The angle of this interview was more about the spectacle of a woman interviewing a self confessed wife beater than anything else. Like all main broadcast channels they just perceive it as their role to pander to the woke Twitter brigade.
If it was the other way around, would a male presenter be allowed speak to a female suspect like this?
TBF none of those are Bailey telling anybody that he knew her (not knew of her) - they are other people saying they thought he knew her.
My point is that the man is the walking, talking opposite to discretion and I believe it likely that if he knew her (spent time with her) then he would have had a plane flyover Schull proclaiming it.
I have to say, I've engaged in good faith with you throughout this thread, where others may have lost patience - but you really are a disingenuous interlocutor, with a striking inability to hold conflicting positions in your mind and to discuss their respective merits. You diservice the discussion.
Not when he blames his multiple bouts of violence on his partner on drink.
It's apparent to the world and its mother that he has a problem with alcohol, it's just immoral and unethical to bring it up in an interview IMO. I don't see what was the point in asking the question other than trying to paint him as an alcoholic. Practically every person has an addiction of some sort, trying to bring his up on TV was in poor taste. Like much of the interview.
I don't think gemgem did get her info from him, it's actually well known in bantry.
She ballsed up her investigation of it tho by going door to door round the estate he lived and obviously no one was going to talk to her.
Congrats on outing yourself as an idiot, fair play.
Comment of the night!!! 😂😁👍
In fairness to her he wrote about his drink problems in his diary before the murder and she was also trying to raise the farce with Sinead O’Connor where she said he got plastered drunk during the interview. I think he counter-claimed she was plying him with drink.
It was also clear from the Jim Sheridan documentary that he had been drinking at several points in the clips.
I think it seems obvious that Gemma O'Doherty got her info from Bailey at this stage, perhaps he passed on the garda file to her. At the time of that article she had worked on a few incidences of Garda or political corruption, most notably the Father Molloy and Mary Boyle stories. As much as she's lost her mind and became an utter scumbag now.
In regards to your second post, could it be that Bailey now has to play the game and be willing to bend the truth a little to keep up with the gardai.
If Bailey is an innocent man, it is very much his own fault that he is in the position he is in. For starters he didn`t have to go telling people he did it.
No,not at all. The rest of the answers were same as before, nothing new, very like the Philip Boucher Hayes interview. But that question really did seem to stop him in his tracks. Just for a minute. In my opinion, there is no need to interview hm, just sit him down and let him talk. He is pretty adapt at verbal diarrhea.
I'd love to see him with Tommy Tiernan, 4 hours should do it.
He said he didn’t even know her to see in one of the recent interviews. I think it’s in the West Cork podcast.
So not Col Mustard in the study with a candlestick? Glad that’s cleared up.
Well that was interesting... Like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
So, Collette Fitzgerald transformed into Mrs Rothweiler with sore bolloxs to interview the still presumed innocent Ian Bailey...
That was one of the most aggressive interviews I have ever witnessed.. What happened to being impartial?
I thought Bailey would clobber her with his crutch! Now that would be interesting!
Has he a problem with drink? How many drinks last night? Seriously - Who cares!!
Mrs Rothweiler had a perfect opportunity to preen information from the man in the know -The former prime suspect Ian Bailey. She could have delved into his theory that a man from Bantry was the murderer... Could have got him to open up about the murder investigation, why the Gards failed in so many area's.
Christ, she practically said there was no Garda negligence in the murder inquiry???
She was interrogating him on beating Jules... We know all this. We know Bailey has an unpleasant side, he's addressed it countless times.
For me, this was a completely wasted interview.
Was she there to just set traps? Catch him out? Make tomorrows headlines? Was this just another hatchet job?
Bailey stated that Sophie wasn't the mast attractive woman..... That's his opinion. That's how he see's her. That's his call...
You forget (if it's true), The Babe Farrell was seen by many men too be a good catch.. Wasn't she a Mother of five? Didn't fella's drop their pants and jocks at the sight of her? Didn't the invisible man indulge in driving her around the coast at 4am in the morning? These guys all found her desirable.. Most others would see a slapper looking for a length in the back of her van.
Disappointing from start to finish.... You'd miss Gaybo!
I’ve been away for a good while… can u give me a summary please!? 😂
He never denied he knew of her and knew her to see. That's not really knowing her though is it. I'm sure there is a lot of people around West cork that knew Sophie to see but didn't know her personally. There is a big difference.
That was an awful interview. Would be interesting to see Tommy Tiernan interview him
Also, one of the most annoying aspects of this whole thing has to be the morons who claim it's Baileys fault because he loves attention, even the interviewer went down that line of questioning.
It's almost like some people think he ID'd himself as the killer to the cops. Whether he killed her or not, do people really think he'd enjoy being fingered as a suspect FFS.
In an interview after his first arrest he said he had seen her and she had been pointed out to him. That was the clip they should have played. His account more recently is that he didn’t actually see her. It seems extremely unlikely someone pointed out a dark shape in a house and said that it was Sophie. He seems to have said tonight he saw the type of glasses one of the men with her wore. It seems extremely unlikely he never actually knew her to see.
Alfie Lyons said he was 90% sure he had introduced them. Leo Bolger said he witnessed this. It has been claimed that he first mentioned this over ten years later but in the West Cork podcast they discovered he had actually mentioned it to a solicitor for the newspapers years earlier in preparation for the case against them but he was never called to give testimony in the end.
Guy Girard seems pretty sure of the conversation he had with Sophie. In one of the books it claims that Jules told detectives during one of her interviews that he told her after the murder that he had seen her in Schull on the Saturday.
When he was told a French woman had been killed he was able to drive straight to her house.
Just watched part 2 of the Fr Molloy case. Outlines that Garda files and forensic evidence went missing.
Sound familiar?
Back then, we are either dealing with Garda corruption or the most incompetent police force in the world
Because he is a malignant narcissist who craves attention and doesn`t care if it is positive or negative.
The sad thing about that interview is that those kind of moments is what the vast majority of the public only get to see of the case. Posters like us on here are in a very small minority of people who have and continue to research what happened.
I remember when I was younger and always saw pictures of Bailey on the front of the Evening Herald, the media would use a picture outside of court and purposefully use whatever photo he looked angriest in to portray him as a man who got away with murder. People look at it and automatically think that chap looks evil and is guilty as sin.
Maybe he did get away with it who knows, but the way garda and media have treated that man is nothing short of shameful and a stain on our country IMO.
I can easily imagine that.
To keep the conversations going until the truth comes out.
Doesn't always go his way but can't imagine how I'd feel after 25 years of being accused of murder
Why does he do all of these interviews and documentaries if he wants people to stop thinking of him as a murderer? It’s all he’s associated with.
The only time Ian's voice changed was to deny he had a drink problem. I certainly think he does, I think anyone who has seen this in their family can recognise it.
So you are implying that he was telling the truth about everything else.
That was a poor interview
She was a disgrace I'm just really glad for his sake he didn't rise to it or get angry with her.
Just letting him answer questions you've asked him would put him streets ahead of RTE's big earners (and Collette) anyway.
I mean before the murder.
After the murder I'm sure plenty of people would be saying how well they knew her.
There's nothing concrete to suggest that he knew her and even you must find it somewhat surprising that he didn't write about her if, as you believe, he knew her.
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