Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

Wesley Teeny Oasis wrote: »

believe this was the Ag society in UCD and there was no trace of a whats app group....which she kept doubling down on saying there was...the only one that challenged her was Anton Savage on Today fm and you could hear her progressively getting pee'd off when he suggested it could happen to fellas about pics been shared around...(sadly they took down the audio when Savage got the boot from Todayfm - might be on youtube)

The law society was on her show and she couldn't get the concept of innocent till proven guilty iirc

What show did she have on RTÉ. So it seems two investigations into alleged misconduct in UCD and in the Law Society were not upheld by the respective colleges.

UCD could find no evidence and received no complaints from the college, Jack Power then went on RTÉ and stood by his report, I didn't listen to that interview but I assume that as a journalist (now with The Irish Times) he verified the "tip-off", knew the source of the "tip-off" and had access to the facebook group and/or saw their posts to the group.

Are you listening to Sky and BBC to what the UK are doing?

Don't mean to sound bad but I look only look at news feeds that are important to me and my family hourly updates on the removal of statues etc I have no interest in and do not effect me in anyway.

Is George Lee an expert on face masks now?

mgn wrote: »

George is an expert in everything in the eyes of RTE, used to be Finance, then Agriculture, then Climate change and now Health.
Whats next for the great George, A racist expert maybe.

When you hear George's voice at the start of a report you know it's going to be baaaad or saaaad news.

Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »

Very apt moniker in this posters opinion..... lad needs to loosen up.....c'mon Barry....surprise with some good noos now and again!

Like the lads used to do in Harolds Cross back in the day, need to slip a length of linoleum into the trap to slow the fcuker coming out .

All you would hear is the claws scraping off Lino when the door opened:D

Lenihan would be slowed down with that bad boy, might teach him a thing or two.

Elmo wrote: »

What show did she have on RTÉ. So it seems two investigations into alleged misconduct in UCD and in the Law Society were not upheld by the respective colleges.

UCD could find no evidence and received no complaints from the college, Jack Power then went on RTÉ and stood by his report, I didn't listen to that interview but I assume that as a journalist (now with The Irish Times) he verified the "tip-off", knew the source of the "tip-off" and had access to the facebook group and/or saw their posts to the group.

Ah yes, the age old 'protecting my sources' bull crap. This usually means either a) They legitimately have a source, but cannot reveal that person's name due to putting that person's life in danger.
b) Have a source, but the source is rather flakey, so this is a good 'out' for both.
c) Know a guy, who's got a best friend, who knows another guy, who 'heard' about this story, but can't be quite sure...

or d) made the whole flipping thing up.

A more sinister angle one could take is that if he has 'access' to the group, what's to stop the durty individual from posting photos himself, in order to 'create' a story? Hey, it worked for William Randolph Hearst. (The making up a story, I mean-not accessing social media).

retalivity wrote: »

Ah, LON...she fairly piped down once she started getting the ride.

It was less 'getting the ride' and more having to make a couple of apologies to individuals she'd libeled.
I'd say her mam and dad were like 'you're living here rent free-but you can f*** off if you think we're paying any of your legal fees if you're getting sued'.
She got quiet on social media after that-I'd say even the IRish Examiner would have kicked her a*se to the curb if she got them in trouble.

The jobs market is in s**t at the moment. I'd say it's slim pickings for a man hating feminist who natters on about 'white' privilege in a country with 800 years of oppression under its belt.

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Stop the bulls**t. Do people think it is cool to say they dont watch RTE?

No people are honestly fed up with RTÉ so they try to avoid it as much as possible. The politics is another issue IMHO and not how I look at it.

The number of repeats, the continual aren't we wonderful marketing "where in this together" .... "because .... we are so brilliant", the missery = entertainment formula that they push on every show that they produce, lack of original drama, no comedy (look at comic releif list of Celebs, NO NEW COMIC NEED APPLY), celebrity culture, the one question from Tub's interview with Soarise, was "Has Normal People got to you up there in Scotland yet?" FFS it was produced by Screen Ireland, BBC and Hulu not RTÉ and the ****ing national broadcaster is the BBC in Scotland!

I'd have watch Normal People only for RTÉ.

tallaghtfornia wrote: »

Thanks Elmo could not have put it better.

I reluctantly pay the licence fee as I stay within the law however I do not watch RTE and have no interest in there services.

you shouldnt have to pay for a service you dont use, especially a service that is totally bias. I actually resent paying. If they took the money and used it for water services I would be happy but not rte.

Shefwedfan wrote: »

I actually supported the water charges :-)

Good for you but does that prevent criticism of Irish Water and the way that it was established?

Same goes for RTÉ, it seems to me RTÉ are beyond criticism and its laughable to think you criticise it in some way if you use it service or it must be a joke when you say you don't use its service.

There'll always be some who disagree with the Licence or the funding of any public service media, and that's fine but not to critical think of the problems that RTÉ face because of their own inaction and fail to consider the inaction of government and regulators is absurd.