Brendan O'Connor, that crazy kid

by John Cussen Tue Feb 18, 2003 02:12

Some may remember a headline in either the independant or the sunday independant the day before the elections called by the rainbow government.

The headline read "It's Payback Time". The article in general was unfairly critical of the government, especially in light of previous FF adminstrations prior to that.

Interestingly, a consortium in which Tony O'Reilly had been involved in had lost the bid for the second mobile license not too long before.

Payback for what I wonder?

Independant Newspapers are by no means above attempting to play politics in a very murdochesque fashion. I noted Brendan O'Connor's comments about indymedia some weeks ago - hardly surprising as this kind of site (and others like cryptome, opendemocracy etc) represent a sort of antithesis to large scale media entities like Independant Newspapers.

Should these new mediums of news and comment become more commonplace, the larger media establishments will have lost much of their political power. It is very much in their interest to dismiss sites such as this. As for O'Connor's comment that "any lunatic" can post on Indymedia I think that even given several years of archives you would be hard pressed to encounter such garbage as Eamonn Dunphy (who not too long ago wrote some of the most patheticly arse-kissing, blatantly biased and wholly untrue praise of CJ Haughey I have ever read) Terry Keane, Eoghan Harass, who for a supposed political commentator shows a surprising right-wing bias and scant regard for human life/decency.... etc etc.

by John Costigan Tue Feb 18, 2003 00:00

jugglers = pricks

by pat c Mon Feb 17, 2003 14:46

dont know if i'd go as far as supporting their arrest but some "jugglers" were making a nuisance
of themselves on the march. juggling on the top of a sign post is not a good idea, especially when the juggler is either drunk or incompetent.

by Sean Mon Feb 17, 2003 14:28 Sean at smartdown dot com

Poor Brendan, you forget that his journalism is quite funny even if you don't agree with it. . So fair play to the woman who slagged the Gardai? Why? Cause she had to stir shit with the Gardai who were actually doing a good job? After they had reopened Dame street one protester started playing with his devil sticks in front of a bus. A Garda pulled him off the road, he did it again and got pulled off the road. Then ten minutes later he did it again and was arrested this time. THe Gardai were booed as they took him away. THis knob end had his time to protest, and then when it was over the Gardai gave him two chances to quit acting like a dick and he didnt take them. Fair play for arresting the Spa

by jeff Mon Feb 17, 2003 14:19 womackdoor at yahoo dot com

I'm ready to take him on!Get him to e mail me, and I'll kick his alco liver to nought!Gombeen man, may his life turn to shite...

by good bob Mon Feb 17, 2003 14:15

Brendan O'Connor is nothing but a failed comic and an RTE minor personality who is desperately trying to restart his flagging career. This jumped up little oik (who makes me ashamed to be from cork) is nothing more than a reactionary hack, who displays all the symptoms of lazy journalism and titillation that have defined the Irish Corporate media.
Let him speak because when he does he only strengthens our arguments

I have a great clip from Newstalk where he justifies America killing innocent Iraq kids for Oil, then when loosing the argument he accusers all the listeners of "being unemployed" as they were listening to daytime radio.

Brendan (who reads Indymedia, as he quoted it on air) you are a sad individual, but you our cause a world of good if you are the best spokesman they have for the WAR you seem to want so much