The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

southstar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118195944#Comment_118195944

It must be very traumatic for you...having those delicate psychological sensibilities pounded by the Angelus every day.

Brendan Bendar

Jaysus did Ballsy introduce Daniel McConnell as Daniel O’ Connell at the programme start.

That said,folks, let’s not take these journos too seriously, dudes like McConnell spout stuff as if they know everything.

They may be right………sometimes…. but Ballsy and all these talking heads are playing for the same team….. so,as I do, don’t be taken in but some of the bull they put out.

The ‘luvvies ‘ are everywhere.

NIMAN

The first input from the female contributor was to point out that the nphet v gov spat was due to gender.

NIMAN

Jesus , Michael Harding on again.

Must be topping the charts of 'most used guest' in RTE.

You get the feeling he is used as filler, just to pad out the time.

Mav11

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118271578#Comment_118271578

Getting very predictable and tiresome at this stage, a bit like the whole show at this point. But I’m sure such that gender card related comments are guaranteed to get “likes” from Ballsy.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118271578#Comment_118271578

Thats the kind WOKE fluff which passes for insightful and important commentary nowadays .

Mad_maxx

Ballsy quick to second guess Dan o Brien for pointing out how not one person under fourteen had died from covid , the gimp then had to row back five minutes later and confirm that o Brien was indeed correct , the goal was met though , to deter any notion that this might not be a threat to kids

o Connor is the biggest company man on irish radio these days

dublin49

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118271705#Comment_118271705

in fairness he said one of the producers thought that statement re young deaths might not be accurate,he was then in the unenviable situation of ignoring what might be an insensitive remark or challenging it ,

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118272813#Comment_118272813

he rowed back and accepted that Dan o Brien was indeed correct within a minute or two , his questioning o Briens comments was purely designed to sway listeners from thinking kids are at no threat from covid

dublin49

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118273051#Comment_118273051

My interpretation was there was concern from producers tranmitted to him and he caveated Dan O Briens statement until it was checked and quickly withdrew the caveat once it was checked.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118273287#Comment_118273287

why so quick to question the validity of o Briens comment ?

dublin49

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118273462#Comment_118273462

Maybe in this woke time there is a hyper sensitivity to giving possible offence with an inaccurate statement.

NIMAN

Someone did make a good point during the show today.

That if it's found that the new variant isn't as dangerous, and the numbers in hospital keep improving, just drop the new restrictions instantly. Forget about any date in the future, do it straight away.

Jizique

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118274056#Comment_118274056

It was a good point, not 100% sure who made it, but whoever it was will be a long time waiting for another invite from the media, a bit like Dan, who is on far too infrequently

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118273879#Comment_118273879

Statement wasn't inaccurate

Aidric

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118274097#Comment_118274097

It was Dan O Brien who made that point and he was bang on. Instead of engaging with the point he made BOC deferred to the other panelist, Laura Durcan, who agreed with his point. This was followed up by BOC floundering about to tow the government line.

padd b1975

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118271578#Comment_118271578

Aided and abetted by Brendan naturally.

littlevillage

I generally like Stephen Fry..... but what a media hoore

As usual question radio presenter ..... 'Tell me about your first ****'? 😁

kazamo

Didn’t take long for Brendan to bring up the 50% no shows for booster vaccines.

Donnelly, Martin and Reid will be happy that the state broadcaster follows the official line that the public are to blame.

littlevillage

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pc7

I don’t rate MM as a politician but as a father and human he came across very real discussing the loss of two of his children. I think I forget at times they are human after all. Good interview, some interesting insight.

Pelvis Parsley

Micheál Martin on with Beefy this morning.

Not a bad interview, I thought, even if the latter did have to bring up the misery quota by raising the matter of the Taoiseach's personal family tragedies.

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118342024#Comment_118342024

Didn't hear all of it, but of what I did had hoped that 'ballsy' would actually question our leader about the supposed protection that our wonderful vaccination system offered and why we need more boosting all of a sudden?

However the Pandemic Poet has appeared which induces an immediate and swift Pavlovian response, to reach for the OFF switch.

Pelvis Parsley

You made the right call.

The Christmas Mental Elf is now getting its usual airing.

recipio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118342024#Comment_118342024

That was tacky and irrelevant. The whole interview was littered with parochial 'come eer to me and ' like ' interjections. He should remember he is on national radio and not some back street amateur hour radio in Cork.

Pelvis Parsley

Corkonian here. The two rival talk radio presenters down this way (Peedge and Prendeville) don't indulge in these silly Joe Duffy-esque colloquialisms, I don't know why the beefy ballsy fella feels the need to.

I can only come to the conclusion that there is an imperative for RTÉ interviewers to bring up family tragedies at every possible occasion whether relevant or not to the interview, and especially coming up to Christmas. Who is dictating this? Did the organisation hire in some pop psychologist who suggested it was good for the mental health of the nation to be forever reminded of everybody else’s misery in order to keep from being unrestfully envious of guests or speakers on the various shows? I can only imagine there is some design and purpose behind it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118342023#Comment_118342023

I think Michéal Martin is probably a particularly nice human being, outside of politics.

kazamo

I turned off the interview before it was over out of pure frustration.

We keep being told about the COVID crisis upon us, that we are facing a bigger challenge than ever before in this pandemic. Vaccine Vaccine Vaccine….Booster Booster Booster, the drip feeding of scare and misery is endless.

Then Brendan asks……can people living in the UK come home for Christmas. Yeah no problem, if they have the booster or not. So just to be sure to be sure, we will allow people living in a country with a huge spike in the most transmissible variant home to a country with a health service on its knees.

If Animal, Scooter and the Swedish Chef from the Muppets became the leaders of our country…….would we notice a difference ???

Brendan Bendar

Ballsy and others don’t seem to be able to sustain two hours anymore.

Has to be a reason…. Would Noel have anything to do with it.

You have Drivetime now having the last half hour passed over to Paddy O’Gorman and before that PBH.

Load of bolloxe.