Sean O'Rourke Today Show

HeidiHeidi · 15-12-2017 10:39AM

citykat wrote: »

Christy Moore... OFF!

In my case - Christy Moore - never switched on!

Joe_ Public · 15-12-2017 12:51PM

For the first Moving Hearts album alone, I am glad of Christy Moore’s existence. Still one of the best Irish records ever released imho.

Brendan Bendar · 15-12-2017 04:50PM

Christy is a great performer,but like Mick Wallace at the building trade, got a bit opinionated and strident.

That’s fine for the ordinary Joe, but if you are in the public eye and trying to make a living being by appealing to the widest sector of opinion you can, it’s disastrous.

You alienate a large swath of people who like your music but can’t stand your attitude.

Stick to the day job Kit, that’s what you are good at, others can handle the bleeding heart gig.

Joe_ Public · 19-12-2017 11:28AM

Too much regulation in the banks, this chap is saying. Remove the shackles, let them at it and we will be great again. Simples.

neris · 19-12-2017 11:40AM

This one deserves to be going out of business. Unwilling to change or modernise. Whinging and whining that it's everyone else's fault just makes you look like a tit

mrsdewinter · 19-12-2017 11:44AM

neris wrote: »

This one deserves to be going out of business. Unwilling to change or modernise. Whinging and whining that it's everyone else's fault just makes you look like a tit

She sounded shockingly entitled, and I don't understand how anybody with that attitude could have survived in business for so long. The egg sandwich analogy was laughable...

Callan57 · 19-12-2017 11:35PM

mrsdewinter wrote: »

She sounded shockingly entitled, and I don't understand how anybody with that attitude could have survived in business for so long. The egg sandwich analogy was laughable...

Even though I have a Kindle I still buy lots of physical books & I love bookshops but I really wouldn't be in any hurry to visit this lady's shop ... To me she came across as a pompous and unpleasant womam & not at all welcoming. I think her problem is closer to home than she might care to admit :rolleyes:

Joe_ Public · 20-12-2017 12:15AM

You could tell how utterly distasteful the idea of selling secondhand books was to her when Sean posed the question as she hummed and hawed her answer, obviously not wanting to spell it out directly.

sligojoek · 20-12-2017 02:21AM

There was one of those shops here in Sligo too. I went in a few times and asked about books and he wouldn't bother his ass looking them up on the computer. If I wanted something by Yeats, he'd have it no problem, at a premium price. I'd then go to Easons and get it within two days if they didn't have it in stock.

He's closed down now too.

BarryD2 · 20-12-2017 11:02AM

S'OR not at his best this morning with the women. Fairly put his foot in it with a rather brutal opening introduction to Una Butler, I'm sure she would have preferred not to hear his tabloid style into about her husband strangling her daughters. Insensitive at best.

Followed by a very spikey attitude towards Catherine Noone on article 43.3 etc., at least we know where O'Rourke's sympathies lie. Why can't he just interview someone in a neutral manner? It's their views which are important, regardless of what they are and not his. At least Catherine put him back in his box with her observation about men not giving birth

elperello · 20-12-2017 11:29AM

He redeemed himself by giving a very sympathetic ear to the demon drink ladies.

plodder · 20-12-2017 11:34AM

quintana76 wrote: »

During the TV review John Boland had the temerity to criticise Nathan Carter's generic voice. He was soon put in his place. He must have forgotten he was on RTE where NC is the current flavour of the year.

Funnily enough, they were talking about Nathan Carter on Arena the other day. It was kind of the opposite, with a lot of (generic) anti country-music snobbery on display.

plodder · 20-12-2017 11:42AM

BarryD2 wrote: »

S'OR not at his best this morning with the women. Fairly put his foot in it with a rather brutal opening introduction to Una Butler, I'm sure she would have preferred not to hear his tabloid style into about her husband strangling her daughters. Insensitive at best.

Didn't hear it, but it sounds like the perils of reading off a script that was written when the unfortunate woman wasn't sitting next to him.

HeidiHeidi · 27-12-2017 10:15AM

Jeepers,the shameless gore/gossipfest on now about the Molly Martens case.... you can almost hear that journo licking his lips at the gory details :mad:

elperello · 27-12-2017 10:40AM

Unedifying at any time.
Unforgivable during the holiday period when small ears are more likely listening.

HeidiHeidi · 27-12-2017 10:44AM

Had to turn it off..... pure tabloid muck, I'd have expected better from the producers of that show, and from Damo.

padd b1975 · 27-12-2017 11:49AM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Had to turn it off..... pure tabloid muck, I'd have expected better from the producers of that show, and from Damo.

Phoning it in across all platforms until the turn of the year.

Pointless even switching on.

elperello · 27-12-2017 11:52AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Phoning it in across all platforms until the turn of the year.

Pointless even switching on.

Lyric a better bet.

Brendan Bendar · 27-12-2017 12:14PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Phoning it in across all platforms until the turn of the year.

Pointless even switching on.

Turn of the year, Padd!

04 Jan at the earliest, me good man.

Teachers holidays!

Oops69 · 28-12-2017 09:52AM

Cant believe they let Damien O' Reilly cover on this programme , no offence to the lad but he has his niche in the farming and covering Joe Duffy ... but current affairs ?, he's like a deer caught in the headlights.

thesandeman · 28-12-2017 10:35AM

At least he pulled up the lottery woman on where the unclaimed prize money goes. A lot of the others would have let that go.

mrsdewinter · 28-12-2017 10:40AM

Oops69 wrote: »

Cant believe they let Damien O' Reilly cover on this programme , no offence to the lad but he has his niche in the farming and covering Joe Duffy ... but current affairs ?, he's like a deer caught in the headlights.

Today is my first day listening to him - like him anyway but I thought he was good on the show.

Oops69 · 28-12-2017 10:51AM

thesandeman wrote: »

At least he pulled up the lottery woman on where the unclaimed prize money goes. A lot of the others would have let that go.

he posed the question but didn't follow it through, she said in reply ' thats a question for another day ' and he just let it go, so I wouldn't really call that ' pulling her up ' in fairness.

HeidiHeidi · 28-12-2017 11:00AM

He wasn't remotely able for the politial round-up of the year - turned into a party-political broadcast / shouting contest very quickly. Complete waste of 20 minutes (or however long it was on, I had to switch over before my ears started to bleed)

honeybear · 28-12-2017 03:08PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Jeepers,the shameless gore/gossipfest on now about the Molly Martens case.... you can almost hear that journo licking his lips at the gory details :mad:

I heard the podcast and was unprepared for the graphic details of the crimes. Was there a pre warning before the podcast began. The content was horrific

Callan57 · 03-01-2018 11:24AM

I just can't believe this: the Banks actually STOLE from people and they seem to be completly above the law. If that lady went into her local bank & lifted a bundle of money off the counter she'd be pursued by Gardaí and would be facing a judge yet the bank can blithely steal on a massive scale and no-one calls the Gardaí!

Joe_ Public · 03-01-2018 11:31AM

It’s outrageous alright but not sure why it’s so hard to believe. Just as well we have proper regulation of these thieving banks nowadays!

TheHomeService · 03-01-2018 11:41AM

The real scandal of the Tracker Mortgages case is the exorbitant Standard Variable Rates being imposed on Irish consumers.

I must confess that it sticks in the craw a bit to see those in arrears getting compensation, whereas those who struggled through and paid in full, get nothing.

03-01-2018 11:49AM

Ahhh heres that eejit from rural resettlement Ireland again?

Yes lets haul people to the country side with no services......

constitutionus · 11-01-2018 10:33AM

This keegan lads away with the faries.

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