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RTÉ Investigates

  • 28-06-2018 10:13pm
    #1
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,593 ✭✭✭


    Anyone watching rte investigates?

    Shocking behaviour, but should we be supplied?


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  • #2
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Should have gone to specsavers


  • #3
    liam7831
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭liam7831


    funkey_monkey wrote:
    Anyone watching rte investigates?

    funkey_monkey wrote:
    Shocking behaviour, but should we be supplied?

    It's a repeat was on a few years ago


  • #4
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Shocking behaviour, but should we be supplied?

    supplied with what?


  • #5
    umop episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭umop episdn


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    supplied with what?

    Supplied with bad Chinese accents in panto?


  • #6
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,752 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    RTE investigates what?

    What exactly is this thread about?


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  • #7
    liam7831
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭liam7831


    blanch152 wrote: »
    RTE investigates what?

    What exactly is this thread about?

    It's about what's supplied to RTE


  • #8
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    I think OP is looking for the Television forum?


  • #9
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 41,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    It was a repeat of the RTE Prime Time Investigates into politicians disclosures and they had an actress pretending to be involved in wind farms and some politicians appeared to be blatantly asking her for money e.g. Hugh McElvaney.
    At the end it said that the three politicians involved (some of whom are still serving LA councillors) would be facing SIPO hearings in September

    https://youtu.be/zpko_hXWb7Q


    Effectively it showed that despite everything we still have blatant political corruption


  • #10
    MaxFlower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭MaxFlower


    All three seem to be on their respective councils still.
    Shocking really but hardly surprising. I’m guessing that a lot of people would put forth some form of justification or defense of what they were up to.
    Otherwise wouldn’t there have been some for of local outcry and/or they would have been voted out.
    Much like Michael Lowry in Tipperary, the vocal majority of people they represent don’t want to know or can see what they have done wrong. It’s crazy when you think of how people go to these ‘Pillars’ to make representation to the health service or local authority, both underfunded, when they themselves are busy evading tax or looking for ‘sterling Nina’


  • #11
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,013 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    It's 'what can he/they do for me?' folks seem to vote based on personal self interest not the greater good, which is to be expected but some characters really test that.


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  • #12
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Only children genuinely believe in the idea that there's a political system that is based on "the greater good"; best one can hope for is personal interest that has a net positive impact. Everyone else either (i) grows out of it or (ii) has their own personal agenda.

    The very few that don't fall into those categories are packing their bags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand


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