The epitome of we can’t be touched. The arrogance was off the scale.
These things didn’t happen before twitter
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Wasn’t Doherty in the guards himself before going into politics?
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He even made Detective. He was a master at elucidating information from approved sources. It’s well known here locally that his father was part of a gang of desperadoes who robbed the Northern Bank in Ballinamore in 1932. The culprits were never apprehended however.
We could do with CJH now to sort out NPHET
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I’ve often wondered what would happen if he was in the hot seat with all that’s going on.
Completely different era of course.
He was a strong leader of a one party government. He’d have fucked Holohan out a window by now.
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He would never have given them control in the first place and he’d have made a fortune out of selling PPE contracts
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Nothing there to be upset about
It’s rare enough that an RTE lifer is universally praised on TFK. I have vague recollections of Nighthawks. A show of it’s time.
Where was Nighthawks filmed? Its nuts looking back on it.
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Didn’t Doherty end up in a bit of bother as well for crossing a Sergeant Tully in Boyle who was covering his home patch in North Roscommon?
He would have wore Charvet masks
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Oul’ Tully just wasn’t cut out for the job in the heartland of the then Minister.
I mean, what was the point of having a compliant and malleable guy at the wheel and wasting valuable drinking time. A scientific study undertaken by another Government agency found that the brain was at it’s peak between 1.22 and 1.37 both times am.
Source: ESRI, policy paper 117/d/RN/1983.
This is a great piece at the end of that article where shay Healy says he spotted Charlie in a restaurant years later and having never met him, Healy was thinking of going over and saying hello, but decided otherwise as he’d imagined how it would go. .
“ I could just imagine him swiveling those hooded eyes on me and hear that rasping voice saying “Healy…you fool… you have unhorsed me.”
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The RTÉ Canteen.
I was reading up on the finer details of the Duke’s naval record in the Sunday newspapers yesterday. He was cited in dispatches three times for bravery in the Battle of Matapan and was awarded the Greek War Cross for his heroism.
Two years later in 1943, as one of the Royal Navy’s youngest First Lieutenants at the age of 21, he was credited with saving HMS Wallace from the Nazi uboats and destruction with an ingenious diversionary plan which involved the launching of a raft with smoke floats which allowed HMS Wallace to escape unharmed from the Nazi bombers.
They don’t make war heroes like the Duke of Edinburgh or your grandfather any more.
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Sure the soldiers would be too busy putting videos of the smoky rafts up on tiktok