it's official. Recession is dead according to Barry Egan.

If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

blackcard

[Deleted User] wrote: »

If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

No, I don't have to admire his persistence

Mena

Well 'recession' is a specific economic term and as far as I'm aware we've had two consecutive quarters of growth.

So we're not in recession.

Mongfinder General

Who the **** is Barry Egan?

The Dogs Bollix

But there's still bitter people that will watch what you buy "no recession in your house", looking down on you for buying a small treat. What do we do with them. They will live on forever.

evolving_doors

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Who the **** is Barry Egan?

Socialte 'journalist', used to be on back page of indo telling us about the time he spent drinking champagne with Jonny Ronan and a model (every week)... a la Terry Keane.

Although I think the answer was best answered in your question.

Heroditas

The man responsible for making a "celeb" out of Lisa Murphy. Reason enough to dislike anyone

PARlance

Damn dyslexia got me all excited.... Barry Egan isn't dead and we're not going on a session

blackcard

Surely someone must have something good to say about Barry

blackcard

blackcard wrote: »

Surely someone must have something good to say about Barry

If you find that person, send for the men in white coats - or Lisa Murphy!

blueser

Great; does this mean I'll get my pay cut of 6 years ago reversed, and get a pay rise for the first time in 8 years?

evolving_doors

blackcard wrote: »

Surely someone must have something good to say about Barry

Ahhhh... he was drinking champagne with Jonny Ronan and some model the other day... and it was fabulous.

I think the more parties he attends the better the economy gets. Keep going Barry, keep going, we need you.

Dr Strange

Gebgbegb wrote: »

...Barry, keep going, we need you....

...like a fucking boil on the arse.

Howjoe1

Deleted User wrote: »

If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

That link will bring me to Dinny's Sindo....NO THANKS!

zl1whqvjs75cdy

blueser wrote: »

Great; does this mean I'll get my pay cut of 6 years ago reversed, and get a pay rise for the first time in 8 years?

No Dennis o brien took all that to install a water meter on your house. He's also going to bang your missus.

tomwaterford

Heroditas wrote: »

The man responsible for making a "celeb" out of Lisa Murphy. Reason enough to dislike anyone

Who the fcuk is Lisa Murphy...and for that matter barry Egan

I know I live in middle of nowhere...didn't think I was this badly outta touch

FalconGirl

How the hell can Barry Egan look at himself in the mirror every morning and call himself a journalist?:pac:

Grayson

I know we're not in recession but it just hit me when I was typing in another thread....we've had 7-8 years of this crap. All that time of cutbacks and austerity. It's getting old now.

JustTheOne

Grayson wrote: »

I know we're not in recession but it just hit me when I was typing in another thread....we've had 7-8 years of this crap. All that time of cutbacks and austerity. It's getting old now.

Have you an alternative?

anncoates

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Who the **** is Barry Egan?

Ginger, malformed sycophant to Irish minor celebrity firmament. So ugly looks like he's been turned inside out.

Grayson

tomwaterford wrote: »

Who the fcuk is Lisa Murphy...and for that matter barry Egan

I know I live in middle of nowhere...didn't think I was this badly outta touch

I just read the article and instantly regretted it. I think I'm not dumb enough to understand it. I think anyone who reads that dies a little bit inside.

I googled Lisa Murphy and I'm still none the wiser. Who the hell is she?

All I found is this scary photo
http://cdn1.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25227668.ece/1ecad/ALTERNATES/h342/Lisa-Murphy_TG

And a description of her as the partner of a celebrity lawyer.

Grayson

JustTheOne wrote: »

Have you an alternative?

Not really. Our income amounted to 60% of our outgoings in 2008. We needed cutbacks. I just realised how long we've been living with it.

Grayson

Grayson wrote: »

I just read the article and instantly regretted it. I think I'm not dumb enough to understand it. I think anyone who reads that dies a little bit inside.

I googled Lisa Murphy and I'm still none the wiser. Who the hell is she?

All I found is this scary photo
http://cdn1.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25227668.ece/1ecad/ALTERNATES/h342/Lisa-Murphy_TG

And a description of her as the partner of a celebrity lawyer.

She's the plastic fantastic ex of Michael Flateley and some boxer, whose name escapes me. She's the current on/off/on again squeeze of "celebrity" solicitor Gerald Keane. She also appeared in some reality Irish TV show. Basically, the Kim Kardashian of Ireland.

Duckworth_Luas

Mongfinder General wrote: »

Who the **** is Barry Egan?

An excellent hider apparently!

tomwaterford

Grayson wrote: »

I just read the article and instantly regretted it. I think I'm not dumb enough to understand it. I think anyone who reads that dies a little bit inside.

I googled Lisa Murphy and I'm still none the wiser. Who the hell is she?

All I found is this scary photo
http://cdn1.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25227668.ece/1ecad/ALTERNATES/h342/Lisa-Murphy_TG

And a description of her as the partner of a celebrity lawyer.

I read it....who the fcuk approves these articles for publication...there are posters on boards who'd make better journalists ffs (not me obv)


I think I recognise your man...he used to do celebrity Gaa manager and I think he turned over a table on it

Never actually knew what he used do for money though...

machiavellianme

Seems he has been disliked here for quite a while. Never heard of him. See the old appreciation thread at http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=275839

FalconGirl

tomwaterford wrote: »

I read it....who the fcuk approves these articles for publication...there are posters on boards who'd make better journalists ffs (not me obv)


I think I recognise your man...he used to do celebrity Gaa manager and I think he turned over a table on it

Never actually knew what he used do for money though...

Its a mixture of clickbait articles to bring in advertising revenue and what I have noticed across various publications, a general dumbing down of articles in the media to hide other dodgy goings on and real stories.

Real Journalism is certainly dead at the Indo and has been for quite a while.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/28/irish-independent-denis-o-brien?CMP=share_btn_tw

fergus1001

Lisa Murphy only a mother ........

Nodin

Deleted User wrote: »

If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

Barry Egan in an article featuring Gerald Keane and Lisa "the model" Murphy.....its like a triumvirate of Sindo wrongness.....

zl1whqvjs75cdy

What in the name of God did I just read. Was there a point to that story at all? It's terribly constructed and reads like the author wrote it while drunk. Everyday the indo slides closer and closer to becoming a full blown tabloid. Although you could argue with this constant reporting on Irish "celebrity" culture that the paper has already thrown itself into the red top abyss with reckless abandon.

FalconGirl

FalconGirl wrote: »

Real Journalism is certainly dead at the Indo and has been for quite a while.

Has been since Terry Keane morphed into Barry Egan.

tomwaterford

FalconGirl wrote: »

Its a mixture of clickbait articles to bring in advertising revenue and what I have noticed across various publications, a general dumbing down of articles in the media to hide other dodgy goings on and real stories.

Real Journalism is certainly dead at the Indo and has been for quite a while.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/28/irish-independent-denis-o-brien?CMP=share_btn_tw

Interesting article in the gaurdian....there was nothing libellous in what was edited out though....cannot see why they bother...


This is another article to have bothered me....it's not even leaving cert standred
http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/special-reports/waterford-commuters-worried-about-future-of-bus-routes-31173669.html

FalconGirl

tomwaterford wrote: »

Interesting article in the gaurdian....there was nothing libellous in what was edited out though....cannot see why they bother...


This is another article to have bothered me....it's not even leaving cert standred
http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/special-reports/waterford-commuters-worried-about-future-of-bus-routes-31173669.html

That's just a pile of quotes with no in depth analysis. Awful article.

Zonda999

In my mind, this kind of mindset that Barry Egan promotes is without doubt the worst element of Ireland that developed during the so called property boom. This perspective of greed, one-upmanship and effectively jealousy that the Irish independent did its level best to promote during the boom and continues to do so. Property, designer labels, Z list celebrities ("socialites" which I don't think is something that existed before the internet age) are all part of it. It doesn't come from a traditional idea of hard work gains reward but more of a "buy a house to try and make a quick buck" kind of thinking.

Its hard to define if i;m honest but all i know is that the Irish independent are at the forefront of it

Streetwalker

Tell it to the hundreds waiting on hospital trollies on any given day Barry.

Zonda999

Zonda999 wrote: »

In my mind, this kind of mindset that Barry Egan promotes is without doubt the worst element of Ireland that developed during the so called property boom. This perspective of greed, one-upmanship and effectively jealousy that the Irish independent did its level best to promote during the boom and continues to do so. Property, designer labels, Z list celebrities ("socialites" which I don't think is something that existed before the internet age) are all part of it. It doesn't come from a traditional idea of hard work gains reward but more of a "buy a house to try and make a quick buck" kind of thinking.

Its hard to define if i;m honest but all i know is that the Irish independent are at the forefront of it

Barry Egan was writing sh1te like this before since before the Celtic Tiger was even a twinkle in its Daddys eyes. He learned at the bosom of Terry Keane and copied her style and continues to do so to this day. It hasn't aged well!

haveringchick

FalconGirl wrote: »

How the hell can Barry Egan look at himself in the mirror every morning and call himself a journalist?:pac:

Surely he doesn't consider himself a journalist. He's a gossip columnist at best or a social diarist. He seems to operate on the basis that Indo readers hold Gerald Keane and Lisa Murphy and all these other nonentities in some kind of affection. Because he does. I don't believe anybody cares to read about some former models new baby or her wedding to some thick rugby player on an island of Corfu. And then 2 years later how she's emotionally shattered following her traumatic divorce but how brave she is.
Parents of sick kids are heroic and shattered. Not pretentious wannabe celebs.
If you read Barry Egan you are a moron who needs to get something more worthwhile to occupy your time.

haveringchick

haveringchick wrote: »

If you read Barry Egan you are a moron who needs to get something more worthwhile to occupy your time.

Or if you want a good belly laugh on a rainy Bank Holiday Sunday! How he can collect a pay packet for this drivel is beyond belief! Yet, I'm sure some take him serious and lap up every sad word!

haveringchick

I think that every now and again Lisa Murphy has a lightbulb moment and she realises that she's a prostitute, a little bit of self respect creeps in and she walks away from Keane.
A few weeks later she's running low on botox and shiny things so it's back to giving Keane blow jobs and taking it up the bum.

tomwaterford

haveringchick wrote: »

I think that every now and again Lisa Murphy has a lightbulb moment and she realises that she's a prostitute, a little bit of self respect creeps in and she walks away from Keane.
A few weeks later she's running low on botox and shiny things so it's back to giving Keane blow jobs and taking it up the bum.

That's really mean!!!

tomwaterford

tomwaterford wrote: »

That's really mean!!!

But probably true, unfortunately!!!

Nodin

Grayson wrote: »

I just read the article and instantly regretted it. I think I'm not dumb enough to understand it. I think anyone who reads that dies a little bit inside.

I googled Lisa Murphy and I'm still none the wiser. Who the hell is she?

All I found is this scary photo
http://cdn1.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25227668.ece/1ecad/ALTERNATES/h342/Lisa-Murphy_TG

And a description of her as the partner of a celebrity lawyer.

Two alternative questions might be added by use of "what" and "why"

haveringchick

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Or if you want a good belly laugh on a rainy Bank Holiday Sunday! How he can collect a pay packet for this drivel is beyond belief! Yet, I'm sure some take him serious and lap up every sad word!

Oh the morons are the ones who read it and breathe a sigh of relief that Lisa and Gerald are back on track or that BOD and wife got that planning permission (OMG I was biting my nails) or Sharon Corrs husband got that promotion. I don't believe there are many though.

haveringchick

tomwaterford wrote: »

That's really mean!!!

Not really. It's just the truth.

Cold War Kid

The man is beyond an embarrassment. I wonder, is he not mortified? Does have any self awareness?

haveringchick wrote: »

Not really. It's just the truth.

You know she does anal?!

Lisa Murphy is one good example of "Don't over-do the cosmetic surgery folks". I'd bet she is a nice looking woman without all that stuff injected into her face.

eternal

Lisa Murphy has a savage body though. I'd give her one.

haveringchick

Cold War Kid wrote: »

The man is beyond an embarrassment. I wonder, is he not mortified? Does have any self awareness?

You know she does anal?!

Lisa Murphy is one good example of "Don't over-do the cosmetic surgery folks". I'd bet she is a nice looking woman without all that stuff injected into her face.

e

I'd imagine that like all of her ilk down through the ages she does everything she' s told to do.

stateofflux

i always see that guy in Ranelagh...enough said

Birneybau

eternal wrote: »

Lisa Murphy has a savage body though. I'd give her one.

Take it to the 'Extremely unusual people you fancy". Fcuking plastic hatchet job.

eternal

Birneybau wrote: »

Take it to the 'Extremely unusual people you fancy". Fcuking plastic hatchet job.

I was joking. She has a good figure though.

Speedsie

Zonda999 wrote: »

("socialites" which I don't think is something that existed before the internet age)

The term socialite predates the internet, been around since the 1920s. Quite a number of New York socialites were affected by the stock market crash of 1929.