Sean O'Rourke Today Show

califano · 22-01-2015 11:11AM

Jasus what was Des Cahill trying to do at the end there, he was sinking the ship with that ramble. Bad spot for Sean O'Rourke, he really was sorry he asked.

Oops69 · 22-01-2015 11:24AM

This author john Connolly on now , has to have the most annoying voice I've heard since Abie Philbin Bowman, thank god he dosent narrate talking versions of his books .

Callan57 · 22-01-2015 11:24AM

fg1406 wrote: »

I'm finding this show to be increasingly dull. It seems to follow a format. Every week he interviews the parents of an ill or deceased child, the chef/ cookery spots are tedious, an author or playwright (generally british), someone flogging something etc
I can't recall PKs show being so rigid in its format, or maybe I just have a short memory.

Seems to be format for every programme lately

ThisRegard · 22-01-2015 11:26AM

Oops69 wrote: »

This author john Connolly on now , has to have the most annoying voice I've heard since Abie Philbin Bowman, thank god he dosent narrate talking versions of his books .

Really? I was just thinking he was interesting to listen to. Maybe it's just the subject matter.

Ol' Donie · 22-01-2015 11:45AM

Just flicked over from Newstalk...is that Smug Smugenport I hear?

Haven't heard him on NT for a while. Not that long ago you could hardly turn it on without hearing him.

brooke 2 · 22-01-2015 11:56AM

Roundstone garda station? In Wicklow??

ThisRegard · 22-01-2015 11:57AM

Presumably Roundwood.

brooke 2 · 22-01-2015 12:10PM

ThisRegard wrote: »

Presumably Roundwood.

Fergal Keane sounded a bit
confused making that report.
Sean had to correct him re
the name if the girl who was
murdered. He also referred to
her and her father's visit to
her mother's grave 'near Bray,
Co. Dublin'.

CountyHurler · 22-01-2015 12:21PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Just flicked over from Newstalk...is that Smug Smugenport I hear?

lol... I switched over to him as well when Connolly was on... there's just something about the all knowing Fionn Davenport that irks everybody I think.

mikom · 22-01-2015 12:35PM

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Just flicked over from Newstalk...is that Smug Smugenport I hear?

Haven't heard him on NT for a while. Not that long ago you could hardly turn it on without hearing him.

He ran out of free air-miles.
Back to regale everyone with his tales of how he was bathing off of St. Barts with spider monkeys for the past two weeks.

Callan57 · 23-01-2015 10:42AM

Leo is a breath of fresh air

foxtrot101 · 23-01-2015 10:52AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Leo is a breath of fresh air

Is he really? I find him just as evasive as any other politions. He's just better at hiding it than others.

neris · 23-01-2015 11:35AM

ah brilliant a great way to ruin a friday morning Ronan "your all going to hell" Mullen

Callan57 · 23-01-2015 11:40AM

neris wrote: »

ah brilliant a great way to ruin a friday morning Ronan "your all going to hell" Mullen

He is one almighty pain in the butt

Harry Palmr · 23-01-2015 11:47AM

Wondering who this caveman was.

ThisRegard · 23-01-2015 11:48AM

He's a hateful man.

Callan57 · 23-01-2015 11:53AM

Oh you can be sure Ronan will speak on it Ad nauseam - he's kinda obsessed with other people's sex lives

neris · 23-01-2015 11:56AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Oh you can be sure Ronan will speak on it Ad nauseam - he's kinda obsessed with other people's sex lives

If your talking about it, it means your not getting it

Loafing Oaf · 23-01-2015 02:15PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Oh you can be sure Ronan will speak on it Ad nauseam - he's kinda obsessed with other people's sex lives

Plus 50/50 rules mean himself and Fidelma HE are going to spending an awful of time in radio/tv studios over the next few months. What I'm not clear on is does the rule apply even if SSM is only intended to be a brief part of the panel discussion concerned? I suspect we could see more of what happened this morning: because Ronan is on the panel, the topic will push everything else aside...

Callan57 · 23-01-2015 02:54PM

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Plus 50/50 rules mean himself and Fidelma HE are going to spending an awful of time in radio/tv studios over the next few months. What I'm not clear on is does the rule apply even if SSM is only intended to be a brief part of the panel discussion concerned? I suspect we could see more of what happened this morning: because Ronan is on the panel, the topic will push everything else aside...

and push me to Lyric :rolleyes:

alaimacerc · 24-01-2015 01:59PM

foxtrot101 wrote: »

Is he really? I find him just as evasive as any other politions. He's just better at hiding it than others.

His evasiveness is so evasive it evades perception?

Now that's clever.

foxtrot101 · 24-01-2015 06:35PM

alaimacerc wrote: »

His evasiveness is so evasive it evades perception?

Emm...no. It's still fairly obvious, but not as blatant as the rest them.

Leo is a bit too right-wing on economic matters for my taste, so I don't really find his perceived frankness that refreshing.

my friend · 24-01-2015 07:31PM

foxtrot101 wrote: »

Emm...no. It's still fairly obvious, but not as blatant as the rest them.

Leo is a bit too right-wing on economic matters for my taste, so I don't really find his perceived frankness that refreshing.

Reality a difficulty for you?

alaimacerc · 24-01-2015 07:37PM

foxtrot101 wrote: »

Emm...no. It's still fairly obvious, but not as blatant as the rest them.

Leo is a bit too right-wing on economic matters for my taste, so I don't really find his perceived frankness that refreshing.

He's vastly right-wing on economics! And says so! Hence I don't get this bit that he's "evasive". Just sounds like "I don't like him, so here's a random insult, don't much care if it fits".

LV is personally responsible for me voting quite a way down the local ticket to avoid FG following his chilling "we're going for an overall majority" soundbite. I hate to think what loose cannons I must have given a low preference to. He's exactly the opposite of what I believe in economically. But I have to give him credit for at least saying it. As opposed to the fauxialists in FF, who after sitting in the most crazed right-wing pro-cyclic boom-and-bust capitalist government in the history of the state, now try to play the socially concerned Keynsians from opposition.

foxtrot101 · 24-01-2015 07:59PM

alaimacerc wrote: »

He's vastly right-wing on economics! And says so! Hence I don't get this bit that he's "evasive". Just sounds like "I don't like him, so here's a random insult, don't much care if it fits".

In the interview with O'Rourke he avoided answering quite a few of the health service related questions properly ie. he was being evasive, imo. He may have been more forthright when he was later asked more general political queations, but he didn't really answer the far more important questions related to his brief.

constitutionus · 26-01-2015 10:12AM

Jaysus this girls burying herself on the radio right now.

Call me mad but if I rang Kenya 19 times at a cost of over 2k I'd remember it .

touts · 26-01-2015 10:13AM

Michelle Mulherin is babbling incoherently. She claims that the only thing she knows about it is what was reported in the media but then she says she is the one who made the calls. She says she doesn't know what numbers were called then she says the calls were to represent someone else with an "ongoing problem". She says she made some calls to "Africa" but not sure it any of the calls were to Kenya.

Now she half sobs that she couldn't have made any personal calls because she doesn't have a personal life as she is so busy serving the people.

Give me a break!

ThisRegard · 26-01-2015 10:14AM

She's displaying a text book example of how not to handle such things. It's all the meeja, the meeja.....

P. Breathnach · 26-01-2015 10:17AM

Sean is handling the interview extremely well - he's at his best in dealing with things like this.

touts · 26-01-2015 10:21AM

I'd have a lot more respect for her if she just came out and said yes I was phoning my boyfriend back in Kenya. I made a mistake and I'll refund the money. I'm sure every other TD phones their partner on the Dail phone from time to time. Instead all this babbling about not wanting to talk about a "third party" and needing an investigation into which number were called did her more harm than good.

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