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Cowen to address the nation

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  • #512
    eljono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭eljono


    Could someone tell me what channel was this on and long did it last?


  • #513
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    fluorescence wrote: »
    What a useless press conference. No new information conveyed there at all, really.

    Anyone else feel kind of sorry for Brian Lenihan? He seems like a decent sort, and at least he answers the questions put to him coherently without waffling in circles to avoid them.
    Lenihan should have been made Taoiseach, not Cowen.


  • #514
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Sofiztikated wrote: »
    A liability! Jesus, Vincent isn't pulling any punches!
    There's asking questions, and then there's grandstanding for the cameras, and I have to say he crossed the line a bit there. We'll surely be hearing more from him in Politico.ie later, but in the mean time, here's some more sober analysis from the BBC's Robert Peston earlier today:
    The total value of these loans - or more properly of these lending facilities - is expected to be less than €100bn (£85bn), although the definitive amount won't be fixed for a few days, until a team of experts from the IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank has finished their evaluation of the "hole" in the finances of Ireland's big banks.
    The lending facility for Ireland is expected to have a life of three or four years, long enough (in theory) for Ireland to restore the health of its banks and to reduce the deficit in its public finances from 12 per cent of GDP (excluding taxpayers' financial support for banks) to a target of 3 per cent.
    It is hoped that would be long enough for Ireland to restore its reputation as a creditworthy nation among commercial lenders and investors.
    I have current, credit card and deposit accounts with AIB: not a lot of money in there, but you can bet I'll be keeping an eye on them. I can't see the likes of Santander or Deutsche Bank showing any interest without additional incentives.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #515
    WallyGUFC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭WallyGUFC


    What a night of TV! Suzanne Doyle gets caught the tramp and Beavis and Butthead address us and suck up to Europe. It's nights like these the TV licence was made for!!


  • #516
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Das News iz gud, ya?


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  • #517
    bhovaspack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭bhovaspack


    I would suggest making a formal complaint to RTÉ for cutting off live coverage of the most important press conference in decades. A disgrace.


  • #518
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Smcgie wrote: »
    What was that day?

    Wild guess 9/11

    Doubt it, there were hardly 13,000 boards members in 2001 or internet conections!


  • #519
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    ascanbe wrote: »
    Hardly anyone probably bothered to watch the thing as it was timed to coincide with the announcment of the X-Factor results.

    I wouldn't put it past them you know.


  • #520
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    fluorescence wrote: »
    What a useless press conference. No new information conveyed there at all, really.

    Anyone else feel kind of sorry for Brian Lenihan? He seems like a decent sort, and at least he answers the questions put to him coherently without waffling in circles to avoid them.
    No. Lenihan is the best politician I have ever seen in Ireland, better than Bertie Ahern even. He makes people like him, he sounds plausible, he makes sentences.

    That just makes him very, very dangerous. A buffoon like Cowen can lead the country into oblivion. Can you imagine the damage his silver-tongued lieutenant could do? He's the guy who told us NAMA would fix the banks. He's the guy who guaranteed the banks - the guarantee that has sunk us.They have not been acting for the Irish people for at least the last 5 years, and now we have arrived where we deserve to be - in the ****ter. We put them in power, didn't we?


  • #521
    alex73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭alex73


    The Sparrow wrote: »
    It's utterly disgraceful that RTE cut it off when Vincent Browne was in the middle of asking the hard questions.


    RTE = STATE OWNED = STATE CENSORED.


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  • #522
    Spunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    Wow, what did RTE actually cut to ?


  • #523
    Kev_ps3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,604 ✭✭✭Kev_ps3


    So were borrowing tens of billions more to bail out private banks, great.


  • #524
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭x in the city


    they are showing the all ireland got talent results maybe

    very important stuff that


  • #525
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,291 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Boards cannae take it Captain, she's breakin up.:eek:


  • #526
    kev9100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭kev9100


    I would so go gay for Vincent Browne right now.


  • #527
    naughto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,436 ✭✭✭naughto


    did any one see the two fellas walking behind the news reporter with the pig masks on??


  • #528
    shebango
    Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭shebango


    The whole thing reminds me of this tbh.


  • #529
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    The MP on BBC right now doesn't seem too happy with lending to us...


  • #530
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    protesters outside the Dáil - thinking of joining them - we must be heard


  • #531
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Spunge wrote: »
    Wow, what did RTE actually cut to ?

    Some talking head who was on stand by in the studio.


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  • #532
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    So what was the announcement? This thread is too long to read through. Are we screwed? - er - are we more screwed than we were?


  • #533
    Dero123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 328 ✭✭Dero123


    yeah it was biffo and lenihan making a quick getaway


  • #534
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Lenihan should have been made Taoiseach, not Cowen.
    That would be the Brian Lenihan who blew tens of billions on NAMA, and the same Brian Lenihan who made the debts of the banks the debts of the Irish people?

    I disagree - I think he should be on trial for treason.


  • #535
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    What did Ursala do... I missed it :(


  • #536
    Chuchoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So what was the announcement? This thread is too long to read through. Are we screwed? - er - are we more screwed than we were?

    We are taking the bailout and its nobody's fault.
    We are royally screwed, to say the least.


  • #537
    Revolution9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭Revolution9


    Lenihan is just as much to blame as Cowen.
    He is just as sly, and just as incompetent.


  • #538
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    If you want to complain about RTE cutting away from the press conference
    complaints@rte.ie


  • #539
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So what was the announcement? This thread is too long to read through. Are we screwed? - er - are we more screwed than we were?
    We are the same screwed as we were since Lenihan guaranteed the banks: totally screwed.

    This is not the last of this crisis folks. This has YEARS left to play out.


  • #540
    Cheap Thrills!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,723 ✭✭✭Cheap Thrills!


    See how quick RTE cut short the intervew outside LH as soon as the protesters chanting 'OUT, OUT, OUT' started getting louder.

    Pathetic :rolleyes:


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  • #541
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Dean0088 wrote: »
    What did Ursala do... I missed it :(

    Asked Cowen if he was ashamed and if he'd be stepping down and he had the balls to say it was a national matrer and not a political one and he's looking forward to leading FF into the next general election.


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