Marian Finucane

Lady Chatterton · 04-08-2017 11:25PM

I'm just watching Scannal on TG4, they're revisiting Marian's interview with Joe Jacobs (Minister for Iodine Tablets). I'd forgotten what an absolute car crash it was, hilarious stuff!!

NIMAN · 05-08-2017 11:10AM

I wonder will the host mention rte wages?

h.gricer · 05-08-2017 11:22AM

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I'm just watching Scannal on TG4, they're revisiting Marian's interview with Joe Jacobs (Minister for Iodine Tablets). I'd forgotten what an absolute car crash it was, hilarious stuff!!

When I'm up at 4.30am Monday to Friday, I had to be up this morning, Apache Friday western, I was heading for the sack when Scannal came on, I just had to stick with it, really hilarious stuff, it would be even funnier if it wasn't true, if this was British politics that idiot would have been gone before you could utter the word stupid, and the way Bertie and company stuck by him, said a lot more about them, he top the poll in the 2002 election making the people even more stupid than he was, still the funny side was funny, you couldn't make it, I must seach for my iodine tablets LOL!!!!

PeterTheNinth · 05-08-2017 11:31AM

Jaysus, didn't think she would ask her about that :eek:

I wonder will she have Darina Allen in for a few hard questions after the break.

PeterTheNinth · 05-08-2017 11:36AM

She should name that journalist. I often think that if I were famous... in the real world and not just in my head.... if I had somebody like that outside my gate or stalking me. I would pay somebody to stalk them 24/7 until they backed off.

Losty Dublin · 05-08-2017 11:47AM

I have a lot of time for Tracey Piggott but this interview smacked of..

"Bollocks Marion, our 11 O'Clock has cancelled."
"Go down to the RTE canteen and grab the first person you see."
"I grabbed the first person but the chef said that she was needed to wipe down tables so Tracey said she'd do"
"What's the famous for?"
"I've already googled that for you, now go out there and have yourself a smoke; you've done without for 5 minutes"

PeterTheNinth · 05-08-2017 12:12PM

Next in the Primal Scream lyrics... surely Rocks, their most popular song??

"Dealers keep dealing, thieves keep thieving
Whores keep whoring, junkies keep scoring
So to speak".

citykat · 05-08-2017 12:13PM

She really hasn't a clue who Primal Scream are. She clearly didn't know those lyrics.

sligojoek · 05-08-2017 12:37PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

Next in the Primal Scream lyrics... surely Rocks, their most popular song??

"Dealers keep dealing, thieves keep thieving
Whores keep whoring, junkies keep scoring
So to speak".

It has to be saaaaaaid

PeterTheNinth · 05-08-2017 12:39PM

Bit trite there from Marion - "I hope it works out for each of you in whatever way that you would like yourself" i.e. My head is on the plane, and I absolutely 100% couldn't give a crap if any of ye make it through the rest of the day.

humberklog · 05-08-2017 01:22PM

citykat wrote: »

She really hasn't a clue who Primal Scream are. She clearly didn't know those lyrics.

In fairness she doesn't need to and I get the impression the producer sees that as part of its strange charm in what is typically a charmless show.

What was the point of helicoptering Dorley in to do a slot about coastal restaurants only to immediately hurry him up and then cut him short and all to make space for another guest to talk about gardening? (This guest wasn't "radio fit" and the talk turned to food).

Another show rang in from the presenter whose heart is in Deauville, her head is with accountants and her gob in Montrose.

Callan57 · 05-08-2017 02:15PM

Losty Dublin wrote: »

I have a lot of time for Tracey Piggott but this interview smacked of..

"Bollocks Marion, our 11 O'Clock has cancelled."
"Go down to the RTE canteen and grab the first person you see."
"I grabbed the first person but the chef said that she was needed to wipe down tables so Tracey said she'd do"
"What's the famous for?"
"I've already googled that for you, now go out there and have yourself a smoke; you've done without for 5 minutes"

I like Tracey but I didn't see the point of that interview .. all a bit old hat.

Brendan Bendar · 05-08-2017 02:20PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

She should name that journalist. I often think that if I were famous... in the real world and not just in my head.... if I had somebody like that outside my gate or stalking me. I would pay somebody to stalk them 24/7 until they backed off.

Just doing his/her job, Peter.

Eh?

PeterTheNinth · 06-08-2017 12:16PM

She was on media training and it's commonplace to keep on talking and talking to the point that you speak about your sex life with your partner? I'm not buying that. Diana would not have spoken about that topic unless she wanted to.

Oops69 · 06-08-2017 12:52PM

this old cliche of ' we're a sports mad nation ' ,jesus wept!, every nation is as sports mad as we are .
and participating in sport isn't the solution to the obesity problem , stopping stuffing faces unnecessarily is .

Ursus Horribilis · 06-08-2017 04:23PM

Oops69 wrote: »

this old cliche of ' we're a sports mad nation ' ,jesus wept!, every nation is as sports mad as we are .
and participating in sport isn't the solution to the obesity problem , stopping stuffing faces unnecessarily is .

Yep, you can't outrun a bad diet as they say.

tampopo · 06-08-2017 08:41PM

If we win the bid for the 2023 Rugby world cup, I wonder if the mens' teams will be put up in the student accommodation of the UCD campus

Creol1 · 06-08-2017 10:20PM

The nadir must have been on the day after the marriage equality referendum when she spoke to two activists and actually asked each of them, "are you a gay person?"

On the other hand, there seem to be -- or used to be -- occasions when at 12 she just forgot about the Angelus and went straight to the news, if I'm not mistaken. As a secularist, that's something I can forgive her for.

tampopo · 07-08-2017 01:31PM

Creol1 wrote: »

On the other hand, there seem to be -- or used to be -- occasions when at 12 she just forgot about the Angelus and went straight to the news, if I'm not mistaken. As a secularist, that's something I can forgive her for.

No angelus on Sundays. Maybe that was it.

Creol1 · 07-08-2017 05:18PM

tampopo wrote: »

No angelus on Sundays. Maybe that was it.

Really? That would explain it.

08-08-2017 01:04PM

Creol1 wrote: »

Really? That would explain it.

yep, no angelus on Christmas Day or Good Friday either. Philip Boucher Hayes says they get complaints into Drivetime every Good Friday when they don't broadcast the Angelus!

Callan57 · 08-08-2017 02:16PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

yep, no angelus on Christmas Day or Good Friday either. Philip Boucher Hayes says they get complaints into Drivetime every Good Friday when they don't broadcast the Angelus!

Any of you good Catholics know why those days are excluded?

08-08-2017 02:36PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Any of you good Catholics know why those days are excluded?

I'm not even Catholic! No idea but I'd be curious as to the reason too.

sligojoek · 08-08-2017 06:00PM

Probably because staunch catholics do a bit of extra praying on those days anyway so the get a let off on the angelus.

thesandeman · 08-08-2017 06:06PM

I think the Good Friday and Easter Saturday are because he's supposed to be dead. I think the Angelus is about rejoicing so it wouldn't go down too well.

Losty Dublin · 08-08-2017 07:22PM

thesandeman wrote: »

I think the Good Friday and Easter Saturday are because he's supposed to be dead.

Pretty much that is why there are no bells tolled, yeah. It is a reflection of the period of mourning.

As a general thing, the peal at midday and 6PM are calls to both prayers and meals. It goes back to the days when clocks and watches were uncommon so bells would be pealed to let people know when it was to come back home from work.

Dan Jaman · 08-08-2017 09:27PM

Losty Dublin wrote: »

As a general thing, the peal at midday and 6PM are calls to both prayers and meals. It goes back to the days when clocks and watches were uncommon so bells would be pealed to let people know when it was to come back home from work.

The landowners and clergy had it sown up, didn't they?

tampopo · 10-08-2017 03:08PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Any of you good Catholics know why those days are excluded?

Presumably at 12.00 on a Sunday you'd be at mass

PeterTheNinth · 10-08-2017 05:31PM

With the left wing brigade, it wont be long before Marion will be throwing a mat on the floor and pointing herself towards Mecca...

Researcher: "Where do you want the mat, Marion"?
Marion: "And you can... leave.. that... theeeeeeeeere..."

PeterTheNinth · 12-08-2017 11:08AM

"I presssssssssssssume that the Martens family would be hoping an appeal would not be successful"

You see it's that level of in depth analysis that you would not get if you tried to get somebody on less than 300K a year.

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