The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

Brendan Bendar

Looks like Ballsy can only ‘keep it going’ for one hour for some time .

,After 1200 the panel are gone and various ’headbangers’, flappers,windbags,shapers are wheeled in to bore the hoop off the listeners.

Like most listeners I feel the ‘off button’ gets a bit of a battering after 1200.

Programme has gone down hill rapidly with these chancers dominating the airwaves .

NIMAN

Rte do love all that positive thinking, self help guru folk.

They get far too much airtime and free publicity.

"Be kind to yourself"....ah f*&k off would you.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118843174#Comment_118843174

Good advice…..

Dempo1

Was listening in the Car and completely baffled by this mysterious and clearly not widely known advice Leo let slip yesterday about the requirements for testing, Ilona Duffy (GP) also seemed confused and concerned and was not aware of this advice re over 55's. Its not entirely clear when the HSE updated the advice and it really does seem Government making this up as the go.

Isn't any wonder there's confusion, fine, let's move on but mother of God if we can get basic advice about testing, what exactly is the point of bothering.

SEPT 23 1989

im very glad my own mother was from a previous generation listening to this “mother”

Arghus

Neil Jordan says you know a lot, you know.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118871607#Comment_118871607

You know, I never noticed.

Seriously though it was a very good interview.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118871740#Comment_118871740

Did you?

Theres a surprise……

For me these programmes are all about someone plugging something or a bunch of ‘friends of the programme “pumping out their usually batshït advice to the ether.

Ballsy and the production team have a bunch of journos on praising each other every week.

Is it any wonder they want to scupper anonymous contribution on social media.

SEPT 23 1989

Nail on the head Brendan

Jinglejangle69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118869691#Comment_118869691

Didn’t think it was that confusing.

What they didn’t say was it’s also advised to do antigen tests at home instead of going for a PCR test.

At this stage we all know what to do. Government can’t hold our hands forever even if that’s what many want.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118872003#Comment_118872003

I was simply referring to the fact GPs weren't even aware of the advice and it appeared to cause confusion at the press conference when Leo let it slip. I certainly don't expect government to hold people's hands but there was something I found very odd about this story and would also like to know when the advice was updated, how was it communicated and when did the HSE update their website.

Jinglejangle69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118872022#Comment_118872022

Well one GP said she wasn’t aware.

Don’t think she was speaking on behalf of every GP in Ireland.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118872050#Comment_118872050

Given the GP in question has been one of the go to GP's for comment throughout the Pandemic I'd be pretty confident she spoke to colleagues before being interviewed, also why did the Journalists have to check the Gov website to confirm what Leo said, even they were confused by the updated advice.

What was it the GP said, "There's no scientific logic' to the advice and she'll still be insisting on testing.

I suspect there might be more about this tommorow or coming days.

I'm not getting into a Covid discussion, simply pointing out that such was the surprise with Leo's comments, Brendan had it as is first segment.

Jinglejangle69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118872105#Comment_118872105

You were angling to have a dig at Leo as you usually do.

The information is on the HSE website for grown adults to follow.

Nothing more to it.

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118872153#Comment_118872153

A, now I get it, it's a Leo thing, I suspected it might be and yes he's easy to dig at, today's polls for example. But my actual point was the updated advice and how it was communicated, or not as it would seem, but of course, Leo not new to releasing info now is he, generally poorly thought out and normally via Leakage.

Hope you got a chance to listen to Saturday with Katie Hannon, intriguing discussion on the Governments absurd housing policy.

Happy now 😏

fryup

enjoyed that interview with Neil Jordan very insightful, and even he was screwed by Harvey Wienstein (but in a different way)

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118873324#Comment_118873324

Actually missed it but will play it back , always found Neil Jordan interesting.

fryup

very intellectual, he gives deep thought to every question he's asked

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118873361#Comment_118873361

Yep, there was no shooting "from the hip" at all. Considered before opening mouth

Nevin Parsnipp

How unusual for Irish Radio....and indeed Irish Media in general. !

Hangdogroad

Enjoyed listening to Pat Ingoldsby today, being of the Pats Hat/Chat generation. Id forgotten he used to do that radio show Poporama. He said a teenage Tubbs used to do the book reviews. Beefy moved on fairly quickly in case Pat badmouthed him, he did manage to say he found him frighteningly precocious.

fritzelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118906864#Comment_118906864

Was a good listen, a very interesting man

thesandeman

No comment from Brenden when he said bollox and dropped the f-bomb. Joe Duffy would have had a heart attack.

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118907537#Comment_118907537

Brendan's show is not a soapbox for Brendan's opinions or beliefs, which is what Duffy has turned Liveline into.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118906899#Comment_118906899

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118907537#Comment_118907537

I'd say Brendan understood that he was playing with fire and knew what to do.

Fair play to both of them they made it work.

Good radio.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118907537#Comment_118907537

One of the last times I saw Pat Ingoldsby on RTE before he dropped off the radar was circa early to mid 90s on Kenny Live. He read out a poem about getting off on watching a woman eating an ice-cream and before so he said to PK that whenever he read this poem he'd get an erection . I remember the Plank blurting out "ah Pat!". It was very funny.

Brendan Bendar

Ballsy warned before the Ingoldsby interview, obviously recorded, that there would be spicy language.

So all approved in advance…..

As for Ingoldsby……bit fond of smelling himself in this posters opinion.

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118906864#Comment_118906864

Agree, it was one of better interviews on this show in the past couple of years, I actually sat down to listen to it. I wonder how much was edited out. Pat wasn't afraid to say that many of the RTE staff & presenters are full of their own egos. Made it quite clear that he wasn't going to be a lickarse either. A refreshing voice.

riclad

i like pat ingoldsby but there was far too much bad language in the interview , he was going on about having to be nice to people in rte , thats show business , if you wish to get offered tv shows or interviews you have to be nice to managers and executives Thats not exclusive to rte . .but then the average person over 70 is not good as a subject for radio interviews. he used to just walk around the city centre selling his books ,i saw him about 5 years ago.I just remember him from a kids tv show on rte about 20 years ago.

live tv shows have a mute or bleep button to use if someone starts using bad language. i think hes a good presenter with a good sense of humour, this program has a wide range of subjects from serious coverage of the ukraine war, pandemic, to more light hearted interviews with actors,writers, and reviews of the latest tv shows ,films in the last 10 minutes of the program.

Apothic_Red

I enjoy the show but I do feel Saturday should be all the one to one interviews, cookery rubbish & TV recommendations.

Then Sunday should be a 2 hour paper/week review. Poor panel get introduced then he's off to Ukraine for 10 mins talking to some reporter who heard a few bombs land far away.