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Entries Tagged as 'Irish Media'

Donie Cassidy wants the national media to monitor the banks

October 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Recession

Ah remember last week when leader of the Seanad, Senator Donie Cassidy, was moaning about the whinging media? RTE Radio 1 in particular Yesterday he was calling on the media to check on the banks on an hourly basis. (Ronan Collins won’t be interrupted so…phew!) “This is not a time where they can be considering […]

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Donie Cassidy whines about RTE Whingers

October 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, MSM

The leader of FF in the Seanad, Donie Cassidy thinks that RTE Radio 1 is not balanced – that’s balanced in favour of the government obviously. He obviously a supporter of Faux RTE – closely related to Faux News. The Senator thinks that from 7.30 in the morning until the evening there is too much […]

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Nell McCafferty – Futurologist

September 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Nell McCafferty – Futurologist · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Recession

Image via Wikipedia No not another National Treasure post but just pointing out something for those of us who watched Questions and Answers last night and wondered what the hell Nell McCafferty was was going on about when saying ‘youse don’t know what will happen tomorrow’ and talking about hedge funds etc. etc. She was […]

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Questions and Answers 29th September 2008

September 29th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Live Blogging

Well it was a fairly uneventful (read boring) Questions and Answers tonight. Except for Nell McCafferty doing exasperation and her own unique version of financial analysis. Myself and Eidin live blogged it.

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Shooting the Messenger?

September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Recession

Image via Wikipedia Are we going back to Government broadcasting policy of the 1980’s? Brian Lenihan rings the RTE Boss to complain sorry have a cordial conversation about the contents of Liveline last week. If you missed it, callers were ringing Joe and talking about moving their money to under the mattress or the post […]

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