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RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,548 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Very important Breener, I heard snippets of her myself and she sounded a bit shaky, but no blame whatsoever as she was brand new to the programme,so to be expected.

    What would interest me more though is the attitude displayed when she gets her feet under the table as it were.

    Will she buy into the fcukkery that occurs around five to the hour?

    Will she adopt a hostile and abrasive stance to anyone 'in power' and be on first name terms with anyone not?

    Will she adopt warp speed speaking technique to try and discombobulate the interviewee ?

    Or will she be fair and evenly modulated with all comers ?

    Very important points Breener, if I may say so, a certain coterie of course in Farneyland can't see such nuances but glad a lad as erudite and evenly balanced as yourself can understand what is going on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    There is no agreement in Farneyland with your premise that there is:

    a hostile and abrasive stance to anyone 'in power'

    nor does the Farney delegate see any problem with

    the attitude displayed 

    Claire Brock has a track record for her investigative questioning of all and her fairness and fitted in straight away according to the Farney jury, who listened to the show yesterday. Douse points RTE, a good appointment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,548 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Of course once again completely mis interpreted my post.

    I was not referring to Ms Brock in the excerpts highlighted by you.

    Let’s wait and see was the theme of my post.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    The terms of reference you set up to judge Claire Brock against are not mine Brendan.

    You seem to think there is general agreement on them…not so.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    oops, apprentice must have hit the wrong button there.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭Archduke Franz Ferdinand


    it’s conors donkey braying (laughing) that gets me with him and he constantly cuts across interviewees. I’m waiting patiently for one of them to fillet him one of these evenings

    Post edited by Archduke Franz Ferdinand on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,477 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Bit of an oul scrap with Michael O' Leary.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,709 ✭✭✭archfi


    That O hEadhra fella is some gobshte

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


    O leary ate him without salt and spitted him out



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,477 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I missed the very, very start of it - turned it on and I heard M' O L going nuts. Cormac is a bit of an ejit TBF, but O' Leary can talk a fair amount of nonsense too. He made a claim that no-one travels up to Dublin Airport using public transport before a certain hour because there's no service and everyone drives- that's absolute crap.

    I've travelled up to Dublin Airport loads of times at all hours using bus services. Now, I'm not saying that those services exist for everyone around the country - but to say everyone drives up, that's clearly false.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭zell12




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭mattser


    You didn't have to wait long. No sooner said than done. He walked right into a few Mickey O' haymakers. Classic 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    O'Leary doing his usual bouncing around the ring looking like he is in control. On closer inspection though he was throwing a lot of punches but a lot of them were missing.
    Also tried to pull the familiar trick of accusing the journalist of defending the government when he was just doing his job of devil's advocate.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    Feel like I listened to a different interview than many here. It was entertaining, sure, but O'Leary sounded poor. It was clear Cormac was taking the piss in several instances and O'Leary sounded over the top sensitive. Like a child unable to respond to any challenges, even when he may have a valid point. I also don't think he'd have spoken to Sarah like that even given the same challenges.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,619 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Mr Angry, Mullingar yet again.

    CEO of a major international airline doing comic turns on the radio.

    More like Callans Kicks than Drivetime 🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    He may not have spoken to her that exact way but he would have tried the same tactic. It's called trolling on social media. Calling a journalist/interviewer a 'government defender' 'an opposition defender' or an Israeli/Palestinian/US etc defender is the last refuge of somebody without an argument.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,548 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    I didn’t ‘set up, any terms of reference to judge Ms Brock on Francis.

    More fake news from Farney land unfortunately, I merely suggested that it might be best to evaluate a persons ‘style’ would be to give them time to demonstrate their modus operandi.

    Simples



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,477 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I must listen back to the whole thing to be sure, but, you could be right. If that's the case then I apologise to M O' L.

    I dunno if it was a clear cut victory for him. I think C O' H was intentionally winding him up at the end and I think he loves it if the interviewee is spitting feathers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    As any good journalist/interviewer would do, O hEadhra is now taking up O'Leary's position with a TD in favour of the Metro.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Aye, you just typed all that stuff in bullet points for the craic. Jaysus! 🙄



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,548 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Drivetime have only themselves to thank Mr e… the chickens have come home to roost.

    This stuff backs up everything I 'campaigned' on since RTE decided to play fcukkery with a serious prime time news programme with serious presenters.

    They put in braying buffoons, who cannot command any respect, stupid 'inserts ' and even stupider attempts at 'banter' and 'chemistry' between the presenters.

    Some of the posts above have hit the nail on the head ..OhEadhra was 'rag dolled' by O'leary, no ifs buts or maybes.

    How many times did O'Leary refer to "stupid" when engaging O'hEadhra… that's what happens when you cheapen yourself with buffoonery and lack of any gravitas.

    The signs are all there…… will they take heed…. will they fuehrk?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    O hEadhra didn't rise to the tactics of an interviewee who has tried this with every presenter on RTE, from Pat Kenny to Sean O'Rourke. He is renowned for it.

    A few minutes after, O hEadhra calmly continued doing his job playing devil's advocate with someone of the polar opposite opinion on the Metro, using O'Leary's arguments to tease out and probe what the TD was saying.
    That interviewee didn't go off on one, because his 'expertise' was questioned nor did he call anyone 'stupid' when he ran out of answers and the interview was a much calmer rational affair.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,136 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    ****in shambles of an interview. The filthy reference to a rich CEO using a bus lane in a taxi was a new low, even for RTE's resident fool - a fool that wouldn't be anywhere near drivetime if it weren't for Ireland's most trusted agent

    Cormac was rattled after that one for sure. O'Leary should've said 'Are you going to let me answer, you clown?'

    Don't trip on the mask around your ankles Cormac…good lad



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,464 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Cormac shockingly out of his depth and his comment about wealthy CEOs was pathetic given the hundreds of millions RTE is costing us.

    Michael O'Leary entitled to his opinion like anybody else. RTE don't seem to understand this. Cormac not clever enough to outdo O'Leary.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    O’Leary went peak O’Leary, the world should revolve around him and his company.

    Made a bombastic fool of himself and not for the first time. A few minutes later Cormac skill-fully probed the pro Metro interviewee and that interviewee kept his cool and dignity.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,105 ✭✭✭plodder


    Cormac was very poorly prepared for that onslaught of bullsh!t. What did he expect from him?

    Exactly. Beyond the tiresome "no such thing as bad publicity" line, these interventions by him don't have a great success rate. I missed the pro Metro person. Was it the project manager who MOL disdainfully referred to as "some New Zealander" by any chance? <edit>I see it was a TD now.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭Archduke Franz Ferdinand


    O’Hara is totally out of his depth on this program, ld say Sarah McInerney often wonders what she did wrong to be lumbered with him. I get having to play devils advocate as well but he brings it to a whole new level. I can’t understand why some of the interviewees just say “ listen you f&€ €ing clown, are you going to let me answer or are you going to just keep on talking shite?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,464 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    O'Leary excellent at showing up how bad our media is. At the end Cormac going on about "scientists say" and when challenged about what scientists and where is this research, Cormac completely lost.

    Now I'm not disputing any scientific evidence but if you're going to incorporate this in your argument, make sure you have details to back it up. Clearly these media eijets have not read one sentence of the research they use in their arguments.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    This is the self obsessed lad that was being interviewed. The world must conform to the needs of his business. An exceptional idiot of an interviewee for any journalist/presenter to deal with or prepare for.

    Dressed as funeral directors and carrying a coffin with the legend 'Irish Tourism RIP', Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary and members of the airline's staff interrupted the official opening of the terminal which O'Leary sees a waste of money.

    But the DAA has fought back in defence of the project and accused the controversial Ryanair supremo of 'hot air'. A DAA spokesperson said that Ryanair had spread 'a myriad of untruths, exaggerations and puerile metaphors' about the T2 project and had opposed the development 'for its own purposes'.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,711 ✭✭✭✭zell12




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