RTÉ will be hoping that this will have blown over by Monday and they won’t have to dedicate another episode of Liveline to it. The controversy breaking on a Thursday rather than a Wednesday is a God send for Tubs.
This nurse is speaking well now. She’s the most logical caller so far but is still managing to call out Ryan.
balbec
June 23, 2023, 2:04pm
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Some misfortune from Galway was rambling on about her bakery being burnt to the ground for ages so I switched to Lyric.
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Never heard of them either, the way Callan was crowing you’d swear they Brennans Bread famous
Dee Forbes gone under the bus, who will be next to follow? Isn’t Simon Coveney brother high up in RTE? Wonder will we see him going under a bus as well.
On the board along with that other member of the Cork clique Anne O’Leary.
Even when I thought it was Dublin, I knew it was Cork
Cheasty:
This all happened before my time so I never really understood this, and despite listening to some podcasts about it some years back, I still don’t really understand it. My loose understanding is that the people that were branded as “Official Sinn Fein” ie. Eoghan Harris and Gerry Gregg (?) pretty much acted like unionists? Was it sort of like how the “Revolutionary Communist Party” of the 1980s turned into an anarcho-capitalist loon sect?
What was the main bugbear of those who push this narrative? Was it Section 31?
What exactly was the problem with RTE’s news and current affairs coverage from say, the 1970s to the 1990s, as people who push this narrative see it?
I’m only asking because this whole concept puzzles me slightly.
The Workers' Party (Irish: Páirtí na nOibrithe) is a Marxist–Leninist political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
It arose as the original Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, but took its current form in 1970 following a division within the party, in which it was the larger faction. This majority group continued under the same leadership as Sinn Féin (Gardiner Place) or Official Sinn Féin. The party name was changed to Sinn Féin – The Wo...
See ‘Ned Stapleton Cumann’ section, along with podcast and book below:
In this episode we talk to historian Brian Hanley about The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party, the book which he co-authored with Scott Millar, published in 2009. We discuss the history of Official Republicanism...
Fagan_ODowd:
Cheasty:
This all happened before my time so I never really understood this, and despite listening to some podcasts about it some years back, I still don’t really understand it. My loose understanding is that the people that were branded as “Official Sinn Fein” ie. Eoghan Harris and Gerry Gregg (?) pretty much acted like unionists? Was it sort of like how the “Revolutionary Communist Party” of the 1980s turned into an anarcho-capitalist loon sect?
What was the main bugbear of those who push this narrative? Was it Section 31?
What exactly was the problem with RTE’s news and current affairs coverage from say, the 1970s to the 1990s, as people who push this narrative see it?
I’m only asking because this whole concept puzzles me slightly.
The book the Lost Revolution by Brian Hanley is good on the topic. Interesting review of it here which addresses some of your questions.
History Ireland
Section 31 wasn’t the work of the Officials (from memory Official IRA were proscribed under it too). That was the work of Conor Cruise O’Brien
Sorry, I had not seen this post…
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You’d always get a bit worried when a Coveney is high up anywhere.
And top ten news item on the grauniad.
The beeb will be swooping in shortly to sweep tubs away from our ungrateful bosom
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Locke
June 23, 2023, 3:10pm
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Claire Byrne works on average 2 days in every week. She not being around should come as no surprise at all.
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Massey
June 23, 2023, 3:42pm
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She works 10 hrs a week,that’s not 2 days,that’s one day for some.
Massey
June 23, 2023, 3:43pm
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Not my fault RTE paid me too much.
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He’d want to have a long hard look at his agent for thinking this was a good idea.
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Tubs needs to play the #bekind card sharpish
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