O Reilly’s act was cuntish but no way is it worse than Kelly’s behaviour. Kelly systematically used tragic deaths to line his pocket. O’Reilly did it once. Not sure one act deserves this accolade.
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Is there tactical voting or voting along regional lines ??
For me the editor of the Mail on Sunday deserves the award far more than O’Reilly does.
Recording in secret is the culture at that paper, it’s expected. Death knocking is also a widespread practice within the media in general.
Reliable sources say O’Reilly tried to back out and was against the Mail publishing the story but was overruled by her editor.
I’m not defending her but the culture at the paper and the industry in which she makes her living means there is a credible narrative in which she can be portrayed, if not as a victim, as merely a pawn in a much wider horrible tabloid culture.
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When Paul Williams is the weakest in the field, you know that we have a seriously high calibre final. This is tough. Foster has really come into her own in the last few months.
Decisions, decisions…
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Ball?
Can I use both my votes on Bressie? 
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That’s just the Fianna Fail crowd and the Pretend IRA men.
Why are the people who have voted private in this poll and not the previous ones?
Who is the editor?
Fuck her Sid, she had a choice and went ahead and did what she did. Its on her conscience. It can be on the editors as well, but she allowed herself be used as the pawn. She faced that woman down, and recorded her without her consent. Fuck her. The cunt.
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2 votes in the final?
No one forced her to drive all the way to Donegal, and having all that time to consider how she’d conduct her “interview”
No one forced her to bring her children to convey the “fellow young mother” routine
No one forced her to conceal her identity nor to be upfront when she introduced herself
No one forced her to have a secret recording device when speaking to the bereaved
No one forced her to write the article under “exclusive interview”
No one forced her to be a cunt and to inflict even more heartache and pain to an already massively tragic accident where a family was wiped out
She deserves everything she gets. She was a manipulative and scheming cunt, all to get her “exclusive interview” in the name of selling papers and feathering her journalistic career.
Fuck her. Surely at some stage she must have thought, no this is wrong. Even when having her kids there, surely that would have brought some perspective as a parent. But no, she was still happy to do what she did. Cunt.
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John Bruton - always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
I’m disappointed Bruton isnt the forerunner from the early tallies. I fear he and Arlene Foster will end up splitting the vote with their devotion to the union.
She didn’t conceal her identity.
Tradition, and so as to enable dormant posters and the clergy to vote.
Conor O’Donnell
No such thing in the irish media mate
Precisely.
Aided to that she’s been shunned by her coworkers. Enough said.
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An outbreak of syphilis is surely on the way for the board so.
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