The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

the guest on earlier said that the first people to come to Ireland were 10 women and 4 men from Sudan wtf?

You'd swear Bertie brought about the good Friday agreement on his own the way the ffallers go on, sure Reynolds made a lot of the running and put his political career and life on the line crossing the border clandestinely making contacts with the players , by the time Bertie came along he had nothing to lose even if it went belly up, big deal he came straight back after his mother's funeral, sure what else was he going to do.

Very cagey interview earlier with an Indo journalist about potential corrupt payments made by a large property developer to individuals representing ESB Networks. The interview focused entirely on the developers (who are a private company and entitled to pay whoever they like) rather than on the public sector employees allegedly demanding backhanders. There was an inference that the alleged practice was widespread. No input sought from the panel. Clearly the legal people were all over this and stripped out questions before they agreed to air it.

RTE did a documentary on the history of Ireland, going all the way back to our earliest settlers a few years back. They portrayed our earliest settlers as being black. They used research which had already been discredited as their source for saying that it was dark skinned people who first settled here, 10,000 years ago.

Yes. Article said the companies were reluctant to make a complaint because they believed that ESB Network would never do anything for them again and they’d never get the developments finished. I was stunned by the story but then I’m very naive.

He’s good. They had to go to the High Court to publish it, solicitors tried to stop them naming the ESB guys.

Nowhwere is my guess, too many snouts buried in the trough.

Un until a few years ago Brendan was carrying a fair bit of "condition".

Turned on this morning after a long absence.

Patronising discussion with two refugees from Ukraine (no reflection on them, but his tone was ridiculously overdone).

Next up, a mother who lost her son to suicide finds an old card from him IN HER OWN HOME! This remarkable turn of events conveniently gave Beefy the opportunity to indulge in a half hour discussion on Mental Elf, oh, and a plug for the dad's employer.

I hate being told someone is hilarious before I’ve heard anything about them. These two are not funny, not in this format anyway.

Admittedly, I haven't listened in w good while-since I gave up on it, but I can't remember this show ever being interesting.

Good interview with Duncan Stewart. Heavy hitting but we need to hear it.