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Questions and Answers RTE 1 23/02/2009

Posted By Simon McGarr On February 23, 2009 @ 11:11 pm In TV,ireland,news,politics | 1 Comment

  • 10:51 PM lexia - Oh my, Martin Cullen on last Saturday’s march #qa1
  • 10:52 PM Simon McGarr - Ok, who’s on the Panel? We’ve got Fintin O’Toole, Martin Cullen…
  • 10:55 PM lexia - I’m sorry. Martin Cullen turns me off. I’m sure I’m not the only one. #qa1
  • 10:55 PM Tupp_Ed - Michael Soden, former Bank of Ireland CEO! Charlie Flanagan, FG filled shirt #qa1
  • 10:55 PM Simon McGarr - Anyone turned on by Martin Cullen is to be shunned.
  • 11:04 PM omahonydonnelly - @lexia [1] There is something creepy about Martin Cullen. I don’t believe anything he says. #qa1
  • 11:04 PM Tupp_Ed - Faceache audience member complaining about his pension. I can’t have with pension complaints. #qa1
  • 11:04 PM Tupp_Ed - Fintin is straight in at 5th Gear. Squashing Martin Cullen into paste. Though he is refuses to acknowledge his pasting. #qa1
  • 11:04 PM Tupp_Ed - Local companionship revoked, on the grounds that she will not be lied to #qa1
  • 11:05 PM Simon McGarr - Cullen spouting actual clinical gibberish. It’s concerning.
  • 11:05 PM lexia - Nobody points like Fintan O’Toole. Even his teased tresses point corkscrews. #qa1
  • 11:05 PM AdamMaguire - @Tupp_Ed [2] Landlords are mobile investment. If they get taxed more they’ll take their houses elsewhere #qa1
  • 11:07 PM jdrumgoole - Holy shit Michael Soden rears his head. Maybe he can get his old job back as a bank CEO. #qa1
  • 11:09 PM jdrumgoole - Fintan O’Toole is kicking ass and taking names on Questions & Answers. Martin Cullen is on the ropes #qa1
  • 11:09 PM Mark_Coughlan - Cullen is on the ropes. That FG “plant” comment was stupid. Q&A is daycent this week bhoy… #qa1
  • 11:10 PM dermotcasey - @jdrumgoole [3] Hmmmh wonder who’d he’d think fit as CEO. He’s popping up all over the place at the moment. #qa1
  • 11:10 PM jdrumgoole - @jonathangrimes [4] tough gig for Cullen #qa1
  • 11:10 PM Tupp_Ed - Soden has demented plan. He reveals that the government had just taken a punt by recapitalising the banks and lost. #qa1
  • 11:11 PM Tupp_Ed - Holy Flaming Fuck! Soden, former CEO of Bank of Ireland, tells us he is apolitical. #qa1
  • 11:12 PM Mark_Coughlan - Bowman is giving the FGr a lot of air time #qa1
  • 11:12 PM jonathangrimes - @jdrumgoole [3] Where’s Willie O’Dea when you need him #qa1
  • 11:12 PM uberalex - Wow nationalising the banks. The government has done such a great job with its own finances, it surely can improve the banks. #qa1
  • 11:14 PM dermotcasey - For a second I thought Mary Robinson was on Q&A when I heard the journalist had to look at telly to check. #qa1
  • 11:14 PM Mark_Coughlan - The three C’s… will that be the GUBU of the naughties? ohhh #qa1
  • 11:15 PM Tupp_Ed - Guess how you find out something is illegal… #qa1
  • 11:15 PM midnightcourt - regulator not merely asleep at the wheel, was massively understaffed and underqualified. that’s down to general ‘tude to CS staffing #qa1
  • 11:15 PM Tupp_Ed - Fecking Cullen on again. Now his face makes me angry. #qa
  • 11:15 PM dermotcasey - Why do people point to tough US regulations. The global crisis originated with US liar loans (which we followed) #qa1
  • 11:15 PM Tupp_Ed - Guess how you find out something is illegal… #qa1
  • 11:16 PM uberalex - The ‘no smoke without fire’ argument is profoundly ridiculous. I can’t believe this person is trying to suggest a perp walk… #qa1
  • 11:17 PM midnightcourt - scalps all very well – Ireland de facto deregulated by not having any actual regulators. Plenty law on books #qa1
  • 11:17 PM Tupp_Ed - Ahh! Eyes starting to bleed while I listen.. everything I’m hearing making my brain implode. #qa1
  • 11:19 PM uberalex - @Tupp_Ed [2] I tuned in because of twitter – regret it now #qa1
  • 11:19 PM Tupp_Ed - Cullen doesn’t accept Anglo shenanigans was legal. But at the same time he thinks it wasn’t illegal either #qa1
  • 11:20 PM midnightcourt - hahahahahahahahaha cullen doesn’t know any of the bankers #qa1
  • 11:20 PM donkearns - @dermotcasey [5] Does the constant analysis of the problem(s) not get annoying? Whatever happened to honesty anyway? #qa1
  • 11:21 PM Mark_Coughlan - Fintan O’Toole, you legend. #qa1 … Martin “as far as I know well I kind of think it was sort of kind of a bit, yeah legal”…
  • 11:23 PM dermotcasey - Does Mike Soden think he’d have done it any different if he was still in charge. Lemmings go off the cliff together #qa1
  • 11:24 PM Tupp_Ed - Ads a blessed relief. My stomach is clenched now. I was told this was bad for me. Why do I do it to myself? #qa1
  • 11:24 PM Tupp_Ed - Ad based on Groundhog Day for the Canary Islands. Not sure they realised he’s in hell, not an extended holiday. #qa1
  • 11:25 PM Tupp_Ed - Brilliant! An ad for PostBank. #qa1
  • 11:25 PM midnightcourt - The Potato Republic does the coup d’etat so much more subtly than its Banana equivalent #qa1
  • 11:25 PM Tupp_Ed - Ad based on Groundhog Day for the Canary Islands. Not sure they realised he’s in hell, not an extended holiday. #qa1
  • 11:27 PM Simon McGarr - Audience member produces ‘National Government’ canard. A chance for Charlie Flanagan to explain why FG is totally, totally different to FF.
  • 11:28 PM Tupp_Ed - Audience member produces ‘National Government’ canard. A chance for Charlie Flanagan to explain why FG is totally, totally different to FF.
  • 11:28 PM Tupp_Ed - Brilliant! An ad for PostBank. #qa1
  • 11:28 PM Mark_Coughlan - Martin, another fine example of focused, thought out, directed Fiana Fail leadership #qa1
  • 11:28 PM dermotcasey - Oh wow. Postbank ad which was done before the crisis is very appropiate in the circumstances #qa1
  • 11:28 PM andyaz - Fintan O’Toole should be on every week. #qa1
  • 11:28 PM jdrumgoole - @Tupp_Ed [2] Ah double think, a mandatory skill for government and bankers in Ireland today #qa1
  • 11:28 PM Mark_Coughlan - Poorly phrased question… “since we’re in a recession…” it’s not JUST a recession, it’s way more than that! #qa1
  • 11:28 PM midnightcourt - Let us never forget Martin Cullen was a PD TD. #qa1
  • 11:30 PM Tupp_Ed - Soden talking. Telling us what to do like he knows best, and isn’t a banker angling for a 2nd chance from the gov #qa1
  • 11:31 PM Tupp_Ed - Fintin taking the chance to ride out his lifelong, long advocated dream of a FG/FF merger to leave space for a Labour led opposition #qa1
  • 11:31 PM ghartnett - @jdrumgoole [3] Yeah, Cullen got a hammering. Soden seemed to make sense near the end of his “we have to stop arguing and do something…” #qa1
  • 11:33 PM Tupp_Ed - Martin Cullen keeps telling us he agrees with everyone. Then ignores what they said and trots out something that makes no sense. #qa1
  • 11:34 PM wesg - I’ve had to switch it off, just can’t listen to any more misdirection and obfuscation by Cullen (Mr. eVoting) #qa1
  • 11:34 PM gavreilly - Like FG wouldn’t have tried to introduce e-voting… #qa1
  • 11:40 PM midnightcourt - Fintan’s fantasy appears designed pour etaper le bourgeoisie #qa1
  • 11:40 PM Tupp_Ed - And we’re out. Many thanks to the twitter-witters throughout. If you’d like a copy on your blog try the following #qa1
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