The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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

Cannot disagree there Sham.

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

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.

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.

Da far roight under da bed again this morning

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.

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.

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.

Rosanna is the swell

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

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

She’s full of bs

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.