Sean O'Rourke Today Show

Callan57 · 18-06-2015 09:38AM

That GP is somewhat OTT

my friend · 18-06-2015 09:42AM

Callan57 wrote: »

That GP is somewhat OTT

Competition Authority need to review some of her comments, esp where she spoke of others ...

Callan57 · 18-06-2015 10:46AM

Ah sure I only have 76 previous convictions ... are these people for real?

SEPT 23 1989 · 18-06-2015 10:49AM

whats she talking about 200 a week for 4 kids?

she would get over 300 a week on a single mother payment and over 500 per month childrens allowance

and thats without daddy/daddies paying maintenance

20k + a year tax free and still robbing

Brendan Bendar · 18-06-2015 05:16PM

Callan57 wrote: »

Ah sure I only have 76 previous convictions ... are these people for real?

As real as it gets Mr C , yet there are people who deny their existance.

Callan57 · 19-06-2015 09:26AM

Does Paul Murphy not realise that the money for the bailout comes from other equally hardpressed taxpayers?

He is extremly selective in what he chooses to regard as democracy.

my friend · 19-06-2015 09:31AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Does Paul Murphy not realise that the money for the bailout comes from other equally hardpressed taxpayers?

He is extremly selective in what he chooses to regard as democracy.

Only person I ever heard taking 'chip' Murphys childish arguments apart was George Hook, Murphy lost it when his foolishness was exposed, radio gold

Callan57 · 19-06-2015 09:35AM

my friend wrote: »

Only person I ever heard taking 'chip' Murphys childish arguments apart was George Hook, Murphy lost it when his foolishness was exposed, radio gold

I must look that interview up. Murphy normally gets a very easy read for his popularist waffle

touts · 19-06-2015 10:09AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Does Paul Murphy not realise that the money for the bailout comes from other equally hardpressed taxpayers?

He is extremly selective in what he chooses to regard as democracy.

Murphy is a hardline committed socialist. Like all hardline socialists he is convinced he knows better than the general population so has at best a dubious regard for democracy.

And he believes all property, including money, is theft (but he didn't feel that way when Daddy was funding him through private school and UCD).

Callan57 · 19-06-2015 10:13AM

Post cash ... surely the stupidist suggestion ever

BarryD · 19-06-2015 10:30AM

my friend wrote: »

Only person I ever heard taking 'chip' Murphys childish arguments apart was George Hook, Murphy lost it when his foolishness was exposed, radio gold

Blinkered is what Paul Murphy is - sees things through a very narrow field of vision. I suppose it's all about re-election for him - he can throw any old stuff out and hope that his electorate will seize on it. But without ever having to pay the consequences.

Pat Kenny demolished him on air as well.

tampopo · 19-06-2015 04:11PM

my friend wrote: »

Only person I ever heard taking 'chip' Murphys childish arguments apart was George Hook, Murphy lost it when his foolishness was exposed, radio gold

Constantin Gurdgiev went through him like a hot knife through butter on Vincent Browne's programme a few years ago. Must've been just before the last general election. It was pitiful.

padd b1975 · 19-06-2015 11:35PM

neris wrote: »

Nearly time to set up a "Mary Mcaleese watch" thread. Thinks shes spent more time on the airwaves in the last 2 months then the 14 years she was up in the park

Indeed.

Is there no end to the amount of folksy rhetoric that woman can produce at will??

She always feels duty bound to deliver it in her trademark 'choked up with compassion' voice for extra effect.:rolleyes:

Del.Monte · 20-06-2015 07:39AM

padd b1975 wrote: »

Indeed.

Is there no end to the amount of folksy rhetoric that woman can produce at will??

She always feels duty bound to deliver it in her trademark 'choked up with compassion' voice for extra effect.:rolleyes:

At the end of the day she is nothing more than an ex.RTE hack so what can you expect.

my friend · 20-06-2015 08:22AM

Del.Monte wrote: »

At the end of the day she is nothing more than an ex.RTE hack so what can you expect.

Mary Mary quite contrary has had a fine career on the back of the Irish taxpayer

Callan57 · 24-06-2015 09:54AM

Watching that coverage of the Calais last night was quite frightening. It is worrying that these packs of mainly young men, the age group that cause most of our social ills, are undocummented, unidentified and we know nothing about who they are or what "issues" they are bringing with them. The fact that they didn't seem to care that they were being filmed says it all - Europe is a leaking sieve.
Not just dangerous & unfair but entirely ridiculous to expect truck drivers to act as border patrols.

HeidiHeidi · 24-06-2015 09:56AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Watching that coverage of the Calais last night was quite frightening. It is worrying that these packs of mainly young men, the age group that cause most of our social ills, are undocummented, unidentified and we know nothing about who they are or what "issues" they are bringing with them. The fact that they didn't seem to care that they were being filmed says it all - Europe is a leaking sieve.
Not just dangerous & unfair but entirely ridiculous to expect truck drivers to act as border patrols.

Was that on the RTE news, or where did you see it? I haven't seen news in a few days, and just heard that there was trouble - wouldn't mind catching up a bit on it if it's on a player somewhere....

IvyTheTerrible · 24-06-2015 09:56AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Watching that coverage of the Calais last night was quite frightening. It is worrying that these packs of mainly young men, the age group that cause most of our social ills, are undocummented, unidentified and we know nothing about who they are or what "issues" they are bringing with them. The fact that they didn't seem to care that they were being filmed says it all - Europe is a leaking sieve.
Not just dangerous & unfair but entirely ridiculous to expect truck drivers to act as border patrols.

It has been going on for a while, we've been seeing items on the news here in France for quite a while. There is a bad atmosphere in Calais at the moment.

Callan57 · 24-06-2015 10:00AM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Was that on the RTE news, or where did you see it? I haven't seen news in a few days, and just heard that there was trouble - wouldn't mind catching up a bit on it if it's on a player somewhere....

On both Irish and UK news channels last night ... quite intimidating scenes for the truck drivers I'd imagine.

neris · 24-06-2015 10:05AM

saw on the news a few weeks back when the italian situation was getting lots of coverage a really arrogant libyan guy on the news and his attitude was you should just let us in because we,re going to get in anyway. scary stuff for the truck drivers going through calais, alot of them will try and avoid it if they can or park up a distance away and time their run into the port so they arent waiting around

Callan57 · 26-06-2015 09:24AM

Peter Suderland ... another unelected guru pontificating from his "ivory tower". Am I mishearing him or is he overly focused on getting cheap labour into Europe.

I don't understand why we (as in the European taxpayer) is expected to carry these costs - why aren't the extremly wealthy muslim countries looking after their co-religionists?

touts · 26-06-2015 09:25AM

Some woman from one of the Refugee charities on saying we should throw our borders open to all the poor displaced migrants from warzones that are suffering in North Africa. Then she claims they are all highly skilled workers we need in our economy. Can't have it both ways.

Now Peter "50 Pensions" Sutherland is on telling us we need to throw open our borders to all comers. It's easy for a man who has enough money never to lower himself to availing of the public health system or the public education system to say the systems of Europe can cope with a few hundred thousand migrants.

touts · 26-06-2015 09:30AM

After a 20 minute PR slot by Peter Sutherland claiming that mass migration from Syria and Libya would be a good thing and there were no problems at all with countries like Britain and France that had seen high numbers of refugees in recent years we have breaking news......... some lad is driving around a factory in France cutting off heads and flying an ISIS flag. Great timing there.

Callan57 · 26-06-2015 09:44AM

touts wrote: »

After a 20 minute PR slot by Peter Sutherland claiming that mass migration from Syria and Libya would be a good thing and there were no problems at all with countries like Britain and France that had seen high numbers of refugees in recent years we have breaking news......... some lad is driving around a factory in France cutting off heads and flying an ISIS flag. Great timing there.

Unfortunate timing for his agenda :rolleyes:

BarryD · 26-06-2015 09:58AM

Callan57 wrote: »

Peter Suderland ... another unelected guru pontificating from his "ivory tower". Am I mishearing him or is he overly focused on getting cheap labour into Europe.

I don't understand why we (as in the European taxpayer) is expected to carry these costs - why aren't the extremly wealthy muslim countries looking after their co-religionists?

I've heard Peter Sutherland on about the same issue several times recently and I just can't escape the 'fat cat' image - he's been in a series of well remunerated jobs over his careers - and one presumes, wouldn't have any financial concerns at all in the world.

So it just rings a bit hollow when he's exhorting the ordinary plain people of Ireland or Europe to gladly take in all these refugees, support them with social welfare payments and jobs. Jobs that may well be at the expense of our lower paid citizens - not the sort of high flying jobs that Sutherland is used to.

It's not that I wouldn't have some sympathy for his argument and what might be done, it's just that he's the wrong person to be lecturing us..

Callan57 · 26-06-2015 10:52AM

Brian Hayes very interesting slant on the Greek situation.
At the end of the day every government's first priority should be national self interest & I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of Irish people, while sympathetic to Greece, would nontheless not be in favour of carrying a single EUR of additional tax burden to assist them. Not PC but that is the fact.

Lucinda is making a habit of being on both sides.

Brendan Bendar · 26-06-2015 01:55PM

BarryD wrote: »

I've heard Peter Sutherland on about the same issue several times recently and I just can't escape the 'fat cat' image - he's been in a series of well remunerated jobs over his careers - and one presumes, wouldn't have any financial concerns at all in the world.

So it just rings a bit hollow when he's exhorting the ordinary plain people of Ireland or Europe to gladly take in all these refugees, support them with social welfare payments and jobs. Jobs that may well be at the expense of our lower paid citizens - not the sort of high flying jobs that Sutherland is used to.

It's not that I wouldn't have some sympathy for his argument and what might be done, it's just that he's the wrong person to be lecturing us..

Excellent post there Barry, sums it up perfectly in my opinion.

I am probably wrong, but I personally can't get away from the fact that Suds is just pursuing a line for which he is getting well payed for, and really has no genuine interest in the issue.

Just that's the impression I get, like I say probably wrong, but Suds is not the boy to be plugging this, in my opinion.

alaimacerc · 26-06-2015 05:27PM

Callan57 wrote: »

At the end of the day every government's first priority should be national self interest & I think it is fair to say that the vast majority of Irish people, while sympathetic to Greece, would nontheless not be in favour of carrying a single EUR of additional tax burden to assist them. Not PC but that is the fact.

Remains to be seen if there's much of a majority of Irish people in favour of assisting other Irish people, come to that. Huge built-in electoral majority for two conservative parties that vaguely pretend to be different. "Left" parties that can't bring themselves to even describe themselves as such, much less to say they'd raise taxation by anything like the amount needed to match their "down with this sort of thing" rhetoric.

Lucinda is making a habit of being on both sides.

Isn't that the sort of thing you'd wanting to be doing in an election? Especially when you "lead" a party with no coherent ideology. Which is saying something, when it remains true compared to the notoriously ideology-free Big Two here.

All the better to outflank the government from the right and from the left.

Callan57 · 26-06-2015 06:32PM

alaimacerc wrote: »

Remains to be seen if there's much of a majority of Irish people in favour of assisting other Irish people, come to that. Huge built-in electoral majority for two conservative parties that vaguely pretend to be different. "Left" parties that can't bring themselves to even describe themselves as such, much less to say they'd raise taxation by anything like the amount needed to match their "down with this sort of thing" rhetoric.

Isn't that the sort of thing you'd wanting to be doing in an election? Especially when you "lead" a party with no coherent ideology. Which is saying something, when it remains true compared to the notoriously ideology-free Big Two here.

All the better to outflank the government from the right and from the left.

Riding two horses is a risky strategy - unless, of course, you're in Fossetts circus.

Callan57 · 29-06-2015 10:03AM

Good to hear Michael Lester sounding fit again

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