The Stand With Eamon Dunphy

Tomas Ryan was bang on about the government's motives in stopping the track and trace of children with covid. They don't have the competence to carry it out so suddenly it is a matter of privacy concerns. It reminds me of when the science told them that masks don't help because they didn't have enough masks for the country. They have been constantly massaging and hiding numbers when it comes to schools and if it was the Chinese or Russian governments up to these tricks it would be roundly criticized.

Unfortunately nobody is listening anymore but the brazenness of this government is really shocking.

EVeryone's in on the grift, everyone but you, you're wayyy too smart aren't you.

They aren't compensated for their viewpoints, they are compensated for creating content that people want to listen to. And I don't see any of them presenting themselves as anything, or is that what someone is doing when expressing an opinion of their own?

Curious to know where you get your information to be able to determine what is nonsense and what isn't?

I don't have a problem with him doing UK episodes. Like it or not, they are our nearest neighbours, we share a land border with them and we are affected by events in those countries. Brexit is turning into a shitshow and goodness knows what blowback we're going to suffer from it here. Chris Johns is an excellent contributor and a big step up from the woeful Brendan O'Neill. If he was to drop one of the recurring episodes and branch out into new territory, it'd have to be the Tomás Ryan ones. I think Eamon's own underlying health conditions are driving his fear of Covid and is maybe too willing to listen to Ryan. The Russian ones make for comedic listening, either because the journalist is brainwashed or knows he'll be having an unfortunate "accident" if he deviates from the party line.

Trump is still big box office, whether we like it or not. It's looking increasingly like he's going to run for President again in 2024, meaning he is a significant figure to track. As far as I can see, the only things that'll stop him are his health or him going to prison in the meantime. The 2022 primaries are on the horizon and because of Trump's grip on the Republican Party, he is going to be a significant influence on the candidates they run. I'd dearly love for him to go away permanently but it looks like that isn't going to happen.

No, not a chance. So unless his years of bad living finally catch up with him, he'll be running again.

It was a complete **** show, but amusing nonetheless! They spent half the podcast correcting each other over easily verified facts such as who they played or what position players played in.. The tiniest bit of preparation would've helped.

A complete shitshow but I felt sorry for Brady who isn’t as doddery as giles or as strange as dunphy.

I think it's the populist view as an overwhelming majority of fans at the games seem to be firmly behind Kenny. Nothing wrong with nailing your colours to the mast.

"You can't get good coke in this town" lamented Eamonn back in the day.

I liked the utter randomness of the Rolling Stones / Beatles discussion.

"Marianne Faithfull, she was a won hit wonder I believe" Classic Eamon.

Sitting on the jacks would be perfectly appropriate considering the amount of scutter that comes out of his mouth

Let's not forget that the people who shout the loudest are the ones with the most extreme views. I don't believe it's that people don't care" about Covid. Instead, there seems to be an acceptance that Covid isn't going away despite the vaccines and the restrictions. People just want to get on with their lives and have had enough. That Level 5 after Christmas was a gamechanger in my opinion and anybody I've spoken to always mentions how hellish that particular one was. That isn't to say they aren't aware that they run the risk of catching it and some will curtail their behaviour more than others. Tomás Ryan always comes across to me like a man who might be on the spectrum and doesn't understand human nature all that well. We all know that if everyone stayed at home and restricted their contacts, the cases would drop like a stone. But there seems to be no desire to do that now and fatigue has well and truly set in.