Sorry I never got the opportunity to watch this live and sent in some questions. One of the questions I would’ve wanted to ask Gerry is does he see a merger happening between the UUP and DUP in the near future and could the same thing potentially happen between SF and the SDLP?
Great questions asked by Jude and good answers back from Gerry.
You should interview Mairtin O’Mulliouer (I hope I spelt his second name properly) about the South Belfast seat next Jude, would be interesting.
will do my best to struggle through to the end!!!
Do not expect rational comments from me!!
if anyone ever did!!
jokes apart – well done for this initiative. I think it’s great.Well done jude. Looking forward to more broadcasts in coming days.
My local chemist is open tomorrow for seasick pills so all hiccups in viewing will be overcome!!!
I really enjoyed your interview with Gerry Kelly, it was nice to see someone ask serious questions rather than the usual waffle and piffle we normally hear. As for the picture, I listened without really looking at the screen so it was no problem.
Something not entirely inappropriate, EsteemedTellymeister, that Gerry Kelly, Fenian, should be your first guest on TV Periscope.
For, was it not a Fenian who invented the submarine? One, Sean Pilip O hUallachain / John Philip Holland from Lios Ceannuir, Contae an Chlair / Liscannor, County Clare.
He was reared in a leprechaun-speaking home and only had Compulsory English bate in to him by that sine qua non of the Murder Machine, the the ‘Irish’ Education System of the time when he went to school. This was achieved by that favourite implement of torture of the Stickies, an bata scoir / the tally stick.
He spent years as a Christian Brother teaching maths, and it was in the classrooms of whose schools he first conceived the idea of a submarine. He eventually left the order for health reasons and emigrated to the USA where he now began to teach math. While continuing to work on his prototype submarine.
The breakthrough came when the local (gulp) Fenians commissioned him to finish the job.This he did and so, the first submarine was born – on paper, at least – called The Fenian Ram. Alas, it never actually got off the erm,ground as there was a falling out between the inventor and his sponsors. It came down in the end,, as is so often does, to a dispute over the moolah,.
Uncle Sam stepped in and the rest is real mysterious underwater stuff. Even the Royal Navy eventually got in on the act and bought into the Holland invention.
How the latest saga in the story -featuring a Fenian as first guest on TV Periscope – would make the one time Admiral of the Air Waves of the Free Southern Stateen, the entirely admirable Dr. Conor Cruise O’Goebbels, now, alas, disappeared down the plug hole of history, squirm..
He, of course, loathed (with a pash he was to make all the fash) the Christian Brothers in general and their take on history in particular. He was instrumental in setting up the hugely effective Operation Badmouth which will soon be wrapped up for reasons too obvious to need mentioning.
It would be instructive to compare (posthumously) the relative brain sizes of Sean Pilip O hUallachain / John Philip Holland and Dr. Congo Crisis O’Brain/ Dr. Conor Cruise O’Goebbels..
Whereas the former concerned himself with the multitudinous seas incarnadine (seven in total) the latter focused entirely on, erm, bogholes and the monolith lurking therein (seventy seven in total). The latter obsession became known as ‘The Hunt for Green October’.
There would appear to have been something of a a disparity in the relative depths the intellects of both plumbed.
Jude
I suppose there is something to be said for such a gentle series of softball questions, but it didn’t draw much out of him in my view.
Of course we need not question your motivation in doing such a puff piece.
Jude
How about a few policy questions? Jobs for N Belfast, policing, resolving the Ardoyne dispute, abortion…etc?
When you mentioned his being in the IRA you might have asked if he ever bumped into Gerry Adams at the Christmas do, just for a laugh!
It was a perfectly pleasant chat, but what was your intention?
A journalistic analysis of a candidate to enlighten voters,or a supportive party election broadcast for the party you support? The latter is fine, by the way, as long as we are under no illusion that it was such.
Well, I’ll leave the nature of the conversation to your detached judgement, gio. I could have talked about N Belfast jobs – in fact he was keen to talk about the poverty in the constituency – but we had just fifteen minutes and it got sort of lost. Policing? Mmm yes – like, should police landrovers try to run over people? Resolving the Ardoyne dispute – oh dear. Pardon me while I corpse. We all know how to resolve the Ardoyne dispute. People should stop trying to create Garvaghy Road Mark II and go home. Simples. Abortion? I assume he follows the party line on that, which is pretty well known. (As you’re probably aware, I don’t agree with that but they’re entitled to their views). Bumping into GA at the Christmas do? I guess it’d have been quite likely – GA has never made any secret of his admiration for and support of the IRA during the conflict. Was he a member/wasn’t he a member is a silly game that journalists and political opponents like to play.
Jude
Well now we know your answers, but we still don’t know Gerry’s.
Or are they all taken from the same hymnbook?
But I would like to know what the purpose of the interview was, as I said.
Testing the candidate, or promoting the candidate? Be honest now!
Gio
Did you really expect there to be any searching questions?!Jude is doing his best for Sinn Fein in North Belfast.First he chairs the launch of Gerry Kelly’s campaign.Then this cosy tête-à-tête with the candidate and finally a well aimed boot into the S D L P.I wonder if S F really appreciate all he does for them!!
Indeed, Argenta. And I sometimes wonder if people appreciate what I do for them HERE…Dog’s abuse, morning to night, and me slaving away…I’ve asked gio for his searching questions list. Maybe you have another one – again, speaking as the detached observer you obviously are…
Terrific. Good questions, good straight answers.
Sorry I never got the opportunity to watch this live and sent in some questions. One of the questions I would’ve wanted to ask Gerry is does he see a merger happening between the UUP and DUP in the near future and could the same thing potentially happen between SF and the SDLP?
Great questions asked by Jude and good answers back from Gerry.
You should interview Mairtin O’Mulliouer (I hope I spelt his second name properly) about the South Belfast seat next Jude, would be interesting.
I look forward to watching this later, as for the cameraman, are they ok???
from one techy-phobe to another – can you rotate it from vertical to horizontal?
I’m getting seasick!!!
I’m afraid, as one M Thatcher said on another matter, ben – “That is out!”
will do my best to struggle through to the end!!!
Do not expect rational comments from me!!
if anyone ever did!!
jokes apart – well done for this initiative. I think it’s great.Well done jude. Looking forward to more broadcasts in coming days.
My local chemist is open tomorrow for seasick pills so all hiccups in viewing will be overcome!!!
I really enjoyed your interview with Gerry Kelly, it was nice to see someone ask serious questions rather than the usual waffle and piffle we normally hear. As for the picture, I listened without really looking at the screen so it was no problem.
Grma, AJ. We Judes must stick together…
Something not entirely inappropriate, EsteemedTellymeister, that Gerry Kelly, Fenian, should be your first guest on TV Periscope.
For, was it not a Fenian who invented the submarine? One, Sean Pilip O hUallachain / John Philip Holland from Lios Ceannuir, Contae an Chlair / Liscannor, County Clare.
He was reared in a leprechaun-speaking home and only had Compulsory English bate in to him by that sine qua non of the Murder Machine, the the ‘Irish’ Education System of the time when he went to school. This was achieved by that favourite implement of torture of the Stickies, an bata scoir / the tally stick.
He spent years as a Christian Brother teaching maths, and it was in the classrooms of whose schools he first conceived the idea of a submarine. He eventually left the order for health reasons and emigrated to the USA where he now began to teach math. While continuing to work on his prototype submarine.
The breakthrough came when the local (gulp) Fenians commissioned him to finish the job.This he did and so, the first submarine was born – on paper, at least – called The Fenian Ram. Alas, it never actually got off the erm,ground as there was a falling out between the inventor and his sponsors. It came down in the end,, as is so often does, to a dispute over the moolah,.
Uncle Sam stepped in and the rest is real mysterious underwater stuff. Even the Royal Navy eventually got in on the act and bought into the Holland invention.
How the latest saga in the story -featuring a Fenian as first guest on TV Periscope – would make the one time Admiral of the Air Waves of the Free Southern Stateen, the entirely admirable Dr. Conor Cruise O’Goebbels, now, alas, disappeared down the plug hole of history, squirm..
He, of course, loathed (with a pash he was to make all the fash) the Christian Brothers in general and their take on history in particular. He was instrumental in setting up the hugely effective Operation Badmouth which will soon be wrapped up for reasons too obvious to need mentioning.
It would be instructive to compare (posthumously) the relative brain sizes of Sean Pilip O hUallachain / John Philip Holland and Dr. Congo Crisis O’Brain/ Dr. Conor Cruise O’Goebbels..
Whereas the former concerned himself with the multitudinous seas incarnadine (seven in total) the latter focused entirely on, erm, bogholes and the monolith lurking therein (seventy seven in total). The latter obsession became known as ‘The Hunt for Green October’.
There would appear to have been something of a a disparity in the relative depths the intellects of both plumbed.
Ar aghaidh leat, Esteemed Tellymeister !
Jude
I suppose there is something to be said for such a gentle series of softball questions, but it didn’t draw much out of him in my view.
Of course we need not question your motivation in doing such a puff piece.
I’m sorry if I disappointed your tigerish proclivities, gio. What question/s do you think I should have asked him?
Jude
How about a few policy questions? Jobs for N Belfast, policing, resolving the Ardoyne dispute, abortion…etc?
When you mentioned his being in the IRA you might have asked if he ever bumped into Gerry Adams at the Christmas do, just for a laugh!
It was a perfectly pleasant chat, but what was your intention?
A journalistic analysis of a candidate to enlighten voters,or a supportive party election broadcast for the party you support? The latter is fine, by the way, as long as we are under no illusion that it was such.
Well, I’ll leave the nature of the conversation to your detached judgement, gio. I could have talked about N Belfast jobs – in fact he was keen to talk about the poverty in the constituency – but we had just fifteen minutes and it got sort of lost. Policing? Mmm yes – like, should police landrovers try to run over people? Resolving the Ardoyne dispute – oh dear. Pardon me while I corpse. We all know how to resolve the Ardoyne dispute. People should stop trying to create Garvaghy Road Mark II and go home. Simples. Abortion? I assume he follows the party line on that, which is pretty well known. (As you’re probably aware, I don’t agree with that but they’re entitled to their views). Bumping into GA at the Christmas do? I guess it’d have been quite likely – GA has never made any secret of his admiration for and support of the IRA during the conflict. Was he a member/wasn’t he a member is a silly game that journalists and political opponents like to play.
Jude
Well now we know your answers, but we still don’t know Gerry’s.
Or are they all taken from the same hymnbook?
But I would like to know what the purpose of the interview was, as I said.
Testing the candidate, or promoting the candidate? Be honest now!
Gio
Did you really expect there to be any searching questions?!Jude is doing his best for Sinn Fein in North Belfast.First he chairs the launch of Gerry Kelly’s campaign.Then this cosy tête-à-tête with the candidate and finally a well aimed boot into the S D L P.I wonder if S F really appreciate all he does for them!!
Indeed, Argenta. And I sometimes wonder if people appreciate what I do for them HERE…Dog’s abuse, morning to night, and me slaving away…I’ve asked gio for his searching questions list. Maybe you have another one – again, speaking as the detached observer you obviously are…