The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

EmmetSpiceland

Really great interview with Tim Minchin there.

plodder

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122614822#Comment_122614822

Interesting character all right. I don't know what O'Connor was thinking when he seemed to be dismissing Minchin's homeland Australia, as some kind of backward kip. He backtracked quick enough though ..

Missed most of the interview with Eamon Ryan. I'll listen back to that.

Cole

Oh no the political 'pardy' journalist again…child 'poverdy', stamp 'dudy', the 'voders'. It shouldn't irritate me so much, but it just does.

dxhound2005

Don't worry about that D pronunciation. It's quite normal in natural speech.

Cole

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617537#Comment_122617537

I'm not worried, and I'm well informed on linguistics/phonology. It's not 'normal' for most Irish people in natural speech - it is in North American English - but I realise that language evolves and it has become more common (especially amongst a younger generation), but it still irritates me to hear it in the context of an Irish person speaking.

Anyway, good to hear Suzanne Lynch on the show.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617631#Comment_122617631

It is normal for the ones you complained about today and in the past. They could be part of the majority now.

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617537#Comment_122617537

Yep…sure it is… I would suggest that despite being incorrect it is prevalent in speech .

Lazy pronunciation I’d call it.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122617776#Comment_122617776

There is no such thing as lazy pronunciation. Or lazy speech.

Brendan Bendar

Good lad, keep thinking that, and trying to con. people here.

dublin49

Dan O Brien was allowed to suggest the immigration issue was being ignored by the body politic and folk werent happy,Surprised that slipped tru without far right being screamed at us.

EmmetSpiceland

Excellent interviews with Jane Seymour, with her fella, and author Elizabeth Strout today. Show has been well worth a listen the last couple of weeks.

Cole

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122639190#Comment_122639190

Maybe sounded a bit more like that yesterday, but he can back much of what he talks about with 'real life' research and practice. Always enjoy listening to him…and not the seemingly endless 'celebrity' mental health gurus who are often trotted onto to radio now.

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122594092#Comment_122594092

Anti religious?

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122639407#Comment_122639407

Just a shame about the background noise of someone plugging a USB device in and out and rebooting their PC.

The sound for Hector's interview wasn't great either, struggled to hear some parts.

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122656756#Comment_122656756

Oh don't get me started about the background noise on rte talk radio. You always hear Claire Byrne clicking her mouse, you constantly hear guests opening bottled water on all shows, you can hear so much of the noise around them.

dulpit

Just listening back to today's show now. Is Aine Kerr really the best RTE can do as a covering presenter for when Brendan is away? She's poor enough...

padd b1975

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122666316#Comment_122666316

Probably doing her a favour since Ó Riordán traded her in for a younger model.

She is very bad....

To bring you in...to bring you in...just to bring you in ad nauseum.

plodder

I don't think she is that bad. O'Connor has really settled into the job and is a hard act to follow. I remember when she sat in for him the last stint, she was just talking too much during interviews, but, she might have curbed that tendency a bit. Her diction can be a bit strange too (The Sundah papers ..) Then, maybe you just get used to these quirks over time as O'Connor certainly has his own.

Brendan Bendar

Goes full nasal when he meets another Cork person.

littlevillage

Cark FM

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122686638#Comment_122686638

God's county. As it should be.

thereiver

I think this was a great show. First part interview with some young people who are still at college it's rate to hear gen z talking on radio one about life very good interview with Irish writers Cecilia aherne it's nice to hear young people talking who are intelligent and almost optimistic

Cecilia is a very entertaining person to interview

Sigma101

Me, listening to Brendan's interview right now with Ireland's most boring man

Cole

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122711280#Comment_122711280

I switched it off when BOC and Sexton started saying that playing rugby was like going to war…no it's not ffs

dvcireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122711280#Comment_122711280

will there be an audio book for insomnia sufferers ?

littlevillage

Singing is better than Chocolate or s8x… if you can talk you can sing...... Who is this dittthery old bint?

and his guest isn't much better

thereiver

I switch off any program with a interview about sport the average rugby soccer player is not usually entertaining they usually talk in cliches I think today's program was ok as it covers what's in the papers

I did not listen to any interview

kowloonkev

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122743285#Comment_122743285

Agreed. Not that they're boring people as I think it would happen to anyone who does so many interviews with the same questions and have to undergo media training.

If the purpose of media training is to make people switch off then they're doing a great job.

thereiver

The purpose of media training is to teach people how to avoid talking about negative subjects or politics that might offend the public

Eg do,nt talk about using drugs or having affairs or using hookers .There's nothing to be gained by talking about politics as you ,ll offend somebody your fans

If interviewed be bland save the good stuff for your memoir when you retire .don't say anything bad about other team members

littlevillage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122743354#Comment_122743354

Bland cliché.

Game of two halves, we dug deep, showed character, believing in the process. Yawn 🥱