{"id":161,"date":"2005-09-07T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=161"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"tv3s-ireland-am-puts-lenihan-asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2005\/tv3s-ireland-am-puts-lenihan-asleep\/","title":{"rendered":"TV3’s Ireland AM puts Lenihan asleep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr Lenihan also earlier defended himself for falling asleep during a telephone link to TV3’s Ireland AM morning programme.<\/p>\n

He was due to go live from his hotel bedroom at the Fianna F?il think-in in Co Cavan when technicians heard him snoring loudly down the line and pulled the item.<\/p>\n

“I just slept through the call. That’s what happens to a lot of us,” he said today.<\/p>\n

“If I was at home the good lady wife would normally give me an elbow in the ribs and I’d be up like a flash.”<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t on the tear, no, no, no. I wasn’t on the tear. You can stay up late talking to colleagues and that kind of stuff. There’s not that much wild drinking done at these events.”<\/p>\n

“I obviously answered it in my sleep and said: ‘Yeah, yeah, I’ll take the call’.”<\/p>\n

He said the annual Ard Fheis events were usually ‘wet’ events.<\/p>\n

“The delegates get stuck in, don’t they and enjoy themselves.”<\/p>\n

He denied a media report that he was ‘accident-prone’ and insisted he was doing a good job in the Overseas Development Aid department.<\/p>\n

Last May he had to apologise after he was overheard in the D?il referring to the Turkish GAMA workers as ‘kebabs’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mr Lenihan also earlier defended himself for falling asleep during a telephone link to TV3’s Ireland AM morning programme. He was due to go live from his hotel bedroom at the Fianna F?il think-in in Co Cavan when technicians heard him snoring loudly down the line and pulled the item. “I just slept through the… Continue reading TV3’s Ireland AM puts Lenihan asleep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}