Marian Finucane

Lapin

That weather presenter sounded like she was about to burst into a fit of laughter throughout the report !

HeidiHeidi

Lapin wrote: »

That weather presenter sounded like she was about to burst into a fit of laughter throughout the report !

Over-excited at the thrill of presenting a half-reasonable forecast for the first time in about a year. Who could blame her!

Can we start a petition to keep Áine?

Lapin

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Can we start a petition to keep Áine?

Lapin.

snubbleste

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Can we start a petition to keep Áine?

Depends. How much does she charge for 4 hours?

HeidiHeidi

snubbleste wrote: »

Depends. How much does she charge for 4 hours?

I don't care!!!

I have been a big fan of Marian's for many years - I'm old enough to remember when she hosted Liveline and it was a fantastic, interesting, current-affairs, topical, LISTENABLE show. Not the execrable* drivel that Joe has made it these days. She was an ace broadcaster in her day.

But fan though I am, even I have stopped listening to the weekend magazine programme when she's hosting.

It's a shocking waste of two prime hours on a weekend days, and as far as I'm concerned the likes of Áine can charge what she likes if she makes that programme what it could be once again.

*always wanted to use that word!

Harry Angstrom

Time to ditch Marian at this stage. Give the Saturday programme to Aine Lawlor and Rachel English on a rotational basis, and give Eamon Dunphy the Sunday morning slot. He would've made mincemeat of Joan Burton this morning.

grey_so_what

I'm pained at the thought of ED getting paid Marian's rates though.......

No-one is worth that.

Even for a fillet of Joan "VIIIIIIINNNNNCCCENTTTT" Burton.

RayM

Lapin wrote: »

That weather presenter sounded like she was about to burst into a fit of laughter throughout the report !

It sounded like someone was tickling her.

Greenman

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Can we start a petition to keep Áine?

Can we sign one to move her on??

Radio5

DownBeaten wrote: »

... until they brought our own pretend Terry Wogan. The guy with the comprehensive knowledge of bad pop musak. And he's the same guy who presents a morning programme on what was once an arts station.

That Euro piece was dire alright.

bureau2009

DownBeaten wrote: »

... until they brought our own pretend Terry Wogan. The guy with the comprehensive knowledge of bad pop musak. And he's the same guy who presents a morning programme on what was once an arts station.

Don't get me started...........:mad: :eek:

mike65

Can we start a petition to find Marian? Not that I want her anywhere near the radio but I'm worried for her safety!

bureau2009

mike65 wrote: »

Can we start a petition to find Marian? Not that I want her anywhere near the radio but I'm worried for her safety!

You will find it extremely difficult to track down Marian because SHE LIVES IN A DIFFERENT WORLD to the rest of us.

Unfortunately this has never stopped her trying to be the voice of the ordinary people of Ireland, something other broadcasters could do with much greater credibility and sincerity, and at a fraction of the exorbitant cost of her contract with RTE.

Bits_n_Bobs

IS this an interview with the bearded one or an ad?????

Bits_n_Bobs

Is this an interview with the bearded one or an ad?????

honeybear

How many times did study guy say "have a question"?

Callan57

If you're stressed about exams the first thing you should do is stop listening to or watching RTE. This annual blanket coverage is ridiculous: we'll have it now on every programme until the end of June & that will be on top of the Irish Times & the Indo flogging it to death aswell as the mammies on to Joe Duffy, then the daily postmortems on The News at One & again on Drivetimes, then again on the 6pm and 9pm news.

Just shut up about exams & let the unfortunate kids get on with it without adding further stress to them. Not once in my life has anyone ever asked me what I got in the Leaving. :mad:

Lady Chatterton

Callan57 wrote: »

Just shut up about exams & let the unfortunate kids get on with it without adding further stress to them. Not once in my life has anyone ever asked me what I got in the Leaving. :mad:

Callan, how did you get on in the Leaving Certificate? :P






Sorry, I couldn't resist

Callan57

MrsD007 wrote: »

Callan, how did you get on in the Leaving Certificate? :P


Modesty prevents me answering your question Mrs007


Colm McCarthy is a national treasure - I love the way he can cut to the heart of the matter & side swipe the bullsh1t.

snubbleste

Some female speaker: "I'm sure many of us around the table have Apple products"

snubbleste

Namawinelake gets a mention on Radio1 :eek:

Callan57

Marian is hilarious "Everybody is heading off now ... " really? Everybody expect the "real" workers that is! :mad:

mike65

Anyone reckon Marion could complete a breath test? :pac:

JonathanAnon

The contempt that Marian has for Oliver Callan and "THAT show" taking 3 mins of her show is palpable.

Callan57

JonathanAnon wrote: »

The contempt that Marian has for Oliver Callan and "THAT show" taking 3 mins of her show is palpable.

The contempt I have is for a pathetic effort at comedy - surely RTE can do a bit better than that Callan effort :rolleyes:

JonathanAnon

Callan57 wrote: »

The contempt I have is for a pathetic effort at comedy - surely RTE can do a bit better than that Callan effort :rolleyes:

I think it's more the fact that she'd be out of the studio at 12.50, instead of 12.53, if she didnt have to play the promo.

Roger_007

snubbleste wrote: »

Some female speaker: "I'm sure many of us around the table have Apple products"

Is that the wan that was complaining about Apple charging more for their products in Ireland than anywhere else. If this is true, it is only because there are more idiots in Ireland like her who will buy them.

snubbleste

This show is sponsored by Benson&Hedges

JonathanAnon

Roger_007 wrote: »

Is that the wan that was complaining about Apple charging more for their products in Ireland than anywhere else.

Well the one thing I dont understand about this whole Apple debate, is that Tesco dont even publish their profits from this country.. How on earth is that even ALLOWED? At least we know what Apple make..

Infoanon

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Well the one thing I dont understand about this whole Apple debate, is that Tesco dont even publish their profits from this country.. How on earth is that even ALLOWED? At least we know what Apple make..

Dunnes Stores don't publish their sales or profit details either....

Switched over to TodayFM after first half hour - only so much of Colm Cartney /Joe O'Toole etc that anyone can take

mambo

Don't normally listen to Marian, but downloaded a podcast of an item on Richard Wagner from last weekend.

Link: http://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2013/0525/20130525_rteradio1-marianfinucane-wagners200_c20206036_20206048_232_.mp3

It was such a superficial item, and there was an embarrassing point when they were talking about how erotically charged Wagner's music could be, and the music choice they played was the "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin. Not even an excerpt from the opera (which would certainly be somewhat sensual), but the tune played on a church organ(!), probably from a CD of wedding music some junior researcher found and though "ah, sure that'll do", and about as un-erotic as you could get.

JonathanAnon

ahhh.. wrong thread.

JonathanAnon

Nope... I still dont like RBB..

mike65

Ah God enough of this touchy feely ****e.

Rebelheart

Horrendous. Turned off. It didn't last five minutes today. Starting with her news about "Prince Harry" and her incessant obsession with talking about things British (I can turn on the BBC myself, if I want that, thank you very much), she then introduced her guests; same guests, different day. Conor Pope talking about being a "celebrity" on "Celebrity Chef"....

It's all just so tabloid, so pathetic, so Sunday Independent in its style and the superficial culture it wants to promote. No depth. No enlightenment. No learning and a sameness which could only entertain the most dim of minds. It's about the same cliques spouting the same vacuous, inane, consensus-creating, rightwing-leaning drivel. And being paid from our licence fee to make their appearances on her show.

In the middle of a recession this woman, Marian Finucane, who has set up a company to reduce her tax liability to our state, made a profit of €791,000 last year from her position in RTÉ. Disgusting. There are plenty of other egomaniacs who could do that job for less than €100,000 per annum and get the same listenership. There is no rational reason for her to be paid more than €100k per year. None. At all. None.

JonathanAnon

Why do RTE always have to find the brother of some RTE staff member, who now lives in a foreign country, to ring back in and tell us how "things are done right over here".... Ask the chap does the national broadcaster in Sweden run a yearly deficit.?

Roger_007

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Why do RTE always have to find the brother of some RTE staff member, who now lives in a foreign country, to ring back in and tell us how "things are done right over here".... Ask the chap does the national broadcaster in Sweden run a yearly deficit.?

I noticed she didn't ask him about the riots in Stockholm.

JonathanAnon

Rebelheart wrote: »

In the middle of a recession this woman, Marian Finucane, who has set up a company to reduce her tax liability to our state, made a profit of €791,000 last year from her position in RTÉ.

That's about 35 years of working in a creche at 10 euros an hour... And Marian is attempting to empathise with the creche workers..

P. Breathnach

Rebelheart wrote: »

...
In the middle of a recession this woman, Marian Finucane, who has set up a company to reduce her tax liability to our state, made a profit of €791,000 last year from her position in RTÉ....

I think that Marian is overpaid for what she does, but she did not make a profit of €791k last year.

JonathanAnon

So Kevin Cullen drove right past Newstalk on his way from the airport to work in RTE this morning.. I wouldnt say NT are impressed..

serfboard

JonathanAnon wrote: »

So Kevin Cullen drove right past Newstalk on his way from the airport to work in RTE this morning.. I wouldnt say NT are impressed..

Was thinking the same thing myself. I'd expect him to be on NT tomorrow though - most likely the lunchtime programme.

Birdsong

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Nope... I still dont like RBB..

me neither, didn't warm to him at all

JonathanAnon

Just listening back to the show on the bike.. I missed the start cos of well, sleep. They spent the whole first hour on childcare!! Why on Earth did they ask the actor in ??? I also think it's completely pointless bringing in people who work in the childminding sector to tell us about how great they are, how great their staff are, how many qualifications they've had etc etc... "I decided there was no point in me doing this unless I was going to be the best at it" ... Dear god..

I think most of the problems would be sorted out by making CCTVs mandatory, give access to the parents.. And the Government bodies should then be given inspection rights for both the cameras and the site.. People need to think that they will get away with something bad before they will attempt it, and by having cameras constantly monitoring them they will feel like they are always under inspection..

donaghs

Has Marion not gone on the long holidays yet? (as opposed to not showing up on the odd weekend)

Layinghen

Probably with the cut in salary she has had to make some cutbacks:D

Goodness only knows how she is scrapping by these days.

JonathanAnon

Today's message. Make sure and hide your mental illness cos you'll get fired.. Joe Duffy wont be happy with this.

JonathanAnon

That's the picture of the clamped vehicles from joe.ie

RadioRetro

God it's misery unbounded with Marge today, it's almost like Laaaaaaveline.

Greenman

Came in the middle.

Thought I was listening to Ken.

mike65

That hilarious (if you haven't been clamped), are they all culchie vehicles who don't know the parking restrictions?