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RTÉ to broadcast feature-length documentary on the life of Denis O'Brien

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Yer Da sells Avon

Brae100 wrote: »

He was rather she

Well, I hadn't heard that about him. :eek:

mikemac2

First I ever heard of him was 2003 Special Olympics. He was the top man as I remember and I was a volunteer

Now I'm wondering was it all for personal PR and goodwill, I don't know the full story back then!

Jeff2

NinetyTwoTeam wrote: »

A bloody documentary celebrating this corrupt greedy tax dodging parasitic fatcat basically encapsulates what I hate most about RTE, and this country as well.

While ordinary people had their lives ruined he used backroom dealings to amass obscene wealth, tried to fleece every family in with his water meters, moved his residence ton Malta.

He's not someone Irish people should be celebrating. And I don't want his big fat boulder of a head being beamed into my home, ever.

They should make one about the likes of Duffy they pay €400k^ through his company to cut tax.
And and people can go to jail for not paying the TV licence that pays him and the like that work there.

sdanseo

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

I don’t get this.

Prime time has constantly exposed corrupt politicians, homelessness etc.

They always give the government a hard time.

Conspiracy theory nonsense.

Prime Time Investigates has uncovered a good few scandals alright, relatively few of them about politicians and more along the lines of National Irish Bank etc.

This is a "feature length" - doesn't sound like a disassembly of the man's character although I suppose we could be surprised.

As for RTÉ and your suggestion of a conspiracy - sorry, no. They are consistently poor to unacceptable in their role which is to be unbiased. Watch any Ryan Tubridy political interview and you will see what this means. Even on this morning's interview with Eoghan Murphy Dobson asked why the target for housing hadn't been met and flat out accepted the answer with no further questions - even when the minister basically said he didn't have the figures to hand (which is his job, we're talking about perhaps the single most important key performance indicator for his current role).

I have no agenda here, just calling out RTÉ for their history of halfhearted attempts to challenge politicians and their widely recognised poor level of programming with respect to the amount of money they are paid to create it.

Mikenesson

No sign of this on the schedule

Richard Hillman

Something along the lines of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKu0TVlumcc

_Kaiser_

Mikenesson wrote: »

No sign of this on the schedule

It's on now. Sky EPG has it anyway?

Fred Swanson

Mikenesson wrote: »

No sign of this on the schedule

Did he get an injunction?

Water John

Here very happy with my TV tuned to RTE Radio 1 listening to Creedon, a good Corkman.

SEPT 23 1989

He was expelled from school

_Kaiser_

Looks like they didn't get him to contribute to this anyway as all the soundbites from him seem to be from previous interviews

yosser hughes

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

I don’t get this.

Prime time has constantly exposed corrupt politicians, homelessness etc.

They always give the government a hard time.

Conspiracy theory nonsense.

No they haven't. Not really. Politicians? When they're dead maybe. Fat lot of good that is.

WoollyRedHat

The funny money game..

Zebra3

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

The funny money game..

A bit of honesty, eh?

sdanseo

Gospel according to Denis so far. How surprising.

Worth saying I'm not all against the man, if some of his capitalism had rubbed off in better areas we could have benefited hugely. Public services in this country for example would be unrecognisable if they had a business logic applied to them.

Oh look, a wild Lowry appears.

WoollyRedHat

If it was the best, then why the payments.. incentives to Lowry...

SEPT 23 1989

So beautifully corrupt

WoollyRedHat

Lowry.. Ben there, Dunne that

Dunne nothing wrong.

WoollyRedHat

Ugh what a sniveling, snakey ****....

Brae100

The ESAT license issue is down to Lower. If a license is going to be awarded due to bribery, you have to bribe.

_Kaiser_

I'm not sure what the motivation/aim is behind this piece?

Zebra3

sdanseo wrote: »

Gospel according to Denis so far. How surprising.

Worth saying I'm not all against the man, if some of his capitalism had rubbed off in better areas we could have benefited hugely. Public services in this country for example would be unrecognisable if they had a business logic applied to them.

Oh look, a wild Lowry appears.

He became wealthy by bribing a government minister.

And you're not all against him?

WoollyRedHat

Joking about bribing Lowry ah begorah

Wheeliebin30

I’m not watching it but go on is it a glowing report of him like people were saying seems he owns RTE and the government?

Brae100

Wheeliebin30 wrote: »

I’m not watching it but go on is it a glowing report of him like people were saying seems he owns RTE and the government?

It is fairly positive so far, but IME he was great to work for back then.

sdanseo

Zebra3 wrote: »

He became wealthy by bribing a government minister.

And you're not all against him?

Doesn't mean his opinion that public services didn't function efficiently wasn't true.

Pity about the rest.

Brae100

Now Barry Maloney - I've had dodgy experiences there. Shark.

SEPT 23 1989

A meeting in a Dublin pub

No talk about the licence

Of course there wasn't

SEPT 23 1989

Brae100 wrote: »

Now Barry Maloney - I've had dodgy experiences there. Shark.

Seems like fine upstanding character...

valoren

An Irish Plutocrat.