Rip Off Ireland: have PDs abandoned core values?

WITH reference to the complaints to the RTÉ Authority about Eddie Hobbs’ TV programme, Rip-off Ireland, I think they are largely unfounded and seem to fly in the face of everything I thought the PDs stood for.

Stephen O’Byrnes and Tim O’Malley seem to think the programme has party political undertones which I believe to be a falsehood. The implication that the programme would have been different had it been Fine Gael or Labour in power is something I cannot imagine anybody swallowing except the excessively paranoid in FF and the PDs.

Disingenuous comparisons between the Fine Gael website and Mr Hobbs’ programme are a party political smokescreen. The energies of these complainants would be far better spent addressing the issues raised by the programme, but then I suppose it’s always easier to shoot the messenger.