Who is someone you inexplicably can't stand?

I get the feeling he's trying to score a TV show. Some kind of gig.

For a supposed 'comedian' he's one miserable individual. Watched him on 'Celebrity Hell Week'... He spent the whole show crying and whining. Anyone else had their 'breakdown' moment, but it was maybe one or two. He was crying the whole show.

I’m glad others are starting to see through this charade now... none of the gobshîtes have anything approaching a qualification to get on tv, radio or any media / public platform waffling about it... it’s dangerous too quite frankly...

want advice on psychology listen to a psychologist.

want advice on a medical issue listen to a doctor.

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could I develop an interest in diabetes and start calling myself a ‘diabetes advocate’ ??? Dishing out advice and opinions on the condition, treatment, supports, what to do / what not to ?

Adele. Made an absolute fortune out of terrible, boring songs.

If you haven't been hit with a rubber bullet, sprayed with pepper spray, thrown in prison for a night, or in faced adversity for protesting something you believe in- you're not an activist, you're a nuisance. Going on instagram/ twitter/ tiktok or whatever to 'take a stance' isn't being an activist... Someone saying their opinion, in a public arena, and allowing discussion and debate-that's activism. You can't 'block' or 'mute' an individual for saying anything. Instead, you have to educate yourself, and counter their argument.

We have Joe O'Shea now, being a 'vaccine activist'... just get lost. He's not medically trained to give advice, and he's calling for Draconian measures to be imposed on people. He didn't care when he went drunk driving, only when he got caught. And he didn't care about other people's health when he went to some pub to smoke indoors, to 'protest' the smoking ban, after some publican decided he wasn't going to stick to the smoking ban. He ended up paying a huge fine over it, at the time. (Joe wrote about it for some paper he was writing for, think it was the Sunday World. Photographed himself smoking too.) He's an absolute brat, but Claire Byrne wheels him out, every chance she gets, to give his crappy opinion on anything.

And I have had my vaccine, just to clarify too. I've had both jabs, fully vaccinated. (Doubt I'll need a third, because I don't have any underlying conditions).

O'Shea is just.... He's a failed journalist, turned failed TV presenter, now turned failed 'Expert on everything'. He'll be talking Mental Health next.

A buddy of mine worked on her latest song/video shot here in Quebec by local film director Xavier Nolan. Apparently, she was insufferable. Something like 4 bodyguards constantly tailing her, she did not want to be looked at, a precious ounce of stardust.

I can imagine that her fame and wealth have gone to totally to her head. Living in LA wouldn't help either.

Seems I’m not alone in not having a high opinion of these influencer types who project an utterly false life to their followers. The old activist tag is thrown around fierce easily these days.

That guy Jussie smollett really showed that crowd up when he staged a racist attack on himself and we had all the Hollywood crowd tripping over themselves to say that stand with him and when it was shown he was fuller than a Christmas turkey they couldn’t delete their tweets fast enough. I’m all for equality in whatever form that takes, but in my view equality takes many forms including when it comes to legitimate criticism when someone says stupid ****.

And as others have said mental health is trotted out now far too easily. Like many here I’m sure we know friends and family who have genuine mental health issues and I’ll be honest it’s awful to see and then you have people who use it to cover for something stupid they did or said and people who have no professional qualifications in the area being treated the same a medical person trained in this area. I’m reminded of the Dara O Briain sketch about the debate between the dentist and some eijit who removed his own teeth with string and a door. I’m sorry but no.

That we do. The word celebrity is doing some heavy lifting these days.

He used to co-present the Afternoon Show with Grainne Seoige till he quit suddenly.

Daniel ODonal with his creepy man child vibe and his trophy wife to make him look hetro.

Seoige and O'Shea. That was the imaginatively titled name of the show. Joe left, so RTE got the bright idea of replacing him... with another Seoige. So they added Sile Seoige to the show, and it got rebranded as 'Seoige'.

Lasted 12 months, then RTE gave it the axe without telling Grainne or Sile. They heard about it the same time as the rest of us did. Grainne wasn't happy. Think it was the first time she'd been fired from a media gig. (Usually she skips out when she starts to feel the ship sinking. As happened with Sky News Ireland.)

I give her credit-she didn't do a Muireann O'Connell and whine about it for the next year or two.