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It's about a criminal trying to claim disability allowance and NOT a dig at disabled people. It is blatantly obvious that is what the piece is about.
And there is no way he should get disability allowance. He has ripped off tax payers, including disabled tax payers, for long enough
'Nerraw'
(I wish people would stop using silly names on this site)
Jesus wept.
The point of the report above is not the fact that that the story was reported but the prominence given to it in the context of the papers' overall coverage of disability issues. Can you get your head around that or is it too complex and subtle for you? And again - they guy did NOT get the allowance which makes the whole Examiner story even more pointless than it is. The headline, of course, suggests the opposite by implying that Kelly was leading an exhorbitant life while in receipt of the allowance - and that elision of fact and provocative fiction is the intended hook for the gullible consumers of corporate media. Nothing new there of course - the stuff of tabloidese everywhere - intended to create exactly the sort of knee jerk, self-righteous response as exemplified in your own comment above.
I see the point you are making, its yet another attack on the disabled and on their right to receive support from the State. It was blown out of all proportion by the hack who wrote the story.
But... this guy Kelly is a crook who comes from a criminal family. Its worth wondering as to where the €35,000 came from.
Criminals or the legal profession?
The legal profession is where dodgy earnings are laundered into cool clean cash with no tag of foulness attached.
I have no feelings about Mr. Kelly and his claim for disability. Unless someone wishes to argue that he didn't have the right to seek it.
The fact is he didn't receive it.
Miriam has hit the nail on the head with this piece in my opinion. The piece of propaganda she writes about is a piece about something that didn't happen, ie. Mr. Kelly didn't defraud the State in as far as seeking disability is concerned. It used his name to sensationalise the piece, and it's the only part he played in the piece.
One must ask one's self what was the point of the piece, when Mr. Kelly's part in it is negated?
It then becomes a piece about the disabled and the supposed prevalence of disability fraud. Racist propaganda and a piss poor version of it too.
Personally I’m not too surprised as to the amount of coverage disability issues get in the media, be it the Irish Examiner, or any other tabloid out there. After all who wants to hear about “the disabled”, They are the minority. One thing I am surprised about though is that Mr. Kelly isn’t claiming disability allowance, I have nothing against the man and I know “stupidity” isn’t a disability, but hey if a person, irrelevant to his or her background sustains an injury which renders them disabled then yes they should be entitled, be it a physical or mental one, as to what category Mr. Kelly would be filed under, well that’s down to the medical profession to decide. I, a wheelchair user who doesn’t claim benefit from the state, have no objection in a criminal claiming disablement benefit as long as it’s not fraudulent, no doubt it will only replace their unemployment benefit.
It was pure propaganda, using a person who they themselves brought to the nations attention some time ago, and just to fill space, they falsely accuse him and try and drag his name through the mud, yet again. Only this time they link it to the disabled. Why not state that Mr. Brian Crowley, our fine upstanding MEP(don’t make me laugh), has spent € 35,000 on foreign holidays and claims his disability allowance and then state further down the report that, No sorry “we got it wrong again” “ but it would have been a cool story if it was true”. As we know, the juicer the headline the more people are intrigued by it.
As for the media in general, I think they should be held in contempt for the lack of coverage “the disabled” get.