Sean O'Rourke Today Show

No Deirdre clune on the debate with Sean ?

Callan57 wrote: »

In fairness there was very little "kow-towing" coming from Sean - pretty tough interview all in all.

Would you not think that moving the programme to Doonbeg to interview The Donald was tugging the forelock? "Oh, the rich yank is in town - let's go to meet him!" - very 1950s, IMO.

And I don't think the interview was that tough. For instance, he didn't call him out on that claptrap that Republicans keep repeating about Obamacare being a failure - when clearly it isn't.

Callan57 wrote: »

what we definitely do not need was Doonbeg becoming an eyesore and falling into disuse.

Agreed. However, as Seán said, if Trump hadn't bought it somebody else would.

(FWIW, I am glad that someone bought it and he probably will make a success of it. But he does come across as a bit of an egomaniacal eejit to me.)

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

10 minutes talking about Rory McElroy breaking off his engagement.
Wow so glad I tuned in to get this bit of vital information.

I suppose Sean will be talking about Solange beating up JayZ now, for something a bit more heavyweight? :rolleyes:

Tuned in for a bit of news and heard this nonsense...still better than pk though ha

Brgds
Johnny

Lapin wrote: »

Do you think people with qualifications and expeirience in the workplace should be stacking shelves for €50 a week when they could be out looking for a meaningful job that would benefit both them and society as a whole?

Can they not stack shelves and look for a better job in the meantime? I've got a masters level education and lots of experience but I've worked some crappy jobs in my time while looking for the right career move. I never remember any one of them having a clause in the contract saying I couldn't be looking for a better job in my free time. Qualifications and experience don't stop you taking a menial job. Illusions of grandeur after being mollycoddled through the Irish education system do. If I had two candidates in front of me for an interview I'd give the job to the one who got up off his/her arse and did something with their time in between "career roles" than the one who shrugged his shoulders and said he had a masters and 5 years experience but spent the past 6 months drawing the dole and playing X-box because it was beneath him to do anything else.

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

I could imagine that fascist Noonan telling Donald Chump at Shannon Airport that he should make plenty use of the ScamBridge scheme, just so that he could keep his billions safely in his bank account. Is it too much to ask that an employee of Doonbeg (or whatever tacky name it's called now) should be at least paid the minimum wage??

A fair day's pay for a fair day's work. It's abominable to think that that a Labour minister should be responsible for bringing in such a retrograde step which is weighted so much in the favour of employers who are basically getting access to free labour. Jim Larkin would be so proud of Joan Burton.

What a load of emotive claptrap :eek:

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

It wouldn't be such claptrap if you were the poor sap who was being forced to work for Donald Chump for less than the minimum wage. I can see how that would really increase their self esteem :rolleyes:

And lying in bed all day waiting for a handout would do wonders for my self esteem I guess. :rolleyes:

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

A handout? That's the sort of shyte that makes unemployed people feel worthless and a burden. Is it any wonder that the suicide rate amongst unemployed people has risen, given attitudes like yours?
I hope you never find yourself in the position of being unemployed and being told that unless you take up a ScamBridge, Tus or any other Mickey Mouse job, you will have your social welfare cut off and you'll be wondering where your next meal is going to come from.

Been there, done that ... worked when there was no such thing as a minimum wage & just got on with it & put it all down to experience. Your sweeping generalisations about suicide are beneath you

Callan57 wrote: »

Been there, done that ... worked when there was no such thing as a minimum wage & just got on with it & put it all down to experience. Your sweeping generalisations about suicide are beneath you

It's become a national pastime in this country to demonise the unemployed. Your sweeping generalisation that unemployed people spend most of the day in bed is crass and simplistic, and I would have expected a little bit more intelligence on your part.

Callan57 wrote: »

I am not demonising anyone but I firmly believe that it is very, very bad for young people to be encouraged into a mentality of automatic benefit without any contribution at all on their part. That is where generational unemployment and the benefit culture come from. Anybody who is physically and psychologically fit should be required to do something for their benefits, if for no other reason that their own mental health (in exactly the same way those of us lucky enough to have a job have to work for our wages)
Now I have to go to bed so I can get up at 6:15 to go to work - lucky me!

So, you honestly think that a person who's already living on the breadline should be made to work 40 hours a week for the billionaire Donald Chump, which costs him absolutely nothing, whilst The State pays them a paltry €50 on top of their basic social welfare rate, and all the while the Government spin doctors tell us that the Live Register figures are falling? The whole thing stinks, and it serves purely to let the Government off the hook for not creating REAL jobs.