Liveline With Joe Duffy - Mod Note in OP

Joe's disinterest in this topic is pretty evident. Bordering on contempt. Just to get a few votes from the older males, in his quest for the Aras.

What about advocating for a national Prostate Cancer screening programme. Oh wait...there's no money left after breast check,  cervical check, Verstatis, HRT etc. and sure men don't mind living 5 years less on average than women.

Joe somehow managed to run that bore fest a couple of minutes past 3.

If A few Good Men is to be believed, US Marines have a code of Unit, Corps, God, Country. In the village I grew up some people had a similar code of Parish, Club, County. Anything non-GAA was to be feared.

That has been my experience in encounters with GAA folk over the years alright.

No liveline yesterday, none today, none on Monday. Is this RTE trying to wean us off this destructive habit, with Joes imminent departure?

Is there no Liveline today? I didn't hear Joe say anything yesterday. But then he never says anything when he takes weeks off at a time either. He really does have the cushiest number, I won't call it a job. 4 day week, this week, and again next week.

Our Joe is doing his best for the licence-payer, being there for them on this terrible dastardly dark monsoon day, his soothing voice pulsating from the dungeon of RTÉ

They're all a shower of hypocrites. They wanted the ban on pubs and off licenses closed on Good Friday lifted. And I doubt that many of the affected staff darken the doorway of a church apart from weddings, funerals and the like. But they want the best of both worlds, and have today off work because of their religion don't you know. 🙄

The lighter side of Lent

I'd wager there'll be at least two deaths

There's pink snacklike concoction in either lidl or aldi...a brother from another mother if you will. Not a patch on the real pink snack.

Here's the first death of the day

Poetry

He might marry both topics, chocolate and death.

I might ring in with one of my own poems.

Ode to the soya bean or

Olive oil changes her name by deed poll to Palm. ( With a nod to Pam Ayres )

Ah the good ol' Chomp bar for 10p. You won't get any chocolate bar for anything remotely that cheap nowadays.

Moro bars were gorgeous. They, like everything else suffered from serious shrinkflation.