Yeah that was shameful from RTÉ. Had it on BBC because I’d no faith in RTÉ staying with it and they didn’t. They asked a couple of soft factfinding questions but had no interest in showing the grilling. Unbelievable to think that Cowen could survive another minute in office.
Sky News reporting 80-90 Billion bailout.
Well done Fianna Fail. Thanks.
Vincent Browne’s Crisis Special
21.11.10
On the night Ireland surrenders part of its sovereignty and vastly increases the state’s debt Vincent Browne brings you a special programme to examine where now for a country in crisis.
Please note as a result of this change in schedule The Xtra Factor will now air later than previously advertised at 11.30pm.
Join Vincent Browne for a crisis special tonight. Live at 10:30pm on TV3.
RTE are like a propaganda tool for the govt at this stage. Absolutely disgraceful.
Why so concerned as to what worldwide media saw? Have heard many reports in worldwide media about how easily we have accepted the cuts etc. About time they saw some of us acutally give a shit about this. Well done Vincent Browne. I’d like the 17% of the people in the 26 counties who still support FF to emmigrate now please.
Yea I understand that much. Just fucking mortifying to hear the cunt deny deny deny. No harm to show that we’re not all tolerating it but its just a fucking embarrassment. Shower of cunts.
RTÉ should be ashamed of themselves too in their actions tonight.
I wonder where Bertie was watching on from tonight?
Clashing with a special the week in politics presented by dobbo 2.0
I was close.
Absolutely disgraceful from rte. Every news channel in the world had a feed and they cut ours off. Fucking shameful. Watch as Harrism Waters et al try spin Browne’s questioning into the real embarrassment, not the country going to the IMF with a begging bowl thanks to the gangsters they cheerleaded.
sickening isn’t it
I see Na Fianna Eireann are in the Kildare Street area.
Oh right cool.
Browne was probably wrong on one score. I’d probably blame Ahern slightly more than Cowen.
there is no shortage of blame, did anyone spot the ‘‘since I took over as leader of the government line’’
Sure we all know that the really pressing issues are the fact that our minimum wage is too high and our public sector is paid too much. Nothing to do with the banks. Wankers.
Can anyone tell me what candidate the Christian Democrats hope to stand in Limerick West? I know they have a hotty called, Helga Schultz but she could be standing in Limerick East as her father used to work in Krups.
What we’ll start hearing more and more is the “our competitiveness has been declining since 2003” line, followed by the “we must work on regaining our competitiveness” line, leading to the lovely array of policy choices the right have been flogging as long as we can remember - repackaged as the only sensible response to the current situation.
This summer Harris was going on about “all this nonsense about the 2nd republic”, attacking anyone who suggested that we needed political reform. The biggest problem is not only do have morally bankrupt people running the show, we have morally bankrupt people telling us what to think about what it is they are doing. They don’t have any choice now either? They’re so fucking crooked that doing an about face would expose just how crooked they have been. There are honourable exceptions though so not all hope is lost.
[indent]PRESS RELEASE
21 November 2010 - ECB Governing Council welcomes the request of the Irish Government for financial assistance
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) welcomes the request of the Irish Government for financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union and euro-area Member States. The ECB concurs with the Commission, Ecofin Ministers and the Eurogroup that providing assistance to Ireland is warranted to safeguard financial stability in the European Union and in the euro area.
The European Union and euro-area financial support, together with the IMF financing, will be provided under strong policy conditionality, on the basis of a programme negotiated with the Irish authorities by the Commission and the IMF, in liaison with the ECB.
We are confident that this programme will contribute to ensuring the stability of the Irish banking system and permit it to perform its role in the functioning of the economy.
European Central Bank[/indent]
Incredible scenes. Lord Haw Haw RTE delay coverage so as they could finish Fair City, then censor journalists asking real questions and in a neat coincidence Masters of Disaster was showing on RTE 2 while messrs Cowen and Lenihan were on RTE 1.
Cowen looks like a broken man. And Lenihan looks like a very sick man.
What rate are we borrowing at anyway?