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Intel versus farmer. Rte1 now

  • 01-07-2019 9:42pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭


    Could be an interesting watch.
    935pm 1st July


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    You see the arse on the calf he was bottle feeding?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    You see the arse on the calf he was bottle feeding?

    What the hell was going on there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Scour (dirorea) stuck the tail to its arse. A recipe for flystrike (maggots) in good weather.

    Carrying silage with bare hands. Jesus!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭amacca


    Bit slow paced

    Could do with a bit of a car chase or an auld explosion thrown in here and there...maybe some martial arts on the ida guy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭digzy


    Didn’t think he’d be a man for weed killer


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    I thought he was going to spray fu ck off Intel into the grass!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭amacca


    I can't get rid of them documents they might be valuable , you never know whats valuable!

    I'm convinced hes a gigantic troll:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,992 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Slowest film ever.

    I have kinda lost the will to finish watching it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    me too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    I think it's good


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,652 ✭✭✭Wildly Boaring


    I used be able to see out that window. See who was pulling up. Can't now cus all that stuff is in the way.

    Lordy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭amacca


    he's good for biodiversity anyway......

    fine crop of thistles


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    I'm liking it too.

    When does this turn into psychological bullying or harassment by the IDA?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭memorystick


    amacca wrote: »
    Bit slow paced

    Could do with a bit of a car chase or an auld explosion thrown in here and there...maybe some martial arts on the ida guy

    It needs to be slow to highlight how isolated and introverted he is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    amacca wrote: »
    fine crop of thistles

    He's a pile of wrap that's bigger than most farmers clamp.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,992 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Andrew00 wrote: »
    I think it's good

    The story is good but they are dragging the ar$e out of it. Could have been done in 30mins.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭amacca


    It needs to be slow to highlight how isolated and introverted he is.

    really? ......so I suppose theres absolutely no chance of a steamy romp with good looking actor types then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,992 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    It needs to be slow to highlight how isolated and introverted he is.

    Bollix. Once you see the inside of his house, you know what his life is like.

    There is no need for slow lingering shots of grass and bushes blowing in the wind.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭memorystick


    NIMAN wrote: »
    The story is good but they are dragging the ar$e out of it. Could have been done in 30mins.

    But you wouldn't be able to be on the phone then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    It needs to be slow to highlight how isolated and introverted he is.

    Had Pat Shortt an input in this?

    There's a "Garage" vibe off this.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭amacca


    Monica:D


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    amacca wrote: »
    I can't get rid of them documents they might be valuable , you never know whats valuable!

    I'm convinced hes a gigantic troll:D:D

    His fvcking land is valuable


  • Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    he would want to spend a day dehorning.


  • Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Keep Sluicing


    Jesus. More shopping in Tesco. Fucck sake


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭amacca


    His fvcking land is valuable

    That was the ironic thing


    Also Its seemingly much more valuable to him than 10 million.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭dmakc


    Oh good we have a shotgun to the head scene the PC brigade will love that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,992 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    His fvcking land is valuable

    If you place no value on money, then his land has only sentimental value to him.

    Why would he turn down 10 million otherwise.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭memorystick


    Look up his place on google earth (can't do it here)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    He'll be put out by the dept before the IDA get around to it if he doesn't get the act together.

    They house and farm would have been some operation in its prime. Lovely big house and land.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭LillySV


    I think theyre making a right odd bolox out of him.

    He is entitled to be as introverted and backward as he likes.... it’s his life, just like that’s he’s land.

    I’d love to see the full picture of exactly how much money ida has been costing the state over last 30 years.... they seem to be throwing billions on big premises which they then provide to the big low tax companies


  • Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭Butcher Boy


    ****sake things are bad enough without showing that fr cow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    ****sake things are bad enough without showing that fr cow.
    That's Monica!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,767 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    That's Monica!

    Fine actress.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Christ I hate untidy setups. And unnecessary hoarding, makes my teeth itch.

    Knew a few ould lads like this, thought they were all gone. Looks like there's still a few left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,992 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Christ I hate untidy setups. And unnecessary hoarding, makes my teeth itch.

    Knew a few ould lads like this, thought they were all gone. Looks like there's still a few left.

    So who gets it all when he goes?

    If he has no family that is?

    Imagine it being left to a distant nephew, and he'd have it sold to Intel and the IDA before the end of the day!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭bcklschaps


    Fair play to Thomas Reid.

    Great song at the end too

    https://youtu.be/4xmckWVPRaI


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    NIMAN wrote: »
    So who gets it all when he goes?

    If he has no family that is?

    Imagine it being left to a distant nephew, and he'd have it sold to Intel and the IDA before the end of the day!

    You can't take it with you.

    Lads like this won't change until they're loaded into the box. A bit sad tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭amacca


    Christ I hate untidy setups. And unnecessary hoarding, makes my teeth itch.

    Knew a few ould lads like this, thought they were all gone. Looks like there's still a few left.

    me too but at the end of the day as long as no one is harmed etc isn't he entitled to hoard whatever the **** he likes in his own place.

    I couldn't stand it myself but Id be of the opinion id be willing to fight to defend his right to hoard as he sees fit etc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    That's Monica!

    There once was a cow name Monica
    Who learned how to play the harmonica.
    The tongue is the key
    To her virtuosity.
    Just ask her girlfriend, Veronica.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    You can guarantee he has a few hundred thousand or more in the bank (or even in cash). The 10 million wouldn't have mattered


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭Shelflife


    Bizarre film, opportunity lost I feel for him to tell his story.

    Instead we had footage of him eating bananas, buying bananas and walking around the farm feeding cattle.

    Not sure what story they were trying to tell, they painted a weird picture of him and why they had to show the injured cow being put down and carted away is beyond me.

    Not sure how it won awards , didn’t do anything for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Fair fncks to him for giving those cnuts in the IDA a kick in the balls.

    Now that it's over I hope he gets a skip in and gets back to his life.

    Disappointed, they didn't play out the credits with that song. I would have been raging in the cinema if that happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,415 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Shelflife wrote: »
    Bizarre film, opportunity lost I feel for him to tell his story.

    Instead we had footage of him eating bananas, buying bananas and walking around the farm feeding cattle.

    Agree. Never learnt anything about him apart from the chat about aunt Nancy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭careless sherpa


    Looks like the house and sheds had been pretty nice at one point in time. What the hell were they doing with gbe cow when dragging it by the neck


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    He's lodged right between Carton house and Intel on the Leixlip Maynooth road. Prime location alright.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭digzy


    He'll be put out by the dept before the IDA get around to it if he doesn't get the act together.

    Brilliant! I’m still laughing. Imagine if despite all his introvertidness that it was letting the cameras that fooked him


  • Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Shelflife wrote: »
    Bizarre film, opportunity lost I feel for him to tell his story.

    Instead we had footage of him eating bananas, buying bananas and walking around the farm feeding cattle.

    Not sure what story they were trying to tell, they painted a weird picture of him and why they had to show the injured cow being put down and carted away is beyond me.

    .

    I got that- and in some respects I agree with you- and also, maybe that his land was his parents land, and that he felt a "duty" to it.

    I've seen similar behaviour simply over a house, no less land- but who am I to judge him. there are a lot of people like him throughout Ireland tending to land, or maintaining a house, for better or worse, that their parents attended to- and nothing will change them from their ways-the one differentiating factor in this case, is that his land was worth multiples of what land might be elsewhere in the country.

    There are obvious questions around the hoarding of newspapers and what not, going back to the 80's- the references to Dallas were bizarre and I'd have a few questions to ask the producers/directors of this film, but maybe this was a way of portraying some sort of story (I'm very familiar with Dallas TV show from 80s etc so don't need to have the cliff barnes/Yewings feud explained to me- but still I'd have questions to the producers on including that and how it came about)

    I'm not going to "label" him- or indeed "judge" him- he participated in this film so will be subject to criticism- rightly or wrongly - my only point is that i feel he may be classed as a "vulnerable adult"- IMHO-which is protected by law.

    But yeah, was this a film about "make your own mind up" or something? I'm not sure it hit the right note in this circumstance.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,088 ✭✭✭Sheep breeder


    I got that- and in some respects I agree with you- and also, maybe that his land was his parents land, and that he felt a "duty" to it.

    I've seen similar behaviour simply over a house, no less land- but who am I to judge him. there are a lot of people like him throughout Ireland tending to land, or maintaining a house, for better or worse, that their parents attended to- and nothing will change them from their ways-the one differentiating factor in this case, is that his land was worth multiples of what land might be elsewhere in the country.

    There are obvious questions around the hoarding of newspapers and what not, going back to the 80's- the references to Dallas were bizarre and I'd have a few questions to ask the producers/directors of this film, but maybe this was a way of portraying some sort of story (I'm very familiar with Dallas TV show from 80s etc so don't need to have the cliff barnes/Yewings feud explained to me- but still I'd have questions to the producers on including that and how it came about)

    I'm not going to "label" him- or indeed "judge" him- he participated in this film so will be subject to criticism- rightly or wrongly - my only point is that i feel he may be classed as a "vulnerable adult"- IMHO-which is protected by law.

    But yeah, was this a film about "make your own mind up" or something? I'm not sure it hit the right note in this circumstance.

    Was the film maker try to show that things were ok with him in 80/90s and went down hill with the intel/IDA bulling of him over greed and stating 5 other farms were suitable but were never approached and he was targeted.
    The striking thing is he is only 55 years of age and looks healthy and could live for a long time. The IDA have a lot to answer for in pushing the case and in the end they were wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭Shelflife


    I got that- and in some respects I agree with you- and also, maybe that his land was his parents land, and that he felt a "duty" to it.

    I've seen similar behaviour simply over a house, no less land- but who am I to judge him. there are a lot of people like him throughout Ireland tending to land, or maintaining a house, for better or worse, that their parents attended to- and nothing will change them from their ways-the one differentiating factor in this case, is that his land was worth multiples of what land might be elsewhere in the country.

    There are obvious questions around the hoarding of newspapers and what not, going back to the 80's- the references to Dallas were bizarre and I'd have a few questions to ask the producers/directors of this film, but maybe this was a way of portraying some sort of story (I'm very familiar with Dallas TV show from 80s etc so don't need to have the cliff barnes/Yewings feud explained to me- but still I'd have questions to the producers on including that and how it came about)

    I'm not going to "label" him- or indeed "judge" him- he participated in this film so will be subject to criticism- rightly or wrongly - my only point is that i feel he may be classed as a "vulnerable adult"- IMHO-which is protected by law.

    But yeah, was this a film about "make your own mind up" or something? I'm not sure it hit the right note in this circumstance.

    No issue with the man or his lifestyle, to each their own. Have to admire him for his stance against the might of the state , which didn’t really come across at all.

    Seemed to be more about his alternate lifestyle than the fight against the IDA.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭Andrew00


    Did it not say he's 51? I was shocked he looks well older than that and walks like a proper aul lad


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