RTÉ
News: TV3 cancels The Dunphy Show
After watching this weeks Dunphy
Show, I'm beginning to suspect that
TV3 have "other" reasons
for dropping the show! This weeks
show highlighted Dublin's homeless
and featured one of the few RC
priests who seems to genuinely care
about the plight of the downtrodden
and flotsom of Irish society! The
priest was very critical of the Irish
Police (Gardai) and accused them of
beating up youths whom they had
arrested!
On the same Show, following these
revelations surrounding Gardai
criminal misconduct in Dublin, Dunphy
introduced the author of a book on
the infamous Kerry Babies Case in the
1970s.
(In 1973 a baby was washed up on a
Kerry beach and after examination it
was discovered it had been stabbed in
the chest and in the back and had its
neck broken.)
Here again the author made claims
against the Gardai, inferring that
they were guilty of making false
claims against a young woman who had
previously given birth to a baby,
which had been stillborn.
I have also noticed that RTE have
playing down all news coverage of the
numerous cases, which involve people
making claims of a criminal nature
against the Gardai! These include the
Frank Shortt Case, the McBrearty
Case, the Dean Lyons Case, the
GrangeGorman Cannibal murders and
coverup, the Mark Nash case and why
he hasnt been brought to court for
his admissions of the murders of
Catherine and Karl Doyle in 1997, the
shooting of John Carthy, the brutal
bahaviour of the Gardai during the
"Reclaim the Streets"
demonstrations in Dublin and numerous
other cases!
So maybe those who really
influence Irish TV (those powerful
individuals who own most of the press
and media) were not happy with
Dunphys radical issues, which expose
the crimes of the Gardai - the
"protectors" of the
establishment in Ireland!
TV3
has announced it is cancelling The
Dunphy Show. In a statement, the
station said that it was impossible
to keep the Friday night chat show
going for commercial reasons.
TV3 paid tribute to what it called
the 'extraordinary talents of Eamon
and the entire production'.
The statement said that licence fee
increases over the last two years had
impacted on its opportunity to invest
in Irish programming.
Speaking after the
announcement, Eamon Dunphy thanked
the station and the viewers for their
support.
RTÉ responds to TV3
statement
In a statement, RTÉ said that TV3
had made a statement which was
factually inaccurate against RTÉ.
RTÉ said that TV3 had endeavoured to
blame RTÉ's excellent programming
skills for the company's failure to
deliver indigenous programmes to the
Irish people.
RTÉ said that it did receive one
substantial licence fee increase this
year which was applied directly to
new programming.
It said that it had published its
statements on programming commitments
for this year and will be reporting
on its achievements in meeting these
commitments.
"Disappeared off the face of the
earth!"
