Pedestrian fare tonight all told. This show needs someone going berserk and asap.
It’s an improvement on last night but on the whole it’s been poor since the election. Not to worry. We shall be lurching from one crisis to another for the next five years and there’ll be plenty of opportunity for some extreme glaring.
Jesus there’s a radiation problem in Cork by the looks of things.
Vincent mad for a bit of banter on the ministerial mercs but the panel are a bit too po-faced to catch on.
Vinnie made a right tit of that pro-EU ginger one who is being nominated for the Seanad by a director of AIB.
Saw that
Vincent Browne attacked the Seanad last night taking aim at four candidates who represent “rotten boroughs, seats for elites” – the university panels.
Regina O’Connor, advisor to Fianna Fail MEPs, came off worst.
By some distance.
Browne: “Regina what do you stand for?”
O’Connor: “The most important thing at the moment is our future…”
Browne: “Really? Good Lord. When was that not the case? When did anybody running for election to anything say the most important thing at the moment is our past?”
O’Connor: “Well I think more than any time -”
Browne: “Can you think of a more astounding cliché than that?”
O’Connor: “Well I still believe in it.”
Browne: “Really? You think the most important thing is our future?”
O’Connor: “It’s up to us. We are the next generation. We have to stand up to the plate.”
Browne: “Stand up to the plate?”
O’Connor: “And I am willing to come back from Brussels with my expertise as an EU legal and political adviser and to add value to the Seanad.”
Browne: “And your first insight is that the most important thing is our future.”
O’Connor: “Yeah the future of the country.”
Browne: “Oh my God.”
O’Connor: “I think Vincent it’s what everybody is thinking about.”
Browne: “Is that really all you can say? I ask you what you stand for and the first thing out of your mouth is, you come out with this astounding banality: the most important thing is our future.”
O’Connor: “Well I was going to continue. We are the future and we need to stand up to the plate.”
Browne: What is this standing up to the plate?
Later…
O’Connor: “I think there’s an important point here for the Seanad. The Seanad could be a place where you could haul bankers in and have them grilled, to let them sweat, have the media in -”
Browne: “Do you not know that it happened?”
O’Connor: “Well I think it should have happened.”
Browne: “It did happen, not in the Seanad but members of Seanad were present, on the Oireachtas committee on finance…”
O’Connor: “But it should have been open to the public. It should have been open to the public, in terms of, all media should have been allowed in because it was a very important moment.”
Browne: “Regina, not only was it open to the public, it was on television.”
O’Connor: “Well I think this is a really important place where the Seanad can take its place.”
Browne: “But members of the Seanad were there. You didn’t know about that? You didn’t know about that, obviously… which is a problem running for the senate when you don’t know what happened here.”
O’Connor: “The Seanad should be a place for the best thinkers and experts in the field to help everybody move on form this scenario. And the seat that I want to propose would not be a Regina O’Connor seat, it would be a seat surrounded by stake-holders such as Denis O’Brien and Sean O’Driscoll and Andrew Parrish…”
Browne: “Sean O’Driscoll, this is the fella who was on the board of AIB during all those years that led to its collapse. That isn’t the kind of experts we want, is it? Is this the kind of experts we want is it?”
Later….
O’Connor: “We have an amazing opportunity here and there are American lessons to be learned; for instance if we fund entrepreneurs with EU money and then we create centres of excellence… We can bring jobs but we need in the Seanad to have the best speakers and the best thinkers and creative thinkers to think outside the box, rather than inside the box.”
Browne: “And among the best thinkers are former directors of the banks that collapsed?”
Superb.
O’Connor: “The most important thing at the moment is our future…”
Browne: “Really? Good Lord. When was that not the case? When did anybody running for election to anything say the most important thing at the moment is our past?”
O’Connor: “Well I think more than any time -”
Browne: “Can you think of a more astounding cliché than that?”
O’Connor: “Well I still believe in it.”
Browne: “Really? You think the most important thing is our future?”
O’Connor: “It’s up to us. We are the next generation. We have to stand up to the plate.”
Browne: “Stand up to the plate?”
O’Connor: “And I am willing to come back from Brussels with my expertise as an EU legal and political adviser and to add value to the Seanad.”
Browne: “And your first insight is that the most important thing is our future.”
O’Connor: “Yeah the future of the country.”
Browne: “Oh my God.”
O’Connor: “I think Vincent it’s what everybody is thinking about.”
Browne: “Is that really all you can say? I ask you what you stand for and the first thing out of your mouth is, you come out with this astounding banality: the most important thing is our future.”
O’Connor: “Well I was going to continue. We are the future and we need to stand up to the plate.”
Is Shane Coleman a band leader in his spare time
He spends too much of his spare time in River Island by the looks of it.
This is Vincent’s All-Ireland tonight.
Denis O’Brien looks like a little piggy in a suit.
The Indo panelist doesn’t know enough about the individual payments made by her boss to comment.
Shane Coleman is working for Newstalk as well now. You wouldn’t know who to believe.
Is Vincent steamed?
Don’t think so
Ah that’s great stuff.
Shane Coleman is also an O’Brien employee, he’s now got a gig at Newstalk.
O’Brien hadn’t a clue about his All-Ireland meeting with Lowry with Dobbo earlier- incorrectly asserted that it was after the Hurling Final and that it was on the 21st of September - can’t even get his own story straight - it was after the football on the 17th - a day I lost 10 grand and coincidentally six years to the day since another Denis O’Brien claimed he gave Bertie Ahern 30 grand in a brown envelope after the All-Ireland Football Final.
Fat cunt from the Indo talking about consuming the report. Hungry bitch.
Shane has stood tall for his new boss tonight anyway.
How would a criminal investigation work vis a vis the tribunal findings? Could the evidence be incorporated into a criminal investigation even if the report has no legal standing in and of itself?
I’m no legal expert but I’d say the burden of proof would be much higher in a criminal investigation. Moriarty must have some grounds for defamation considering the guff O’Brien and Dunne have come out with about him.