Marian Finucane

11-03-2017 02:35PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Ah Peter would you go away with you and your persecution complex :rolleyes:
Maybe what the Tesco guy meant was that now the "white boys" can't expect promotion by right of maleness/whiteness but might actually have to work as hard as the women ... now there's a thought!

Women don't have to work harder than men to succeed nowadays (in fairness to Marian in her day this might not have been true), in fact the policy of gender quotas is giving the very top echelon of very successful women a boost they neither need nor deserve.

Callan57 · 11-03-2017 03:38PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Women don't have to work harder than men to succeed nowadays (in fairness to Marian in her day this might not have been true), in fact the policy of gender quotas is giving the very top echelon of very successful women a boost they neither need nor deserve.

I didn't say they did ... I said the men might actually have to work as hard.
But I actually believe women are still working harder given that not only do they do the paid job but they also do the vast bulk of housework & child rearing. Frankly I've no idea how they manage it all.

Interesting point though that Marian said I think it was 8 men on the Tesco board and 3 women ... despite the customer base of Tesco being (I'd imagine) largely female.

sligojoek · 12-03-2017 01:49AM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

No she didn't. She read out several critical texts in front of them and they had answers all pat.

Fair enough. I didn't hear the whole thing. I just heard her reading a few after.

sligojoek · 12-03-2017 12:25PM

"We're a small island off the coast of the Atlantic."

So the Atlantic is a landmass now.

PeterTheNinth · 12-03-2017 05:55PM

sligojoek wrote: »

Fair enough. I didn't hear the whole thing. I just heard her reading a few after.

Yeah, she did read out some people who were critical of their actions. The couple seemed to be pretty flippant in their responses. "They are entitled to their opinion" was deemed to be a sufficient response for all those who were not on board.

The Parish Priest. · 19-03-2017 12:47PM

God it's a dreadful panel this morning

PeterTheNinth · 19-03-2017 01:07PM

The Parish Priest. wrote: »

God it's a dreadful panel this morning

No comments at all yesterday or today. I dont know whether that is an indication of the fall off at boards.ie or a fall off of The Marion Finucane Show.

Declan Power should have left his soap box at home, it's not the appropriate time to start making links to lack of resources having caused the helicopter crash. And it's not appropriate to refer to the missing winchmen as "dopes on a rope" even if that may be how they refer to themselves. That was particularly crass.

washiskin · 19-03-2017 04:18PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

Declan Power should have left his soap box at home, it's not the appropriate time to start making links to lack of resources having caused the helicopter crash. And it's not appropriate to refer to the missing winchmen as "dopes on a rope" even if that may be how they refer to themselves. That was particularly crass.

Agree totally. It was a particularly insensitive comment in light of the fact that the families of the missing men are waiting for news of their loved ones.
Every tragedy seems to draw out some blowhard with an axe to grind.

twinklerunner · 19-03-2017 09:54PM

Tweet from Eamonn McCann today: https://twitter.com/eamonderry/status/843436611148943360

Brendan Bendar · 20-03-2017 12:13AM

twinklerunner wrote: »

Tweet from Eamonn McCann today: https://twitter.com/eamonderry/status/843436611148943360

Eamo has a degree in that particular practice.

Callan57 · 25-03-2017 02:07PM

Superb interview with Justine McCarthy & her nephew this morning ... OMG just to imagine the years and years of tears & pain inflicted on these girls and their mother.

But I was reminded again of how much worse it would have been from Justine's sister if they were poor, a point she rightly acknowledged, .... nothing has changed, if you have money you can have options across the water. God bless the Queen & her country's continuing willingness to look after our sisters & daughters so our holy Joe's can continue to feel sanctimonious.

Many years ago I recall reading in an Edna O'Brien book the following (can't recall if it was a direct quote from Edna or if she was quoting someone else)

Ours was indeed a land of shame, a land of sorrow
And a land of strange sacrificial women

citykat · 25-03-2017 03:18PM

I find it very hard to listen to MF on a Saturday as it's more than likely she'll issue forth one of those disgusting phlegm-laden coughs into the microphone. Stomach churning. Can she not cover the mic or take some sort of evasive action?

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-03-2017 11:20AM

I dont find any of this funny

sligojoek · 26-03-2017 11:28AM

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PeterTheNinth · 26-03-2017 11:37AM

"There wasn't ever an injustice in Northern Ireland that was worth killing for".

While I'm no supporter of the Shinners or the IRA, everybody on this panel seems to forget the genesis of all of this. What injustice did the British Soldiers feel that gave them the right to shoot down 14 Catholics? There seems be little recognition down south for the reasons that people took up arms, or that there was another side who was involved in atrocities.

sligojoek · 26-03-2017 11:43AM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

"There wasn't ever an injustice in Northern Ireland that was worth killing for".

While I'm no supporter of the Shinners or the IRA, everybody on this panel seems to forget the genesis of all of this. What injustice did the British Soldiers feel that gave them the right to shoot down 14 Catholics? There seems be little recognition down south for the reasons that people took up arms, or that there was another side who was involved in atrocities.

Whenever wrongs on the British side are mentioned the argument is shot down. "Oh this has been discussed many times before. We know all that."(A la Joe Duffy). If republican wrongs are mentioned there is no interruption.

RadioRetro · 26-03-2017 11:47AM

The rehabilitation of De Bert continues.

PeterTheNinth · 26-03-2017 11:53AM

RadioRetro wrote: »

The rehabilitation of De Bert continues.

I think it must be the must subtle and patient case of "creeping in the back door" that we have on record.

sligojoek · 26-03-2017 12:04PM

FFS can they not do a simple phone call from 150 miles away?

neris · 26-03-2017 12:12PM

Ffs can she stop interrupting the contributors and asking one question and then a second straight away. ****ing amateur radio hour

constitutionus · 26-03-2017 12:13PM

sligojoek wrote: »

FFS can they not do a simple phone call from 150 miles away?

well jesus man you can have millions of euros in wages or millions of euros in communications equipment.

ya cant have BOTH !

Harry Angstrom · 26-03-2017 12:35PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

"There wasn't ever an injustice in Northern Ireland that was worth killing for".

While I'm no supporter of the Shinners or the IRA, everybody on this panel seems to forget the genesis of all of this. What injustice did the British Soldiers feel that gave them the right to shoot down 14 Catholics? There seems be little recognition down south for the reasons that people took up arms, or that there was another side who was involved in atrocities.

I think there's plenty of understanding for the initial reasons they took arms. What a lot of people (including myself) can't comprehend is how the murder of innocent civilians seemed to be part and parcel of the IRA's campaign throughout the 70's and 80's. There's no excuse for the Enniskillen bombing, the murder of children in Warrington, the killing of Jean McConville and many other atrocities that took place, and no amount of whataboutery can justify it.

Callan57 · 26-03-2017 01:09PM

Ah a report from that well known authority on the Property Market ... the one, the only Jim "soft landing" Power. How very fortunate we are to have Jim's "after the fact" insight.
I think I'll take Jim's report with a large grain of sea salt :eek:

PeterTheNinth · 26-03-2017 03:49PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Ah a report from that well known authority on the Property Market ... the one, the only Jim "soft landing" Power.

I did find myself laughing when I heard him announced as the author of the report. And I'm sure I wasn't the only one. Surely if you want the report to be credible and objective, you don't choose Jim Power to write it. Was there NOBODY else that they could have got to do this?

And it does still irk me that Jim Power and Brendan Keenan are both still allowed on these types sorts of panel shows and be introduced as "economic experts".

Callan57 · 26-03-2017 06:35PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

I did find myself laughing when I heard him announced as the author of the report. And I'm sure I wasn't the only one. Surely if you want the report to be credible and objective, you don't choose Jim Power to write it. Was there NOBODY else that they could have got to do this?

And it does still irk me that Jim Power and Brendan Keenan are both still allowed on these types sorts of panel shows and be introduced as "economic experts".

No doubt "he who paid the piper" got the report he wanted :cool:

honeybear · 26-03-2017 08:06PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Ah a report from that well known authority on the Property Market ... the one, the only Jim "soft landing" Power. How very fortunate we are to have Jim's "after the fact" insight.
I think I'll take Jim's report with a large grain of sea salt :eek:

Can't listen to that man

PeterTheNinth · 27-03-2017 12:10PM

Callan57 wrote: »

No doubt "he who paid the piper" got the report he wanted :cool:

Dear God, he's on with George Hook now.

Harry Angstrom · 27-03-2017 12:19PM

And he's got the cheek to have a go at Donald Trump for getting things wrong.

PeterTheNinth · 01-04-2017 11:21AM

Interesting discussion with the guard this morning. That first excuse that he gave for the numbers is a bit much ... Supposedly the way the breath test numbers were counted was on the basis of the number of plastic inserts that you had left over at the end of the job. Would it not have made a huge amount of sense to actually count the number of people that were actually breath tested? It seems like the most stupid and inaccurate way of counting numbers.

How do they put together their expenses, do they count up what money they have left in their pockets at the end of the week, subtract it from their wages, and then claim for the balance?

Oops69 · 01-04-2017 11:23AM

This ex Garda Isn't revealing anything we don't know already , waste of an interview.

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