The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

John halligan ....

All I can say is that he’s managed to scrape some career together from fairly meagre talent

He earns multiples of what most of us are on - I give up...

Pretty lack lustre panel this am.

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Pretty lack lustre panel this am.

Well its certainly a mix of views.

Gerry Kileen : A second wave inevitable, we're doomed etc etc

Stephanie Preissner: Big protests, yeah thats cool.

:pac::pac:

Cole wrote: »

Stephanie Preissner incoherent and out of her depth...as usual. Surely they can find someone else to reflect the 'young people's' perspective.

She's incoherent to put it mildly. She started by saying she supported the lifting of restrictions. After Killeen spoke, she was then on his side of the debate saying we needed to adhere to the science line.
She doesn't add anything to this show

Killeen is as mad as a box of frogs. He's wired

As someone said earlier it really does seem as if BOC and co are pulling into the car park at 10:57 then tip in to the studio and turning on the mikes with zero prep

jippo nolan wrote: »

Switched to Newstalk weeks ago, he’s punching well above his weight!

That's where I'm going...and if Miriam gets SOR's slot, that's where I'll spend most off my listening time.

Whenever Brendan has a gig Stephanie won't be too far away. She was on "Cutting Edge" regularly as well. Haven't seen the Sindo for years but I'm sure she had a "column" in Brenner's "Life" magazine too.

KevRossi wrote: »

Or why doesn't BO'C get into Donnybrook at 7.00, run through the papers himself, mark/photocopy/cut out the articles that he wants to quote and be properly prepared. As you saud, it sounds like they were all pulling up in the carpark at 10.55 a.m.

Why doesn't one of his minions producers do this and have everything sorted for him at 10.30 so he can vet the script? He needs to be sharp for his two hours on air.

walshb wrote: »

Am I missing something?

Is Preisner Ireland’s answer to Noam Chomsky or something?

She’s on this programme every few bleedin’ weeks.

Why?

its like she's living in a broom cupboard on the Montrose campus.

Joe_ Public wrote: »

She was only on the show a few weeks back so no need to be getting ratty with a presenter gifting her a level of exposure most in her position would kill for.

I used to give out about Marian's peatas, but in fairness, at least she used to leave a bit of time between appearances. When I heard that the Preissner one was on the panel, my reaction was What? Again? Wasn't she on only a few weeks ago?

And John Halligan. Holy God what a performance. Now that he's no longer a TD, it seems that we are being treated to his full, unvarnished views. And what views they are. I found myself shouting, "you're wrong" at nearly everything he said.

In the end, I couldn't take it any more and I switched over to Gavin Reilly on Newstalk.

Rabbit Redux wrote: »

Considering she makes her living as a writer, she's very poor at expressing herself and getting her point across.

You don't see the amount of corrections and re-writes she does when you view the finished work.

Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin

yosser hughes wrote: »

Gavin Reilly is much sharper and quick, it's night and day compared to Brendan O'Connor. The panels though aren't much different

Yep - the only problem I had with it. I turned over one day and I heard Gerard Howlin on it and thought, ah FFS.

The media circle is a tiny incestuous pool, but that isn't just a problem in this country ...

Ah I love Caits accent

Vacuous nonsense so far from both BOC and the head wreck he has on