As somebody just said to me they are all trying to outdo each other in the conversation and totally losing the plot in the process.
You'd think she would have done a bit of research before writing her rant. Even when it was being pointed out to her that there was one, then two, then three editors she tried to brush it off with "but look how many men there are".
People like her are only ruining any discussion on equality.
sam McConkey on earlier asking is it the case we need to license men (to exist?). Alison O’Connor makes wrong claim that there are no female editors-in-chief, then Brendan had to read a list out to correct that stance.
This upcoming fallow period of rubbish and re runs (worse than the usual shyte anyway) is what free audiobooks from Borrow Box, Podcasts, and BBC Sounds is for.
BBC doesn't shut down like we do, they are professionals.
Sipping their Pre Mup Champagne!
Good time to assess the "B" team over the next few weeks ...all the "A" listers will be be disappearing behind the high gates of their leafy South Dublin or North Wicklow enclaves.
Bendar has called Jan 8th as when the swallows come back...the lad may well be on the money !
How does anyone listen to or watch ANTHING on RTE anymore? Unless you are a masochist of course and enjoy Covid, Cancer, Mental ill health, Assisted Dying, Restrictions, NPHET, and constant negativity and moaning. Jaysus almighty, it is not good for you.
Not a hint of positivity or anything uplifting is there? Just reading the RTE threads fills me with the rage anyway.
That cosy cabal in Montrose needs a big kick.
Time to blow the stour off the great man's thread I suppose.
BOC has to be the biggest sell out in Irish media of the past two decades, I remember a time he was viewed as edgy
B'OC going full throttle this morning with scaremongering. Zero attempt at balance and some alternative voice. Pure government propaganda. Has no one a brain in there to question and tease out some of the various factors at play?
Whatever does happen over Christmas re Omicron, or anything else for that matter, we won’t be hearing much about it, we’ll certain hear zero discussion about it. Even if there are critical developments, there’ll be nobody dragged in to host any forum as Ireland.Broadcasting shuts down for well over a week come hell or high water. The tape machines must not be stopped.
Ms. Moore sounding less like a journalist and more like the SF politician she so desperately wants to be.
Why would’t they …… the tape recorders have been oiled up, whatever happens this RTE lot certainly won’t suffer.
They will disappear like melted snow any day now and will not be seen again till around the 8th of January.
These giddy people seem to find the current situation funny
The only sad thing about Rita Ann Higgins and Tony Bates contributions is that most of those who might benefit from listening to them are not doing so.
The Pandemic Poet, our national broadcaster could not hold us in lower regard. Unfortunately this probably means Pat Kenny is preparing to wheel out his "pal" Luke O'Neill's to sing us a Xmas song. Only solace is that we're getting what we deserve.
Ballsy and others don’t seem to be able to sustain two hours anymore.
Has to be a reason…. Would Noel have anything to do with it.
You have Drivetime now having the last half hour passed over to Paddy O’Gorman and before that PBH.
Load of bolloxe.
I turned off the interview before it was over out of pure frustration.
We keep being told about the COVID crisis upon us, that we are facing a bigger challenge than ever before in this pandemic. Vaccine Vaccine Vaccine….Booster Booster Booster, the drip feeding of scare and misery is endless.
Then Brendan asks……can people living in the UK come home for Christmas. Yeah no problem, if they have the booster or not. So just to be sure to be sure, we will allow people living in a country with a huge spike in the most transmissible variant home to a country with a health service on its knees.
If Animal, Scooter and the Swedish Chef from the Muppets became the leaders of our country…….would we notice a difference ???
I think Michéal Martin is probably a particularly nice human being, outside of politics.
I can only come to the conclusion that there is an imperative for RTÉ interviewers to bring up family tragedies at every possible occasion whether relevant or not to the interview, and especially coming up to Christmas. Who is dictating this? Did the organisation hire in some pop psychologist who suggested it was good for the mental health of the nation to be forever reminded of everybody else’s misery in order to keep from being unrestfully envious of guests or speakers on the various shows? I can only imagine there is some design and purpose behind it.
Corkonian here. The two rival talk radio presenters down this way (Peedge and Prendeville) don't indulge in these silly Joe Duffy-esque colloquialisms, I don't know why the beefy ballsy fella feels the need to.
That was tacky and irrelevant. The whole interview was littered with parochial 'come eer to me and ' like ' interjections. He should remember he is on national radio and not some back street amateur hour radio in Cork.
You made the right call.
The Christmas Mental Elf is now getting its usual airing.
Didn't hear all of it, but of what I did had hoped that 'ballsy' would actually question our leader about the supposed protection that our wonderful vaccination system offered and why we need more boosting all of a sudden?
However the Pandemic Poet has appeared which induces an immediate and swift Pavlovian response, to reach for the OFF switch.
Micheál Martin on with Beefy this morning.
Not a bad interview, I thought, even if the latter did have to bring up the misery quota by raising the matter of the Taoiseach's personal family tragedies.
I don’t rate MM as a politician but as a father and human he came across very real discussing the loss of two of his children. I think I forget at times they are human after all. Good interview, some interesting insight.
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Didn’t take long for Brendan to bring up the 50% no shows for booster vaccines.
Donnelly, Martin and Reid will be happy that the state broadcaster follows the official line that the public are to blame.
I generally like Stephen Fry..... but what a media hoore
As usual question radio presenter ..... 'Tell me about your first ****'? 😁
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