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Piers Morgan

  • 11-01-2020 1:31pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭


    What’s the deal with Piers Morgan? Do people generally agree with his views and is he always so angry? I’ve only read a few articles he’s written and they seem angry, spiteful and unkind. The most recent one he wrote was an in-depth discussion about how awful Harry and Megan are....:as if there’s not more important things going on in the world right now!

    Someone showed me a few clips of him interviewing people on a breakfast show, he seems quite argumentative and condescending but maybe he just didn’t like the guests.

    It must be difficult being so angry and bothered by things all the time. Is he always like that?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    After the dead girl phone hacking controversy be was embroiled in, my opinion of him is that he's something of a cnut.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    He's a professional angry man and attention seeker. Keeps the money coming in.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Piers Morgan? Who the flip is Piers.. .. .. Oh you mean C*nty McC*ntface!

    He's just a narcissistic dickhead who thinks everyone loves him but in reality is just as much of a waste of matter as Katie Hopkins.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,207 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I rarely follow him.
    He says he originally wrote nice stuff about Megan and Harry but he went off her after time. That opinion is certainly there is the public from people who I know that like the royals.
    He's known to have strong views on things.
    It's certainly working for him.
    Some wouldn't like him and some would.
    He may be classed as a straight talker.
    An Irish example would be Niall Boylan. He'd lay into somebody like Magaret Cash and ask difficult questions. Whilst others would just feel sorry for her or pretend to feel sorry for her.
    I'd have no real opinion on him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,259 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Male version of Katie Hopkins. Likes to say stuff he knows will get attention, it's the basis of his entire career.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,392 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    I often wonder does Susanna Reid love him or loath him?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭HBC08


    He was friendly with Megan when she was in suits,he met her for lunch a few times apparently as he was a big fan of the show.She then abruptly cut contact when she met Harry.He accused her of being a social climber,he might have a point.
    However I don't think many would argue that he's not a horrible pr1ck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,168 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Opportunistic professional contrarian. Or horrible cúnt, whichever you prefer.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 463 ✭✭Jonybgud


    Contemptable human being.

    That is all


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,030 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭hawley


    He regards himself an Irishman.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,295 ✭✭✭Be right back


    hawley wrote: »
    He regards himself an Irishman.

    He likes the flag anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    He's a wan*er.
    However he knows the craic and is probably right to portray himself that way.

    If you wanna make money like him. Even if it's only off something like YouTube even you have to be up yourself. You have to be crazy opinionated. You have to be an ass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    If Morgan got out on the right side of the bed in the morning, he'd walk over and start a fight with the left side. Inventing conflict is big business in old Blighty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Prat of the highest order, huge ego allows the otherwise talent free to prosper


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Only calls her a social climber because she's a woman. The lads who marry princesses don't get called social climbers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    McMurphy wrote: »
    After the dead girl phone hacking controversy be was embroiled in, my opinion of him is that he's something of a cnut.

    He had nothing whatsoever to do with Milly Dowler's voicemails getting hacked by the News of the World. He left that paper seven years earlier.

    His appearance on Have I Got News for You, twenty-four years ago (back when it was good), was very funny. An early display of his total lack of self-awareness.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Sheepdish1


    I rarely follow him.
    He says he originally wrote nice stuff about Megan and Harry but he went off her after time. That opinion is certainly there is the public from people who I know that like the royals.
    He's known to have strong views on things.
    It's certainly working for him.
    Some wouldn't like him and some would.
    He may be classed as a straight talker.
    An Irish example would be Niall Boylan. He'd lay into somebody like Magaret Cash and ask difficult questions. Whilst others would just feel sorry for her or pretend to feel sorry for her.
    I'd have no real opinion on him.

    I think he’s just rude from what I’ve seen. Some interviewers are good at asking hard questions, he just seems really rude and talks over people from what I’ve seen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    I don't like the smug arrogant pr*ck, but at least he is not afraid to call out bullsh*it when he has too, a typical example of this was when he interviewed drug mule Michaella McColgan, she went in playing the victim and he made fool out of her. Meanwhile when she was interviewed in Ireland, she got usual soft interview. Pity there wasn't a few more like him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Sheepdish1


    I often wonder does Susanna Reid love him or loath him?

    Why and who is this?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Sheepdish1


    mgn wrote: »
    I don't like the smug arrogant pr*ck, but at least he is not afraid to call out bullsh*it when he has too, a typical example of this was when he interviewed drug mule Michaella McColgan, she went in playing the victim and he made fool out of her. Meanwhile when she was interviewed in Ireland, she got usual soft interview. Pity there wasn't a few more like him.

    From what I’ve seen he cuts over people and is quite rude. I couldn’t think of anyone worse to listen to first thing in the morning. It’s ok to call people out but he seems like a bully the way he handles interviewing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    He’s the quintessential attention-seeker. Pathetic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    I often wonder does Susanna Reid love him or loath him?

    I would wager it is the later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,795 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    I like him, one of the few non PC presenters. He says what many people think but I think a lot of people wouldn't dare let it be known they agree with him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,928 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    I think he's gas.
    That interview on Good Morning Britain about the gender issue was hilarious.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭KWAG2019


    Careful now folks. Piers is half Irish. Nuance, maturity and inclusiveness to the fore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,321 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    I like him, one of the few non PC presenters. He says what many people think but I think a lot of people wouldn't dare let it be known they agree with him.

    Ya like him alot, too many PC creeps around. He like Trump so that's ok with me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    KWAG2019 wrote: »
    Careful now folks. Piers is half Irish. Nuance, maturity and inclusiveness to the fore.
    Half English, half Irish, all Twat, I say. We're talking about someone who was too much for Rupert Murdoch, who said "the boy went too far" when he approve the publishing of intrusive photos of Princess Diana's sister-in-law while he was editor of News Of The World. So he went to the Daily Mirror, which was involved in the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of News Of The World, but managed to avoid prosecution himself. The guy is too toxic for Room 101.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    I like him, one of the few non PC presenters. He says what many people think but I think a lot of people wouldn't dare let it be known they agree with him.
    Ya like him alot, too many PC creeps around. He like Trump so that's ok with me.
    He like (sic) someone so he's ok with you? Not exactly deep thinking there. :D

    I mean yeah, I don't always disagree with him, but he's also a nasty **** to people who don't deserve it - that's not to be admired.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭PMBC


    hawley wrote: »
    He regards himself an Irishman.

    Mother first married to O'Meara from Offaly before she married Morgan and outr man changed his name to suit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    A very spiteful narcissist he is. In the week his mate Donald trump almost caused WW3 he instead chooses to go on an angry rant about Harry and Meghan. What a world we live in.


  • Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    He has a boorish manner that makes him hard to listen to but most of the time he’s correct in what he’s saying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,525 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    I like him, one of the few non PC presenters. He says what many people think but I think a lot of people wouldn't dare let it be known they agree with him.

    Im far from pc but I think he's a scumbag and a hypocrite.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    KWAG2019 wrote: »
    Careful now folks. Piers is half Irish. Nuance, maturity and inclusiveness to the fore.

    The man is about as Irish as the laptop I'm using to write this post with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven


    He claims to be Irish yet the other day he called himself a royalist and celebrates England's triumphs in international matches.
    McMurphy wrote: »
    After the dead girl phone hacking controversy be was embroiled in, my opinion of him is that he's something of a cnut.

    I follow him on Twitter and he's constantly getting blamed for this, but he didn't work for the News of the World at that time.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    I like him, one of the few non PC presenters. He says what many people think but I think a lot of people wouldn't dare let it be known they agree with him.

    Is he fúck? He is the very definition of a populist. His opinions, for what they're worth, are dictated solely by how the wind is blowing on any given topic. He will say or do anything to keep himself relevant.

    He is an odious cretin with not a single bone of conviction in his body.


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    He had nothing whatsoever to do with Milly Dowler's voicemails getting hacked by the News of the World. He left that paper seven years earlier.

    His appearance on Have I Got News for You, twenty-four years ago (back when it was good), was very funny. An early display of his total lack of self-awareness.

    To me, having sat through it, he just comes across as entirely arrogant


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Remember the time he presided over his newspaper publishing fake photos of British soldiers urinating over their captives? It seems the British public doesn't either


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Sheepdish1


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    He like (sic) someone so he's ok with you? Not exactly deep thinking there. :D

    I mean yeah, I don't always disagree with him, but he's also a nasty **** to people who don't deserve it - that's not to be admired.

    Yeah I don’t have a problem with people saying what they want; anyone should be able to have an opinion. But he just seems nasty in general.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    McMurphy wrote: »
    After the dead girl phone hacking controversy be was embroiled in, my opinion of him is that he's something of a cnut.

    How was he involved there exactly?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭marieholmfan


    I rarely follow him.
    He says he originally wrote nice stuff about Megan and Harry but he went off her after time. That opinion is certainly there is the public from people who I know that like the royals.
    He's known to have strong views on things.
    It's certainly working for him.
    Some wouldn't like him and some would.
    He may be classed as a straight talker.
    An Irish example would be Niall Boylan. He'd lay into somebody like Magaret Cash and ask difficult questions. Whilst others would just feel sorry for her or pretend to feel sorry for her.
    I'd have no real opinion on him.
    I

    Piers Morgan is from Banagher.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Piers Morgan? Who the flip is Piers.. .. .. Oh you mean C*nty McC*ntface!

    He's just a narcissistic dickhead who thinks everyone loves him but in reality is just as much of a waste of matter as Katie Hopkins.
    He's more intelligent than Katie. He says whatever needs to be said to be "controversial" but unlike Katie he knows when to stop. Katie was an idiot who got sacked by everyone and now no one will touch her with a barge pole.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,321 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    Aidric wrote: »
    Is he fúck? He is the very definition of a populist. His opinions, for what they're worth, are dictated solely by how the wind is blowing on any given topic. He will say or do anything to keep himself relevant.

    He is an odious cretin with not a single bone of conviction in his body.

    How is being a Trump lover populist. Makes no sense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭holyhead


    His daily mail column attacking Meghan are vicious. I don't think they are racist just because Meghan is of mixed ethnicity. But his criticism of Meghan and Harry are OTT. His life stories TV series wasn't bad. He is intelligent but I think he attaches too much importance to his own opinions. Yes he is of Irish stock, his father was from Birr apparently.


  • Posts: 5,917 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    holyhead wrote: »
    His daily mail column attacking Meghan are vicious. I don't think they are racist just because Meghan is of mixed ethnicity. But his criticism of Meghan and Harry are OTT. His life stories TV series wasn't bad. He is intelligent but I think he attaches too much importance to his own opinions. Yes he is of Irish stock, his father was from Birr apparently.

    Ah the BIFFO gene strikes again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,321 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    Harry and Megs eco saviours my ar5e, hypocrites.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Big fan of him. I don't agree with him on everything but he calls out nonsense when he See's it.

    Seems to be very well liked by those who work with him and know him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    McMurphy wrote: »
    After the dead girl phone hacking controversy be was embroiled in, my opinion of him is that he's something of a cnut.

    That was a different paper.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Big fan of him. I don't agree with him on everything but he calls out nonsense when he See's it.

    Seems to be very well liked by those who work with him and know him.
    I'd say that's more keeping quiet for a quiet life. He has a massive vindictive streak. He got the paps and reporters to stalk Ian Hislop for 6 months.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,857 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Not a fan. Comes across as a pompous publicity hound. Even the sheer amount of face he has annoys me. Makes Jeremy Clarkson look cool.


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