RTE Investigates: Monday 7th December 2015

PeterTheEighth

We've been hearing about it all day. Can't wait to see the full version of Mr McElvaney in particular.

Ally Dick

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone. It's with O'Leary in the grave

rodge68

But what will happen anyone of them..nothing...

PeterTheEighth

Jaysus, could he be any more Killinaskully. Dressing in a shabby oul jumper, speaking with his mouth full, cursing in front of the lady at the business meeting.




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grey_so_what

I'm embarrassed that they are public representatives.......

Can't wait to see the "I knew it was you all along" spiel..........

***Spoiler Alert***

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/i-knew-i-was-being-set-upi-lured-her-into-my-trap-councillor-at-centre-of-planning-bid-controversy-wanted-to-expose-rte-dirty-tricks-campaign-against-him-34264382.html


Actually - that's not a very good spoiler alert............ ............

cailin8

PeterTheEighth wrote:

Jaysus, could he be any more Killinaskully. Dressing in a shabby oul jumper, speaking with his mouth full, cursing in front of the lady at the business meeting.

I think they beeped out the name of another person or company.. That was a very long beep for cursing!

grey_so_what

Joe should watch Ms. Marple more often..........

PeterTheEighth

cailin8 wrote: »

I think they beeped out the name of another person or company.. That was a very long beep for cursing!

Seems like this guy does work for the same person or company. :pac:

grey_so_what

Bit of a "Joe wow" factor here....

Independent all the way apparently!!....

grey_so_what

I have to know where is the camera? Is there a roving handbag/File in a "secret kabinet"......??....

Harry Angstrom

Hilarious how Donegal man said that RTE have exposed his business methods.

Pinch Flat

Jayney it's depressing

Skid X

Heart jumped for a second, but it's clearly not the real Hugh McIlvanney (the excellent Scottish Sports Journalist)

Not surprised by any of this in the slightest.

PeterTheEighth

Just heard Philip Boucher Hayes today and he reminded me of the last time McElvaney was in the news.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/councillor-apologises-for-incident-on-flight-to-boston-1.51387

It was reported that the councillor was abusive to staff and upset passengers after he was refused drink on a flight to Boston. It was also reported that Cllr McElvaney introduced a fellow councillor to cabin staff as the Taoiseach's wife, Mrs Finola Bruton, and said she would "fix" Aer Lingus and staff on board the flight. He was later cautioned by airport police in Boston.

They should have brought ten grand in Sterling in the bag, hand it to him, then get the guards to pick him up on the way home.

blackcard

That man should be going to jail

irishgeo

RobertKK wrote:

I read the replies in this thread, but I see nothing in it for me.

Harry Angstrom wrote:

Hilarious how Donegal man said that RTE have exposed his business methods.

The revenue should be very interested in all of this.

grey_so_what

Joe, I bet you'll be quaffing on the Cava rather than the Moet tomorrow!!....

Seriously, isn't he a fool??....

Skid X

The Undercover journalist should have asked him to throw in a few Medical Cards and College Grants while he was at it.

grey_so_what

Skid X wrote: »

The Undercover journalist should have asked him to throw in a few Medical Cards and College Grants while he was at it.

I'd like a couple of those?....:D

Send it on Skid....Sterling......;)

Skid X

Is that a photo of the Bull McCabe in the background (when he is resigining)?

grey_so_what

I've just realised I was 4 minutes behind.....

"Don't tell anybody else"....

Hahahaha!!!!

Skid X

McElvaney told Northern Sound’s Joe Finnegan Show that he understands people may find it hard to believe that he was only acting.

“They’ll find it incredible, as I say, I put PJ Gallagher and Mike Murphy in the shade. I don’t require any bribes or any corruption,” he said.

“It was a piss pull, it was what we call ‘taking the piss’ out of RTÉ and I proved it,” he said.

Asked why he didn’t just hang up the phone, McElvaney said that would mean the show wouldn’t air.
“There’d be no show, there’d be no show and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to show RTÉ up, the state broadcaster, for what they are.”


http://www.thejournal.ie/hugh-mcelvaney-2487223-Dec2015/?utm_source=shortlink



Padraig Flynn isn't in the same league as Hughie

PeterTheEighth

I was gonna say it's a pity that Pat Kenny wasnt presenting the follow up program instead of Claire Byrne, but Pat Kenny would probably have a conflict of interest himself, having controversially been involved in the rezoning of his neighbours land (i.e. as his own land).

irishgeo

No show like a Joe show!

grey_so_what

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

I was gonna say it's a pity that Pat Kenny wasnt presenting the follow up program instead of Claire Byrne, but Pat Kenny would probably have a conflict of interest himself, having controversially been involved in the rezoning of his neighbours land (i.e. as his own land).

Ah now Peter, it's time to build a bridge......;)

Sure, didn't the courts deal with that.......

grey_so_what

Skid X wrote: »

Padraig Flynn isn't in the same league as Hughie

Seriously impressive Skid!!...

grey_so_what

Joe feeling like a drowning rat now I'd say.....

grey_so_what

Had they no cop on at all???

What was wrong with them?

grey_so_what

Well, in fairness, it works for the O'Leary Supremo in Tipp!

grey_so_what

So a form where you say where you live and what you own is difficult?....

Skid X

Seen it a million times, "sure no-one ever fills out those things properly, you're only drawing attention to yourself ... leave it blank or write n/a and claim you misinterpreted the question"

If you've don't have active efficient oversight with significant sanctions then the rules won't be followed.

grey_so_what

Skid X wrote: »

Seen it a million times, "sure no-one ever fills out those things properly, you're only drawing attention to yourself ... leave it blank or write n/a and claim you misinterpreted the question"

If you've don't have active efficient oversight with significant sanctions then the rules won't be followed.

Rules without sanctions have no meaning Skid....;)

grey_so_what

I have a very dark side of me wanting to see Fintan doing something bad.

Like an overdue Library Book.........

grey_so_what

How is Beaumont tonight Leo?....

I was there yesterday, it was chaos??....

grey_so_what

Should Leo not use the word "apparently" before the word bribe??....

Shurimgreat

These councillors will resign from the party before being pushed. They will run as independents at the next election. They will top the poll as the local people give two fingers to the national media persecuting honest decent men, etc. The story will be the national media are to blame and things will go on as they have always done. And if they do top the poll, the voters are as guilty as these councillors.

PeterTheEighth

Joe Quennan has just resigned.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1207/751733-investigations-unit/

grey_so_what

Shurimgreat wrote: »

These councillors will resign from the party before being pushed. They will run as independents at the next election. They will top the poll as the local people give two fingers to the national media persecuting honest decent men, etc. The story will be the national media are to blame and things will go on as they have always done. And if they do top the poll, the voters are as guilty as these councillors.

I agree.

Michael Lowry is a joke.

Except for his neighbours. Obviously.

Ginger83

Ha theres no show like a joe show....that man should be going to jail.

grey_so_what

Leo is a Teflon Minister for Health.




Edit.

Leo is Teflon.

Harry Angstrom

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Joe McQueen has just resigned.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1207/751733-investigations-unit/

Guaranteed to top the poll if he runs as an Independent for Sligo-Leitrim at the next general election

PeterTheEighth

grey_so_what wrote: »

Should Leo not use the word "apparently" before the word bribe??....

Yeah, that point wasnt lost on me either Grey. A strange lapse for the usually pitch perfect (and always charming) Mr Varadkar.

PeterTheEighth

I have this vision of all the top execs in multinational companies burning off DVDs of Councillor O'Donnell's presentation for re-training all their Sales staff in the morning.

grey_so_what

Leo is a waste of space.

He is the worst Minister for Health ever.

I can't understand his "cashmere" glove treatment in RTE and the general media.

grey_so_what

Can't wait to hear the West's opinion if I can ever get home again?


This had been a very pleasurable thread.......

Imagine??.....xxxgsw

Will Boards ever be mentioned when they talk about "the internet"??....

_Kaiser_

grey_so_what wrote: »

Leo is a waste of space.

He is the worst Minister for Health ever.

I can't understand his "cashmere" glove treatment in RTE and the general media.

As I've said elsewhere, he's FG's answer to "Teflon Bertie" .. talks a good game and always has comments on OTHER departments, but does very little in his own (he did nothing in Transport either).

Despite all this though he's seen as "young" and "in touch" and certainly him coming out during the SSM referendum didn't hurt his popular/populist image.

What's worse is there are many who genuinely believe the spin and think he could be a good replacement for Enda.

"New politics" indeed!

grey_so_what

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

As I've said elsewhere, he's FG's answer to "Teflon Bertie" .. talks a good game and always has comments on OTHER departments, but does very little in his own (he did nothing in Transport either).

Despite all this though he's seen as "young" and "in touch" and certainly him coming out during the SSM referendum didn't hurt his popular/populist image.

What's worse is there are many who genuinely believe the spin and think he could be a good replacement for Enda.

"New politics" indeed!

You're in danger of getting a hug Kaiser.

:D:D

Harry Angstrom

grey_so_what wrote: »

Can't wait to hear the West's opinion if I can ever get home again?


This had been a very pleasurable thread.......

Imagine??.....xxxgsw

Will Boards ever be mentioned when they talk about "the internet"??....

Nah, they're too obsessed with the Twitter machine.

Arghus

Shurimgreat wrote: »

These councillors will resign from the party before being pushed. They will run as independents at the next election. They will top the poll as the local people give two fingers to the national media persecuting honest decent men, etc. The story will be the national media are to blame and things will go on as they have always done. And if they do top the poll, the voters are as guilty as these councillors.

I agree. If these men and others like them throughout the country have made a career out of politics, I can't imagine it's been made on the back of altruism and always keeping the public interest as their guiding light in all things. Instead it seems to be thanks to their gift at "getting things done" for a bit of cash, and I can't imagine the way they conduct their business will come as a shock to many of their constituents. If polls will be topped by gombeens like this, it'll show how happy people are to let business as usual to continue.

_Kaiser_

grey_so_what wrote: »

You're in danger of getting a hug Kaiser.

:D:D

I never refuse a hug You should see me rant in the Politics Cafe

grey_so_what

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Nah, they're too obsessed with the Twitter machine.

If Boards was like Gogglebox Harry you'd be paired with............The Milk Tray man......:p

I just don't get the "tweet machine".....:(