Tom McGurk Vs Michael Corcoran

tbh

Has anyone noticed the vibe between these two? I noticed yesterday that they don't seem to like each other, McGurk played "You're so vain" and dedicated it to Corcoran, who got in a lame "actually that's your song" just before it started. As Corcoran was reading the sports news today, McGurk was talking over him (surprise surprise) and Corcoran seemed to be really pissed off. Anyone hear this?

I really hate McGurk, he interrupts every speaker with his own brand of irrelevant and uninteresting comments in a "from God's brain to your ear via my mouth" style.

FlutterinBantam

You have something there TBH.

However I find McGuirk a bit of a change from the absolute blandness that it RTE1 in the mornings,with basically free plugs for every auld crony or humpback pushing a book or show or something.

He really pi$$ed me off during the nurses dispute with his total backing of their case JUST because his mother got great treatment,with no mention of the millions of Eurons of taxpayers money going down the sinkhole to support workpractices from the 1960's.

A little off point, I tuned to Orla Barry on Newstalk for a brief period this morning.

She was interviewing some dude,and the banality of the questions and the stupid laugh and the lack of ideas put me back to RTE1 after about 5 minutes.

mike65

Heh So I'm not imagining it then?

McGurk is a love/hate man, I quite like him until he gets onto political matters as his Norn Iron Champagne socialist/Nationalist self comes shining through. He does'nt seem to be able to be objective and makes broad suppositions about the subject at hand. Luckily guests usually argue the points rather than meekly go along with his view.

As for trying to find succor on Life with Orla Barry you get everything you deserve Flutterin'!

Mike.

santosubito

McGurk is terrble. A terrible interviewer, a terrible interrupter and a terrible bore.

FlutterinBantam

mike65 wrote:

Heh So I'm not imagining it then?

McGurk is a love/hate man, I quite like him until he gets onto political matters as his Norn Iron Champagne socialist/Nationalist self comes shining through. He does'nt seem to be able to be objective and makes broad suppositions about the subject at hand. Luckily guests usually argue the points rather than meekly go along with his view.

As for trying to find succor on Life with Orla Barry you get everything you deserve Flutterin'!

Mike.

Steady there Mike,the auld tranny was tuned in from the previous day and it was only after a somewhat tired and hung over Flutter was listening for about five minutes and muttered "What the f**k is this s**t" that I realised I was still on NT106:o

FlutterinBantam

Slightly off topic, Mcguirk is giving that cynical false laugh full rein this morning.

Dick Roche came into the studio and Mc Guirk thinks that that was a "terrific gesture" "fantastic"as does smoked salmon socialist Ruhrí Quinn.

Flutter is totally unimpressed, thats what the guy gets paid for isn't it?

And gets paid very well if memory serves me,and he's still getting paid isn't he??

DMC

I think McGurk was impressed with the testicular fortitude of Roche in defending his decision on national radio without an invite.

A better pas de deux between Corcoran and McGurk this morning, no interruptions, more jokey and pally than previous mornings.

FlutterinBantam

Like I said.. That's what he's paid for.

ronbyrne2005

Yeah he can wreck my head a bit by interupting every guest with a "yah" as if he knows it all allready. Can be quite pompous too i think but have really heard/read him much.

mike65

Corcoran is easy meat, he's the epitome of a Sport Desk Dullard. Des "Chatill" may be a bit of a bar-stool bore but I could imagine having a good argument with him about West Ham surviving the drop when they should have gone down, wheras Corcoran would have me staring at that bird at the far end of the counter.

Mike.

FlutterinBantam

yeah... roih....yeah.... snooorttt ..oid say de crack was greah in the tent with 11 lads sleepin togedddir whah...snoorttth unnngh did yez actually see the match?? snooort huh..


jaysus spare me from Dessie the party animal.

tampopo

YEeah agree with all above. But he also starts off a sentence strongly and loudly only to run out of puff and finish off with an inaudible mutter and mumble. Very irritating.

philstar

mcgurk has got one big ego..he's a smug git...Hook dislikes him and i do to

Big Tone

Why does McGurk always start with saying Good Morning twice "Good Morning Good Morning"??? He's got a rather gruff style to say the least, even manages to make Pat Kenny seem entertaining!!

mike65

Big Tone wrote:

Why does McGurk always start with saying Good Morning twice "Good Morning Good Morning"???

To alert you to the fact he is not Pat Kenny. On this mornings programme Tom-boy got himself into an entirely needless pickle regarding some chap he knows who is the director of the central mental hospital (AFAIK), it was'nt actually relevent to the discussion, ate up time and was "awkward".

Mike.

mickd

I used to be irritated by McGurk but I have warmed to his style, certainly much better than plank. He is also a good old fashioned chauvinist which is always good when some rabid feminist is on the show, then I see the benefit of his gruff dismissive style.

mike65

Gery McCarthy in the Sunday Times lays a glove across McGurks gob, well brain today (if you are lucky you might find it on www.timesonline.co.uk)

It's regarding his interview with Niall Stokes on Hot Press at 30.

Mike.

Big Tone

mike65 wrote:

Gery McCarthy in the Sunday Times lays a glove across McGurks gob, well brain today (if you are lucky you might find it on www.timesonline.co.uk)

It's regarding his interview with Niall Stokes on Hot Press at 30.

Mike.

And by all accounts McGurk deserved it too!

Dudess

Yep, I heard it. Total and utter disgrace.

There was a bunch of former and current Hot Press hacks in studio and on the phone (including John Waters). Anyway, one guy, Liam Mackey, was describing an interview he did with Bishop Eamon Casey six years before the scandal broke. It was fascinating stuff. Mackey obviously touched a painful nerve because Casey actually started crying. This was enthralling to listen to. But was McGurk listening? Not a chance. He just kept interrupting and then he wanted to find out about the time Liam Mackey himself had to run through Naas or Newbridge barefoot with his shoes in a biscuit tin. You could even sense a bit of irritation in Mackey's voice when he said, since McGurk had already interrupted him several times, "Just let me finish this story, Tom, then I'll get to that one."

Call me a philistine but I'd go with an interesting story about Bishop Casey before some guy running shoeless through a Kildare town, any day.

RadioRetro

Today with PK, Tuesday June 26th, 11.02am:

McGurk: "Now Michael's here..."
[Awkward silence for about 15 seconds]
Corcoran: "Sport?"
McG: "YES! HAHAHAHAHA!!!"

mike65

He's staring to do my head in, this threads to blame since its started he's been getting worse and worse. I think he has now stopped listing to guests or his memory is shot, the number of times he'll repeat a question or point is frustrating and he keeps feigning outrage/shock/disbelief. Hate that, nearly as much as when he goes into Stupid Mode and put a question thats apparently designed to elicit an Idiots Guide response from the guest. I reckon the average "Today with..." listener requires little or no hand-holding.

Mike.

FlutterinBantam

Can we take it you are not a "Tom fan"?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

parasite

the way he says 'are-tee-ee' is enough to make me turn over at this stage :shudder:

tbh

I read today that he was married to Miriam O'Callaghan - that can't be true surely? The lovely Miriam is far too delicate and fragrant to have been married to that guy. If you're reading this Miriam, i can get over this - pm me

mike65

Gosh I thought everyone knew that! That was years back when Tom was still quite young.

wiki stub

Mike.

tbh

well at least I now know why he sounds so smug all the time

mike65

Tom gone! Derek is in the chair.

Mike.

DublinWriter

mike65 wrote:

Tom gone! Derek is in the chair.

...and the salmon was the finest.

I do like Tom McGurk, he's crusty, angular and old-school.

tbh

DublinWriter wrote:

...and the salmon was the finest.

I do like Tom McGurk, he's crusty, angular and old-school.

theres a fine line between that and 'boor'

funktastic

I remember reading/hearing years ago that in their training RTE presenters in the past were always told to say 'arrr (as in pirate 'ar') tea e' instead of 'r tea e'. Probably has something to do with the Irish pronunciation of Raidio Eireann for the R in Rte. Yeah I could phrase it better but I won't.:eek: