The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

jacool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124069122#Comment_124069122

Got the "buke". The pages are stuck together. I have been scammed.

Kalimah

Not on a Saturday or Sunday morning thank you. On the radio last thing at night would be far better if you have to have those discussions.
Not wanting to discuss private sexual matters in public on daytime radio is not prudish, it’s manners.

yosser hughes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124074196#Comment_124074196

Ooh you're so edgy and with it and everyone else is repressed and living in the past is that it?

It's nothing to do with that - there's a time and a place, that's all. Most of these inane chats are filler pieces; and let's face it, that's what this is- it's gratuitous and if anything was prurient it was this segment. I think you might have a different understanding of the word.

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124074196#Comment_124074196

absolute codswallop

walshb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124075255#Comment_124075255

spot on!!!!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124075255#Comment_124075255

It's not edgy in the slightest. It's just an adult topic, for adults. I doubt there's too many kids listening to the show, but they did give a health warning for anyone with kids around. It's OK for adults to talk about sex, or listen to discussions about sex.

Maybe we should be going back to the times of the Bishop and the nightie?

Hippodrome Song Owl

Absolute misery on a Christmas Saturday. Plenty of people looking for a distraction from their lives during this time, and we're treated to Brenda Fricker telling us how she'd prefer to be dead and her 31 suicide attempts. Don't get me wrong - she's a fascinating character, and it's an important subject to cover. But I really feel this is not the time, whether you're loving the Christmas season or struggling with what can be a difficult time of the year.

Mav11

A pleasure to listen to Dearbhail McDonald this morning. No interruptions, no trying to CYA, just let the panel get on with it!!

Welsh Megaman

With wishful thinking, Brendan hopes for a ‘light look’ at the news with the panel.

Within ten minutes…China, ‘Climate War’, ‘the end of days’.

Happy New Year, Brendan! 😁

dxhound2005

Blame the newspapers. A newspaper panel can only comment on what is in the newspapers.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124137397#Comment_124137397

Definitely a forlorn hope considering the week we've had and the serious nature of the panelists.

Anyway, good to have him back at the helm.

iffandonlyif

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124099949#Comment_124099949

I’m not the biggest fan of McDonald, but by God do I find O’Connor’s interruptions annoying.

Google tells me that CYA means ‘covering your ass’. I’d noticed that as well! He makes the most pedantic, overly cautious disclaimers. A guest will say something like, ‘Micheal Martin was wrong to do that’ and he’ll gruffly interrupt to say, ‘I should just point out that what he did wasn’t illegal. He was entitled to do it. I just want to clarify that.’ There’s something extremely annoying about someone saying the bleeding obvious, especially when you know it’s for his benefit, not his listeners’.

plodder

That was an amusing interview with Jason O'Mara. I have to confess I didn't know him beforehand. Brendan was really smitten by him (and particularly his choice of music) though he may have been hamming it up towards the end.

leath_dub

Was anyone listening to the Gavin Friday interview yesterday

I was waiting for the "Bono" mention and he didn't disappoint 🤣

Also managed to make the death (and career) of David Bowie all about him!

A strange individual, is our Gav

elperello

“Johnny Cash and June Carter, my parents, knew both love and addiction” | Brendan O'Connor - RTÉ Radio 1 https://share.google/UqbOtzskgC1SH8Trf

Great interview with John Carter Cash this morning.

Very interesting life story, musician, record producer and painter.

As he says "I follow my joy".

Bellbottoms

Andrew if you do not know how you got onto this topic. You have never listened to Irish radio before.

plodder

I thought it was a fairly scummy thing for Graham Finlay to mention the most lurid and discredited allegation against George Mitchell re: the Epstein files. I'm not sure if he was intending to walk it back because O'Connor stepped in sharpish to knock it down first.

That allegation was never cited by QUB when they cancelled Mitchell. If they thought it was credible then they would have been seriously at fault for not cancelling him sooner. It was bad enough that on one hand they say no wrong doing was alleged, but they cancelled him anyway.

elperello

Good chat with Glen Hansard on the show today.

Glen Hansard: "My headmaster told me to leave school to busk at 13" | Brendan O'Connor - RTÉ Radio 1 https://share.google/HVFJ9Elsw8bhXoEAM

Brendan Bendar

He was at this “C’mere” crap again.

golondrinas

The Hermes handbag is testament to the fact that the Irish taxpayer is being gouged by the legal professionals year after year.

hotmail.com

Discussion number 700 on US immigration this week on RTE.

plodder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124237994#Comment_124237994

Possibly, though I thought that was a fascinating insight into both Steen and Alison O'Connor. Brendan didn't think Alison was serious with the question about the two handbags, but she says she was. I did think she was let off a bit on the charge of leaving it too late to look for the nomination and whether she was really serious about it. That situation applies to any (albeit independent) candidate.

I never would have pegged Pete Lunn as an arch woke progressive but he seems to be. They didn't have the time to really delve into that topic ….

dxhound2005

The BBC brought the latest news from Japan. How the new Prime Minister has led to the handbag and pen she uses being sold out in the shops. I heard it live on the radio, but this link can't be played where I am. These important stories are a worldwide thing these days. I didn't listen to Brendan today. Why is Steen's handbag in the news again?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n0ypm1

mrslancaster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124237994#Comment_124237994

Back to discussing a woman’s outfit and appearance 🙄🙄 Thought we’d left that kind of nonsense behind but surprise, surprise, it’s still with us. I know very little about MSteen apart from the fact that she failed to get a presidential nomination last year but AO’Connor making comments about her handbag instead of having a discussion on her views and policies is just astonishing.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124238629#Comment_124238629

My take on the hang bag issue when it came up was that Steen was trying to make out like the "elites" were against her and she would work against them. While holding a €15k bag or whatever it cost.

Her owning a handbag is not the reason she didn't get nominated by the way...

Diddly Squat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124238629#Comment_124238629

You got that wrong in a big way but dont let that stop you in your faux outrage over women and how they dress, it could be the same question if it was a man with a 10k rolex. It had nothing to do with fashion or how she dressed

mrslancaster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124238760#Comment_124238760

Did I say she wasn’t nominated because of the handbag? Think you missed my point.

mrslancaster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124238781#Comment_124238781

Don’t be ridiculous. For years women have been judged on their appearance. I’ve never heard any man being questioned about his watch, where he bought it, how much it cost or if he had a spare cheaper watch in his car as a backup.

Diddly Squat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124238797#Comment_124238797

But it wasnt about the fashion side of it

mykrodot

I thought Maria Steen was brilliant on the show today. Hope she's on the panel more often!