Sean O'Rourke Today Show

snubbleste · 04-07-2014 09:46AM

Harry Angstrom · 04-07-2014 09:46AM

Ah Jaysus, a Garret Brukes song. Sean is definitely a fanboy.

snubbleste · 04-07-2014 09:48AM

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Ah Jaysus, a Garret Brukes song. Sean is definitely a fanboy.

sligojoek · 04-07-2014 10:19AM

I noticed every time Christy Bourke tried to say the promoters had some responsibility, Sean shouted him down Joe Duffy style. I wonder has it anything to do with the amount of advertising RTE get from Aitkens.

dvcireland · 04-07-2014 11:06AM

jaysis, can you imagine the fallout, if a concert "The Boss" was to be cancelled, would Rachel English be able to hold it together?

neris · 08-07-2014 10:31AM

Paddy must have a barring order from the social welfare offices. Now they have him hounding muslims

Nody · 08-07-2014 11:33AM

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ThisRegard · 09-07-2014 09:21AM

We know what side Sean is on in the whole Brooks saga anyway. A big contrast between how Newstalk just handled it with Derval O'Rourke and this joke with Jim Carroll.

IvyTheTerrible · 09-07-2014 10:32AM

How on earth would Garth Brooks playing Croke Park help get more kids from the area to go to university? He's really struggling for arguments here.

Welsh Megaman · 09-07-2014 10:45AM

Garth: Goodnight Iceland, there will be no encore.

constitutionus · 09-07-2014 10:53AM

sean not taking any guff off this one.

CountyHurler · 09-07-2014 02:42PM

I thought Sean O'Rourke was really over the top with that Muslim doctor....

"But some people lose one child and for them it's hugely traumatic, was it not absolutely DEVASTATING when you lost four of your relations"..

Like something Joe Duffy would come out with.... And then followed up with.

"do you ever worry that when you're operating on somebody that you will have a flashback that will affect your performance"...

What did he expect him to say... "Yeah, I've had a few slipups but I cant mention them in case the insurance company are listening"..

CountyHurler · 10-07-2014 09:11AM

Jim Power.... Why do RTE keep giving this guy air time? He STILL does not have any credibility... He should have just left economics, in the same way that an air traffic controller never works in that job again if they have been found to be responsible for a plane crash..

Callan57 · 10-07-2014 09:15AM

CountyHurler wrote: »

Jim Power.... Why do RTE keep giving this guy air time? He STILL does not have any credibility... He should have just left economics, in the same way that an air traffic controller never works in that job again if they have been found to be responsible for a plane crash..

A bit harsh but Jim certainly should be prefixed by one of those "Health Warnings" SOR would prefix the tallys with during election counts.

CountyHurler · 10-07-2014 09:39AM

Newton Emerson... I'm guessing he's not a taig..

CountyHurler · 10-07-2014 09:55AM

Conor Brophy is a smart lad... Always impressed with his reports..

L1011 · 10-07-2014 10:07AM

CountyHurler wrote: »

Newton Emerson... I'm guessing he's not a taig..

Satarist from the past, now a "normal" journo:

http://www.portadownnews.com/finalnotice.htm

Lapin · 10-07-2014 10:18AM

Poor ould Garth all the same.

The chap doesn't know whether he's coming or going.

I'm a bit like that myself sometimes.

CountyHurler · 11-07-2014 09:07AM

Hanafin... :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Callan57 · 11-07-2014 09:08AM

Good Lord is that the Hanafin wan again? :mad:

CountyHurler · 11-07-2014 09:21AM

I think the day of a Cabinet reshuffle is when all of the Government TDs let the mask slip and you can actually see that they are all in it for the career, not necessarily for the people who elected them...

Mary Hanafin is sickening.. She is a politician again, and RTE should not be bringing her back on these panel shows to subtly talk herself up before her electorate...

P. Breathnach · 11-07-2014 09:31AM

The "Today" programme regularly features politicians (and so it should, as a current affairs programme). Mary Hanafin was there as one of two former ministers who have been through the experience of a cabinet re-shuffle. What she had to say was pertinent to today's big story. She described how Taoisigh deal with cabinet hopefuls, and that is something that I have not heard spelled out in any detail before.

I think it was appropriate to have her there.

Expunge · 11-07-2014 09:57AM

All well and good. How about extending an invitation to an ex-cabinet minister who's been through that experience but who is not longer in politics. There are quite a few from the same cabinet Ms. Hanafin served in who would fit the bill. No?

Callan57 · 11-07-2014 10:07AM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

The "Today" programme regularly features politicians (and so it should, as a current affairs programme). Mary Hanafin was there as one of two former ministers who have been through the experience of a cabinet re-shuffle. What she had to say was pertinent to today's big story. She described how Taoisigh deal with cabinet hopefuls, and that is something that I have not heard spelled out in any detail before.

I think it was appropriate to have her there.

You must not be listening closely - I have heard all her "anecdotes" many times on various programmes on radio & tv.
She is a local councellor, clearly itching to get back to the Dail, and IMO it is grossly unfair to her constituency colleagues that she is given so much unwarranted airtime.
Apart from annoying me she added nothing new to this mornings prog.

P. Breathnach · 11-07-2014 10:08AM

So should a current affairs programme have a policy of excluding people who are active in politics?

Harry Angstrom · 11-07-2014 10:09AM

Kathleen Lynch being mooted as the next Minister for Education

Yakuza · 11-07-2014 10:14AM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

So should a current affairs programme have a policy of excluding people who are active in politics?

Perhaps only those who have been proven to be grossly inept from their previous time in power, unless its for the sole purpose of filletting them on their ineptitude.

Having said that, in this specific case she is an elected representative and does have some prior experience in the machinations of the Dáil cabinet and it's not completely unwarranted for her to be on the national airwaves, however galling it might be to some.

Harry Angstrom · 11-07-2014 10:21AM

Bodyguards :rolleyes:

Harry Angstrom · 11-07-2014 10:32AM

O'Gorman and O'Connell - teaming up together as joint pedlars of misery. Should be fun.

Callan57 · 11-07-2014 10:38AM

P. Breathnach wrote: »

So should a current affairs programme have a policy of excluding people who are active in politics?

You are neither listening or reading obviously ... what I object to is the SAME individual being given disproportionate airtime - way in excess of her constituency rivals or anyone else in a similar position.

Sean O'Rourke Today Show

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