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RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

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  • #5252
    RoTelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,123 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123979174#Comment_123979174

    Ah! I though Mr. H was Haughey.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • #5253
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,910 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123978086#Comment_123978086

    I disagree about the O'Callaghan point. McC came straight back to Yates saying Miriam doesn't have a financial interest in Jim.

    I think it was a good interview and McC accurately showed up Yates for the bluffer that he is. Yates's overall argument is that he is the arbiter of whether he's right and no one else.

    McC summer it up well when he put it to Yates that he was asking the politicians the hard questions having already coached them on how to answer the hard questions.



  • #5254
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,264 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123979142#Comment_123979142

    I actually said in my post that anyone can disagree with what you decide based on your own moral compass.

    As for the law abiding Austrian, I'll leave you to it ,you brought him into the discussion.



  • #5255
    rdser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭rdser


    Is Gary Murphy from DCU an RTE resident pundit or what. He seems to be forever on the radio.



  • #5256
    Deedsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭Deedsie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123979305#Comment_123979305

    What active politicians was Ivan Yates aaking questions of? And whoever said David McC caught him out as a bluffer? Sure he openly and regularly describes himself as a blowhard and a bluffer. Its current affairs entertainment essentially, everytime it was put to him he was a journalist he aggressively rejected it. Two years he never once said he was a journalist when Cooper said it to him on the pod.

    To me anyway its Matt Cooper who comes out of this looking a bit holier than thou and with egg on his face for spoiling what was an entertaining show.



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  • #5257
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,603 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123979305#Comment_123979305

    Yeah, McC did raise those points, but I don't think he made enough of them - he could and probably should have nailed Yates on those. I don't think he landed any big shots on Yates that knocked him off his stride.

    Just my opinion - others may feel different.

    I've no affection for Yates. Even though - IMO - he did well in the actual interview, I would have zero respect for him as an individual.



  • #5258
    pc7
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,335 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    I just listened on my lunch there and full disclosure, I like Ivan on radio and was a paid subscriber to P2P (no longer one now he's left). I think he did well and is right, really blown up in media circles do many outside that care. I'll miss the podcast as I did enjoy it, he didn't give a fiddlers and I genuinely liked the banter. Matt has now come out as a petulant squeaky (thanks Callans Kicks) little brat.

    I'm not mad about DMcC so far, I used to switch between Pat and Claire depending on the topic, he just seemed a bit giddy chatting to Ivan, will give him time to find his feet.



  • #5259
    Deedsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,395 ✭✭✭Deedsie


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123980019#Comment_123980019

    Well said, agree with every word.



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