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Today Show with Sarah McInerney

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  • #62
    Fotish
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭Fotish


    TheFortField wrote: »
    I’ve been very critical of Sarah McInerney in the past but she has done well here grilling Charlie Flanagan. He will be very embarrassed by his performance.

    It would be nice if you had expanded on your reasons for the above statement, but anyway I have to totally disagree.

    Maybe if Charlie Flanagan had agreed to move all the refugees in Cahersiveen into private rooms in Arus an Uachtarain she would have accepted his answers.
    I’m sure that she is a lovely person, but I find her really grating and annoying, it will be interesting to see the audience ratings when they come out


  • #63
    bossdrum
    Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭bossdrum


    feardeas wrote: »
    I think Audrey Carville might be good or if they were not tied to a female Gavan Jennings.

    Is that you Gavin:D

    According to this they are husband and wife.

    https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2020/0511/1137684-at-home-with-audrey-carvill/


  • #64
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    I have to admit, she's not annoying me anywhere near as much as she did on Newstalk.


  • #65
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Sarah is getting the thumbs up from the IT.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/sarah-mcinerney-makes-se%C3%A1n-o-rourke-seem-like-a-toothless-chihuahua-1.4259305

    Can't agree with them on the Charlie Flanagan interview, but otherwise yeah!!!!


  • #66
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Charlie Flanagan should have been given his P45 by Leo a long time ago as he is clearly not be on top of his brief - in particular to law and order rather than the Direction Provision gravy train.

    ****



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  • #67
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Mav11


    She's giving Tom Parlon a grilling. He's wriggling and squirming. Welcome to Parlon Country:)


  • #68
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Never heard hired gun Tom Parlon as stuck for words as he is this morning. Did he not think that he was going to be asked bout this?


  • #69
    Klonker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Klonker


    How does Tom Parlon keep getting top level jobs? He must be very embarrassed at the moment.


  • #70
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Mav11


    generalgerry wrote: »
    Never heard hired gun Tom Parlon as stuck for words as he is this morning. Did he not think that he was going to be asked bout this?

    Typical construction industry arrogance. Thought he'd get any easy ride? She's not letting it go!


  • #71
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Klonker wrote: »
    How does Tom Parlon keep getting top level jobs? He must be very embarrassed at the moment.

    Ex politician, well connected??


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  • #72
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Tom Parlon "we have to reduce costs to a maximum". Should that not be "to a minimum"? No wonder construction costs are so high!!!!!


  • #73
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,749 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    I used to find Sarah's voice a bit shrill and grating in her previous radio shows but listening to her over the past week or two, I think she's growing into her new role quite well.

    She seems to have tempered her slightly aggressive interviewing style a little but she's still asking the right questions. RTE need a current affairs presenter with a bit of an edge, as SOR deftly demonstrated and given a bit of time, I think Sarah will make a good job of it.


  • #74
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,040 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Mav11 wrote: »
    Tom Parlon "we have to reduce costs to a maximum". Should that not be "to a minimum"? No wonder construction costs are so high!!!!!

    No, in my opinion he is correct.

    ‘Reduce‘ is the important word and it’s the reduction of costs which needs to be reduced to the maximum.

    To have to reduce costs to a minimum to me would need as little as possible reduction.

    I could be open to correction of course.


  • #75
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    No, in my opinion he is correct.

    ‘Reduce‘ is the important word and it’s the reduction of costs which needs to be reduced to the maximum.

    To have to reduce costs to a minimum to me would need as little as possible reduction.

    I could be open to correction of course.

    Said in jest:)


  • #76
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    What he means is maximum reduction in costs ie reduced to the minimum. He got it wrong which is ok, he's an industry leader, not a professor of linguistics at trinity college.


  • #77
    serfboard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,668 ✭✭✭serfboard


    Comhra wrote: »
    She seems to have tempered her slightly aggressive interviewing style a little but she's still asking the right questions.
    She was a regular panelist on Vincent Brown's tonight show (TV3), and wouldn't have got that gig without a fair amount of respect from Vincent - a dogged interviewer himself ...


  • #78
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,040 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    serfboard wrote: »
    She was a regular panelist on Vincent Brown's tonight show (TV3), and wouldn't have got that gig without a fair amount of respect from Vincent - a dogged interviewer himself ...

    Hmmmm......... only to those who put themselves out there.

    Doesn’t touch ,sorry, didn’t , touch the wasters and flappers who shouted from the sidelines and did nothing themselves.

    Hope she doesn’t turn out like that, wouldn’t be an asset to any media outfit.

    Well, not one that I’d subscribe to anyway, i mean I would not read the ‘The Irish Socialist’ or the ‘The Red Flag’.

    Far too many home boys pandering socialism and ‘fairness for all’ whilst trousering very significant wedges at taxpayers expense.....uhmmmmm!


  • #79
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,227 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Hmmmm......... only to those who put themselves out there.

    Doesn’t touch ,sorry, didn’t , touch the wasters and flappers who shouted from the sidelines and did nothing themselves.

    Hope she doesn’t turn out like that, wouldn’t be an asset to any media outfit.

    Well, not one that I’d subscribe to anyway, i mean I would not read the ‘The Irish Socialist’ or the ‘The Red Flag’.

    Far too many home boys pandering socialism and ‘fairness for all’ whilst trousering very significant wedges at taxpayers expense.....uhmmmmm!

    I have literally no idea what this post means. None.


  • #80
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,040 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    dulpit wrote: »
    I have literally no idea what this post means. None.

    Auld bosdrum seems to know though.......ummmm


  • #81
    jay0109
    Registered Users Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Education Minister is on now. What a cluster**** they have made of the leaving cert.
    The more questions Sarah asks, the more I realise how stupid the people who run this country are


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  • #82
    Mav11
    Registered Users Posts: 2,235 ✭✭✭Mav11


    She's doing her best to keep him in a real world!


  • #83
    Klonker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Klonker


    jay0109 wrote: »
    Education Minister is on now. What a cluster**** they have made of the leaving cert.
    The more questions Sarah asks, the more I realise how stupid the people who run this country are

    Yep it's a total mess. In fairness to the minister, he wanted to go ahead with the exams which was by far the best solution.


  • #84
    Klonker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Klonker


    John Halligan being very honest at the moment on government formation talks :pac:. Very rare and refreshing to hear that kind of straight talk from a politician.


  • #85
    jay0109
    Registered Users Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Klonker wrote: »
    Yep it's a total mess. In fairness to the minister, he wanted to go ahead with the exams which was by far the best solution.

    Well his backbone didn't last too long on that stand. Which tells you all you need to know about him and his colleagues


  • #86
    jay0109
    Registered Users Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭jay0109


    She's had a fair go at Pat McDonagh of Supermacs there about wages, staff deductions for meals,coffees and uniforms.

    McDonagh will regret saying the Covid €350 payment for those who were only working 1 shift a week previously is 'like a lotto win' for those workers. Ged Nash already using that quote against him


  • #87
    Klonker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Klonker


    jay0109 wrote: »
    She's had a fair go at Pat McDonagh of Supermacs there about wages, staff deductions for meals,coffees and uniforms.

    McDonagh will regret saying the Covid €350 payment for those who were only working 1 shift a week previously is 'like a lotto win' for those workers. Ged Nash already using that quote against him

    Pat was very reasonable and I think Sarah and Ged are way off topic here. They are supposed to be talking about the 350 payment to part time workers, not the minimum wage here.


  • #88
    djemba djemba
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭djemba djemba


    Ten Pin wrote: »
    Did Pat just say Cupid 19...

    That's what I heard


  • #89
    Rabbit Redux
    Registered Users Posts: 309 ✭✭Rabbit Redux


    jay0109 wrote: »
    She's had a fair go at Pat McDonagh of Supermacs there about wages, staff deductions for meals,coffees and uniforms.

    Nice to see him being filleted by Sarah.


  • #90
    jay0109
    Registered Users Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭jay0109


    Ignorant showing there from Ged Nash, Labour TD. Constantly cutting across the other 2 and talking incessantly. Pure grandstanding.
    He even claimed at one stage he works '24/7 for his constituents'.

    Sarah needs to learn where the mute button is on her control panel


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  • #91
    Klonker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Klonker


    jay0109 wrote: »
    Ignorant showing there from Ged Nash, Labour TD. Constantly cutting across the other 2 and talking incessantly. Pure grandstanding.
    He even claimed at one stage he works '24/7 for his constituents'.

    Sarah needs to learn where the mute button is on her control panel

    Case of new TD Trying to get noticed making populist comments, higher wages, higher welfare payments, lower retirement age etc.


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