The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

Cluedo Monopoly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122072914#Comment_122072914

Very insightful discussion though. It was interesting that the consultants don't believe the reported bed numbers available in the system. One consultant thinks there is less beds now than there was in 2000.

NIMAN

Quote unquote, at least twice, maybe 3 times in that piece.

Hippodrome Song Owl

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122072988#Comment_122072988

Very possibly. My issue isn't actually with her accent anyway, more her obnoxious attitude and incredibly arrogant pronouncements on a topic she obviously knows little to nothing about. Self importance and total lack of self awareness off the scale. Just trying to figure out who she was. Anyway google suggests it's probably Wendy Grace - I don't think I've come across her previously.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122073040#Comment_122073040

she fits the bill for his show, we’ll probably be hearing more of her. As for the accent it’s pervasive all over the place unfortunately nearly , every young one l hear is talking like some cross between California and south county Dublin. It’s really developed into a class thing, Dublin accent = skanger

sully123

Or, or you could say.... There is nothing to see here at all

cute geoge

Is Brenda Power after going full on far right today bringing up O'Gormans tweets to all the world

sully123

'I'm tempted to say it might upset some people.'

Dig at the host?

Coolcormack1979

decided to listen to the show today after the latest episode of path to power where like him or love him Ivan Yates called out the blatant bs from Pravda/rte.to hear Brendan O’Connor feign stupidity in not knowing that minister Gorman had sent out tweets of welcome and guaranteed own key housing was just incredible.and he’s on nearly €200,000 a yr for this.

Sums up Ireland

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099475#Comment_122099475

No need for the ?….. definite dig at Ballsy and his coterie.

And Ballsy knew it….

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122099475#Comment_122099475

What was said?

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102935#Comment_122102935

From memory some dude was discussing a 3% corporation tax on people over 140k

Ballsy cme in with " 3% on people over 140k ! Thats not going to upset too many people"

And the lad responds " I'm tempted to say it might upset some people' (fnaar fnaar)

Its about 31 mins into the show….. that's the best I can do

Hippodrome Song Owl

I didn't listen to any of the panels this weekend. Just fed up of hearing the same cosy viewpoints from commentators on various sides of the political spectrum who seem out of touch, yet present their opinions as "the norm". (As for Ivan Yates - he's a sickening hypocrite and as populist as any other when it comes to what his audience wants to hear. He's a total fake, speaking out of both sides of his mouth. As if he or his friends at Newstalk/Virgin have done any better in honest coverage!)

But I thought the interviews with Gabor Maté, Bonnie Greer, and Cait O'Riordan were great. A really interesting listen.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122102998#Comment_122102998

Spot on about Yeats… the ultimate hurler on the ditch.

ShamNNspace

"we are not being overwhelmed and we haven't even started talking about the benefits yet" sez yer wan remarking on the asylum seeker/economic migrant situation

FrancieBrady

Loved that interview with Dorothy Cross, always great listening when an interviewer wants to learn or understand and you can feel their interest.

plodder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122129006#Comment_122129006

Just listened back to that. He is a great guest, as is Aideen Hayden. The most gob-smacking thing they pointed out is the fact that construction of new housing is not economically viable in many parts of the country, as evidenced by the fact that there is (literally) none happening, outside of state funded social housing construction in those places. Though neither of them said it, the narrative peddled by the left here is pure snake-oil, eg the old canard of drip-feeding of development in order to keep prices high. SF's policy of ending schemes like help to buy will kill the private sector market completely.

I couldn't believe it when they said

a) there is up to a 200K price differential between the cost of second hand houses and the (higher) cost of building new housing, in some parts of the country outside the major cities, and

b) even with a 150K subsidy "in his arse pocket" (per unit presumably) O'Flynn couldn't make a profit on some apartment developments

Inflation, the general high cost of business here and general inefficiency that abounds, together with massively higher construction standards have created this nightmare situation it seems.

tohaltuwi

yesterday I was a bit distracted but I did catch a bit where Mary Coughlan was discussing the kind of thing that triggers traumatic memories of abuse, and mentioned “for example the recent case I heard about…”

Brendan had an absolute fit of panic and instead of diverting her off a specific case, with eg, “we won’t mention a specific case but mention of all these instances bring the trauma right back to you”, he just cut her right off the topic of trauma replaying in her life.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122100296#Comment_122100296

That's probably because there were no 'tweets of welcome and guaranteed own key housing'.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122185204#Comment_122185204

That's not what happened. He continued to talk to her about the impact of abuse on her life, after asking her not to mention any particular case.

fatbhoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122185351#Comment_122185351

That's probably because there were no 'tweets of welcome and guaranteed own key housing'.

I think you're wrong there, generally.

That's not what happened. He continued to talk to her about the impact of abuse on her life, after asking her not to mention any particular case.

I think you're right there, generally.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122187137#Comment_122187137

Jeez, would you provide a warning before you link to something as toxic as Grift please.

Share the 'tweets of welcome and guaranteed own key housing' so.

plodder

There was an item today about honey bees and how it's now not considered a good thing for amateur bee keepers to set up their own bee hives (apparently, according to Oisin Coughlin).

It should have been asked, what happened to "colony collapse disorder", where honey bee populations were supposedly disappearing, and potentially leading to massive drops in agricultural crop productivity? Is that not a thing any more? How did it get fixed if so?

iffandonlyif

Twenty minutes in and they’re still talking about Trump and the coming US election. All the panellists talking with extreme confidence about a political system they know only from afar based on BBC News and the odd New York Times article. I used to think knowledge of foreign affairs was an indication of a mature and sophisticated political culture, but I now wonder how it can be good for our politics and culture that we treat US politics as part of our own.

Frank Grimes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212604#Comment_122212604

The near obsession editorially that RTE Radio One has with American politics is bordering on bizarre at this stage. Granted American buisiness/politics/culture etc. has an influence here but as you say they treat/talk about this stuff as if it is part of our day to day lives.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212604#Comment_122212604

Do you really think that panel just glean their knowledge of US politics based on the BBC and a few NY Times articles ?

The fact is that that US politics matters to the whole world.

tohaltuwi

Ballsy jammed the brakes quickly on a monk who tried to explain about women’s’ menopause 🤣

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212669#Comment_122212669

Fact is, vast majority of Irish peoples lives will be no different.

Could anyone tell me how their live was changed for the good under Biden, after the leadership of Trump which obviously ruined their lives?

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212720#Comment_122212720

Lad was waffling on Tee, Ballsy was right to hit the brakes.

where do they get these gloamers from.

tohaltuwi

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212806#Comment_122212806

The biggest waffler I’ve heard in a long long time, I think Ballsy regretted having him on.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212838#Comment_122212838

Probably because all the alternative glumpers were away in the ‘little place’ in Spain Tee.

It’s the bank holiday Tee, surprised Ballsy was there himself, it’s the ‘practice squad’ to use an NFL description

who are on RTE for the weekend.

That’s how it rolls in Montrosia.

iffandonlyif

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122212669#Comment_122212669

Yes, I have no doubt. It’s not a specialist panel. Their understanding of US politics is developed in their free time alongside whatever else interests them. But let’s say they are reading the Atlantic back to front every week, and listening to NPR, and checking in on CNN in the evening, what a depressing waste of valuable time for an Irish person without a vote in the US - taking on political worries that contributes absolutely nothing to your society, and maybe makes it worse.

The US is, of course, of great significance in international affairs. But the question is, why is being able to talk authoritatively about the electoral college, the likely swing states, the demographic composition of Trump’s support, etc, a good thing for a non-American to develop? It’s fast-food political consumption, treating politics as a form of entertainment.