Ban Eoghan McDermott

Atoms for Peace

He offends my sensibilities with his insufferable, condescending and morally superior droning. Is there any way to start a campaign to remove him from the national broadcaster?

p1akuw47h5r3it

Who?

Fr_Dougal

Worse than Hitler.

karl tyrrell

Yes we need a dictator not dick taker

vicwatson

Can we throw Duffy and Tubridy and D’Arcy on that petition too please

Atoms for Peace

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

He offends my sensibilities with his insufferable, condescending and morally superior droning. Is there any way to start a campaign to remove him from the national broadcaster?

Without delay, "I speak for the populace on the basis of my two gay friends." Sorry, to alter the words of an iconic song is tantamount to rewriting history.

Try_harder

karl tyrrell wrote: »

Yes we need a dictator not dick taker

I would like a dick taker

Try_harder

I am gay and I dont mind the song

Guy:Incognito

karl tyrrell wrote: »

Yes we need a dictator not dick taker

We want a pitcher , not a belly itcher.

Yer Da sells Avon

DanDan6592 wrote: »

Who?

Some presenter on a radio station that hardly anyone listens to anymore, and whose suggestion that a swearword in Fairytale of New York should be censored has caused the perennially outraged to become outraged.

The J Stands for Jay

Is he the lad who phones up people and asks them to say they love him? It's a bit Weinstein-ish for my taste.

Yer Da sells Avon

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Some presenter on a radio station that hardly anyone listens to anymore, and whose suggestion that a swearword in Fairytale of New York should be censored has caused the perennially outraged to become outraged.

You're fighting the wrong battle.

The Satanist

I listen to black metal playlists on Spotify exclusively.

Sweetemotion

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Some presenter on a radio station that hardly anyone listens to anymore, and whose suggestion that a swearword in Fairytale of New York should be censored has caused the perennially outraged to become outraged.

Ahh here will you stop with that crap. It's a radio presenter who is giving a prime time slot on our national network that people are fleeced to pay for.

Shefwedfan

Never heard of this clown

He is trying to get his 5 mins of fame

RTÉ radio should be banned for being absolute s**t.....

What the one on the morning who think is is soooo outrageous? The ex your fired one....clown

Along with the Ryan’s daughter who makes out she is 15 and is actually in her 30’s

Disgrace these people are allowed out in public let alone tax payer is keeping them in jobs

dxhound2005

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

He offends my sensibilities with his insufferable, condescending and morally superior droning. Is there any way to start a campaign to remove him from the national broadcaster?

One way would be to start a campaign on the internet.

pgj2015

Try_harder wrote: »

I am gay and I dont mind the song

you see, harmless, well done.

RobbingBandit

Song should have protective status bleeding hipster wannabes like this pleb should be shot out of a canon

Agent Coulson

Could someone use a line from Fairytale of New York to describe him?


Him and his ilk are best ignored to be honest.

Yer Da sells Avon

Sweetemotion wrote: »

Ahh here will you stop with that crap. It's a radio presenter who is giving a prime time slot on our national network that people are fleeced to pay for.

The days of 2FM presenters being household names are long gone.

RobbingBandit

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Could someone use a line from Fairytale of New York to describe him?


Him and his ilk are best ignored to be honest.

I could have been someone, well so could anyone

He's a nobody end of

Ruraldweller56

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Never heard of this clown

He is trying to get his 5 mins of fame

RTÉ radio should be banned for being absolute s**t.....

What the one on the morning who think is is soooo outrageous? The ex your fired one....clown

Along with the Ryan’s daughter who makes out she is 15 and is actually in her 30’s

Disgrace these people are allowed out in public let alone tax payer is keeping them in jobs

That there would be the one who told lies on Twitter about Peter Casey.

After Tubridy raided the RTÉ canteen for guests for the late late.

ButtersSuki

Ruraldweller56 wrote: »

That there would be the one who told lies on Twitter about Peter Casey.

After Tubridy raided the RTÉ canteen for guests for the late late.

I never got to see that tweet - does anyone have a screen grab of it?

ButtersSuki

I'm just waiting for Ciara Kelly to chime in on this.......:rolleyes:

Ruraldweller56

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I never got to see that tweet - does anyone have a screen grab of it?

Still up on her twitter. Just do a Google of Jennifer Zamparelli Peter Casey and its easy enough to find. You don't need a twitter.

MarkHenderson

Jesus Christ is there any end to the virtue signalling.

How does a radio presenter not understand context in a song?

The song isn't singing "hey, you're a ******' in a really condescending, targetted fashion. It's being used as a general common-for-the-time, insult, in fairly light-hearted fashion.


I'm overweight, and I feel offended the word fat is used in a song. I am particularly offended by Fat Boy Slim, as I feel the name partially targets and identifies me. I would like this name removed from all media, past and present, including, but not limited to, verbal, print, online text and any images or logos which may bear the name in writing, using any fonts.

I would also request that this name not be mentioned in future, even when relating or discussing to the past. I want people to feel uneasy mentioning it, for fear of me getting offended, or someone else getting offended on my behalf.

I also want Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" to have the same treatment, as it is not only offensive to me, but is sexually degrading to women... somehow.

limnam

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I'm just waiting for Ciara Kelly to chime in on this.......:rolleyes:

busy getting pensioners fired.

kneemos

Try_harder wrote: »

I am gay and I dont mind the song

Simples.

RabbleRouser2k

Oh God, between this clown and Ray D'arcy trying to end the Angelus, you have to wonder did any of them ever grow out of being 15? I mean, if you got rid of D'Arcy or McDermott, you'd save a fortune.

When 'you scumbag, you maggot etc' is hurled, she's not directing it at a gay man-she's directing it at a former lover who essentially wasted her life and wasted his potential.

He's paid to provide a service. If he doesn't want to provide a service, then fire him. Similar to how certain Muslim workers were fired for not wanting to handle alcohol bottles and cans of beers at the till in supermarkets.
Plenty of gay people like that song-it's a heartbreaking song, because it's painfully honest. I know gay people who use the word 'F*ggot' as well as 'homo'. (A gay friend mentioned the homo thing when discussing the difference between gay weddings and traveller weddings, in a joking fashion. Like 'if you think travellers have flashy weddings, wait until you see the weddings homos have'. This was around the time of Same sex marriage vote-I was voting yes, obviously.)

Will he ban Eminem for using the N word? Will he ban the likes of Kanye for also using the N Word? Nope, he'd be sacked if he tried. (They pay to have their tracks played on radio-it's promotion, innit).

Fairytale always storms up the charts every year-and not the cover versions, but the real, uncensored version. Even Dustin the Turkey used the 'f*ggot' line-and if you have less bottle than a puppet, it's time to reconsider your life.

Atoms for Peace

Could life ever be sane again?

nullzero

Just did a search on this guy and he has a Picture This(dear god don't get me started) tattoo on his torso.
He's a 35 year old man who is desperately attempting to look like a 25 year old man.
It's infuriating that our licence fees pay for this hipster man childs affluent lifestyle. No getting woken up at six every Saturday by shouting kids for that too cool for school virtue signalling poser. Maybe if I didn't have to work a normal job and have a family I could get offended by songs for money too.

Richard Hillman

It will go away now this year now that RTE have not caved.

Next year it will kick off. It will start off as being referred to as "controversial" and a couple more voices will wade in. Then the year after it will be referred to as a "storm", gaining more of the usual voices. The year after that it will be gone.

RabbleRouser2k

nullzero wrote: »

Just did a search on this guy and he has a Picture This(dear god don't get me started) tattoo on his torso.
He's a 35 year old man who is desperately attempting to look like a 25 year old man.
It's infuriating that our licence fees pay for this hipster man childs affluent lifestyle. No getting woken up at six every Saturday by shouting kids for that too cool for school virtue signalling poser. Maybe if I didn't have to work a normal job and have a family I could get offended by songs for money too.

He's trying make it in Australia as well-he was involved in Love Island, the series they aired in Australia. He was narrating.

I don't have an issue with someone being childless (I'm childless myself-realised early on that I was not parenting material). But he gets so 'hot and bothered' over the most inane s**t, as does his sister Roe. He's the kind of idiot that cheers on the #metoo movement, but probably has a ton of skeletons in his closet.
They generally all do-all those 'feminists'.

Richard Hillman wrote: »

It will go away now this year now that RTE have not caved.

Next year it will kick off. It will start off as being referred to as "controversial" and a couple more voices will wade in. Then the year after it will be referred to as a "storm", gaining more of the usual voices. The year after that it will be gone.

That's what they said about 'Baby it's Cold Outside'...

But it's not Christmas without Fairytale of New york-or at least it doesn't feel like it. (And didn't they play that song on TG4 when Eoghan was there?). And nobody has equalled the original, they go about 'changing' the 'scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy f*ggot' line, and they don't embrace the pathos or 'lived it' quality that Shane and Kirstie bring to the song. Truth is beautiful, but it can also be painful-and the 'f*ggot' line is part of that painful truth.

If they tried to get Fairy tale banned...oh s**t would things kick off. Similar happened in New York when one bishop tried to get 'Oh Danny Boy' banned. Then September 11th happened... Danny Boy was the most prevalent song sung in the aftermath of that incident.

ButtersSuki

I’m waiting for one of these fools to call for a ban on Mountain Dew because it’s anti-Semitic.....

vicwatson

Morning, have we banned this tool yet? Or am I allowed say that (don’t want to be seen to be insulting tools)

Ultimate Seduction

Does anyone know what his ratings are like? RTE must owe him a favour.

Every day on the drive home it's a choice of SJWs. Either Eoghan giving out about trump or Matt on today fm giving out about trump. Hes not our president we don't need hourly updates on him everyday.

kneemos

RTE says...


bothered.

https://www.joe.ie/amp/music/fairytale-of-new-york-rte-650753

Wheeliebin30

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Does anyone know what his ratings are like? RTE must owe him a favour.

Every day on the drive home it's a choice of SJWs. Either Eoghan giving out about trump or Matt on today fm giving out about trump. Hes not our president we don't need hourly updates on him everyday.

Matt is another champagne socialist.

He knows which side his bread is buttered in and plays it like a fiddle.

mickuhaha

I think after this I will be avoiding 2fm for awhile. Can't listen to that awful show

mickuhaha

I think after this I will be avoiding 2fm for awhile. Can't listen to that awful show

RobbingBandit

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I’m waiting for one of these fools to call for a ban on Mountain Dew because it’s anti-Semitic.....

Say what now...

Rushes to buy Mountain Dew for Aryan superpowers I want to be uber.

smurgen

Himself and his sister have to be the two most annoying irish public figures i've ever heard and that's saying something

tigerboon

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Worse than Hitler.

Absolutely

Gravelly

smurgen wrote: »

Himself and his sister have to be the two most annoying irish public figures i've ever heard and that's saying something

Never knew he had a sister - just googled her and the first thing that came up was "columnist studying for an MA in sexuality studies" and that was enough.
Another one to live off the taxpayers teat no doubt.

Sky King

Gravelly wrote: »

Never knew he had a sister - just googled her and the first thing that came up was "columnist studying for an MA in sexuality studies" and that was enough.
Another one to live off the taxpayers teat no doubt.

In defense of Roe, I think her sex advice column is really excellent. She is well able to write and systematically address people's concerns with carefully thought out, insightful advice.

She posts some serious anti man shyte on twitter though. I happen upon it occasionally. And I'm like... Really? FFS! You're so much better than this.

Beechwoodspark

mickuhaha wrote: »

I think after this I will be avoiding 2fm for awhile. Can't listen to that awful show

He’s been on my ignore list for years now and he seems to be very unpopular in general.

Most ppl either hate him or don’t know who he is.

physioman

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

He offends my sensibilities with his insufferable, condescending and morally superior droning. Is there any way to start a campaign to remove him from the national broadcaster?

Careful now you may be accused of being homophobic for criticising the thoughts of someone from the gay community..

and he wonders why he got an unprovocative thump in the head..he's an arsehole that's why.

And before you all say he has a right to be and a right not to be assaulted, I'm just saying, knuckle draggers obviously don't see it that way so he shouldnt be surprised if he's having a pint and some dope says, "heor dats the faggit dat tried to ban our favourite chrimbo tune"

RabbleRouser2k

Gravelly wrote: »

Never knew he had a sister - just googled her and the first thing that came up was "columnist studying for an MA in sexuality studies" and that was enough.
Another one to live off the taxpayers teat no doubt.

She was on tv3 one day, debating a model-or trying to-and failed completely.

When the model said something like 'sure what's wrong with looking at beautiful people', Roe flipped her lid.
It was hilarious-she had no answer but thought the question alone was audacious.

Good on RTE telling their employees where to go if they don't like a song...

...they know they wouldn't get hired anywhere else, frankly.

And does Eoghann not realise the Voice of Ireland ended about 5 years ago? Nobody gives a s**t who he is now. They didn't give a s**t who he was then.
And nobody gives a toss about his sister either.

What the hell is sexuality studies anyway? Is that her being paid to go around having sex with everything?

physioman wrote: »

Careful now you may be accused of being homophobic for criticising the thoughts of someone from the gay community..

Eoghann's not gay. Or do you mean Stephen Byrne?

buried

The fact that this guy has a job in some sort of outlet of artistic 'culture' like a radio station and basically wants stories, fictional stories with fictional characters, which that song is, the fact he wants to ban works of art like that is nothing short of bat$hit crazy. And it is. I mean where are you going to stop in this sort of crazy logic? Are we gong to ban Johnny Cash songs because he sang about a character 'shooting a man in Reno, just to watch him die'? Elton John singing "Saturday night is alright for fighting", can't be having that sort of message, better ban that too. I mean where do you draw the line? OP is right, ban this gadge, whoever he is