Marie Louise O'Donnell. How did she get a job on the PK radio show?

kevin99

How did Marie Louise O'Donnell get a reporting job with the Pat Kenny radio show?
She was 'in awe' of Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, when she covered his convass last week.
She displayed her inexperience as a reporter by not asking him the hard questions - like was he in the IRA. Did he order murders of people?
Did she ask him what he really knows about the economy here? Does he understand the economic terminology bandied about nowadays?
No. Instead she was in awe of Gerry. And she thought we are all interested and chomping at the bit to hear he had to buy a new pair of shoes as his old ones were letting in because of the heavy rains.
My God. Her piece wash crap.
As far as I know she is some sort of lecturer in Communications at DCU, not a working journalist. She has being popping up on the Vincent Browne show on TV3. Maybe she fancies herself as a journalist.

coylemj

Sadly the attitude now in RTE is that all that IRA stuff is in the past and we should move on so Martin Ferris, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness get pretty much a free ride from most of the media.

Fair play to the Herald today for once again highlighting Gerry Adam's alleged connection to the murder of Mrs McConville who was kidnapped by the IRA (the Herald says on Gerry Adam's direct order) and murdered because she was Christian enough to tend to a dying British soldier on the balcony of her flats after the self-styled freedom fighters shot him, the same heroes who now make a living by laundering diesel and pushing drugs.

Gypsies

coylemj wrote: »

Sadly the attitude now in RTE is that all that IRA stuff is in the past and we should move on so Martin Ferris, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness get pretty much a free ride from most of the media.

Fair play to the Herald today for once again highlighting Gerry Adam's alleged connection to the murder of Mrs McConville who was kidnapped by the IRA (the Herald says on Gerry Adam's direct order) and murdered because she was Christian enough to tend to a dying British soldier on the balcony of her flats after the self-styled freedom fighters shot him, the same heroes who now make a living by laundering diesel and pushing drugs.

I find myself repeating the same old line lately: "So much wrong in this world". A man who ordered the murder of a Mother of 10 children just because she went to the aid of another, is now running in the election. Wouldn't anybody with any goodness in them do the same as Mrs McConville did. The same man was aware of his brother's abuse of his own daughter, yet didn't report him to the authorities, leaving him open to continue the abuse of his daughter and other innocent children. I am so disgusted by it all.

Raging_Ninja

Its the price that was paid to obtain peace and stabilize NI

Gypsies

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Its the price that was paid to obtain peace and stabilize NI

Try telling that to the children and family of Janet McConville! What a pathetic line..

Raging_Ninja

Gypsies wrote: »

Try telling that to the children and family of Janet McConville! What a pathetic line..

Hey, it sucks, but its better than having a sectarian civil war continuing up there with hundreds more dead and injured.

Horsebox_twenty

Raging_Ninja wrote: »

Hey, it sucks, but its better than having a sectarian civil war continuing up there with hundreds more dead and injured.

+1

McGuinness, Adams, Kelly, Ferris and many others.... they all have blood on their hands directly or indirectly to varying degrees. But accepting them into the democratic process was the price of peace, and we have all signed up to pay that price by overwhelmingly backing the GFA. It doesn't mean they should be let forget what they did, but if the people of the south voted for an agreement that gives SF a seat in government in the north, it would be pretty hypocritical of us to decry SF involvement in politics in the south. Good for the goose, good for the gander.

As for her piece on PK, I didn't hear it. But you also have to make some allowance for what obviously sounds like a colour piece. The editor of PK might have given her a brief that was entirely different to what you might imagine. She may well have been told to stay away from the IRA stuff, because they were purely seeking good colour for radio. A justifiable argument in journalistic terms could be made for this, in the context of a single individual piece.

She possibly should have addressed the murders in her piece, but I wouldn't hang her for not doing so. Again, I won't criticise her directly, because I didn't hear it. But there may be more to it than you imagine.

kevin99

You are all missing the original question. How did this college lecturer end up with a reporting job on the PK radio show?

Horsebox_twenty

kevin99 wrote: »

You are all missing the original question. How did this college lecturer end up with a reporting job on the PK radio show?

She's not a reporter, in the news sense of the word. She does features. I think she first appeared on PK last summer doing on-the-ground colour pieces - the sort of schtick she did with Adams. She doesn't do news or analysis, she does colour. PK liked her, so she has stayed on the scene since. She's not to everyone's taste, mine included, but she does interesting features and has a bit of a following. Otherwise they wouldn't keep using her. She trained as a radio producer with the BBC and used to present some show or other there, I read somewhere before, so she's "qualified" if that's what you're getting at. You have to distinguish between the job of a news reporter and a features journalist - they're different animals.

You might not like her (I don't particularly, either), but she's not on the radio by accident as some sort of interloper.

expectationlost

er as i said before usually people bring their expertises with them, she's shows none, she waffles about her own opinion.

was it denis o'brien she defamd live on tv, you'd a producer and communications expert would know not to do that.

see her on vincent browne she got on her high horse about voting because what ganley was saying was above her head and she was fine with that.

BrianD

expectationlost wrote: »

see her on vincent browne she got on her high horse about voting because what ganley was saying was above her head and she was fine with that.

She was dreadful on that episode of Vin B but she was right about Ganley spoiling his vote. He wasn't making any form of democratic statement and there plenty of people in the world who don't have the right to vote.

As for Mary Louise she's another one of these people who is "famous for being famous". The more you appear on these panels, the more you do.

Rightly or wrongly, I got the impression that she was a bit of a blue shirt. She'd fit in well on Hooks show.

Rebelheart

kevin99 wrote: »

How did Marie Louise O'Donnell get a reporting job with the Pat Kenny radio show?

That is a mystery to me. She brings nothing. Although her political instincts are evidently solid: after years of lauding Enda Kenny, Kenny gets into power and appoints her a "Senator", and nobody criticises it. Marie-Louise O'Donnell is now costing the Irish taxpayer over €100k per year.

She's a vacuous, pompous, superficial, wannabe academic cow, at best. At very best. And a parasite.

Rebelheart

coylemj wrote: »

Sadly the attitude now in RTE is that all that IRA stuff is in the past and we should move on so Martin Ferris, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness get pretty much a free ride from most of the media.

Fair play to the Herald today for once again highlighting Gerry Adam's alleged connection to the murder of Mrs McConville who was kidnapped by the IRA (the Herald says on Gerry Adam's direct order) and murdered because she was Christian enough to tend to a dying British soldier on the balcony of her flats after the self-styled freedom fighters shot him, the same heroes who now make a living by laundering diesel and pushing drugs.

What the Hell? You'd prefer to go back to the days when Eoghan Harris and John Caden controlled every piece of news that came out of RTÉ, and destroyed the careers of numerous RTÉ employees who refused to toe the Sticky line?

Either you are a Sticky, or you know absolutely nothing about the history of RTÉ since 1970. Oh, and everything owned by Sir Anthony O'Reilly is a rag, including your beloved Evening Herald. Muck. Tabloid muck.

coylemj

No, I am not a sticky and neither are a lot of people who quickly change the radio station or TV channel when Gerry Adams gets a free ride from RTE as if he was an elder international statesman.

And while you were trawling around for old posts to respond to with your hateful bile, you missed this one....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72256510&postcount=8