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The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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    #1052
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Vested interest I’d call it....

    Really? I guess we all have a vested interest in those issues that affect us. Or at least we should.


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    #1053
    Infoanon
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    Mav11 wrote: »
    Each to his own I suppose, but it takes some courage to put your head above the parapet and express your honestly held unpopular views, knowing full well that you will probably derided and slated as an extremist or a nut job etc.

    So Pat Byrne made a big issue out of why Sweden isn't on the green list - Cityjet - the company he runs - operates wet leases with......Scandinavian Airlines.....

    Is that expressing your honestly held unpopular views? - I would call that a vested interest.


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    #1054
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Infoanon wrote: »
    So Pat Byrne made a big issue out of why Sweden isn't on the green list - Cityjet - the company he runs - operates wet leases with......Scandinavian Airlines.....

    Is that expressing your honestly held unpopular views? - I would call that a vested interest.

    So would I.

    I can’t say whether his views are held honestly or not. But as I don’t know the chap I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.


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    #1055
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Really these radio shows are so forgettable five minutes after they end.

    A personal view of course but BOC is a drony whiny person with zero personality. Sorry Corkies!


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    #1056
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Really these radio shows are so forgettable five minutes after they end.

    A personal view of course but BOC is a drony whiny person with zero personality. Sorry Corkies!

    Seán, Seán Seán..................................Not so forgettable all the time:)


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    #1057
    Cole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Cole


    Ah never mind the facts...just that Oscar believes it to be so.


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    #1058
    Rabbit Redux
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    Cole wrote: »
    Ah never mind the facts...just that Oscar believes it to be so.

    "Oscar" seemed to be under the mistaken belief that the Guards provided a taxi service, and now he's teaching.......


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    #1059
    Cole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Cole


    Amazing that a (criminal) law lecturer can be so dismissive of facts and that a presenter can leave what she said unchallenged.


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    #1060
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Cole wrote: »
    Amazing that a (criminal) law lecturer can be so dismissive of facts and that a presenter can leave what she said unchallenged.

    Sorry what was that about, is it worth listening back to?


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    #1061
    Cole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Cole


    generalgerry wrote: »
    Sorry what was that about, is it worth listening back to?

    Probably not, but it's a law lecturer who's got a podcast series about people's (all negative it seems) experiences with the Gardai. Don't expect facts though, as she's only interested in one side it seems...what the likes of Oscar thinks happened.


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    #1062
    imme
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    generalgerry wrote: »
    Sorry what was that about, is it worth listening back to?

    About how the Gardai have to reformed into something of a cross between social workers and entertainers.

    Earlier Brendan introduced a Cork based student whose tweet last night went viral according to Brendan, it tapped into people's souls and the zeitgeist and the weather.

    Tripe.


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    #1063
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    I really enjoyed Rory O'Connor's story this morning. I love his videos. Didn't realise that he had it tough as a young lad as I always thought he was smart from the comedy. I guess you never know what is going on in somebody's life.


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    #1064
    Callan57
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    Cole wrote: »
    Amazing that a (criminal) law lecturer can be so dismissive of facts and that a presenter can leave what she said unchallenged.


    Very strange interview. I think I get the point she was trying to make but by God she made some hash of making it ... and she is a lecturer! :confused:



    I would very much expect that my experience with my local Gardaí and the experience of a habitual criminal would be very dissimilar ... surely it would be very odd if it wasn't?


    BTW I'd love to hear the "other" side of that Oscar story :rolleyes:


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    #1065
    Cole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Cole


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Very strange interview. I think I get the point she was trying to make but by God she made some hash of making it ... and she is a lecturer! :confused:

    I think so too but, yes, she made a right mess of it...no qualification of her comments. She didn't do a lot for her own or the podcasts credibility. She ended up making something that could be interesting and insightful sound a bit ridiculous. But I thought I'd give Oscar's traumatic experience a listen.

    https://tortoiseshack.ie/5-policed-in-ireland-children/

    I couldn't listen beyond about halfway...so long-winded and so many times I was thinking how I'd love to hear the other side of this. Oscar's experience with the Gardai as a 15 year old after getting p1ssed up with his pals at a local disco and the horrifying police brutality he suffered...only his perspective of course.


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    #1066
    PieOhMy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,530 ✭✭✭PieOhMy


    Please leave off the covid talk. Please. If people dont listen to this conversation it will make no difference to their lives execpt they might be slightly less stressed. It's just so boring now. Next week there will another conversation and the same the week after and the week after that.


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    #1067
    Cole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Cole


    All we need is love...


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    #1068
    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Pat McCann sounded like a guy that they dragged in off the street.


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    #1069
    john123470
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    Michael's growing some mighty weed up there in Leitrim


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    #1070
    Cole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Cole


    Hard to listen to Joe Rooney singing with his old band without visualising and hearing Timmy from Killinaskully.


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    #1071
    Infoanon
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    PieOhMy wrote: »
    Please leave off the covid talk. Please. If people dont listen to this conversation it will make no difference to their lives execpt they might be slightly less stressed. It's just so boring now. Next week there will another conversation and the same the week after and the week after that.

    This thread is about the programme, your argument by extension means that Brexit / Government / Trump etc should not be mentioned when critiquing the show.

    For the record one of BOCs better shows - questioning off the cuff comments by contributors is welcomed.


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    #1072
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,962 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Infoanon wrote: »
    This thread is about the programme, your argument by extension means that Brexit / Government / Trump etc should not be mentioned when critiquing the show.

    For the record one of BOCs better shows - questioning off the cuff comments by contributors is welcomed.


    I read that post as a plea to the show to stop with all the Covid stuff - and I have to say I agree!


    There just seem to be endless circular discussions about it on every channel (I switched on a bit before 12, and there it was on RTE, switched to Newstalk and the same-but-different discussion was happening, Lyric got put on sharpish).


    At this stage you'll find someone to posit every single point of view available, and it just seems to go round and round and on and on - and still the restrictions are what they are and people are gonna do what people are gonna do.


    Sorry about the mini-rant, but I just found it extra-impossible to listen to on this fabulous sunny morning :mad:


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    #1073
    PieOhMy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,530 ✭✭✭PieOhMy


    Infoanon wrote: »
    This thread is about the programme, your argument by extension means that Brexit / Government / Trump etc should not be mentioned when critiquing the show.

    For the record one of BOCs better shows - questioning off the cuff comments by contributors is welcomed.

    Correct, this thread is about the programme. Astute observations like that are welcomed.

    I know what what my point is - I'm the one who made it. Im not sure why you have attributed other meanings to my point but I guess people interpret things differently. The above post understood my point so you are also welcome to disagree.


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    #1074
    Infoanon
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    PieOhMy wrote: »
    Correct, this thread is about the programme. Astute observations like that are welcomed.

    I know what what my point is - I'm the one who made it. Im not sure why you have attributed other meanings to my point but I guess people interpret things differently. The above post understood my point so you are also welcome to disagree.

    Is your point that the programme should not discuss Covid? ,
    The BOC programme is a continuation of format that has been in.place for decades and centres around the events of the week and the Sunday papers.

    The notion that you leave out content because it's repetitious or stressful is a failing to see the core purpose of the programme.


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    #1075
    PieOhMy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,530 ✭✭✭PieOhMy


    Infoanon wrote: »
    Is your point that the programme should not discuss Covid? ,
    The BOC programme is a continuation of format that has been in.place for decades and centres around the events of the week and the Sunday papers.

    The notion that you leave out content because it's repetitious or stressful is a failing to see the core purpose of the programme.

    My point is not that the show should not discuss covid, my point was that these shows are saturated with this topic with no end in sight. It has become boring, repetitive and circular in my opinion, and as a result makes me less engaged with the show, knowing that there will be dozens more similar discussions in the weeks ahead and the weeks gone by.

    Just because something has been done in a certain way for decades doesnt matter a damn to me. I want to be entertained and engaged on a Sunday morning, and am not inclined to endure something repetitive just because 'it's always been done that way.' Its frightening to think that the notion that something being in place for decades is some sort of justification for anything.

    Surely the core purpose of the programme isnt to relentlessly cover repetitive and stressful topics. If so they could just broadcast the daily death count and provide plenty detailed statistics.

    My point isnt that they should not cover important or difficult topics but that doing them to death, digging them up and then doing them again is repetitive, circular and boring. The notion that listeners may grow tired of a topic is failing to grasp that on a sunday morning people may just want to be engaged and entertained.


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    #1076
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,962 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    PieOhMy wrote: »
    My point is not that the show should not discuss covid, my point was that these shows are saturated with this topic with no end in sight. It has become boring, repetitive and circular in my opinion, and as a result makes me less engaged with the show, knowing that there will be dozens more similar discussions in the weeks ahead and the weeks gone by.

    Just because something has been done in a certain way for decades doesnt matter a damn to me. I want to be entertained and engaged on a Sunday morning, and am not inclined to endure something repetitive just because 'it's always been done that way.' Its frightening to think that the notion that something being in place for decades is some sort of justification for anything.

    Surely the core purpose of the programme isnt to relentlessly cover repetitive and stressful topics. If so they could just broadcast the daily death count and provide plenty detailed statistics.

    My point isnt that they should not cover important or difficult topics but that doing them to death, digging them up and then doing them again is repetitive, circular and boring. The notion that listeners may grow tired of a topic is failing to grasp that on a sunday morning people may just want to be engaged and entertained.

    Hear hear!


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    #1077
    Infoanon
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    PieOhMy wrote: »
    failing to grasp that on a sunday morning people may just want to be engaged and entertained.

    Rte Radio 1 and Newstalk are not the stations for you then on a Sunday morning.

    Trying to stay on topic - the JNLRS show that the BOC format is what a considerable number of listeners want to hear on a Sunday morning.

    The format is repeated across the print media ,radio and television.

    There is no reason to change a winning format - the choice is with the listener to move the dial.


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    #1078
    PieOhMy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,530 ✭✭✭PieOhMy


    Infoanon wrote: »
    Rte Radio 1 and Newstalk are not the stations for you then on a Sunday morning.

    Trying to stay on topic - the JNLRS show that the BOC format is what a considerable number of listeners want to hear on a Sunday morning.

    The format is repeated across the print media ,radio and television.

    There is no reason to change a winning format - the choice is with the listener to move the dial.

    I'll decide what's for me, thanks though.

    Please do try to stay on topic, I only responded to points you brought up.

    Not sure why you are talking about formats so much. I'm bored of listening to a topic all week and dont feel like listening to it on a sunday morning yet again. Just because other print media, radio and television stations do it, or because it has been done for decades has absolutely no bearing on my opinion whatsoever. It couldnt matter less to me. You have used the word 'format' 3 times in one post and I have outlined clearly my opinion on one specific topic. I never wanted any discussion on the format and I don't know where the wires got crossed.


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    #1079
    [Deleted User]
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    Mod - ease up there folks please, keep it nice :)


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    #1080
    [Deleted User]
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    I always enjoy Michael Harding, as a poster just said, the weed must be mighty in Leitrim (!) but he’s fascinating to listen to.

    Anyway, his line was bad this morning, which was put down to Skype (or Sh!te, as I call it) so they stopped the conversation, and tried to get a better line. And failed miserably.

    Now even allowing for the fact he’s in Leitrim (or maybe Donegal?) surely it’s not beyond the wit of man (or person) to sort out an audible connection that is better than the first one a hundred years and more ago

    We’re still hearing from the Voyager probes ffs


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    #1081
    [Deleted User]
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I always enjoy Michael Harding, as a poster just said, the weed must be mighty in Leitrim (!) but he’s fascinating to listen to.

    Anyway, his line was bad this morning, which was put down to Skype (or Sh!te, as I call it) so they stopped the conversation, and tried to get a better line. And failed miserably.

    Now even allowing for the fact he’s in Leitrim (or maybe Donegal?) surely it’s not beyond the wit of man (or person) to sort out an audible connection that is better than the first one a hundred years and more ago

    We’re still hearing from the Voyager probes ffs

    Does nobody have an old fashioned landline any more? Part from being a safety back up communication line in the home where one spends much time, surely somebody who communicates professionally on radio a fair bit should have one.


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