hung over Brian Cowen on rte morning Ireland, how many pints do you think he had??

MrDarcy · 14-09-2010 02:51PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-z9wfueMAw

Biggins · 14-09-2010 02:51PM

General Zod wrote: »

Welp, get ready for an election guys.
We're going to an election because Cowen sounded a bit rough on the radio.
Think about that. This is the reason that will take down the FF hegemony on Irish politics.

You can bet Gormless will not be found today to comment - and if he is tracked down, will say its a non-issue anyway.
The opposition will make hay out of it today but will leave it at that. They know better.
Their turn might come soon too (and they know it) so they won't rub it in too much after this evening.

Chairman Meow · 14-09-2010 03:06PM

I love all the comments along the lines of 'who hasnt gone to work hungover?' or this is non-news etc.
Can you picture Obama giving an interview after a night on the piss? Or David Cameron? Or Angela Merkle?
They wouldnt do it, so why should we accept it from our supposed leader? Any other PM or president would be lambasted for it.

Paparazzo · 14-09-2010 03:08PM

ScumLord wrote: »

This is such horse shit, I heard one ejit on the radio saying he should have made sure he had an early night and got a good nights sleep like people can be turned on and off like a piece of machinery.

He is a person at the end of the day and is allowed to have an off day or do a bad interview once and awhile.

I'm no fan of FF or Brian but the media and people getting upset about this are what's wrong with this country dedicating their gossip based hysteria to this trivial crap.

In fairness, if you had to represent your company at a big conference at 9am and went out on the lock till 3am the night before and it was obvious to everyone you were still a bit drunk, would you expect your boss to say nothing?

gizmo · 14-09-2010 03:12PM

Sc@recrow wrote: »

Really? 10 years is optimistic in my opinion.
Right now Anglo owes €74 billion. Let's be optimistic and say they get 50% of that back from loans..which leaves us with €37 billion to repay...
You honestly think we can repay that in a couple of years?
I think Kenny was telling the truth about how long it's going to take Ireland to recover from this..and if AIB goes under (a lot of experts reckon AIB will make Anglo look like small change) then we're really fúcked.

The point I was making light of was the decade of Fine Gael policies which Kenny was making an issue of.

MrDarcy · 14-09-2010 03:12PM

I wonder would it be too much for him to come out and tell us exactly how many drinks he had last night, I imagine after all that we are paying for it...

Biggins · 14-09-2010 03:15PM

MrDarcy wrote: »

I wonder would it be too much for him to come out and tell us exactly how many drinks he had last night, I imagine after all that we are paying for it...

Not a hope of us ever finding out.
The staff of the hotel by now will have been warned not to open their gobs and Biffo definitely won't say.

In guessing, I'd say it would have to be a lot for he's known to be able to take quite a few drinks before it gets to him.
I've seen him in action myself and lord can he swallow them!

MrDarcy · 14-09-2010 03:18PM

Biggins wrote: »

Not a hope of us ever finding out.
The staff of the hotel by now will have been warned not to open their gobs and Biffo definitely won't say.

In guessing, I'd say it would have to be a lot for he's known to be able to take quite a few drinks before it gets to him.
I've seen him in action myself and lord can he swallow them!

Couldn't agree more, I was at a soccer international in Croke Park around a year ago and had a ticket to that VIP bar for after the match, up I go and there is Cowen at a table beside me and he sank a Guinness in more or less one gulp I couldn't believe what i was seeing!

Bumder · 14-09-2010 03:21PM

baldbear wrote: »

I heard Cowen nailed Mary Harney on the pool table with willie O'dea rolling a camcorder.

I heard Willie O' Dea is willing to sign a sworn affidavit regarding the above event.

MrDarcy · 14-09-2010 03:22PM

It's funny, the approach yet again though is very same same as before, denial, denial, denial, offence taken at the suggestion that he was wasted last night, same when it comes to the banking crisis, deny, deny, deny, spin, spin, spin, load's of talk about, "taking the necessary steps", "doing the right thing", etc, while the economy continues to do down the toilet for want of the proper type of corrective actions being taken...

Mark200 · 14-09-2010 03:42PM

Paparazzo wrote: »

In fairness, if you had to represent your company at a big conference at 9am and went out on the lock till 3am the night before and it was obvious to everyone you were still a bit drunk, would you expect your boss to say nothing?

A 9 minute radio interview is equivalent to a 'big conference'?

Anyway, the point is that there was nothing wrong with the interview he gave.

gmurphy70 · 14-09-2010 03:46PM

What a disgrace he is.....

I dont give a f**k what party he is from but look at the state of the country and what we have running it..

We are a laughing stock here in ireland,no jobs,high debt,no prospects,third world health and education system and this useless f**ker out all night with his cronies,sickening really... who pay's ?

The taxpayer....the one's that are left with a job...

skelliser · 14-09-2010 03:48PM

Some serious ff apologists on this thread!

recylingbin · 14-09-2010 03:49PM

Chairman Meow wrote: »

I love all the comments along the lines of 'who hasnt gone to work hungover?' or this is non-news etc.
Can you picture Obama giving an interview after a night on the piss? Or David Cameron? Or Angela Merkle?
They wouldnt do it, so why should we accept it from our supposed leader? Any other PM or president would be lambasted for it.

Didn't Tony Blair admit to being pissed up on booze foralot of his tenure?

Krusader · 14-09-2010 03:51PM

Why dont you march on the hotel

Mark200 · 14-09-2010 03:55PM

gmurphy70 wrote: »

What a disgrace he is.....

I dont give a f**k what party he is from but look at the state of the country and what we have running it..

We are a laughing stock here in ireland,no jobs,high debt,no prospects,third world health and education system and this useless f**ker out all night with his cronies,sickening really... who pay's ?

The taxpayer....the one's that are left with a job...

Well actually we have 88% employment and our health and education systems are consistently ranked very high in comparison to other Western Democracies.

What is actually an embarrassment is the reaction of the power hungry idiot opposition TDs and how (presumably) one journalist pondering the idea of whether a hoarse voice means hungover can cause this non-story to become headline news.

I mean look at this:

Labour spokesperson Roisin Shortall said the interview was inept and claimed only an election could save the country.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0914/fiannafail.html

Embarrassing. Power hungry.

And then a line that implies that the RTE reporter in question hasn't even listened to the interview:

During the interview, Mr Cowen mistakenly referred to the Croke Park Agreement as the Good Friday Agreement.

I'm planning on voting Fine Gael in the election based solely on the fact that FF have been in power too long.. but this kind of idiotic politics leaves me with absolutely no hope. I couldn't care less if the election is next month, next year or next decade... it'll be just a bunch of idiots taking over for a bunch of idiots.

And I think it's pathetic that so many people have jumped onto the pointless bandwagon of "we need an election!!" "they have no mandate" or have become so deluded to think that any of the other parties have any actual solutions. Falling into the anti-FF echo chamber, repeating anything negative that anyone says about FF or Brian Cowen regardless of the truth to it.

skelliser wrote: »

Some serious ff apologists on this thread!

How well they've performed on the economy has no relevance on whether Cowen was hungover or not.

recylingbin · 14-09-2010 04:01PM

Fair play Mark, great points and beautifully fúcking illustrated.
It's the falling in behind anyone that says anything against FF that gets to me.
The proletariat are indeed idiots.

mikom · 14-09-2010 04:03PM

Mark200 wrote: »

Well actually we have 88% employment

You're getting that 88% employment figure by guessing that 88% leaves just 12% unemployed.
Totally wrong
The live register does not equate to the true number of those unemployed.

thebigbiffo · 14-09-2010 04:04PM

can somebody please give me a link to the interview!! i have tried to find it i promise!! i want to be able to apologise for cowen while fully informed!!

Biggins · 14-09-2010 04:05PM

thebigbiffo wrote: »

can somebody please give me a link to the interview!! i have tried to find it i promise!! i want to be able to apologise for cowen while fully informed!!

You will find a link in the following RTE new write-up: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0914/fiannafail.html

steddyeddy · 14-09-2010 04:05PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Hnads up everyone here who's never gone into work hungover..? I know it's not essentially the same but you know what I mean!

no its no where near the same

mikom · 14-09-2010 04:05PM

thebigbiffo wrote: »

can somebody please give me a link to the interview!! i have tried to find it i promise!! i want to be able to apologise for cowen while fully informed!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11295462

gmurphy70 · 14-09-2010 04:06PM

we are haemorraging jobs,we are closing hospital wards,we are cutting education,we are pouring money into a black hole (NAMA) and our leader is hungover on a tuesday......
i wonder were they all looking at the rte programme Freefall last night???
This is a somewhat bigger than opposition spin at this moment..
Its scary....
I dont know what an election can do but surely we have to change our existing band of wafflers... Fine Gael don't come across any better but surely they have to be better....

Spock22 · 14-09-2010 04:06PM

FF have stated that there was a mis-understanding regarding this interview this morning. Brian Cowen was on his way TO the bar when the interview took place.

Logical Fallacy · 14-09-2010 04:06PM

recylingbin wrote: »

Fair play Mark, great points and beautifully fúcking illustrated.
It's the falling in behind anyone that says anything against FF that gets to me.
The proletariat are indeed idiots.

Do you work for yourself or for someone else, out of interest?

With regards to Cowen, people are just pissed off at the idea he was hung over because it would be nice to think the man respects the public enough to NOT be hungover during a broadcast interview...i imagine it implies disrespect to both the media and the populace in their minds.

Nothing too shocking there.

thebigbiffo · 14-09-2010 04:07PM

mikom wrote: »

You're getting that 88% employment figure by guessing that 88% leaves just 12% unemployed.
Totally wrong
The live register does not equate to the true number of those unemployed.

two points: first, he is wrong, by 1% :rolleyes:

second, you're right, it doesn't reflect the true numbers unemployed. it reflects the people claiming the dole, which is a totally different thing in this country at this time

recylingbin · 14-09-2010 04:07PM

thebigbiffo wrote: »

can somebody please give me a link to the interview!! i have tried to find it i promise!! i want to be able to apologise for cowen while fully informed!!

8th link
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=brian+cowen+hungover+interview

Mark200 · 14-09-2010 04:07PM

mikom wrote: »

You're getting that 88% employment figure by guessing that 88% leaves just 12% unemployed.
Totally wrong
The live register does not equate to the true number of those unemployed.

The live register is, generally, the people who are actively seeking work but can not find it. The amount of people who are not looking for work has no bearing on whether or not there are jobs available, and so is not relevant to what I was replying to.

Gophur · 14-09-2010 04:08PM

Mark200 wrote: »

Well actually we have 88% employment ............

Correct.

An embarrassingly low figure, and one the Govt should be ashamed of, and castigated for!

eimearcmh · 14-09-2010 04:09PM

http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2010/pc/pod-v-1409102ndhour40m16smorningireland.mp3

Go to 30.50

hung over Brian Cowen on rte morning Ireland, how many pints do you think he had??

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