Too Much Information?

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From top: Barry Cummins outlining details from the Graham Dwyer trial to David McCullagh on Prime Time last night and (above) Senator Marie Louise O’Donnell with Aoife Barry, from Journal.ie and Gavin Reilly, from Today FM, on Tonight With Vincent Browne last night

Alternatively, following Marie Louise O’Donnell’s appearance on Tonight With Vincent Browne last night in which she asked: “Do we need to know those details?…I’m in favour of censoring, censoring is the wrong word but I think we need to be more measured.

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43 thoughts on “Too Much Information?

    1. ReproBertie

      People are questioning the public interest in details like the victim’s father recounting that the victim told him she was seeing a married professional from Foxrock who “ties me up and masturbates over me”.

    2. rotide

      Haven’t been keeping up with the news at all over the last week or so , so have literally no idea when this case took place but Mohammed Wanking good, Murder Victim Details Bad yes?

    1. Soundings

      Yep, they’re probably just gutted she wasn’t prettier or related to someone important. Ah well, you can’t have everything, At least the accused is suitably middle-class and not harsh on the eye.

  1. Frilly Keane

    ‘Tell ya what

    That R1 news didn’t hould back either

    Jesus I’m not right thinking about that poor girl and her father.

    Ya just never know

  2. scottser

    a bit of common sense should prevail here. you don’t want to be banging on about r@pe fantasies and bdsm fuelled murder on the 6 1 news. there is a watershed for that sort of a thing.

    1. Soundings

      Aren’t there three murder trials going at the minute, the reporting from the other two is sketchy at best, but involves the lower classes.

        1. Lilly

          Or human interest? I’m amazed she was so open with her father about her sex life. Possibly because she was vulnerable generally.

          1. Zarathustra

            Lily, I’m paraphrasing, but in his testimony, her father said that she was an attention seeker and she liked to shock him by divulging details of her sex life.- according to RTÉ and Newstalk bulletins today.

        1. Mani

          I can never understand why the safe word can’t be ‘stop’.

          Or ‘I can hear clampers crying in the next room’

  3. Lilly

    It’s in the public interest to alert innocent people to the fact that there are some sick predators out there masquerading as ‘nice professionals’. The devil is in the details. Some people lead sheltered lives, having pious religious BS rammed down their throats, instead of equipping them with an awareness of danger where it’s least expected.

    1. Lilly

      Having said that anyone who goes online looking for S&M is probably aware that they might be getting into dodgy territory. But it sounds as if her murderer did groom her and win her trust over an extended period of time. Poor woman did not deserve this. RIP.

      1. Soundings

        I think “alleged murderer” is the correct description until the defence has had its say, and more importantly the judge. He’s pleading “not guilty”, right? He may be acquitted.

        If the accused is in fact adjudged innocent, then reporting this level of detail will surely ruin his life anyway.

        1. Lilly

          I referred to her murderer since she was in fact murdered. Her murderer was presumably the man she exchanged texts with. At no stage did I imply that the accused is her murderer.

          1. ReproBertie

            Cause of death has not been determined so, as yet, we can’t say that she was in fact murdered.

          2. Soundings

            No, she was killed. Just like Veronica Guerinin 1996 and the journalist Eugene Moloney in 2012. In both cases, the accused were convicted of manslaughter, not murder. If the accused in this case is ultimately convicted of murder, then at that point, the killing becomes in fact a murder, not before.

            “Her murderer was presumably the man she exchanged texts with” looks like a dangerous assumption. Life isn’t always like Colombo where the perpetrator is one of the characters on screen, and a common defence strategy is to suggest there might be other suspects.

          3. Soundings

            Bertie, I think the cause of death has been determined. She didn’t die of natural causes, she was killed.

          4. Lilly

            You can argue the semantics til the cows come home but the fact remains, at no stage did I finger the accused in making my point.

  4. bisted

    …thought Vincent was excellent last night the way he carved up both Lucinda Creighton and Marie Louise O’Donnell and exposed them for the right wing cranks that they both are.

    1. Soundings

      And for revealing Lucinda’s party for what it really is, the Keep Abortion Out of Ireland party.

      When the rubber hit the road, that was the only issue on which she made a stand. Not economic, social, foreign affairs, political governance policy, but abortion policy.

      And, my did she look like a lightweight.

    2. ABM

      Ranelagh Right wingers – how dare they vote for Lucinda Creighton.

      Left wingers sure as hell like Ranelagh’s burrito bars, sushi bars and hipster coffee shops.

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