Marian Finucane

JonathanAnon · 19-09-2010 11:54am

GSF wrote: »

Is that Batt O'Keffe saying Cowen showed great foresight in his career? WTF!:eek:

Absolutely ridiculous... In Freefall, Olivia O'Leary questioned Cowan on the policy of allowing people to get 120% mortgages.. and he gave his usual rhetoric "If people want to buy houses I cant stop them"....

The crashing of cups always makes me visualise the studio as akin to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party...

SilverLiningOK · 19-09-2010 11:59am

Batt O'Keefe once again tries to the defend the RCC cult and brush their crimes against humanity under the mat.

GSF · 19-09-2010 12:03pm

I had to turn this off after 10 minutes. The level of stupidity from the panel & the spluttering host was doing my head in.

JonathanAnon · 19-09-2010 12:05pm

I have to say though, the amount of personal insults that Cowan has to endure is ridiculous... imagine what his kids have to put up with in school every day.. It's not right, cowardly journalists should be brought to order. Attack him over the issues certainly, but not over his appearance..

JonathanAnon · 19-09-2010 12:12pm

How about this.. How come Marion is allowed to criticise Cowan for having a few pints before giving an interview, when she herself smokes like a chimney leaving her unable to speak for her radio show... kind of ironic really

SilverLiningOK · 19-09-2010 12:14pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I have to say though, the amount of personal insults that Cowan has to endure is ridiculous... imagine what his kids have to put up with in school every day.. It's not right, cowardly journalists should be brought to order. Attack him over the issues certainly, but not over his appearance..

Clowen deserves everything that is thrown at him at this stage with his arrogance/stupidity to carry on in this fashion in the first place. We are his employers and not very happy with his performance and feeling again let down by him not taking his job seruously. He deserve a reprimand, another verbal warning and ultimately a P45. Is he having a laugh or what ?

In some ways this CowenGate II suits the FF crowd of gangsters and their developer/banker mates. It keeps the real stories that have far more relevance for the population out of the news-cycle.

Lapin · 19-09-2010 12:35pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

How about this.. How come Marion is allowed to criticise Cowan for having a few pints before giving an interview, when she herself smokes like a chimney leaving her unable to speak for her radio show... kind of ironic really

What

She never shuts up :eek: :eek: :eek:

JonathanAnon · 19-09-2010 12:41pm

Are you not listening to that, Rabbit.. ? She must have had the full 80 yesterday.

Lapin · 19-09-2010 1:02pm

Only caught bits of today's programme. I heard lots of coughing all right.
Thought I was listening to Marc Coleman for a while.

Poochie05 · 19-09-2010 1:09pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

How about this.. How come Marion is allowed to criticise Cowan for having a few pints before giving an interview, when she herself smokes like a chimney leaving her unable to speak for her radio show... kind of ironic really

Yeah I was thinking that myself yesterday. She did mention she had the flu. :rolleyes:

GotBainne? · 19-09-2010 1:13pm

Listened to Marian this morning, it was disgusting, talk about a FF love in. She had some cheek slagging off Simon Coveney by saying that "as a senior politician you are meant to put the country first" when she did have such strong words for Brain Cowen.

We pay her salary, this is unacceptable broadcasting, she should be taken off the air.

The panel should move into the 21st century, people using social media tools, tut tut ....will they ever get in touch with modern society.

JonathanAnon · 19-09-2010 2:56pm

I was down in the supermarket and a lot of the newpapers were running the story about "Lenihan ready to take over if required" type headlines.. How come she didnt mention this, this morning.. ??

Callan57 · 19-09-2010 6:42pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was down in the supermarket and a lot of the newpapers were running the story about "Lenihan ready to take over if required" type headlines.. How come she didnt mention this, this morning.. ??

I wondered about that too

Barname · 19-09-2010 9:18pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was down in the supermarket and a lot of the newpapers were running the story about "Lenihan ready to take over if required" type headlines.. How come she didnt mention this, this morning.. ??

Marion FFinucane

donaghs · 20-09-2010 9:12am

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was down in the supermarket and a lot of the newpapers were running the story about "Lenihan ready to take over if required" type headlines.. How come she didnt mention this, this morning.. ??

She's attached to the establishment with golden handcuffs and cant afford to, or doesnt want to rock the boat.

tbh · 20-09-2010 9:25am

Barname wrote: »

Marion FFinucane

ah for jaysus sake, not this sh1te again!

why don't you just list all the presenters on RTE and put FF in their names...don't worry about anything to back your theories up mind.

Rubik. · 20-09-2010 12:24pm

FFubridy doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

rebeve · 20-09-2010 8:44pm

Yesterday`s show was very poor .

Rebelheart · 20-09-2010 9:33pm

rebeve wrote: »

Yesterday`s show was very poor .

Unlike Finucane.

To think she earns more than Cowen is bewildering. How many people in this country would like Cowen's job? (certainly not the opposition leaders); how many would like Finucane handful of hours?

Has RTÉ, usually in the shape of Kevin Dawson, ever offered a serious, credible reason why any presenter on RTÉ is paid more than €100,000 per annum?

hotmail.com · 21-09-2010 12:47am

I stopped listening to her programme ages ago. It's terrible. Dull and snobby rubbish. Her salary is not justified as well. She basically sits there and chairmans a chat on Sunday mornings. Who in their right mind gave her such a ridiculous wage.

People should stop listening to it if they don't like her or the programme.

Barname · 25-09-2010 11:11am

tbh wrote: »

ah for jaysus sake, not this sh1te again!

why don't you just list all the presenters on RTE and put FF in their names...don't worry about anything to back your theories up mind.

Ably assisting the rebirth of the 'retracting untruthful statements' Willie O'Dea

roight.....

I rest my case.

(unless the phlegm splutterer pins him)

Barname · 25-09-2010 11:22am

*Marion FFinucane: 'So Willy, lets talk about the Court case'

*Willie:'thats in the past, I dont want to talk about that'

*Marion FFinucane: 'OK, lets engage in some petty parochial sneering at FG and Labour'

and MF proceeds to roll off some of Willies famous jibes...

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat work Marion. FFinucane confirmed.

*(abridged version, not actual words used)

Reesy · 25-09-2010 11:24am

And furthermore "...when you lost your job..." repeated an nauseum - since when is he unemployed? He's still a TD isn't he?

signostic · 25-09-2010 11:26am

my goodness...are all the interviewers on RTE members of the FF Party??

Barname · 25-09-2010 11:26am

Lite Lite Show the other week, Marion FFinucane this week

Wee Willie is positioning himself to be Europes next Napoleon, Willie V2.0

Very bitter with Cowen, Wee Willie will have no issue drawing the dagger...

(if you or I had committed the act that Wee Willie did, we would be in JAIL)

JonathanAnon · 25-09-2010 11:38am

To be fair lads, she did have a right go at him about buying the last election..

JonathanAnon · 25-09-2010 12:42pm

My god, that pompous idiot bored me to death. Let his wife and six kids and thinks he's a great lad..

JonathanAnon · 26-09-2010 11:53am

Any coverage of Diarmuid Gavin lads? havent heard it mentioned... Marion's cough still as bad as ever.

Poochie05 · 26-09-2010 3:06pm

Been kind of out of touch for a few days, what about Diarmuid Gavin?

JonathanAnon · 26-09-2010 3:12pm

Poochie05 wrote: »

Been kind of out of touch for a few days, what about Diarmuid Gavin?

check him out on the Late Late Show... on the Player.. www.rte.ie/player
He was on the show to promote his book, but ended up going on this long winded, disjointed, rambling rant ... looked like he was gonna have a breakdown at one stage...

Poochie05 · 26-09-2010 3:21pm

Will do, as luck would have it, I've Sky+'d The Late Late Show as something always happens on it when I don't watch it, unlike when I do and it's one big yawnfest!:D

tampopo · 26-09-2010 3:40pm

Rebelheart wrote: »

How about an acknowledgement that there are things which happen in, let's see ... France ... Germany ... China ....

All of which could make material for a programme. Finucane can only manage to talk about events which happen in a single foreign country, Britain. Why? Because she, and her programme researchers, are lazy. They provide a yellow pack service, merely glancing at English-language newspapers and lead stories there when they decide upon their stories each week. This evidently suits your politics. It adds nothing to my knowledge of each week. If, for instance, the conversation is about comparative health systems I want to know how the French manage their health system; if it's about the interaction between local government and democracy, I'd like an examination of the Swiss canton system to be included; if it's about international opinion on something Irish I'd like to hear the views of non-anglophone countries. .

I agree with this bit. been getting up for work at odd hours and looking at France24 and Euronews. Great to see a bit of 'other' world news.

for the bit I tuned into today, she was ehing all over the place AGAIN.
Gave Brian Hayes a hard time, something like "no taxes, no new taxes. And where will you get the 3 billion from?"

If only she was as hard on govt ministers, it'd be a better programme.

FlutterinBantam · 26-09-2010 4:24pm

What squeezes the log from my cackpipe about her is that she berates people for waste of money, like todays stuff about the OPW.

And the focking elephant in the room is saying 460k from RTE for 4 hours airtime a week whenever she feels like it.

Totally off the wall.

Doesn't add up .

Noooo credibility.

JonathanAnon · 26-09-2010 6:16pm

Yeah have to agree Flut, she has some cheek complaining about waste in the Public Service, when she herself is the epitome of waste. 460k for showing up a few weekends of the year to talk about the newspapers (i.e. so no research involved)... I mean it's not like you have to spend hours at home doing background work. The only thing she needs to practice in advance is coughing and hammering teacups off each other.

FlutterinBantam · 26-09-2010 10:06pm

Can't understand why some geezer hasn't called her out on it.

Unless there are vested interests in there and the guests are well paid and told what to say.

Like, that's the first thing anyone with a modicum of common sense woulds say?

Why the fcuk are you getting 450k for a few weekends work a year.

Valid question>

donaghs · 28-09-2010 10:31am

Heard some of her show at the weekend. She mentioned something about waste of public money, but seemed to breeze through it. Understandable that she doesn't want to linger on that point.

Switched it over again as it went into some rambling interview with what I think was a former FF politician? I missed the intro, and after that point I couldn't figure out who he was or what the point of their conversation was.

JonathanAnon · 02-10-2010 12:50pm

Shay Healy after saying there that Steven Gerrard is not a leader.. He must have missed the Champions League final in 2005...

mike65 · 02-10-2010 1:00pm

Shay Healey is right, worst Liverpool captain ever. But thats a football matter.

Derryleigh · 02-10-2010 1:07pm

Stupid oul soccer. Steven Gerrard. Who cares? Coz he couldnt give a fiddlers about any of us ordinary mortals, the pampered ninny that he and the rest of those Premiership players are.

But Nani on a hurling field and he would die of shock!

JonathanAnon · 02-10-2010 1:16pm

My point is, why have Shay Healy on talking about something he knows nothing about....

What did ye think of Gilmore?

rebeve · 02-10-2010 7:04pm

The Saturday show sounds very tired ,twas better without marian .

FlutterinBantam · 02-10-2010 7:24pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Shay Healy after saying there that Steven Gerrard is not a leader.. He must have missed the Champions League final in 2005...

Had he his teeth in or out?

Absolute chancer of the highest order.

JonathanAnon · 02-10-2010 8:24pm

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Had he his teeth in or out? Absolute chancer of the highest order.

Well I have huge respect for Shay for writing What's Another Year, imo one of the best Eurovision winners, but he's milked the fuk out of it.... The second hour of Marion's shows are similar to Pat Kenny's second hour.. boring and not necessarily consisting of guests of the highest quality.

todolist · 02-10-2010 8:31pm

An interview with Eamon Gilmore,that took a lot of fokin imagination to come up with.Can you imagine the production meeting...Anyone any ideas....errr...mmmm what about an interview with Gilmore??? Great idea!!! now lets all fock off to the pub!

FlutterinBantam · 02-10-2010 8:41pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Well I have huge respect for Shay for writing What's Another Year, imo one of the best Eurovision winners, but he's milked the fuk out of it.... The second hour of Marion's shows are similar to Pat Kenny's second hour.. boring and not necessarily consisting of guests of the highest quality.

Teeth in or out he is the epitome of the chancer and opportunist who from the safety of the semi state cloisters, he proceeds to milk the system and portray the appearance of a free spirit ,whilst in reality he is hooked up to the gravy boat in Montrose, like the rest of the leather elbowed wispy bearded former student 'activists' and student leaders whose presence so festoons the kip.

Far from advocating the left wing views so beloved by non tax paying students and by speaking in duffel coats at the gates of Trinity, these brass necked opportunists are now the backbone of 'comfortable Ireland, eons removed from their former existence and ideals.

;)They don't fool the Flutther.

Barname · 03-10-2010 11:29am

why?

why?

why?

turning off marian now, as i listen to her tap her cigs off the tray....

if people in this land are serious about revolution they must take Montrose first

the most dangerous liars slither there.

Derryleigh · 03-10-2010 11:43am

Barname wrote: »

why?

why?

why?

turning off marian now, as i listen to her tap her cigs off the tray....

if people in this land are serious about revolution they must take Montrose first

the most dangerous liars slither there.

What a load of bull

NickDrake · 03-10-2010 12:25pm

650,000 a year. Maximum 20hours a week. 2.5 months holidays a year. disgrace of a woman.

Wertz · 03-10-2010 12:59pm

NickDrake wrote: »

650,000 a year. Maximum 20hours a week. 2.5 months holidays a year. disgrace of a woman.

Who's the real disgrace here though...the employee in question or the fools that negotiate her wage contract?
If someone turned around to me and offered 10* my salary for doing effectively ther same job as anyone else, I'd be a fool not to take them up on it.
It's the people operating behind the scenes in management and HR in RTÉ that are the true disgrace...no doubt on high enough levels of remuneration themselves...

poppyvalley · 03-10-2010 9:35pm

NickDrake wrote: »

650,000 a year. Maximum 20hours a week. 2.5 months holidays a year. disgrace of a woman.

20 hrs a week on air. In fairness now what about all the research and interviews she has to do off air?

Marian Finucane

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