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Just listened to the Barr interview on Newstalk. Very unconvincing even under soft questioning. He had no explanation for running the PB coming off injuries.

How is anybody supposed to improve. If somebody cant improve in their mid 20's when will they?

The injury lay-off probably was a help. He had training in the bank and would have come in a bit under cooked but fresh. That would explain his improvement from race to race this week. The adrenaline kick in final would be a factor too.
It wouldn t surprise me if he ran quicker again if he has a race shortly. He probably didn t even peak this week.

Fair enough. I just got the impression he's been injured for most of the year, with little training in the bank.

"colluding" - two Tweets encouraging a witness to come before a committee. Fck sake lads this is shark jump territory now. Daithi was foolish and is now paying the price probably because he got that loyalist march banned.

As bad as Fearon sometimes. If it was someone from the other side of the fence you'd be clamouring for heads to roll.

Blinkered, blind cheer leading does nobody any good.

I take it that's addressed to me? Who exactly am I cheerleading for and what have I said makes you think that?

But why should it matter. If the Chair is impartial then who better to prepare him? Bryson was a witness not an accused. Daithi resigned because someone or some rule has deemed the contact inappropriate, which it probably was. But let's not get carried away, it's hardly a hanging offence and certainly not unheard off for a committee Chair to help prepare those about to give submissions. And then, 2 Tweets is now deemed as "coaching"? Dead-on...

No idea, the Irish News these days seems to be following the Tele approach by giving us lots of half truths' surrounded by bullshit. For example the other day the Tele had something about a drinks campaign being cancelled because they didn't want to be associated with the Orange Order which would offend Catholics. When you cut through Suzanne Breen's bullshit in that story to read the company position it said nothing about offended Catholics just the OO. Breen added the bit about the Catholics to stir the pot in order to provoke rent-a-quote merchants' like Tom Elliot. Similarly in this case Morris has presented us with two Twitter direct messages from Daithi and said he was "coaching" Bryson. Really? More likely he was on his sofa on a Sunday afternoon, whipped off two replies, thought the better of it later and told him to contact someone else. It's the nature and immediacy of social media. Alison Morris knows that herself, sure she was on the media earlier in the week as an expert of all things Twitter. She also knows she'll find a willing audience spreading such bullshit just as her and her erstwhile colleague Barnes did during the despicable and tragic Dolours Price "story".

Just listened to the Barr interview on Newstalk. Very unconvincing even under soft questioning. He had no explanation for running the PB coming off injuries.

Why's that?
Should be easy enough to determine based on when Bryson DM'd him and how long it took for the reply. It must take even the Shinners at least what a few hours to ring round to get everyone together, open up Connolly House, figure out the 143 character reply and hit the reply button. Oh they probably had to use Daithi's iPhone, so I guess maybe add on another few hours for him to drive down to Belfast for the groupthink social media think-in thingy.
Maybe Allison Morris could help answer our questions or maybe she's too busy working on her next mentally vulnerable source?

Fer fck sake lads it was someone sending a few silly messages on Twitter. The Irish News calls it "coaching" and you all go weak at the knees without reading past the bullshit.

It's not necessary but this is a further example of the sheer arrogance oozing from SF MLAs who believe they are above us all, that they could not be crossed by anyone for fear of what would become of the individual and they are now firmly ensconced in government where they now control the levers of power over anyone or anything they wish.

No doubt that McKay was not operating alone and he had the backing of his colleagues and a party that exerts ruthless central control of all actions by its elected representatives.   As Sammy Wilson put so eloquently this morning, "a SF MLA can't order a box of staples without sanction by Connolly House".  The communications reported today show that at least one other MLA was involved in a choreographed appearance by Bryson.

Pardon me if I don't take Sammy's word for what happens in SF for obvious reasons, but why should we believe you?

You make my point for me on the attitude of SF and how they minimise their own actions when caught out and then attempt to make it appear that anyone raising a challenge is the issue while trying to put their centralist groupthink as the only version that can be correct as evidenced by your previous posts.

Not minimising anything pal, just asking you to back up your augment with something more substantial than empty rhetoric.

[... and out of curiosity what exactly is so wrong with a committee witness being prepared before giving evidence?]

Don't get me wrong I agree with what you're saying but when you're the Chair of a Ministerial committee and act incorrectly you deserve all you get.

SF apologist/cheerleader Ulick is using words like foolish, innocuous, informal contact. . . Not exactly things you expect from the Chair or a committee. He deserves all he gets the only problem now is there is zero chance the higher ups didn't know about this so who will be thrown under the bus next!!

So you obviously have evidence of a grand conspiracy the screenexile?

... and out of curiosity what exactly is so wrong with a committee witness being prepared before giving evidence?

Nothing as long as the coach isn't the Chairperson of said f**king committee!!!

EDIT: Obviously Daithi knows something you don't as he's just apologised for it.

Firstly I didn't say Daithi didn't do anything wrong or shouldn't resign etc... so you made all that bollocks up.

So anyway in your opinion, what exactly is so wrong with a committee witness being prepared before giving evidence (by the Chair or anyone else)?

Don't get me wrong I agree with what you're saying but when you're the Chair of a Ministerial committee and act incorrectly you deserve all you get.

SF apologist/cheerleader Ulick is using words like foolish, innocuous, informal contact. . . Not exactly things you expect from the Chair or a committee. He deserves all he gets the only problem now is there is zero chance the higher ups didn't know about this so who will be thrown under the bus next!!

So you obviously have evidence of a grand conspiracy the screenexile?

... and out of curiosity what exactly is so wrong with a committee witness being prepared before giving evidence?

Why did the MLA resign if they are disclosing stuff that is in the public interest

He was Chair of the committee and all contact with witnesses is supposed to go through the civil servants. He foolishly thought he could use Twitter to do what the others do over lunch in the Culloden.

Right , tuigim anois .   What is the Culloden ?

Hotel in Holywood across the road from MI5 headquarters. Favoured watering hole for spooks, Unionist politicians, financial types & senior civil servants.

Why did the MLA resign if they are disclosing stuff that is in the public interest

He was Chair of the committee and all contact with witnesses is supposed to go through the civil servants. He foolishly thought he could use Twitter to do what the others do over lunch in the Culloden.

[and I will be saying this to other witnesses]

I don't understand why the f**k Sinn Fein needed to get involved in it. It was obviously a DUP plant feeding the info to wee Jamie why couldn't they just let him get on with it?

Also what the f**k is the chair of the committee doing coaching a witness to the committee. For a party not known to make mistakes on this scale it's a huge f**king blunder and blows the whole NAMA story on to Sinn Fein instead of the DUP where it should be!

His "coaching" amounted to:

"What should tick the box of the committee for public session in terms of your response and I will be saying this to other witnesses ..."
and
"Send me a draft of the letter you are sending. Keen to get you into public session."

He presumably resigned because it was made clear that he shouldn't have had any contact with him. Daithi foolishly thought that as he would say the same to others it was okay to have some informal contact.

Ulick

Do you really expect us to believe this ??

Well that's what was on the front page of the Irish News this morning.

[and I will be saying this to other witnesses]

I don't understand why the f**k Sinn Fein needed to get involved in it. It was obviously a DUP plant feeding the info to wee Jamie why couldn't they just let him get on with it?

Also what the f**k is the chair of the committee doing coaching a witness to the committee. For a party not known to make mistakes on this scale it's a huge f**king blunder and blows the whole NAMA story on to Sinn Fein instead of the DUP where it should be!

His "coaching" amounted to:

"What should tick the box of the committee for public session in terms of your response and I will be saying this to other witnesses ..."
and
"Send me a draft of the letter you are sending. Keen to get you into public session."

He presumably resigned because it was made clear that he shouldn't have had any contact with him. Daithi foolishly thought that as he would say the same to others it was okay to have some informal contact.

And if you listen to Talkback on Radio Ulster you'll have heard Martín O'Muilleoir's name brought into it too by Sammy Wilson.

I was surprised Daithi resigned so quickly given on what I read his contribution was reasonably innocuous. A year or two back he might have got away with just resigning from the Committee. However I get the feeling there's a new broom in town in the shape of Máirtín. He's there to up the SF game so the DUP will be going all out to get him.