Sean O'Rourke Today Show

Skid X · 22-01-2014 12:42PM

Boroso wrote: »

Why does anyone listen to MLOD all the time professing they don't like to listen to MLOD?

Because they enjoy the rest of the programme but enjoy her segments as much as diarrohea?

Maybe they could tell us exactly what time she's going to finish at, so we know when to tune in again. Everyone could synchronise their watches with Sean's hourly signal, to make sure we get our timings right.

L.Jenkins · 22-01-2014 03:00PM

Mod Note: No more derailing the thread. If you're not willing to discuss the topic at hand, you know where the door is!

neris · 22-01-2014 05:04PM

Mr Pseudonym wrote: »

I love this video, and like to re-post it every now and then so that as many as possible can enjoy it!

"Who's this woman, and where did you find her?"

Wasnt in the boarding house anyway

califano · 23-01-2014 11:10AM

That plank Des Cahill is currently on talking excitedly about a tie break in the 3rd set ongoing ''as we speak'' when it was well over.
Just now as Cahill finished his slot the presenter SOR said id love to know who wins that 3rd set tie break Des?. Cahill says ill go away and find out for you and wire it in to you. Arrgh I mean why cant he hold a smartphone in his hand with the live ticker.
I bet he wasnt even following it live. They make him sound like hes on the ball but he has to be one of the laziest pieces of cow dung there is in Montrose.

padd b1975 · 27-01-2014 10:07AM

Valerie Cock...

Great start to the week Sean!

Callan57 · 27-01-2014 10:22AM

No wonder Sean is laughing at the idiot ... Baby Cowan lecturing on quangos, he must think we have terrible short memories:mad:

heybaby · 27-01-2014 11:11AM

Callan57 wrote: »

No wonder Sean is laughing at the idiot ... Baby Cowan lecturing on quangos, he must think we have terrible short memories:mad:

Is that Brian's brother he sounds like him.

P. Breathnach · 27-01-2014 11:41AM

heybaby wrote: »

Is that Brian's brother he sounds like him.

Yup.

Harry Angstrom · 27-01-2014 11:57AM

Former Bertie Ahern acolyte becomes cheerleader for Iran. Makes sense, I suppose.

I wonder how much he's being paid by the Iranians for this PR exercise?

Callan57 · 27-01-2014 12:01PM

Sean must have slept late this morning & forget to put on his watch

Harry Angstrom · 27-01-2014 12:07PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Sean must have slept late this morning & forget to put on his watch

Or he might be reading Boards.....

Callan57 · 28-01-2014 11:01AM

Ah the watch alarm is back

serfboard · 28-01-2014 12:01PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Ah the watch alarm is back

I don't get much of a chance to listen to Seán, so I've been bemusedly reading these comments, and wondering how loud it could be, or how good all your hearing is.

Listened this morning, and ye're right. It's very obvious.

On the plus side, it distracted me from listening to boring Ed Walsh bleating on with his usual "Private sector good, public sector bad" rubbish ... thought he was nicely put in his box this morning by someone who actually knew what they were talking about!

Red Fred · 28-01-2014 01:45PM

Haven't heard Des Cahill on the 11 a.m. sports news in ages. Were the rumours of a "bust up" between him and SOR true?

Evan DietrichSmith · 28-01-2014 05:00PM

Red Fred wrote: »

Haven't heard Des Cahill on the 11 a.m. sports news in ages. Were the rumours of a "bust up" between him and SOR true?

Didn't hear anything about that.

Maybe Sean asked him to report the sport and not 'de paartie' after.

Callan57 · 29-01-2014 10:16AM

Yet another Church failure which the state is reqd to pay for .. high time the charade in schools & hospitals where the church holds the control but the state (taxpayer) pays all the bills.

Evan DietrichSmith · 29-01-2014 10:36AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Yet another Church failure which the state is reqd to pay for .. high time the charade in schools & hospitals where the church holds the control but the state (taxpayer) pays all the bills.

yep,same old,same old.

pixbyjohn · 29-01-2014 11:07AM

Red Fred wrote: »

Haven't heard Des Cahill on the 11 a.m. sports news in ages. Were the rumours of a "bust up" between him and SOR true?

Des Cahill was on with Sean O'Rourke just now.

P. Breathnach · 29-01-2014 11:30AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Yet another Church failure which the state is reqd to pay for .. high time the charade in schools & hospitals where the church holds the control but the state (taxpayer) pays all the bills.

I think that the judgement was based on the fact that it wasn't a church failure: the state was trying to avoid its responsibility by offloading it onto the church.

Callan57 · 29-01-2014 12:02PM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

I think that the judgement was based on the fact that it wasn't a church failure: the state was trying to avoid its responsibility by offloading it onto the church.

My point is that the church since the foundation of the state has kept a determined stranglehold on education & health (with the aid of fundamentelist laiety certainly) it is long past time we severed church and state completly. It is not that long since teachers salary cheques went to the local PP not directly to the teacher/s & in much of the country still the local PP has huge influence on the appointment of teachers in national schools.

P. Breathnach · 29-01-2014 01:01PM

Callan57 wrote: »

My point is that the church since the foundation of the state has kept a determined stranglehold on education & health (with the aid of fundamentelist laiety certainly) it is long past time we severed church and state completly. It is not that long since teachers salary cheques went to the local PP not directly to the teacher/s & in much of the country still the local PP has huge influence on the appointment of teachers in national schools.

I don't disagree with you very significantly in this area.

My point is two-fold:
- the less important aspect is the nit-picking one that in this instance it was actually a state failure to protect children;
- the more significant aspect is that the church ambition to exercise control is matched by a state wish to use it as a way to avoid taking the responsibilities that it should be accepting.

Callan57 · 29-01-2014 03:53PM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

I don't disagree with you very significantly in this area.

My point is two-fold:
- the less important aspect is the nit-picking one that in this instance it was actually a state failure to protect children;
- the more significant aspect is that the church ambition to exercise control is matched by a state wish to use it as a way to avoid taking the responsibilities that it should be accepting.

I would disagree with the above in that from the foundation of the state the church control over it's adherants was total - I think it is almost impossible for us today to comprehend just how completly people (including politicians & senior civil servants) were brainwashed and could simply not conceive of "taking on" any church representative. You may be quite certain any politician or civil servant crossing McQuaid or anyother bishop was waving goodbye to their future careers.

P. Breathnach · 29-01-2014 05:17PM

McQuaid is long dead, but the state continues to externalise its responsibilities.

Callan57 · 29-01-2014 08:47PM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

McQuaid is long dead, but the state continues to externalise its responsibilities.

We still have the fundamentalists who do their best to carry on his legacy though

Ciaran · 30-01-2014 11:11AM

The land league must have got some credit for their mobile this morning.

Callan57 · 31-01-2014 10:45AM

I feel sorry for those staff in Mt Carmel but why are they so different from the thousands of other people who have lost their jobs in recent years? It was simply another business after all.
If anything they are probably better off in that they have much needed skills & experience.

CountyHurler · 31-01-2014 10:51AM

Why do RTE continue to bring in PR people to give comment on issues, people whose profession is to lie pathologically and teach others to do so.

Callan57 · 31-01-2014 10:53AM

CountyHurler wrote: »

Why do RTE continue to bring in PR people to give comment on issues, people whose profession is to lie pathologically and teach others to do so.

Only thing worse is Eamon Ryan - waffling nonsense :mad:

Roger_007 · 31-01-2014 11:20AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Only thing worse is Eamon Ryan - waffling nonsense :mad:

If only Eamon was in government, all our problems would be solved........oh, I just remembered; he WAS in government around the time the country went belly-up. :mad:

neris · 31-01-2014 11:38AM

Callan57 wrote: »

I feel sorry for those staff in Mt Carmel but why are they so different from the thousands of other people who have lost their jobs in recent years? It was simply another business after all.
If anything they are probably better off in that they have much needed skills & experience.

probably the hospital of choice for rte staff on the big bucks. couldnt have them slumming it on trolleys down in holles street now could we

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