Joe Duffy and the buke

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 12:35AM #1

Simple question, would anyone have difficulty with Duffy hauling his book around schools with the permission of the Dept. of Education. Is that not indoctrination, maybe biased.

Ally Dick · 11-01-2016 12:36AM

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Simple question, would anyone have difficulty with Duffy hauling his book around schools with the permission of the Dept. of Education. Is that not indoctrination, maybe biased.

I'd have difficulty with Joe Duffy, full stop. A whinging crying patronising pain in the @rse

steddyeddy · 11-01-2016 12:38AM

Joe Duffy MUST be related to someone in RTE. He is shocking.

kneemos · 11-01-2016 12:41AM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Joe Duffy MUST be related to someone in RTE. He is shocking.

Reackon half of them share a house.

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 12:42AM

Ally Dick wrote: »

I'd have difficulty with Joe Duffy, full stop. A whinging crying patronising pain in the @rse

Has he a right to enter schools to put forward his views. Teachers teach what qualifications does he have to interfere with students education.

Junkyard Tom · 11-01-2016 01:02AM

Joe Duffy is testament to how somone of zero talents can become a millionaire by nepotism and sheer luck. Joe Duffy is the personified antithesis of meritocracy.

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 01:06AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Joe Duffy is testament to how somone of zero talents can become a millionaire by nepotism and sheer luck. Joe Duffy is the personified antithesis of meritocracy.

The problem is the Dept. have given him free access to our schools to sell his Buke.

Firefox11 · 11-01-2016 01:12AM

Busted Flat. wrote: »

The problem is the Dept. have given him free access to our schools to sell his Buke.

It was not enough to get all that free publicity to flog his book on his radio show?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 11-01-2016 01:14AM

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Has he a right to enter schools to put forward his views. Teachers teach what qualifications does he have to interfere with students education.

Teachers also have to not bring any personal agendas into the classrooms.

I;d have to say no - on the basis that whats to stop every other nonfiction author from bringing their books in?

NIMAN · 11-01-2016 01:16AM

Has he been Garda vetted?

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 01:17AM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Teachers also have to not bring any personal agendas into the classrooms.

What's the book and what educational value does it have? And can I bring mine in too?

Joe Duffy my life and times in 1916, and other short stories.

Nodin · 11-01-2016 01:22AM

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Simple question, would anyone have difficulty with Duffy hauling his book around schools with the permission of the Dept. of Education. Is that not indoctrination, maybe biased.

No, just sad, pathetic and a condemnation of whoever let him.

Firefox11 · 11-01-2016 01:22AM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Teachers also have to not bring any personal agendas into the classrooms.

I;d have to say no - on the basis that whats to stop every other nonfiction author from bringing their books in?

It about the children of 1916 so I suppose they could class it as a 'history' book.

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 01:28AM

Firefox11 wrote: »

It about the children of 1916 so I suppose they could class it as a 'history' book.

Bullocks what qualifications has he got as regarding history.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 11-01-2016 01:29AM

Firefox11 wrote: »

It about the children of 1916 so I suppose they could class it as a 'history' book.

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Joe Duffy my life and times in 1916, and other short stories.

Again - what;s to stop me* or any other writer from bringing in their books to schools? Why Joe's?

*apart from the fact I've never written one....

Atlantic Dawn · 11-01-2016 01:35AM

How can the department give someone free access to their schools to sell a book that he is the only person benefitting financially from? The book is actually published by a UK company and is printed in Germany.

I think there's confusion out there with some people thinking the money is going to charity when it is not.

Firefox11 · 11-01-2016 01:36AM

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Bullocks what qualifications has he got as regarding history.

Joes just trying to make a few bob out of exploiting our history that all. Those poor childers of 1916.

The Backwards Man · 11-01-2016 01:38AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

How can the department give someone free access to their schools to sell a book that he is the only person benefitting financially from? The book is actually published by a UK company and is printed in Germany.

Sure there's been a Belgian at it for decades.

Now come to think it, I remember RTE doing a hatchet job on him a few years ago. Coincidence or not? :P

Ally Dick · 11-01-2016 01:44AM

I can't wait till 2016 is over, and all the talk of 1916 is over too

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 01:56AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

How can the department give someone free access to their schools to sell a book that he is the only person benefitting financially from? The book is actually published by a UK company and is printed in Germany.

I think there's confusion out there with some people thinking the money is going to charity when it is not.

How can someone involved in shady dealings stand up beside the leader of our country and be welcomed into his circle, how can an ex-minister who has been found to have dodgy dealings still is welcome into government circles. These are the questions people will have to take into account in the GE

ancapailldorcha · 11-01-2016 01:57AM

I thought Joe Duffy was some sort of comic creation like the Rubberbandits, Keith Lemon, Donald Trump or Alan Partridge.

ArtSmart · 11-01-2016 02:01AM

I also say 'buke'.

It's a weird one. I mean Luke is pronounced 'Luke'

Oh.

Right.

Art out.

ArtSmart · 11-01-2016 02:02AM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I thought Joe Duffy was some sort of comic creation like the Rubberbandits, Keith Lemon, Donald Trump or Alan Partridge.

He used to be a character in The Savage Eye, but he put on weight and well, that was that.

AFAIK he's been unemployed these years since.

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 02:03AM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I thought Joe Duffy was some sort of comic creation like the Rubberbandits, Keith Lemon, Donald Trump or Alan Partridge.

He is but unfortunately he is taken seriously by the poor unfortunate people in this country that think they have a voice. He plays them for his ratings.

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 02:06AM

ArtSmart wrote: »

He used to be a character in The Savage Eye, but he put on weight and well, that was that.

AFAIK he's been unemployed these years since.

He got annoyed over the nipple clamps.

Charles Babbage · 11-01-2016 02:08AM

So what bukes have you lot managed to write?

ancapailldorcha · 11-01-2016 02:08AM

Busted Flat. wrote: »

He is but unfortunately he is taken seriously by the poor unfortunate people in this country that think they have a voice. He plays them for his ratings.

I emigrated so I've barely heard of him. Odd that people squeezed by cuts would think that a portly RTÉ presenter who makes hundreds of thousands annually for 7 hours of work a week would give a crap.

Atlantic Dawn · 11-01-2016 02:10AM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I emigrated so I've barely heard of him. Odd that people squeezed by cuts would think that a portly RTÉ presenter who makes hundreds of thousands annually for 7 hours of work a week would give a crap.

And tells people to shop local, support your local small business etc and then he goes off and gets the book published in the UK and printed in Germany.

ancapailldorcha · 11-01-2016 02:11AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

And tells people to shop local, support your local small business etc and then he goes off and gets the book published in the UK and printed in Germany.

But of course. I'm sure he's all paid up with the taxman as well.

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 02:12AM

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I emigrated so I've barely heard of him. Odd that people squeezed by cuts would think that a portly RTÉ presenter who makes hundreds of thousands annually for 7 hours of work a week would give a crap.

It is sad but that is what sad people follow.

Busted Flat. · 11-01-2016 02:20AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

And tells people to shop local, support your local small business etc and then he goes off and gets the book published in the UK and printed in Germany.

People in this country grovel after such people who evade their responsibilities as regards finance and preach to then about their duty to pay their taxes to support the same parasites that preach name a band a telecoms billionaire etc etc. Enda says "it is a great country to be corrupt", I may not be a 100% on that quote but I am open to correction.

Joe Duffy and the buke

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