Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

Ol' Donie

quintana76 wrote: »

I blame Sean.

What? No you don't, you blame "the muslims".

quintana76

ballsymchugh wrote: »

funnily enough, back in the day when he had the guests at the start of the show, he had Peter McVerry in one day for a grand straight forward chat. someone texted in to say it was great to hear an atheist and a religious person having a straight forward honest conversation, to which Sean replied "i didn't know you were an atheist Peter".

i don't think i've ever heard him speak on the fundamentals of religious belief, often on the dogma and rules etc, but never about whether he believes in God/Jehovah/Allah/Tom Cruise

His only belief is in whatever is the current fashionable opinion.
Regrettably I fear this is the case.
Forget Jehovah, think Chomsky.

Grolschevik

ballsymchugh wrote: »

funnily enough, back in the day when he had the guests at the start of the show, he had Peter McVerry in one day for a grand straight forward chat. someone texted in to say it was great to hear an atheist and a religious person having a straight forward honest conversation, to which Sean replied "i didn't know you were an atheist Peter".

i don't think i've ever heard him speak on the fundamentals of religious belief, often on the dogma and rules etc, but never about whether he believes in God/Jehovah/Allah/Tom Cruise

He wrote a book on world religions a few years back.

jooksavage

Grolschevik wrote: »

He wrote a book on world religions a few years back.

Got it as an xmas present about 10 years ago. Very entertaining read. Sean is a great writer. My wife read his novel "A History of Things" - said it was fantastic.

Ol' Donie

So You Think You're An Adult.

After all these years, they finally have a segment on Moncrieff that makes me turn the radio off.

Last week some of the advice was "maybe be passive agressive about it". Honestly.

daithi7

Ol' Donie wrote: »

So You Think You're An Adult.

After all these years, they finally have a segment on Moncrieff that makes me turn the radio off.

Last week some of the advice was "maybe be passive agressive about it". Honestly.

Yup, I used to find the Sean M show very entertaining, innovative, light hearted, informative on unusual topics and generally easy to listen to.....

Alas no more.

Those 2 who do the relationship issues slot should be shot imho. They are so subjective, unprofessional and all over the place each week it's not funny. They sound like a pair of
complete gombeens in a local cafe having a bitch about other's relationships. The female contributor Barbara Scully always tries to dominate the piece, it's like she's afraid to let anyone else speak at times , talking over the other guy Declan Buckley at will, most often with some ill informed rant on a tangential matter to the actual query a listener has emailed in to find out about from the ' experts '..... I find the slot and her in particular very irksome....

On top of that the whole Sm show has dropped off imho, as I don't think they get as interesting guests or deal with them in as entertaining or informative ways as they once undeniably did.... Which is a pity tbh, cos it used be good tbf.

Ol' Donie

"Now, this week Anne Robinson announced she was on Tinder..."

Anyone else in that split second think Henry McKean time?

CatFromHue

Anyone else think Sean was being a bit obtuse yesterday, plus he ended the show a few mins early to run away on his holidays :pac:

evolving_doors

Ol' Donie wrote: »

What? No you don't, you blame "the muslims".

Oi! That's George Hooks job.

Snake Plisken

CatFromHue wrote: »

Anyone else think Sean was being a bit obtuse yesterday, plus he ended the show a few mins early to run away on his holidays :pac:

Great glad to see the back of him! I hope it's Tom Dunne covering for him and not A) Jonathan Healy or B)Tara Duggan

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CatFromHue wrote: »

Anyone else think Sean was being a bit obtuse yesterday, plus he ended the show a few mins early to run away on his holidays :pac:

I thought he was fair cranky all week, especially with the race riots in USA.
What will he be like after the holidays ?
I still enjoy him, most of the time..

Tin Foil Hat

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Great glad to see the back of him! I hope it's Tom Dunne covering for him and not A) Jonathan Healy or B)Tara Duggan

It won't be Healy. Duggan is with a Dublin local station now, I think. Dunne is a nice bloke, but weak in the slot.
I miss Fionn Davenport. He was a great substitute.

Your Face

CatFromHue wrote: »

Anyone else think Sean was being a bit obtuse yesterday, plus he ended the show a few mins early to run away on his holidays :pac:

He is obtuse though.
He has gotten worse over the last few years.

Ol' Donie

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

It won't be Healy. Duggan is with a Dublin local station now, I think. Dunne is a nice bloke, but weak in the slot.
I miss Fionn Davenport. He was a great substitute.

Didn't Johnathan McCrea do a good job standing in a while ago?

ballsymchugh

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

It won't be Healy. Duggan is with a Dublin local station now, I think. Dunne is a nice bloke, but weak in the slot.
I miss Fionn Davenport. He was a great substitute.

there was a time a few years back where they were doing an outside broadcast, and everything failed so they had to give up. davenport must've been hanging around so they got him in to present a show from the studio with zero notice. he did it like nothing was wrong at all, you'd hardly have noticed.

robbe

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

It won't be Healy. Duggan is with a Dublin local station now, I think. Dunne is a nice bloke, but weak in the slot.
I miss Fionn Davenport. He was a great substitute.

Maybe Ciara Kelly, don't hear much of her these days........

Heard that movie reviewer charlatan on Friday who must be unique, and perhaps fortunate,
In that she had never seen a fast and furious movie - quite how a critic has avoided all of them is beyond me. Diabolical level of movie knowledge.

Horse84

robbe wrote: »

Maybe Ciara Kelly, don't hear much of her these days........

Heard that movie reviewer charlatan on Friday who must be unique, and perhaps fortunate,
In that she had never seen a fast and furious movie - quite how a critic has avoided all of them is beyond me. Diabolical level of movie knowledge.

Have you ever listened to Esther McCarthy? Now that's a reviewer with a diabolical level of movie knowledge.

suicide_circus

Hopefully it'll be Fionn Davenport or Jonathan McCrea. All the others mentioned are brutal in the slot. Can't listen to Doctor Ciara Kelly M.D. for more than 5 minutes. Tom Dünne needs to stick to music. Healy isn't the worst but he's better suited to milking a sob story on the news. If it's Henry I may switch off for good.

robbe

Horse84 wrote: »

Have you ever listened to Esther McCarthy? Now that's a reviewer with a diabolical level of movie knowledge.

I see your Esther McCarthy and raise you a Sarah Bellssimo - at least Esther likes films - get the distinct feeling Sarah doesn't care for them much - shows in her appalling lack of knowledge on pretty much any type of film......

humberklog

Tom Dunne's in today. Started the show with a clip of a conservative Muslim woman saying plucking eye brows was a sinful act. Tom was aghast especially as the lecture droned on for 2 hours.
And now they've Jonathan De Burqa (see what I did there?) doing Henry's vox pops.

Different.

la ultima guagua

Sure beats the abusive trolling of Ciara Kelly that Hook engaged in.

Perhaps The Dr could arrange a spot of terminal sedation for him ?

If not, then what chance some of his old rugger mates would raise their collective dodgy knees in the direction of his much talked about flakey scrotum ?

Ol' Donie

I like Tom, but today's show is...difficult. irish men's fashion vox pops & Sally O'Brien are not the very most interesting things in the world right now.

And then the weird judgemental bitchiness that is So You Think You're An Adult. Even Sean can't make that bollocks tolerable.

I can't comment on George apart from I heard him tell a doctor she was wrong after she got as far as saying "it's not straightforward..." or something, so I turned it off.

Snake Plisken

la ultima guagua wrote: »

Sure beats the abusive trolling of Ciara Kelly that Hook engaged in.

Perhaps The Dr could arrange a spot of terminal sedation for him ?

If not, then what chance some of his old rugger mates would raise their collective dodgy knees in the direction of his much talked about flakey scrotum ?

You do know there is a "we hate George's show thread" better to post over there then on this thread!

la ultima guagua

Snake Plisken wrote: »

You do know there is a "we hate George's show thread" better to post over there then on this thread!

My Bad.

I couldnt find it and presumed that George's pals had sent a memo to Boards Towers to have it deleted

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la ultima guagua wrote: »

Sure beats the abusive trolling of Ciara Kelly that Hook engaged in.

Perhaps The Dr could arrange a spot of terminal sedation for him ?

If not, then what chance some of his old rugger mates would raise their collective dodgy knees in the direction of his much talked about flakey scrotum ?

He was bad today, he kept interrupting more than normal, I couldnt even hear an answer..
Ciara has patience while George talks waffle !

davef1000

This is not the George Hook thread!

quintana76

I see Tom Dunne did a puff interview with the sister of Ibrahim Halawa. No serious questions asked as to the circumstances of the trip and the arrest. Thought poor tom was on the verge of tears.
Why are the media sticking to their version of the story like glue when everybody who cares to know, knows it is false. Why are they widely dissimulating a version that is at the very least not the full story?
it certainly doen't encourage much trust in the media at a time when that very belief is seriously on the wane in the Western world.
It looks like the agenda must be followed no matter what. Truth no longer matters.

Ol' Donie

Maybe you tell me? Why do you think there's a conspiracy by the Irish media, including Tom Dunne(!) to do...whatever it is you think they're doing.

Reliable sources please.

Snake Plisken

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Maybe you tell me? Why do you think there's a conspiracy by the Irish media, including Tom Dunne(!) to do...whatever it is you think they're doing.

Reliable sources please.

No proper i investigation into why they were on a stage in Egypt on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood representing their father! Why the sisters skipped bail and not shipped back to face trial! Why the father never bothers to attend protests for his Sons release.
I have yet to hear an interview ask them the tough questions.
Mark Humphries has excellent information about their whole setup out in Clonskeagh and some of the extremist speakers that have attended
http://markhumphrys.com/clonskeagh.html

Ol' Donie

Who's Mark Humphry? It is nice of a Doctor from Cambridge to report on all this.

Are there any references to his work from any reliable or reputable sources?