The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

The English are a funny crowd when it comes to the "National Treasure" designation.

MM has achieved it in spades by being an octogenarian who presents as a naughty schoolgirl.

I bet that secretly she can't believe her luck.

IF you are semi famous in the uk you become a national treasure if you reach the age of 60 without being cancelled, MM basically gets interviewed because she is willing to say rude things about people she worked with years ago even if they are famous actors .she likes to be shocking and to use explicit language .A List actors tend to be polite and avoid criticising other actors as they may be working with them in the future .she,s probably never going to be offered a lead role in a movie or a drama so she has nothing to lose if she talks about how certain famous people she met are rude or boring.

I'm just struggling not to keep flinching every time the female political correspondent (Louise Burne) talk about the "political pardies…Solidaridy". Pretty common though. I genuinely struggle identifying the (younger) female political journalists apart from one another on radio.

Well ya, if he didn't and rte ended up getting in legal trouble people would be blasting him. What would you prefer?

Anton savage is on newstalk if you want?

Brendan O'Connor gets 340k listeners according to the jnlrs, so he's doing something right I guess. He wouldn't be my choice either, but there you go...

I think O’Connor has settled into the role very well, and is an excellent broadcaster. He’s empathetic in one-on-one interviews, asks the right questions, and allows space for a substantive and revealing answer.
The paper review/panel isn’t quite as successful as under Marian F, but it’s still good.

He does that because RTE has no money, people aren’t paying for public service broadcasting, and trips to the High Court are very very expensive. Can run into the hundreds of thousands. It’s unfortunate, but we have the libel laws we have.

Ballsy is only following on from what went before him, even an easier gig in fact.

He only goes out in ‘open water’ for one hour on Sunday, the rest is all set up for him.

€1.5 large per hour for that is a fair auld wedge….but hey, it’s RTE .

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Jaysis Bobby Kerr. Is he still on air? I am sure he is a lovely man. But he has an ill suited voice for radio.

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Who is this talking about Charlie XCX?

Sounds like her agent.

Total nonsense too. And made worse by the inflection on every sentence.

I must have missed this. What was the context? I wonder has she a gig lined up and the BOC show is laying on the Plamás in return for an interview.

If I remember correctly the Wim Butler from Arcade Fire got a lot of soft balls when Ballsey had him. This was around the time that Butler was being accused of sexual misconduct. Things got so heated at the time that their European Support act Feist quit the tour. Not that you would know any of that if you listened to the interview.

You can listen back and decide for yourself.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22416994/

You remember incorrectly on the Win Butler interview.

That interview was broadcast a week before the allegations became public.

Incidentally almost two years later there have been no charges.

Oh I see, you were referring to Bobby Kerr.

I thought Booby was possibly a new nickname for BOC.

Fionnuala Jones, she’s on with Moncrieff on Newstalk a bit. She covers entertainment stuff.

Think it was her anyway.

Katriona O'Sullivan was the 'academic leftie'. The 'posh' one was Alan Barrett - the only one questioning some of views (or perhaps the communication of her views).

I listened to most of the newspaper panel and was amazed the RTE bail out didnt get a decent grilling,appears this bailout is massively contentious and any self respecting similiar show would lead with this item rather than some woke non story about disrespecting a religious painting.

I have found boards to be hyperbolic and unreasonable about an awful lot. So when I read the comments above about the contributor I was rolling my eyes thinking more of the same.

Just listening back now. She's ridiculous. Her argument seems to be that the poor people in coolock are allowed protest because they are seeing people getting more than they have. But also says that the immigrants get less. And also said that the idea that the small cohort of right wing people being able to lead the community infantilises the community, but also said that the community is peaceful in protesting, so who is actually doing the protesting?

I don't get her fundamental point here. It seems to be based on leave Coolock alone I think?

Indeed, she has a book to sell and was also on Pat Kenny's radio show on Friday. She's all over the place on this and is very much signed up to the everyone is a victim and also seemed to talk about herself, a lot. She doesn't get held up to scrutiny by presenters because of her backstory.

She's another Lynn Ruane basically.

She should be questioned more; because she's an utter bluffer; like so many in the sociology & psychology space.

But, part of the problem here is the perception that better off areas are not taking their share of these facilities. So, Hanafin was right to point that out (300 asylum seekers in Blackrock - with little or no objection apparently). It was probably the threatened legal action taken by Ballsbridge residents, against the plan to use a former guesthouse for asylum seekers, and which resulted in the state capitulating to them, which has created this impression. One valid point made by Katriona O'Sullivan though was that this information, where people are actually located, is basically impossible to obtain.