Vincent Browne

sonofenoch

Very clever man or a fking idiot who can barely string a verbal sentence together?

no pole attached ...

Jack the Stripper

Who cares? I don't.

Badly Drunk Boy

Both.

Are Am Eye

"verbal sentence. Terrible english" - Vincent Browne

RayM

He recently described Simon Harris as "prematurely waistcoated", which was a brilliant description.

Annasopra

What did the Polish ever do that you won't attach them OP?

The_Valeyard

I like his no nonsense couldn't give a flying f*ck who you are approach.

Are Am Eye

I think that he has so perfected the art of badgering someone that he no longer
needs to consciously pay any effort or focus to it. He can just concentrate on
his sneer. Multi tasking - sneering derisively at his victims feeble attempts to
answer and badgering them all at the same time. twitter machine.

Beyondgone

sonofenoch wrote: »

Very clever man or a fking idiot who can barely string a verbal sentence together?

no pole attached ...

Doddery idiot with a lot of friends in important places. A waffler who fakes "outrage" well . Then laughs. One of the D4 set. Him and yer wan with the poodle perm.

Water John

He's from West Limerick and should retire there.

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I love The Man Vincent Browne. Love to See him in a Boxing Ring With Enda and Mick Wallace as the Boxing Referee.

Agricola

I like his politician badgering and his total disdain for people who waffle, avoid questions, or misdirect. He has a good eye for separating the odd virtuous politician with the dozens of spoofers who are only in it for the prestige.

Still, I think Eamonn Dunphy described him best. A sheep in wolf's clothing. Browne is a champagne socialist and part of the media circus he pretends to hate.

me_irl

sonofenoch wrote: »

no pole attached ...

Christ, is he still on about those lads!?

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Water John wrote: »

He's from West Limerick and should retire there.

Vincent Browne why will Enda not go on his show?:rolleyes:.

There's substance to Browne. When all O'Reilly's rags/Independent Newspapers ganged up on John Hume for talking to Gerry Adams/initiating the peace process in the early 1990s, Browne had the mother of all rows with O'Reilly and then Tony Ryan because he refused to join them. He held his ground. Hugely admirable for this (as was Damien Kiberd in The Sunday Business Post).

Leaving aside his groundbreaking investigative journalism in Magill and the like, or his penchant for spotting talent (Ross O'Carroll Kelly started in the Sunday Tribune, as did JJ Lee's superb weekly history column), history will be very kind to Browne because of his courage in the face of the might of Anthony O'Reilly. Delighted to see O'Reilly is now bankrupt and the Harris-Fanning mob who controlled the Sunday Independent are hasbeens. Karma.

Beyondgone

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There's substance to Browne. When all O'Reilly's rags/Independent Newspapers ganged up on John Hume for talking to Gerry Adams/initiating the peace process in the early 1990s, Browne had the mother of all rows with O'Reilly and then Tony Ryan because he refused to join them. He held his ground. Hugely admirable for this (as was Damien Kiberd in The Sunday Business Post).

Leaving aside his groundbreaking investigative journalism in Magill and the like, or his penchant for spotting talent (Ross O'Carroll Kelly started in the Sunday Tribune, as did JJ Lee's superb weekly history column), history will be very kind to Browne because of his courage in the face of the might of Anthony O'Reilly. Delighted to see O'Reilly is now bankrupt and the Harris-Fanning mob who controlled the Sunday Independent are hasbeens. Karma.

Codswallop. He'd be on the dole if that was even vaguely true.

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Vincent Browne is what Ireland needs more people like this Man he is as Wise Man.

Water John

The badgering style of interviewing, of Browne and Paxman doesn't work. It's more self promotion than seeking the truth.

ThisRegard

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Vincent Browne is what Ireland needs more people like this Man he is as Wise Man.

He's a has been now unfortunately. His show is a dodery mess these days and the audience numbers must be through the floor..

Beyondgone

Beyondgone wrote: »

Codswallop. He'd be on the dole if that was even vaguely true.

Is it now? You're either too young to remember, or you're an Independent Newspapers employee. As Fintan O'Toole notes (The Ex-Isle of Erin, 1997) O'Reilly several times tried to sack Vincent Browne, and in 1994 he finally succeeded in sacking him via his representatives on the board of the Sunday Tribune. Browne's crime this time? To condemn the Sunday Independent's mob attacks on Eamonn Casey. O'Reilly, the great autocrat of the Irish media, didn't like an editor whose agenda he couldn't dictate.

Fortunately for Irish democracy, Browne survived to tell everybody in 2007 that "Sir" - as O'Reilly infamously corrected an RTE journalist - Anthony O'Reilly had just held a secret meeting with Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen before the 2007 election where the Independent rags would support FF in return for FF looking after O'Reilly's other business interests. Not the sort of information one would have read in the Sunday Independent in 2007.

diomed

I sent him a one word e-mail that described one of the panel.
He looked at the camera and smiled.

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Vincent Browne will Bust Your Head.

Yourself isit

He was born to wealth right?

bodhrandude

I thought his radio show in the nineties was more powerful, I remember him ripping Michael Noonan apart in 1997 during the hepatitis scandal on the radio, riveting stuff.

RayM

bodhrandude wrote: »

I thought his radio show in the nineties was more powerful, I remember him ripping Michael Noonan apart in 1997 during the hepatitis scandal on the radio, riveting stuff.

He once introduced the disgraced lobbyist Frank Dunlop with the words: "Frank Dunlop, you're some little bollix, aren't you?"

Arghus

Watched a few minutes of his show last night for the first time in ages. He's always been a bit doddery in delivery, but it took him a very long time to get a sentence into working order at times, even if I did laugh at his undisguised cynicism at what he was hearing from the panel. But it all has the feeling of a bit of a pantomine at this stage. I remember it was dynamite TV every night back around the time of the bailout, when the likes of Paul Sommerville and Constantin Gurdgiev were like economic hearthrobs to the nation. Your heart would drop if only Brian Lucey was on the panel.

Still respect Vinnie immensely as a journalist.

Baron Kurtz

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I love The Man Vincent Browne. Love to See him in a Boxing Ring With Enda and Mick Wallace as the Boxing Referee.

Leave the shift key alone, would ya!

Wheeliebin30

RayM wrote: »

He recently described Simon Harris as "prematurely waistcoated", which was a brilliant description.

He is a bitter man after not been allowed join Fianna Gael and never got over it. He has a personal vendetta behind all his ranting.

Pathetic really.

"In 1994, he sought a nomination for the Fine Gael party in that year's European elections or the possible general election of that year (it was thought a general election might follow the collapse of the Albert Reynolds' government). He was rebuffed by the leader of Fine Gael and future Taoiseach, John Bruton. He then became a vocal critic of the party."

Robsweezie

He doesn't have the polished media training that RTE/ TV3 crowd appear to have. He just shoots off the bat, he doesnt care for pleasantries, just the truth

Ralf and Florian

Jaysus! What a knob! This Boland guy.

https://twitter.com/samrboland/status/882725557640757249

Jesus Wept

Beyondgone wrote: »

Doddery idiot with a lot of friends in important places. A waffler who fakes "outrage" well . Then laughs. One of the D4 set. Him and yer wan with the poodle perm.

He's from Limerick.

darkdubh

Ralf and Florian wrote: »

Jaysus! What a knob! This Boland guy.

https://twitter.com/samrboland/status/882725557640757249

What point is he trying to make? Seriously?

tomwaterford

Robsweezie wrote: »

He doesn't have the polished media training that RTE/ TV3 crowd appear to have. He just shoots off the bat, he doesnt care for pleasantries, just the truth

The first time i seen his show

I taught it was a pisstake like apres match

Yourself isit

Agricola wrote: »

I like his politician badgering and his total disdain for people who waffle, avoid questions, or misdirect. He has a good eye for separating the odd virtuous politician with the dozens of spoofers who are only in it for the prestige.

Still, I think Eamonn Dunphy described him best. A sheep in wolf's clothing. Browne is a champagne socialist and part of the media circus he pretends to hate.

Great phrase. Very true.

dd972

I was waiting for a southbound Dart at Tara St during a quiet mid morning and he walked past me staring at me like I'd just come off a spacecraft.