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Harry Angstrom · 23-06-2017 10:57AM

The Shinners really have some brass neck. They collapsed Stormont, they refuse to have anything to do with Westminster and they sit on their hands and snipe from the sidelines in the Dail without ever contributing anything remotely constructive. Why people vote for these spoofers is completely beyond me.

Mena Mitty · 23-06-2017 11:12AM

Expunge wrote: »

Cormac's pronunciation of Spancil Hill as "Span-chill" was a good 'un this morning.

I also find his vocal quality to be a turn-off. Sadly, more common on the National Broadcaster each year.

Spooky reading this post and on the radio on comes Paddy Reilly singing Spancil Hill on the Ronan Collins show.

Brendan Bendar · 23-06-2017 04:30PM

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

The Shinners really have some brass neck. They collapsed Stormont, they refuse to have anything to do with Westminster and they sit on their hands and snipe from the sidelines in the Dail without ever contributing anything remotely constructive. Why people vote for these spoofers is completely beyond me.

There's a lot more at that game Harry.

brooke 2 · 27-06-2017 10:30PM

Expunge wrote: »

Cormac's pronunciation of Spancil Hill as "Span-chill" was a good 'un this morning.

I also find his vocal quality to be a turn-off. Sadly, more common on the National Broadcaster each year.

He's obviously been infected by the recent 'h' virus!
'ashume', 'shtruggle', 'shtrife', 'shtrong', etc., etc., etc.

dxhound2005 · 27-06-2017 10:47PM

brooke 2 wrote: »

He's obviously been infected by the recent 'h' virus!
'ashume', 'shtruggle', 'shtrife', 'shtrong', etc., etc., etc.

The other ones seem very strange and I wouldn't know how to go about pronouncing your spellings but Ashume is not recent and certainly not an RTE only phenomenon. It derives from the sh sound in words like sugar and sure, or maybe we can blame Sean Connery.

Lady Chatterton · 28-06-2017 12:17AM

brooke 2 wrote: »

He's obviously been infected by the recent 'h' virus!
'ashume', 'shtruggle', 'shtrife', 'shtrong', etc., etc., etc.

Cormac's first language is Irish, he is from the Connemara Gaeltacht so I think that's part of the reason his pronunciation can be off at times. The 'sh' could be a West of Ireland' thing, I think I'm guilty of it at times

ED E · 28-06-2017 12:22AM

Im all for journalists asking tough questions etc but he seems to constantly go down rabbit holes on lines of questioning to no real merit. Doesnt have the ear for when to move on.

Harry Angstrom · 28-06-2017 09:09AM

Do the knuckleheads in Government not realise that their "recycle more" guff will have an opposite effect and will actually result in more illegal dumping and fly tipping? To use Pat Kenny's favourite phrase, it's the "law of unintended consequences".

Right2Write · 30-06-2017 09:12AM

That Rich Boy on the radio now? They all sound the same, these lads. Whoever he is, you don't speak for me mate. Pay your way in society, pay for your water and crap. What happened to Joan Burton and her assistant that day in Jobstown was disgusting. Bottom line.

Who would be a female or even a male politician of the left and venturing into the home territories of these bullies now?

PeterTheNinth · 30-06-2017 09:19AM

I agree with the above fully. The only thing that I would add was that taking the case against them was always going to be a waste of time, and the DPP shouldn't have bothered.

touts · 30-06-2017 09:27AM

Right2Write wrote: »

That Rich Boy on the radio now? They all sound the same, these lads. Whoever he is, you don't speak for me mate. Pay your way in society, pay for your water and crap. What happened to Joan Burton and her assistant that day in Jobstown was disgusting. Bottom line.

Who would be a female or even a male politician of the left and venturing into the home territories of these bullies now?

These Rich Boys posing as champions of the poor scare me. They text book embryonic socialist dictators like so many examples in the past. Step 1. Whip up the masses with fancy rethoric and artificial anger. 2. Come to power through populist promises. 3. Dismantle democracy "for the good of the people" 4. Hold power through bloody repression against the masses.

We are firmly in step 1 now. God help us all if we ever reach Step 2 because once those lads get their feet into government buildings no democratic vote will ever take them out again.

padd b1975 · 30-06-2017 09:48AM

Is this a mate of Jonathan "Rachel"?

30-06-2017 10:04AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Is this a mate of Jonathan "Rachel"?

Why is Rachel in quotation marks?

Callan57 · 30-06-2017 10:23AM

touts wrote: »

These Rich Boys posing as champions of the poor scare me. They text book embryonic socialist dictators like so many examples in the past. Step 1. Whip up the masses with fancy rethoric and artificial anger. 2. Come to power through populist promises. 3. Dismantle democracy "for the good of the people" 4. Hold power through bloody repression against the masses.

We are firmly in step 1 now. God help us all if we ever reach Step 2 because once those lads get their feet into government buildings no democratic vote will ever take them out again.

They are probably disappointed they didn't get jail so they could play the martyr card

quintana76 · 30-06-2017 05:22PM

Callan57 wrote: »

They are probably disappointed they didn't get jail so they could play the martyr card

I still find it disgraceful that Paul Murphy got free legal aid.
Not only are they milking the system watch them milk the verdict. 'Fascist establishment' etc

Brendan Bendar · 30-06-2017 06:34PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

I agree with the above fully. The only thing that I would add was that taking the case against them was always going to be a waste of time, and the DPP shouldn't have bothered.

Correct Peter, never ever going to win on the charges brought.

Whoever initiated that debacle should resign or be sacked.

As an aside ,Varadkar better take control fairly rapido or these bullhorn brigade will take control.

Several huge debacles on the Govt, side recently,showing an open goal.

Del.Monte · 30-06-2017 07:32PM

I must say that while I'm at the opposite end of the political spectrum to Paul Murphy I was delighted to see this North Korean style 'show trial' end in farce.

30-06-2017 08:06PM

quintana76 wrote: »

I still find it disgraceful that Paul Murphy got free legal aid.

Almost everybody who is accused of a crime on indictment is entitled to free legal aid. It's very unusual not to be so entitled.

It would be an intolerable situation were criminal legal aid resources to be applied as strictly as, say, social welfare transfers are.

If it were so, the State could easily punish people by forcing them to incur tens of thousands of euros in legal costs, even on a flimsy prosecution.

IvyTheTerrible · 01-07-2017 01:03PM

Del.Monte wrote: »

I must say that while I'm at the opposite end of the political spectrum to Paul Murphy I was delighted to see this North Korean style 'show trial' end in farce.

North Korean style? Hyperbole, much?

Right2Write · 03-07-2017 09:12AM

Amazing how often Cormac has representatives from the hard left on his programmes, both Late Debate and this show. And keeps hammering on about concerns of these groups. Utterly disproportional to their electoral strength. Hmm.

Right2Write · 03-07-2017 09:13AM

quintana76 wrote: »

I still find it disgraceful that Paul Murphy got free legal aid.

Did he? On what possible basis, given his TDs salary? I wouldn't give him the steam off my piss!

ED E · 03-07-2017 01:40PM

Feckin roundabout with the GRA rep.

Quintis · 03-07-2017 02:03PM

ED E wrote: »

Feckin roundabout with the GRA rep.

Waste of 15 minutes, spun it to another poor me piece without dealing with any of the serious questions arising from the Jobstown trial

constitutionus · 03-07-2017 03:37PM

least he admited the GRA has no prob with an enquiry !

pc7 · 05-07-2017 09:59AM

Great spot on alcoholism but my jaysus the woman on it is head wrecking! She keeps interrupting everyone and talking over the others. Stfu!!

Harry Angstrom · 05-07-2017 10:03AM

pc7 wrote: »

Great spot on alcoholism but my jaysus the woman on it is head wrecking! She keeps interrupting everyone and talking over the others. Stfu!!

They can't even come to an agreement between themselves and they're supposed to be professionals. The whole notion of binge drinking is a nonsense. If I go out tonight and have 3 pints, I'm supposedly binge drinking. Easy then to extrapolate that we're a whole nation of "binge drinkers".

Mena Mitty · 05-07-2017 10:36AM

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

They can't even come to an agreement between themselves and they're supposed to be professionals. The whole notion of binge drinking is a nonsense. If I go out tonight and have 3 pints, I'm supposedly binge drinking. Easy then to extrapolate that we're a whole nation of "binge drinkers".

The two bottles of wine every evening to unwind people are the ones I'd be worried about. I usually bump in to them when I go to the bottle bank with my bag of jars and bottles every couple of months, more than a few times I've bumped into the same people with bags of empty wine vodka and gin bottles. Whether it's a weekly or monthly clearout I couldn't guess.

quintana76 · 05-07-2017 11:08AM

After one of the regular RTE propaganda pieces about the refugees we had a surprisingly reasoned interview with Naomi Klein.

They talked about her new book.
She even raised her voice once. I would say that she is not used to her views even been queried on mainstream media.

For RTE a balanced interview.

Expunge · 05-07-2017 11:28AM

I see that spokesman for the GRA yesterday was none other than one time cheerleader for the property boom, John O'Keefe.

He was editor of the Sunday Independent Property Section in it's glory days of the 2000's, when it really was property porno.

Now he's Spokesman and Press Officer for the GRA.

I liked it better when they had guards with garda accents on doing those gigs.

Right2Write · 05-07-2017 02:13PM

Expunge wrote: »

I see that spokesman for the GRA yesterday was none other than one time cheerleader for the property boom, John O'Keefe.

He was editor of the Sunday Independent Property Section in it's glory days of the 2000's, when it really was property porno.

Now, that's what I call a Soft Landing

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