The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

Popped in in the middle of the interview and it made little sense to me, although I am of an age!

Stand outs were being a brat, green and not showering for a few days.

Oh, and anti-Swift but not really.

My mistake. Thank you for the correction.

Who is the posh academic leftie pontificating on the show at the moment?

Amazing stuff here. The 'woke, 'socially progressive', liberal academic is pushing the the far/hard right narrative (unintentionally?) and the 'middle aged white man' (Alan Barrett) is the only one calling out her. If other contributors were talking as she is, they'd be absolutely torn to shreds and explicitly called out as justifying some of the racist stuff that went on by the nutjobs in Coolock.

I agree with you there alright, but she only condemned the racism when pushed a bit. She was on PK during the week too…basically inferring that everyone involved in the protests are disenfranchised, victims etc. She also emphasised this morning that the immigrants (potentially) going to Coolock would be men…you know, the whole 'dangerous single men' narrative that's often put out there.

I could read it as being a poor communicator, but she does communicate ideas for a living.

It's the fact that only Alan Barrett called her out a bit, and everyone else was silent, that irritated me so much. She may have some valid points, but she never seems to be properly challenged and questioned…like others usually are if making some of the comments she does.

Katriona O'Sullivan will be asked back ad nauseam. Apart from her (unbalanced imo) views on the protests, she's perfect for these kind of shows…backstory (genuinely impressive), an academic, everyone's a victim of the system etc.

I missed most of today, but I am not surprised the RTE bailout was not covered, or the fact that the bailout money was taken from the Social Welfare budget.

I think she's using the Coolock protests as an example of working class communities being ignored and left behind (probably has a very good point there), but the issue for me is that she also seems to completely ignore that some (not all) of the protesters are just plain old racists and/or 'scumbags' out to cause all kinds of trouble. She just ignores that because it gets in the way of her 'everyone's a victim' narrative. Slightly dangerous territory there.

The fact that the liberal types around her don't at least question her comments is what drives me mad. If a TD communicated similar points the way she does, there'd be a pile on in most media circles calling them apologists for racism, far right etc.

She's also got a book to sell…

The guy on with her on the panel sort of pushed back, but BOC seemed to move the conversation on without it getting too detailed.

Although if there was a public list of all housing for refugees then you'd just be giving the far right a list of places to protest.

Why would racists do racist things? Racists are gonna racist...

This show is getting worse, it consisted of interviews with 3 people , 21 minutes talk about the paris olympics, and far right fight clubs, 7 minutes of an item about making salads.

too much interviews not enough discussion of the news

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/brendan-oconnor/2024/0810/1464374-brendan-oconnor-saturday-10-august-2024/

i,d like a radio show where theres a panel of a few people talking about the weeks news .

if you want to listen to interviews 2 people talking theres plenty of podcasts out there that do that very well. one interview for 30 minutes would be fine .

i think hes a middle of the road present ,his accent is not annoying .

Marty Morrisey my whole personality is i love gaa and i,m from the country .

They have a half hour or so on Saturdays on anton savage show on newstalk. And the first hour of the Sunday show for BOC is newspaper review.

You can listen later to any segment on rte ie podcasts far right fight club is 12 minutes long approx.