The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

ShamNNspace

Typical.. The only good part of the show, the Bennett-Winehouse duet to finish, they cut to adds after the first few bars

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120882279#Comment_120882279

Crazy stuff Mr F, nearly a qtr. of a mill to present a ‘show’ with fours airtime a week.

Time the govt.got stuck into this lot.

This is their chance….

dvcireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120825954#Comment_120825954

It's good to see he's back to his pre covid quota of trips abroad for holidays/ work

He's very fond of his trips abroad to high end resorts, I remember in one year he did 4 to 5 articles in the Sunday Independent.

amlinopta

Last heard on the radio on 2 July. Nice work if you can get it. Must average around 40-42 weeks per annum

head82

Had this playing in the background this morning.. Saturday.. and as expected, there were a number of tributes paid to Sinead O'Connor.

Andrea Corr shared her fondly remembered encounters with Sinead in recent years. Neil Jordan recounted his association with her over a lengthy period of time.

And then there was Dave Fanning.. who was quite emotional in his reminiscing. In fact, it was very untypical of Dave to be so emotional.. struggled and broke down occasionally throughout the course of the few minutes of soundbite.

A stark comparison to his comments on the recently departed Christy Dignam (another Irish 'icon', albeit more local and less international) which were generally regarded to be cold and aloof.

Is there something amiss with this Fanning lad?

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EmmetSpiceland

He knew Sinead O’Connor quite well, personally. I believe he stated at the beginning of his, now infamous, Dignam interview that he didn’t really know him.

littlevillage

Bressie and Hazel Chu suddenly mental elf experts.... get up the garden you spoofers

padd b1975

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120915040#Comment_120915040

"Bressie" has been on the circuit for a few years now.

Bona fide easy answer merchant.

evolvingtipperary101

I know this is an old article. But I just saw it. How is Brendan O’Connor on our national airwaves and earning a fortune with views like this. This is just straight misogyny and open creepiness:

I first saw them as I left the office on Talbot Street. They were an odd sight. It wasn't an incredibly sunny day, but yet there they were, swarms of them, what I can only describe as young ones in their knickers. As I walked home, I was assailed at all turns by arse cheeks, many of them unsightly. Indeed, when you're walking around a city, any arse cheeks are unsightly. In context, you can ignore an arse cheek. At the beach, you become immune to them. But in town, it's different. They are just wrong. Arse cheeks in town just don't sit right.

At this point I remembered that Rihanna, a former singer who now acts largely like a porn star, was playing at the Aviva. Exactly in the direction I was headed. I was walking into arse cheek ground zero. And instead of enjoying the festive air, I found myself tut-tutting. What kind of a role model was this Rihanna tramp? And here was proof positive that the continuing sexualisation of popular culture was having a direct affect on our young women. They were all emulating Rihanna. They wanted to be her, in all her half-dressed glory. Now I know that some feminists would accuse me of slut-shaming right now. And would argue that these young women are empowered, that they are owning their erotic capital. To which I would respond by questioning the erotic capital of a 12-year-old with badly applied streaks of fake tan, walking around town dressed like a sex worker. And I would argue that by the looks of them, many of these young ones would have been better off going for a run or playing a game of football or something. (Go on so, add fat-shaming to my list of crimes).

As I got closer to the epicentre of it, I realised that there was a competitiveness to the slutty dressing. It was a peer pressure thing. They were all trying to outdo each other by being more Ri-Ri than the next one. And I saw all the boys too, delighted boys, who possibly wouldn't be able to believe, if indeed they thought about it, that this was the gift feminism had bequeathed them. These young ones had the freedom to parade their booties down the road. It was female empowerment.

I was on the phone to my mother as I walked, giving her a running commentary on it all. I may have used the phrase, "It's like a junior prostitutes' convention". My mother, always delighted to hear me getting my own back for the torment I inflicted on everyone as a youth, laughed as she told me how mine would be there in just a few short years. I assured her mine would not be let out the door dressed like that. She laughed knowingly.

A short while later at home, out the window, I saw a girl and her mum park up and head off for Rihanna. It was sweet, her heading off to Rihanna with her mum. Glimpses of innocence have always killed me. I have this thing burnt on my brain that I saw on a tube near Golders Green in London once. It was a grandad, a Hassidic Jew, and his grandson. And as the train went along the grandson kept asking his grandad questions about things, about the world, and everything around them. And the grandad told the kid how it was, gently and with such love. And the boy believed everything the grandad told him. He looked at him with such adoration, such hero-worship, such dependence and such innocence. It kills me now even to recount it.

And this girl, dressed in her smartest gear, with her handbag over her shoulder, killed me too, her and mum heading off, just the girls. And a little part of me was sad that she wasn't with all her pals, half naked and drinking alcopops. And I hoped that at the Aviva, none of them would stare, or comment about her, and I hoped that she wouldn't feel self-conscious, or left out.

But you know what? I like to hope that she didn't. Because walking through the crowds, there was no nastiness in the air, and all shapes and sizes and types were rubbing along together. So, hopefully no one was mean to that girl just because she had Down syndrome.

I suppose mine will be there soon enough. And part of me wants them to be there having a sneaky drink with their pals half naked, and part of me wants them to be with me or Sarah, dressed in their smartest gear, and not caring what anyone thinks, innocent. Life's funny isn't it? And you never know what to wish for really.

Brendan Bendar

^^^^^^^^^^^

Jaysus!!???

Anyway, Ballsy obviously delighted that RTE are off the front page.

Mentioned that some body or other could do with coming up before ‘charade that was the PAC, now not his exact

words but he obviously wasn’t too enamored with the RTE treatment by these guys.

Shure Ballsy, shure , not surprised you would back up a bunch of stults who horsed out €240k for four hours airtime.

Only one hour of which requires any effort.

ShamNNspace

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I'm no B o'C fan but I wouldn't entirely disagree with him here, young teenagers going out dressed like corner street hookers is not a good look Imv, the stuff some of them are wearing nowadays is off the scale of decency but then again I'm a bit old school, that mixed with the raging hormones of their male peers is not a good mix..... "oh danger here" as George Hamilton might say onetime

RINO87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120914409#Comment_120914409

Sinead had real talent, convictions and bravery. Christy now on the other hand.........I'll just say I agreed with Dave on that one .

Furze99

Ballsy is back but apparently he is a wuss and wouldn't drive over the Conor Pass.... I suppose in fairness he wouldn't get much practice as on his inflated talent income, he can just ask his chauffeur.

Spanish Eyes

The mental health section will surface in a minute to analyse the effect the weather is having on us all. Then we will be told to get out and about and EXERCISE in the wind, rain and cold to preserve our mental health. Then we'll be told to eat well and avoid Teddy's 99s. And then we'll be told that even though the sun ain't shining we must continue to wear Factor 50.

Now I don't listen to RTE anymore, but when I did, it was like being at an involuntary stay at a health farm/psych course when listening to this show.

Is it any cheerier these days or what?

Brendan Bendar

How does Ballsy get away with €240k for this stuff?

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942277#Comment_120942277

Thought he might have been sweating a bit during the poem there.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942321#Comment_120942321

Like poor Brendan(Courtney)? yesterday when Wendy dropped the f- bomb after winning the big prize?

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942326#Comment_120942326

Haha, I didn’t hear that. An understandable reaction, Courtney seems like the type who’d be able to laugh it off and provide a “disclaimer” apology handy enough.

Still, I’m sure they’ll get letters about it.

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942358#Comment_120942358

That was after she told him she does everything in her salon except happy endings. He was morto 😂

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120942326#Comment_120942326

What show was Courtney presenting yesterday?

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120943425#Comment_120943425

Ray Darcy's. He's taking over Tub's slot on Tuesday.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120943452#Comment_120943452

I might go back and give it a listen. Wonder where Kaythrn Thomas is. Isn't she normally Ryans replacement.

ShamNNspace

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120943499#Comment_120943499

She'll be in rehearsals for the rose of tralee shows, seems they've decided they need two hosts for that craic now 💶💶💶💶💶😉

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120943550#Comment_120943550

Should be three really if they want to cover their arses for wokeness so to speak.

ShamNNspace

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120943602#Comment_120943602

Arry sure make it four, spread the 💶💶💶s😉

Frank Grimes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120943499#Comment_120943499

It's usually Brendan Courtney or Oliver Callan, Callan has been presenting since Tubridy's reluctance to correct public record was noted.

ButtersSuki

BO'C back to normal with disclaimers for everything this morning. Nearly shat himself when one of the panel criticized our Minister for Tweets & Tik Tok Justice whilst talking about an article in the papers which criticized Ms. McEntee's performance in office. Bizarre stuff, why have a panel at all if you won't let them comment?

He's probably afraid he'll be locked up for hate speech under Ms. McEntee's widely criticized proposals.

Lol, just as I type it he's out with another disclaimer about pensioners and a comment made earlier in the show. 🤣

Pelvis Parsley

I don’t even listen to him any more. Toothless.

NIMAN

Time he was renamed Noballsy.

Pelvis Parsley

Radio on.

-Oh, Bally has finally re-joined the workforce.

-Amanda Brunker...ICK

-Amanda Brunker's dead brother...DOUBLE ICK.

Radio off.