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Joe Power - Psychic

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  • #2
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    He's full of ****e. If he's setting up in Limerick, I am going out of my way to expose him.


  • #3
    Agent_99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭Agent_99


    Robbing B****D, Exploiting vulnerable stressed people at the lowest point of their life. He must have lost business in the UK after the Darren Browne programme.
    Chase him from the County !!!


  • #4
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    He has operated out of Punches and U.L. concert hall. I know of one very vulnerable family who have been taken in by his nonsense. Pushing them for home visits to do readings at €90 a pop.

    Also I have to say I am disgusted that he is being facilitated by U.L. Concert Hall.


  • #5
    L.T.P.
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭L.T.P.


    Be careful guys, he knows what ye are thinking :D


  • #6
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    psychic school could be fun though. Teaching something that 100% doesnt exist, I'm curious as to how he'll pad out the classes. I may attend.


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  • #7
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    I can't believe that none of the papers here have highlighted what this guy is up to given his history.

    Remember most of the people who attend his events are doing so because they recently lost family members and believe that this guy can communicate with them. You might think that he is giving them comfort but what about the people who are crying at home every night of the week as a result of meeting this "psychic".


  • #8
    Bodhisopha
    Registered Users Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Bodhisopha


    Here's the link to the show Derren Brown did with him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhYSI5sWi8s&has_verified=1

    This fúcking dirtbag was plastered all over the Sunday World when that Dublin teenager went missing in Spain, filling her parents heads with bullshít and generally wasting their time while promoting his own "business". Detestable.


  • #9
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    U.L. Concert Hall should not be facilitating this guy.


  • #10
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    they handed out flyers for his show to people exiting from Keith Barrys show, if Keith knew that he'd flip out.


  • #11
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    Here is a link to his website for the Psychic School that he plans to hold in U.L. next summer.

    http://www.psychicschool.org/psychic-school-ireland.html

    Sickening.

    There should be a boycott. I wonder if there is a way to let Keith Barry know about that Zuroph?


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  • #12
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    I can't remember if I told him later that night, we had a few pints. No doubt it won't happen again anyway.


  • #13
    5h4mr0(k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭5h4mr0(k


    On the site for the school he says about the course has a "strong leaning towards establishing it at University Concert Hall".

    There's also no link back from the UCH logo.

    Surely a reputable stand-up guy, of high personal morals wouldn't stoop so low as to use the good name and logo of a reputable establishment without their permission, just to make some financial gain from a trusting gullible public!?


  • #14
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Psychic school? like X-Men? sign me up

    Really though this guy is a scumbag, although a fool and their money aer easily parted so if you believe in psychics you deserve to be ripped off, but he does prey on people who want answers to the unanswerable.


  • #15
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    Im actually quite curious about what would go on on this course, but at the same time I'm loath to give him my money.


  • #16
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,471 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    UL Staff are not happy with this occurance.


  • #17
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    Neon-Circles wrote: »
    UL Staff are not happy with this occurance.

    The association with an alleged fraud and conman certainly doesn't reflect well on the good reputation of UL.


  • #18
    Berty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,152 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    Just throw up a few of these when he turns up.

    psychic-fair-cancelled-499x375.jpg


  • #19
    Agent_99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 918 ✭✭✭Agent_99


    Is there something the ULSU could do ? As a current student of UL I personally would sabotage the whole disgraceful concept.


  • #20
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    depends. If its the concert hall, is it seperate? Also, if he doesnt do it here, he'll do it somewhere else, punches probably.

    I've applied anyway. Since he's such a good googler, I presume he'll see this
    :) Hi Joe.


  • #21
    Berty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,152 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    zuroph wrote: »
    I've applied anyway. Since he's such a good googler, I presume he'll see this
    :) Hi Joe.

    Surely he knew about this thread before it was started. :confused:


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  • #22
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    I think the worst thing this guy does is get involved in missing persons cases and offer hope to distressed families, all in the name of publicity. He is quite fond of pointing out that he helps police departments across the UK despite them denying any involvement with him.

    This makes for interesting reading:

    http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2009/05/joe-power-psychic-detective-although-not-a-detective-and-not-psychic/

    http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2010/05/psychic-joe-power-and-the-two-man-mob-revisited/

    Also check him out here in his attempt to garner publicity, claiming to be helping the mother of Sharon Matthews to find her daughter, despite Matthews being later convicted of kidnapping the child herself. You couldn't make this up.

    Joe.jpg


  • #23
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    he claims on his site that he pretty much cracked that case, and named those who had taken her.


  • #24
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    youd have to wonder why he needs to teach people to be pyschic, surely hes just diluting his own market? why bother trying to earn a living at all, euromillions, done.


  • #25
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    Because it is a money making racket.

    Even Limerick Co-Ordination Office are touting his shows. :rolleyes:

    http://www.limerickcoordination.ie/2010/05/19/university-concert-hall-an-evening-of-clairvoyance-with-joe-power


  • #26
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Why are People getting all fretful over this 'Psychic' in particular?

    - Isn't there literally hundreds of these Gob****és all over the Country with a steady stream of Fools queuing up to give them money?


  • #27
    Twin-go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Twin-go


    Raiser wrote: »
    Why are People getting all fretful over this 'Psychic' in particular?

    - Isn't there literally hundreds of these Gob****és all over the Country with a steady stream of Fools queuing up to give them money?

    Well according to the last census over 85% of the people in this country believe in this Zombie guy from the Middle East who died to get rid of our sins that we all got when some bird was caught eating an apple from a tree in a big garden after this talking snake told her to do so.:D Some Irish people will believe anything you tell them AND pay to hear it.


  • #28
    Raiser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Raiser


    Human Beings have some odd openness to Religious lunacy hard-wired into them unfortunately.

    - Its like a naturally occurring, socially acceptable sickness of the mind :(


  • #29
    zuroph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    Raiser wrote: »
    Why are People getting all fretful over this 'Psychic' in particular?

    - Isn't there literally hundreds of these Gob****és all over the Country with a steady stream of Fools queuing up to give them money?

    I have more of a problem with this guy because of his "police work" helping families find missing children.


  • #30
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Raiser wrote: »
    Human Beings have some odd openness to Religious lunacy hard-wired into them unfortunately.

    - Its like a naturally occurring, socially acceptable sickness of the mind :(

    Unfortunately, where common sense and reason is replaced by belief in space magicians in order to justify their existence.


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