Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Dr. Julien Mercille:

The story about Morgan Kelly is that he tried to publish his article and it was rejected and he then went elsewhere. Beyond that, on television, I think it is RTE, there is a classic clip of him getting a lot of flack and criticism for saying there is a housing bubble. Many real estate agents were given voice to contradict what Kelly was saying. That is the way the censoring worked, not just by saying: "No you cannot do anything." He was brought in and then there were a lot of articles saying he was wrong. That is how discourse works.