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Sean O'Rourke Today Show

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  • #4442
    foxtrot101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭foxtrot101


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Who's retiring?

    David Davin-Power.


  • #4443
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,936 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Will he be due two pensions?


  • #4444
    citykat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,708 ✭✭✭citykat


    foxtrot101 wrote: »
    David Davin-Power.

    LLS producer. No idea who he is.


  • #4445
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    RTE should do a documentary of DDP's various hairstyles and facial hair through the years. It'll be what he's most remembered for.


  • #4446
    foxtrot101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭foxtrot101


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    RTE should do a documentary of DDP's various hairstyles and facial hair through the years. It'll be what he's most remembered for.

    Is it a wig.


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  • #4447
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    foxtrot101 wrote: »
    Is it a wig.

    If it is, he should get his money back.


  • #4448
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    foxtrot101 wrote: »
    David Davin-Power.


    Thought he retired a couple of weeks ago :confused:


  • #4449
    foxtrot101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭foxtrot101


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Thought he retired a couple of weeks ago :confused:

    I think I'm the cause of the confusion. I assumed it was him, but it was in fact..
    LLS producer. No idea who he is.


  • #4450
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,722 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ^ Sean was talking to Larry Masterson, the LLS executive producer - he is stepping down after tonight's show.


  • #4451
    PeterTheNinth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭PeterTheNinth


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    ^ Sean was talking to Larry Masterson, the LLS executive producer - he is stepping down after tonight's show.

    Everybody who works on that show should be FORCED to step down, and get a kick up the ar$e on the way out the door.


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  • #4452
    Right2Write
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭Right2Write


    The main thing I'm hearing here in relation to this new 'shocking' child protection report is 'ching, ching' - we need more staff, more money, more training, more allowances, more resources etc etc etc.


  • #4453
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    WTF is a "nominal peppercorn consideration"?


  • #4454
    serfboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,708 ✭✭✭serfboard


    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    ^ Sean was talking to Larry Masterson, the LLS executive producer - he is stepping down after tonight's show.
    'Twas quite funny when Sean says to yer man (something like):

    "Things have changed since the old days when the Late Late Show used to be essential viewing".

    Needless to say, yer man didn't let that go unchallenged!


  • #4455
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Call it a day Mary.


  • #4456
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    sligojoek wrote: »
    Call it a day Mary.
    I'm aware that this is not a cool thing to admit but I have a lot of time for Mammy O'Rourke on a purely personal level. (I was never a fan of her as a politician). However, in these uber PC times we live in, it's refreshing to listen to someone who is authentic, someone who couldn't be @rsed with media training and coaching. Mary speaks her mind, she is sort of the female version of George Hook :D I only hope I'm as passionate about life and current affairs if I live to see my 80th Birthday.

    Happy 80th Birthday 'Mammy' O'Rourke.


  • #4457
    serfboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,708 ✭✭✭serfboard


    Lady Chatterton wrote: »
    I'm aware that this is not a cool thing to admit but I have a lot of time for Mammy O'Rourke on a purely personal level. (I was never a fan of her as a politician). However, in these uber PC times we live in, it's refreshing to listen to someone who is authentic, someone who couldn't be @rsed with media training and coaching. Mary speaks her mind
    I agree with you to a certain extent - as an individual and as a radio guest she is a national treasure (In reviewing a book on some show recently, she said the sex scenes were great!).

    As a politician though, she was a disaster. As was said about her she was always "one more report away from making a decision".

    My only objection to her on radio, is that, for a while there, she was overexposed. I can understand why radio shows want her - stick a mic in front of her and let her off. She's intelligent, articulate and she has a sense of humour.

    You'd be naive to think though that she didn't have media training - they all do.


  • #4458
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    serfboard wrote: »
    I agree with you to a certain extent - as an individual and as a radio guest she is a national treasure (In reviewing a book on some show recently, she said the sex scenes were great!).

    As a politician though, she was a disaster. As was said about her she was always "one more report away from making a decision".

    My only objection to her on radio, is that, for a while there, she was overexposed. I can understand why radio shows want her - stick a mic in front of her and let her off. She's intelligent, articulate and she has a sense of humour.

    You'd be naive to think though that she didn't have media training - they all do.
    To be honest, I think Mary missed all the FF media training courses ;).

    She has always been a bit of a loose cannon. Remember back in 2000 when she was Minister for Transport and the Chairman of CIE resigned unexpectedly. Mary was asked by a reporter how she heard the news and she admitted to being in the bath at the time :D

    Ryanair wasted no time printing a full page cartoon advert of Mary and her little yellow duck in the bath.


  • #4459
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,158 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Who was it one time she said "worked like a black"?


  • #4460
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Who was it one time she said "worked like a black"?
    I remember that remark, it was very unfortunate.

    However, I remember it being widely used by my grandmother and her generation when I was a kid. It was meant as a compliment (i.e you were a diligent worker), it was definitely not meant as a derogatory or offensive remark.


  • #4461
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Who was it one time she said "worked like a black"?

    The Lenihans have a habit of putting their foot in it. When that gobshyte Conor was Minister of State for Overseas Development and Human Rights, he referred to Turkish GAMA workers as "kebabs". You couldn't make it up.


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  • #4462
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,158 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Lady Chatterton wrote: »
    I remember that remark, it was very unfortunate.

    However, I remember it being widely used by my grandmother and her generation when I was a kid. It was meant as a compliment (i.e you were a diligent worker), it was definitely not meant as a derogatory or offensive remark.

    Oh I know. I quite like her myself. I'd say she would be great craic to go for a pint with.
    I'm just trying to think who she was referring to. I think it might be her canvasing team.


  • #4463
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    I remember an interview Mary gave shortly after her husband Enda died. She spoke so lovingly about him and the loneliness she experienced, especially when she'd return home after being away for a while. She said the silence was so deafening that she started leaving on a radio in her bedroom and living room for company :(. I was really moved by her honesty and vulnerability.


  • #4464
    foxtrot101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 907 ✭✭✭foxtrot101


    I just remembered there was a "Mary O'Rourke Watch" thread on here a few years ago when she seemed omnipresent on the radio. Turns out all her appearance fees were going to charity.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65229343


  • #4465
    Callan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Lady Chatterton wrote: »
    To be honest, I think Mary missed all the FF media training courses ;).

    She has always been a bit of a loose cannon. Remember back in 2000 when she was Minister for Transport and the Chairman of CIE resigned unexpectedly. Mary was asked by a reporter how she heard the news and she admitted to being in the bath at the time :D

    Ryanair wasted no time printing a full page cartoon advert of Mary and her little yellow duck in the bath.

    I don't have a lot of time for her to be honest .. another glorified county councillor and a heavy hand laying on the old palaver & the usual FF banality.


  • #4466
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Lady Chatterton wrote: »
    I remember that remark, it was very unfortunate.

    However, I remember it being widely used by my grandmother and her generation when I was a kid. It was meant as a compliment (i.e you were a diligent worker), it was definitely not meant as a derogatory or offensive remark.

    In fairness now 'working like a black' was in regular use until very recently. Dare I say that I'll still use it occasionally, but not when it's going to cause offence.

    ****



  • #4467
    Lady Chatterton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Callan57 wrote: »
    I don't have a lot of time for her to be honest .. another glorified county councillor and a heavy hand laying on the old palaver & the usual FF banality.
    I mentioned in an earlier post that I had no time for her as a FF politician but I honestly wouldn't mind having her as my granny or great aunt. Christmas and family gatherings would never be dull :D


  • #4468
    southstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭southstar


    Lady Chatterton wrote: »
    I mentioned in an earlier post that I had no time for her as a FF politician but I honestly wouldn't mind having her as my granny or great aunt. Christmas and family gatherings would never be dull :D
    Yeh I reckon she plays the persona out a bit...but did make me laugh when having a go at poor Joan Burtons"go bronach"disposition


  • #4469
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,781 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Callan57 wrote: »
    I don't have a lot of time for her to be honest .. another glorified county councillor and a heavy hand laying on the old palaver & the usual FF banality.

    I'd love to read a list of her achievements.


  • #4470
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,936 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    tayto lover wrote: »
    I'd love to read a list of her achievements.

    Two pensions?


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  • #4471
    Right2Write
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭Right2Write


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Two pensions?

    Telecom Eireann / Eircom - that's Mammy O'Rourke's legacy. Do you remember her palaver at the time - let's share the wealth amongst the ordinary citizens etc.!!!!!! Who were mostly rightly screwed after they took up her kind offer.


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