She did. She was a trailblazer in what she achieved as a woman for the time. She also seemed quite conservative or pro-establishment later in her career. That’s too much nuance for TFK though, you have to separate things into good and bad on here.
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a combination of a badly written story and draconian libel laws
the facts are laid out quite neatly here:
" investors acquired the Mespil flats at a below market value average price of £28,000 per unit, Irish Nationwide’s provision of 100 per cent mortgages to fund the deal compounded matters, as did Irish Life’s failure to offer the Dublin 4 scheme’s tenants the option to buy their homes first."
Veteran property players acquire 40 apartments in Mespil Estate (irishtimes.com)
hardly the actions of a leftie
After the Celtic Tiger crash there were murmers of discontent about the salary of some of RTE’s highest earners. She was the only that came out to justify her high pay. She seemed a bit put out that people were mentioning the short hours she worked. She set them straight by pointing out the number of hours “research” she had to put in every week. As @Special_Olympiakos points out she defended Denis O’Brien to the hilt and kept mentioning “his right to a good name” despite the Tribunal findings. If she were still alive ye’d be all nominating her for COTY for her Covid commentary.
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There’s no bar on a posthumous award to my knowledge
Really good interview here with BOC and Noel Hogan from the Cranberries, BOC is really great on music, he’s in his element though he clearly wasn’t much of a cranberries fan himself,
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Very good
How many times has Kate O’Connell or Alison O’Connor been on in the last year?
A O’C, who practically ordered FF & FG to form a government on Claire Byrne show after the last election said today, we (Who?), need RTE and independent journalists blah blah, with local and general elections coming up.
Like clockwork she said; SF have tried to twart the media with defamation proceedings as has their leader Mary Lou McDonald….
RTE needs to be reformed.