MEPs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly sue RTÉ

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  1. F**k those two. I see a future as rt correspondents or a show on sputnik radio when they are eventually voted out of office.

  2. They look like a couple appealing for info on their missing child who’ve just been told that the body’s been found under the patio in that pic.

  3. While I’d like this to blow up in their face I’d imagine RTE made an absolute cock and balls of balance.
    The lawyer they’re using has won cases against them before.

  4. The “they voted against condemning the invasion” disinfo was getting completely out of control, people believing it and repeating it.

  5. Let me guess, they are suing RTÉ for making them appear foolish by showing footage of them in context?

  6. Does defamation not require a lie reducing a person’s standing the eyes of their peers.

    I somehow doubt RTÉ reduced their standing in the eyes of their peers . . .

  7. They’re suing for defamation. For defamation, they’re reputation has to have been damaged by RTÉ.

    RTÉ showing exactly what they said and reporting exactly what they did, has definitely had an effect on their reputations.

    I’d love to be in the court to hear their arguments. It’ll be like an episode of Kilnascully.

  8. Say what you want about the pair of wankers, RTE can be incredibly biased and unfair in their reporting, that’s not okay just because you agree with them (rte). If I were a Clare or Mick voter I would feel fair marginalised and misrepresented by our national News reporter and that would absolutely drive me further into whatever conspiracies against fair news.

    Another example, covering the trucker protest yesterday, I heard an RTE reporter have the most condescending mocking tone when quoting some of the truckers concerns. Don’t agree with the truckers but it’s not fair or right for a news station to use the exact phrase “but sure we all know those demands are ridiculous” and “they wouldn’t talk to us because we’re fake news, some of them talked to media but one protestor called us fake news”

    As someone who has been on the receiving end of this with regard to climate change protests, it’s incredibly annoying, dangerously imposing views and opinions on what’s supposed to be fair unbiased news, and absolutely made me hate any media source that does this shit.

  9. Defamation:

    > the action of damaging the good reputation of someone

    Can we sue Mick and Clare for defaming the country?

  10. I’d sue them for repeatedly broadcasting the shite coming out of their mouths too If I was them

  11. Has anyone been following the RTÉ coverage and know if they’ve slipped up in any editorials with any sort of defamation?

    Do details in these sorts of cases come out before the court hearings?

  12. I wish these two weren’t so eager to Streisand effect themselves cos they’re all over the place already and having to keep witnessing their stupidity is temper-testing.

  13. It’s a cheap shot to comment on people’s personal appearances but these 2 are a shocking embarrassment. They consistently look like they have stumbled out of a lock in at 8am and both look act appallingly

  14. Can we sue them for defamation of the state? They have dragged our countries name through the mud.

  15. “When contacted by Independent.ie, Mr Dore declined to comment on the specifics of the cases filed by the two politicians.”

    Solicitor: I dunno…we’ll sue for something.

  16. Populist cult leaders always need someone to blame – solidifies the ingroup dynamic. Clare has 3 braincells so she dominates her colleagues who have not got 2 braincells between them – remember Mick has a child who works in her fancy office in Brussels and there’s other close ties there for the Psuedo Lefties Liberation Front. They’re making some euro.

  17. This is not a cut and dried issue. It’s not like we are talking about changing Irelands facebook photo to say we support Ukraine and these two are saying no, it might be insensitive to Russians.

    Nor is it like that Ukraine is desparately calling out for Ireland to get militarily involved in Ukraine or that Ireland has a stock pile of weapons that Ukraine could put to good use if only these two left wing politicians would stop being anti war.

    If Ireland is to remain neutral in military conflicts it can’t be neutral when it suits us, it has to be as a general policy and if we decide we don’t want to be neutral anymore than we need to dramatically increase our military spending. If you look at the polling you’ll notice that’s pretty unpopular especially considering all the social programs that will have to be cut to pay for our fighter jets which will not be operational for at least 5 years and cost about 3x more than the initial estimate with another 2x for maintenance optimistically.

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