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The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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  • #1412
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,945 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Nigella surely has the sexiest voice on the airwaves ...

    No, that'd be Lara Marlowe


  • #1413
    Cole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭Cole


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    No, that'd be Lara Marlowe

    It's clearly Eanna Ni Lamhna.


  • #1414
    bobbyss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,317 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    'I'll get da spuds for ya Negella in west cark by.'
    Says Brendan tongue hanging out.


  • #1415
    Rabbit Redux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 312 ✭✭Rabbit Redux


    Shelga wrote: »
    Why does he have to mention the death of Nigella’s mother and husband?! She sounded a little taken aback to me.
    For god’s sake RTE, stop endlessly zooming in on misery...

    That particular instruction appears in the first line of the first paragraph of the first chapter of RTE's in-house Guide for Interviewers' Handbook.


  • #1416
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Callan57 wrote: »
    Nigella surely has the sexiest voice on the airwaves ...

    sure BOC has the sexiest voice on irish radio


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  • #1417
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,945 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Cole wrote: »
    It's clearly Eanna Ni Lamhna.

    You're welcome to her Coley, each to their own as the saying goes


  • #1418
    Treppen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Treppen


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    sure BOC has the sexiest voice on irish radio

    That can only be said in a cork accent


  • #1419
    Pelvis Parsley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley


    Cole wrote: »
    It's clearly Eanna Ni Lamhna.

    It’s ALWAYS Eanna. Centre of the universe, that one.


  • #1420
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    The laughing immunologist yet again. I'll wait until it passes the safety tests thanks Luke. If you are happy enough to take it after a press release from a company that has paid out billions in fines for illegal marketing, then roll up your sleeve. Maybe you could do it live on the Late Late Show?


  • #1421
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    How can the same man being worried about "long COVID" but seemingly have no worries about the long terms effects of a fast tracked vaccine?


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  • #1422
    bossdrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 356 ✭✭bossdrum


    generalgerry wrote: »
    How can the same man being worried about "long COVID" but seemingly have no worries about the long terms effects of a fast tracked vaccine?

    Don't worry, Luke mentioned he has friends in Pfizer so he is in the know.
    He also said that the woman whose company created the vaccine has increased its value by a billion. I think this shows Lukes real motivation in all this.


  • #1423
    [Deleted User]
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    Wow.



    What a whataboutery session.


  • #1424
    Infoanon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    generalgerry wrote: »
    How can the same man being worried about "long COVID" but seemingly have no worries about the long terms effects of a fast tracked vaccine?

    That's not what he said.

    The Christmas travel conversation was bizzare considering what is happening across Europe.

    The Woulfe discussion is being explained well


  • #1425
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    bossdrum wrote: »
    Don't worry, Luke mentioned he has friends in Pfizer so he is in the know.
    He also said that the woman whose company created the vaccine has increased its value by a billion. I think this shows Lukes real motivation in all this.

    Absolutely, some people just can’t see this.


  • #1426
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    What is it with Jennifer Gannon that she cannot pronounce the “g” in any word ending in “ing”?

    Hardly her most annoying trait, but irritating nonetheless.

    Some of us watched Borgen when it was out first Jennifer. :rolleyes:



    How she is a TV Critic without ever having watched The Wire or Breaking Bad remains one of life’s greatest mysteries. She’d have watched them if they had African American handicapped trans midgets in them though. #woke


  • #1427
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭plodder


    generalgerry wrote: »
    How can the same man being worried about "long COVID" but seemingly have no worries about the long terms effects of a fast tracked vaccine?
    Hopefully, the vaccine will bring the pandemic to an end therefore reducing to a much lower level, the incidence of "long covid".


  • #1428
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,291 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    plodder wrote: »
    Hopefully, the vaccine will bring the pandemic to an end therefore reducing to a much lower level, the incidence of "long covid".

    The consultant I'm attending for autoimmune type symptoms believes I may have "Long Covid syndrome" in that it has provoked my immune system into chronic inflammation, with evidence of resolving Covid type damage on lungs which is causing periodic breathing issues. When a vaccine becomes available I would recommend to seriously consider taking it as you just don't know how your body will react to the virus. I know the same could be argued about the vaccine, but in all probability the risk in getting the virus would be considerably greater than a vaccine.

    The virus itself is a live thing when it hits you, and your own body can go to town in trying to deal with it, and even when the virus itself is defeated, the cycle of tissue inflammation can go on and on and on. Thankfully I'm already retired (ex public servant, served my 40 years from age 17, otherwise I could be a formerly active relatively young person forced to give up work until goodness knows when because of its effects. In simple terms the vaccine is a "mock-up" of the virus, so just enough to provoke a protection against it but hopefully in the vast majority of cases not to send the immune system into overdrive.


  • #1429
    Infoanon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    If you are concerned about taking the vaccine just look at the risk levels of taking a neurofen.

    The anti everything brigade get to much airtime not helped when BOC makes comments along the line that there is no evidence that pubs and restaurants contribute to the spread of Covid - thankfully he was quickly corrected.

    As an aside - the simplest explanation I have seen of how the vaccine works has come from goggle box on C4 on Friday night Umar Siddiqui iirc


  • #1430
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    plodder wrote: »
    Hopefully, the vaccine will bring the pandemic to an end therefore reducing to a much lower level, the incidence of "long covid".

    But this is my genuine worry. The will put a gun to everybody's head - the vaccine is the solution to the lockdown, therefore everybody takes the vaccine or we keep you locked down.


  • #1431
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,945 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    generalgerry wrote: »
    But this is my genuine worry. The will put a gun to everybody's head - the vaccine is the solution to the lockdown, therefore everybody takes the vaccine or we keep you locked down.

    +it may be made very hard for anyone to travel overseas without the vaccine (alternative €199 covid test), health workers and the like may find it hard to continue working if they don't take the vaccine


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  • #1432
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Also when Luke O'Neill is on telling us "how excited he is" about the new Arthritis drug from Ely Lily, would it not be fair to disclose that his own company Sitryx has a relationship with Eli Lily?

    https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/eli-lilly-sitryx-deal-luke-oneill
    "Based in the UK and co-founded by Trinity’s Prof Luke O’Neill, biotech start-up Sitryx will develop four compounds to treat autoimmune diseases. Pharma giant Eli Lily has announced plans to partner with Oxford-based biopharma start-up Sitryx as part of a global licensing and research collaboration. Founded in 2018, Sitryx is working to regulate cell metabolism in the development of therapeutics in immuno-oncology and immune-inflammation."


  • #1433
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,550 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    generalgerry wrote: »
    Also when Luke O'Neill is on telling us "how excited he is" about the new Arthritis drug from Ely Lily, would it not be fair to disclose that his own company Sitryx has a relationship with Eli Lily?

    https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/eli-lilly-sitryx-deal-luke-oneill

    No wonder he’s smiling!


  • #1434
    plodder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭plodder


    generalgerry wrote: »
    But this is my genuine worry. The will put a gun to everybody's head - the vaccine is the solution to the lockdown, therefore everybody takes the vaccine or we keep you locked down.
    Personally, I will take it, and would encourage others to. I paid to get the HPV vaccine for my daughters before the government offered it for free. So, I believe in vaccines.

    But, I don't think this (or any) vaccine should be mandatory. I don't think it would be legal to force people to take one.


  • #1435
    imme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    How many items can you squeeze into a couple of hours. They were cramming so many topics in there you'd be left dizzy.

    What is Weekend on One, or whatever the name of the show is.

    They have gone downmarket on the panel who review newspaper and figure out the world and Ireland's place in it.

    Will there ever be an interview done by Brendan that would be anything like the memorable quality of Marian Finnucane's with Nuala O'Faolain, or Justine Mccarthy.

    Brendan is Brendan obviously and not Marian. He did effectively take over her slot. That is why I mentioned her.


  • #1436
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,385 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    imme wrote: »
    How many items can you squeeze into a couple of hours. They were cramming so many topics in there you'd be left dizzy.

    What is Weekend on One, or whatever the name of the show is.

    They have gone downmarket on the panel who review newspaper and figure out the world and Ireland's place in it.

    Will there ever be an interview done by Brendan that would be anything like the memorable quality of Marian Finnucane's with Nuala O'Faolain, or Justine Mccarthy.

    Brendan is Brendan obviously and not Marian. He did effectively take over her slot. That is why I mentioned her.

    Now we have to throw Ballsy some slack

    Nothing will be the same until the COVID 19 issue is controlled.

    People can’t come into the studio.. all that stuff.

    We have to a take account of that.


    All bets off.


  • #1437
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,654 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I really miss the panel of talking heads on a Sunday, picking apart all that's been in the papers and happened in the past week and giving different takes on it.

    I know it was an excuse for posters here to go nuts over the same luvvies appearing all the time, and who were they related to in RTE, and what sort of ****e were they talking (because they happened to differ with said poster's immovable, irrefutable opinion) - but I always found it an interesting recap with varying perspectives.

    Marian was an absolute master at running it.


  • #1438
    yosser hughes
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    I really miss the panel of talking heads on a Sunday, picking apart all that's been in the papers and happened in the past week and giving different takes on it.

    I know it was an excuse for posters here to go nuts over the same luvvies appearing all the time, and who were they related to in RTE, and what sort of ****e were they talking (because they happened to differ with said poster's immovable, irrefutable opinion) - but I always found it an interesting recap with varying perspectives.

    Marian was an absolute master at running it.

    I think the problem most people have with these panels is that they invariably do not have differing 'takes' or perspectives. Group think and lack of perspective is my memory of these panels.


  • #1439
    Pelvis Parsley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    I really miss the panel of talking heads on a Sunday, picking apart all that's been in the papers and happened in the past week and giving different takes on it.

    I know it was an excuse for posters here to go nuts over the same luvvies appearing all the time, and who were they related to in RTE, and what sort of ****e were they talking (because they happened to differ with said poster's immovable, irrefutable opinion) - but I always found it an interesting recap with varying perspectives.

    Marian was an absolute master at running it.

    Let's not look back with rose tinted shades. The concept was good-Pat Kenny did it very well, but in Made Marion's case, the execution was often poor, and the panel unbalanced. All that said, I still miss it.

    I remember my eldest girl, when Marion passed away, talking to me about it-she said you must be gutted, she was like, one of your favourite presenters. Primarily because a radio went on somewhere every weekend morning, and we were all used to it. I didn't agree then, but I can see where she's coming from now.

    Ballsy/Beefy has yet to win me over.


  • #1440
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Luke O'Neill admitted last week that there will be vaccine injuries as they are unavoidable amongst a small percentage of people who get vaccines. Has it been announced who will be liable for these injuries? Will it be the pharma company or the Irish State?


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  • #1441
    Infoanon
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    generalgerry wrote: »
    Luke O'Neill admitted last week that there will be vaccine injuries as they are unavoidable amongst a small percentage of people who get vaccines. Has it been announced who will be liable for these injuries? Will it be the pharma company or the Irish State?

    Vaccine injuries ??

    Luke O ' Neill said nothing of the sort this claim is anti vaxxer nonsense - look at any medicine eg Nurofen - and look at the list of side effects.

    All medicines / vaccines have side effects, the benefits greatly outweigh the risks is closer to what Luke actually said


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