Sean O'Rourke Today Show

touts · 19-03-2015 10:19AM

A car travelling at 20kph will still do serious damage to a child that runs out in front of it. I sympathise with that clearly grieving woman looking for someone to blame for the death of her child but the reality is parents should not allow their children to play on the road.

CountyHurler · 19-03-2015 10:27AM

Facebook's "security" is a joke.... The Facebook approach to personal security and privacy is similar to the Internet's response to piracy... Retrospective..

ThisRegard · 19-03-2015 10:30AM

touts wrote: »

A car travelling at 20kph will still do serious damage to a child that runs out in front of it. I sympathise with that clearly grieving woman looking for someone to blame for the death of her child but the reality is parents should not allow their children to play on the road.

Cross posting or do both Pat and Sean have he same topic at the same time ?

Simple fact is that kids always have, and always will, play on roads within their estate. Adults have more sense than kids and the onus rightly so should be on adults to adjust their behaviour.

I find that most people who have this opinion either don't have kids, or never grew up in a housing estate.

constitutionus · 19-03-2015 10:36AM

FFers crying about how bad FF is doing in the polls.

LOVING it.

Callan57 · 19-03-2015 10:39AM

constitutionus wrote: »

FFers crying about how bad FF is doing in the polls.

LOVING it.

So Willie is receiving a "much more benign response" - has it crossed Willie's mind that maybe they have consigned FF to history & simply don't care about them anymore?

CountyHurler · 19-03-2015 10:41AM

FF dont really get it, nobody wants to listen to them giving out about all the cuts that FG have made, as it is their fault there is no money for anything these days...

Bit of a family squabble starting now... I think they need Mammy Mary O'Rourke to come in and put somebody in the Bold Corner for fifteen minutes

touts · 19-03-2015 10:43AM

ThisRegard wrote: »

Cross posting or do both Pat and Sean have he same topic at the same time ?

Simple fact is that kids always have, and always will, play on roads within their estate. Adults have more sense than kids and the onus rightly so should be on adults to adjust their behaviour.

I find that most people who have this opinion either don't have kids, or never grew up in a housing estate.

Sorry yes. They were both discussing the same topic but Sean was the one with the grieving mother to that part should have been about his show. However the underlying part is the same. Kids allowed to play on roads will always be at risk no matter what speed the car is travelling at.

touts · 19-03-2015 10:45AM

constitutionus wrote: »

FFers crying about how bad FF is doing in the polls.

LOVING it.

The big problem FF have is their leadership is still the same old faces that were there in the debacle that was the Cowen collapse. They need to get rid of Martin, O'Dea, O'Cuiv etc as the faces of the party.

constitutionus · 19-03-2015 10:46AM

the gas thing is FF cant give out about the gov as theyre implementing to the letter FFs plan !

averils tryin but theres no way of squaring that circle.

i have a feeling this will end up in shinner bashing by the end.

Callan57 · 19-03-2015 10:46AM

Averil Power "FF putting the country first" ... now that REALLY would be a first
:rolleyes:

CountyHurler · 19-03-2015 10:47AM

I think David McGuinness is a bit sore cos he wasnt selected.... And a bit of a loose cannon now...

http://www.thejournal.ie/jack-chamber-brian-lenihan-1960101-Feb2015/

"It's my political future at stake..... "
That's not the sort of speak that's gonna endear him to the electorate..

Brendan Bendar · 19-03-2015 10:48AM

ThisRegard wrote: »

Cross posting or do both Pat and Sean have he same topic at the same time ?

Simple fact is that kids always have, and always will, play on roads within their estate. Adults have more sense than kids and the onus rightly so should be on adults to adjust their behaviour.

I find that most people who have this opinion either don't have kids, or never grew up in a housing estate.

Exactly, most kids will play on roads within housing estates.

Cannot understand the drivers, and women seem to be the main culprits who zoom through shopping centre car parks and narrow housing estates like it were a national route road!

Also the concept of Irish people self governing their driving habits on country roads is to me ( and I'm Irish) laughable.
I know the 80 km limit is still there but all the signs in the world won't make a whit of difference once there is no enforcement.
That has been well proven.

CountyHurler · 19-03-2015 10:52AM

Just wondering ... Is it not very odd that FF put forward David McGuinness forward for this "shooting the breeze about Fianna Fail" segment of the program... Surely the new candidate, Jack Chambers, should have been put forward.... McGuinness, as any rejected candidate, will be disgruntled and not necessarily speak in the interest of the party that has just rejected him...

constitutionus · 19-03-2015 10:52AM

ha ha ha .

willie fulminating now about how the poor are doing.

FFS.

Its YOUR plan willie, if ya were in YOU'D be doing it .

the rogue FFer slagging em off now.

CountyHurler · 19-03-2015 10:53AM

This is the other candidate that won, Jack Chambers..

If he doesnt get elected, I think he would certainly make a good Dr Who... :pac:

ThisRegard · 19-03-2015 10:53AM

CountyHurler wrote: »

I think David McGuinness is a bit sore cos he wasnt selected....

He was well stitched up in fairness.

touts · 19-03-2015 11:05AM

CountyHurler wrote: »

This is the other candidate that won, Jack Chambers..

If he doesnt get elected, I think he would certainly make a good Dr Who... :pac:

**** me! He's the head off Bertie if you look at reeling in the years ~1985. Was his mother a loyal party woman

Callan57 · 19-03-2015 11:32AM

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Exactly, most kids will play on roads within housing estates.

Cannot understand the drivers, and women seem to be the main culprits who zoom through shopping centre car parks and narrow housing estates like it were a national route road!

Also the concept of Irish people self governing their driving habits on country roads is to me ( and I'm Irish) laughable.
I know the 80 km limit is still there but all the signs in the world won't make a whit of difference once there is no enforcement.
That has been well proven.

Have to agree & women in my experience are the principal users of mobiles while driving too (in many instance with very tiny children in the car!) & anyone who is forced to drive near a school will witness the mammies total disregard for any driving or parking laws - total disregard for not just other peoples kids but even their own. Put a few guards around the schools at opening & closing times and we'd clear the national debt in no time! :mad:

padd b1975 · 19-03-2015 02:53PM

touts wrote: »

A car travelling at 20kph will still do serious damage to a child that runs out in front of it. I sympathise with that clearly grieving woman looking for someone to blame for the death of her child but the reality is parents should not allow their children to play on the road.

+1.

I feel she is much too emotionally involved to be dictating legislation about road safety.

I'm afraid this was only too apparent listening to her interview with Séan earlier.

Callan57 · 19-03-2015 03:30PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

+1.

I feel she is much too emotionally involved to be dictating legislation about road safety.

I'm afraid this was only too apparent listening to her interview with Séan earlier.

Kids have been killed by cars reversing in a driveway & doing nothing like 20 miles an hour. Obviously one feels great sympathy for this lady but clearly she is way too close to the issue to be in any way objective.

evilivor · 19-03-2015 05:47PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

+1.

I feel she is much too emotionally involved to be dictating legislation about road safety.

I'm afraid this was only too apparent listening to her interview with Séan earlier.

It seemed to me she won't be happy until there is a law with her son's name attached to it.

Brendan Bendar · 19-03-2015 06:04PM

evilivor wrote: »

It seemed to me she won't be happy until there is a law with her son's name attached to it.

That's a very cynical post there.

Disgusting, in my opinion.

CountyHurler · 19-03-2015 06:42PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

I feel she is much too emotionally involved to be dictating legislation about road safety.

I think that just because somebody is the victim of somebody driving too fast in a housing estate doesnt necessarily make them the best person to legislate on the matter... I remember a local girl who's brother died on the N7, who was interviewed on TV and said "They should put traffic lights on that road".... The presenter didnt have the heart to point out how ridiculous a suggestion this was...

Lapin · 20-03-2015 10:54AM

Good old RTÉ Radio One.

As soon as a guest mentions the fun of kinky sex, the interview abruptly cuts to the programme jingle, an ad break and returns with a dollop of diddly aye music.

Is the ghost of John Charles McQuaid at the controls ? :pac:

P. Breathnach · 20-03-2015 11:09AM

Lapin wrote: »

Good old RTÉ Radio One.

As soon as a guest mentions the fun of kinky sex, the interview abruptly cuts to the programme jingle, an ad break and returns with a dollop of diddly aye music.

Is the ghost of John Charles McQuaid at the controls ? :pac:

It was a bit crude (I'm referring to the interruption, not to the programme content).

Callan57 · 20-03-2015 11:43AM

That poor woman sounds like she should be at home in her bed with the hot water bottle

Greenman · 20-03-2015 01:22PM

Lapin wrote: »

Good old RTÉ Radio One.

As soon as a guest mentions the fun of kinky sex, the interview abruptly cuts to the programme jingle, an ad break and returns with a dollop of diddly aye music.

Is the ghost of John Charles McQuaid at the controls ? :pac:

Was it a mistake?

Not really shocking.

A certain current court case is far more graphic.

He came back from the ad break and said nothing.

Very strange.

padd b1975 · 21-03-2015 09:45PM

evilivor wrote: »

It seemed to me she won't be happy until there is a law with her son's name attached to it.

Emotive bollocks, plain and simple.

That sort of nonsense really needed to be nipped in the bud by someone close to her with a sensible head.

thesandeman · 23-03-2015 01:27AM

Be Prepared this morning People!!
MLOD has spent a day on a daffodil farm and is going to give us her report on it.

Never before have I hoped for a natural disaster in which everybody survives so that they may replace her segment.

Callan57 · 23-03-2015 05:41AM

thesandeman wrote: »

Be Prepared this morning People!!
MLOD has spent a day on a daffodil farm and is going to give us her report on it.

Never before have I hoped for a natural disaster in which everybody survives so that they may replace her segment.

MLOD on a Monday! Surely Amnesty would log that as torture - where is the UN when we need them? A day for Lyric me thinks

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