Sean O'Rourke Today Show

FrancieBrady · 07-11-2019 10:56AM

boardise wrote: »

I'm really taken aback at the level of animus against Terry Prone. I''ve always found her to be an excellent panellist -informed ,logical and always ready to expose cant and waffle. She also writes a weekly column in the Irish Examiner which is informative and entertaining while being laced with pungent humour and sardonic wit.
Terry is tops with me -I wish we had more like her instead of the posse of chancers and bluffers we hear spoofing on our media every day.

You should get into PR.

Callan57 · 07-11-2019 11:00AM

The problem is not the dogs but the dog owners ... I've seen dog owners allow their dogs on seats where another custome will be expected to sit.

mgn · 07-11-2019 11:37AM

boardise wrote: »

I'm really taken aback at the level of animus against Terry Prone. I''ve always found her to be an excellent panellist -informed ,logical and always ready to expose cant and waffle. She also writes a weekly column in the Irish Examiner which is informative and entertaining while being laced with pungent humour and sardonic wit.
Terry is tops with me -I wish we had more like her instead of the posse of chancers and bluffers we hear spoofing on our media every day.

Prone is the one who media trained a lot of these chancers and bluffers to spoof us every day, so she is the one who has a lot to answer for.

Ash.J.Williams · 07-11-2019 11:50AM

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Jesus Charlie Flanagan is some spoofer

his level of ignorance actually surprised me

boardise · 07-11-2019 11:58AM

mgn wrote: »

Prone is the one who media trained a lot of these chancers and bluffers to spoof us every day, so she is the one who has a lot to answer for.

Actually I hadn't thought of that point . She's brilliant at her job too.

mgn · 07-11-2019 01:05PM

boardise wrote: »

Actually I hadn't thought of that point . She's brilliant at her job too.

If you say so, Terry.

BarryD2 · 07-11-2019 02:08PM

boardise wrote: »

I'm really taken aback at the level of animus against Terry Prone. I''ve always found her to be an excellent panellist -informed ,logical and always ready to expose cant and waffle. She also writes a weekly column in the Irish Examiner which is informative and entertaining while being laced with pungent humour and sardonic wit.
Terry is tops with me -I wish we had more like her instead of the posse of chancers and bluffers we hear spoofing on our media every day.

Read this typical piece of deflecting disgusting nonsense that comes from same: https://www.thejournal.ie/terry-prone-email-tuam-babies-site-1721252-Oct2014/

"Terry Prone
Bon SecoursYour letter was sent on to me by the Provincial of the Irish Bon Secours congregation with instructions that I should help you. I’m not sure how I can. Let me explain.When the “O My God – mass grave in West of Ireland” broke in an English-owned paper (the Mail) it surprised the hell out of everybody, not least the Sisters of Bon Secours in Ireland, none of whom had ever worked in Tuam and most of whom had never heard of it.If you come here, you’ll find no mass grave, no evidence that children were ever so buried, and a local police force casting their eyes to heaven and saying “Yeah, a few bones were found – but this was an area where Famine victims were buried. So?”Several international TV stations have aborted their plans to make documentaries, because essentially all that can be said is “Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century was a moralistic, inward-looking, anti-feminist country of exagerrated religiousity.”Which most of us knew already.The overwhelming majority of the surviving Sisters of Bon Secours in Ireland are over eighty. The handful (literally) still in active ministry are in their seventies. None of them is an historian or sociologist or theologian and so wouldn’t have the competence to be good on your programme.
If you’d like me to point you at a few reputable historians who might be good, I’ll certainly do that.

Terry Prone (Ms)
Chairman
The Communications Clinic"

People who defend the indefensible are worthy of our contempt.

plodder · 07-11-2019 02:17PM

Callan57 wrote: »

The problem is not the dogs but the dog owners ... I've seen dog owners allow their dogs on seats where another custome will be expected to sit.

I heard that discussion and thought the complainant was very sanguine about it all. While a fear of dogs isn't entirely irrational, the woman didn't help her case by saying it was. What if she had a fear of red-heads for example?

And did I hear it right that the guy's dog was in a crate? That seems completely unreasonable to not allow a small dog in a crate. The union guy was 100% right. Had to laugh at his answer to - what if there was a crash and a dog goes berserk attacking people? What if two passengers went berserk and start biting people .. :pac:

jay0109 · 07-11-2019 02:27PM

boardise wrote: »

I'm really taken aback at the level of animus against Terry Prone. I''ve always found her to be an excellent panellist -informed ,logical and always ready to expose cant and waffle. She also writes a weekly column in the Irish Examiner which is informative and entertaining while being laced with pungent humour and sardonic wit.
Terry is tops with me -I wish we had more like her instead of the posse of chancers and bluffers we hear spoofing on our media every day.

So you approve of the way she handled the Tuam babies story from the Nun's side of the story?

Callan57 · 07-11-2019 02:33PM

jay0109 wrote: »

So you approve of the way she handled the Tuam babies story from the Nun's side of the story?

Terry (like all PR types) will argue the side of whoever is signing the cheque ... much like the legal profession! :rolleyes:

serfboard · 07-11-2019 02:44PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Terry (like all PR types) will argue the side of whoever is signing the cheque ... much like the legal profession! :rolleyes:

And both (lawyers and PR agents) will not say that they are telling the truth, merely that they are "presenting their clients side of the story" - for which service the client has paid a considerable fee.

elperello · 07-11-2019 02:54PM

Paddy O'Gorman missing in action today in Carrick on Shannon.
I hope one of the hens didn't beguile him.

generalgerry · 12-11-2019 10:15AM

The greatest battle that has involved Lisa Smith is the battle between the Army and the Muslims to see who can distance themselves furtherest from her.

sligojoek · 12-11-2019 10:19AM

Major pulling of the heart strings. The poor little girl.

12-11-2019 10:52AM

Where is SOR this week?

Brendan Bendar · 12-11-2019 10:54AM

zorro2566 wrote: »

Where is SOR this week?

He was on during the school break week......

What did I say.......teachers hours.

pc7 · 12-11-2019 12:04PM

How come when SOR is away, its Today with Miriam no other show does that do they?

elperello · 12-11-2019 12:48PM

Fair play to Paddy O'Gorman, he stayed on to listen to Austin Allsup.

You'd have needed a JCB in low gear to get me out of that studio.

Son of a legend who wouldn't even be on this earth but for a flip of a coin.

dulpit · 12-11-2019 03:48PM

elperello wrote: »

Son of a legend who wouldn't even be on this earth but for a flip of a coin.

Had to google that, his dad (Tommy Allsup) was touring with Buddy Holly when he died, he was supposed to be on the plane that crashed, but lost a bet to Richie Valens (coin toss) and had to get the bus. Obviously the plane crashed.

padd b1975 · 12-11-2019 05:01PM

pc7 wrote: »

How come when SOR is away, its Today with Miriam no other show does that do they?

Ego.

Spanish Eyes · 12-11-2019 05:05PM

SOR is coasting towards retirement, before the guillotine drops. Wish him well, he wasn't the worst, but could be a grumpy git at times. Paddy O'G should get his own show. He manages to get people that many will never meet or understand to talk. Well at the very least, his slot should be lengthened at bit.

I get the feeling that SOR and MOC do not have much time for him somehow. That's our loss.

dulpit · 12-11-2019 05:06PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I get the feeling that SOR and MOC do not have much time for him somehow. That's our loss.

Disagree about SOR, although I do sometimes think he wants to discuss the issues further (e.g. when POG talks to people at courts, you get the impression that SOR is fuming sometimes).

Miriam couldn't care less about Paddy though, tis a right pity.

Odyssey 2005 · 12-11-2019 05:07PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Ego.

Bingo

Spanish Eyes · 12-11-2019 05:15PM

dulpit wrote: »

Disagree about SOR, although I do sometimes think he wants to discuss the issues further (e.g. when POG talks to people at courts, you get the impression that SOR is fuming sometimes).

Miriam couldn't care less about Paddy though, tis a right pity.

Correct, but a longer slot to tease the issues out would sort out the grumpy git and let him get it off his chest. Could open a debate on a wider scale. As it is, it is just a filler, "thanks Paddy, goodbye now". Honestly what are the producers at? I reckon it is a very popular slot myself, but that's just me I suppose.

elperello · 12-11-2019 05:24PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Correct, but a longer slot to tease the issues out would sort out the grumpy git and let him get it off his chest. Could open a debate on a wider scale. As it is, it is just a filler, "thanks Paddy, goodbye now". Honestly what are the producers at? I reckon it is a very popular slot myself, but that's just me I suppose.

I'm not sure that P'OG's excellent reports need to be embellished or interpreted.

Their significance is the way he gets the pure unalloyed, sometimes unguarded comments from people you don't usually hear on the radio.

Spanish Eyes · 12-11-2019 05:26PM

elperello wrote: »

I'm not sure that P'OG's excellent reports need to be embellished or interpreted.

Their significance is the way he gets the pure unalloyed, sometimes unguarded comments from people you don't usually hear on the radio.

Agree, but his slot is far too short IMO.

elperello · 12-11-2019 05:42PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Agree, but his slot is far too short IMO.

Yes he always leaves me wanting more.
I wonder is that intentional?

Nevin Parsnipp · 12-11-2019 06:11PM

Yes The O'Gorman slot is great and Paddy has the knack of getting people to talk in sometimes difficult circs.

What I get out of it is that the pond life that usually appear in the Courthouse sessions must be fuelling the free legal aid trough...where the legals gather to slop from the public purse.

Some of the stuff is so bizarre that you wonder why nobody has shouted STOP !

Until you realise that the legals and their fellow travellers in government have their trotters deep in the golden trough and are happy to keep stiffing the public purse.

Could be that is why the excellent O'Gorman slot is just a filler ....powers that be don't want to shine TOO bright a light on that clusterfcuck that is our current legal system. ?

KaneToad · 12-11-2019 06:17PM

Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »

Yes The O'Gorman slot is great and Paddy has the knack of getting people to talk in sometimes difficult circs.

What I get out of it is that the pond life that usually appear in the Courthouse sessions must be fuelling the free legal aid trough...where the legals gather to slop from the public purse.

Some of the stuff is so bizarre that you wonder why nobody has shouted STOP !

Until you realise that the legals and their fellow travellers in government have their trotters deep in the golden trough and are happy to keep stiffing the public purse.

Could be that is why the excellent O'Gorman slot is just a filler ....powers that be don't want to shine TOO bright a light on that clusterfcuck that is our current legal system. ?

I remember when Paddy had a weekly half hour slot all to himself on RTE. I think it was called Queuing for a Living, (which was also the name of his book). It was the same format as his snippets on the SOR show. It was great radio.

KaneToad · 12-11-2019 06:20PM

sligojoek wrote: »

Major pulling of the heart strings. The poor little girl.

Ridiculous stuff from O'Callaghan. Saying that Lisa Smith shouldn't be incarcerated because she has a 2 year old child. Such nonsense. It's also an argument she'd never make about a man with a 2 year old child.

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