ButtersSuki wrote: » I will pour gas lighter fluid over my balls and let Joe light it if that press release WASN'T prepared by The Communications Clinic.
Uncle Ben wrote: » RTE conveniently avoiding their own littlte Liveline Earthquake on the week in review now.
Red Kev wrote: » And what colour are your balls caller?
Dan Jaman wrote: » I do hope the locals got there in time before all the refreshments were gone, scoffed by a the gannets.
sligojoek wrote: » Heidi. You have to listen to it. As stated above, The transcript doesn't do it justce. You have to hear the tone of his voice.
barney shamrock wrote: » He's been well known as a buffoon here for ages but it seems he's exposed himself on a national level now and is being widely ridiculed for the appalling unprofessionalism he displayed during the interview. A major broadcasting blunder, and it couldn't happen to a nicer person.
PeterTheNinth wrote: » Oh dear, now there is an investigation in to two Irish athletes who are suspected of putting bets on Olympic sports. Nobody named yet, but apparently the OCI will be investigating it.. lolhttp://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0827/812313-olympic-games-betting/ My god, what a mess. Hickey Family solicitor NOW on The Marian Finucane Show. Why are RTE giving these people free air time? ..
A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: » I don't buy the Mail on Sunday, but I understand Joe Duffy has an article in that newspaper every Sunday, right? I might have a free nosey through it in the newsagent's in the morning. It will be interesting to see whether Inspector Doofey mentions the Pat Hickey scandal, or his shambolic interrogation of the Rio Police Commissioner.
It’s not that he’s aged; he might be 69 now but he’s a fresh and vibrant one, thanks to his frequent workouts in his neighbouring Phoenix Park that help make his appearance approximate to what it was when he was so publicly visible over a decade ago. As for his own, he loves running through the Phoenix Park four or five times a week. “I couldn’t stay alive without that,” he says. “It clears my head. It’s where I do all my thinking. Christmas Day in the snow, Stephen’s Day, even in the worst despairing moments when McDaid and the world was attacking me, I’d go there.” At home, he likes nothing better than plopping in front of the TV and watching a documentary or a boxset. He watched all of Love/Hate: cue your own quip about comparisons between him and Nidge & Co. He loves films but hasn’t time to watch them in the cinema: instead he waits until he’s on the plane. The last one he watched was the war film Fury. “Brad Pitt was in it. Tough in places but great story.” Everywhere he goes he brings his Kindle. He reads heavily but not heavy material. You might think he’d read the biographies of politicians for insights as to how they rolled but that’s not how he rolls. Thrillers and whodunits are more his thing. Escapism is what he seeks; the brain is tested enough as it is.
HeidiHeidi wrote: » Joe now on with Derek Mooney :eek: Discussing that mad tree sculpture on the coast road in Contaaaaarf.
Regardless of whether Pat Hickey is guilty or not, this is about nothing more than tickets for an international sporting event. He hasn't harmed the hair on one child's head or left a family homeless. He hasn't closed anybody's business down or forced them to emigrate. He hasn't maimed anybody or cheated them out of their inheritance. Over the past 20 years, we have seen people who presided over kneecapping, bombings, possibly even mass murder, getting direct access to parliaments in Dublin and Belfast. Yes, I'm talking about the control the IRA army council exerts over Sinn Féin. Yet they are regarded now as pillars of the community because we needed a 'peace process' to get them to desist from their murderous ways. I see politicians from Fianna Fáil, civil servants and bankers who presided over the financial downfall and humiliation of this country - leading to mass unemployment, emigration, homelessness and even suicide - pronouncing with gravity on national issues, as if none of those events had anything to do with them. Yet the level of national anger directed at a frail 71-year-old man with a heart condition, who is accused of ticket touting, is breathtaking and out of all proportion. People who should know better are gloating about the violation of his human rights and taking pleasure in the travesty of Brazilian 'justice', which would not be tolerated if it happened to any other Irish citizen. On the scale of man's inhumanity to man, ticket touting is, as far as I am concerned, inconsequential. Killers, crime bosses, charlatans of all sorts are walking around free and easy, yet we reserve our national ire for one man over tickets for a sporting event. This is not about life or death; it's not about putting people out of their homes, or making orphans out of young children. It's about sporting gratification. Pat Hickey is not Public Enemy Number One and it is now time that we stopped treating him as if he was.
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