Marian Finucane

JonathanAnon · 08-05-2011 9:17pm

jimmyw wrote: »

Another week without her.Where is she now?

She said last week that she was going to America to film something.. Not sure if that was her bragging, or just simply justifying her absence ... It's getting ridiculous though.. Why dont they just call it The Sunday Morning show or something?

bossdrum · 08-05-2011 9:38pm

jimmyw wrote: »

Another week without her.Where is she now?Might be better for her to take it easy and give the gig to Charlie full time.I did notice with a while she was coughing a bit more than usual.Fags might have finally caught up with her.

"Hello there, a very........":p

I heard an interview last week on Radio 1 with a guy that used to read the sports results every sunday on radio 1 for about 50 years.
His father was sacked from the job before him because he was coughing too much. He was made tell his father that he was taking over the job:D

Maybe the same has happened to Marian:rolleyes:

Dj · 08-05-2011 9:44pm

jimmyw wrote: »

Another week without her.Where is she now?Might be better for her to take it easy and give the gig to Charlie full time.I did notice with a while she was coughing a bit more than usual.Fags might have finally caught up with her.

Its a joke really, one of the highest paid RTE presenters that only has to present on a weekend yet Charlie Bird is in her seat more often than she is.
I gave up listening to be honest.

donaghs · 09-05-2011 3:34pm

Is she still on close half a million a year salary? She might as least show up more often? Its only 6 hours on air a week! (minus ads, news bulletins, etc, etc).

JonathanAnon · 09-05-2011 3:43pm

donaghs wrote: »

Is she still on close half a million a year salary? She might as least show up more often? Its only 6 hours on air a week! (minus ads, news bulletins, etc, etc).

I think if you're gonna comment about her "excessive" wages, you should at least know the facts... It's four hours a week ...

donaghs · 13-05-2011 10:31am

Heard an ad yesterday, Charlie Bird will be on again this weekend.

Coincidentally, more calls for RTE to reduce massive salaries.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0513/1224296840571.html

Especially as they are are projecting a deficit of €30 million.

JonathanAnon · 13-05-2011 10:49am

The Fianna Fáil spokesman for communications, Eamon Ó Cuív, made the call when he asked the Minister for Communications, Pat Rabbitte, to clarify “whether any of the licence fee is used to pay inflated salaries and fees to broadcasters in RTÉ”. He claimed that licence holders “would be upset if they believed this was the definition of public service broadcasting, paying people €600,000 and €700,000 per year in a time of economic downturn”.

I think Ex Minister Ó Cuív is suffering from what is known as Micheál Martin syndrome... he wakes up one day and has completely forgotten what he has done, said and supported for the last 14 years.. Marian Finucane was earning 180k in 2003 and it was negotiated on their watch that her wage should be boosted up to 650k for fewer hours.. He has some neck to now be questioning FG about "inflated salaries"..

We have Fianna Fáil and the unions to thank for the 19 Billion deficit..

constitutionus · 13-05-2011 12:41pm

donaghs wrote: »

Heard an ad yesterday, Charlie Bird will be on again this weekend.

Coincidentally, more calls for RTE to reduce massive salaries.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0513/1224296840571.html

Especially as they are are projecting a deficit of €30 million.

ah thats great.

i always hate it when that annoying old biddie stands in on the charlie bird show.

yosser hughes · 13-05-2011 12:59pm

bossdrum wrote: »

I heard an interview last week on Radio 1 with a guy that used to read the sports results every sunday on radio 1 for about 50 years.
His father was sacked from the job before him because he was coughing too much. He was made tell his father that he was taking over the job:D

Maybe the same has happened to Marian:rolleyes:

That was Sean Og 'Cellaghain who got the job after his father was finished in it. I found it bizarre that no comment was made about the naked nepotism of this. It wasn't even questioned by anyone. Now I'm sure Sean Og is a nice man and all that but really he gets the job from Daddy and then hangs on to for grim death for 50 years. Not much chance for anyone else it seems.

Corsendonk · 13-05-2011 2:37pm

JonathanAnon wrote: »

She said last week that she was going to America to film something.. Not sure if that was her bragging, or just simply justifying her absence ... It's getting ridiculous though.. Why dont they just call it The Sunday Morning show or something?

I think she has gone to negotiate Ireland entry into the USA as everytime she is on she keeps throwing digs at Europe for getting us into a financial mess. More unbiased reporting from RTE.

RTE Website

The Marian Finucane Show is the second most popular radio programme in Ireland ( JNLR 2011) and the highest rating weekend show.

Lapin · 14-05-2011 11:20am

Can't find here anywhere.

constitutionus · 14-05-2011 11:31am

jesus half an hour of SHYTE today.

who is this biddy and why the **** should i care about her book ?

im off to stream some podcasts as i cant take this anymore.

JonathanAnon · 14-05-2011 1:08pm

Yeah they have the show structured so that there is an interview with one person in the first hour of the Satuday morning show.. But they had Twink on recently, and you can see from the recent nobodies they've had on that they are running out of guests fast..

mike65 · 14-05-2011 1:12pm

Harry Crosbie can always be called.....

rebeve · 15-05-2011 11:06am

Charlie please go back to the Artic .

rebeve · 15-05-2011 11:12am

11-12 I`m gone total rubbish .

cozar · 16-05-2011 6:33pm

charlie bird is an imbecile, he asked Emma Donoghue why she called her book "room" and not "the Room" anyone who has read the book will know why she called it "room" FFS! Think Marion has lost a bit of her shine lately but anyone would be better that Bird, they just letting him fill in so the public will think that he is earning his salary.

Corsendonk · 16-05-2011 6:44pm

cozar wrote: »

charlie bird is an imbecile, he asked Emma Donoghue why she called her book "room" and not "the Room" anyone who has read the book will know why she called it "room" FFS! Think Marion has lost a bit of her shine lately but anyone would be better that Bird, they just letting him fill in so the public will think that he is earning his salary.

When have RTE ever appointed holiday cover that was ever better than the bog standard presenter they were brought in to cover for? Classic way to keep your job safe, all they have to do is show the dip in ratings when they went on their hols when Damo, Katryn or Charlie took over.

mike65 · 16-05-2011 7:22pm

Corsendonk wrote: »

When have RTE ever appointed holiday cover that was ever better than the bog standard presenter they were brought in to cover for? Classic way to keep your job safe, all they have to do is show the dip in ratings when they went on their hols when Damo, Katryn or Charlie took over.

That didn't happen last summer though, and Maid Marian was only present for about 6 weekends between June and September.

Corsendonk · 16-05-2011 7:30pm

mike65 wrote: »

That didn't happen last summer though, and Maid Marian was only present for about 6 weekends between June and September.

Who covered her?

mike65 · 16-05-2011 7:31pm

Rachel English and Charlie Bird (this thread starts with Marian F announcing her absence late last June)

telekon · 18-05-2011 6:52pm

mike65 wrote: »

Rachel English and Charlie Bird (this thread starts with Marian F announcing her absence late last June)

Rachel English is one of the few intelligent, likeable presenters on RTE and her talents are criminally under-utilised by the management.

Soultion: Give Marian's job to her. I'm sure Rachel would actually be bothered to turn up half the time, for half the money, and also with the added bonus of her not leaving the studio stinking like an ashtray for Marty and the sports lads to endure.

JonathanAnon · 18-05-2011 7:27pm

She pulled back from fulltime work when she was sick a few years ago... I'm not sure if she is back to full time work again...

In October 2008, she was diagnosed with an overactive thyroid (but escaped a potentially more serious diagnosis relating to the lumps found in both of her breasts shortly after the thyroid trouble began). She is on medication for the thyroid problem, possibly for the rest of her life, and has stated that at some point she plans to treat the lump she still has in her throat.

I also think she's excellent and should be given the job... Marian should be let go and a fortune saved for the state... Not sure Rachael's health will allow her to do it though.

constitutionus · 21-05-2011 11:18am

dear jesus i want to kill myself just listening to this biddy.

FFS marion get your act together its not the 1970s.

its off to podcasts again for me.

Kalimah · 21-05-2011 11:23am

This is torture!

Lapin · 22-05-2011 11:51am

Very good first hour this morning.

Excellent panel.

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 12:05pm

More gushing, desperate that our national broadcaster can engage in this. Geraldine Kennedy said that there were very few protesters so therefore there was very little objection to the visit and that's it????????????? This is the editor of one of our major newspapers?? That's shocking, it really is and a very dangerous turn for RTE to make. There is plenty of cogent, passionate, intellectual objection out there and the laziness and very transparent agenda is nauseating.
Here is a rare objective discussion http://www.rte.ie/radio1/player_av.html?0,null,200,http://dynamic.rte.ie/quickaxs/209-r1-saturdayview.smil (about 35 minutes in, you have to listen to some gushing before you get to the interesting stuff) but even here the voice of the objectors is silenced by meaningless gushing. WTF is that last contributor actually saying behind the pseudo analysis.:eek:

Lapin · 22-05-2011 12:20pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

Geraldine Kennedy said that there were very few protesters..........

Which is true.

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 12:25pm

Lapin wrote: »

Which is true.

Half of this sentence is true too...

'Boards.ie is a busy forum therefore the level of engagement with points of view is very intelligent.' :rolleyes:

Harry Angstrom · 22-05-2011 12:33pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

More gushing, desperate that our national broadcaster can engage in this. Geraldine Kennedy said that there were very few protesters so therefore there was very little objection to the visit and that's it????????????? This is the editor of one of our major newspapers?? That's shocking, it really is and a very dangerous turn for RTE to make. There is plenty of cogent, passionate, intellectual objection out there and the laziness and very transparent agenda is nauseating.
Here is a rare objective discussion http://www.rte.ie/radio1/player_av.html?0,null,200,http://dynamic.rte.ie/quickaxs/209-r1-saturdayview.smil (about 35 minutes in, you have to listen to some gushing before you get to the interesting stuff) but even here the voice of the objectors is silenced by meaningless gushing. WTF is that last contributor actually saying behind the pseudo analysis.:eek:

Get over yourself. There were about 200 knuckleheads protesting about her visit in Cork on Friday. Compare that with the throngs in Patrick Street and the South Mall who were watching it on the big screens, not to mention the hundreds of thousands who were watching it at home.

Lapin · 22-05-2011 12:37pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

Half of this sentence is true too...

'Boards.ie is a busy forum therefore the level of engagement with points of view is very intelligent.' :rolleyes:

What ?

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 12:41pm

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Get over yourself. There were about 200 knuckleheads protesting about her visit in Cork on Friday. Compare that with the throngs in Patrick Street and the South Mall who were watching it on the big screens, not to mention the hundreds of thousands who were watching it at home.

And how does that tell you how many objected to the visit? She inferred that number of protesters equalled objectors. You cannot go on national radio and make a comment like that and go unchallenged unless the radio station is biased and has an agenda and the listeners are ready for the home for the bewildered.

Harry Angstrom · 22-05-2011 12:47pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

And how does that tell you how many objected to the visit? She inferred that number of protesters equalled objectors. You cannot go on national radio and make a comment like that and go unchallenged unless the radio station is biased and has an agenda and the listeners are ready for the home for the bewildered.

Have you not heard of the silent majority who had no objections to The Queen's visit? If they were really vexed about it, they'd have been out protesting. Fact is, they weren't.

JonathanAnon · 22-05-2011 12:53pm

Good woman Marion, just copy the last five minutes from DriveTime.. How does she get away with it..

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 12:54pm

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Have you not heard of the silent majority who had no objections to The Queen's visit? If they were really vexed about it, they'd have been out protesting. Fact is, they weren't.

Please address the lie told by Geraldine Kennedy and it's acceptance by a host who is supposed to be impartial because I don't want to go off topic.
To 'take to the street' and to have 'an objection' are not the same thing, no matter how much Geraldine wants them to be.

Lapin · 22-05-2011 1:05pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

She inferred that number of protesters equalled objectors. You cannot go on national radio and make a comment like that and go unchallenged..........

Yes you can.

When the number of objectors are so small in comparison to the numbers that welcomed the visit.

The amount of goodwill and support for last weeks State Visit was so prevalent that those who objected to it paled into insignificance.

No broadcaster owes any airtime to such tiny minorities. (Although they've had plenty already).

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 1:26pm

Lapin wrote: »

Yes you can.

When the number of objectors are so small in comparison to the numbers that welcomed the visit.

The amount of goodwill and support for last weeks State Visit was so prevalent that those who objected to it paled into insignificance.

No broadcaster owes any airtime to such tiny minorities. (Although they've had plenty already).

Hmmmm...what type of society does that attitude remind me off? :rolleyes:

You can't and Geraldine can't have any idea how strong the objections where or how many objected. Where are the independent polls?

Don't you think it's funny that people are basing their opinions on a gush fest led by...... guess who???? The media!

Harry Angstrom · 22-05-2011 1:35pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

Please address the lie told by Geraldine Kennedy and it's acceptance by a host who is supposed to be impartial because I don't want to go off topic.
To 'take to the street' and to have 'an objection' are not the same thing, no matter how much Geraldine wants them to be.

It's not up to me to address anything that Geraldine Kennedy said. I'm going by the attitudes of people that I know. I think that there were some people who thought that the Queen's visit might have been a bit premature with misgivings about security etc. but I'd be very interested to see how many of these people would have changed their minds after the events of the past week.

This may be slightly off-topic, but just to give you an example of the stupidity of the protestors on Friday, I went to school with one of the so-called Republicans who were protesting. Whenever I see him around the place he's usually wearing a Liverpool shirt which I always laugh at. You see, this guy prides himself on his Republicanism and his vehement anti-Britishness yet he doesn't see the paradox about supporting an English soccer team. And not just any old English soccer team, but a club which was founded along Protestant sectarian lines and had a history of being anti-Irish and anti-Catholic in their early days. Like I said in an earlier post, knuckleheads.

Rubik. · 22-05-2011 1:36pm

"Ninety-five per cent of those polled said they thought the Queen had won the hearts of the Irish people."

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/state-visits/poll-shows-how-queen-was-taken-to-irish-hearts-2654225.html

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 1:48pm

Rubik. wrote: »

"Ninety-five per cent of those polled said they thought the Queen had won the hearts of the Irish people."

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/state-visits/poll-shows-how-queen-was-taken-to-irish-hearts-2654225.html

and?

What has that poll to do with people who objected to the visit?

p.s. And tbh I wouldn't be putting much store in a poll carried out by that newspaper.....would you?

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 1:53pm

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

This may be slightly off-topic, but just to give you an example of the stupidity of the protestors on Friday, I went to school with one of the so-called Republicans who were protesting. Whenever I see him around the place he's usually wearing a Liverpool shirt which I always laugh at. You see, this guy prides himself on his Republicanism and his vehement anti-Britishness yet he doesn't see the paradox about supporting an English soccer team. And not just any old English soccer team, but a club which was founded along Protestant sectarian lines and had a history of being anti-Irish and anti-Catholic in their early days. Like I said in an earlier post, knuckleheads.

Such a load of deliberately obtuse nonsense. Wanting the British government out of our affairs is an entirely different thing to hating the British....one is a political stance and the other is racism.
There is no paradox in wearing a football shirt....it's a juvenile point of view.
Take a walk around your house....how much stuff is made in China...does that mean you support China's human rights policies??

Rubik. · 22-05-2011 2:04pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

and?

What has that poll to do with people who objected to the visit?

p.s. And tbh I wouldn't be putting much store in a poll carried out by that newspaper.....would you?

You asked "where are the independent polls?" - well there you go.

The question asked in the poll was a bit mawkish, but 95% of those asked deemed the visit to a sucess. I think it is fairly safe to assume that those people who objected that it happened at all would have been in the 5% who voted no.

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 2:11pm

Rubik. wrote: »

You asked "where are the independent polls?" - well there you go.

The question asked in the poll was a bit mawkish, but 95% of those asked deemed the visit to a sucess. I think it is fairly safe to assume that those people who objected that it happened at all would have been in the 5% who voted no.

I said independent not Independent polls.:rolleyes:

:D Knowing the Independent, they probably carried that poll out on Grand Parade 2 mins after the Land Rover pulled away.

Lapin · 22-05-2011 2:20pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

nonsense. Wanting the British government out of our affairs is an entirely different thing to hating the British

Nonsense indeed.

The British Government have no say in "our affairs".

Off to the politics thread with you.

Harry Angstrom · 22-05-2011 2:26pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

I said independent not Independent polls.:rolleyes:
:D Knowing the Independent, they probably carried that poll out on Grand Parade 2 mins after the Land Rover pulled away.

Knowing An Phoblacht, they probably would've carried out a similar poll among the 200 protestors on Sullivans Quay and then splashed
"100% OF IRISH PEOPLE OBJECT TO QUEEN'S VISIT"
as a headline.

:D:D

Harry Angstrom · 22-05-2011 2:30pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

Take a walk around your house....how much stuff is made in China...does that mean you support China's human rights policies??

Now who's being obtuse? I was merely pointing out the stupidity of these people. How can you have a cogent argument with somebody who, on one hand, despises all things British yet, on the other hand, sports a Liverpool jersey everywhere he goes??

Rubik. · 22-05-2011 2:39pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

I said independent not Independent polls.:rolleyes:

I was aware of that, the poll itself was carried out by Quantum Research.

Another poll carried out before the visit - 77% of people here said they welcome Queen Elizabeth's visit, with just 12% against.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/redletter-day-as-queen-springs-a-royal-surprise-2646150.html

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 2:47pm

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Now who's being obtuse? I was merely pointing out the stupidity of these people. How can you have a cogent argument with somebody who, on one hand, despises all things British yet, on the other hand, sports a Liverpool jersey everywhere he goes??

If your're friend 'despises all things British' then I hate to tell you that your friend is a racist.

Harry Angstrom · 22-05-2011 2:55pm

Happyman42 wrote: »

If your're friend 'despises all things British' then I hate to tell you that your friend is a racist.

I don't disagree with you. Could anybody explain to me why the 32 County Sovereignty Movement carried a black coffin along Sullivans Quay last Friday with the words "British Empire" written on it? Do they not realise that it's 2011?
I mean, if they did this sort of thing 100 years ago you could kind of understand their desire for an end to the British Empire but that sort of stunt on Friday just goes to show how anachronistic and deluded these people are.

Happyman42 · 22-05-2011 2:55pm

Rubik. wrote: »

I was aware of that, the poll itself was carried out by Quantum Research.

Another poll carried out before the visit - 77% of people here said they welcome Queen Elizabeth's visit, with just 12% against.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/redletter-day-as-queen-springs-a-royal-surprise-2646150.html

Oh look, it's the Independent again,:rolleyes: quoting a poll, but no poll is actually printed. :rolleyes: For all we know it could be the reults of a telephone poll of 100 people. Wouldn't be the first time.
SKY were quoting a poll that said 81% in favour but no actual poll has been produced.

This is the type of 'independent' poll I am talking about. Results and methodology that stand the test of scrutiny.
http://redcresearch.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SBP-10th-Apr-Poll-2011-Report.pdf

Marian Finucane

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