If only Skehan had been given some kind of opportunity to actually fix these problems, some position of influence in the housing sector, perhaps;
https://www.ontheditch.com/conor-skehans-company-awarded-more-than-1-million-public-contracts/
Part time part time job!
I don’t think anyone on the panel this morning was a renter……they’d more likely be concerned with CGT on the sale of second and third properties.
The million dollar question was asked. "What are renters going to to when they hit retirement age??" The question was ignored. The answer is obvious, nothing.
This is the level of discourse in RTE, but hey, the hurling was great!
Just tuned in there to a great over and back about an article on housing by (I think) Conor Skehan.
"He says we need to rethink the way we do housing"
"So, what should we do?"
"I can show you the article"
"I've read it and he doesn't have any answers"
LOL
Sarah’s voice has always grated on my ears
Starting with GAA, WTF? I’m out, this is supposed to be a news/current affairs segment, not GAA. There’s more than enough GAA on RTÉ.
Brendan on another day off…..Dearbhail in again.
I didn't expect President Bill Clinton to turn up on my headphones this morning.
Sounds in great form publicising his latest venture.
A few interesting things to say about politics too.
He's the same age as Trump.
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0607/1517234-bill-clinton/
Good morning... On the brendan O connor show Singer Samantha Mumba has just threatened to "release a single every day for a year".. Gardai are taking the threat seriously and are on high alert
" ....... and on sound today, no-one ".
Again, no; because there’s ample evidence of podcasted versions of shows being edited (and in some cases heavily edited) by RTÉ when it suits them. This one is out down to laziness…..the same laziness that sometimes mean a podcast isn’t made available for 5 working after the show was broadcast (this has happened btw).
I'd have bigger questions why it wasn't picked up on a monitor and corrected much sooner.
I'd guess the podcast is recorded from a stereo feed from the broadcast mix and there's no 'clean' version of the broadcast without the inadvertent overlapping audio.
The podcast audio file could be processed to compensate for any compression, limiting, automatic gain control. The Week in Politics audio file could be time synced, volume matched and subtracted from it. It might not end up with a totally seamless 'clean' version of the podcast but should be able to reduce the Week in Politics component to little more than very low level background noise. There might be some audio artifacts or chirps left that would need further filtering.
It should be possible to clean it up but might dpend on whether the podcast is meant to be an accurate representation of what was broadcast (warts and all) or if it would justify the effort.
That’s what I was asking for, the how is explained in my previous post. Cutting out the whole segment doesn’t make much sense tbh.
I’m not sure if you know how layered audio works but you can remove one file (the incorrectly played file in this case) and leave the “live” feed intact. What happened in this case was a pre-recorded piece was played over the live feed - this can be removed seamlessly with minimal effort. You can do this with very basic audio software on a pc or Mac, or even your phone. To NOT do it in this case given the tech and software they have in RTÉ is nothing but laziness/sloppiness.
How do you suggest they do this? Cut the few minutes completely from the podcast?
Oh I thought people were asking for them to fix the error, not just cut it out.
Except when Joe Duffy calls someone a fúckin clown.
As confirmed by @NIMAN RTÉ can and often do edit the show before it gets put out as a podcast. I’m not in favour of this in principle but obviously in the case of libellous comments etc it is a requirement. It should also be edited when obvious mistakes like this occur.
Believe me, Rte can edit podcasts of their live shows if it suits them to. They have form.
Some would call it censoring or covering their asses
The podcast is just a copy of what's been broadcast though? And the mistake was broadcast.
Yeah it was in the podcast.
Are you saying they didn’t even remove it from the podcast? That’s shockingly lazy…..it would take a couple of minutes max to have done that. Then again, this is RTÉ. 🤷♂️🙄
Ray D’Arcy on the controls this morning with some audio from the Adams libel case played for a few minutes over the panel.
Sounded like they mixed in a clip from The week in politics straight after which was annoying. I usually listen back on spotify. Both it, and RTE app affected.
Any thoughts on the topics discussed on the show today?
Joining Brendan to dissect the Sunday papers are Brenda Power, Sunday Times & Irish Daily Mail columnist; Economist David W Higgins; Louise Bayliss, Head of Justice & Social Policy, St Vincent de Paul and Larry Donnelly, Lecturer in the School of Law in the University of Galway.
All regulars in 2025, 3 Sundays each.
No.
Missed the start but it seems to be Trump, Trump, Trump very bad man, the usual childlike fare ... Was there any mention of the riot in Paris last night (or "disturbance"as it was called in the news) , 2 dead, widespread looting happening in a European capital 🤔
Listening from central London waiting for a train to Heathrow. Ray D’Arcy on the controls this morning with some audio from the Adams libel case played for a few minutes over the panel.
Panel regular Brenda Power on again, as is Larry Donnelly. There are 2 other members (Louise Bailey and David W. Higgins) but they barely got a word in over Power and Donnelly.
Brendan started the show with a written piece by Power on the Satchwell case. Long story short - all men are evil and potential murderers, Gardai are incompetent (the host was in quickly with a disclaimer!), and it is only thanks to women the case was solved.
Power’s criticism of President Higgins makes sense when you hear her talk about the Israeli genocide. I’ll just say I don’t agree with her views.
The description on the website for each show is topline; it could well have been covered on that date’s show without making the show’s description. I personally didn’t hear the segment you’re referring to so can’t assist I’m afraid.
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