C'mere to me.
Didn't hear that bad boy, but I had to cut Ballsy off early on.
Very Cark. Another Cark expression I once encountered after failing to read on a bus timetable that there was no Sunday service from Baltimore “you poor stupid thing”
Slightly off-topic but I still think "Who's in the House?" is an absolute banger.
Brendan to Michael today -
"the priest not being gone from you ...."
Where would you get it ?
Oh hey professor Pete Lunn on today to tell us all how we feel/should feel.same talking heads all avoiding the elephant in the room as usual.
Now Maureen Gaffney again ffs - has he no one else on call?
Off button got a quick bruise………
The guests/panelists don't get paid very much for those type of chat shows. It was mentioned on some other thread like its in the €100 or €200 ball park.... (I don't get out of bed of a weekend morning for anything less than a bag of sand and definitely not for less than a monkey.)
Obviously they don't do it for the money, lots of them will be trying to raise their profile or shill something or other
Lots of them will be trying to boost their egos - I'd say that's more likely. I've no particular problem with people wanting to boost their ego but would appreciate if we didn't hear the same ones week, after week, after week.
So you're telling me some of the contributors on that panel actually get paid!
It's a successful format. People wouldn't keep tuning in week after week after week if they did not like it.
Have you stats to back up that assumption??
The fact that folk tune in to a programme doesn’t automatically indicate that they like it?
Is there evidence of a poll which points to that assumption?
Ah I must be an outlier so. I tune in and if I hear something/ people new & interesting then I stay (like the recent Sat morning interview). Otherwise I tune in and then turn off when I hear the same old, same old format and old guff from the same people.
This was Sunday 03 December:
Today's panel were Prof Pete Lunn, Head of the Behavioural Research Unit at the ESRI, Louise Bayliss, founder of SPARK, Louise Burne, Political Correspondent at The Irish Mirror and Cormac Lucey, Economics Columnist at The Sunday Times.
This was Sunday 26 November:
Today's panel included Jack Horgan Jones, politics correspondent at the The Irish Times; Brigid Laffan, Chancellor, University of Limerick; Siona Cahill, account director DHR Communications; Hazel Chu, Dublin City Councilor, Green Party; and Tony Gallagher, risk, security and event manager at Ashtree Risk Group.
This was Sunday 19 November:
Today's panel includes Brenda Power, columnist at the Irish Daily Mail & Sunday Times; Johnny Fallon, Strategy Director at Carr Communications; Colm O’Gorman, human rights campaigner; Rena Maycock, Chief Executive, Cilter child-protection software and former Chief Executive of iRadio and Liam Collins, Sunday Independent reporter.
Same ones week after week after week??????
Run your list for a few months and then decide. Of that lot, the following would be household names due to the number of times they appear on RTE: Pete Lunn, Louise Bayliss, Cormac Lucey, Jack Horgan Jones, Brigid Laffan, Hazel Chu, Brenda Power, Johnny Fallon, Colm O’Gorman. And you can add Maureen Gaffney & Harding to that plus several other shrinks. The odd new voice on Brendan's panels is a rare distraction.
Like I say it has to be the quality of the (ir)regular contributors which keeps people tuning in every week. It can't be O'Connor himself. It is also a feature of other programmes on TV and Radio, and not just RTE. As has been mentioned, it must be hard enough to get people to give up a chunk of their weekends for little money.
I disagree,these tubes wouldn’t turn down a slot on national radio to get a chance to big themselves up.
A slot with Ballsy given his print media connections can only be good for these yoricks.
You can be sure no harm will come to you.
same load of bollox out of most of them, dog.
Just had a listen back to the Victoria Mary Clarke interview where she dropped several f-bombs.
Fair play to Brendan for playing it cool and I hope he noticed that no one was triggered.
Brendan O’Connor at this stage is afraid of his own shadow.
Afraid of losing a €250k wedge would be my opinion..
The usual sort of crowd on this morning telling us of virtues of our immigration system but that we need to 'have a debate'. The thing is, you never hear this debate on RTE, it's always the same one sided view. And having burnt the ears of the public about their responsibilities to suck it up, it's followed by the usual 'we must communicate better with local communities and a debate'. Rinse & repeat.
They're like the Politiburo pravda droning on about tractor production...
Didn’t see that coming
What's wrong with Gaffney? Very intelligent woman. Met her once and she was impressive.
Sean is 68, why would he need to come out of retirement? Have RTE no talent? 😉
Is Colm not being lined up there?
Nothing at all wrong with her, she knows her stuff and is a good communicator.
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