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

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    #2
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,868 ✭✭✭blackcard


    [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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    Mena
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    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
    Mongfinder General
    Registered Users Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    Who the **** is Barry Egan?


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    #5
    The Dogs Bollix
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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
    evolving_doors
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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
    Heroditas
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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
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,096 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


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


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    #9
    blackcard
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    Surely someone must have something good to say about Barry


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    #10
    [Deleted User]
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    blackcard wrote: »
    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
    blueser
    Registered Users Posts: 10,691 ✭✭✭✭blueser


    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
    evolving_doors
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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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    Dr Strange
    Registered Users Posts: 3,427 ✭✭✭Dr Strange


    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    ...Barry, keep going, we need you....

    ...like a fucking boil on the arse.


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    Howjoe1
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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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    zl1whqvjs75cdy
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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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    tomwaterford
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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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    FalconGirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭FalconGirl


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


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    Grayson
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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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    JustTheOne
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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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    anncoates
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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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    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,133 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    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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    Grayson
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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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    [Deleted User]
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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
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Mongfinder General wrote: »
    Who the **** is Barry Egan?
    An excellent hider apparently!


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    #25
    tomwaterford
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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 :confused:

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


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    #26
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users Posts: 12,420 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    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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    FalconGirl
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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 :confused:

    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
    fergus1001
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    Lisa Murphy only a mother ........


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    #29
    Nodin
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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
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
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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
    [Deleted User]
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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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