Now it's personal - Emer O'Kelly

Diddler1977

Just starting to watch this.

Looks quite controversial :eek:

irishh_bob

o kelly is an unpleasant and incredibly self regarding wagon , no wonder shes a spinster

HugoBradyBrown

Diddler1977 wrote: »

Just starting to watch this.

Looks quite controversial :eek:

Controversial isn't the word!


Hugo Brady Brown

Diddler1977

irishh_bob wrote: »

o kelly is an unpleasant and incredibly self regarding wagon , no wonder shes a spinster

What's so wrong with being a spinster?!

Diddler1977

OMG! What age is that child? Was it Eamonn who was being breastfed????

irishh_bob

Diddler1977 wrote: »

What's so wrong with being a spinster?!

nothing but it will soon become evident why the incredibly arrogant kelly is one

Skid

Emer O'Kelly sounds even posher than she did when she was in RTE.

Diddler1977

irishh_bob wrote: »

nothing but it will soon become evident why the incredibly arrogant kelly is one

This stay at home mother seems a bit arrogant for my liking

ThisRegard

I was expecting her to be controversial for controversy sake but she's just an oul bag judging by her tone of questioning. "Do you not feel humiliated..........."

Nothing wrong with the stay at home mother so far.

Diddler1977

ThisRegard wrote: »

I was expecting her to be controversial for controversy sake but she's just an oul bag judging by her tone of questioning. "Do you not feel humiliated..........."

Nothing wrong with the stay at home mother so far.

Nothing wrong with her, just that she feels that working mothers are handing over the "mothering" of their children to others

Skid

Why would anyone want to do this show?

The family seem happy enough - what do they have to gain from having Emer preach to them?

Plautus

O'Kelly's been doing the pompous, condescending schtick for years in her Sindo column. You'll find her nowhere in the programme considering that a stay-at-home mother is doing work to which monetary value would have to be attached otherwise. Childcare costs, petrol or transport tickets, laundry, cleaning, cooking etc. etc.

Drain on the economy, my hole. It's nice to be able to return to the climes of her hotel in the evening and continue believing that.

Diddler1977

Plautus wrote: »

O'Kelly's been doing the pompous, condescending schtick for years in her Sindo column. You'll find her nowhere in the programme considering that a stay-at-home mother is doing work to which monetary value would have to be attached otherwise. Childcare costs, petrol or transport tickets, laundry, cleaning, cooking etc. etc.

Drain on the economy, my hole. It's nice to be able to return to the climes of her hotel in the evening and continue believing that.

Fair point

ThisRegard

You tell her young lady !

Diddler1977

Love these computerised babies!!!

Plautus

Yeah, she's showing her colours now, she doesn't want there to even be a question of choice. Some women (men, even) do want to stay at home, stigmatising them as parasites is very self-righteous. That's an arrangement that people knowingly enter into with their partner. The stay-at-home parent can be either male or female ...

She seems to be preaching at a now non-existent Ireland where gender roles forced women into the kitchen and out of their jobs under the marriage bar.

ThisRegard

It's not a baby, it's an "alarm". She won't even play game, she's only too willing to lecture women but won't even make an effort to see what a parent has to put up with.

HugoBradyBrown

Sitting here watching Emer O'Kelly, I am thinking fondly of RTE back in the 1960's when she and Charles Mitchell used to read the news on alternate nights; she and Charles were almost of an age. As far as I recall, Miss O'Kelly was running a B&B somewhere out in India since she left RTE, the pension situation being what it is.

I think it's an interesting but yet cruel idea, putting an elderly lady like that to the strain of this encounter with the real world of today, where the parents are young enough to be her grandchildren. Still, to our advantage, she hasn't even got much use out of 10 years of her bus-pass or the free electricity, as far as I can see.

Let us hold tight and enjoy whatever oriental wisdom she has brought back from the Indies.


Hugo Brady Brown

phormium

You've got the wrong journalist, it's Bibi Baskin that was in India running a hotel.

Diddler1977

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

Sitting here watching Emer O'Kelly, I am thinking fondly of RTE back in the 1960's when she and Charles Mitchell used to read the news on alternate nights; she and Charles were almost of an age. As far as I recall, Miss O'Kelly was running a B&B somewhere out in India since she left RTE, the pension situation being what it is.

I think it's an interesting but yet cruel idea, putting an elderly lady like that to the strain of this encounter with the real world of today, where the parents are young enough to be her grandchildren. Still, to our advantage, she hasn't even got much use out of 10 years of her bus-pass or the free electricity, as far as I can see.

Let us hold tight and enjoy whatever oriental wisdom she has brought back from the Indies.


Hugo Brady Brown

Was it not Bibi Baskin who was running the b&b in India?

murraykil

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

Controversial isn't the word!


Hugo Brady Brown

Who is Emer O'Kelly? Also, who am I quoting? I didn't quite catch the name.

4shivers

OMG she is annoying me. She has just belittled my life. I have degree & 2 higher dips and I gave up work 8.5 yrs ago to rear my own kids, not teach other peoples!! Its not a waste of my educ. I wouldnt be the person I am without ALL my life experiences. I am and SHOULD be a valued person in this society. I resent that I get NO recognition for this most valuable work. But I know Im doing a great job and I get the best rewards everyday and its not financial!! DO NOT call me a burden to society!! End of Rant!(For now!)

ThisRegard

That's Bibi with the hostel in India
edit, snap everyone

Plautus

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

Sitting here watching Emer O'Kelly, I am thinking fondly of RTE back in the 1960's when she and Charles Mitchell used to read the news on alternate nights; she and Charles were almost of an age. As far as I recall, Miss O'Kelly was running a B&B somewhere out in India since she left RTE, the pension situation being what it is.

I think it's an interesting but yet cruel idea, putting an elderly lady like that to the strain of this encounter with the real world of today, where the parents are young enough to be her grandchildren. Still, to our advantage, she hasn't even got much use out of 10 years of her bus-pass or the free electricity, as far as I can see.

Let us hold tight and enjoy whatever oriental wisdom she has brought back from the Indies.


Hugo Brady Brown

That's Bibi Baskin you're thinking of. Easy to get confused though: they look and sound the exact same, except Baskin's poison is new age spirituality as opposed to pompously believing that everyone who stays home with children is a 'spoilt child' themselves.

xi

Diddler1977 wrote: »

OMG! What age is that child? Was it Eamonn who was being breastfed????

Her name was Eamonn :eek:

Diddler1977

4shivers wrote: »

OMG she is annoying me. She has just belittled my life. I have degree & 2 higher dips and I gave up work 8.5 yrs ago to rear my own kids, not teach other peoples!! Its not a waste of my educ. I wouldnt be the person I am without ALL my life experiences. I am and SHOULD be a valued person in this society. I resent that I get NO recognition for this most valuable work. But I know Im doing a great job and I get the best rewards everyday and its not financial!! DO NOT call me a burden to society!! End of Rant!(For now!)

It's Emer's way or the highway

Diddler1977

xi wrote: »

Her name was Eamonn :eek:

What! :eek: A girl called Eamonn????

xi

Diddler1977 wrote: »

What! :eek: A girl called Eamonn????

MyKeyG

She seems to have revealed her real agenda. That men are educated with the expectation to work and women aren't. What century did she go to school in?

Diddler1977

Who is doing the voiceover?

Skid

Is Emer going to attack The Mother for leaving the child with someone with no maternal skills (i.e. herself?)

Skid

Diddler1977 wrote: »

Who is doing the voiceover?

Sounds like John Murray

irishh_bob

phormium wrote: »

You've got the wrong journalist, it's Bibi Baskin that was in India running a hotel.

yes and bibi is nice

HugoBradyBrown

murraykil wrote: »

Who is Emer O'Kelly? Also, who am I quoting? I didn't quite catch the name.

Hugo Brady Brown is the name.

Regards,

Hugo Brady Brown

HugoBradyBrown

murraykil wrote: »

Who is Emer O'Kelly? Also, who am I quoting? I didn't quite catch the name.

Hugo Brady Brown is the name.

Regards,

Hugo Brady Brown

JonathanAnon

It is John Murray on voiceover... RTE have a brilliant knack finding everything that he's crap at, and giving him loads of work at it... The guy was doing fine on The Business Show, and they move him to Tubridy's old slot to do knock knock jokes... baffling

Plautus

This woman is a walking contradiction. Fabian 'socialist' who believes her work contributes real monetary value to society but that women caring for children are contributing nothing of value to the economy and are luxuriating and 'imposing' their lifestyle on their husbands

She's a gowl. Plain and simple.

Ah feck, they have Ian O'Doherty visiting Clonskeagh Mosque next week. Bet you all of the journalists on this series write for Indo stable of newspapers.

Diddler1977

JonathanAnon wrote: »

It is John Murray on voiceover... RTE have a brilliant knack finding everything that he's crap at, and giving him loads of work at it... The guy was doing fine on The Business Show, and they move him to Tubridy's old slot to do knock knock jokes... baffling

Yeah can't say I am impressed by his voiceover efforts

Diddler1977

What was the point of this programme?

To get Emer O'Kelly to change her mind or for all the people that she met to change their minds?

irishh_bob

it takes a phenomenol degree of arrogance to not only believe that you are in a possition to lecture a bunch of women about motherhood when you yourself have never even had a child but o kelly is the type who actually believes her obnoxious authoritarian pontificating should be appreciated

Skid

Diddler1977 wrote: »

What was the point of this programme?

To get Emer O'Kelly to change her mind or for all the people that she met to change their minds?

Who knows?, it never really had a point. It's the poor little computer baby I feel sorry for

Happyman42

She can't park a car either! :rolleyes:

4shivers

So is she now saying that working mums are better people than stay at home mums???? Why is it ok for people like her to berate us to our faces and yet we have to be careful not to offend the working mums. Why are they so easily offended?? Guilt? cos they dont believe they are doing the right thing by their own kids?? AND WHY were all de stay at home mums hippies???? Im no hippy but I love being at home caring for my own 4 kids and I amSTILL no burden to society nor my partner. We used to have to make a rushed decision in de mornings on wether or not our child was 'sick enough' for us to prioritise and stay at home with him. we didnt always make the right decision until I quit work!!

irishh_bob

4shivers wrote: »

So is she now saying that working mums are better people than stay at home mums???? Why is it ok for people like her to berate us to our faces and yet we have to be careful not to offend the working mums. Why are they so easily offended?? Guilt? cos they dont believe they are doing the right thing by their own kids?? AND WHY were all de stay at home mums hippies???? Im no hippy but I love being at home caring for my own 4 kids and I amSTILL no burden to society nor my partner. We used to have to make a rushed decision in de mornings on wether or not our child was 'sick enough' for us to prioritise and stay at home with him. we didnt always make the right decision until I quit work!!

dont let the spitefull mean spirited cnut annoy you , shes a one in a million that o kelly , unfortunatley for some of us , we ran into those wrong ones at particular times in our lives

zinx

Not to put too fine a point on it but...that creature is nothing but a dried up,childless wizened excuse for a woman who is attempting to ram her own sorry life experiences/opinions down the throat of ordinary women who are trying to get by and maybe are struggling with the idea of leaving their child to be reared by another woman?

How in the name of all that is scared can a f£££ing repulsive pig like her be allowed a platform to voice her opinions on stay at home mothers when she herself never gave birth?

Maybe its just as well that her particular strain will die out when the battleaxe herself kicks her clogs.

Well done RTE.

irishh_bob

zinx wrote: »

Not to put too fine a point on it but...that creature is nothing but a dried up,childless wizened excuse for a woman who is attempting to ram her own sorry life experiences/opinions down the throat of ordinary women who are trying to get by and maybe are struggling with the idea of leaving their child to be reared by another woman?

How in the name of all that is scared can a f£££ing repulsive pig like her be allowed a platform to voice her opinions on stay at home mothers when she herself never gave birth?

Maybe its just as well that her particular strain will die out when the battleaxe herself kicks her clogs.

Well done RTE.

o kelly would be an overbearing cow no matter what the subject matter of the show was

Diddler1977

zinx wrote: »

Not to put too fine a point on it but...that creature is nothing but a dried up,childless wizened excuse for a woman who is attempting to ram her own sorry life experiences/opinions down the throat of ordinary women who are trying to get by and maybe are struggling with the idea of leaving their child to be reared by another woman?

How in the name of all that is scared can a f£££ing repulsive pig like her be allowed a platform to voice her opinions on stay at home mothers when she herself never gave birth?

Maybe its just as well that her particular strain will die out when the battleaxe herself kicks her clogs.

Well done RTE.

Jeez that's a bit harsh.

She's entitled to her opinions.

The world would be a fairly boring place if we all had the same views.

HugoBradyBrown

zinx wrote: »

Not to put too fine a point on it but...that creature is nothing but a dried up,childless wizened excuse for a woman who is attempting to ram her own sorry life experiences/opinions down the throat of ordinary women who are trying to get by and maybe are struggling with the idea of leaving their child to be reared by another woman?

How in the name of all that is scared can a f£££ing repulsive pig like her be allowed a platform to voice her opinions on stay at home mothers when she herself never gave birth?

Maybe its just as well that her particular strain will die out when the battleaxe herself kicks her clogs.

Well done RTE.

Come, come! This is uncalled for! "Not to put too fine a point on it", you say.

Miss O'Kelly is an old maiden lady, gamely coming before the cameras, to do her "Christine Hamilton" battleaxe act one last time, the one she used to do in Kiely's and in Madigans in Donnybrook late of an evening at the drop of a fiver. She's obviously been making a hare of the production company, or taking old RTE in, or something. This is just her cabaret act transferred to TV with a straight face. She was always, I thought, more of a pantomime dame at the best of times than a serious journalist when she was in the newsroom, anyway, and more thoroughly camp than the campest of the men in there too! And while she was there it was as camp as Butlins.

She always was a card, even in her middle years. She would make the most bloodcurdling threats against anyone who as much as touched the milk before her in the canteen, but she had a heart as big as a hippo in real life. Good old Emer!

And if she hasn't been on the missions in India, under what bushel has she been hiding her light since she collected her P45?

Give age a chance!


Hugo Brady Brown

irishh_bob

Diddler1977 wrote: »

Jeez that's a bit harsh.

She's entitled to her opinions.

The world would be a fairly boring place if we all had the same views.

shes entitled to be an aloof , judgemental wench and we are entitled to call her on it

irishh_bob

HugoBradyBrown wrote: »

Come, come! This is uncalled for! "Not to put too fine a point on it", you say.

Miss O'Kelly is an old maiden lady, gamely coming before the cameras, to do her "Christine Hamilton" battleaxe act one last time, the one she used to do in Kiely's and in Madigans in Donnybrook late of an evening at the drop of a fiver. She's obviously been making a hare of the production company, or taking old RTE in, or something. This is just her cabaret act transferred to TV with a straight face. She was always, I thought, more of a pantomime dame at the best of times than a serious journalist when she was in the newsroom, anyway, and more thoroughly camp than the campest of the men in there too! And while she was there it was as camp as Butlins.

She always was a card, even in her middle years. She would make the most bloodcurdling threats against anyone who as much as touched the milk before her in the canteen, but she had a heart as big as a hippo in real life. Good old Emer!

And if she hasn't been on the missions in India, under what bushel has she been hiding her light since she collected her P45?

Give age a chance!


Hugo Brady Brown

you can dress up the oul witch anyway you like , the plain decent people of ireland know a sow when they see one

Diddler1977

irishh_bob wrote: »

shes entitled to be an aloof , judgemental wench and we are entitled to call her on it

irishh_bob wrote: »

you can dress up the oul witch anyway you like , the plain decent people of ireland know a sow when they see one

This is seriously abusive language and very offensive to say about any woman.

Can you not express yourself without having to resort to such nastiness?