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The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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  • #782
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,384 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Mav11 wrote: »
    I have seldom heard such rubbish as I’m hearing now about Michael Cauley.

    Rubbish...... what kind of rubbish are you hearing?


  • #783
    Cole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Cole


    Michael McNamara must be coming down with a touch of Covid19 himself. This has to be the one of the worst performances of any TD I've ever heard ...jaw dropping stuff.


  • #784
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Probably everything uttered by Michael McNamara this morning.


  • #785
    Infoanon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,929 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Michael Mc Namara finally being torn to shreds with his nonsense - getting an easy ride for months


  • #786
    Raisins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Raisins


    So hard to listen to people shouting each other down on and laughing at each other’s points etc on a Sunday morning.

    That’s one thing the late Marian Finuncane was really good at. She moderated the discussion to give it a calm less noisy vibe.


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  • #787
    Mav11
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    Infoanon wrote: »
    Michael Mc Namara finally being torn to shreds with his nonsense

    Damian finished the call with him abruptly.


  • #788
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,384 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Mav11 wrote: »
    Probably everything uttered by Michael McNamara this morning.

    And I’m in total agreement with that view.

    What ‘Pat’ has to learn is responsibility brings with it higher standards.

    Thankfully Mr Cauley realised this and Ms Martin also realised it

    Chop chop, bang , gonzo, job done overnight end of, nice and clean.

    Unlike the Cowen scenario...........


  • #789
    Cole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Cole


    Infoanon wrote: »
    Michael Mc Namara finally being torn to shreds with his nonsense

    Not enough though...hopefully more will follow post interview and his Oireachtas colleagues will give him a good pasting.


  • #790
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    And I’m in total agreement with that view.

    What ‘Pat’ has to learn is responsibility brings with it higher standards.

    Thankfully Mr Cauley realised this and Ms Martin also realised it

    Chop chop, bang , gonzo, job done overnight end of, nice and clean.

    Unlike the Cowen scenario...........

    Slightly different scenario, Cowen is an elected representative, Cauley is not.


  • #791
    Joe_ Public
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    I didnt get the names, but interesting discussion earlier.

    Man: we dreadfully overreacted to the pandemic, got it totally wrong etc.

    Woman: but all those pictures from Italy of hospitals being overwhelmed, that could easily have been us.

    Man: exactly, great point. And just proves what I'm saying.

    I lost him after that. How did it prove his point? Couldnt quite make out the thread of that argument.


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  • #792
    Cole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Cole


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Couldnt quite make out the thread of that argument.

    I don't think anyone could...and he's the chairman of the Oireachtas Response to Covid19 Committee.


  • #793
    ShamNNspace
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    Oh God no is that mary louise I hear?


  • #794
    Joe_ Public
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    Cole wrote: »
    I don't think anyone could...and he's the chairman of the Oireachtas Response to Covid19 Committee.

    No, it wasnt McNamara. Its one of the guys on the panel, didnt catch his name at the start.


  • #795
    Cole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Cole


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    No, it wasnt McNamara. Its one of the guys on the panel, didnt catch his name at the start.

    Oh it must have got mixed up in my head, due to the panels talking over each other and me shouting at the radio. The other guy's Karl Dieter.


  • #796
    Infoanon
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    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    No, it wasnt McNamara. Its one of the guys on the panel, didnt catch his name at the start.

    Karl Dieter - his point blown out of the water by Sinead who pointed out that the article written by DanO' Brien had a caveat on it (by Dan )


  • #797
    Technocentral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    It's chicken and chips circuit not rubber chicken


  • #798
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Pointless having both MLD and Sinead O'Carroll in the studio agreeing on everything. They are both painful. Plus MLD was picked by Enda Kenny to be in the Seanad, so there is always the whiff of a shill from her.

    McNamara was at a very distinct disadvantage, him being on the phone line and having two people in the studio disagreeing with every sentence before he had finished. I hope he's not going to do the Joe Duffy trick of giving more unchallenged airtime to only those people whose views he agrees with.


  • #799
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,384 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Mav11 wrote: »
    Slightly different scenario, Cowen is an elected representative, Cauley is not.

    The basic principle is the same Mav.

    My point is that positions of responsibility bring on higher standards.

    ‘Pat and Patricia’ seem to have a difficult relationship with that concept.

    Think charities

    Think politics

    Think churches and religion

    Think FAI



    ....and many others.


  • #800
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Infoanon wrote: »
    Karl Dieter - his point blown out of the water by Sinead who pointed out that the article written by DanO' Brien had a caveat on it (by Dan )

    I think his overall point of there being a consensus and "putting on of the green jersey" with regard to the lockdown is still valid though.


  • #801
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,384 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    MLOD coming in with 20/20 hindsight....and total bullschidt.


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  • #802
    Technocentral
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    MLOD is headache inducing a simple question elicits a 13000 word answer


  • #803
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,625 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Technocentral wrote: »
    It's chicken and chips circuit not rubber chicken

    I've always known it as the rubber chicken circuit!

    Had to turn it off today, between MLOD, them all shouting each other down, and then Leaving Cert to top it off (I know it's of great importance to a lot of people, but my god I'm sick of hearing about it)


  • #804
    Infoanon
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    generalgerry wrote: »
    Pointless having both MLD and Sinead O'Carroll in the studio agreeing on everything.

    Compared to Karl Dieter and Michael Mc Namara who agree everything ?

    Is the issue not that Sinead Mary L have shown that KD and MmN are all noise with arguments that fall apart once challenged

    Did Karl not think Sinead might have read the same Dan O Brien article and seen the caveat....


  • #805
    Technocentral
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    Does Karl Dieter like any one?


  • #806
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Technocentral wrote: »
    Does Karl Dieter like any one?

    Should stick to providing mortgage advice.


  • #807
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,384 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    MLOD........Hopefully RTE will have learned the lesson not to book MLOD on a show like this again.

    Way too strident and domineering.‘Gobby mare’ doesn’t do her justice

    Nearly took over from Damien today .....

    You don’t want a gobby mare roaring at you of a Sunday morning with a head like a ‘stone pot’ on you from Sat nite.

    Well this poster doesn’t anawy.


  • #808
    Mav11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,275 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    The basic principle is the same Mav.

    My point is that positions of responsibility bring on higher standards.

    ‘Pat and Patricia’ seem to have a difficult relationship with that concept.

    Think charities

    Think politics

    Think churches and religion

    Think FAI



    ....and many others.

    Agreed, my point is that it is much more difficult to remove an elected representative.


  • #809
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    What an absolute dose mlod is. An echo chamber dweller if ever there was one petfified any of her views might be challenged. Her opinion to me carries less weight than a mouses fart


  • #810
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,129 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Raisins wrote: »
    So hard to listen to people shouting each other down on and laughing at each other’s points etc on a Sunday morning.

    That’s one thing the late Marian Finuncane was really good at. She moderated the discussion to give it a calm less noisy vibe.



    You never miss the water till the well runs dry.


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  • #811
    seamusk84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 897 ✭✭✭seamusk84


    That was a horrific show today. I usually always look forward to listening to TWOO every Sunday when I am out walking.

    But today was just noise and nastiness. MLD does not lend well to the show and basically just ruined any kind of conversation or flow. I hope that is the last time they ever bring her on.

    Also hope Brendan O'Connor is back from his jolliers next week as he would have kept her in check better.


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