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Marian Finucane Thread

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  • #32
    Oops69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    he wouldn't get a vote north of tipperary , no one ever heard of him , a local cultish figure in Cork and comes across as a bit of a cute whooore.


  • #33
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,279 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    He sends ppl Christmas cards so he’s wonderful apparently...

    No doubt the cards are all paid for by expenses


  • #34
    Oops69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    He sends ppl Christmas cards so he’s wonderful apparently...

    No doubt the cards are all paid for by expenses
    and he gave me the 'cork person of the month award ' so he's a brilliant politician ?.


  • #35
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    He sends ppl Christmas cards so he’s wonderful apparently...

    No doubt the cards are all paid for by expenses


    Apparently that makes the well pensioned Crowley the "greatest politician of our time" - with zero backsplash from the phlegmy Marian.


  • #36
    jeremyj1968
    Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭jeremyj1968


    I always got the feeling that at least part of his reason for not resigning was so as to stick it to Michael Martin. I don't buy this whole "I don't hold any grudges" nonsense, his behaviour does not ring true with this sentiment.


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  • #37
    Prince William
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Prince William


    Serious question - apart from being in a wheelchair, what is this guys Claim to fame ?


  • #38
    jeremyj1968
    Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭jeremyj1968


    RTE are pushing this "change your diet" stuff very hard the last few days. I wonder what is behind it.


  • #39
    Oops69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    jeremyj1968 wrote: »
    RTE are pushing this "change your diet" stuff very hard the last few days. I wonder what is behind it.
    RTE is awash with hipsters who dont live in the real world .


  • #40
    Oops69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    Prince William wrote: »
    Serious question - apart from being in a wheelchair, what is this guys Claim to fame ?

    The last guy with a Mullet in Ireland.


  • #41
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Prince William wrote: »
    Serious question - apart from being in a wheelchair, what is this guys Claim to fame ?

    Whilst not wishing such a plight on anyone, its the entire reason he got elected down the years

    He's no FDR


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  • #42
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    He sends ppl Christmas cards so he’s wonderful apparently...

    No doubt the cards are all paid for by expenses

    My Dad supports FF and gets one every year-it’s of excellent quality. It makes me so angry that he has been elected to represent my constituency but been absent in Brussels


  • #43
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    jeremyj1968 wrote: »
    RTE are pushing this "change your diet" stuff very hard the last few days. I wonder what is behind it.




    Personally I'm not a big meat eater but I did wonder why this report is getting wall to wall coverage all week ........ who produced the report & even more important who commissioned and paid for it? I'm a wee bit suspicious of the whole thing.


  • #44
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    Same thing on Cormac O Hara now. Is there nothing else newsworthy at the moment?


  • #45
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Some background on that report.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/globe-trotting-billionaire-behind-campaign-13872067?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar


  • #46
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    Some background on that report.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/globe-trotting-billionaire-behind-campaign-13872067?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar


    So I'm right to be sceptical :rolleyes:


  • #47
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Cutting to breaks in the middle of a flow in conversation wrecks the programme


  • #48
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,279 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    honeybear wrote: »
    Cutting to breaks in the middle of a flow in conversation wrecks the programme

    Twice today she waffled on for ages without allowing the guests in

    And When the guests got a chance to get a word in edgeways she stopped them, apolgised and went to a break !


  • #49
    Callan57
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    My highlight of the day was in the Brexit discussion & addressing the possibility of a UK exit without a deal Geraldine Kennedy contributed that "someone, somewhere will have to come up with something" ... as the alternative was too terrible to contemplate. ;);)


  • #50
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,447 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I tuned in today for a short time to hear the famous coughing and spluttering. It was during a discussion about the cost of the children's hospital. I couldn't hear any coughing or spluttering.


  • #51
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    I tuned in today for a short time to hear the famous coughing and spluttering. It was during a discussion about the cost of the children's hospital. I couldn't hear any coughing or spluttering.

    I'm sure there's a podcast of yesterday's show if it's coughing and spluttering that floats your boat.

    ****



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  • #52
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    BarryD2 wrote: »
    Dunno, maybe the listening public like predictability. She just keeps churning out the same old views, the same agendas with same the guests popping up again and again. You can pretty much predict what questions she will ask and what she lets slip by.

    She was refreshing and good once IMHO but a tired docket these days. Happens to all the best, stay too long.

    Try, Marian, ever the voice of Current Affairs in Ireland is a pain in the side of commercial stations, that once tried to pinch her from RTE, but failed. Seems to me, that they haven't yet got over that!


  • #53
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    Greenman wrote: »
    She didn't sound great, health wise. She is in the pay of Philip Morris :-( I wonder if she had her time again would she have started? just a thought.

    That's her business and has nothing got to do with your guesswork.


  • #54
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    jeremyj1968 wrote: »
    The thing that is really frustrating is that nothing ever gets done. Nobody is held to account for the poor performances. And the next time her contract is up for renewal, her agent will walk in to RTE management and convince them that Marion is the best broadcaster in the country and probably get her a pay rise. If it was illness then you could have some sympathy, but the fact that she just keeps on smoking means that she is not treating the high profile and high paid job that she has with the professionalism it should be. Like a professional footballer who goes out drinking before a match.
    Figures (listenship) regularly return some of the best in the country for her programmes. Are you used to listening better. List them please.


  • #55
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    She gets the same old listeners like yourself every week, so no need to change.

    She also gets the regular 'knockers' on here every week. Never a constructive argument to demonstrate "awful programme", but always full of personal jibes. Bravery behind keyboards.


  • #56
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Just heard a replay of yesterday’s Sat. show.

    The lady could hardly talk with the wheezing and throat clearing.

    Started right from the off.

    Cheerleading the 'moan' crowd again Brendan. Can you manage a 'constructive critique' . Maybe beyond your thought processing power?


  • #57
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    newcavanman wrote: »
    TBh i think the Marian show is a bit like the Office. You listen and wonder, is this for real or is it a comedy send off. Her speciality seems to be , those with a serious sense of entitlement and/or Insiders, those who existin the same bubble as her and her like. For example, yesterday mornings opener, a couple of actors, involved with the Abbey. They went on and on, about how vital the Abbey is to irish culture etc. Marian seemed to agree completely with them. No akward questions about how much tax payers moneyhas to go into supporting the place. Personally i have never been in the Abbey and im not sure i know anyone who actually has been to a show there. Im not saying places like this dont have to feature or be supported, but the way marian and friends discuss such things you would think it was a matter of life and death.
    Then she just slips in something about how nasty people burned down the hotel in Roosky to stop asylum seekers moving there. This shows how insulated she is from normal people. You may agree or disagree with what happened in Roosky, but resettling people coming from that difficult background in a small rural town with limited amenities is surely unfair to all concerned and likely to store up problems for the future.
    You can be sure there wont be a direct provision center getting built in Montrose

    Thank you. At least you've demonstrated to the rest of us that this programme is outside your comprehension.


  • #58
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    jeremyj1968 wrote: »
    I'm talking about Murray as a means of getting her out the door straight away, and using the resources that are already in your employ. I would prefer Brendan O'Connor permanently as well. This whole myth that "well if Marion goes to another station the figures will go through the floor" is just that - a myth. And RTE are never strong enough to actually challenge the presenters on this. How many listeners did they lose when Pat Kenny left? The world did not end, and Sean O'Rourke was just as good as Kenny (slightly better imo as he has a better sense of humour). And the Marion Finucane of 2018 is no Pat Kenny. She wanted to be a contractor for money reasons, and this gives RTE the option of not renewing.

    who do we have on today. I'm guessing a plumber, a chippie and a brickie?

    Are you asking for a place on the programme?


  • #59
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    I'd love to know if the show's ratings drop when Marian isn't on the air. Do people tune in because it's Marian or simply out of habit. My feeling is that Marian's no Gerry Ryan. He had a dedicated fanbase of people who interacted with the show and felt a connection to him because of his broadcasting style. Do people really connect with Marian to this extent? I'd love to hire her agent though - who wouldn't love to earn money like hers for such little time on the air?

    Your simply saying that your efforts in radio failed. Mariana record is second to none over (her) lifetime of broadcasting. And then along comes you...


  • #60
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    One of the great mysteries of our time U.

    Better minds than I have failed to crack that one.

    At least you openly admit your (radio) qualification.


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  • #61
    sideboard
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭sideboard


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    She coughed and spluttered her way through the intro this morning - even worse than usual as she obviously has a dose of something - are there no production standards in RTE where the big names are concerned? When are you unfit to present a show?

    Are you now medically diagnosing over airways? How serious is it doc?


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