Marian Finucane

Infoanon

The Nicola Sturgeon story was a fabrication by the Daily Telegraph - it appears Marians newspaper reading expert is at least a day behind in his news......

Brendan Bendar

Yer one attacking the "Waurter Charges' seems to be wetting herself at the concept of 'user pays' . There's no escape from that one, which, in my opinion is the main reason why there is such a ruckus about this.

Put it on taxes and shure won't Middle Ireland pay, and bobs yer uncle.

We will carry on milking the State for every cent we can.

I chuckled when Marzie mentioned 'jobs' as the way out of the poverty trap but the 'Waurter woman' had an answer for that too.

You couldn't make it up.

honeybear

I listen to a lot of radio but Rte's repeated promotion of The Road to the Rising is driving me mad. It's dominated a lot of their programmes this weekend. I know they are involved in organising it but they keep pushing it on their programmes

my friend

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Yer one attacking the "Waurter Charges' seems to be wetting herself at the concept of 'user pays' . There's no escape from that one, which, in my opinion is the main reason why there is such a ruckus about this.

Put it on taxes and shure won't Middle Ireland pay, and bobs yer uncle.

We will carry on milking the State for every cent we can.

I chuckled when Marzie mentioned 'jobs' as the way out of the poverty trap but the 'Waurter woman' had an answer for that too.

You couldn't make it up.

She's a perma tax leach that lady, 'community activist' spoofer, she's spent her life living off your tax euros and has attended 3rd level to help develop new ways to leach your taxes

A great little country.

Welsh Megaman

That joke went down well.

*crickets*

CountyHurler

Shush will ya WMM, I'm waiting for an update from LillisWatch....

CountyHurler

This Lotto "guru" would give you a pain in your face...

Welsh Megaman

Marian getting choked up there.

Harry Palmr

One day we'll be listening to this and we'll hear a pause and a THUNK as Finucane slumps against the mic and expires in a smoky haze.

Dan Jaman

Frog? More like a fag got caught in her throat.

Harry Angstrom

They're supposed to be an independent utility company but the State will use strongarm tactics to get money from people who can't/won't pay.....

Reminds me of Humpty Dumpty, "Words mean whatever I want them to mean".

honeybear

Water woman on with Marion has been excellent

RadioRetro

That Liz Arnett wan's being parroting that corporate spiel on every radio station in the land for the past two weeks. She has it off pat by now.

Brendan Bendar

honeybear wrote: »

Water woman on with Marion has been excellent

Tad too smug for Brendān,to be honest.

Like a horse jumping some easy hurdles, given the days that's in it.

P. Breathnach

RadioRetro wrote: »

That Liz Arnett wan's being parroting that corporate spiel on every radio station in the land for the past two weeks. She has it off pat by now.

That's her job. She is good at it.

sudzs

Oh gawd, more Lillis-watch again this morning. :rolleyes: It's all very tabloidy.

Harry Angstrom

They spent 25 minutes talking about whether the media should be talking about Lillis......

Brendan Bendar

These people all seem to think that the under 6 doctor card is not wanted?

Tell that to a hard pressed taxpayer who has to pay out huge money for childcare so both can continue working to pay their way.

About time the taxpayer got something.

Del.Monte

Mammy's programme is so bad it make's Hook's show seem stellar by comparison. Same old ****e, repeated by same old panellists, year in year out.

RadioRetro

"Cindy Blumenthal"????

qweerty

Description of one of yesterday's sections, on the programme's webpage:

"Sydney Blumenthal who is a former Senior Advisor to Bill Clinton joins Marian on the line to talk about a new bid for the Whitehouse by Hillary Clinton."

Sidney misspelt, White House misspelt, "senior advisor" incorrectly capitalised and lack of punctuation.

Dan Jaman

qweerty wrote: »

Description of one of yesterday's sections, on the programme's webpage:



Sidney misspelt, White House misspelt, "senior advisor" incorrectly capitalised and lack of punctuation.

It's a recognised post and could be capitalised if the writer wishes.
I'm not so sure about the wanton use of misspelt, though.

qweerty

Dan Jaman wrote: »

It's a recognised post and could be capitalised if the writer wishes.
I'm not so sure about the wanton use of misspelt, though.

It wasn't a recognised position before the Bush years; so he was merely the most senior of a number of advisers.

Do you think I should have hyphenated it? Or written "misspelled"? Either way, I'm still not wrong.

I will accept non-response in place of retraction.

Dan Jaman

qweerty wrote: »

It wasn't a recognised position before the Bush years; so he was merely the most senior of a number of advisers.

Do you think I should have hyphenated it? Or written "misspelled"? Either way, I'm still not wrong.

I will accept non-response in place of retraction.

How very nice of you.

CountyHurler

I didnt like the coverage of the whole Lilis thing yesterday... The presenter did nothing to hide her obvious feeling that the Eamon Lilis was guilty of murder, never mind what the courts said. The perception was given that Eamon Lilis had deliberately murdered his wife so that he could get access to her money, and that he had in fact got away with murder...

The truth is that he was having a row with the missus and lost the head... It wasnt in anyway premeditated, which you can simply deduce from the cock and bull story he came up with afterwards... Not that I'm defending Lilis, but I mean it's irresponsible for a "professional" presenter to publicly vilify him for more than what he is actually guilty of..

I dont remember Marian having reporters following Sharon Collins around when she actually DID try to have her husband murdered. How long did she server, Marian?

Callan57

CountyHurler wrote: »

I didnt like the coverage of the whole Lilis thing yesterday... The presenter did nothing to hide her obvious feeling that the Eamon Lilis was guilty of murder, never mind what the courts said. The perception was given that Eamon Lilis had deliberately murdered his wife so that he could get access to her money, and that he had in fact got away with murder...

The truth is that he was having a row with the missus and lost the head... It wasnt in anyway premeditated, which you can simply deduce from the cock and bull story he came up with afterwards... Not that I'm defending Lilis, but I mean it's irresponsible for a "professional" presenter to publicly vilify him for more than what he is actually guilty of..

I dont remember Marian having reporters following Sharon Collins around when she actually DID try to have her husband murdered. How long did she server, Marian?

I agree, the carry on at the weekend was a carbon copy of the very worst of tabloid gutterpress ... we have no news so we'll make something into news.
I too consider the sentence (even for manslaughter) appears extremly lenient but the way to address that is to work for a change in the sentencing policy not carry on a sleezy shadowing of someone who, like it or not, has served the sentence he received from the court.
BTW, just to be fair, there certainly were newspaper reports on the whereabouts of Sharon Collins following her release.

Del.Monte

Mammy doing yet another plug for her friends at Gorse Hill. Does anybody remember a fawnng, cringe inducing piece some years back with 'Seanie' (sic) Fitzpatrick before he was uncovered? How these RTE hacks get away with pimping their friends in the Golden Circle is beyond me. :mad:

Rochester

He sounds like a petulant child.

Dan Jaman

I can understand his POV, as nobody would like to see his home / parents' home pulled away from them, but sympathy is lacking.

kefir32

Pompous prat ... Get him off !!! He sounds just like I imagined, not an ounce of humility

CountyHurler

I just tuned in ... I'm assuming this is Jerry Beads?

Itssoeasy

Yeah it was the land league lad and the son.

Itssoeasy

A millionaire ? Keep it to the real people Marian and whoever is pouring that water stop it

Dan Jaman

Hah. Sounds to me as if the original fruit and veg shop owner knew when to sell up.

constitutionus

isnt it amazing how much time marion hands over to issues of massive, massive, amounts of money?

CountyHurler

I'd say Jenny Brannigan must be fuming.. Drive up to RTE and then Marion limits your time to about three minutes...

CountyHurler

Did anybody else read anything into how Claire Byrne made reference to Brian Cowen and "What he said, how he looked"...

I thought he looked a bit drunk myself, I wonder is that was she was alluding to? Anybody else see it?

padd b1975

CountyHurler wrote: »

Did anybody else read anything into how Claire Byrne made reference to Brian Cowen and "What he said, how he looked"...

I thought he looked a bit drunk myself, I wonder is that was she was alluding to? Anybody else see it?

This is the same Claire Byrne who only a few months back was whinging about how her own appearance was super-analysed I presume?

RobertKK

CountyHurler wrote: »

Did anybody else read anything into how Claire Byrne made reference to Brian Cowen and "What he said, how he looked"...

I thought he looked a bit drunk myself, I wonder is that was she was alluding to? Anybody else see it?

I don't think he looked drunk, more on the verge of a heart attack. Seemed out of breath, he better see a doctor would be what I would say.

alaimacerc

padd b1975 wrote: »

This is the same Claire Byrne who only a few months back was whinging about how her own appearance was super-analysed I presume?

Riiight. Because obviously sexist tabloid critiques of these pushy media hussies being too fat, too thin, dressing up, dressing down, etc, are exactly comparable to wondering if the PM of a country was plastered and/or having a medical episode.

If Cowen were subject to the sort of scrutiny Byrne has been, he'd never have got out of bed in the morning, much less been elected to anything.

padd b1975

alaimacerc wrote: »

Riiight. Because obviously sexist tabloid critiques of these pushy media hussies being too fat, too thin, dressing up, dressing down, etc, are exactly comparable to wondering if the PM of a country was plastered and/or having a medical episode.

If Cowen were subject to the sort of scrutiny Byrne has been, he'd never have got out of bed in the morning, much less been elected to anything.

Cowen is a private citizen.

The likes of Byrne(who clearly values her own privacy,unless she's got something to shill) should be above this "housewives across the garden wall" type gossiping at this point in her career.

It's hardly conduct becoming of a credible journalist.

alaimacerc

padd b1975 wrote: »

Cowen is a private citizen.

The likes of Byrne(who clearly values her own privacy,unless she's got something to shill) should be above this "housewives across the garden wall" type gossiping at this point in her career.

It's hardly conduct becoming of a credible journalist.

Oh, give over. We're not discussing (the discussion of) his career as "private citizen". (On a set of pensions that would make your eyes water, mind.) We're discussing a media appearance. When he was An Taoiseach.

Bluster about "privacy of a private citizen" in such circumstances will be laughed to as much scorn as it takes.

michael999999

RobertKK wrote: »

I don't think he looked drunk, more on the verge of a heart attack. Seemed out of breath, he better see a doctor would be what I would say.

Cue him having massive medical problems just before he is to appear at the Banking inquiry!

Obviously due to medical advice he wont be able to appear...yada yada yada.

Dan Jaman

michael999999 wrote: »

Cue him having massive medical problems just before he is to appear at the Banking inquiry!

Obviously due to medical advice he wont be able to appear...yada yada yada.

How very convenient.
I suspect there might be a case of Enquirus Indisposicus in the offing.

alaimacerc

Dan Jaman wrote: »

How very convenient.
I suspect there might be a case of Enquirus Indisposicus in the offing.

"Brian Cowen Is Unwell"?

honeybear

I remember hearing that controversial Morning Ireland interview live (on the way to work) a few years ago. At the time I was thinking to myself that B/Cowen actually sounded better than usual!!!

Harry Angstrom

alaimacerc wrote: »

"Brian Cowen Is Unwell"?

Makes a change from Jeffrey Bernard.

alaimacerc

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Makes a change from Jeffrey Bernard.

I think that was implied by what I said! </LisaSimpson>

CountyHurler

You can expect to hear this lad with his own show on Newstalk pretty soon..

delaad

Colm McCarthy, the original dismal scientist.