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RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

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  • #4952
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,981 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123553013#Comment_123553013

    Neither are many other 'current affairs'.

    Again, you need to subscribe to a podcast that limits itself to subject matter you are interested in.

    A radio station is never going to satisfy that demand you are making of it.



  • #4953
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,420 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123552274#Comment_123552274

    She said that Saddam was the dictator of Iraq. Then she quoted what the Israeli Defence Minister said to warn the Ayatollah. The statement is on YouTube in Hebrew. The Reuters translation into English of the relevant part of it is below, perhaps that is where the mistake happened. To be clear it should say "a neighbouring" instead of "the neighbouring", but I can see what was meant.

    "Israeli defence minister Israel Katz warned on Tuesday that Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could face a similar fate to Iraq's Saddam Hussein. “Remember what happened to the dictator in the neighbouring country of Iran who took this path against Israel,” news Reuters quoted Israel Katz as saying."



  • #4954
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,981 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123553403#Comment_123553403

    Remember what happened to the dictator in the neighbouring country of Iran who took this path against Israel,” 

    Change the of to a 'to' and it makes perfect sense.

    A typo most likely as you say.



  • #4955
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,420 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Here is a video with English subtitles, which I did not see earlier. It says, "in the country neighbouring Iran", but it would need a Hebrew speaker to confirm that. Another rendering into English that I saw says "the country next door". I would not blame Claire, or accuse her of mixing up Iran and Iraq.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJevrylNQwc


  • #4956
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,582 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Checking the Popcorn levels in the press over the cooker………..



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  • #4957
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,477 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123553403#Comment_123553403

    So a lot of her questions are just lines off Reuters. Doesn't surprise me.



  • #4958
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    "A billion is a really big number" says Maths boffin guest.



  • #4959
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,420 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    To put it in layman's terms. A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 32 years. A trillion seconds is 32,000 years. All rounded.



  • #4960
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,582 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123556349#Comment_123556349

    Does that include leap years?



  • #4961
    Peter Dragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123540099#Comment_123540099

    One swallow does not a summer make.



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  • #4962
    Gooser14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭Gooser14


    Just listening to the discussion rep 16 yr old driving tractors. I can't believe the arguments being made by the lady from the IFA. Totally irresponsible attitude.

    Post edited by Gooser14 on


  • #4963
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    IFA lady talking crap.



  • #4964
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,732 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    It was a bit of a "tractor crash" interview for Alice Doyle.

    Especially the bit about lads going to school on their tractors.

    Darragh McCullough much more realistic.



  • #4965
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    A "ban this dangerous HHC filth before it turns our youngster's brains to mush' segment.



  • #4966
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,732 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    HHC definitely not good for kids.

    HHC: The drug sold on Irish main streets that’s sending teens to hospital https://share.google/TL8STk9zfgR7bO2oT



  • #4967
    rdser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭rdser


    So you can't buy cannabis, but you can buy hhc...which apparently is sending kids to hospital..

    Makes sense.



  • #4968
    Bellbottoms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    Netflix isn't the reason people are not having kids, luv. Not being able to put a roof over their heads and not being able to provide a good quality life for them is.



  • #4969
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597998#Comment_123597998

    You have to laugh a little at it. I don't think they even addressed that in the segment, which is a real thing: instead focusing on how Netflix might lead to extinction of the human race.

    Straight on then to the danger posed by mosquitos: could they KILL you? And followed by a segment on eating alone in restaurants: will they JUDGE you for it.

    I have CB on as background noise while working and it's not the worst... But nearly every item is covered through a default negative lens.



  • #4970
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    Looks like they've learned everything and nothing regarding 7/7, that woman there, think she may have been a lawyer at pains to say the perpetrators were homegrown and we shouldn't forget that (yes they were from Pakistani families + a Jamaican convert 2nd gen like the Welsh choirboy down in stockport) and clumsily and disingenuously linking it with the rise of the "far right"



  • #4971
    rino87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭rino87


    Jesus ffing christ the radio the last few days is making my brain soft....

    "How to put on Suncream"

    "How to wash your salad"

    "Which items that normally go in the cupboard should be in the fridge in warm weather"

    We are doomed.



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  • #4972
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Guest on talking about royalty disputes in music:

    "When I was researching this"

    Which is to say: when I was quickly googling this before I came on.



  • #4973
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123614197#Comment_123614197

    It's by design Imv, a constant infantilisation of the populace, fortunately nowadays citizens are finding their information from other sources where they're treated like adults , but there's still a large cohort (myself included) who listen along to this mind numbing nonsense at times while driving along, why I know not



  • #4974
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,477 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Claire Byrne leading with water shortages - expected but confirmation that there's something wrong with her.



  • #4975
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,732 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616714#Comment_123616714

    Maybe confirmation that you are not up to date with the news.

    Ireland weather: Drought status declared in eight counties as heatwave conditions expected this week – The Irish Times https://share.google/U8mZObsSeAQhyAR0w

    Drought status in several areas as warm spell continues https://share.google/gt7EfP8li9dXrLFfr



  • #4976
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,921 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    What a country.

    Its been raining for a week, and now we are getting drought warnings for what looks like will be about 2 days of warm weather.



  • #4977
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616749#Comment_123616749

    Is the rain chlorinated?



  • #4978
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    It does feel a bit mad, June was crap enough in terms of weather and even the start of this month was rough too - last Friday, in particular, was, around these parts, one of the most filthy "summer" days I can ever remember: torrential rain, wind, cold.

    And then, before a new drier spell has even begun, the first item on CB is drought. It's currently raining outside my window

    I know it's been reported elsewhere, so it's not like she's inventing the story, but it's hard to believe it after wet day after wet day recently.



  • #4979
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,477 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616917#Comment_123616917

    There is a bit of inventing the story. Has she even bothered to question the statements from Usice Eireann ?

    Nope. Her instinct is for the negative and use it as the main story on what is a rare spell of good weather here.



  • #4980
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,921 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616783#Comment_123616783

    Of course it's not. Your point being?

    I appreciate rainwater has to be treated before it gets to us, but drought means absence of rain/water. We have no shortage of rain in this country. We should never be having droughts in Ireland. But that's just my opinion, I don't work for Irish Water so I don't know the difficulties they face trying to supply water to us.



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  • #4981
    Gooser14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭Gooser14


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616957#Comment_123616957

    But we have a shortage of storage & treatment capacity.



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