Dunphy back on RTE for World Cup Final

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http://www.irishnewspapers.com/papers/examiner_articles.php?idstory=30959

Irish Examiner

2002/06/28

RTE puts Dunphy back in pundit's chair for Sunday's World Cup showdown

By Mícheál Lehane

EAMON DUNPHY will be back in his pundit's chair this weekend, RTE announced last night. Station chiefs lifted their suspension yesterday to allow Mr Dunphy to return to the set of the World Cup review programme airing on Sunday night.

Mr Dunphy was suspended by station management after he arrived at Montrose exhausted and hungover on Sunday June 9.

Can we expect fireworks or will he have learned his lesson !?

mike65

He'll be a pussycat!

Note, he's only getting the review slot not the real thing...they're keeping him in his place.

Mike.

daveirl

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Bateman

He performed well against Menton, but then contradicted himself on the Ian Rush point. As a man who urged us all to cheer on another country against our own at the World Cup, I don't know how people still have time for him.

And his new salary? How does he do it? If every bitter, twisted, spiteful person with a bit of intelligence got paid as much as him, the country would be in a sorry state.

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That Ian Rush comparison backfired on him alright. Someone obviously forgot to mention to him that Rushie is welsh!!

I think the panel won the debate with Menton although I dont think they nailed him over any specific point. It'll be intersting to see what their report on the Keano debacle comes out with.

Pigman

Originally posted by Bateman
As a man who urged us all to cheer on another country against our own at the World Cup, I don't know how people still have time for him.

Because we're the most fu.cked up country on earth, that's why. We have more legislation than you could shake a stick at but it's worth nothing because there's no-one there to inforce it! Endemic of the Irish mentality if you ask me. We might as well be living in the 1200's for all anyone cares!

Bateman

Because we're the most fu.cked up country on earth, that's why

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Fair enough Pigman, true, but on a more specific point how can anyone have sympathy for RTE when they pay this man to tell us to cheer on the opposition? It says more about the incompetent bungling of RTE than it says about our country in general.

Dustaz

Nah, its cos hes interesting to watch. He just says half the things he says simply to be extreme. We all know it. Its entertaining. When hes being serious hes a pretty good journalist. (well, he can be)

Bateman

Yeah but just because people know he's not being sincere when he says we should cheer for the opposition, doesn't make it alright in my book.