Sean O'Rourke Today Show

ThisRegard · 06-03-2014 12:25PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Maybe it's time to try an alternative approach and ban it completly ... the perverse people we are we'd probably all be speaking it fluently in a few years.

LOL, quite possibly. People have been saying it for years but I think the first step is to change the curriculum to a more informal conversational approach.

Harry Angstrom · 06-03-2014 03:59PM

The problem with Irish is that the Irish we're taught in school is completely different from the gibberish they speak on the likes of TG4. Regional dialects and accents are never taken into account.
I remember when I was in secondary school, our teacher used to tell us to watch "Feach". I tried watching it a few nights and they may as well have been speaking Swahili for all I could understand of it. I still managed to get a B in Honours Irish for my Leaving though

ThisRegard · 06-03-2014 04:03PM

It takes a while for your ear to tune into it, but you soon find yourself recognising words and phrases. You may not always know what the words and phrases mean, but you can at least pick them out as something you did in school and start from there.

I think most spoken Irish, well what you see on TV anyway, these days is from Connacht/Connemara. Ulster can sounds like another language again.

Callan57 · 06-03-2014 07:32PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

It takes a while for your ear to tune into it, but you soon find yourself recognising words and phrases. You may not always know what the words and phrases mean, but you can at least pick them out as something you did in school and start from there.

I think most spoken Irish, well what you see on TV anyway, these days is from Connacht/Connemara. Ulster can sounds like another language again.

Donegal Irish is incomprehensibe .. but then so is their English

CountyHurler · 07-03-2014 10:17AM

I'm sure Brian O'Driscoll gets hugely embarrassed by these sort of tributes.. His father seems to love them though..

Happyman42 · 07-03-2014 10:22AM

CountyHurler wrote: »

I'm sure Brian O'Driscoll gets hugely embarrassed by these sort of tributes.. His father seems to love them though..

Genuinely deserving of it though. Sad day tomorrow.

Callan57 · 07-03-2014 10:56AM

Happyman42 wrote: »

Genuinely deserving of it though. Sad day tomorrow.

"Sad day" ... that's a bit OTT surely. He's a young man with a long life ahead of him - bit of perspective please

ThisRegard · 07-03-2014 11:10AM

Callan57 wrote: »

"Sad day" ... that's a bit OTT surely. He's a young man with a long life ahead of him - bit of perspective please

One of the greatest players of his time and all around nice guy will be playing his last home game for Ireland tomorrow, he deserves the laurels thrown at him.

touts · 07-03-2014 11:16AM

ThisRegard wrote: »

One of the greatest players of his time and all around nice guy will be playing his last home game for Ireland tomorrow, he deserves the laurels thrown at him.

Laurels yes. There is a touch of Funeral Wreath's about much of the coverage though.

Happyman42 · 07-03-2014 11:45AM

Callan57 wrote: »

"Sad day" ... that's a bit OTT surely.

Nope...just checked. It will be a sad day for rugby fans.

alaimacerc · 07-03-2014 11:31PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

Ulster can sounds like another language again.

Isn't that the fault of the Scots? Or is Scottish Gaelic the fault of the Ulstercritters?

Harry Angstrom · 10-03-2014 11:19AM

Quinn is such a feckin slippery snake. "It's a matter for the Fine Gael party".

He seems to have forgotten that his party are in bed with them.

IvyTheTerrible · 11-03-2014 10:20AM

This anti-fluoride guy is a spoofer. He can't even cite the journals the research was supposedly published.

Also, I may be wrong, but how could drinking fluoride during pregnancy cause Down's Syndrome? Doesn't an embryo have Down's Syndrome from the very very beginning of pregnancy?

P. Breathnach · 11-03-2014 10:22AM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

This anti-fluoride guy is a spoofer. He can't even cite the journals the research was supposedly published....

Keelin Shanley is handling this very well. She is not buying into bad science.

Bits_n_Bobs · 11-03-2014 10:26AM

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Quinn is such a feckin slippery snake. "It's a matter for the Fine Gael party".

The only matter for the Labour party are the ministerial pensions they're busy limping towards. Bit sad when you look back at what were once a bunch of ideologically driven young men (very few women...), even if the ideologies were dodgy...

IvyTheTerrible · 11-03-2014 10:31AM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Keelin Shanley is handling this very well. She is not buying into bad science.

She knows her stuff about Science, I first heard her on the radio years ago on a science programme. Very good presenter.

P. Breathnach · 11-03-2014 10:45AM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

She knows her stuff about Science, I first heard her on the radio years ago on a science programme. Very good presenter.

I wasn't aware that she has some form in science matters. That's a good thing. Too often we have people trying to handle issues with a science or technical component, and they are out of their depth.

Pat Kenny (remember him?) was also no pushover for people selling snake oil. His background in chemical engineering stood to him.

jd · 11-03-2014 06:41PM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

I wasn't aware that she has some form in science matters. That's a good thing. Too often we have people trying to handle issues with a science or technical component, and they are out of their depth.

AFAIR she did biochemistry in TCD.

honeybear · 11-03-2014 08:07PM

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

She knows her stuff about Science, I first heard her on the radio years ago on a science programme. Very good presenter.

Think she might have won her charity bet at Cheltenham today. I think that she is a good presenter.

CountyHurler · 11-03-2014 09:46PM

honeybear wrote: »

Think she might have won her charity bet at Cheltenham today. I think that she is a good presenter.

+1 for Keelin... And her immaculate diction puts Joe Duffy to shame..

Evan DietrichSmith · 11-03-2014 09:49PM

CountyHurler wrote: »

+1 for Keelin... And her immaculate diction puts Joe Duffy to shame..

Hmm. tends to speak through her nose a lot, listen out tomorrow.

Can get a bit wearing after a while.

michael999999 · 11-03-2014 09:56PM

Evan DietrichSmith wrote: »

Hmm. tends to speak through her nose a lot, listen out tomorrow.

Can get a bit wearing after a while.

I'd rather listen to that than listen to duffy talk through he's arse!

RayM · 12-03-2014 12:00AM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Pat Kenny (remember him?) was also no pushover for people selling snake oil. His background in chemical engineering stood to him.

I don't know - he has a tendency to be extremely sympathetic towards loons like Ian Plimer, David Bellamy and various other climate change deniers, whilst happily dismissing the findings of the 97% of the world's climate scientists.

P. Breathnach · 12-03-2014 12:28AM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Pat Kenny (remember him?) was also no pushover for people selling snake oil. His background in chemical engineering stood to him.

RayM wrote: »

I don't know - he has a tendency to be extremely sympathetic towards loons like Ian Plimer, David Bellamy and various other climate change deniers, whilst happily dismissing the findings of the 97% of the world's climate scientists.

Fair comment. I had forgotten about that particular blind spot that PK has.

The danger with people like Plimer and Bellamy is that they have science credentials, and can use the formulation "as I scientist I can say ...". They don't remind us that their fields are other than climatology.

I suspect that PK wants to believe that climate change is a false alarm, and so is easy prey for the deniers.

DownBeaten · 12-03-2014 10:55AM

I really enjoy going to Julie Feeney's shows, she's a brilliant artist, but for her to whinge about people watching her on Youtube is a bit much!

mike65 · 12-03-2014 11:23AM

Paddy is in trouble! Won't get another taxi

constitutionus · 12-03-2014 11:23AM

"taxi men to an inordinate degree have thai brides"

FFS RTEs gonna be issueing an apology for that brain fart ! even shanly could see the prob with it

Callan57 · 12-03-2014 11:30AM

constitutionus wrote: »

"taxi men to an inordinate degree have thai brides"

FFS RTEs gonna be issueing an apology for that brain fart ! even shanly could see the prob with it

Paddy made an ass of that one & Keelin doing her best to shut him up

constitutionus · 12-03-2014 11:35AM

t'was so mad i think i actually missed some of it.

the list i can recall is all taxi men are grown up children, gamblers, and married to third world women.

CountyHurler · 12-03-2014 11:36AM

Do is ever come in to the modern thinking that maybe it's up to the travellers to pay for their own houses, like the rest of us have to do after paying for theirs.

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