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    VILLAGE IDIOT – PETER CASEY

    Peter Casey (66): Irish entrepreneur, former Rank Xerox Asian Sales Manager of the Year, CEO of Claddagh Resources recruitment company, former panellist on Dragons’ Den, candidate for Irish President in 2018 – one of three Dragons, coming second after attacking travellers, and in 2019 and 2024 for the European Parliament in Midlands-North-West; and racist fool.

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    VILLAGE IDIOT JULY-AUGUST RYAN TUBRIDY

    VILLAGE IDIOT JULY-AUGUST RYAN TUBRIDY Privileged scion of Fianna Fáil Royalty, Tubridy never — unlike his mentor Gay Byrne — challenged authority or power structures, obsessing instead with antagonism to political correctness and, despite a self-conscious bookishness, promoting consumerism, environmental recklessness, and a culture of prizes for everyone. Not surprisingly it turns out he didn’t seek a correction when his employer published figures underestimating the income, which had become a totem for RTÉs need for cost-cutting and accountability — he received from it by fully €345,000 over the last five years, or that the environmentally inert Tubs received a greedy extra €75,000 annually from Renault Ireland which sponsored his show and drove at least some of its consumerist ethos. He has squandered his considerable broadcasting talents and his career is now in tatters because of greed and disingenuity. July-August 2023 79

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