What occured to me is that the trend he pointed out could be seasonal.
Students going abroad during the summer months.
And to the OP, he's hardly "putting the country down". Or are you one of the people who believe McWilliams talked the country into the recession? And how do you know that he didn't short the ISEQ?
Why does McWilliams seem to generate so much resentment?
Why does McWilliams seem to generate so much resentment?
I'm not going to defend the Indo (as I pretty much agree with you) however you can't criticise him for calling wolf. Just because the downturn didn't hit until now, doesn't make what he said for the past 8 years wrong. His fundamental point is that an economic boom fuelled by people selling houses to each other on the back of cheap credit is going to have an unhappy ending. [broken link removed] has an article this week saying pretty much the same.Cos he's still working for the indo, which is the journalistic equivalent of playing football for the aran islands.
He couldn't talk a leaf down off a tree in autumn, never mind an economy.
I just think that when a boy cries wolf 8 years running, then someone spots a wolf, you don't beatify the lad.
Yea that is incredible annoying. A sibling gave me his Generation Game book but I couldn't get past page 30 with all those stereotypes.Because he insists on categorising everybody into stereotyped groups with what he considers to be funny titles?
I'm not going to defend the Indo (as I pretty much agree with you) however you can't criticise him for calling wolf. Just because the downturn didn't hit until now, doesn't make what he said for the past 8 years wrong.
Perhaps McW deliberately tries to annoy people? Certainly, that article is a laughable attempt to do so, right down to his "GAA mums" reference, (which is a nod to the phrase "Soccer Moms" in the US, presumably). Look how far Eamonn Dunphy got by annoying people! And how much money he made on the way...
I think there's a fine line between annoying and entertaining. DMcW's foibles and stereotypes are no more or less annoying/entertaining than many other pseudo-celebrities, what appears to me to swing him firmly into the loathed category for many people is the tone and tenor of his message. People don't like to hear negative things. He's appears to have been right but that doesn't really matter.
p.s. Whats wrong with the Indo (apart from McW of course)? Is this Irish Times snobbery coming to the fore?
I have heard similar anecdotal evidence of this myself in recent times.Anecodotal evidence "on the ground" is that GAA teams in London are picking up again big time.
Too true, i'm afraid. For example, the sort of character who used to lap up Kevin Myers articles when he worked for the IT and who now looks down through their nose at him now that he works for the Indo.p.s. Whats wrong with the Indo (apart from McW of course)? Is this Irish Times snobbery coming to the fore?
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