Sean O'Rourke Today Show

Brendan Bendar · 07-01-2019 04:11PM

jay0109 wrote: »

€130 per annum is not a large amount of money in a country with 1 of the highest dole/disability payments in the world. And in a country where today we learned we need to import tens of thousands of workers because we've a labour shortage.

As for your mentioning of unmentionables...whatever!

And yet if Conor McGregor is ‘fighting’ in Vegas, the same lot will beating the heads off each other to get on the planes.

You couldn’t make it up.

Callan57 · 07-01-2019 04:39PM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

And yet if Conor McGregor is ‘fighting’ in Vegas, the same lot will beating the heads off each other to get on the planes.

You couldn’t make it up.

Ah get a grip! She was talking about HOMELESS women and girls.

Brendan Bendar · 07-01-2019 06:40PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Ah get a grip! She was talking about HOMELESS women and girls.

Sorry C didn’t realise that.

I was offside there so, apologies.

elperello · 07-01-2019 06:45PM

jay0109 wrote: »

It's insane that a topic like this, where the annual costs of said products was pitched at €130 per annum, can feature on Ireland's #1 mid-morning radio show.
It's also insane that such a term/thing as 'period poverty' was created.

It's a current affairs programme and the woman interviewed is currently doing her best to help.
I can't see how it's an inappropriate topic.
You are of course entitled to your opinion on the topic.

Badabing · 08-01-2019 10:10AM

Another 3 weeks off for Sean O'Rourke. Great job that.

Drifter50 · 08-01-2019 06:43PM

I guess at this stage there is going to have to be a change. SOR took a lot of time off last summer and then made a big deal of coming back and saying his batteries were recharged and he was raring to go again.

Clearly there is stuff going on that most are not privvy to

It looks time to fit a new presenter in here bit pleeeese not MOC on a permanent basis.

Maybe there is a "boardsie" who has ears in RTE who could update us all

Brendan Bendar · 08-01-2019 07:02PM

Drifter50 wrote: »

I guess at this stage there is going to have to be a change. SOR took a lot of time off last summer and then made a big deal of coming back and saying his batteries were recharged and he was raring to go again.

Clearly there is stuff going on that most are not privvy to

It looks time to fit a new presenter in here bit pleeeese not MOC on a permanent basis.

Maybe there is a "boardsie" who has ears in RTE who could update us all

No, Meeriam couldn’t be permanent.

Nobody could put up with that accent for two hours..... surely there is some more talent out there who wouldn’t annoy the listeners.

O’Mongain got the jolly out to ‘Africar’ But couldn’t put up with his accent.

Not for two hours. He’d want to watch the letter ‘u’... like months vs munnths..

No way.

BarryD2 · 09-01-2019 11:16AM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

No, Meeriam couldn’t be permanent.

Nobody could put up with that accent for two hours..... surely there is some more talent out there who wouldn’t annoy the listeners.

I agree. Miriam is OK in small doses and I mean small doses, once a week. The more you listen to Miriam, the more you doubt her sincerity, she just sounds false.

marieholmfan · 09-01-2019 01:22PM

BarryD2 wrote: »

I agree. Miriam is OK in small doses and I mean small doses, once a week. The more you listen to Miriam, the more you doubt her sincerity, she just sounds false.

She just isn't competent enough; Vincent Browne , Mick Clifford and Gene Kerrigan on rotation.

Brendan Bendar · 09-01-2019 02:22PM

marieholmfan wrote: »

She just isn't competent enough; Vincent Browne , Mick Clifford and Gene Kerrigan on rotation.

aaah c’mon ...the license payer doesn’t want that wall of negativity.

Steady up there.

dulpit · 10-01-2019 09:55AM

Claire Byrne would be good. Outside hires like Gavan Reilly or Sinead O'Carroll would be good. I really like when Miles Dungan covered. But Miriam is tough listening..

Could they move Dobbo from Morning Ireland?

jeremyj1968 · 10-01-2019 10:01AM

BarryD2 wrote: »

I agree. Miriam is OK in small doses and I mean small doses, once a week. The more you listen to Miriam, the more you doubt her sincerity, she just sounds false.

Last week was ridiculous. You had Baz handing over to Miriam, it was loike Ross O'Carroll Kelly FM.

Pastor Brent · 10-01-2019 10:12AM

It hasn't been mentioned but SOR is 64 years old and an RTE staffer so he'll be retiring on 65th birthday.

jeremyj1968 · 10-01-2019 11:14AM

Very surprised to find out that he finds the job so stressful though. He's good at it, seemed to enjoy it, and always enjoyed a joke.

I'd say he'll be like Derek Mooney though. He'll be out of the place for about six months before he'll be looking for the old job back.

tretorn · 10-01-2019 11:53AM

Miriams voice is awful and while I am at it so Is Ciara Kellys.

Really, really unpleasant to listen to.

Are the any new people being trained up to take over.

marieholmfan · 10-01-2019 11:55AM

Keelin Shanley might be a good replacement. Gemma O'D would certainly shake things up!

Callan57 · 10-01-2019 12:19PM

I vote for Rachel English

jeremyj1968 · 10-01-2019 12:21PM

marieholmfan wrote: »

Keelin Shanley might be a good replacement. Gemma O'D would certainly shake things up!

Gemma's putting out a good few youtube streams these weeks. Search her and you will see the most recent ones. Few interesting ones about Ian Bailey and Garda corruption.

two wheels good · 10-01-2019 02:37PM

jeremyj1968 wrote: »

Gemma's putting out a good few youtube streams these weeks. Search her and you will see the most recent ones. Few interesting ones about Ian Bailey and Garda corruption.

Very comprehensive report by Gemma O'D on du Plantier and Ian Bailey case.
I wasn't aware of the full extent of Garda failures and smearing of Bailey.
Maybe a reporter of her calibre is best "in the field" not behind a mic in Montrose.

dulpit · 10-01-2019 03:42PM

two wheels good wrote: »

Very comprehensive report by Gemma O'D on du Plantier and Ian Bailey case.
I wasn't aware of the full extent of Garda failures and smearing of Bailey.
Maybe a reporter of her calibre is best "in the field" not behind a mic in Montrose.

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serfboard · 10-01-2019 04:43PM

marieholmfan wrote: »

Gemma O'D would certainly shake things up!

Good God no - Gemma O'Doherty is a headbanger, as a quick glance at her Twitter feed would tell you.

two wheels good · 10-01-2019 06:54PM

dulpit wrote: »

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

It's the most comprehensive report on the topic I've come across e.g more detailed than RTE or The Examiner.

No idea what Gemma sounds like or if suitable for radio but based on the above I'll be looking out for other reports.

(Do continue with your overuse of tedious emoticons)

Spanish Eyes · 10-01-2019 07:00PM

SOR is still on his holliers. Fab contract there! He can be a grumpy git too. I am sorry but the hmming of MOC standing in is just painful to listen to, it's like she is pretending to be empathetic without any input from her side. Just me. OK.

So next up is.....?

Won't make much difference really it's all shyte anyway.

ligerdub · 10-01-2019 07:31PM

Some people on here have a real problem with Gemma, probably because she wasn't a "champion of repeal". She's not exactly conventional, and some of her claims are fairly outlandish and unconvincing, however, a reasonable and intelligent person would not throw the baby out with the bath water. She has many well researched views on important topics barely covered by mainstream news outlets, certainly enough of which are thought provoking and likely valid views.

But no, she speaks to John Waters, asks questions about vaccines and flirts with the "alt-right".....ergo Gemma bad and absolutely everything she says is invalid.

Ursus Horribilis · 10-01-2019 07:40PM

My problem with Gemma is that she undoes her good work with bat**** craziness. So you end up not knowing what's genuine and what she has been reading in the tealeaves.

two wheels good · 10-01-2019 07:42PM

serfboard wrote: »

Good God no - Gemma O'Doherty is a headbanger, as a quick glance at her Twitter feed would tell you.

I see what you mean. Very provocative topics presented with not much attempt at balance - e.g. anti vaccine, an anti abortion livestream and her choice of re-tweets is very dubious.
She's really not a contender for RTE radio's premiere curent affairs programme.
Just waiting for the livestream to get to the topic of les gilets jeunes...

marieholmfan · 11-01-2019 09:25AM

serfboard wrote: »

Good God no - Gemma O'Doherty is a headbanger, as a quick glance at her Twitter feed would tell you.

I've heard a couple of times that her twitter was hacked. Also presumably without wishing to cast any aspersions ; presumably she would be sober at 10 AM.

Also while I am not sympathetic to her apparent views on immigration (or at least the tone of those remarks) and am also in favour of the right to choose it might be useful to get someone more socially right wing on the radio to break the tedious socially soft left and economically hard right Montrose received opinions.

Socially soft left as long as the powerful are unaffected.

Ursus Horribilis · 11-01-2019 09:36AM

I agree that we need alternative views on Irish radio in general. Gemma is not the answer though.

jeremyj1968 · 11-01-2019 10:18AM

Pointless argument here. Ballagh is being disingenuous about "not naming" people when they are perfectly identifiable by their positions which he did name. And Hugh Lenihan is just being childish.

Brendan Bendar · 11-01-2019 10:36AM

two wheels good wrote: »

It's the most comprehensive report on the topic I've come across e.g more detailed than RTE or The Examiner.

No idea what Gemma sounds like or if suitable for radio but based on the above I'll be looking out for other reports.

(Do continue with your overuse of tedious emoticons)

Put it this way,I had to shut down Meeeriam this morning with the third or fourth reference to the “Braxitt vaute “couldn’t take it any longer........ BANG!!

Can ‘Jammah’be any more annoying, does she speak thru her ‘nause’.

Doubt it.

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