Backlash for RTE for Gilligan invite.

Noddyholder wrote: »

How do you figure that out ?? So if you look at someone on TV who you despise Your as bad as them or in your words a tow rag, I take it you don't watch TV at all so.

If you sit there watching and listening and don't think it's entirely inappropriate to give air time to someone who has murdered and terrorised and cost the Irish tax payer millions of €s then you must be a toss pot yourself. Simples.

A Little Pony

Gerry Adams and Mcguinness appeared on the Late Late show, so why not this guy?

infogiver wrote: »

Not me. I have no idea why anyone wants to hear the musings of an illiterate psycho.
It makes me sad to think that anyone actually does.
When you think about him even beating the **** out of V Guerin the day she went out to his house, and how many others did he beat the crap out of, and much worse, and some jobsworth at RTÉ thinks he'd make a good guest?
Anyone who sits down to watch him, and doesn't change channels and make a complaint to RTE is a toe rag themselves IMO.

How do you figure that out ?? So if you look at someone on TV who you despise Your as bad as them or in your words a tow rag, I take it you don't watch TV at all so.

Yamanoto

They should invite him on to Today with Daithi & Maire - Little John's horoscope corner or an outside broadcast slot called Gilligan's island.

Omackeral wrote: »

Keep hoping. It won't happen. It'll be a massive ratings draw and I'm sure half the people on here bemoaning it will be among those watching.

Not me. I have no idea why anyone wants to hear the musings of an illiterate psycho.
It makes me sad to think that anyone actually does.
When you think about him even beating the **** out of V Guerin the day she went out to his house, and how many others did he beat the crap out of, and much worse, and some jobsworth at RTÉ thinks he'd make a good guest?
Anyone who sits down to watch him, and doesn't change channels and make a complaint to RTE is a toe rag themselves IMO.

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infogiver wrote: »

Public executions would get massive viewership, that doesn't mean that broadcasting them is the right thing to do.
This is the worst type of car crash TV, glorifying a murdering cowardly bully and giving the impression to the young pretenders that you can live the life that he chose to live and still end up being given celebrity recognition on a celebrity talk show. I hope the researcher is fired and never works in the media again.

Keep hoping. It won't happen. It'll be a massive ratings draw and I'm sure half the people on here bemoaning it will be among those watching.

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Because it will almost certainly get massive viewership. That's all TV shows care about.

Public executions would get massive viewership, that doesn't mean that broadcasting them is the right thing to do.
This is the worst type of car crash TV, glorifying a murdering cowardly bully and giving the impression to the young pretenders that you can live the life that he chose to live and still end up being given celebrity recognition on a celebrity talk show. I hope the researcher is fired and never works in the media again.

mickmac76

Giving air time to criminals like John Gilligan is just plain wrong. I'd be much more interested in an interview with some of the victims of his crimes. Besides Tubridy is woeful and will say nothing to him.

mikeoneilly wrote: »

Or give him the opportunity to shape our opinion of him..

It's a bad idea imo

Get a good interviewer (bring back Pat Kenny perhaps) and he'd tear him to shreds.

I don't think there is anything he could do to get anyone to feel any sympathy for him.Might actually make him look a hell of a lot worse (if that's possible) by trying to justify what he has done.

mikeoneilly

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Give them a real close up look at him though.

Or give him the opportunity to shape our opinion of him..

It's a bad idea imo

infogiver wrote: »

But where is the entertainment value in presenting us with this kind of pond-life as a guest?

Because it will almost certainly get massive viewership. That's all TV shows care about.

_Brian wrote: »

This a thousand times over, on a time when we should be turning our backs on these scumbags there's our public money going to glorify his like, and I bet he's getting an appearance fee too.

They should have family members of everyone he was involved in killing and injuring on the panel with him - and give them sticks !

The only person I know & heard of that he was involved in killing was VG , and he was cleared of that by our courts.

Delacent wrote: »

Its the sensationalist indo creating a story out of nothing.
The sensationalist indo and sister rags herald and world that give "celebrity" status to the scum.

Sad that so many people don't see the indo for what it is - a sensationalist, hysterical, rag.

But where is the entertainment value in presenting us with this kind of pond-life as a guest?

_Brian wrote: »

This a thousand times over, on a time when we should be turning our backs on these scumbags there's our public money going to glorify his like, and I bet he's getting an appearance fee too.

They should have family members of everyone he was involved in killing and injuring on the panel with him - and give them sticks !

In fairness I don't think they are planning to have a tribute show for him.

Banana Republican

He'll not be that far from him customer base in Montrose tbh. Sniff sniff.

Phoebas wrote: »

Giving him a platform is a lose-lose.

If Tubridy lays into him, he can claim it was a one sided hatchet job.
If Tubridy gives him space, we all know how that'll go - minimise his crimes, blame his 'deprived' upbringing.

In fairness reading his Facebook page he is not going on about his upbringing, he does state that he worked and payed taxs for a lot of his life as he worked on B&I shipping ?? He is rambling on about how is conviction & sentence was wrong and that the state stitched him up.

_Brian

Tristrams Shandied wrote: »

It glorifies criminals by giving them airtime and is disrespectful to victims.

This a thousand times over, on a time when we should be turning our backs on these scumbags there's our public money going to glorify his like, and I bet he's getting an appearance fee too.

They should have family members of everyone he was involved in killing and injuring on the panel with him - and give them sticks !

Phoebas wrote: »

Giving him a platform is a lose-lose.

If Tubridy lays into him, he can claim it was a one sided hatchet job.
If Tubridy gives him space, we all know how that'll go - minimise his crimes, blame his 'deprived' upbringing.

But nobody is going to feel any sympathy for him.So it will make no difference.

Phoebas

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Give them a real close up look at him though.

Giving him a platform is a lose-lose.

If Tubridy lays into him, he can claim it was a one sided hatchet job.
If Tubridy gives him space, we all know how that'll go - minimise his crimes, blame his 'deprived' upbringing.

They had Michael stone on a few years ago, he of the miltown masscare ...https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiOwYD8tZnSAhXrJcAKHT_ICDMQFggZMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMichael_Stone_(loyalist)&usg=AFQjCNHX4skFsd9hpn3ByKqPscJVv2Y-ow

Link to his late late appearance

https://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiR29Kxt5nSAhXsAMAKHfm9C5kQFggbMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2Fstone-on-the-late-late-show-1.360414&usg=AFQjCNG9nqU3jLZBWarlY87zSrxgsh-uyg

Tristrams Shandied

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

This doesn't glorify criminals.Everyone knows he's a scumbag, if anything it might let people see him for the little creep he is.

How is him appearing on the Late Late Show any worse than the continuous article about him and other similar scumbags in the newspapers.Do they not glorify criminals as well are they not disrespectful to the victims.

Newspapers mostly report on criminal activity. Interviewing someone like Gilligan on a mainstream tv programme allows him the opportunity to have a voice. A lot of victims of crime never get that opportunity.

Phoebas wrote: »

We already know.

Give them a real close up look at him though.

Phoebas

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

This doesn't glorify criminals.Everyone knows he's a scumbag, if anything it might let people see him for the little creep he is.

We already know.

arayess wrote: »

I wish he did go on the show and I think the late late were spot on asking him.

The late late was always better when they tackled hard issues instead of the continual fluff or Z list social campaigns they trawl out.

It would be interesting to hear his side - he was brought down by rats who were offered an inducement to betray him and others.
Lets not forget the judges in the court didn't believe a lot of the evidence by those in witness protection. So no doubt Gilligan isn't a nice character but the state played dirty also so I'd like to hear the other side of it.

Plus it would make an interesting change to what is in essence a sh1te show.

Thelomen Toblackai wrote: »

I don't see the issue. An interview with a very high profile figure like Gilligan would be of huge interest to a lot of people.

There's inevitably going to be those who disagree with him being on TV (vocal minority and all that) but we all know the population would tune in en masse to watch the interview.

So you can't really say it's not something a public broadcaster should be doing when it's clearly something the general population have so much interest in seeing.

Yea good points there.