it's official. Recession is dead according to Barry Egan.

[Deleted User] · 2015-05-31 08:19:51

If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence! http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

31-05-2015 09:19AM

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If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

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#2 31-05-2015 09:23AM

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[Deleted User] wrote: »

If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

No, I don't have to admire his persistence

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#3 31-05-2015 09:25AM

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Well 'recession' is a specific economic term and as far as I'm aware we've had two consecutive quarters of growth.

So we're not in recession.

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#4 31-05-2015 09:26AM

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Who the **** is Barry Egan?

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#5 31-05-2015 09:29AM

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But there's still bitter people that will watch what you buy "no recession in your house", looking down on you for buying a small treat. What do we do with them. They will live on forever.

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#6 31-05-2015 09:30AM

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Mongfinder General wrote: »

Who the **** is Barry Egan?

Socialte 'journalist', used to be on back page of indo telling us about the time he spent drinking champagne with Jonny Ronan and a model (every week)... a la Terry Keane.

Although I think the answer was best answered in your question.

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#7 31-05-2015 09:33AM

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The man responsible for making a "celeb" out of Lisa Murphy. Reason enough to dislike anyone

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#8 31-05-2015 09:35AM

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Damn dyslexia got me all excited.... Barry Egan isn't dead and we're not going on a session

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#9 31-05-2015 09:38AM

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Surely someone must have something good to say about Barry

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#10 31-05-2015 09:39AM

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Surely someone must have something good to say about Barry

If you find that person, send for the men in white coats - or Lisa Murphy!

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#11 31-05-2015 09:49AM

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Great; does this mean I'll get my pay cut of 6 years ago reversed, and get a pay rise for the first time in 8 years?

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#12 31-05-2015 09:55AM

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blackcard wrote: »

Surely someone must have something good to say about Barry

Ahhhh... he was drinking champagne with Jonny Ronan and some model the other day... and it was fabulous.

I think the more parties he attends the better the economy gets. Keep going Barry, keep going, we need you.

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#13 31-05-2015 10:13AM

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Gebgbegb wrote: »

...Barry, keep going, we need you....

...like a fucking boil on the arse.

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#14 31-05-2015 10:16AM

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Deleted User wrote: »

If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

That link will bring me to Dinny's Sindo....NO THANKS!

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#15 31-05-2015 10:16AM

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blueser wrote: »

Great; does this mean I'll get my pay cut of 6 years ago reversed, and get a pay rise for the first time in 8 years?

No Dennis o brien took all that to install a water meter on your house. He's also going to bang your missus.

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#16 31-05-2015 10:17AM

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Heroditas wrote: »

The man responsible for making a "celeb" out of Lisa Murphy. Reason enough to dislike anyone

Who the fcuk is Lisa Murphy...and for that matter barry Egan

I know I live in middle of nowhere...didn't think I was this badly outta touch

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#17 31-05-2015 10:17AM

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How the hell can Barry Egan look at himself in the mirror every morning and call himself a journalist?:pac:

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#18 31-05-2015 10:17AM

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I know we're not in recession but it just hit me when I was typing in another thread....we've had 7-8 years of this crap. All that time of cutbacks and austerity. It's getting old now.

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#19 31-05-2015 10:19AM

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Grayson wrote: »

I know we're not in recession but it just hit me when I was typing in another thread....we've had 7-8 years of this crap. All that time of cutbacks and austerity. It's getting old now.

Have you an alternative?

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#20 31-05-2015 10:21AM

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Mongfinder General wrote: »

Who the **** is Barry Egan?

Ginger, malformed sycophant to Irish minor celebrity firmament. So ugly looks like he's been turned inside out.

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#21 31-05-2015 10:23AM

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tomwaterford wrote: »

Who the fcuk is Lisa Murphy...and for that matter barry Egan

I know I live in middle of nowhere...didn't think I was this badly outta touch

I just read the article and instantly regretted it. I think I'm not dumb enough to understand it. I think anyone who reads that dies a little bit inside.

I googled Lisa Murphy and I'm still none the wiser. Who the hell is she?

All I found is this scary photo
http://cdn1.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25227668.ece/1ecad/ALTERNATES/h342/Lisa-Murphy_TG

And a description of her as the partner of a celebrity lawyer.

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#22 31-05-2015 10:24AM

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JustTheOne wrote: »

Have you an alternative?

Not really. Our income amounted to 60% of our outgoings in 2008. We needed cutbacks. I just realised how long we've been living with it.

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#23 31-05-2015 10:27AM

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Grayson wrote: »

I just read the article and instantly regretted it. I think I'm not dumb enough to understand it. I think anyone who reads that dies a little bit inside.

I googled Lisa Murphy and I'm still none the wiser. Who the hell is she?

All I found is this scary photo
http://cdn1.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25227668.ece/1ecad/ALTERNATES/h342/Lisa-Murphy_TG

And a description of her as the partner of a celebrity lawyer.

She's the plastic fantastic ex of Michael Flateley and some boxer, whose name escapes me. She's the current on/off/on again squeeze of "celebrity" solicitor Gerald Keane. She also appeared in some reality Irish TV show. Basically, the Kim Kardashian of Ireland.

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#24 31-05-2015 10:29AM

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Mongfinder General wrote: »

Who the **** is Barry Egan?

An excellent hider apparently!

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#25 31-05-2015 10:30AM

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Grayson wrote: »

I just read the article and instantly regretted it. I think I'm not dumb enough to understand it. I think anyone who reads that dies a little bit inside.

I googled Lisa Murphy and I'm still none the wiser. Who the hell is she?

All I found is this scary photo
http://cdn1.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25227668.ece/1ecad/ALTERNATES/h342/Lisa-Murphy_TG

And a description of her as the partner of a celebrity lawyer.

I read it....who the fcuk approves these articles for publication...there are posters on boards who'd make better journalists ffs (not me obv)

I think I recognise your man...he used to do celebrity Gaa manager and I think he turned over a table on it

Never actually knew what he used do for money though...

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#26 31-05-2015 10:39AM

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Seems he has been disliked here for quite a while. Never heard of him. See the old appreciation thread at http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=275839

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#27 31-05-2015 10:43AM

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tomwaterford wrote: »

I read it....who the fcuk approves these articles for publication...there are posters on boards who'd make better journalists ffs (not me obv)

I think I recognise your man...he used to do celebrity Gaa manager and I think he turned over a table on it

Never actually knew what he used do for money though...

Its a mixture of clickbait articles to bring in advertising revenue and what I have noticed across various publications, a general dumbing down of articles in the media to hide other dodgy goings on and real stories.

Real Journalism is certainly dead at the Indo and has been for quite a while.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jul/28/irish-independent-denis-o-brien?CMP=share_btn_tw

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#28 31-05-2015 10:44AM

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Lisa Murphy only a mother ........

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#29 31-05-2015 10:47AM

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Deleted User wrote: »

If Bazza says so it must be true. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire his persistence!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-recession-is-dead-lisa-murphy-beat-it-to-death-with-a-designer-handbag-31267055.html

Barry Egan in an article featuring Gerald Keane and Lisa "the model" Murphy.....its like a triumvirate of Sindo wrongness.....

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#30 31-05-2015 11:01AM

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What in the name of God did I just read. Was there a point to that story at all? It's terribly constructed and reads like the author wrote it while drunk. Everyday the indo slides closer and closer to becoming a full blown tabloid. Although you could argue with this constant reporting on Irish "celebrity" culture that the paper has already thrown itself into the red top abyss with reckless abandon.

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#31 31-05-2015 11:01AM

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FalconGirl wrote: »

Real Journalism is certainly dead at the Indo and has been for quite a while.

Has been since Terry Keane morphed into Barry Egan.

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