Sean O'Rourke Today Show

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

What's goin on there?

One imagines that either SO'R's holiers/"on assignment"/sick note is getting so long that Keelin's suffering burnout, or perhaps more likely, the powers that be don't want any one person getting their feet too comfy under the desk and getting ideas above their present pay grade.

Brophy is passable apart from a penchant to pronounce some words in a strange way, such as 'disruptive ' as ' dissrooptive',and 'money' as ' munny'.

I don't find Brophy objectionable in small doses, but I think of him in the category of wet-behind-the-ears business reporter with a nasty case of the Dort-speaks.

Macy0161 wrote: »

Shanley was presenting Morning Ireland this morning. I'd assume that takes priority over the Today show.

Good point, I'd forgotten that, partly as I only caught a little bit of it (before hastily turning off the radio in a Tubridy Alert situation). But KS is a regular MI presenter, so it can't be a strict priority, otherwise she'd never do anything else. On occasion we've had cascading fill-ins, like Aine doing another show, and Shaddin standing in for her on The Week in Politics...

alaimacerc wrote: »

One imagines that either SO'R's holiers/"on assignment"/sick note is getting so long that Keelin's suffering burnout, or perhaps more likely, the powers that be don't want any one person getting their feet too comfy under the desk and getting ideas above their present pay grade.


I don't find Brophy objectionable in small doses, but I think of him in the category of wet-behind-the-ears business reporter with a nasty case of the Dort-speaks.[/j


Yes, correct, very nasty in my opinion,half-tolerable over a short period, but two hours--it's off button for Breno.

alaimacerc wrote: »

Trouble is that as the Indo didn't actually name him, they'd argue that it wasn't reasonably foreseeable that he'd be identified on the basis of the information in the article. That's if he even has been correctly identified, of course!

Why would someone resign over something
in the paper which does not mention him by
name? The general public did not know the
ex-Minister involved until Pat Carey's solicitor
issued a statement on his behalf. Why didn't
FF circle the wagons for Pat Carey, just as they
did for some scurrilous politicians in the past?
If you were innocent, would you not fight tooth and nail against such accusations, knowing that
there was no basis for them? You most certainly would not resign from every organisation with which you were connected!!

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Why hold an investigation into any allegations made? Why, if there seems to be sufficient reason, conduct a trial? Just lock him up.

Why open your mouth if your name has not been mentioned in the publication?
Why not allow the general public to keep wondering?
Why would you think that allegations, regarding an unknown person, of which you
first became aware when you read about them in the papers, (as Pat Carey has
stated), might refer to you?

If Pat Carey is innocent, I do feel sorry for him. If there is truth in the allegations,
isn't it time the victims' complaints were investigated? It seems to me he folded
very easily. If I were innocent, I would not he 'devastated' by something which
I read in the papers which does not even mention my name!!

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Because, apparently, his name was being mentioned on social media.

A lot of things are mentioned in social media which never get into mainstream
media. He could have held strong. FF dropped him like a hot potato, in spite of
Timmy Dooley's denials that a 'crisis' meeting was held the night before Pat Carey's
solicitor announced his resignation from the party. Not much loyalty displayed to
one of their most steadfast members in his hour of need! Not one word of thanks
to him for all services rendered down through the years.

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

It would have taken 10 minutes to clean that poor aul fella up and give him his dignity back

all staff to run off their feet to give him 10 minutes assistance Mr Doran????

bullsh1t

What person with a 'degree' would lower themselves to clean some poor unfortunate up?

Shocking that people are forced to band together in groups to defend their farms from these gangs because the justice industry has failed. Unfortunately I'll bet if there is an altercation and one of the gang vermin gets shot then there won't be a shortage of guards or lawyers to prosecute the poor farmer.

serfboard wrote: »

Patient A is unwell, but in need of a cleanup.

Patient B is seriously unwell.

Who do you prioritise?

The man was there for hours in that condition. Was there a bus crash or outbreak of Ebola that Beaumont were dealing with that day?

touts wrote: »

The man was there for hours in that condition. Was there a bus crash or outbreak of Ebola that Beaumont were dealing with that day?

I don't want to belittle the problems patients suffer, but it might as well have been.

It's a matter of staff/patient ratio. A major emergency event results in staff being swamped, and unable to deliver a full care package immediately that it is required. A significant shortage of staff has the same effect - and that is the point that Doran was making. He wasn't defending the failure in care: he was explaining it.

P. Breathnach wrote: »

I don't want to belittle the problems patients suffer, but it might as well have been.

It's a matter of staff/patient ratio. A major emergency event results in staff being swamped, and unable to deliver a full care package immediately that it is required. A significant shortage of staff has the same effect - and that is the point that Doran was making. He wasn't defending the failure in care: he was explaining it.

But there wasn't a major emergency event. Nurses were busy but they had a choice to make and it appears they choose to ignore this man. For hours. And hours. And Hours...