Intel versus farmer. Rte1 now

funkey_monkey

Could be an interesting watch.
935pm 1st July

funkey_monkey

You see the arse on the calf he was bottle feeding?

Andrew00

funkey_monkey wrote: »

You see the arse on the calf he was bottle feeding?

What the hell was going on there

funkey_monkey

Scour (dirorea) stuck the tail to its arse. A recipe for flystrike (maggots) in good weather.

Carrying silage with bare hands. Jesus!

amacca

Bit slow paced

Could do with a bit of a car chase or an auld explosion thrown in here and there...maybe some martial arts on the ida guy

digzy

Didn’t think he’d be a man for weed killer

funkey_monkey

I thought he was going to spray fu ck off Intel into the grass!

amacca

I can't get rid of them documents they might be valuable , you never know whats valuable!

I'm convinced hes a gigantic troll:D:D

NIMAN

Slowest film ever.

I have kinda lost the will to finish watching it.

Butcher Boy

me too.

Andrew00

I think it's good

Wildly Boaring

I used be able to see out that window. See who was pulling up. Can't now cus all that stuff is in the way.

Lordy

amacca

he's good for biodiversity anyway......

fine crop of thistles

funkey_monkey

I'm liking it too.

When does this turn into psychological bullying or harassment by the IDA?

memorystick

amacca wrote: »

Bit slow paced

Could do with a bit of a car chase or an auld explosion thrown in here and there...maybe some martial arts on the ida guy

It needs to be slow to highlight how isolated and introverted he is.

funkey_monkey

amacca wrote: »

fine crop of thistles

He's a pile of wrap that's bigger than most farmers clamp.

NIMAN

Andrew00 wrote: »

I think it's good

The story is good but they are dragging the ar$e out of it. Could have been done in 30mins.

amacca

memorystick wrote: »

It needs to be slow to highlight how isolated and introverted he is.

really? ......so I suppose theres absolutely no chance of a steamy romp with good looking actor types then?

NIMAN

memorystick wrote: »

It needs to be slow to highlight how isolated and introverted he is.

Bollix. Once you see the inside of his house, you know what his life is like.

There is no need for slow lingering shots of grass and bushes blowing in the wind.

memorystick

NIMAN wrote: »

The story is good but they are dragging the ar$e out of it. Could have been done in 30mins.

But you wouldn't be able to be on the phone then.

Say my name

memorystick wrote: »

It needs to be slow to highlight how isolated and introverted he is.

Had Pat Shortt an input in this?

There's a "Garage" vibe off this.

amacca

Monica:D

amacca

amacca wrote: »

I can't get rid of them documents they might be valuable , you never know whats valuable!

I'm convinced hes a gigantic troll:D:D

His fvcking land is valuable

Butcher Boy

he would want to spend a day dehorning.

Keep Sluicing

Jesus. More shopping in Tesco. Fucck sake

amacca

Deleted User wrote: »

His fvcking land is valuable

That was the ironic thing


Also Its seemingly much more valuable to him than 10 million.

dmakc

Oh good we have a shotgun to the head scene the PC brigade will love that

NIMAN

[Deleted User] wrote: »

His fvcking land is valuable

If you place no value on money, then his land has only sentimental value to him.

Why would he turn down 10 million otherwise.

memorystick

Look up his place on google earth (can't do it here)

funkey_monkey

He'll be put out by the dept before the IDA get around to it if he doesn't get the act together.

They house and farm would have been some operation in its prime. Lovely big house and land.

LillySV

I think theyre making a right odd bolox out of him.

He is entitled to be as introverted and backward as he likes.... it’s his life, just like that’s he’s land.

I’d love to see the full picture of exactly how much money ida has been costing the state over last 30 years.... they seem to be throwing billions on big premises which they then provide to the big low tax companies

Butcher Boy

****sake things are bad enough without showing that fr cow.

funkey_monkey

Butcher Boy wrote: »

****sake things are bad enough without showing that fr cow.

That's Monica!

Say my name

funkey_monkey wrote: »

That's Monica!

Fine actress.

whisky_galore

Christ I hate untidy setups. And unnecessary hoarding, makes my teeth itch.

Knew a few ould lads like this, thought they were all gone. Looks like there's still a few left.

NIMAN

whisky_galore wrote: »

Christ I hate untidy setups. And unnecessary hoarding, makes my teeth itch.

Knew a few ould lads like this, thought they were all gone. Looks like there's still a few left.

So who gets it all when he goes?

If he has no family that is?

Imagine it being left to a distant nephew, and he'd have it sold to Intel and the IDA before the end of the day!

bcklschaps

Fair play to Thomas Reid.

Great song at the end too

https://youtu.be/4xmckWVPRaI

whisky_galore

NIMAN wrote: »

So who gets it all when he goes?

If he has no family that is?

Imagine it being left to a distant nephew, and he'd have it sold to Intel and the IDA before the end of the day!

You can't take it with you.

Lads like this won't change until they're loaded into the box. A bit sad tbh.

amacca

whisky_galore wrote: »

Christ I hate untidy setups. And unnecessary hoarding, makes my teeth itch.

Knew a few ould lads like this, thought they were all gone. Looks like there's still a few left.

me too but at the end of the day as long as no one is harmed etc isn't he entitled to hoard whatever the **** he likes in his own place.

I couldn't stand it myself but Id be of the opinion id be willing to fight to defend his right to hoard as he sees fit etc

patsy_mccabe

funkey_monkey wrote: »

That's Monica!

There once was a cow name Monica
Who learned how to play the harmonica.
The tongue is the key
To her virtuosity.
Just ask her girlfriend, Veronica.

Andrew00

You can guarantee he has a few hundred thousand or more in the bank (or even in cash). The 10 million wouldn't have mattered

Shelflife

Bizarre film, opportunity lost I feel for him to tell his story.

Instead we had footage of him eating bananas, buying bananas and walking around the farm feeding cattle.

Not sure what story they were trying to tell, they painted a weird picture of him and why they had to show the injured cow being put down and carted away is beyond me.

Not sure how it won awards , didn’t do anything for me.

funkey_monkey

Fair fncks to him for giving those cnuts in the IDA a kick in the balls.

Now that it's over I hope he gets a skip in and gets back to his life.

Disappointed, they didn't play out the credits with that song. I would have been raging in the cinema if that happened.

funkey_monkey

Shelflife wrote: »

Bizarre film, opportunity lost I feel for him to tell his story.

Instead we had footage of him eating bananas, buying bananas and walking around the farm feeding cattle.

Agree. Never learnt anything about him apart from the chat about aunt Nancy.

careless sherpa

Looks like the house and sheds had been pretty nice at one point in time. What the hell were they doing with gbe cow when dragging it by the neck

patsy_mccabe

He's lodged right between Carton house and Intel on the Leixlip Maynooth road. Prime location alright.

digzy

funkey_monkey wrote: »

He'll be put out by the dept before the IDA get around to it if he doesn't get the act together.

Brilliant! I’m still laughing. Imagine if despite all his introvertidness that it was letting the cameras that fooked him

Shelflife

Shelflife wrote: »

Bizarre film, opportunity lost I feel for him to tell his story.

Instead we had footage of him eating bananas, buying bananas and walking around the farm feeding cattle.

Not sure what story they were trying to tell, they painted a weird picture of him and why they had to show the injured cow being put down and carted away is beyond me.

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I got that- and in some respects I agree with you- and also, maybe that his land was his parents land, and that he felt a "duty" to it.

I've seen similar behaviour simply over a house, no less land- but who am I to judge him. there are a lot of people like him throughout Ireland tending to land, or maintaining a house, for better or worse, that their parents attended to- and nothing will change them from their ways-the one differentiating factor in this case, is that his land was worth multiples of what land might be elsewhere in the country.

There are obvious questions around the hoarding of newspapers and what not, going back to the 80's- the references to Dallas were bizarre and I'd have a few questions to ask the producers/directors of this film, but maybe this was a way of portraying some sort of story (I'm very familiar with Dallas TV show from 80s etc so don't need to have the cliff barnes/Yewings feud explained to me- but still I'd have questions to the producers on including that and how it came about)

I'm not going to "label" him- or indeed "judge" him- he participated in this film so will be subject to criticism- rightly or wrongly - my only point is that i feel he may be classed as a "vulnerable adult"- IMHO-which is protected by law.

But yeah, was this a film about "make your own mind up" or something? I'm not sure it hit the right note in this circumstance.

Sheep breeder

Deleted User wrote: »

I got that- and in some respects I agree with you- and also, maybe that his land was his parents land, and that he felt a "duty" to it.

I've seen similar behaviour simply over a house, no less land- but who am I to judge him. there are a lot of people like him throughout Ireland tending to land, or maintaining a house, for better or worse, that their parents attended to- and nothing will change them from their ways-the one differentiating factor in this case, is that his land was worth multiples of what land might be elsewhere in the country.

There are obvious questions around the hoarding of newspapers and what not, going back to the 80's- the references to Dallas were bizarre and I'd have a few questions to ask the producers/directors of this film, but maybe this was a way of portraying some sort of story (I'm very familiar with Dallas TV show from 80s etc so don't need to have the cliff barnes/Yewings feud explained to me- but still I'd have questions to the producers on including that and how it came about)

I'm not going to "label" him- or indeed "judge" him- he participated in this film so will be subject to criticism- rightly or wrongly - my only point is that i feel he may be classed as a "vulnerable adult"- IMHO-which is protected by law.

But yeah, was this a film about "make your own mind up" or something? I'm not sure it hit the right note in this circumstance.

Was the film maker try to show that things were ok with him in 80/90s and went down hill with the intel/IDA bulling of him over greed and stating 5 other farms were suitable but were never approached and he was targeted.
The striking thing is he is only 55 years of age and looks healthy and could live for a long time. The IDA have a lot to answer for in pushing the case and in the end they were wrong.

Shelflife

Deleted User wrote: »

I got that- and in some respects I agree with you- and also, maybe that his land was his parents land, and that he felt a "duty" to it.

I've seen similar behaviour simply over a house, no less land- but who am I to judge him. there are a lot of people like him throughout Ireland tending to land, or maintaining a house, for better or worse, that their parents attended to- and nothing will change them from their ways-the one differentiating factor in this case, is that his land was worth multiples of what land might be elsewhere in the country.

There are obvious questions around the hoarding of newspapers and what not, going back to the 80's- the references to Dallas were bizarre and I'd have a few questions to ask the producers/directors of this film, but maybe this was a way of portraying some sort of story (I'm very familiar with Dallas TV show from 80s etc so don't need to have the cliff barnes/Yewings feud explained to me- but still I'd have questions to the producers on including that and how it came about)

I'm not going to "label" him- or indeed "judge" him- he participated in this film so will be subject to criticism- rightly or wrongly - my only point is that i feel he may be classed as a "vulnerable adult"- IMHO-which is protected by law.

But yeah, was this a film about "make your own mind up" or something? I'm not sure it hit the right note in this circumstance.

No issue with the man or his lifestyle, to each their own. Have to admire him for his stance against the might of the state , which didn’t really come across at all.

Seemed to be more about his alternate lifestyle than the fight against the IDA.

Andrew00

Did it not say he's 51? I was shocked he looks well older than that and walks like a proper aul lad