The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

Yes American domestic matters which are used by Irish media to distract from our own issues and to get hits, shouldn't be covered by our media.

So you don't like people saying "bad things" about Trump?

What would you prefer? Radio GB News? God you're awful precious aren't you?

For my two cents, if I never hear that turgid whingebag Brenda Power again it'll be too soon. Her entire schtick is to be a watered down version of Isabel Oakeshott or Julia Hartley-Brewer or Camilla Tominey, ie. an Irish version of "right-wing woman" who deals entirely in dumbed down American style right wing culture war nonsense.

Oh no! Someone with a right of centre view on Irish radio! How awful. The dominant voice by a long long way on Irish radion is of a left wing bent, and you are complaining when there's the occasional voice that doesn't folllow along. Don't you want to hear alternative views?

What 'culture war nonsense' do you mean? Be specific as to what it is and why it's 'nonsense'.

For my two cents, if I never hear that turgid whingebag Brenda Power again it'll be too soon. Her entire schtick is to be a watered down version of Isabel Oakeshott or Julia Hartley-Brewer or Camilla Tominey, ie. an Irish version of "right-wing woman" who deals entirely in dumbed down American style right wing culture war nonsense.

Wow, she’s really provoked you, hasn’t she? All she said that might be in any way controversial is that the silence from the left following the ousting of a misogynistic, homophobic tyrant is notable and, later, that when two progressive hobbyhorses - disability and blackness - came into conflict, American progressives sided with millionaire actors over a working class Tourette’s sufferer. And you think that makes her right wing and a ‘turgid wingebag’? What could possibly explain such a visceral reaction on your part?

I would suggest that you have been living in a left-wing bubble, enabled by the Irish media, and when you finally heard a moderate opinion from outside the bubble, you reflexively assumed that it must be right wing. You had no other way of processing an opinion that you had not heard before. Well, you better get used to it. On immigration, on gender, on race, the tide is turning. It has already greatly receded in America, and where America goes, we follow.

But Brenda Power is on the right - from an Irish perspective at least. She's entitled to her views (you are too) but to say she's a moderate and not on the right (again - from an Irish perspective) is just false.

This is the preferred riposte of immature lefties online. Even your insults come pre-packaged.

The Irish centre is skewed to the left. It’s obvious to anyone with a brain, but research in the reputable ‘How Ireland Voted’ book proves it for definite. But even in an Irish context, her views are just bog-standard conservative - i.e. politically moderate. What could justify comparing her to Julia Hartley-Brewer?

Agree that they're not there to speak to the general views of the public, but they do have the power to invite guests with alternative views to what's popular in Donnybrook and Leinster House.

I don't like this argument that 'they can only talk about what's in the papers'. There must be close to a thousand pages of content in the Sunday papers. They choose what they want to talk about from that, so it's fair enough to question their choice.

I am really disapointed that she remained writing for the IT. I remember reading the article and it basically boiled down to "The lads in Blackrock looked down at the girls in my school and called us s l u ts. But guess who the real S L uts where. HAHAHAHAHA"

You have to be a very nasty person to read a story about school boys being r a ped by teachers and think to yourself "What a perfect oppertunity to sh1t on people I didn't like 100 years ago when I was a teen."