Niall O’Dowd is an Irish American journalist and author, he’s also a very gullible individual.
He spoke to Marian Finucane (Sunday) about an interview he conducted earlier this month wth former CEO of Anglo Irish Bank, David Drumm, in which the disgraced banker poured his heart out.
Now, the first question that any competent journalist would ask himself is – what’s this man’s agenda, why is he so eager to speak to a journalist?
O’Dowd never noticed that he was being used and fell for Drumm’s bullshit hook, line and sinker.
Some quotes:
He wanted to make his side of the story plain; I think he felt he had been the victim of a witch hunt in Ireland both in the media and personally.
He wanted to give an interview to a journalist in America rather than in Ireland, he was more comfortable with that scenario.
I’ll bet he was and he made a good choice – an obviously uninformed and naïve journalist.
What I was looking for Marian was the human story because behind all these great scandals there are lives and that’s what I tried to bring out in the interview.
I think you’re looking at a guy in very deep anguish for all the obvious reasons.
What was interesting to me was his very deep sense that he was one of many yet he felt he’s been singled out.
Ahhhhh, wouldn’t your heart be broken listening to such tragedy?