It’s the most bizarre story of all time.
I’m amazed at the likes of McGeeney geting involved in drivel like this. You’d have imagined getting involved in stupid distractions like this wasn’t his thing?
This is getting more bizarre. Presume Brian is asking the lads not to talk
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Them Nordie boys can be a bit intense can’t they? :blink: Fucking ridiculous carry on, whats the hard on for Carthy?
To be honest, I’ve never been overly bothered one way or another by Carthy, I wouldnt get too worked up by my radio commentators. This is as good a place to say it though, Newstalk’s coverage of the GAA so far has been superb from what I’ve heard of it. A real addition to the market.
And i’m not sure what they are all getting so worked up about, he got to report on the All-Ireland Champions, what else does he want. :rolleyes:
Lovely shot of Brian Carthy interviewing Wexford’s Brian Malone in the Irish Independent today. That’s convinced me. The man should be given his choice of fixtures to cover on RTE irrespective of sport or whether it’s TV or radio.
We feel he is the voice of GAA radio
Mickey Harte
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This weekend sees a number of very tight games and the final weekend in which teams take their Championship bow.
Starting in Leinster then and the clash between Wexford and Westmeath on Saturday evening in Wexford Park. Many, myself included, would have expected their opening game with Offaly to be a much, much closer affair but I did expect them to pull through.
That win has been very encouraging for Jason Ryan and his group of players and with their side of the draw free of what many consider to be the ‘big-hitters’ in Leinster, they are entering this semi-final with momentum.
The experience that this team has of that run to an All Ireland semi-final in 2008 will also stand to them and they will be hard to beat on Saturday. I believe it is also important to reach the provincial final as it keeps you out of the qualifiers, extends your season and gives you confidence.
For Westmeath, it is their first game so that presents a challenge and their last competitive game was a defeat to Louth in the Division 3 final so that could have set them back and knocked their confidence a little bit.
Having said that Westmeath are always a dangerous force with the forwards they have. The Glennon brothers and Dessie Dolan, if he starts, are very capable finishers with a bit of pace so they have to be feared in that respect.
Wexford may reap the rewards of their new talent in the guise of Ben Brosnan. It is always a bonus when a player who wasn’t a factor in previous years becomes significant, especially during the Championship. However, at this stage you would have to fancy the home side.
The second game in the Leinster Championship sees Carlow host Louth on Sunday. Form, history and experience would lead me to think that you would have to favour Louth. Carlow have had decent teams over the last number of years but they just failed to make the breakthrough.
Louth have been progressing steadily and they will be determined to get to another final after what happened to them last year against Meath. They can draw from that run to the final and deserve to be odds on to get over their first hurdle.
But, as we have seen already this year, games that were perceived as foregone conclusions have gone down to the wire like the London game, or Longford’s showing against Laois a few weeks ago, so nothing can be ruled out but I expect Louth to progress.
Over in Connacht I expect a really good game this weekend between one of those teams that did surprise us, Leitrim, and reigning champions Roscommon.
As holders, Roscommon will want to be back in the final again as it will be good for their development to put together back to back finals. Leitrim have a lot to build on after going to Markievicz Park and coming away with the win against Sligo and they will feel that there is little to choose between themselves and Roscommon.
These are two improving sides but Leitrim won’t want to have had the good result against Sligo and then leave it behind. Add in the home crowd in Leitrim’s favour and I think it will be very hard for Roscommon to get out of this one with a win.
Roscommon have an excellent recent record against their neighbours but it can be easy to read too much into past results. If you keep beating a particular opponent you can get an Indian sign over them but the thing about trends is that they always change. No matter how many times you have beaten somebody, there is always the day when that will turn. That’s the way sport is.
The Championship brings a fresh intensity to encounters and I think past meetings can be left behind when these two meet on Sunday.
The final game this week is a very difficult one for me to be making any judgement on as whoever comes through between Cavan and Donegal will be next up for my team in the Championship.
Going on current status in Ulster and in the League you would have to favour Donegal. Many people said that their win over Antrim was a very poor game and that may have been the case but it was still a Championship match and Donegal went and won it.
I believe people have underestimated the quality of Donegal’s win that day and having gotten that result it gives them a distinct advantage on Sunday.
Cavan are buoyed up by the success of their under-21s and Val Andrews seems to have a good regime going there at the moment. There seems to be a new energy and enthusiasm around Cavan football and they are an emerging package in Gaelic football. Cavan play an entertaining brand of football, with fast-moving forwards and that will be difficult for Jim McGuinness’s team to curtail.
I think this will be a real good contest and I am taking risks here by picking anyone but on what we have seen in 2011 I will go for Donegal. The experience they picked up in winning Division 2, the drive of a new manager and the Under 21 success they had last year puts them maybe a year ahead of Cavan in their development which could well tell in the end. A Cavan win can’t be fully ruled out but it would be somewhat of a surprise.
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With regard to the issue surrounding Brian Carthy’s role on RTE’s coverage of Gaelic games I don’t have much more to add to what I have already said.
A number of us managers were talking about the apparent absence of Brian from radio commentary on major games. We do not think it is a good idea and it is not that we are trying to tell anyone else what their job is but we just felt that he has such a connection with the GAA public, managers and players.
Brian is steeped in GAA tradition and we just felt he was the voice of GAA radio, particularly with Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh for the last 25 years. This year he seems sidelined and we just wanted to make these feelings known to people in RTE to make them aware of what we noticed and perhaps they would reflect on that.
We have not trawled around the country to garner support, it was just a few of us who got together and spoke about it. We received a letter in response from RTE this week, we are presently considering it and after consideration we will decide what we may or may not do after that.[/b]
Excellent - if we beat Westmeath we’re into a Leinster Final.
Carthy’s biggest contributions to the airwaves this weekend seems to have been an interview with Jim McGuinness about how RTÉ’s coverage of Donegal teams is unfair. I wonder if Carthy asked him to say that.
He did the Kilkenny/Wexford match Saturday night. Boring as usual.
Slightly off topic, but I listened to parts of Wexford v Westmeath and most of Leitrim v Roscommon on Newstalk this weekend, their coverage is top notch I have to say.
Hmm
Whats the story with Brian Carthy now? Have the nordie boys relented, or has RTE backed down and made Brian king again?
Mickey Harte, James McCartan & AN Other all refused to give interviews last Sunday Fitz, Des Cahill was quick to point it out.
Can’t remember the 3rd now but pretty sure it wasn’t a Nordie
http://www.thescore.ie/no-further-questions-rte-presenter-banned-by-the-fai-189108-Jul2011/
No further questions: RTÉ presenter “banned” by the FAI
RTÉ’S DES CAHILL has been cut off by the FAI after Abbotstown chiefs took offence at on-air comments about the Association, according to today’s Irish Daily Star (print edition).
Paul Lennon writes the presenter has been temporarily blacklisted and had an official complaint lodged against him following a discussion of the FAI’s recent AGM on RTÉ Saturday Sport.
Although the Star reported that Cahill was banned for comments on chief executive John Delaney’s salary, the FAI clarified that this was not the case, saying this morning that the complaint “relates to comments made about the Association and company related matters.”
Cahill was not willing to make comment when contacted by the paper last night.
Speaking on his Today radio show this morning, the broadcaster’s colleague Pat Kenny said that he was completely in the dark about the controversy.
“I don’t know what that’s all about but I must give Des a shout over the weekend.”
“I can shed no further light on it at the moment.”
The tax defaulting payment for Brian, and the high tax defaulting payment by Brian…
Revenue netted just over €5m from tax defaulters in the three months to the end of December, latest figures show.
Among those included on Revenue’s list is the former RTÉ broadcaster Brian Carthy, with an address in Terenure, Dublin, who is described as a journalist “trading as Sliabh Ban Productions”.
The tax due in his case was €67,259, and with interest of €42,775 and penalties of €19,725, the total settlement came to €129,759.
A native of Ballymore, at the foothills of Sliabh Ban near Strokestown in Co Roscommon, Mr Carthy was a GAA commentator on RTÉ Radio for 35 years. Now a podcaster, he is the author of over 20 books produced under the Sliabh Ban imprint, which also published two books by Fr Brian D’Arcy.
Mr Carthy was the subject of a Revenue audit case for under-declaration of income tax, PAYE/PRSI/USC and Vat. The amount unpaid on December 31 was listed as €109,419, He declined to comment yesterday.
It is understood that Mr Carthy was a sole trader when employed by RTÉ. The station is itself engaging with Revenue and the Department of Social Protection over the issue of workers engaged as sole traders rather than employees.
The former GAA commentator is understood to have invested in property in lieu of a pension, but his investments were almost wiped out in the financial crash.
There are four settlements of over €0.5m on Revenue’s list, including one by Ina’s Kitchen Desserts Ltd, a manufacturer of pastries and cakes based in Tallaght, trading as Broderick’s, which made a settlement of €535,069 including interest and penalties.
Transmedix Ltd, a medical staff provider based in Cork, reached a settlement of €586,000, of which €463,309 is still unpaid. The Big Red Book Company Ltd, a computer software distribution and development firm based in Glenageary, south Dublin, is also on the Revenue’s latest list of tax defaulters, having reached a settlement of €464,568.
There were two individual settlements of over €0.5m, including a farmer from Co Kildare, and a landlord with an address in Cheshire.
Graham de Barra, with an address in Portugal and described as a cryptocurrency trader, is also included on the Revenue tax defaulters’ list having made a settlement of €202,000. This included €89,000 in tax, €45,000 in interest, and €67,000 in penalties. The entire amount is still outstanding.
Canasta Investments Ltd, a provider of management services based in Park West in Dublin, made a settlement totalling €314,037.
Kelly Farm Modernisation Ltd, an agricultural contractor based in Ballydesmond, made a settlement of €238,363 with Revenue.
Francis Murphy, a publican in Templemore, Co Tipperary, made a settlement of €471,346. Michael Mullins Quarries Ltd, based in Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny, faced a bill totalling €173,034.
Revenue publishes its quarterly list in two parts. The first is settlement cases where there has been no agreement on a penalty, which is then set down by the courts. There were three such cases in the three months to December 31, with almost €200,000 in penalties imposed.
Part 2 cases are settlements published when voluntary disclosure options are not availed of and the default arises because of careless or deliberate behaviour. Sixteen such cases were included, all exceeding €100,000, with €5.01m being the total settlement.
Revenue says the published settlements reflect only a portion of its compliance interventions, which totalled 14,039 in that period, resulting in a total yield of almost €255.5m.
The Big Red Book 
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RIP (Revenue Invoicing Payment)
Carthy always struck me as a bit of a creeping Jesus
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And it’s a settlement, a settlement for Brian.
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