The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

limnam · 18-01-2020 2:33pm

sligojoek wrote: »

Roz Purcell Hawking a vegan book. I thought this was a current affairs programme.

The lack of instagramming has me out of touch.

She was worth the google though

Mad_maxx · 18-01-2020 3:30pm

Brendan o Connor has turned into an awful sell out

NIMAN · 18-01-2020 6:40pm

I think BOC is angling for a cushy job now until retirement.

He used to be a little left field or controversial....lost that completely.

newcavanman · 18-01-2020 6:52pm

sligojoek wrote: »

The amount of stuff going on in the country this week and we get

A 35 minute ad for a vegan book
"The gender war"
Johanna Donnelly learning to play the piano

Couldnt agree more. BOC has gone to the dogs , in the last while . Since Hookie was hounded off the Cutting Edge, he seems to be running scared, maybe hes afraid he will be next ?

mgn · 18-01-2020 6:58pm

Playing it safe now, any guest that doesn't play along with the RTE agenda is shut down straight away.
The likes of Cormac O hEadhra would be better suited to that program now, he's the type of presenter that cuts out a lot of waffle and ask the questions listeners want to hear.

newcavanman · 18-01-2020 6:59pm

washiskin wrote: »

A mealy-mouthed defence of the weekly rotation of the RTÉ canteen and mates of the shows presenters, complete with reading out the party line and then straight into another shilling session by another stale talking head.
*click*

What really p***es me off is any criticism of this tired, lazy, fetid format is seen as trolling, no listening to the audiences of either format, no attempt to shake things up, just brand anyone who complains a troll and stick their fingers in their ears. :mad::mad:

It wont matter in a few years. Now that cars are all starting to have an online outlet, people are going to start moving away from broadcast radio, either to Podasts, or to streaming services or online radio stations.You only have to look at public transport, where everyone seems to be on their headphones. No need for balance or RTEs 'In Fairness' Bull****.
When that tipping point is reached, then thats the end for RTE and their ilk

Posy · 18-01-2020 7:58pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hi thanks for the reply, but it was the other app she mentioned that she used to learn to sight read music, not flowkey, that I didn't catch. She said it was free but couldn't work out the name.

Think she mentioned the tenuto app for sightreading too?

There's lots of sightreading apps, so if you're looking for one you'll be spoiled for choice!

generalgerry · 19-01-2020 12:40pm

No interview with Mcgregor this morning? Was there any coverage of the fight at all?

could have been the first plumber from Crumlin ever to appear on the show.

Oops69 · 19-01-2020 12:50pm

generalgerry wrote: »

No interview with Mcgregor this morning? Was there any coverage of the fight at all?

could have been the first plumber from Crumlin ever to appear on the show.

Don't think going on an RTE talking shop at 3am from Las Vegas after winning a fight is high on Mc Gregor's list of priorities right now .

Oops69 · 19-01-2020 12:53pm

David Mc williams -- "Make drugs legal "... they need to stop inviting this uninformed attention seeker on the show.

GSF · 19-01-2020 1:01pm

Oops69 wrote: »

David Mc williams -- "Make drugs legal "... they need to stop inviting this uninformed attention seeker on the show.

Yeah I think McWillams view of drugs is from sometime in the late 80's and maybe the scene has moved on a bit from them. He's beginning to sound a bit like Marian in his naive view of the life of young people

ShamNNspace · 19-01-2020 1:03pm

That's the trouble with this show and Marian's before that. Same old talking heads every weekend even when they've been wrong and way off the mark many times. Still they're invited back to spout their nonsense... No new voices allowed lest it upset their cosy little consensus

Oops69 · 19-01-2020 1:25pm

everyone goes 'gobsmackeddly' silent when Mc williams comes out with his little Gems of nonsense ... he's like the mad uncle in the corner .

EmmetSpiceland · 19-01-2020 1:39pm

generalgerry wrote: »

No interview with Mcgregor this morning? Was there any coverage of the fight at all?

could have been the first plumber from Crumlin ever to appear on the show.

Hasn’t been much coverage of McGregor’s fight anywhere. No pre-fight “build-up” and not much about the fight.

To be fair, the lad he was fighting wasn’t exactly a top draw at this stage. If he fights someone big, and wins, the next fight will get more attention. His “brand” is toxic right now, for obvious reasons.

ShamNNspace · 19-01-2020 1:46pm

"you mentioned Trump" sez Brendan No it was actually You who mentioned Trump Brendan give it a rest for heavens sake it's tiresome

mgn · 19-01-2020 1:48pm

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Hasn’t been much coverage of McGregor’s fight anywhere. No pre-fight “build-up” and not much about the fight.

To be fair, the lad he was fighting wasn’t exactly a top draw at this stage. If he fights someone big, and wins, the next fight will get more attention. His “brand” is toxic right now, for obvious reasons.

He's a scumbag and people are sick of him.

Odyssey 2005 · 19-01-2020 1:48pm

I just turned the radio on. The morbid monotone voice is bad enough, but then climate change. Fuk off already.
KCLR >>>>

Brendan Bendar · 19-01-2020 2:55pm

Oops69 wrote: »

David Mc williams -- "Make drugs legal "... they need to stop inviting this uninformed attention seeker on the show.

Correct ...and when asked repeatedly to say where would the cut off point be he dodged and dodged.

Everything to him seems to be ‘very obvious’.

Other things I learned from the show.

1. Fanning is completely mad, Ballsy nearly had to tie him down .

Going to three different concerts by the same artist...pure mad.

2. There was only one guy with common sense on the show

The guy who said pensions would be unsustainable....left in their current configuration......actuarily unsustainable.

3. I have yet to see a suggestion that is ‘totally obvious’ by McWilliams see the light of day.

plodder · 19-01-2020 3:05pm

Oops69 wrote: »

everyone goes 'gobsmackeddly' silent when Mc williams comes out with his little Gems of nonsense ... he's like the mad uncle in the corner .

Was that the "prohibition" comment? It was an awfully inappropriate and glib remark, in the circumstances; even for him, as king of the soundbites and compared with the other guests who had thought about the issue.

19-01-2020 9:10pm

Posy wrote: »

Think she mentioned the tenuto app for sightreading too?

There's lots of sightreading apps, so if you're looking for one you'll be spoiled for choice!

That's the one I was thinking of, thanks a million!

hankless · 20-01-2020 10:30am

I listened yesterday and felt Brendan lacked a level of impartiality which the host of a panel show like that requires. He is not there to impose his opinion, he's there to moderate other's. I enjoyed his TV show. It was after the watershed and the whole concept was somewhat off the cuff, but analysing the Sunday Papers is not the same.

Brendan Bendar · 20-01-2020 12:04pm

hankless wrote: »

I listened yesterday and felt Brendan lacked a level of impartiality which the host of a panel show like that requires. He is not there to impose his opinion, he's there to moderate other's. I enjoyed his TV show. It was after the watershed and the whole concept was somewhat off the cuff, but analysing the Sunday Papers is not the same.

With all due respect he is there,yes, to moderate, it also to challenge and offer alternatives and different views on the subjects being discussed.

One can’t allow people to come into the national broadcaster and spout their agenda and views without challenge surely?

Could you perhaps give some examples of the lack of impartiality?

hankless · 21-01-2020 12:09am

I understand what you mean and agree the host should challenge and offer alternatives but it can be done and still allow the listener to make up their own mind and form their own opinion. I am not going to go back and pick out the sections which I didn't enjoy, it was an overall view.

Brendan Bendar · 21-01-2020 7:34am

hankless wrote: »

I understand what you mean and agree the host should challenge and offer alternatives but it can be done and still allow the listener to make up their own mind and form their own opinion. I am not going to go back and pick out the sections which I didn't enjoy, it was an overall view.

Fair enough.

Brendan Bendar · 21-01-2020 7:34am

hankless wrote: »

I understand what you mean and agree the host should challenge and offer alternatives but it can be done and still allow the listener to make up their own mind and form their own opinion. I am not going to go back and pick out the sections which I didn't enjoy, it was an overall view.

Fair enough

generalgerry · 01-02-2020 12:43pm

So if the child is undernourished the parents can get arrested for neglect, but if the child is over-nourished then it is the fault of society.

Complete cop out by O'Shea. If they have a child that is getting treatment for obesity at 18 months, then it is the parents fault.

generalgerry · 01-02-2020 1:32pm

It is ridiculous to suggest that their can never be a crash because of software. It was software that brought down the 737 Max.

Mena Mitty · 01-02-2020 2:03pm

My neighbour got a drone for Christmas, he's in his early 50's I think.

I only realised this after spending a good deal of St Stephen's day going around the house looking for the source of a buzzing sound. I thought it was an electrical sound.

I went up in the attic thinking there was a wasps nest or a beehive.

It was eveningtime before I found out what the buzzing sound was. I went out to the shed and high above me was a drone with blue and green lights flashing.

He played with his new toy all of St Stephen's day, I think the novelty has worn off, I haven't heard the buzzing since.

I can't see this drone delivery thing taking off ( pardon the pun) I'm old fashioned I feel.

Perhaps it's the way of the future.

tmh106 · 01-02-2020 2:39pm

Who was the woman talking about house cleaning on today's programme?

plodder · 01-02-2020 4:11pm

generalgerry wrote: »

It is ridiculous to suggest that their can never be a crash because of software. It was software that brought down the 737 Max.

Who was saying that, and what was the context?

tmh106 · 01-02-2020 5:07pm

generalgerry wrote: »

It is ridiculous to suggest that their can never be a crash because of software. It was software that brought down the 737 Max.

tmh106 wrote: »

Who was the woman talking about house cleaning on today's programme?

Bobby Healy, founder of Manna who are starting a drone food delivery service in Dublin next month. During his chat with Brendan he said that it was pretty much impossible for one of their drones to crash. In the incredibly unlikely event that this did happen the drones deploy a parachute automatically.

I'm a little skeptical as well, but having said that I think drone delivery will in the not too distant future become commonplace.

generalgerry · 01-02-2020 6:15pm

tmh106 wrote: »

Who was the woman talking about house cleaning on today's programme?

Laura De Barra - Gaff Goddess

I thought she was quite entertaining to be honest.

generalgerry · 01-02-2020 6:20pm

tmh106 wrote: »

I'm a little skeptical as well, but having said that I think drone delivery will in the not too distant future become commonplace.

Yeah I don't want to be knocking the guy as it is a good idea, if not amazingly original. I am actually surprised that he has got the license to allow him to do it more than anything else.

He spoke very well and seems to have all the answers very well prepared for all the obvious questions that he would be asked. But to say that it was not possible to have a crash is ridiculous. No man made vehicle has ever achieved that accolade.

Oops69 · 02-02-2020 12:49pm

it's clear from Brendan's attitude to Sinn Fein this morning that the luvvies in Montrose are having a ****e haemorrhage after the latest poll.

DellyBelly · 02-02-2020 1:23pm

Listening to expert on the corona virus his opinion seems to stop all people from China from entering the country. Seems radical but he is the expert I suppose

Brendan Bendar · 02-02-2020 2:18pm

Oops69 wrote: »

it's clear from Brendan's attitude to Sinn Fein this morning that the luvvies in Montrose are having a ****e haemorrhage after the latest poll.

‘Bout time someone put the hard questions to them.

AwaitYourReply · 06-02-2020 2:46pm

I wonder if RTÉ Radio 1 intends to build-on the current replacement programme or if the entire format/presenter will be shelved altogether in the middle of March as suggested by the Head of RTÉ Radio 1. They are clearly not gonna risk Marian's huge audience drifting away over time and this suggests the current show was only ever intended as a temporary fixture in Radio 1's weekend schedule.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/she-went-out-on-a-high-marians-final-radio-ratings-show-increase-38932312.html

serfboard · 06-02-2020 5:30pm

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

They are clearly not gonna risk Marian's huge audience drifting away over time and this suggests the current show presenter was only ever intended as a temporary fixture in Radio 1's weekend schedule.

FYP

AwaitYourReply · 06-02-2020 6:59pm

serfboard wrote: »

FYP

Below is a quote from the head of RTÉ Radio 1 taken from the same published article in question:

“It will be a couple of months before we confirm anything. We have been having conversations about it but we need to be respectful following Marian’s death. We won’t be replacing her. We will be launching a new programme in the middle of March,” he said.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/she-went-out-on-a-high-marians-final-radio-ratings-show-increase-38932312.html

Apparently, Marian had intended to announce her retirement and was about to resume presentation in January before she passed away.

RTÉ had to replace such a popular show amongst it's large number of 300,000+ listeners with something in the interim and I think station management were always going to take a period of time to consider what was best for the weekend mornings 11am-1pm slot looking ahead to the medium to long term.

ShamNNspace · 08-02-2020 12:25pm

John Banville isn't half up himself. The royal family are just an ordinary middle class family sez he

Oops69 · 08-02-2020 12:40pm

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

Below is a quote from the head of RTÉ Radio 1 taken from the same published article in question:

“It will be a couple of months before we confirm anything. We have been having conversations about it but we need to be respectful following Marian’s death. We won’t be replacing her. We will be launching a new programme in the middle of March,” he said.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/she-went-out-on-a-high-marians-final-radio-ratings-show-increase-38932312.html

Apparently, Marian had intended to announce her retirement and was about to resume presentation in January before she passed away.
with all due respect to Marian etc. , she was not stupid , there was no way she was going to retire from such a plum number .

08-02-2020 1:30pm

^^^^^ Agreed. Marion didn't wish to leave a mess.

AwaitYourReply · 09-02-2020 1:08am

Oops69 wrote: »

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

Below is a quote from the head of RTÉ Radio 1 taken from the same published article in question:

“It will be a couple of months before we confirm anything. We have been having conversations about it but we need to be respectful following Marian’s death. We won’t be replacing her. We will be launching a new programme in the middle of March,” he said.

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/she-went-out-on-a-high-marians-final-radio-ratings-show-increase-38932312.html

Apparently, Marian had intended to announce her retirement and was about to resume presentation in January before she passed away.
with all due respect to Marian etc. , she was not stupid , there was no way she was going to retire from such a plum number .

Marian Finucane's husband, John Clarke revealed to the congregation at her funeral that she had made the decision to retire. She indicated it to him in the first week of last December.

Full article as per below link:

Source: Irish Independent

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/we-were-so-excited-about-her-retirement-the-books-we-would-read-the-places-we-would-see-sadly-that-is-not-going-to-happen-38841638.html

tampopo · 09-02-2020 1:09am

Deleted User wrote: »

^^^^^ Agreed. Marion didn't wish to leave a mess.

The Rising Time presenter said she often left a mess, coffee cups etc, in the studio that were still there when he came in for 6am

mgn · 14-02-2020 2:26pm

https://www.thejournal.ie/brendan-o-connor-rte-radio-weekends-5007369-Feb2020/

O'Connor to get Finucane slot.

ford fiesta · 14-02-2020 3:10pm

mgn wrote: »

https://www.thejournal.ie/brendan-o-connor-rte-radio-weekends-5007369-Feb2020/

O'Connor to get Finucane slot.

there will be uproar now, because its not a female or someone identifying as a female.

..and replacing a female too!!!!

Brendan Bendar · 14-02-2020 4:01pm

One would presume that the salary would be a good bit short of what Marian had.?

AwaitYourReply · 14-02-2020 7:32pm

Below is how the Irish Independent reported Marian's full-time replacement from mid-March

"Brendan O'Connor to take over RTÉ Radio 1 slot previously held by Marian Finucane"

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/brendan-oconnor-to-take-over-rte-radio-1-slot-previously-held-by-marian-finucane-38956517.html

Long_Wave · 14-02-2020 8:10pm

Am I missing something here? Brendan O'Connor has already been presenting the show since mid December.

serfboard · 14-02-2020 9:02pm

ford fiesta wrote: »

there will be uproar now, because its not a female or someone identifying as a female.

..and replacing a female too!!!!

I Genuinely didn't think that Brendan would get it

The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

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