Liveline With Joe Duffy - Mod Note in OP

BPKS

€2,500 now for the child actor

sligeach

Speaking of 5 year olds, Gray @®$€¥ is next. 📴

Red Fred

Cleaners now starting their shift in Joe's studio.

MrMusician18

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621674#Comment_122621674

The genetic make up of people back then compared to now is really the same so it's not as if they had some sort of disposition to violence.

I see the reasons for it, particularly the excessive corporal punishment are cultural and power-centric. There was no consequence to dishing out a beating to a child. Even in small communities like a school where the authority is obvious, using physical punishment is a means of demonstrating absolute power

While Joe is happy to talk about the teachers and religious flogging children, the reality is that parents were dishing it out just as bad in a location from which there was absolutely no escape.

When we get caught up in our dark past with institutions we wilfully neglect to discuss for many what was the darkest place of all, the home. It was at home children were routinely beaten, it was from the home where children were not believed and it was from home girls were exiled to laundries.

We don't talk about that though. Still too close to the bone.

sligeach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621817#Comment_122621817

They'll need something stronger than that.

• Tara Locklin Grant as Joe says, I assume is Taragh Loughre-Grant.
• Annette Egan.

Joe's main producers, yet they appear to have no control over the contents.

squonk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621818#Comment_122621818

It’s an interesting one. I would say though that there might be no consequences for beating a child but you’d still know yourself you’d done wrong. I was pretty strong fur my age growing up and if you hit in a fight with me you’d face come off worse. I avoided fights though because seeing someone genuinely hurt after I’d walloped them was terrible and I cane off as bad for me because I had put them in that position and felt so bad for having done so. That was when I was 10 or 12. An adult should know so much better. I do think the odd clip across the hand isn’t bad to get a child’s attention with direct hacked these days but there’s honestly no way I could wallop kids roughly now. I wouldn’t last a day in any job where that was part of the remit.

Dan Jaman

I see I missed another absolute stinker.

Still, there's always tomorrow's stinker.

mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621906#Comment_122621906

ah now,

If you’re an RTE contractor, it was a wonderful, of national importance, crucial show !
However, I’m with you

sligeach

Man left Dublin building with child he didn't know 'under his arm', court told

https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0916/1470252-alleged-abduction/

"The man, who cannot be named by order of the court."

Hmm. 🤔

The court heard that when arrested, the man replied: "I was not taking a child anywhere. I am not a person like that. I did not have any intentions with a child. I did not have any bad or unwanted intentions with the child."

Hmm. 🤔

He imposed reporting restrictions on the identity of the accused following an application by Garda McDermott based on "the current climate in the country".

Ahh. 🤐

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622271#Comment_122622271

Maybe the man comes from a place were being intoxicated in banned by the local holy lads? Reporting their name may bring dishonor and shame?

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622271#Comment_122622271

Man left Dublin building with child he didn't know 'under his arm'

They must be afraid to actually say 'man attempted to kidnap a child' as it might offend someone, then they throw around the 'fake news' warnings like snuff at a wake if a report on social media doesn't suit them.

Red Fred

Time to pull the plug on RTE.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0916/1470354-rte-annual-report/

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622516#Comment_122622516

I love how 'Special Events' get the blame. They must sneak up out of the blue. Anyway, that is in the past, the money transferred to RTE from the Social Welfare will cover the shortfall during Kevin's reign as DG.

MrMusician18

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622623#Comment_122622623

Special events for 2024 believe it or not will include scheduled events like the Euros, Olympics and a completely predictable election.

squonk

Sad times for Dave The Flute. His appeal has stalled just short of the last €1,000. Now he’ll never be able to buy that flute and tget nasty collector will lock it up forever. As if things weren’t bad enough, there’ll be no help from Duffoon to push it over the line with Joe’s attention being so very much elsewhere.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/flute-needed

ShamNNspace

We are not worthy

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122622516#Comment_122622516

Are they bankrupt then? 😲

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623413#Comment_122623413

Time for a breakeen for him tomorrow me thinks.

Dan Jaman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623027#Comment_122623027

If Dave laid off the fish suppers and pies for a bit, the money saved would easily fill the gap.

chrisd2019

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623639#Comment_122623639

I tuned off of him 2 weeks ago, from here I can see I made a wise decision, listening to online podcasts as I drive about after lunch much more enjoyable..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122623027#Comment_122623027

I am sure the Goal increased by 500 after he finished talking to de bold Joe.

TinyMuffin

Joe will be standing in the front window of Rte tomorrow with a dunce hat on him.

Mr. Lee must have over taken Marian for the highest paid per hour of broadcasting.

Expunge

And the fella responsible for the crap that is the RTE Player, Richard Waghorn, taking the highest basic salary from that list of directors!

What a company!

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122624486#Comment_122624486

Richard Waghorn

teehee hee

Strazdas

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621818#Comment_122621818

100%. Ireland back then was a deeply dysfunctional society - the whole Magdalene Laundries thing could only have happened in the context of the entire country being messed up in the head (alongside society being repressed by the Church and the State). Everyone knew about the laundries and the industrial schools and had a fair idea of what was going on in them, it wasn't even a secret.

Expunge

This is what it costs per licence fee to run each service of RTE. The only things that came down in price compared to the previous year were Radio One and "Online Services". I wonder whoy?

Comisiun na Mean is becoming quite the well funded quango. I wonder does it take central government funding as well as licence fee?

squonk

Might be one for a college thesis but a lot of this general screwed up news happened within the lifetime of those who had lived through the war of independence and civil war. I’d imagine a lot happened and was buried with that alone. Add to that the church stepping in as the local lords after independence and imposing a whole bunch of screwed up an inhumane rules on the population probably led to even more of a mess. After a whole decade of fighting and huge change and now finding themselves living in a new state that had to be built from the ground up you could see why people just couldn’t fight back against the church. You have to stop at some point. The other night problem is a newly minted state was short on resources and couldn’t be all things to all people. The church were happy to take on roles in education and health and were let. It’s also unfortunate that many politicians were happy to tip the hat to the church.

What’s happening now is kind of a second revolution where we’ve found our confidence as a nation and are able to look back and call out what was wrong in the past. That being said, a show like Liveline covering stuff the English did to us back in the 60s would have been pointless. 3 weeks of what the church and bad teachers did to us is also pointless. Just as the UK was being run by people in the 60s who had little or no part played in pre independence Ireland, today teaching and schools have moved on. The country as a whole is complicit in things that happened but going on about it over and over is like blaming someone who suffers from mental health issues for hitting you a few years ago during an episode. Pointless as what only Ray matters is whether they have improved there breath and are in a better state today. That’s us as a nation. We’re stronger going forward.

squonk

Just after hearing an ad for LiveLine now with a bed of soft violin music with some one talking about showing her grandson the scars she got at school due to some teacher.

So basically, instead of putting the foot down and forcing Duffoon to move on, the fúckers are leaning into it. I actually think Duffoon has the backing of RTE with this 3 weeks of utter scutter radio.