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The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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  • #2072
    woejus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭woejus


    dvcireland wrote: »
    thanks for dispelling that hospital payment misiformation

    do you tend to believe everything you're told?


  • #2073
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,945 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    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.

    I take alot of the "2 bottles" of vodka a day"stories from a lot of the celebs with a large dose of salt as well


  • #2074
    mgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    ShamNNspace wrote: »
    I take alot of the "2 bottles" of vodka a day"stories from a lot of the celebs with a large dose of salt as well

    That's like anytime you hear the boxer Kenny Egan on about his drink addiction, you would swear he was a down and out alcoholic living on the streets.


  • #2075
    Joe_ Public
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    "So ye never had to let anyone go, right?"

    "We had 34 staff, we were down to 3 and now back up to 12."

    Firm bollocking on the way for programme researcher later methinks.


  • #2076
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    pc7 wrote: »
    He’d a serious coke addiction in the 80’s, came out the other side.

    I found it a little odd how they pussyfooted around the topics of drugs, only being willing to say that he lived the "excesses" that came with being famous. Seemed like Brendan was deliberately told not to mention drugs specifically, or maybe he was worried about some RTE stars being included in the group of those who were similarly excessive at the time.


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  • #2077
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,130 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    The topics and guests are just all so forgettable in the end.

    RTE is afraid of their lives to rock the boat on anything, Travellers, women, politics, Covid, asylum seekers, you get the drift. It is more bland than tepid water most of the time.


  • #2078
    walshb
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    mgn wrote: »
    That's like anytime you hear the boxer Kenny Egan on about his drink addiction, you would swear he was a down and out alcoholic living on the streets.

    They’re all the same. Column inches and publicity

    Worst con of all was Colin Farrell

    Ridiculous immature stories contrived by him and his team about him being some Hollywood hellraiser..

    And all the recent cons about being all clean and mature and zen!

    Fooking lightweight mouthpieces the lot a them!!


  • #2079
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,384 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    walshb wrote: »
    They’re all the same. Column inches and publicity

    Worst con of all was Colin Farrell

    Ridiculous immature stories contrived by him and his team about him being some Hollywood hellraiser..

    And all the recent cons about being all clean and mature and zen!

    Fooking lightweight mouthpieces the lot a them!!

    You are correct Bee.

    I am fully convinced that the print media have a lot to answer in relation to stirring stuff up in the Covid and other issues.

    Most of them negative and most very obviously tilted towards stirring up the populace and selling newsprint.

    Think the AZ issues.......

    Kind of hit and run attacks....


  • #2080
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    The topics and guests are just all so forgettable in the end.

    RTE is afraid of their lives to rock the boat on anything, Travellers, women, politics, Covid, asylum seekers, you get the drift. It is more bland than tepid water most of the time.

    What's there to "rock the boat" with Covid?


  • #2081
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    What's there to "rock the boat" with Covid?

    The fact that it’s pretty harmless to at least 98% of people.


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  • #2082
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,384 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    The fact that it’s pretty harmless to at least 98% of people.

    Tell that to Belgium, Czech , Italy, France etc....


  • #2083
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    mgn wrote: »
    That's like anytime you hear the boxer Kenny Egan on about his drink addiction, you would swear he was a down and out alcoholic living on the streets.

    I thought he was pretty bad though. Kenny Egan (the alter ego of the boxer Kenneth Egan) used to go on the beer for days on end from what I remember. Serious binges.


  • #2084
    Hangdogroad
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    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    The fact that it’s pretty harmless to at least 98% of people.

    Says who?


  • #2085
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,050 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Oh cry me a river Kate O’Connell giving out about the public interacting with politicians.


  • #2086
    zerosugarbuzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭zerosugarbuzz


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    Says who?

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/health/over-93-of-people-who-died-with-covid-19-had-underlying-condition-cso-1.4402354%3Fmode%3Damp


  • #2087
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,050 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    “You won’t attract people into public life”

    Utter claptrap

    One glance at the salaries these “public representatives” pay themselves ....


  • #2088
    Hangdogroad
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    zerosugarbuzz wrote: »
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/health/over-93-of-people-who-died-with-covid-19-had-underlying-condition-cso-1.4402354%3Fmode%3Damp

    That's not even remotely the same thing as saying its "pretty harmless".


  • #2089
    mgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    That muppet Corrigan and the only ex TD pharmacist in the country on again.


  • #2090
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,050 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    mgn wrote: »
    That muppet Corrigan and the only ex TD pharmacist in the country on again.

    Corrigan sounds permanently half scuttered


  • #2091
    golondrinas1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭golondrinas1


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    “You won’t attract people into public life”

    Utter claptrap

    One glance at the salaries these “public representatives” pay themselves ....

    And don't forget " their chances".


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  • #2092
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    She’s going an awful lot harder on Leo than I expected.


  • #2093
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,050 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Not a fan of KOC but she’s dead right in varadkar

    The “Leo” project has got nowhere.

    He over sold himself and completely under delivered


  • #2094
    mgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Corrigan sounds permanently half scuttered

    He talks scutter every time he opens his gob.


  • #2095
    golondrinas1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭golondrinas1


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    She’s going an awful lot harder on Leo than I expected.

    Probably a Coventry follower.


  • #2096
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,050 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    She’s going an awful lot harder on Leo than I expected.

    No love lost. Part of it stems back to her cat fights with Eoghan Murphy in the constituency. She called him and others Leo’s choir boys


  • #2097
    ButtersSuki
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Not a fan of Madigan but she’s dead right in varadkar

    He over sold himself and completely under delivered

    It’s Kate O’Connell, not Madigan.


  • #2098
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,050 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    It’s Kate O’Connell, not Madigan.

    Thanks butters, I’m half asleep today


  • #2099
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    golondrinas1 wrote: »
    Probably a Coventry follower.

    She is. And she very vocally backed him in the leadership battle.


  • #2100
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Thanks butters, I’m half asleep today

    Best way to listen to this!


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  • #2101
    mgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,904 ✭✭✭mgn


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    She’s going an awful lot harder on Leo than I expected.

    If she was still a TD she would be out defending and praising him, all the same.


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