Off The Ball Official Thread <Mod Note - Post #1, #533, #6651>

generalgerry wrote: »

I'm surprised anything that he could say would elicit such a strong response - what in particular that he said was most offensive?

Liked a tweet about Jonny Cooper the Dublin footballer where someone said the person who stabbed him wouldn't have done it without a good reason

Tweeted something really offensive about Gay Byrne the day after he passed away, its deleted now I discovered, not the 1st time something like that happened with him and a bereavement.

I taught Pat Gilroy was a joke on his Sunday Game appearance myself but McKenna tweeted calling him a fat 'word that rimes with duck' , hardly professional from an award winning journalist.

Plenty of other stuff too, too much to remember

rrs wrote: »

No it isn't. He just constantly singles out people and thinks he's great. Took fun out of David Brady for calling people during the lockdown.

Basically stitched up Eddie Brennan with his 'off record interview'.'.

A bellend.

I think the Brennan thing was an horrendous error rather than a stitch up, if it was a stitch up he was basically throwing himself under the bus.

I don't think Brennan he suffered from it in terms of public esteem funnily enough

It might have been a genuine mistake, but how can you be sure? Was there ever anything else leaked on the show? This involved his own County and seemed more suspect. Cheddar Plunkett was a regular on the show before, so kind of fell into place for him to get the job again.

The interview went on for 5 minutes off air, surely someone could have copped it was being played?..

I see the usual snowflakery is alive and well here, lead principally by TMH as usual. I suppose the reason you criticise Wooly (and McKenna) is because they have opinions that deviate from the norm and there’s no way we can be having that in Ireland today. Differences of opinion and the expression of a counter-belief is simply not tolerable, most particularly when it comes to the Church of Covid and the compulsion to bow at its altar. I personally think McKenna is a prick. He’s bigoted towards my main sport, which is rugby, but he can say what he wants and he has every right to do so. I’ll even gladly listen to him do it the rare time he does actually appear in the vanilla-flavoured Irish media. On Wooly, no week could be better than last to compare the quality of his show vs OTB. They both interviewed one of the GAA’s most interesting and colourful characters, Shane Curran. Wooly got a very good interview out of him which shouldn’t be difficult to achieve, but somehow OTB managed to produce a banal, useless dirge that I didn’t even bother finishing it got so boring. Wooly offers passion, colour, an uncensored opinion and all of himself in his shows and the squares around here still crave the sterile, mundane, paint-by-numbers approach of OTB. I suppose not to be unexpected on the OTB thread but there has been more criticism than praise here over the long term.

Tell me how wrote: »

Think it could just as well have been that Lee stepped back from OTB himself rather than them black-balling him.
He'd have known that he would have been asked directly so rather than put himself in a hard place, he may have chosen to step away.

Will never know unless it is referred to specifically by either party. It was a strange move by Lee mind given his involvement with the show. Obviously money was a factor you'd imagine.

I think Kieran Cunningham deserves a lot of credit for pushing this story. He probably received his fair share of 'interesting' DM's on Twitter for doing so and I see some MTK associates are pushing the #ignoreIrishmedia angle again.

Kieran Cunningham has been excellent, hes good on most topics..

Any chance Newstalk could send Eoin Sheehan out a decent mic to his gaff so he doesn't sound like he's broadcasting from his phone?