The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

Bellbottoms · 14-03-2021 03:49PM

Del.Monte wrote: »

Is she from Munich or Mallow - take your pick online such is the standard of journalism. Perhaps she's reinventing herself like Violet Wynne - Leo's favourite SF TD.

I am confused. What are you trying to say?

EmmetSpiceland · 14-03-2021 04:34PM

Bellbottoms wrote: »

I am confused. What are you trying to say?

She’s class.

Hangdogroad · 14-03-2021 04:57PM

Government buildings wrote: »

I listen to Neil Prenderville on Cork Red FM. in the mornings.
He gives everyone a voice, recommend. Finished with RTE and Newstalk.

Hes an utter bellend, both on air and off.

EmmetSpiceland · 14-03-2021 07:42PM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Hes an utter bellend, both on air and off.

Incredible there was no real fallout from his airplane “incident”.

dvcireland · 14-03-2021 10:12PM

NIMAN wrote: »

I heard a doctor on UK radio around last summer time, asked if you died in a car crash but had tested positive in the last 30 days, would you be classed as a Covid death.

He said yes.

That says a lot about the "Covid Death figures" for me.

there was a man in wicklow, killed in a fatal car accident, listied as a covid-19 death.

I have been told that hospitals get paid for covid-19 deaths.

NIMAN · 14-03-2021 10:40PM

dvcireland wrote: »

I have been told that hospitals get paid for covid-19 deaths.

Very much doubt that. Sounds like something you'd read among conspiracy theorists on Facebook.

Hospitals are funded out of health budget, it's not like they get extra money at the end of the month after tallying up their deaths.

ButtersSuki · 14-03-2021 10:41PM

dvcireland wrote: »

there was a man in wicklow, killed in a fatal car accident, listied as a covid-19 death.

I have been told that hospitals get paid for covid-19 deaths.

That’s not true.

Elmo · 14-03-2021 11:25PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

That’s not true.

Am I wrong to suggest that GP's are paid something extra when sending people to get tested for COVID.

ButtersSuki · 14-03-2021 11:30PM

Elmo wrote: »

Am I wrong to suggest that GP's are paid something extra when sending people to get tested for COVID.

Can’t speak to that, but I can tell you the hospital payment question (which was the point raised earlier) is not true.

ButtersSuki · 14-03-2021 11:36PM

Elmo wrote: »

Am I wrong to suggest that GP's are paid something extra when sending people to get tested for COVID.

I have close relatives who are GPs. I will ask tomorrow (too late now tonight, plus I’m in bed) but I haven’t heard anything of the sort. And that would most likely have come out before now.

EmmetSpiceland · 14-03-2021 11:45PM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

I have close relatives who are GPs. I will ask tomorrow (too late now tonight, plus I’m in bed) but I g JH agent heard anything of the sort. And that would most likely have come out before now.

I thought they got a fee, something like €15, from anyone calling up for a Covid “consultation”. Instead of their usual €60 consultancy fee.

Don’t believe they get anything from the government for sending people to get tested.

ButtersSuki · 15-03-2021 12:08AM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I thought they got a fee, something like €15, from anyone calling up for a Covid “consultation”. Instead of their usual €60 consultancy fee.

Don’t believe they get anything from the government for sending people to get tested.

Well to be fair that’s a completely separate issue and question. I’ll ask in the morning and revert when I have an answer.

15-03-2021 12:16AM

dvcireland wrote: »

there was a man in wicklow, killed in a fatal car accident, listied as a covid-19 death.

I have been told that hospitals get paid for covid-19 deaths.

You need to provide verified links to support these kind of claims.

generalgerry · 15-03-2021 12:26AM

Bellbottoms wrote: »

I think she is wheeled on as the token young person.

I think it's a bit reckless of RTE to keep bringing her on. She's a bit of a loose cannon and always seems to be on the very of saying something libelous. Have her on to talk about entertainment for sure, or eating disorders (as she lost a huge amount of weight in fairness to her), or drinking. But not to lecture us on vaccines.

Dan Jaman · 15-03-2021 01:46AM

generalgerry wrote: »

"Anti Vaxxers will have a 'field day' with the news of the AZ vaccine being pulled" says Brendan. Instead of maybe acknowledging that anybody who said that the vaccines were rushed might have actually had a point and that RTE may have been wrong to tell everybody to "take any vaccine, they are all safe, they are all effective".

Haven't you got the chip in your head yet?

generalgerry · 15-03-2021 08:33AM

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Haven't you got the chip in your head yet?

No, you can have mine Dan, not that you would need it.

dvcireland · 15-03-2021 10:10AM

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Can’t speak to that, but I can tell you the hospital payment question (which was the point raised earlier) is not true.

thanks for dispelling that hospital payment misiformation

plodder · 15-03-2021 10:58AM

generalgerry wrote: »

"Anti Vaxxers will have a 'field day' with the news of the AZ vaccine being pulled" says Brendan. Instead of maybe acknowledging that anybody who said that the vaccines were rushed might have actually had a point and that RTE may have been wrong to tell everybody to "take any vaccine, they are all safe, they are all effective".

How does this show that the vaccines were rushed?

Cole · 20-03-2021 12:31PM

Mark Cagney: "I know I'm in Marian's studio..." Oh I wish.

yosser hughes · 20-03-2021 12:33PM

Jaysus Mark Cagney doesn't half like talking about himself! You'd swear he was Keith Richards the way he was going on at one stage. Beat on the steet my arse!
While the conversation about his stroke was interesting enough and informative, the rest was just hubris. He's one of the most self-absorbed people I've ever heard on radio and that's saying something.

pc7 · 20-03-2021 12:33PM

Really enjoying this interview, Cagney has a good voice for radio. He stood in for Cudihy a few times on news talk and eas streets ahead.

Beechwoodspark · 20-03-2021 12:34PM

Never a fan of Cagney

Something off about him

pc7 · 20-03-2021 12:34PM

yosser hughes wrote: »

Jaysus Mark Cagney doesn't half like talking about himself! You'd swear he was Keith Richards the way he was going on at one stage.
While the conversation about his stroke was interesting enough and informative, the rest was just hubris. He's one of the most self-absorbed people I've ever heard on radio and that's saying something.

He’d a serious coke addiction in the 80’s, came out the other side.

walshb · 20-03-2021 12:35PM

yosser hughes wrote: »

Jaysus Mark Cagney doesn't half like talking about himself! You'd swear he was Keith Richards the way he was going on at one stage.
While the conversation about his stroke was interesting enough and informative, the rest was just hubris. He's one of the most self-absorbed people I've ever heard on radio and that's saying something.

He really does lay it on thick!

Beechwoodspark · 20-03-2021 12:36PM

yosser hughes wrote: »

Jaysus Mark Cagney doesn't half like talking about himself! You'd swear he was Keith Richards the way he was going on at one stage. Beat on the steet my arse!
While the conversation about his stroke was interesting enough and informative, the rest was just hubris. He's one of the most self-absorbed people I've ever heard on radio and that's saying something.

Sums it up well. Huge ego.

The keith Richards of tv3 breakfast tv ffs...

Radio off

mgn · 20-03-2021 12:44PM

I never liked him and after that interview I now know why.
Thinks he is some sort of superstar, never heard a man of his age so full of himself,

Joe_ Public · 20-03-2021 12:45PM

Could you imagine Mark Cagney being interviewed by Dave Fanning or vice versa? What a battle to get a word in edgeways at a million miles an hour. Didnt mind it personally though, thought it was quite a powerful story in the main.

Beechwoodspark · 20-03-2021 12:46PM

mgn wrote: »

I never liked him and after that interview I now know why.
Thinks he is some sort of superstar, never heard a man of his age so full of himself,

Over the years he’s always been like that, ego crazed

He’s always centre of attention in his mind.

The rare times I saw that breakfast show he hosted he could be downright nasty to the co presenters particularly the women.

I shudder to think what he was like high on cocaine

mgn · 20-03-2021 12:49PM

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Over the years he’s always been like that, ego crazed

I shudder to think what he was like high on cocaine

Probably had the opposite affect on him.

yosser hughes · 20-03-2021 12:54PM

pc7 wrote: »

He’d a serious coke addiction in the 80’s, came out the other side.

I'd take stories of 'serious' coke addiction(especially in Ireland of the eighties) with a pinch of salt if that's not mixing metaphors somewhat. It wasn't exactly boomtime London or New York in Dublin back then. Quite the opposite.
It tends to be overstated and usually the source of the stories are from the 'addict' themselves. Cagney is a classic example of this.

The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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