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constitutionus

and whos "We"

cause all im hearing is the ususal suspects

the rest of us outside of the D-Furr trinity/UCD set are perfectly happy with our relationship with alcohol.

hence why despite all the nonsense its never changes, generation after generation. TBH at this stage i just wish the minority would just feck off to Utah and leave the rest of us alone.

wobblyknees

constitutionus wrote: »

and whos "We"

cause all im hearing is the ususal suspects

the rest of us outside of the D-Furr trinity/UCD set are perfectly happy with our relationship with alcohol.

hence why despite all the nonsense its never changes, generation after generation. TBH at this stage i just wish the minority would just feck off to Utah and leave the rest of us alone.

I can't possibly argue with this well thought out and balanced argument.

kneemos

Looks like George is abandoning all attempts at news coverage in favour of pontification,it's fast becoming the church of George.

pm1977x

Why is Mick Clifford now on at night, why is he on the radio in the first place, why won't he go away, for good!? :mad:

ballsymchugh

pm1977x wrote: »

Why is Mick Clifford now on at night, why is he on the radio in the first place, why won't he go away, for good!? :mad:

is he doing the sex talk on davenport after dark?:pac:

pm1977x

ballsymchugh wrote: »

is he doing the sex talk on davenport after dark?:pac:

oh dear god! :eek: currently 'sitting in' for the bloke who has some problem with his throat and is constantly bashing (probably correctly) university lecturers, Coleman???

wnolan1992

Y'know... it's gotten to the stage where Coleman's is probably the only hard news based show on NT that I can stomach listening to these days.

pm1977x

What's the relationship between him and Bill, the FG bloke - they tear strips off each other at times

robbe

Tuned in this morning for the 1st time in a while, Mary O'Rourke being interviewed by Nora Casey....sweet jesus, couldn't reach for the dial quick enough!

Grolschevik

pm1977x wrote: »

oh dear god! :eek: currently 'sitting in' for the bloke who has some problem with his throat and is constantly bashing (probably correctly) university lecturers, Coleman???

That'll be the bare 2.2.

pm1977x wrote: »

What's the relationship between him and Bill, the FG bloke - they tear strips off each other at times

There were rumours he was expelled from Young FG.

Bits_n_Bobs

robbe wrote: »

Tuned in this morning for the 1st time in a while, Mary O'Rourke being interviewed by Nora Casey....sweet jesus, couldn't reach for the dial quick enough!

Reached for the dial just after Nora made the totally amazingly astute observation that countries with quotas for women in politics have...drumbeat...more women in politics!!

Which is seemingly a compelling argument for quotas for women in politics.

ballsymchugh

meant to post this last week, but was listening to the science show in the car last saturday and caught the start of global village.
dil was going on about animal rights, asking if ireland treats animals well.
so now we're a bunch of homophobic sectarian racists who love a good dog fight!

Ol' Donie

Ah, global village.

Do they still use "paradise city" by guns and roses as the intro music? I always get a great laugh out of that.

Wonder why they didnt use "one in a million".

Heroditas

Bits_n_Bobs wrote: »

robbe wrote: »

Reached for the dial just after Nora made the totally amazingly astute observation that countries with quotas for women in politics have...drumbeat...more women in politics!!

Which is seemingly a compelling argument for quotas for women in politics.

The "cream" of Irish business :rolleyes:

Calhoun

ballsymchugh wrote: »

meant to post this last week, but was listening to the science show in the car last saturday and caught the start of global village.
dil was going on about animal rights, asking if ireland treats animals well.
so now we're a bunch of homophobic sectarian racists who love a good dog fight!

Lol I know we are a terrible bunch, you would wonder why foreign people would want to stay in the country with people like us.

I honestly don't know how anyone sponsors the show, i would purposely not support any business that would support the anti-Irish rhetoric that comes across on that show.

JonathanAnon

Calhoun wrote: »

I honestly don't know how anyone sponsors the show, i would purposely not support any business that would support the anti-Irish rhetoric that comes across on that show.

That global village.. lord jaysus... she was on the other week giving out about how it was terrible how the Irish media was "not representative of Irish people".... this coming from a mid 40s Sri Lankan lesbian?

ballsymchugh

Calhoun wrote: »

Lol I know we are a terrible bunch, you would wonder why foreign people would want to stay in the country with people like us.

I honestly don't know how anyone sponsors the show, i would purposely not support any business that would support the anti-Irish rhetoric that comes across on that show.

sponsored by a taxi company, of all things.

i wonder does she present the show with her back to the microphone telling you what's right while looking over her shoulder...

'an i'll tell ya sometin else for nuttin...'

mike65

ya is all racists! :pac:

Calhoun

mike65 wrote: »

ya is all racists! :pac:

lol , Its not that at all i get the need for open discussion of the topics she discusses but the approach is all wrong, its like Ireland at large are young kids and she is the morally correct teacher coming to tell us off.

If she got rid of the condescending anti-Irish tone there wouldnt be an issue.

bamboozle

Nora Casey (or Casey as Chris called her last week) made an awful error this morning, interviewing an ABC Melbourne reporter on the case of an Irish woman who has been missing since Sat night, Casey asked 'you worked with her in ABC, what WAS she like?' hope none of her family were listening to this.

mike65

Not the first time I've heard that sort of thing in radio interviews.

kneemos

I've lost the faith I'm afraid,they just sound bland together.

GSF

bamboozle wrote: »

Nora Casey (or Casey as Chris called her last week) made an awful error this morning, interviewing an ABC Melbourne reporter on the case of an Irish woman who has been missing since Sat night, Casey asked 'you worked with her in ABC, what WAS she like?' hope none of her family were listening to this.

Since its the Homicide Division that is now leading the inquiry that is more likely to affect the family than the use of past tense in decscribing recollections of a colleague I'd have thought

bamboozle

GSF wrote: »

Since its the Homicide Division that is now leading the inquiry that is more likely to affect the family than the use of past tense in decscribing recollections of a colleague I'd have thought

true but she is being treated as a missing person, not a murder victim.

Hopefully she'll be found safely.

telekon

Loving Paul Williams' continual reference to "Norma"Casey.

neris

telekon wrote: »

Loving Paul Williams' continual reference to "Norma"Casey.

he mustn't be a fan of rte on a sunday night

Harry Angstrom

Another Ploughing Championships means another plethora of Newstalk programmes being broadcast from the place, which can only mean shyte sound quality and the annoying noise of random voices in the background :rolleyes:

wnolan1992

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Another Ploughing Championships means another plethora of Newstalk programmes being broadcast from the place, which can only mean shyte sound quality and the annoying noise of random voices in the background :rolleyes:

OB's for OB's sake are a pain in the hole. IIRC Hook spent a week broadcasting from a noisy pub.

The only crowd that seem to get them right is OTB, but that's largely due to the fact that the atmosphere of the show suits having a bit of background noise.

JonathanAnon

Marc Coleman says that he is gonna announce the reason for his absence at the end of the show??? Anybody any idea what that's about. ?

delaad

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Marc Coleman says that he is gonna announce the reason for his absence at the end of the show??? Anybody any idea what that's about. ?

Trying to keep people listening?!

JonathanAnon

delaad wrote: »

Trying to keep people listening?!

Yeah I thought he might be trying to sucker me in to listening alright... I'm sure he'll probably just say he was at Marian Finucane's Coffee Morning (hosted by Charlie Bird) or something.

wnolan1992

Listened in there for the last bit of the first hour. He didn't do the little cough-tick thing once...

So I'm gonna go ahead and guess that he was absent while getting an operation to correct this.



Won't be able to listen unfortunately, so can someone post here when he announces it? Hope it's nothing more serious....

JonathanAnon

Coleman's first daughter was born last nite.. That's why he was off..

Harry Angstrom

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Coleman's first daughter was born last nite.. That's why he was off..

Ah ffs! So much for all the conspiracy theories!

JonathanAnon

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Ah ffs! So much for all the conspiracy theories!

I'd say he was keeping his mouth shut about the rate of absenteeism in the HSE last nite..

GSF

wnolan1992 wrote: »

OB's for OB's sake are a pain in the hole. IIRC Hook spent a week broadcasting from a noisy pub.

At least it drowns out his snorting (a bit).

syklops

After the break Farmers health. Very Farmer oriented radio today, which is silly because any idle Farmer is at the ploughing championships.

syklops

Your one Evelyn on with Moncrief sounds like your stereotypical socially-challenged nerd, she just happens to be female. When asked about "how to approach a fella she was audibly squirming. Then he asked her about the weather and the confidence returned to her voice.

Mr.Crinklewood

Evelyn Cusack sounds hyper.

mike65

They are piggybacking RTEs hurling final by watching RTE2 and commenting on whats happening until the Premier League game starts at 4 pm. Rather cheeky.

wnolan1992

mike65 wrote: »

They are piggybacking RTEs hurling final by watching RTE2 and commenting on whats happening until the Premier League game starts at 4 pm. Rather cheeky.

Today FM did the same for Katie Taylor fights during the 'Lympics. :pac:

mike65

I hate it when they do this sort of thing, just screams cheapskate and needy.

edit, 4 pm come and gone and no game. Odd. So they have passed on their EPL contract obligations to talk about a game they have no rights to off screen.

Sheepkins

Georges speech very slurred today!,,

neris

This carl dieter fella on business would send you back to sleep. Hes just droning on

jimmyw

I am after noticing something over the last while and its happened more than once that on the breakfast show, they are talking to a minister or someone and tune into MI and the same person is on that too at the same time.Obviously one of them is recorded but its kinda strange none the less.

The latest one.Just listen to Kathleen Lynch this morning.

splendid101

jimmyw wrote: »

I am after noticing something over the last while and its happened more than once that on the breakfast show, they are talking to a minister or someone and tune into MI and the same person is on that too at the same time.Obviously one of them is recorded but its kinda strange none the less.

The latest one.Just listen to Kathleen Lynch this morning.

Arra, sure they play pre recorded interviews all the time. Usually prior to it they'll say "earlier I spoke to....and I started by asking her...."

I think it's fair enough.

racso1975

i tell ya mark Coleman is so ignorant it is unreal. how he continues to get guests when he continually talks over them and insults them

JonathanAnon

racso1975 wrote: »

i tell ya mark Coleman is so ignorant it is unreal. how he continues to get guests when he continually talks over them and insults them

I agree with him about a lot of what he says.. Particularly his point about the people in public service pushing costs on to private business in lieu of actually finding that money in pay cuts from their own wages.. But it was really annoying tonight with all the cross talk, people repeating phrases OVER and OVER trying to interrupt each other..

Yakuza

Who's the knob-end that does "the appys" slot on the breakfast show? I see the D4 accent is alive and well:rolleyes:. Or I mean aloive undh woll.

Harry Angstrom

Anyone listening to this plonker who's organising the Sean Quinn rally in Ballyconnell on the G.Hook show?

Hook is giving him a decent pummelling. Good man George!