Brendan on holiday again, well it is a bank holiday after all. You can’t expect the top paid presenters in on such occasions. Dearbhail McDonald hosting (I think - based on the voice).
I missed the intro so not sure who is on the panel but I can hear Scott Lucas’s voice so he’s there - again. Lucinda mentioned - Creighton?
Agreed, seems like the host is not comfortable with the first hours business.
Seems very anxious to get back into ‘luvvie’ mode.
A particularly poor show this morning
It's democracy Jim but not as we know it.
"Hungary is not a democracy".. You learn something new everyday on the BOC show
Is Miriam going to be in the chair?
I genuinely expect the words "neither party are here to defend themselves" will be used this morning.
and 18% of FG’s
Sticking to the actual radio show, the discussion was about '25% of Fianna Fail' voters......
There are homeowners, and people with homes owned by the bank until they finish paying the mortgage. And then there are the private renters. All of them look down at the other group in social housing.
Census:
The number of dwellings owned without a mortgage or loan was up 11% to nearly 680,000. The number of homes owned outright where the head of the household was 65 years or over increased by 17% from 319,651 to 374,417. Every single county saw a rise in the number of dwellings owned outright between 2016 and 2022. The number of dwellings owned with a mortgage or loan decreased by 1% to 531,207. The largest falls in mortgaged properties were in Donegal (down 10%) and Tipperary (down 8%) where housing growth was slowest. There was an increase in the number of mortgaged properties in some counties, particularly where housing growth was strong, such as in Meath (up 9%) and Kildare (up 6%).
In April 2022, more than 330,000 homes were rented from a private landlord. This was an increase of 7% since 2016. There was a significant increase in the number households with people aged 65 and over renting from a private landlord to almost 17,000 households, up 83% since 2016. For households headed by a person aged 60 to 64 years, this was up 69%.
To be super generalising, FG attract homeowners, so the numbers of new homes doesn't really matter to their voters as they're already in homes.
The 'Somebody Has Dared Criticised FG' button has been hit.
Maybe like poor Kingsmill Barry they "didn't see the connection"?
Maybe FG support doesn't care if it is lied to, it's power at any cost, to identity or standing for something?
Whats with Ballsy and this "c'mere" stuff and "nooze" stuff.
Now he's at "generation Zee" !
Was he in the States for a weekend or what.
Jeez dude….
But, as BOC pointed out, a political support survey shows FG in particular haven't lost support. Maybe to be more exact about it, people might have known about the housing target mess, but it was at the back of their mind, or didn't particularly care about it, until asked about it specifically.
While I think it's a fair point that questions in a poll can be quite leading, I disagree that the housing mess up/lie/cover-up/inaccuracy wouldn't have been well known.
David Quinn talking sense about opinion polls. People are nudged by the question in front of them. Many of the people asked about the housing target snafu probably didn't even know about it, until asked.
Was going to say there seemed like a lot of Cork representation there today.
C'mere…fourth guest today who's from Cork! (just an observation)
Demi Isaac does indeed sound like a really nice grounded young woman, but I wish BOC would stop reading out those 'wow', 'inspirational' (and especially 'I'm dancing around the kitchen') texts from listener, especially when they're so selective to just read out the positive ones.
I just can't believe that they didn't receive negative texts from a few listeners that had a 'wow' response to that awful piece about women dating/slagging off men last week, or Francis Brennan not being able to tell people of the same colour apart.
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You need to have some sense of regular guests though. Having a bunch of people who've not been on before doesn't make for good radio like.
Not a fan of Spillane’s music but had dealings with him several times and he’s a gentleman.
You say different panelists but all of today’s panel have been on previously, and more than once too. O’Connor mentioned this with Chu at one stage.
Granted they’re on less frequently than others, but they’re by no means fresh and new voices.
Image of the day for me.
John Spillane and Christy Moore going down the boreen to walk the land.
How lucky are we that they both left the Bank of Ireland to make music ?
Just listening back to it now. Good to hear different panelists than the usual shower. Hazel Chu is definitely my favourite green, which isn't saying much, but I like to hear her views anyway.
All the references to John Fitzgerald's wife eventually got Brendan to suggest bringing her in 😀
Lovely interview with John Spillane. As noted above, the "Yeats isn't here to defend himself" moment was funny, or it would be if it didn't highlight the chronic difficulty in saying anything remotely controversial on this show, or RTE generally.
No mention of the Irish state stepping in to cover the lost funding.
The tide isn't turning, the money tap is simply being turned off.
USAID scandal - the biggest news story mainstream meeja won't cover
Think about 2 'people of colour' being mentioned and FB saying something along the lines of 'they look the same to me'.
