RTEs Obsession With The State Pathologist? [Archive]

Lionel Ritchie

07/04/2007, 8:43 AM

Another day another murder.
Some lad in Dublin was killed last night and, while I haven't seen an RTE TV news bulletin yet, I'll take any bets their coverage includes footage of Marie Cassidy getting out of her car (showed the reg plate and all at least once). Is there any good reason for this as it seems kind of reckless? We know the state pathologist goes to murder scenes. Do they have to tell us every time and worse again show the woman -whose evidence I assume is going to be crucial in securing a conviction? No other news broadaster I know of does this.

Are they actually trying to get her whacked or is this just an RTE quirk (like not giving out LOI first division results)?

dahamsta

07/04/2007, 9:39 AM

While you have a point, they did the exact same thing with John Harbison and it didn't get him killed.

Monkfish

07/04/2007, 11:51 AM

While you have a point, they did the exact same thing with John Harbison and it didn't get him killed.

Whos to say it wont get her killed? Johnny never went make making smart anti-Limerick comments in Mayo, maybe some proud Limerick gun toating loon might see her one day...............maybe not.

Lionel Ritchie

07/04/2007, 1:48 PM

While you have a point, they did the exact same thing with John Harbison and it didn't get him killed. Fair comment ...though John Harbison pleaded for an assistant (and got Marie Cassidy hired) in case anything happened to him exactly because there was any number of cases that were going to be relying on evidence gathered by him to secure convictions. In that context where so much depends on so few it does seem reckless and feckless to keep pumping the profiles of the crucial individuals involved.

I read on Aertel it was Marie Cassidys assistant who went to todays scene ...which again had me wondering "do we actually need to know that?". Don't get me wrong I'm not advocating a police state where people are convicted by faceless, nameless individuals fully kitted out in trenchcoats, crombies and shades ...just a bit of basic cop on.

dahamsta

07/04/2007, 6:14 PM

Don't get me wrong either, I think RTE are morons for doing it, I was just making a point. RTE newsies are a bit thick sometimes.

pineapple stu

07/04/2007, 6:18 PM

I can only assume that she hasn't complained about it herself yet, so it can't be a particular threat or anything.

Lionel Ritchie

07/04/2007, 8:20 PM

I can only assume that she hasn't complained about it herself yet, so it can't be a particular threat or anything

At the same time security isn't her bag ...she's a pathologist and she shouldn't haveto be complaining.
I wonder has the topic ever come up at any level in RTE -editorial, sub-editorial... I know a couple of people in RTE -might be worth an e-mail just to see what they say.

Incidently - saw an RTE bulletin earlier with footage from the crime scene. Marie Cassidys assistant must've popped out of a man-hole because he/she was conspicuous by his/her absence. Proper order too.

pineapple stu

07/04/2007, 8:37 PM

No, but if she had an issue with it, you'd have to imagine she'd have raised the issue a long time ago.

Vitruvian Man

07/04/2007, 10:01 PM

It's a grim murder in some sinkhole in Darndale or Moy Ross, RTE need a bit of glamour to keep people form switching over to American Idol.

Come on... Dr. Marie Cassidy... I would.

Monkfish

07/04/2007, 11:24 PM

It's a grim murder in some sinkhole in Darndale or Moy Ross, RTE need a bit of glamour to keep people form switching over to American Idol.

Come on... Dr. Marie Cassidy... I would.

Thats Moyross, and the view of the Clare hills from there on a frosty January morning is a sight to behold.

CollegeTillIDie

08/04/2007, 7:16 AM

The camera loves her or something.Plus not featuring First Division results or information is also a quirk of the Irish Times ( no longer the paper of record on that basis alone :D)

Raheny Red

08/04/2007, 9:08 AM

It's a grim murder in some sinkhole in Darndale or Moy Ross, RTE need a bit of glamour to keep people form switching over to American Idol.

Come on... Dr. Marie Cassidy... I would.

Agreed :cool:

Dr.Nightdub

11/04/2007, 9:56 PM

Woah dudes. That's only one step away from necrophilia.

kingdom hoop

11/04/2007, 11:04 PM

Woah dudes. That's only one step away from necrophilia.

And often knakrophilia too I guess

kingdom hoop

12/04/2007, 5:33 PM

And often knakrophilia too I guess

Sh!te, it was a bit late to come up with a quip obviously. sorry dr.nightdub for associating your great witticism with the nonsensical comment above. what was I thinking Marie Cassidy has sex with knackers? Doh!

el punter

16/04/2007, 10:16 PM

If Marie has OT built in to her contract she must be pure raking it in at the moment. Salad days indeed in North Dublin for the State Pathologist.

Jamjar

16/04/2007, 10:29 PM

It reminds me of that Zen Buddhist question...."If a state pathologist gets murdered in the forest, who examines the body"

Ceirtlis

26/04/2007, 5:18 PM

Come on... Dr. Marie Cassidy... I would.
No i wouldnt she is wrecked.
http://www.dcu.ie/news/2006/apr/images/mariecassidy.jpg

gilberto_eire

26/04/2007, 10:30 PM

(i know someone will say its only a film/show etc.... but these big-time criminals are arrested a few times in real-life and would also know the detectives that are dealing with them) in fairness when watching films before id often wonder why certain cops who we'r onto an individual wouldnt be killed like they know his name(could easily find out his address etc...) i think its a case of ''well shes not interfering with me directly'' kind of a thing!. you'd hardly go and kill her because it MIGHT affect you sometime...... most crims are too brainless anyway to think of killing her!!.... plsu how many even watch the news??:D

wonder is she as good as quincy??... many a murderer Quincy un-velied in his days!!.... he made the job cool(they are both the same right??)

Lionel Ritchie

09/01/2008, 8:15 AM

just resurrecting this thread.

They've (RTE) now gone and made a 3-part documentary about her.:eek: It's on Mondays at 9.30 (might've started last monday actually ...if so I missed it).

This is getting close to fetishist. I'm no securocrat but I do believe that woman should be able to run onto the set of the main evening news, happy-slap the newsreader and be unidentifiable to all but the 'branch.

Block G Raptor

09/01/2008, 8:19 AM

monutdfc

09/01/2008, 11:32 AM

osarusan

09/01/2008, 11:45 AM

Whilst I agree that they should not show the numberplate of her car, this lark of blurring out numberplates in any footage is a bit ridiculous. It reached its limit recently when the Gardai were appealing for any witness who might have seen a black audi in the area on the night in question - cut to same Black Audi which has had its number plates covered-up by the Gardia!

I'm pretty sure it wasn't the same black Audi, just a "stand-in". And they probably blurred the numberplate so that people won't see the number of the stand-in car, and mistakenly think it was the real number. If they did, they might report the stand-in car if they saw it somewhere.

monutdfc

09/01/2008, 12:36 PM

I'm pretty sure it wasn't the same black Audi, just a "stand-in". And they probably blurred the numberplate so that people won't see the number of the stand-in car, and mistakenly think it was the real number. If they did, they might report the stand-in car if they saw it somewhere.
Don;t want to get into an argument about it, but I'm pretty sure it was the same black audi; they had the number plate covered with a black bin bag taped over it. It was at or near the crime scene. This was a couple of months ago, in Finglas I think it was.

osarusan

09/01/2008, 12:42 PM

Don;t want to get into an argument about it, but I'm pretty sure it was the same black audi; they had the number plate covered with a black bin bag taped over it. It was at or near the crime scene. This was a couple of months ago, in Finglas I think it was.

ah, sounds like you're right.

I thought it was along the lines of "does anybody remember seeing a black audi in the area on the night of the crime (cut to a shot of a similar black audi)".

Lionel Ritchie

09/01/2008, 12:56 PM

ah, sounds like you're right.

I thought it was along the lines of "does anybody remember seeing a black audi in the area on the night of the crime (cut to a shot of a similar black audi)".

...or if they couldn't find such a shot in the archives - some footage from Henry Fords production line circa 1907.:D

sonofstan

09/01/2008, 7:53 PM

Would you describe this obsession as 'pathological' Lionel?

Lionel Ritchie

09/01/2008, 8:02 PM

Would you describe this obsession as 'pathological' Lionel?

Perhaps I would ...and RTE most definitely would.

onceahoop

10/01/2008, 8:38 PM

This obsession that RTE have with her, played no small part in me coming up with the Idea form my novel(see Here (http://foot.ie/showpost.php?p=841393&postcount=14))

http://www.peterjames.com/books.htm

Clash of characters here. Last three novels by James feature Roy Grace a Detective Superintendent in Brighton and the local Chief Mortician for the county Cleo. Bit similar IMO. Great crime novels btw

Block G Raptor

11/01/2008, 8:08 AM

http://www.peterjames.com/books.htm

Clash of characters here. Last three novels by James feature Roy Grace a Detective Superintendent in Brighton and the local Chief Mortician for the county Cleo. Bit similar IMO. Great crime novels btw

Honestly I've never read any of his stuff. It's so hard to come up with an originall plot :mad::mad::mad: