Bertie (1 Viewer)

[Jim Daniels]

Anybody watch it last night? It rocked.
I forgot how mad Irish politics was back in the late eighties.

Say what you like about RTE, but they are ace at these kind of programmes.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Anybody watch it last night? It rocked.
I forgot how mad Irish politics was back in the late eighties.

Say what you like about RTE, but they are ace at these kind of programmes.

caught both this and the last episode. good stuff I have to say. Its a good overview of the last 30 years of irish politics if nothing else

 

[Reets]

saw most of it, thought it was done really well. em did anyone else think early 80s bertie wasnt that bad looking?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

saw most of it, thought it was done really well. em did anyone else think early 80s bertie wasnt that bad looking?

he had a certain woolly charm i guess; the grannies always liked him!!

 

[Reets]

nice to know im not alone on this one.

 

[Milker]

http://www.rte.ie/tv/bertie/av_20081110.html

saw the first...lookin forward to watchin this now

 

[portrid]

Saw I think the second part. Was so distracted by the inclusion of at least 2 minutes worth of Telephone Thing by The Fall as musical backing that I started admiring the man.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Saw I think the second part. Was so distracted by the inclusion of at least 2 minutes worth of Telephone Thing by The Fall as musical backing that I started admiring the man.

How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you?
You Gretchen Franklin nosey matron thing

 

[robitusson]

saw most of it, thought it was done really well. em did anyone else think early 80s bertie wasnt that bad looking?

Only in Ireland could someone like Bertie Ahern be considered not bad looking.

 

[Milker]

all that ambition and planning to be taoiseach....was there any ambition for the country? enjoying this docu but all i can think is when the infrastructure and stuff started really straining bertie was saying 'ah sure no-one anticipated the boom to be so big...i mean how could they?' and now that health and education are sustaining themselves on mouldy bread heated by a lightbulb(which will soon be illegal) its all 'ah sure no-one anticipated a slowdown..i mean how could they?'..planning for themselves the bally lot of 'em.


how old is that cecilia one anyway?

 

[pissypants]

best bit in the 1st episode was when they showed footage of him in the 80s, during a "slow" period in opposition, doing keep-fit exercises on the Late Late Show, at the rear of a group of leg-warmered ladies.

Classic.

 

[robitusson]

..planning for themselves the bally lot of 'em.

This.

 

[Gambra]

Has this been capped/uploaded anywhere? I can't watch it on rte.ie. It's times like this I really wish there was a site like thebox for Irish TV...

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Any change of a dig out? Anyone?

 

[Milker]

Has this been capped/uploaded anywhere? I can't watch it on rte.ie. It's times like this I really wish there was a site like thebox for Irish TV...

go make it happen...thats what Bertie'd do....why can't you watch it on rte.ie?

 

[Bold Lump]

Has this been capped/uploaded anywhere? I can't watch it on rte.ie. It's times like this I really wish there was a site like thebox for Irish TV...

http://www.irishtorrents.com

Not a member so not sure how good it is. Seems it's only starting out and having a few teething problems.

 

[hermie]

best bit in the 1st episode was when they showed footage of him in the 80s, during a "slow" period in opposition, doing keep-fit exercises on the Late Late Show, at the rear of a group of leg-warmered ladies.

Classic.

The montage with the Cheers theme last night was gas too.

What strikes me about the series is just how little he gives away - even now, looking back, he is so unreadable even compared to some of his blander collegues. Is there a correlation does anyone think between how vague you are and how successful you're likely to become as a politician?

That said, despite myself and depsite all the dodgy dealings, I'm still finding an small upsurge in repect for the man. He was a great negotiator, more in touch with the man on the street than most of his predecessors and infanitely better than what we've been landed with now.

 

[quackster]

How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you?
You Gretchen Franklin nosey matron thing

didn't smith claim he didn't realise that gretchen franklin was ethyl from eastenders and that he'd just randomly made the name up?

 

[muffin]

Has this been capped/uploaded anywhere? I can't watch it on rte.ie. It's times like this I really wish there was a site like thebox for Irish TV...

Have ya tried using this

http://www.ultrareach.com/

You need an add-on thing for firefox but i use it all the time for watching stuff on nbc and whatnot..

 

[Milker]

didn't smith claim he didn't realise that gretchen franklin was ethyl from eastenders and that he'd just randomly made the name up?

'parently

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Gretchen-Franklin
Trivia


In Fall song "Telephone Thing", Mark E Smith repeatedly asks "How dare you assume I would want to parlez-vouz with you, Gretchen Franklin?". In an interview for the NME Mark E Smith revealed that he had thought he had made the name up and that it wasn't a reference to this Gretchen Franklin [1]