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Tonight With Vincent Browne Thread v3.0 (07/04/13 - 08/07/14)

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  • #3932
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    TV3 having ths debate to get referendum 2013 advertising funds


  • #3933
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    So is Sean Barratt.

    For all their "elitism", the universities seem to elect the best senators.


  • #3934
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Pity he wasn't voted to his position by all the people of Ireland
    He would agree with you, that's why he is calling for the Seanad to be reformed.


  • #3935
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    RayM wrote: »
    For all their "elitism", the universities seem to elect the best senators.

    Roan Mullen...


  • #3936
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,664 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Here's the members for those interested in checking them out !

    http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=1&HouseNum=24&disp=mem

    I know a few of them personally. None of them worthy of such high office. Funeral attenders mainly.


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  • #3937
    coolhull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49,731 ✭✭✭✭coolhull


    So is there no 'Tonight with VB' - eh, tonight?


  • #3938
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    vicwatson wrote: »
    TV3 having ths debate to get referendum 2013 advertising funds

    A commercial organisation trying to generate advertising funds. Who'd have thunk it.


  • #3939
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Martin Mcaleese in there wha' -

    Nice one Mary (keep all your €141k per annum pension), you might need it for when Martin loses his job (oh sure won't he have a pension too)

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/mcaleese-kept-all-of-her-141k-pension-29617049.html


  • #3940
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,548 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    RayM wrote: »
    For all their "elitism", the universities seem to elect the best senators.

    Ronan Mullen?


  • #3941
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    RayM wrote: »
    For all their "elitism", the universities seem to elect the best senators.
    I tend to agree with you, but I think that every citizen should have a vote in the Seanad Election (after all we pay for it) and the Taoiseach shouldn't be allowed 11 nominees.


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  • #3942
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    He would agree with you, that's why he is calling for the Seanad to be reformed.


    Irrelevant.

    Get rid of it.


  • #3943
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Here's the members for those interested in checking them out !

    http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=1&HouseNum=24&disp=mem

    Reading through them I recognise 9 names, the rest I've never heard of, rather shocking really.


  • #3944
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    coolhull wrote: »
    So is there no 'Tonight with VB' - eh, tonight?

    I think there is coolhull, Vincent will scoot over on the wheelie chair to read out the papers in U.Bolt mode as usual I'd say!........:)


  • #3945
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Martin Mcaleese in there wha' -

    Nice one Mary (keep all your €141k per annum pension), you might need it for when Martin loses his job (oh sure won't he have a pension too)

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/mcaleese-kept-all-of-her-141k-pension-29617049.html


    He has resigned and hadn't served long enough to have a pension afaik


  • #3946
    coolhull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49,731 ✭✭✭✭coolhull


    efb wrote: »
    Zapone
    Bacik
    Norris
    Quinn
    Mullen

    Political junkie, efb :D


  • #3947
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Martin Mcaleese in there wha' -

    Nice one Mary (keep all your €141k per annum pension), you might need it for when Martin loses his job (oh sure won't he have a pension too)

    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/mcaleese-kept-all-of-her-141k-pension-29617049.html
    Martin resigned from the Seanad a while back. He didn't take his full Seanad salary either.


  • #3948
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,775 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Ronan Mullen is good at what he does in my opinion.

    Ivana Bacik is the one that I would have issues with.

    Though those two do seem to clash a lot.


  • #3949
    Roger_007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Why does this debate only involve people who part of the elite few who could possibly become senators. A typical in-house discussion?


  • #3950
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,724 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Is it just me or does the dramatic title music sound like something out of Batman?


  • #3951
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,875 ✭✭✭take everything


    efb wrote: »
    Zapone
    Bacik
    Norris
    Quinn
    Mullen

    That was Trapatoni's back 5, wasn't it.


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  • #3952
    jrmb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 737 ✭✭✭jrmb


    RayM wrote: »
    For all their "elitism", the universities seem to elect the best senators.
    The resentment comes from the need to be a graduate of TCD or the NUI, not the need to hold a degree.


  • #3953
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    efb wrote: »
    He has resigned and hadn't served long enough to have a pension afaik

    Point taken


  • #3954
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    The reason they have an enormous majority is because of the mess your party made of the country :mad:


  • #3955
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    coolhull wrote: »
    Political junkie, efb :D

    All university seats too! Except Zapone


  • #3956
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,548 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Ronan Mullen is good at what he does in my opinion.

    Ivana Bacik is the one that I would have issues with.

    Though those two do seem to clash a lot.

    What issues annoy you about Bacik?


  • #3957
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,664 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Why does this debate only involve people who part of the elite few who could possibly become senators. A typical in-house discussion?

    We could do with a few businessmen (non-politicians) to join a debate like this.


  • #3958
    grey_so_what
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,749 ✭✭✭✭grey_so_what


    take everything wrote: »
    That was Trapatoni's back 5, wasn't it.

    Lol, they might have been more useful doing that.........:D


  • #3959
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    tayto lover wrote: »
    We could do with a few businessmen people (non-politicians) to join a debate like this.
    Fixed ;):p


  • #3960
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    take everything wrote: »
    That was Trapatoni's back 5, wasn't it.

    Mullen wouldn't let much past him. Bit of a victim complex Ryan Shawcross


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  • #3961
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Ronan Mullen is good at what he does in my opinion.

    Ivana Bacik is the one that I would have issues with.

    Though those two do seem to clash a lot.

    Bacik can't get elected with the general public. It's galling that she has a Senate seat despite the fact that she has no popular support.


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