Whenever Keith Richards finally croaks, I fully expect Fr Trendy to pop up on RTE claiming " to have known " Keef" for fifty years"
The cnut knows everyone
I wonder did they give consent for their dinner table conversations to feature on the BOC show 🤔
I listened too. So predictable but not surprising at all, as they're both in academia. Both in the social sciences area - the ultimate echo chamber - and often come unstuck when discussions move to anything that involves the application of ideas to reality.
I'm sure Kaitriona O' Sullivan's sons were delighted to hear their family conversations on consent (the McGregor case) being discussed on the national airways.
listening to the panel this morning - Niamh Hourigan and Catriona O’Sullivan are precisely the reason why we got the election result we did. The only way to change something is to lead from the front, and be the change you want to see. The Greens made a lot of mistakes in the last government, and I didn’t vote for them, but by God they saw their opportunity to legislate for change and they took it. Ultimately the two above are hurlers on the ditch, and are happy to play that role thus reinforcing the status quo and hoping change comes from osmosis. I am a centrist voter, but if I was left leaning and heard those two this morning I’d despair.
couldn't agree more, the BOC show has become unbearable to listen to, its almost a parody. I have never heard someone so fearful of causing offence, its throughout every single interview BOC does now. He intervenes all the time with whoever is on, doubling down, correcting statements, checking how stuff is phrased, its actually painful to listen to him.
This kind of PC woke nannying of contributors is ruining radio and tv and just makes me turn off. Nothing is fun or impromptu anymore.
(actually Callan's kicks 2 weeks ago on the Leaders debate I think was hilarious, he absolutely nailed BOC's behaviour on his show!)
He was bricking it!!!!!😁
She:s like a bull in a china shop Tries to talk posh but just can't stop the inner vulgar b1tch from coming through
Insufferable listening to Brendan trying to shush Twink for fear she say something slightly controversial. I haven't listened in a while as this over the top fear of being sued is just too much, then first thing I hear when I tune in today.
BOC on high (defamation) alert with Twink. Cut her into her before she could even make her point!
Discussing Dickie Rock (RIP) now: Louis Walsh ,Father "Trendy" Brian D'Arcy and Twink 🤮
He said himself he almost had a heart attack, when one of the guests started to tell a story about Philip The Greek, which at the end had a rather tame punchline.
He fairly shat his pants when Dorothy Cross dropped the F-bomb yesterday.
Brendan's banana isn't there to defend itself 🍌.
Took a few mins but we got a “let’s not go there”, swiftly followed by BO’C likening McGregor to Trump. The ubiquitous “toxic masculinity” was aired almost immediately. Normal male-bashing service resumed it seems on RTÉ. Trump and McGregor are extreme outliers in their attitudes and behaviours to women, I’m honestly fed up of being constantly told I’m a potential rapist.
Given the McGregor story will likely dominate the papers today I’d suspect Brendan will give himself a hernia falling over himself telling the panel “He’s not here to defend himself” repeatedly….
I have the Brendan O'Connor show in my podcast app (I use pocketcasts). The show's segments usually appear shortly after the show ends, and will always be there by mid-Sunday afternoon. The podcasts are individual segments (usually there's 3 or 4 per show depending on what they cover). You don't need to download the RTÉ app or anything like that. You can just copy and paste this link into your podcast app's search functionality and it should appear:
I listen to podcasts all the time.
I don’t however want to download yet another app (in this case the RTÉ app) as I have too many on my phone already, and I know many RTÉ shows are available as podcasts on the usual platforms but from previous experience it takes 2-3 (or more in some cases) days for these to go live. Even then you’d have to navigate the whole show to find that section. Again from previous experience I know the newspaper review segment on the BO’C show is a “pinned” segment on the radio section of the RTÉ website. It’s super easy to find and usually plays fine. And normally I do listen to that section on Sunday from the comfort of my kitchen. But thanks for your info anyway.
Use any podcast app and you'll find out easy out...
Program segments can be downloaded in MP3 format to listen offline (as opposed to streaming) from the link below..
https://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_wkendonone.xml
The advantage of offline playback is the ability to play it at higher speed on the likes of VLC player.
Tried to listen this morning but the RTÉ website is so bad the ad that plays before any section you try and play (the newspaper review section in this case) went into a loop and I gave up after listening to the same ad for the fifth time. It’s great to know it’s not just the TV Player they’ve managed to make a balls of. 🙄
I’ll have a listen on the morning commute.
It's just become accepted and expected that throwing around the misogyny (nevermind sexism) accusation will be assumed as having merit, even embraced, in these kind of circles. Alison O'Connor was a bit taken aback by BOC's rebuttal, I think, and had no comeback…because even she knows it's nonsense.
Off topic but similar. There was somebody being interviewed before the US elections. She claimed she was part of the "double minority" in America because she was black and female 🙄.
I’m honestly fed up of McEntee using sexism as her excuse for every piece of criticism thrown her way.
She has been shown (in my opinion) to be hopelessly out of depth in her current role, and it seems her defence mechanism is to use her sex and play victim at any and every piece of criticism thrown her way. I’m sure I’ll be accused of sexism and misogyny now too for this post. 🙄
On prime time the other night there was a debate that included Jim O'Callaghan and Helen McEntee. O'Callaghan made a point that some of the work McEntee did was done because it was his suggestion (or words to that effect).
McEntee posted the following day about how as a woman she's used to men taking the credit for her work. It's been viewed in a few places as exist how he behaved.
Alison O'Connor made reference to this, but Brendan was having none of it.
I’ve been away for a few days, what’s the “incident” referred to here? And what did O’Connor say? Any info. appreciated.
Didn’t listen this morning but Alison O’Connor on again? We’re not long from have The Brenda Power & Alison O’Connor Show at this rate. If they had a particular agent that would likely be possible…..
Good call on this one though.
For the love of God…can people (Alison O'Connor) stop throwing arounds words with pretty serious/offensive connotations - "misogyny" in this case - without fecking thinking through what they're actually accusing someone of (the Jim O'Callaghan 'incident').
For once, BOC called her out.
It was a fair point. Jim is a barrister too.
Brendan panicking because someone's "not here to defend themselves" again.
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