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The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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  • Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭Loyal Lady




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    O'Connor will be sh*tting himself with this topic (Pres. Higgins' comments on Von Der Leyen). The panel are not towing the line.......



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    "Knickers in a twist" could be the theme of this morning's show.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,911 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Great to hear some media criticism of that pompous windbag in the park MDH



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    By some pompous windbag journalists? A certain irony there.......



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,959 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    Michael D’s card should have been marked when he started eulogising about that horrible despot dictator Castro. A man who jailed and murdered journalists, political opponents and academics.

    Classic little pompous smoked salmon socialist.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,911 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    MDH has lived high on the hog his entire career, he hasn’t done a day’s work in the private sector.

    A pompous self entitled arrogant old fool.

    He should resign with immediate effect.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,179 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    If it irks Alison O'Connor, I'm all for it. Who does she think she represents.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Obligatory Trump bashing on RTE programnme! Normal service resumed!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    One doesn't have to agree with what Higgins says to disagree with what Alison O'Connor says.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,706 ✭✭✭rovers_runner


    Alison O'Connor is a FG plant.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Alison O'Connor claims her policy is never to respond to Paddy Cosgrave's comments on her, but she's just just unloaded there.



  • Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭Loyal Lady


    I like the what’s on TV & cinema segment every Sunday.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,631 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Depends on what information they are consuming to help them make their minds up. If they conclude on the strength of their research that the election was stolen from Trump, they are on a bad path. Or that they should avoid getting vaccines, and all the other rabbit holes that they could go down. I am with Little in wanting these sorts of outlets being equally subject to the regulation the other media have to comply with.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭tesla_newbie


    Hard to tell who is the more smug , Miggeldy or Alison o Connor

    both insufferable



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,179 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    At least MDH is elected by a majority - twice. You have to wonder why A'O'C gets the platform nobody else seems to.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭tesla_newbie


    She’s reliably on board with every respectable view in Ireland, she’s still a Miggeldy fan broadly speaking like the vast majority of her colleagues



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,939 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    Trump bashing should be obligatory everywhere.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,179 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    I respect a lot of things and Alison would not be one of them nor her views.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    Formulaic and Incestuous - yep that's about the sum of B'OC and his radio slots.

    Could add Repetitive and Boring too a lot of the time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Furze99




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,879 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Which is why ,as I pointed out before, these ‘media diaspora’ will back RTE to the hilt.

    They are all ‘in it together’….take a look at most of the RTE front liners,a big percentage of them started

    off somewhere in print media.

    They see the ‘Holy Grail’ as the presenting job in Montrose and the ticket to easy street.

    So when you wonder why they tend to back up RTE, now you have a better angle on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,487 ✭✭✭plodder


    I thought that was an interesting slot, but O'Connor could have dug a bit deeper into some of the points he outlined. Like he said something about the future of social media being smaller, more local and where the cost of disagreement (might not have been the exact term he used) being higher. I certainly didn't like the sound of that, but there wasn't time to really explain what he meant.

    I used to be more sceptical but I think we need to support mainstream media in factual reporting. Sure they have their biases and not everyone is going to believe them anyway, but it's better than where we are going currently with the level of disinformation, on Twitter particularly. It's kind of scary now the number of people whose "news feed" on social media is the full extent of news they consume.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,975 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    👍 to Oliver. Got Brendan dead on this week 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    This writer sounds like he is reviewing himself.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,831 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    I gaurentee 1000% if that was an Irish band, say the Corrs who released that album (he was pouring scorn on a Duran Duran covers album) it would be the greatest piece of music ever



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,310 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    Did no ballsy pretend that was an actual interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger???


    Clearly recorded nonsense (insert Question here) before Arnies recorded answers

    Post edited by littlevillage on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    Most of the music they play on the radio is pre-recorded as well, you know.

    It’s an absurd stick to beat BoC with.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,310 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    ALL the music is pre-recorded surely ??? (by the artists)


    But why can't Media outlets explain that they have a couple of canned responses from "stars" and they have manufactured a few questions..to fit into the sequence.


    If RTE actually had Arnie on the line, they would have given it to TLLS.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,179 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    ??

    What was manufactured about it? I am sure like all celebs there were 'starter' questions supplied but other than that it seemed a perfectly normal interview whether it was recorded or not.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    But why can't Media outlets explain that they have a couple of canned responses from "stars" and they have manufactured a few questions..to fit into the sequence. 

    Well that didn’t happen here. Listening to it again now you can hear BoC and Arnold talking over each other occasionally, which wouldn’t happen if they were canned answers.

    I actually remember when I was young that they would have radio interviews based on pre-recorded canned answers, specifically with the likes of Sean Connery during the Bond period, and so on. I don’t think that happens any more with Zoom calls, and modern technology, and so on.

    If RTE actually had Arnie on the line, they would have given it to TLLS.

    Well that could have been based on scheduling or anything.



  • Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭Micheal Varadkar


    Most people probably don't remember that Brendan O'Connor got to number 3 in the POP charts in spring 2000, it would probably be very un-pc now considering he based the appearance of the character on notorious sex offender fr Sean fortune https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O-PldwYpD0Q



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,487 ✭✭✭plodder


    Guest: "Remember that Pink Floyd album cover with the prism and the white light splitting into a rainbow"?

    Boc: "Yeah, that was Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield"

    🤔

    I don't see the issue with the Arnie interview. If it was pre-recorded, so what? Now, if they were splicing questions and answers from different sources, and there was no interview, that would certainly be a problem. I find it hard to believe that ever happened. If it did at one time, you certainly wouldn't get away with it now.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Ray D'Arcy doing a weekend nixer on the sound desk this morning it seems.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Did that conversation on Floyd/Oldfield really happen?

    The cover to Dark Side of The Moon is one of the most famous album covers of all time.

    You could argue Tubular Bells is also rather famous


    But how you could confuse them is beyond me.........

    Post edited by ButtersSuki on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,008 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Who is this woman talking too much sense on welfare tourism and Ukrainians?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    She's a hotelier who's likely made a fortune provising accomodation for them.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    I remember it being somewhat controversial at the time.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,008 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Ahh. She doth spout much plain speaking



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Did she just say "mobots"?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,487 ✭✭✭plodder


    Yep, he was talking to a body clock expert about the clock changing. I was going to start a thread on the subject, so I listened back to it. She was making a point about the different wavelengths of light and the effect on the body. I don't know what was going through his mind ... He wasn't sure though .....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭archfi


    Diverse opinions in government?

    Really?

    There isn't even any meaningful diverse opinions in the Dail amongst the multi-seat parties, govt or opposition, on these matters.

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Mick Clifford is far too good to be on this panel.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,008 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "Sarah" he barks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭archfi


    The gasps of shock from O'Connor that that which cannot be spoken about on his show and RTE in general (I wonder why exactly) has been uttered.

    'We have to stop accepting any more' [sic]

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,008 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Two and a half years ago




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    The woman who works in the city centre has no feasible solutions but just wants to give, give, give.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭archfi


    Resentment in communities across Ireland - the powers that be knew this at the very start so I don't know why gaslighting is going on now as if it just occured to them.

    The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution.

    The Entryism process: 1) Demand access; 2) Demand accommodation; 3) Demand a seat at the table; 4) Demand to run the table; 5) Demand to run the institution; 6) Run the institution to produce more activists and policy until they run it into the ground.



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