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The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭gluppers


    Came across as a sensitive soul, albeit in his Dalkified / RDS world



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,233 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Don't know much about him but he has the misfortune of sounding creepy whether he is or not.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,038 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    To those who might know or speculate, if BOC is to move from this show where is he going? Just so I don't frighten or depress myself if I turn on the Radio to something that I used to like and he's there....

    Oh, and who will take his slot if he moves?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭phelixoflaherty




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


    Knew a fella who worked in Chris de Burgh’s house during a renovation back in the Celtic Tiger days.

    Said he was actually one of the nicest lads they ever worked for. Big spread every day for the tradespeople, burned the ears off them talking, and was generally just a really good skin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,701 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    It is rumoured that Brendan will get Ryan Tubridy's old slot with Sean O'Rourke getting the weekend slot.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,836 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    It will be nice to hear some new voices on radio 1,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,354 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Some comeback for O’Rourke if he gets the “gig”. Didn’t agree with his witch-hunt either, funnily enough.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,723 ✭✭✭Tow


    Golf Gate has damaged his reputation as an independent journalist. He was shown to be too close to politicians. With Tubs old slot being a light entertainment filler it is not too much an issue.

    BTW, The team need to update his Wikipedia:


    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 730 ✭✭✭mykrodot


    too close to politicians? Sean O Rourke's wife (in her seventies) is soon to be special advisor to Helen Mc Entee our Minister for Justice!! Before that she was Press advisor to Charlie Flanagan and more recently Pippa Hackett. Her son is now special advisor to Pippa Hackett.

    This is WAY too close for comfort and its a classic example of how closely connected many of our media are to Government policitians! No wonder we are get no balance, no objectivity, no wonder we are all called Far Right.

    We would have Seanie on the Saturday Show interviewing these same politicians, asking soft questions, then meeting them for golf or lunch afterwards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,899 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    good call dude, these lads need to hang up their boots and stop bleeding the system.

    Way too much of a smell about all this stuff. Seanie has had his day, give some new blood a chance surely.

    Way too close for comfort is correct.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,354 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Would, certainly, make it easier to stick to Newstalk for Anton Savage’s show if O’Rourke took over.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    I think he would do well with the first hour on Sunday but not so good for the other three hours.

    It's only a rumour anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭RINO87


    100%.

    Somebody mentioned a fresh voice. While that would be ideal, we'll hardly hear one with the hiring freeze etc.

    As an aside, if Sean's son is press advisor to Pippa, maybe itstime he hang up the boots too, she gets destroyed everytime she's thrown on a panel.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭bcklschaps


    Harbour court.... Don't mention the inadequate Gardai response!!!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,093 ✭✭✭leath_dub


    In fairness to O'Rourke his interview style would be fairly robust. He als seems to be back in the RTE tent already, based on his recent podcast output

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,836 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Sean O rourke is not the solution, he's part of the problem, he should retire away quietly somewhere he's trousered enough 💶💶💶



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,899 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar




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


    Lord save us from this sycophantic nonsense - Callan and O'Connor stroking each others egos whilst throwing oliver branches to poor old Tubridy.

    Ballsy perked up when Callan says it's only a two year contract now! Out the door.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,354 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Jaysus, didn’t expect an interview with Peter Cunnah to be this emotional.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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


    An interesting exchange of views on the forthcoming referendums this morning, though thought that Ballsy was unnecessarily complicating his questions to Ms.Steen and then complaining when she had to elaborate.

    Then along comes the Pandemic Poet ... Jesus wept and it's off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,354 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    I thought he wasn’t even trying with her, she’d give an answer but leave out a section of the population and when Brendan would ask her about it she’d get flummoxed and ramble.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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


    She gave a good account on behalf of all women, those who can choose to stay at home and those who work.

    Brendan tried to complicate it by dragging in same sex relationships etc.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,354 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Thought she sounded like something from a bygone era, myself. Not out of place with Dev and ‘The Ireland That We Dreamed Of’.

    I’d Brendan wouldn’t be too comfortable grilling someone like that. He got badly bitten by that sort in the past and his acrobatic bending over backwards for “balance” is the consequence we all have to endure as a result.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,013 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    The people claiming that women don't have equality must have been really pissed off with the second guest when she started listing out all the top jobs that females have 😃.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,836 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Da far roight under da bed again this morning



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,233 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    I thought that was a reasonable non sensationalist conversation about the issues tbh



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭✭applehunter


    Some line up yesterday.

    Fergus Finlay, Hazel Chu, Olivia Kelly (IT) & Cormac Lucey

    4 vs 1

    Save us.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,063 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    Re the segment on immigration - FF had his say, HC had her say, OK had her say...and then Brendan (€1560 per hr) O'Connor, cut to an ad break because nobody in Ireland wanted to hear Cormac talking sense - Disgraceful stuff



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


    Yep, heard the run of nodding heads and turned it off. I suppose it makes sense from an RTE point of view to be so partial as their future funding is entirely within the control of the government.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭✭applehunter


    Isn’t it great that we all agree?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,899 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Heard Drury on RTE this morning and all I can say is WTF.

    Lad tries to blame the Govt totally for this total disaster and even has the neck to suggest that Govt need to fund RTE better

    Went on to speculate that in the great scheme of things these happenings should not dominate the headlines.

    Even Ballsy accused him of whataboutery which it definitely was.

    Now successive Govts do have a case to answer in the fact that they didn’t rein in these cowboys and girls in the Pink Palace.

    However with several of ‘leading actors’ still in situ, more slates being lifted and more ‘strange life’ being brought into the open.

    Nobody in their right mind would pump taxpayers money into that place given the current way it is structured and the personell

    running it still intact.

    Long way to run on this…….. be aware of the vested interests trying to queer the pitch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,868 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    He's former RTE himself and demonstrated for all to hear the RTE arrogance.

    Even when they've been caught with their hand in the till, he seemed to say so what.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,757 ✭✭✭archfi


    Indeed. Every single political grouping/party and non-governmental is out demanding massive taxpayers money to prop up their now fully fledged mouthpiece.

    Even the very, very never ever working class revolutionaries like RBB and the Byrne fella are demanding half a billion to their favourite PR firm.

    Post edited by archfi on

    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: 2,928 ✭✭✭beachhead


    How much? Have not any amounts mentioned anywhere.Not in the Tubs range I expect



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭beachhead




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,899 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Listening to Ballsy’s and the panel this morning one would make one wonder .

    Seems everyone except the top management and the ‘talent’ were on penury wedges.

    I find it difficult to believe that, I would suggest that RTE would be the top payers in the sector.

    Very difficult to get firm knowledge of all the so called ‘staff’ wedges, as it is for all sectors of RTE.

    They also seem to think the public are not interested in the goings on in RTE….. wrong buddy….it’s our money

    that gives you lot the free cars, free restaurant meals, concert tickets, junkets etc.


    Enough of that guff lads- John Q duddnt buy that waffle



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭glenfieldman


    I don’t know why this thread calls him “ballsy”, probably sarcastic, he interrupted Alison regarding SNR 4 times so not to get him or RTE in legal trouble



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭Archduke Franz Ferdinand


    This Denise one is so far up her own hole it’s quite unbelievable



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭wetlandsboy


    What’s up with the American accent? Very, very strange.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭Archduke Franz Ferdinand




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,899 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Jaysus, when will this circle jerking of Luvvies end.

    Ballsy seems to have gone into overdrive…..seems it’s being going on for the last year.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭Archduke Franz Ferdinand


    I will no doubt be shot for saying this .. but. It’s terrible the illness that Charlie Bird is going through , very sad for him, his wife and family. But at this stage we have had absolute blanket coverage of it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,013 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Is this wan Irish trying to sound Italian or Italian trying to sound Irish?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Today a lady was promoting a resident from Rathfarnham ( I live nearby) was promoting this fashion show that was hosted in an Embassy. She was milking the living behayzuz out of the event. " BEAUTIFUL.... " etc. I switched off.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    It won't end. You answered your own question 😲



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


    That was a very open and honest interview with that young lad talking about his alcoholism. O’Connor is very good at those personal style interviews.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,723 ✭✭✭Tow


    His talk on the loneliness of living in London and the drinking he did because of it, reminded me of your London rado star friend.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,013 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    It's not cans of Foster's our friend would be getting though, whatever about the rest.



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