs, If if if a protester married to a protester,
protested about protesting, tubbs really, who comes up with this dire crap.

buried

Didnt see it, but heard all about it today and that was probably the point. Generate hype and noise in order to promote the lame 1960's style "entertainment" of watching & listening to the self-entitlement gibberish of whatever publicity seeking mong that goes on it. I'd rather watch and listen to three hours of the angelus bells mixed with the national anthem of ISIS than watch that utter $hite

djerk

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Tony EH

Looking at this this morning before I head out on my cycle and tbh, it's a big, fat, fail for both 'The Late Late Show' and, the frankly awful, Ryan Tubridy.

I wouldn't be too big a fan of Paul Murphy, but he absolutely ripped Tubridy's snide questions apart and acquitted himself very well.

Tubridy failed massively and I actually believe Murphy gained support out of that interview.

banquo

Thought that Turbidy made a few somewhat unfair points but nothing that the public wasn't already thinking. If anything he gave Murphy a chance to explain himself, and it was definitely no more harsh a grilling than other politicians get.

I love the persecution complex of the fringe groups that scream "bias!" whenever it's one of their own that's grilled.

Cee-Jay-Cee

crusier wrote: »

Has Gay Byrne retired?

Yeah apparently Enda Kennys brother Pat has taken over the reins now.

YFlyer

weldoninhio wrote: »

Yeah, €500,000 a year for a few hours work a week, but blame the researchers.

I would include Tubs, along with TLLS, as bad at researching their topics.

BunkMoreland

Lapin wrote: »

Eh, maybe because they were out.

If someone asks you a question, do you only reply with a blunt yes or no ?

Yes

Banjo String

Posted much the same on the politics cafe thread.

Didn't really hear of, or know anything about Paul Murphys past or present political career before the Joan Burton anti-water thing in Jobstown.

Any way's, he got arrested on a Monday morning for (lol) allegedly false imprisonment of the Tánaiste in Jobstown.

I said that day that it would serve to be an own-goal to whoever decided to go in and arrest him with SIX gards (including an inspector and a seargent) as the sp would milk the publicity for all they could as a result.

Talk about things backfiring.

A few days later, and only a mile away from where TEN gardai arrested a lad of sixteen, a man with a history of violence, armed robbery and previous escapes, stabbed two unarmed prison officers (one almost fatally) and escaped.
Report suggest Garda assistance was refused due to cutbacks and budgetary restraints (TEN Gardai to arrest a schoolboy though)

Then Murphy gets a slot on one of ,if not Ireland's most watched television show, prime time on a Friday night.

Murphy went on to rip tubs a new arse, in a very loaded and biased interview.

I think whoever is pulling the strokes in this country in the background should give it up for a while tbh. Through a mix of incompetence and bad luck they never seem to work out.

FF had strokes down to a fine art, the new lads in town are still only finding their feet at it, albeit very badly.

Murphy 1, Tubs/biased RTÉ 0.

padd b1975

Melisandre121 wrote: »

He also vocalised that RTE has a definite agenda and that the media is used as an outlet to manipulate people.

He was probably getting nostalgic for the good old days when TAAS ruled the airwaves in the Soviet socialist utopia :rolleyes:

renegademaster

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

Tubridy came across as desperate, he was grabbing at straws, and the audience didn't help with their smug giggling.. But that is RTE

the audience members were warned before going to air that if they became vocal at all during the interview they'd be thrown out

biko

AH is like a re-run of yesterday's granny TV shows.
Why do you people even watch Late Late if it upsets you this much?

AngeGal

Murphy is an opportunist or an idiot. I remember seeing a poster of his for the EU Elections calling for a minimum wage of €14. That alone tells you all you need to know about the guy. He knew such a suggestion was unfeasible nonsense (I presume to give him some credit) so he's a rank opportunist or else he's a moron who has no clue whatsoever of economics.

Aongus Von Bismarck

AngeGal wrote: »

so he's a rank opportunist or else he's a moron who has no clue whatsoever of economics.

It's quite possible to be both. Bertie Ahern for example. The Irish tend to like electing self-serving morons. Perhaps it shines a mirror on them. Then the most moronic of them are the ones to shout loudest when it all goes wrong.

Eugene Norman

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

It's quite possible to be both. Bertie Ahern for example. The Irish tend to like electing self-serving morons. Perhaps it shines a mirror on them. Then the most moronic of them are the ones to shout loudest when it all goes wrong.

Or indeed the entire banking oligarchy which destroyed the country. Although to be fair we didn't vote for them.

Zack Morris

AngeGal wrote: »

or else he's a moron who has no clue whatsoever of economics.

Of course, he's a socialist. His party would turn Ireland into Cuba if given the chance.

everdead.ie

So far my impression of Murphy so far is a well spoken articulate politician.

In my eyes everything he's done so far is about re-election in 12 months.

Just another TD looking to stay on the gravy train.

RobertKK

When he was an MEP, two years ago, he got upset when I tweeted that only the intellectually challenged would vote for him.
His policies are of economic lunacy and would only lead to more poverty, not less.
I find it amazing that people believe in his economic policies. The country went into a dark chasm and is making its way back out of it, we don't need to go into a deeper hole.

He would nearly turn one into a fan of Denis O'Brien, given his obsession with him. He had to mention him on the LLS.

People who believe in what Paul Murphy says are asking to be poor or remain poor.

Tony EH

Eugene Norman wrote: »

Or indeed the entire banking oligarchy which destroyed the country. Although to be fair we didn't vote for them.

No, but their enablers were.

AlekSmart

RobertKK wrote: »

When he was an MEP, two years ago, he got upset when I tweeted that only the intellectually challenged would vote for him.
His policies are of economic lunacy and would only lead to more poverty, not less.
I find it amazing that people believe in his economic policies. The country went into a dark chasm and is making its way back out of it, we don't need to go into a deeper hole.

He would nearly turn one into a fan of Denis O'Brien, given his obsession with him. He had to mention him on the LLS.

People who believe in what Paul Murphy says are asking to be poor or remain poor.

I wonder has Deputy Murphy ever met DENIS O'BRIEN,as you are indeed correct,his need to invoke that name is most odd.

Is there a sidebar here...has PaulMurphy TD got a score to settle with DO'B ?

Yurt2

AlekSmart wrote: »

I wonder has Deputy Murphy ever met DENIS O'BRIEN,as you are indeed correct,his need to invoke that name is most odd.

Is there a sidebar here...has PaulMurphy TD got a score to settle with DO'B ?

DOB is indeed a ruthless businessman, would turn a buck in a famine and would likely sell his gran down the river.

But elements of the AAA would have you believe he's the black hand behind everything from dole cuts to the icecaps melting with a lunar based super laser. If DOB wasn't Dr.Evil they'd construct one out of someone else. It's silly stuff.

conorh91

Yurt! wrote: »

DOB is indeed a ruthless businessman, would turn a buck in a famine and would likely sell his gran down the river.

I have a problem with this characterisation of him tbh. A man who builds over 100 schools in a developing country is unlikely to sell his Grandmother, or put her in a river.

He probably contributes more to charity in Ireland and abroad than does the entire user-base of this website.

That hatred for him is difficult to understand.

Yurt2

conorh91 wrote: »

I have a problem with this characterisation of him tbh. A man who builds over 100 schools in a developing country is unlikely to sell his Grandmother, or put her in a river.

He probably contributes more to charity in Ireland and abroad than does the entire user-base of this website.

That hatred for him is difficult to understand.

I don't hate him, I admire his acumen in many respects and yes he does a lot of good in charity contexts. But you don't get to be a billionaire without being ruthless.

What I'm trying to say is he is not the Super-villain many characterize him to be.

EDIT: The 'sell his Granny' comment was a turn of phrase, I'm sure he's a dote to his Granny!