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Claire Byrne Live (RTE1)

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


    Mountain out of a molehill.


    A columnist wrote a bitchy piece slagging politicians atire.

    Big deal ?



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    We'd rather not have another Doherty TD in the dail either Regina, thanks!



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,530 ✭✭✭PieOhMy



    "The 'fashion police' bayed disapproval, the unkinder ones likening Bertie Ahern to a banana split. Adrian Copeland, brother and business partner of master tailor Louis, admitted they had supplied the clobber. "But not necessarily in that order," he said."


    Lol



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Price of fuel is off peak despite about 10 cent plus in tax being added to it over the last 5 years.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    FFS these props are ridiculous! She has a fcuking petrol pump in the studio!



  • Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭Possedion


    I'd say Claire has a tesla



  • Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭DaTown




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    At least there is a full team working on set creation in RTE



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Big money to be made in container company shares.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Did they actually bring kerosene in to the studio or is that Ribena?



  • Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭Possedion


    How much is the TV going for



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭dominatinMC


    Hopefully the former so they can burn all these **** props after



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    If we take the green approach simply spending €70k retrofitting your home is the solution, payback should be achieved around 70 years time.



  • Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭Possedion


    Eoghan must be pushing another be smart with the money under the mattress segment



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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    This lad is a fcuking dose! Out for his own pocket...looking for money for other people sending in content!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    The whole bidding process is open to corruption, needs to be transparent.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Not great for the seller if bids are not transparent.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Here we go, not a single 'fact' quoted will be challenged.



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    Had to laugh at the agent there, more money for the seller is a good thing. Yeah you get a % of that so of course more money for the seller is good.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    You can't say that caller.

    Ebon Joseph on line 2



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    I will gladly buy up all houses within one mile of the coast for 20% of their current asking price.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Covid Claire getting ready to change her name to Climate Claire



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,941 ✭✭✭dominatinMC




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    So the more money we spend the cooler the earth will get, simple.

    Shipping via containership is one of the lowest emissions possible.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    So Joanna doesn't care about house prices and now wants food to be way more expensive.


    It's great to be loaded.



  • Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭DaTown


    I don't want green beans from Kenya - Racist



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Get there on your bike and then find your bike gone when you get back to it as some scrote has stole it with an angle grinder.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Joanna hasn't been to rural Ireland ever it seems. Says need to just get cars off the road and make room for bikes. Where do they go then you silly fool? Cycle lanes on every road in the country?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,016 ✭✭✭Shelga


    Her basic point was that people drive absolutely everywhere and are exceedingly lazy, except she didn’t quite put it like that. It’s hard to disagree.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭ghoulfinger


    I was only visible at the intro to the show… way at the back to the right of Claire.



  • Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭ghoulfinger


    All I can say after zooming into a photo of the telly-shot someone sent me on WhatsApp, I’m going to invest in padding to camouflage me prominences. 😱



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,355 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    Joanna and hubby Horst are pretty wealthy and live in a fine big house. No money worries and they can afford to buy the expensive food.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,413 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    I remember a couple of years back on Eco Eye they visited the home of some bachelor lad in his 70's living in the complete back arse of nowhere house with an energy rating so poor it was off the scale and they told him what he would need to do with his home to make it more eco friendly, the show was a complete disgrace and abuse of power on the man. They dictated what he should do to reduce his emissions, what he should use to heat his home etc, the man was living a good mile plus from anyone burning his turf, coal and was happy out with his expenses, he would be long dead before any of their waffle would make any financial benefit to him. Meanwhile last season or so a family in Donaghmede, North Dublin blow €70k plus of a budget in a highly congested area and they fit a wood burning stove in the home and still get the massive grant, crooked as absolute fook.

    Installed a new wood-burning stove

    Anyone advising installing a wood burning stove in a built up area should be in jail with what is known now on particute matter.

    The show is sponsored by state agencies and should be audited by someone independent to see what in the jaysus it is advising, it's up there with cash for ash in what controls are there for State money to go.



  • Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭ghoulfinger




  • Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭ghoulfinger


    Should see the bidding system in Scotland. I once contemplated buying in Edinburgh and got to know about their system of written bids by envelope. It is actually very fair in principal, but I haven’t scrutinised closely how it pans out in practice.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    No, she came on and the first thing she did was say she saw 51% say they're worried about making ends meat this winter and that basically she doesn't care about those worries and only worries about climate change.

    Joanna saw that 51% of people are worried about making ends meat this winter and said she was flabbergasted that people are saying oil prices going up is a bad thing. She also wants food to go way up in price. How could she look someone in the eye who's struggling and tell them their costs should be even higher.

    Claire: "Do you have an EV?"

    Joanna: "I have a bike"

    Claire: "So you don't have a car?"

    Joanna: "I have an EV, we sold two diesels and bought an EV"

    So many holes in her viewpoints. It would likely make more sense climate wise to keep the diesel. How many emissions went in to building that EV? Digging massive holes in the earth in China for rare earth magnets? All the flights from Asia and Europe to get to Ireland etc. The electricity she uses to charge her EV likely is dirty. And we're having energy shortages so how can she think everyone should have an EV?

    Emissions from tyres are also 1000 times worse than those from the exhaust. EVs are heavier than ICE cars and thus produce more emissions:

    https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-worse-exhaust-emissions



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    That Eco Eye program with Donkey Stewart is basically a 30 minute advertisement for the retrofit & renewables industry. The end credits say it is supported by the SEAI so its them who are funding it. Must be great that the retrofit industry have a half an hour long ad on tv with Donkey raving on about how great every eco product is and sure you can get a grant for this and a grant for that. What he wont be saying is most of these companies have raised up the prices of anything that attracts a grant so they get it for themselves.

    Its interesting the way government agencies are now getting tv programs made to try to sell whatever wares they are promoting. Another one is Nevin Maguires Irish Seafood Trails which only features fish dishes. If you look at the credits at the end the program is made for the Fisheries Board, another government quango. So that too is basically a 30 minute long ad trying to get people to buy more fish. Then you had Kathryn Thomas No Place Like Home, this time sponsored by Failte Ireland in an effort to get people to 'staycation' and be ripped off by the prices of Irish hotels.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,436 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Not buying sh1te from China has even lower emissions that shipping sh1te by container ship.

    How old were the diesels? What mileage was on them? What state of repair were they in?

    Do you think maybe you should have the full facts before you jump down someone's throat?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Well, I can't imagine the diesels were too old now. Joanna and hubby are filthy rich, they're not going around in a 98 Avensis are they?

    It's actually kinda funny because Donnelly must be around 50 yet it seems her care for the environment only started in the last couple of years. Climate change warnings have been around for 3o or 40 years...20 years in the mainstream yet you would think a meteorologist would be well ahead of the general population!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭MightyMunster


    So many holes in this post.

    Batteries are recyclable

    Electricity at night when people charge their cars is mostly wind energy and there's enough capacity for at least a million BEVs without any increase in capacity

    Every EV reduces import of oil and coal from abroad

    Extra carbon produced in manufacturing an EV repaid within a year in Ireland

    She has reduced her number of cars by 50%, surely that's good? Would you have preferred if she bought two new diesels?

    Burning fossil fuel to produce electricity for a car is more efficient than burning in each car. And isn't pumping fumes into the faces of kids, babies, cyclists, pedestrians as you drive around.

    Tyre particles aren't causing Climate change, they might be polluting the air but that's a separate and less pressing issue. Is a Nissan Leaf heavier than a Range Rover? Are you suggesting only Minis or Fiat 500s should be sold?



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Batteries are recyclable? Lithium ion batteries are recycled at a current rate of 5%...lol

    What happens when the wind doesn't blow?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,436 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Maybe isn't not a great idea to criticise people based on what you imagine? Not sure that two public servants would meet my definition of 'filthy rich' either tbf.

    Why would you reckon her car for the environment only started in the last couple of years?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,567 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Division and sniping at each other won't help us to address climate change.

    Some well off people care, some don't. Some not so well off care, some don't.

    The policies that will work need to ensure that all socio economic groups can be part of the solution.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Public servants? lol

    Is Ryan Tubridy not filthy rich?

    Go have a look at her twitter or even google about her. She's been constantly referencing that she cycles for the last 2 years. Her daughter is a veggie for two years.

    She has 3 kids...which is like the worst thing for the environment.

    Here's a quote just 3 years ago from Donnelly:

    Although scientists predict that global temperatures are set to rise over the next four years, Donnelly dismisses the notion of what she calls Ireland's 'Goldilocks' climate taking a drastic turn.


    "We're not too hot, not too cold, it's just perfect here; perfect for living in, perfect for growing food - and we really should appreciate that," she chuckles.


    "So complain all you like, but appreciate the fact that we have actually got the most temperate of climates. The last 12 months hasn't been a great example of that temperate climate, true - but we're lucky in the grand scheme of things."



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭MightyMunster


    It's actually 50% that are recycled and climbing, these are currently mostly phone, laptops etc.. car batteries will generally be used for static storage first before being recycled. A new car battery today probably won't be available for recycling until late 2030s at the earliest.

    If the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine then we're all going to die of cold, starvation or flooding.

    Doesn't matter what you think of EVs they are coming whether you like it or not. Don't see too many people commuting on horseback despite all the whinging when ice arrived.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭MightyMunster


    Well they were Right according to a friends of the Earth report in 2010, pity they didn't look for a more recent figure. Not too many EVs (if any) at end of life in 2010.



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,436 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Tubridy isn't a public servant. He's a private sector contractor.

    They've a good income for sure, probably touching €200k in the house, but that wouldn't be my definition of filthy rich. Start talking to senior folks in banks or Google or Microsoft and see what filthy rich actually means.

    You've been a tad selective in your quotes from that article. Why did you leave out the other bits, like

    "She does, however, admit that there is a worrying trend in climate change on a global scale in the long term. "I talk about climate change in the book, and minimising your impact when you can," she nods. "Every choice that we make counts - like, today, for example you chose a glass of water, rather than buying one of those bottles which we so instinctively reach for every time," she says, pointing to my now-empty glass. "Some marketing genius back in the 1990s decided to tell us to buy these plastic bottles of water, and we did; and we never used to. People managed to survive very well drinking tap water for a long, long time - and now there's how many, a billion of those plastic bottles on the planet? It's depressing. But I think David Attenborough did a really good job of highlighting the dangers of plastic over the last year or two and now everybody is starting to be a bit more aware of their actions - at the supermarket, at home, wherever.""

    And if you're deciding what a person was thinking 10 or 20 years ago based on their Twitter feed of three years ago, you might be looking in the wrong place.

    Maybe it would help move things along if you could clarify up front what particular standard of ideological purity your require from someone to not be sniping and picking holes? How long does a person have to have been living in the forest off fresh spring water and leaves for you to actually listen to what they say instead of coming up with petty arguments to distract from the message?



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