I knew both Haughey and Lenihan .... and I was Public Relations Officer for Sinn Fein in Dublin at that time..
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I know you were... and I agree it's an outrage they've written your part out of the story - Daniel Day Lewis would have been perfect for the challenging role of portraying yerself. Maybe a brisk email and a call to Joe tomorrow might be in order...
I know you were... and I agree it's an outrage they've written your part out of the story - Daniel Day Lewis would have been perfect for the challenging role of portraying yerself. Maybe a brisk email and a call to Joe tomorrow might be in order...
lol !!
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.”
Well it opened my eyes I can tell you . There I was thinking Charlie was living the high life hob nobbing with the gentry and all the time he was hanging around what looked like Marys' Mansions looking for Tony Gregory and handing out loads of the folding stuff to unemployed shop assistants to tidy them over while they emigrated to England . If only I could turn the clock back ......
I thought last night's episode was better, Aidan Gillen has caught Haughty spot on, I heard a clip on S. O'Rourke this morning and when you hear him in audio only it is uncanny, he must have studied Charlie's voice at length. Sean Doherty's daughter, a Councillor in Roscommon, rang O'Rourke to say how she was disgusted for the way her da was portrayed: trotted out the usual; lovely man, great dad, all he did for the people of Roscommon etc, etc. She wouldn't discuss the illegal phone tapping or the interference in a court case as these matters were " historical" and as she was 12 at the time she had no knowledge of them!.
I thought last night's episode was better, Aidan Gillen has caught Haughty spot on, I heard a clip on S. O'Rourke this morning and when you hear him in audio only it is uncanny, he must have studied Charlie's voice at length. Sean Doherty's daughter, a Councillor in Roscommon, rang O'Rourke to say how she was disgusted for the way her da was portrayed: trotted out the usual; lovely man, great dad, all he did for the people of Roscommon etc, etc. She wouldn't discuss the illegal phone tapping or the interference in a court case as these matters were " historical" and as she was 12 at the time she had no knowledge of them!.
Yeh heard that , she was the consummate politician if ever there was one.
Mary O'Rourke was on the same trail last week... lamenting over the portrayal of her Brian as a buffoon - and from a family perspective I suppose you'd have to have sympathy for her... as also with Doherty's daughter.
Bottom line though is that somebody has to call it as it was... there's enough truth in there to show new generations how we ended up where we are... and for those of us old enough to remember there's enough to encapsulate the era into some kind of dramatic narrative... and remain entertaining.
Mary O'Rourke was on the same trail last week... lamenting over the portrayal of her Brian as a buffoon - and from a family perspective I suppose you'd have to have sympathy for her... as also with Doherty's daughter.
Bottom line though is that somebody has to call it as it was... there's enough truth in there to show new generations how we ended up where we are... and for those of us old enough to remember there's enough to encapsulate the era into some kind of dramatic narrative... and remain entertaining.
Sort of a Cartoon lampooning Politicians.......
Sort of bad timing for ''Charlie''...
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