55 thoughts on “De Sunday Papers”

    1. Viva Bugs Bunny

      The difference between you and me madam is that you can quote stuff properly but I will be sober tomorrow afternoon.
      Good day to you!

  2. Inquisitor

    The Sunday Times has another angle to the Sunday Business Post story. Did other papers not have journalists covering the case? According to ABC circulation 60,000 copies of the Mail on Sunday were bought on average in the last audit (and about 30,000 per edition of Irish Daily Mail). If the Mail pull out of Ireland (it is currently looking for voluntary redundancies) where would those 60,000 go? To the Sunday Indo or to the Sunday Times?

  3. Panty Christ

    Angela Kerins being reintroduced into Irish society. RTE will complete with a full fluffy victim extract on prime time next week.

    1. Praetorian.

      See ya next Tuesday…despicable individual…with absolutely No shame.
      You’re bang on the money…Turdbridy will no doubt host her in the next month…she’ll play the victim card.

      this country boils my piss.

    2. Chucky R. Law

      I’m sure she’ll be happy to explain how she was worth every penny of her €350k package!

      2. Catherine costelloe

        You would think as CEO , Angela would be on top of her brief but she floundered like a fish out of water. Frank Flannery (FG) was involved in Chinese coffin flatpack disaster with Angela Kerins’s brother & these questions caused her much discomfort before PAC. It’s ironic she overdosed on pills & gin considering her head of Rehab ! The fact is she was a nurse but way out of her depth with 90 million budget of our money.

        1. Frilly Keane

          Shur’ you’ve a nurse heading the NCH
          Via Tallaght
          Via NCH – Mater site
          Via James
          Sum’ting like that

          Btw I think Angela’s husband was also involved in the flat pack coffin enterprise.
          Which demonstrates btw
          A number of probity and conflicts that people turn a blind eye ta

          Anyway
          All that’s neither here nor there to me
          She’s going to get her payday

          My issue is why are we still talking about her in this sense
          The real questions I want to see being the principal matter for debates

          Is why Frank Flannery wasn’t held to the same scrutiny his Female replacement was?
          Would PAC have they exceeded their remit if it was an ‘Alan’ Kerins

          Would the _ úck

    3. eoin

      There’s a strong whiff of reputation laundering around alright.

      Here’s the full Mail On Sunday story

      https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/other/my-suicide-attempt-after-pac-mauling-–-angela-kerins-reveals-harrowing-ordeal-in-explosive-new-book/ar-BBUj3RN

      Even if you accept she was treated unfairly at the public accounts committee, the fact is, she was one a huge salary of nearly €0.25m, received a raise during the austerity years and the charity was supported by tens of millions of taxpayer money. Those facts and similar concerns at the CRC led to a collapse in charitable donations in 2014.

      1. Spud

        +-1!

        Bet they had it ready to roll much earlier but maybe thought it’d be better if the poor lad recovered.

    2. Joe

      There are times when a headline, no matter how puntastic, should be put aside. Terribly poor form from The Star.

      1. Catherine costelloe

        The parents had to give permission . I’m sure the Star photographer doesn’t park in children’s ICU either.

    3. Dub Spot

      +1 Come on BS, why give this nasty rag the oxygen of publicity? It’s bad enough getting the oxygen of oxygen. Doesn’t deserve one pixel. Please drop it from future posts.

      1. dan

        By that logic you dump the Sunday World too, which is nothing but a PR rag for gangsters.
        And then you need to dump the Sunday Independent which dines out on tragedy porn.

  5. Frilly Keane

    Fogra … Lads serious announcement

    I think I might be a bit Ctrl Alt
    Definitely transitioning into a bitta’ve Alt sum’ting alright

    I’m still coming to terms with the Change
    So any help, ye know yerselves
    Already ‘much appreciated

    ‘came here to the Papers
    Since I’m pretty sure before I go to bed tomorrow
    Clampers and a few others will have it all sorted out

    Maybe even a Conversion Therapy Spa weekend thing, with links n’ stuff

    Yep
    Need to get a handle on it now
    I was caught earlier reading Zappone’ Spirituality for Feminists
    Aloud

    I’ve reached rock bottom

    1. eoin

      Chin up there Frilly, your best years are ahead. Is it true the secret to happiness is in acknowledging and being grateful for what you have?

    2. Dub Spot

      As long as you don’t sign up for the Women’s Mini-Marathon (10K) you’ll make it on honesty alone. Peace.

  9. eoin

    Just how close did the SBP come to caving in to DOB? The Sunday Times has new info

    “It can also be revealed that representatives of O’Brien, the Post and Chubb, the newspaper’s insurance company, held talks on the third day of the court case to discuss settling the action. It is understood that O’Brien was seeking an apology and the payment of a low six-figure sum [he got €150,000 jury awarded damages in his case against the Daily Mail and Paul Drury in 2013]. Sources say there was a gap of €50,000 between what O’Brien wanted and what the Post would pay, so the trial continued.”

    So, the SBP had libel insurance with Chubb. I wonder what the excess was and what legal costs are covered.
    It seems like a very small difference, €50,000 in the context of proceedings that are estimated to have cost “in excess of €1m”. It’s hardly a big sum for Chubb, it’s a huge sum for the SBP which is living hand-to-mouth.

    It’s a most peculiar case, on this occasion, DOB didn’t sue the journalists individually, in contrast to his previous form. The journalists, Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe, turned up every day to defend their work even though both have left the SBP after Kilcullen took over; their performances would have been critical to the success of the defence. At least three of the 11 jurors were siding with DOB until the judge said he’d accept a majority verdict.

    Frightening for the media in this country.

    1. Johnny

      Nice piece of damage control by the judge who appears to live in a very regal style,amazing how little information their is available on Judges in Ireland-its like a secret society.

      ‘Now Crosthwaite House is for sale through DNG for €2.275 million. Its owners, High Court judge Bernard Barton and his wife Anne Marie, who are on the board of multi-denominational charity the Military and Hospitaller Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, are downsizing now that their four children are grown.‘

      https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/the-ultimate-victorian-on-elegant-dún-laoghaire-park-for-2-275m-1.3471509

    2. Johnny

      What’s also somewhat frightening is not one hack or commentator has analyzed/discussed the judges “performance’,are they beyond reproach or criticism in Ireland ?

      Here’s the judge who’s a member sorry knight of some truly funky,Catholic charity thats invite only,meets in secret and is impossible to find any financial info in,despite being a charity-only in Ireland….

      https://www.st-lazarus.net/en/events-news/events/15-news/members/89-ireland-h-e-the-chev-bernard-j-barton-appointed-as-judge-of-the-high-court

  10. eoin

    The Sunday Times also notes the fact the SBP didn’t attack DOB’s reputation even though, in many peoples’ eyes, after the Moriarty Tribunal, he has no reputation

    “the defendant had not challenged O’Brien’s reputation, although that was a defence available in law. “

    1. eoin

      Does anyone see the irony in DOB accusing Irish journalists of being malicious in publishing information that a jury has held to be in the public interest, while, at the same time, seeking millions in donations from the Irish taxpayer for his Front Line Defenders charity, a charity which claims it tries to protect journalists, press freedom and freedom of speech (I poo you not)

      https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/right/freedom-expression

      How sleazy is this government, it gives millions of our money to an organisation founded and chaired by the very same individual who spent three weeks in the high court falsely accusing journalists of malice and of fabricating stories. If the jury last week had found against Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe, these two fine journalists would be facing a bleak future in their careers. Is DOB really going to walk into the sunset without there being any consequences for his charity.

      1. Frilly Keane

        Well
        He’s not walking inta the sunset
        Really

        He’s got done for costs here
        Costs that include Michael McDowell
        Even after a trip through taxing
        It’s still gonna hurt
        I mean
        The morta’ alone ….

        He’s not going ta’ handle this well
        I promise ye

        Sum’tings brewing

        1. Martco

          hope you’re right about the hurt.

          but to my sense of it there’s definitely a bang of something concocted about this case. almost as if it were a try before you buy demo.

          a mill (and that’s if it even gets paid) to someone with access to all sorts of slush fund trickery is nothing, it won’t stop him upgrading the kitchen in his house next week now will it? in return he arguably he gets that chill effect weapon he’s been after for years now…like take me on and this is what’s involved lads, its all neatly documented now.

          for me it’s about as believable as a Kerins cash bestseller.

        1. Frilly Keane

          I’d say they’re _hitting themselves
          Seriously

          Like
          Their entire strategy is
          “Smile for the Camera”
          If that friendly environment is no longer available to @CampaignForLeo & the Gang
          Well

          It could be game over
          They’d still have RTÉ I suppose

          I’d say while they’re still in full Confidence n’ Supply comfort
          They’ll keep throwing money at him since that’ll cost them nathin’
          Shur’ tis only taxpayers money

          Question
          How d’ye reckon his weekend is going

          1. Giggidygoo

            I reckon his weekend is being spent reading over Barnier and Merkel’ instructions, and trying to have his spin unit (they’re not gone away) write something for him to announce over the next week.
            In the meantime, Theresa May looks to have backed the EU into a corner and they’re going to have to re-write the ‘proposed backstop’ into some kind of face-saving waffle (for us poebs), but re-writing the bullet-proof, cast iron ‘agreement’ which was never agreed, into another Irish sell-out.

        2. bigx

          Should we assume you have forgotten or just willfully ignored the sleaze that was and is F.F.
          Do the names De Valera, Haughey,Ahern ,Lawlor ,Burke.Flynn mean nothing in your little world or in trumpian fashion are they your heroes.

  11. gringo

    Ok ,so we have the lies from the Brit papers, now can we have the lies from the Irish papers?

  13. f_lawless

    ‘Last American Vagabond’ podcast – ” US Threatens Ireland Over Israel Boycott & Netanyahu’s Slide Towards ‘Jewish Fascism’ ” (An American political commentator’s perspective on the sinister influence Israel has over the US political class)

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