Sean O'Rourke Today Show

Lady Chatterton · 02-01-2017 11:56AM

I was looking for the Ronan Collins thread so I could say how much I'm enjoying Shay Byrne

It turns out that the last time there was a dedicated RC thread was about two years ago :eek:....that's not good.

Anyway, RTE can we have more Shay Byrne please?

#SorryRonan
#FeelingGuiltyNow

Joe_ Public · 02-01-2017 12:41PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

And don't forget, Joe.. Kerry are a 'wounded animal'.
Marty, who actually knows something about sport, must have been cringing at her every cliché. I, on the other hand, had the choice to switch off. And did.

A sports "fanatic" who turned out to have no interest in half the sports he asked her about.

Joe_ Public · 02-01-2017 12:47PM

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I was looking for the Ronan Collins thread so I could say how much I'm enjoying Shay Byrne It turns out that the last time there was a dedicated RC thread was about two years ago :eek:....that's not good.

Anyway, RTE can we have more Shay Byrne please?

#SorryRonan
#FeelingGuiltyNow

I do quite like Shay but have to admit it took me quite some time to adjust to that monumental level of chirpiness in the mornings. His music choices are a bit safe, though, but then again, I've yet to hear him play The Conquerors!

One thing though: RTE should fix it that Shay and Des Cahill never come together in any capacity on air. Their early am "exchanges" are so bad they are beyond cringe.

foxtrot101 · 02-01-2017 12:48PM

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I was looking for the Ronan Collins thread so I could say how much I'm enjoying Shay Byrne It turns out that the last time there was a dedicated RC thread was about two years ago :eek:....that's not good.

Anyway, RTE can we have more Shay Byrne please?

#SorryRonan
#FeelingGuiltyNow

I think he's a decent presenter, but his taste in music is even worse than Ronan Collins. He plays some truly awful stuff on Rising Time.

Lady Chatterton · 02-01-2017 12:55PM

I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooo not a morning person so couldn't cope with chirpy at 6am, Shay is better suited to this time of day.

PeterTheNinth · 03-01-2017 11:12AM

Neil seems to have softened his opinions on Trump ?

dulpit · 04-01-2017 01:47AM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

Neil seems to have softened his opinions on Trump ?

Was that the lad talking about the new ambassador? Was almost sickening how he was fawning over him...

IvyTheTerrible · 04-01-2017 10:29AM

Ooh this guy saying a pound a week weightloss is grand won't please the producers of the ridiculous Operation Transformation!

SEPT 23 1989 · 09-01-2017 10:30AM

If there is a bad deal going we will take it

we are screwed listening to this:mad:

PeterTheNinth · 09-01-2017 11:25AM

Another hit piece on Trump...

He uses the word "I" a lot, same as 99% of people in the world.

Right2Write · 10-01-2017 11:08AM

Interesting piece on the state of the roads of Ireland, something that affects a great many citizens on a daily basis. But why was yer man allowed to rabbit on about motorways and by passes for so long, when the great bulk of rural dwellers never go near these? Instead, we must endure broken, lumpy, bumpy dangerous minor roads for our daily travels.

That TD was quite right yesterday, fix the roads and reduce road deaths that way first.

Right2Write · 11-01-2017 07:04PM

S'OR was entertaining this morning - heard retiring Peter Boylan of National Maternity Hospital calling the abortion issue out clear. No equivocation - it should be left to the woman's/ couples conscience.

You could sense O'Rourke shifting nervously in the seat but Boylan was firm in his views from the heat of the cockpit - let the woman decide and those that don't agree, well don't avail of the service. S'OR followed up with the few obligatory texts of protest.

PeterTheNinth · 12-01-2017 11:00AM

I'm not sure, given John's history of getting things wrong and sheepishly apologising when he's got it wrong, that he is the best proponent to bring on air batting for his.

Right2Write · 12-01-2017 11:04AM

John Fitzgerald of ESRI getting stuffed this morning re electricity connectors. Seriously how do you take reports from ESRI seriously when they appear to be years behind in thought? He's well paid I'm sure, well paid enough to research before he pontificates.

Weren't ESRI the people who brought out a report on social welfare payments a few years ago that reflected badly on the government of the day and it was quickly dropped like a hot potato. Some independence there.

As for NI and their electricity needs, hardly a burning issue for the Republic. Let Arlene get onto her buddies in Westminster and complain if the lights go out. Pah!

Right2Write · 12-01-2017 11:12AM

Ah the bould Mick Barry - let everyone else pay for my water and sh*te. And my housing. And me beer and fags.

neris · 12-01-2017 11:14AM

Right2Write wrote: »

As for NI and their electricity needs, hardly a burning issue for the Republic. Let Arlene get onto her buddies in Westminster and complain if the lights go out. Pah!

let them burn pellets

PeterTheNinth · 12-01-2017 11:39AM

I'd say Sean is sorry he asked.

IvyTheTerrible · 12-01-2017 11:42AM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

I'd say Sean is sorry he asked.

Sorry he asked what?

HeidiHeidi · 12-01-2017 12:00PM

I heard the tail end of that interview re the interconnector - how bizarre was that!

WTF does John Fitzgerald know about electricity, is he not an economist (and a bit of a dubious one at that, if his past record is anything to go by?) I tuned in to hear him debating the details of the infrastructure with someone who sounded like he knew FAR more about what they were talking about.

Anyway, I thought he'd retired years ago?

PeterTheNinth · 12-01-2017 12:47PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

WTF does John Fitzgerald know about electricity, is he not an economist (and a bit of a dubious one at that, if his past record is anything to go by?)

I found it very odd as well Heidi. I heard John Fitzgerald on the radio the other day, and he was introduced as the adjunct professor of economics at TCD. Surely there should have been somebody from EirGrid's technical department on to debate the other side of the argument.

Right2Write · 13-01-2017 10:27AM

Feck the 'Buy to Lets'. These people took a gamble, they speculated, they drove up the property market. Let them swing.

PeterTheNinth · 13-01-2017 11:57AM

Why does Terry Prone always sound like she's reading an audio book.

Right2Write · 17-01-2017 10:23AM

These farmer spokespeople are throwing threats around. Why should businesses that trade as farms be different from any other business when it comes to paying back loans?

Family farms? Yes maybe, but that idea has also faded with De Valera's dreams. The sort of farmers likely to be in trouble with 'vulture funds' are not likely to be small family farms but large & expanding agricultural enterprises.

padd b1975 · 17-01-2017 02:24PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

Why does Terry Prone always sound like she's reading an audio book.

Trying to ratchet up the (fake) sincerity.

serfboard · 17-01-2017 03:08PM

Right2Write wrote: »

These farmer spokespeople are throwing threats around. Why should businesses that trade as farms be different from any other business when it comes to paying back loans?

Family farms? Yes maybe, but that idea has also faded with De Valera's dreams. The sort of farmers likely to be in trouble with 'vulture funds' are not likely to be small family farms but large & expanding agricultural enterprises.

Here's the article that the item was based on.

The Irish Independent wrote:

as many as 200 farmers may be affected by the sale of a €2.5bn Ulster Bank loan portfolio to US vulture fund Cerberus last October. Hundreds more could also come under pressure if the anticipated sale of other Irish mortgage portfolios to global funds goes ahead.Mortgage debt experts are calling on farm organisations to ramp up efforts to protect those affected, most of whom have been in financial difficulty since the economic crash.

One of the contributors invoked famine-era evictions in an attempt to get some sympathy for the farmers.

While I do have some sympathy for some people who were conned convincend by banks to borrow more than they could afford, in the case of these farmers I get the impression that they gambled and lost. Remember, in the case of family farms - they already owned an asset.

In other words, the ICMSA fella came across as Jerry Beades Mark 2: "Won't someone please think of the poor landlords farmers?"

constitutionus · 17-01-2017 03:16PM

Right2Write wrote: »

These farmer spokespeople are throwing threats around. Why should businesses that trade as farms be different from any other business when it comes to paying back loans?

Family farms? Yes maybe, but that idea has also faded with De Valera's dreams. The sort of farmers likely to be in trouble with 'vulture funds' are not likely to be small family farms but large & expanding agricultural enterprises.

i heard that gobshyte.

channeling the fecking field like its the 19th century or something.

theyre not any different to anyone else and a vulture fund will happily repossess their farm and rent it out to someone for the moola.

that said i CAN see FG getting all over this. it is after all their core vote. land owners.

Atlantic Dawn · 18-01-2017 10:26AM

Brian Hayes saying "we" will all be poorer after Brexit, he certainly won't be, clown, pure irritating out and out clown.

snubbleste · 18-01-2017 10:45AM

What's with the phone lines today? Diabolical, echoey ...makes for painful listening

neris · 18-01-2017 11:14AM

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Brian Hayes saying "we" will all be poorer after Brexit, he certainly won't be, clown, pure irritating out and out clown.

Brian "EU Blinkered" Hayes

constitutionus · 18-01-2017 11:59AM

lovely bit of bethoven on SOR at the mo.

not mad into classical music but its nice every now and again.

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