Saturday with Katie Hannon

touts wrote: »

The government send a senior minister (Covney) with more than a couple of brain cells onto the show for the first time in a couple of years and the opposition respond by sending possibly their weakest possible line up they have ever assembled (Carty and Whitmore). The only way Sinn Fein could have selected a worse rep was if they propped Martin Browne up in an office chair and had a couple of his enforcers wheel him into the studio and just leave him there.

Bye election in 3 weeks and Fine Gael want to win it. So they'll be having senior ministers on programmes for the next while and then they'll disappear again.

Pretty drab affair, SF TD utterly out of her depth on every topic, kind of reminded me of a 5th year student in on work experience, Chambers just coming across all nice and sincere with Zero substance, is this chap even shaving? And Alan Kelly muttering down the phone line, just awful to listen too. On the one hand he opposes everything and yet starts every sentence not blaming a minister, government etc, followed by an incoherent rant. The pub rep was sitting in the background, mumbling about more financial aid, everyone including Justin Mc Carthy just ignored him, infact he was even mentioned as a guest in the opening segment

Johns nephew wrote: »

Remember that only for "golfgate" Sean O'Rourke would be doing this show and getting 200k per year for it.

Nah, Sean had retired ,buddy, wouldn’t have ‘sprung back’ that quickly.

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-and-sean-orourke-cut-ties-with-planned-political-show-cancelled-on-back-of-golf-gate-dinner-39473707.html

RTÉ and broadcaster Sean O'Rourke's relationship is over after a planned political show he was due to front has been cancelled.

Veteran broadcaster Mr O'Rourke had been set to front a new show at RTÉ. However, it was decided not to proceed with the show by mutual agreement - with RTÉ stating they would not be proceeding with plans for future projects with Mr O'Rourke.

Mr O'Rourke hosted the mid-morning show Today with Sean O'Rourke until May when he retired.

Mr O'Rourke was one of 81 people who attended the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner in Clifden last week.

Yes, I’m aware of that but apparently it would have been a more ‘John Bowman’ type show rather than a ‘current affairs’ live one as Saturday with KH is.

That was my understanding anyway.

There should be a "sackcloth and ashes" type interview coming from SOR shortly I suspect.

Fair play to Colm Brophy, yesterday took no bull from the usual ‘stacked deck’ of Hannon, Whitmore and O’Broin.

Put them in their boxes, well done Minister.

Entitled to your opinion Dee.

What this is is a moving target, it requires decisions to be made quickly but given the complexity of those parties involved it is very difficult to have every i dotted and every t crossed before the decision is take.

Otherwise we would never get anything done.

We just cannot see into the future on this and the requests for definite dates and ‘certaintity’ by Hannon and her ilk is just plain stupid.

Minister Brophy only interrupted when incorrect accusations were made by others and indeed Hannon raised the decibels many times shouting down Minister Brophy as he tried to answer questions.

Folk need to remember the is a huge difference between broad policy strategy and the actual minutiae of its actual implementation in terms of covering all the bases.

Takes time folks, can’t just snap your fingers and it happens, as some seem to think.

We moved from objective to personal very quickly in the quoted post Dee, which I’ll have to say is a trait I don’t particularly like.

Particularly when assumptions are made attributing certain stances to respected posters who say it as they see it.

Thats how I see it Dee, you obviously see it differently, let’s leave to abuse and personalities out of it.

Lookit, we’ll have to leave it there………..

Fantastic Picture 🤣🤣

I was fuming yesterday listening to Brophy, I bit my lip but when I saw this mornings party political broadcast disguised as a post , I was livid. Brophy''s arrogance was breathtaking 😏

I honestly suggest you playback the episode, your clearly trying to spin something that did not happen . Folk as you describe me can see with their own eyes that your assertion , Brophys performance was good, let alone acceptable is delusional. Your belief in the cult that is FG is clearly blinding your judgement.

Your post earlier was clearly a Stunt and FG party political broadcast , expecting no response was somewhat naive.

Lol, fair and balanced, is that what you call your assessment of Brophy performance, come now, Brendan, your obsessional support for FG is well known, just wish you'd be more transparent about your agenda.

No Breener, he did not, but he put Whitmore in her box, which I was more than pleased about.

Nasty piece of work.

Hannon was in lightning to rescue Whitmore.