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Mary O'Rourke Watch

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    #122
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    She's on The Last Word now advocating nixers and telling Matt Cooper not to be silly.

    EDIT:

    I don't know if I heard correctly but did she finish by telling Cooper he should try
    living on the old age pension for a week ?

    What a neck this woman has.


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    #123
    Lapin
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    She's been on Talking History, Newstalk for the last hour discussing Daniel O'Connell. In fairness it was a very good discussion.

    Talking History is one of the best programmes on radio.

    O'Rourke gave a good contribution, (she can be interesting when she's not talking about contemporary politics) but throughout the programme, I couldn't help thinking she was one sentence away from mentioning the many heated debates herself and Dan had back in the day !


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    #124
    mike65
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    Thank God for Mammy during a crisis is what I say!


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    #125
    Lapin
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    Beat ye to it lads.

    Sorry I didn't take bets now :D

    EDIT:
    Damn you mike65


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    #126
    mike65
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    :pac:


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    #127
    IvyTheTerrible
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    News at One now...jesus she's everywhere!


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    #128
    hotmail.com
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    Has she confirmed she's standing? She must be at this stage?


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    #129
    mike65
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    At her age? Only with a Zimmer frame.


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    #130
    neris
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    shes on again now on matt cooper with her usual waffle


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    #131
    wyrn
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    Think she was just on 98fm saying there was no waste!
    I'm sorry I missed it.


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    #132
    hotmail.com
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    Love to see her response to Cowen's speech tonight - does she still want a debate on his leadership?


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    #133
    IvyTheTerrible
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    Mary is on Lunchtime on Newstalk AGAIN


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    #134
    Sir Oxman
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    She's a vile harridan but every radio station and that womans shyte Midday on TV3 love her for some unknown reason.


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    #135
    Sir Oxman
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    the cackle, the cackle FFS!


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    #136
    Havermeyer
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    It's at the stage, now, that you would begin to question if she is on newstalk's payroll.

    'Lunchtime with Damo, John and Mammy O'Rourke.'


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    #137
    Lapin
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    gambiaman wrote: »
    the cackle, the cackle FFS!

    Just heard that on the repeat.

    Cackling was the only way she could respond to the truth as spoken by John Drennan on the programme.

    She's fooling nobody anymore.


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    #138
    Wertz
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    Mammy was stirring the pot on Kenny show this morning.
    Kenny spent the best part of the first hour lamenting the demise of FF in the RedC poll....to listen to it you'd think someone had died.
    An afterparty political broadcast :pac:


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    #139
    tbh
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    Wertz wrote: »
    Mammy was stirring the pot on Kenny show this morning.
    Kenny spent the best part of the first hour lamenting the demise of FF in the RedC poll....to listen to it you'd think someone had died.
    An afterparty political broadcast :pac:

    lamenting? are you serious? lamenting???! He couldn't keep the delight out of his voice!


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    #140
    Wertz
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    tbh wrote: »
    lamenting? are you serious? lamenting???! He couldn't keep the delight out of his voice!

    He (or his producers) gave them more than enough airtime, which IMO is a consolation of sorts and more than most of them deserve...I wasn't particularly paying attention to what Kenny had to say, I was too busy laughing at the delusion of some of the FF contributors.

    [edit] Perhaps it would have been better phrased if I'd have said that Kenny (over)indulged the lamentations from the FF contributors themselves...


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    #141
    tbh
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    Wertz wrote: »
    He (or his producers) gave them more than enough airtime, which IMO is a consolation of sorts and more than most of them deserve...I wasn't particularly paying attention to what Kenny had to say, I was too busy laughing at the delusion of some of the FF contributors.

    [edit] Perhaps it would have been better phrased if I'd have said that Kenny (over)indulged the lamentations from the FF contributors themselves...

    I understand what you mean now -I read lamenting as mourning :)


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    #142
    telekon
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    Wertz wrote: »
    He (or his producers) gave them more than enough airtime, which IMO is a consolation of sorts and more than most of them deserve...I wasn't particularly paying attention to what Kenny had to say, I was too busy laughing at the delusion of some of the FF contributors.

    [edit] Perhaps it would have been better phrased if I'd have said that Kenny (over)indulged the lamentations from the FF contributors themselves...

    Missed the first 20 mins but caught the tailend and sounded all very satisfying. Must listen to the podcast later. Sounds like epic radio.


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    #143
    JonathanAnon
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    telekon wrote: »
    Missed the first 20 mins but caught the tailend and sounded all very satisfying.

    I heard her saying on some show the other day (god only knows what show, she's on ALL of them ffs) that she will be contesting the next election... I think this is a really naive decision on her part... She will get annihilated.. If she thought 2002 was embarrassing, she probably wont even had the consolation prize of being one of the Taoiseach's pick (since the Taoiseach wont be FF) for the Seanad this time..


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    #144
    Rubik.
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    Wertz wrote: »
    Mammy was stirring the pot on Kenny show this morning.
    Kenny spent the best part of the first hour lamenting the demise of FF in the RedC poll....to listen to it you'd think someone had died.
    An afterparty political broadcast :pac:

    FF, if it chooses to, could cut RTE's budget by 55 million euro next Tuesday. So I wouldn't expect RTE to do anything to piss them off between now and then.


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    #145
    Oh_Noes
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    Rubik. wrote: »
    FF, if it chooses to, could cut RTE's budget by 55 million euro next Tuesday. So I wouldn't expect RTE to do anything to piss them off between now and then.

    And abolish the license fee. It's only justified in the event that the stations don't play advertisements which they do. If TV3 can do it then why the hell can't RTE.


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    #146
    tbh
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    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    And abolish the license fee. It's only justified in the event that the stations don't play advertisements which they do. If TV3 can do it then why the hell can't RTE.

    have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence

    I googled a list of countries who have license fee + advertising, but funnily enough a lot of European countries have much higher fees than us - I was surprised.


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    #147
    Rubik.
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    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    And abolish the license fee. It's only justified in the event that the stations don't play advertisements which they do. If TV3 can do it then why the hell can't RTE.

    Not the whole licence fee, no. Back in November, Dick Roach came out with this statement on the Government paying RTE 55 million euro for old age pensioners TV licences...

    "That money is paid by the Taxpayer to RTE. At a time when every other area is being looked at, it is inappropriate. In the current context it has to be looked at".

    This is bound to have sent shudders around Montrose and it was meant to. It was a very unsubtle way of keeping RTE in line.


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    #148
    Wertz
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    Rubik. wrote: »
    FF, if it chooses to, could cut RTE's budget by 55 million euro next Tuesday.

    That would be a rarely laudable act on FF's behalf, if it weren't for the fact that people in their 70's and 80's would then be expected to stump up the €160 themselves or face freezing/starvation/gaol house.

    I think there are big changes ahead at RTÉ regardless of who forms the next government...


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    #149
    Rubik.
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    Wertz wrote: »
    That would be a rarely laudable act on FF's behalf, if it weren't for the fact that people in their 70's and 80's would then be expected to stump up the €160 themselves or face freezing/starvation/gaol house.

    Roach's suggestion was for the Broadcasting Act to be changed so OAP's would still get the free licence, but no subsidy would be given to RTE for it. Thereby slashing RTE's budget in one go

    The background was a FF party meeting where FF backbenchers repeatedly complained about what they perceived to be RTE's "relentless negativity" in its coverage of the party. Pat Kenny's Frontline was singled out for particular criticism.

    It's an empty threat, they won't do it, but it is not empty enough that RTE can afford to ignore it. Whether RTE have changed their coverage of FF in the meantime is a matter of opinion. I'm inclined to think they have, Pat Kenny's Friday gathering today being a case in point.


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    #150
    ButtersSuki
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    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    And abolish the license fee. It's only justified in the event that the stations don't play advertisements which they do. If TV3 can do it then why the hell can't RTE.

    Ah, ok, not a fan of RTE by any means but TV3? Come on! Fine if you want your tv to be of the calibre of Xposé, Take Me Out, I'm a Celebrity, X Factor and soaps......take Vincent Browne off TV3 and it would never, ever be watched by anyone other than FM104 (or 96FM in Cork) listeners and The Star readers. I'm surprised they haven't poached Joe Duffy.......


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    #151
    Wertz
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    See it's ideas like that that would almost make me vote for the like of Roach.
    Almost.

    [edit] That said, I imagine in reality such a move would be a disaster for the normal license fee payer who would be lumbered with making up the shortfall brought on by a €55M cut


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