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RTÉ to broadcast feature-length documentary on the life of Denis O'Brien

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    #32
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Brae100 wrote: »
    He was rather she

    Well, I hadn't heard that about him. :eek:


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    #33
    mikemac2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,927 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    First I ever heard of him was 2003 Special Olympics. He was the top man as I remember and I was a volunteer

    Now I'm wondering was it all for personal PR and goodwill, I don't know the full story back then!


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    #34
    Jeff2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,989 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »
    A bloody documentary celebrating this corrupt greedy tax dodging parasitic fatcat basically encapsulates what I hate most about RTE, and this country as well.

    While ordinary people had their lives ruined he used backroom dealings to amass obscene wealth, tried to fleece every family in with his water meters, moved his residence ton Malta.

    He's not someone Irish people should be celebrating. And I don't want his big fat boulder of a head being beamed into my home, ever.

    They should make one about the likes of Duffy they pay €400k^ through his company to cut tax.
    And and people can go to jail for not paying the TV licence that pays him and the like that work there.


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    #35
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Wheeliebin30 wrote: »
    I don’t get this.

    Prime time has constantly exposed corrupt politicians, homelessness etc.

    They always give the government a hard time.

    Conspiracy theory nonsense.

    Prime Time Investigates has uncovered a good few scandals alright, relatively few of them about politicians and more along the lines of National Irish Bank etc.

    This is a "feature length" - doesn't sound like a disassembly of the man's character although I suppose we could be surprised.

    As for RTÉ and your suggestion of a conspiracy - sorry, no. They are consistently poor to unacceptable in their role which is to be unbiased. Watch any Ryan Tubridy political interview and you will see what this means. Even on this morning's interview with Eoghan Murphy Dobson asked why the target for housing hadn't been met and flat out accepted the answer with no further questions - even when the minister basically said he didn't have the figures to hand (which is his job, we're talking about perhaps the single most important key performance indicator for his current role).

    I have no agenda here, just calling out RTÉ for their history of halfhearted attempts to challenge politicians and their widely recognised poor level of programming with respect to the amount of money they are paid to create it.


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    #36
    Mikenesson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Mikenesson


    No sign of this on the schedule


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    #37
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Something along the lines of this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKu0TVlumcc


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    #38
    _Kaiser_
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    Mikenesson wrote: »
    No sign of this on the schedule

    It's on now. Sky EPG has it anyway?


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    #39
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    Mikenesson wrote: »
    No sign of this on the schedule
    Did he get an injunction?


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    #40
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,142 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Here very happy with my TV tuned to RTE Radio 1 listening to Creedon, a good Corkman.


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    #41
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    He was expelled from school


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    #42
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,711 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Looks like they didn't get him to contribute to this anyway as all the soundbites from him seem to be from previous interviews


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    #43
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,880 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Wheeliebin30 wrote: »
    I don’t get this.

    Prime time has constantly exposed corrupt politicians, homelessness etc.

    They always give the government a hard time.

    Conspiracy theory nonsense.

    No they haven't. Not really. Politicians? When they're dead maybe. Fat lot of good that is.


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    #44
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    The funny money game..


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    #45
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,853 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    The funny money game..

    A bit of honesty, eh?


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    #46
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Gospel according to Denis so far. How surprising.

    Worth saying I'm not all against the man, if some of his capitalism had rubbed off in better areas we could have benefited hugely. Public services in this country for example would be unrecognisable if they had a business logic applied to them.

    Oh look, a wild Lowry appears.


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    #47
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    If it was the best, then why the payments.. incentives to Lowry...


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    #48
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    So beautifully corrupt


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    #49
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Lowry.. Ben there, Dunne that

    Dunne nothing wrong.


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    #50
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Ugh what a sniveling, snakey ****....


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    #51
    Brae100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭Brae100


    The ESAT license issue is down to Lower. If a license is going to be awarded due to bribery, you have to bribe.


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    #52
    _Kaiser_
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    I'm not sure what the motivation/aim is behind this piece?


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    #53
    Zebra3
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    sdanseo wrote: »
    Gospel according to Denis so far. How surprising.

    Worth saying I'm not all against the man, if some of his capitalism had rubbed off in better areas we could have benefited hugely. Public services in this country for example would be unrecognisable if they had a business logic applied to them.

    Oh look, a wild Lowry appears.

    He became wealthy by bribing a government minister.

    And you're not all against him?


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    #54
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Joking about bribing Lowry ah begorah


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    #55
    Wheeliebin30
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    I’m not watching it but go on is it a glowing report of him like people were saying seems he owns RTE and the government?


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    #56
    Brae100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭Brae100


    Wheeliebin30 wrote: »
    I’m not watching it but go on is it a glowing report of him like people were saying seems he owns RTE and the government?

    It is fairly positive so far, but IME he was great to work for back then.


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    #57
    sdanseo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    He became wealthy by bribing a government minister.

    And you're not all against him?

    Doesn't mean his opinion that public services didn't function efficiently wasn't true.

    Pity about the rest.


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    #58
    Brae100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭Brae100


    Now Barry Maloney - I've had dodgy experiences there. Shark.


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    #59
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    A meeting in a Dublin pub

    No talk about the licence

    Of course there wasn't


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    #60
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Brae100 wrote: »
    Now Barry Maloney - I've had dodgy experiences there. Shark.

    Seems like fine upstanding character...


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    #61
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    An Irish Plutocrat.


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