Arry twas harmless what he said, O Connor is afraid of his shadow
I heard them discussing a piece about the fixing of irish dancing.
Of course BOC had to add, " of course we have to acknowledge all the work done by the many great people and volunteers involved as well".
It's like he is so scared of a complaining email that he has to cover all angles.
Who's yer one with the grating mid Atlantic accent?
There’s a young woman on O’Connor’s panel now who is loike totes woke and is doing her best to alienate anyone over 40 with her snowflakery.
You beat me to it I see!
Her voice assaults my ears. I'm not really taking in what she's saying as I find myself turning the sound down when she comes on.
So, Ireland how did you contribute to human civilization?
Oh, we didn't have time, too busy buying and selling houses.
She’s renting in Glaslough, Co. Monaghan (a tiny village, population 463 as per google) and complaining that there’s not much for her to do compared to a densely populated American city. Of course the host didn’t challenge her on this.
Now engaging in hyperbolic praise about the women's soccer team performance during the week. They won the game sure, but it was not a great performance.
The RTE cosy chat show passing comment on the peasants of Ireland.
Is there ever anybody with an alternative view or background on this show.
Thank God no.
Theres enough of the dossers on all Hannon’s programmes.
He's afraid of his life to come down on one side or the other in case RTE kick him to the kerb, and yet he has these alienating twats on.
It’s his job to be neutral is it not.
Pity someone wouldn’t inform Hannon.
Bias is not in question, it’s the inherent wokeness and fear of jeopardising the pay check.
As well as pandering to the endless conveyer belt of pontificating hypocrites who think nothing of knocking those outside the bubble-incidentally the same demographic who persist in abiding by the law and paying the license fee.
In between, there’s always Mental Elf . A nice safe subject.
Beefy will never rock the boat again.
Maybe most people with alternative views didn’t fancy putting up with this kind of sneering?
Did you miss the bit where she explained that she couldn’t afford to live in a city?
So you’re not a fan of having people with alternative views or backgrounds on the show?
Yeah, that’s what I said alright. Is that the best you can do?
Beefy is a sap now, he'll be boring the pants off the population for years to come. Same old predictable show format & style, week after week after week after week.... Sometimes I listen for first half an hour but rarely can tolerate more than that.
Same here, Ballsy can only go for the hour on Sunday.
Then swings over to whatever group of luvvies need a bit of free publicity.
Just another example of the serious dumbing down on all RTEs flagship radio shows.
Very sad situation.
People objecting to a “drag queen story hour” is seen as homophobic by Rory O’Neil…
No discussion on why people would find this worthy of protest?
This is not a healthy society.
You’re right, protesting against a story time event for children is very unhealthy.
God above, I wouldn't be rushing out to buy one of Banvilles books listening to him, he'd depress an anadin
Fits right in with BOC so.
I wondered who it was. Sounded like a complete curmudgeon.
Have a bit of sense and kill the show at 1200.
Just a parade of luvvies and liggers. after that.
Banville has "a great well come for himself" as we say around here, on about mourning his wife so deeply still, shur she was estranged from him at the time and no wonder, a sensible lady I would say, their relationship was long gone he having shacked up with another lady from the arts Council or something, then that anecdote about him falling on the street and somehow connecting the incident to the Jews being herded onto trains he's used in many interviews Lord above, best friend Harry Crosbie, I'll say no more
His chosen persona is that of the curmudgeon's curmudgeon that is a part of the attraction.
Is he serious or putting it on? Does it matter?
He is a great writer, this excerpt is very accessible and charming.
Get it out of the library and give it a go, then his back catalogue awaits.
Back trolling again I see?
Ah well I did read him in my younger days but I found that underneath there wasn't much there for me, he was hard going and I never warmed to him or his words so I left him there on the shelf after giving him a fair go with a few books... He reminds me of an annoying dinner guest constantly dropping names like "in the words of the great philosopher X" or "as the great poet X once said" he would be tiring after a while I'd imagine... In that short excerpt there he manages to mention Moliere, Freud, proust, Cicero, Wittgenstein and Checkov along with our own Behan, Flann o brien, Kavanagh, MacLiammoir and Edwards that's some going in fairness in such a short piece, in the words of one of our great raconteurs a Mr Dunphy probably "a good writer not a great writer" imv also one of Ireland sacred cows of whom no wrong or criticism can be uttered by the humble man or woman in the street... Edna o Brien is another one of them (never mind I'm in that sort of mood today)
There is no problem not liking JB.
As with any author, read it or leave it, your choice.
As for the "humble man or woman in the street" they can have a go too and even take a swipe at our Edna as well 🙂
Julian Gough had a “pop” at them awhile back, said they gave him “the yellow squirts and a scaldy hole”, but ended up apologising a couple of years ago. Really didn’t think he should have.
