Marian Finucane

Lapin

I agree with Marian's rant about the clampers.

None of the cars parked in that image are causing an obstruction or a danger to anyone. It proves that clamping is nothing more than a cynical revenue generating exercise and has nothing to do with traffic management.

For people returning to their cars in good spitits after Ireland's win at Lansdowne Road it must have left them with a very sour taste. Its some welcome to Dublin.

Some will argue that rules are rules but surely some discression and common sense should have prevailed in this instance.

I question the mental stability of anyone who could sanction and carry out an act like this. It is a mean spirited, nasty and pernicious form of theft by extortion.

JonathanAnon

Lapin wrote: »

For people returning to their cars in good spitits after Ireland's win at Lansdowne Road it must have left them with a very sour taste. Its some welcome to Dublin.

I cant imagine the FAI are overly pleased with the clamping either... There were a huge amount of empty seats in the stadium last nite, and the council have certainly dissuaded ~20 more loyal supporters from attending future matches. Maybe John Delaney to stick his wallet behind the bar on this one as well.. Could be a nice publicity coup if the FAI identified who those supporters were, and pay the clamping costs for them.

Callan57

Lapin wrote: »

I agree with Marian's rant about the clampers.

None of the cars parked in that image are causing an obstruction or a danger to anyone. It proves that clamping is nothing more than a cynical revenue generating exercise and has nothing to do with traffic management.

For people returning to their cars in good spitits after Ireland's win at Lansdowne Road it must have left them with a very sour taste. Its some welcome to Dublin.

Some will argue that rules are rules but surely some discression and common sense should have prevailed in this instance.

I question the mental stability of anyone who could sanction and carry out an act like this. It is a mean spirited, nasty and pernicious form of theft by extortion.

Good Lord I thought it was Michael Healy Rae I was listening to this morning ... so Marian thinks we should have "discretion" in what parking rules we obey & Healy Rae wants drinkers to have "discretion" in what drink driving rules they obey. Poor old Marian has a lot bothering her on a Sat morning or maybe she was a recent victim of the clampers .... EUR80.00 could put a big dent in the old profit margin right enough. :rolleyes:

Enjoyed the interview with Ruby Wax although I still don't understand what on earth mindfulness means.

mike65

Callan57 wrote: »

Enjoyed the interview with Ruby Wax although I still don't understand what on earth mindfulness means.

Mindfulness is one the avalanche of needless or makey uppey words like virtuosity, transportation, ironical. There are scores of the feckers out there. I'm sure Edmund Blackadder is still alive because of them.

Dionysius2

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I cant imagine the FAI are overly pleased with the clamping either... There were a huge amount of empty seats in the stadium last nite, and the council have certainly dissuaded ~20 more loyal supporters from attending future matches. Maybe John Delaney to stick his wallet behind the bar on this one as well.. Could be a nice publicity coup if the FAI identified who those supporters were, and pay the clamping costs for them.

The whole thing is a dastardly but necessary plot to drive the great unwashed out of Dublin 4. After all D4 natives live within legal parameters and observe unfailingly the strictures of our parliament. Those deemed proficient in regard to sanction distribution have never had much difficulty in enforcing traffic management regulations in D4 and its environs. It's those darned blowins with their cheap Jap imports and those uncouth rustic bumpkins who mess it up for the natives.

If we could only retain D4 for those worthy souls who have earned the right to live there and let the lawless ones return to their lives of sleeping under bridges and in stairwells then the proper balance will have been restored to the metropolis and D4 will again become a place of tranquility and stress free traffic management.

Lapin

In the last half an hour she has tagged on the vacuous phrase "so to speak" at the end of a sentence at least three times.

Duffy has become another prolific user of this term in recent months.



What the hell does it mean ?

mikom

Lapin wrote: »

In the last half an hour she has tagged on the vacuous phrase "so to speak" at the end of a sentence at least three times.

Duffy has become another prolific user of this term in recent months.



What the hell does it mean ?

Lack of conviction.

Callan57

Lapin wrote: »

In the last half an hour she has tagged on the vacuous phrase "so to speak" at the end of a sentence at least three times.

Duffy has become another prolific user of this term in recent months.



What the hell does it mean ?

A bugbear of mine for a long time :mad:

Harry Angstrom

At least she hasn't said "And whatever you're having yourself" and "Uncle Tom Cobley" for a while. We should be thankful for small mercies

JonathanAnon

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

At least she hasn't said "And whatever you're having yourself" and "Uncle Tom Cobley" for a while. We should be thankful for small mercies

"Now, sitting across the desk from me is.... "

Well the audience kind of presume that you dont carry out the interview with the guest nailed to a crucifix on the RTE front lawn..

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Dionysius2

Marion's daftest comment tho' has to be when she says "Come here to me a minute".....when she is speaking to someone on the telephone!
The mind boggles.

JonathanAnon

Did Donnacha show them the one with the ducks.. They would have loved that.

mike65

Her ever more exaggerated breathless speaking voy-IIIIIIIIIIICE is really making her programme quite impossible to listen to.

JonathanAnon

"And all that jazz"..

We havent had that classic for a while..

sligojoek

mike65 wrote: »

Her ever more exaggerated breathless speaking voy-IIIIIIIIIIICE is really making her programme quite impossible to listen to.

Yeah. Mooney does it as well. They seem to pick one word in a sentence and oooooooooover emphasiiiiiiiiiiiiiise it.

JonathanAnon

Brendan Keenan and Terry Prone.. ? It's gonna be difficult to stay tuned in for the next two hours..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI5o8qsTVoM

There should be a disclaimer any time Keenan is on. Given that he speaks with such authority on financial issues, people should be aware of just how little he actually knows..

Infoanon

FFS Terry Prone - no mention of being the PR advisor to the health minister.
Prone currently complaining about Diageo spinning stories !

take everything

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Brendan Keenan and Terry Prone.. ? It's gonna be difficult to stay tuned in for the next two hours..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI5o8qsTVoM

There should be a disclaimer any time Keenan is on. Given that he speaks with such authority on financial issues, people should be aware of just how little he actually knows..

He's still there at the back of the Sindo's business supplement every week.
And your friend Jim Power is with the SBP now.

Might see what Shane Coleman is talking about.

mike65

I'm listening to TMS and there isn't any cricket being played!

JonathanAnon

I thought Peader would have been able to get his diesel on the cheap?

JonathanAnon

Spending waaaay too long on this segment... "Oh an Putin likes the gym"... move on...

Still get the impression that Marian really doesnt like Oliver Callan's Kicks..

Dan Dare

mike65 wrote: »

I'm listening to TMS and there isn't any cricket being played!

That Geoffrey Boycott is a card!

Callan57

I still can't get my head around why these right wingers think that anything impacting the socalled "unborn" is a moral issue but issues that seriously and detrimentally impact the lives of the BORN are not. Surely a case of a very flexible definition of morality.

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Brendan Keenan always comes across to me as a young fellow at the back of the class who hasn't done his homework and is desperately trying to bluff it.
I am not convinced he actually understands what he's talking about.

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While I agree Diageo have a cheek, Terry Prone getting on her high horse about spinning is surely the ultimate in brass neck?

Harry Angstrom

Boring show today. Boring boring boring. Marian could phone it in at this stage and just let Prone and Keenan yap away to their hearts' content.

serfboard

Callan57 wrote: »

While I agree Diageo have a cheek, Terry Prone getting on her high horse about spinning is surely the ultimate in brass neck?

Obviously TP's problem is that Diageo aren't clients of hers. Now, if only they were she'd teach them how to do it properly ... :rolleyes:

donaghs

When Marion has been rustling through the papers in recent weeks, has she noticed or made any mention of the Greek state TV closure? Certainly topical considering how RTE manage their budget.

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/greek-state-tv-closes-to-save-money-29337262.html

Bits_n_Bobs

Moving swiftly on from sycophantic week of grovelling to our american benefactors....to Guantanamo bay.

mike65

I wondered what that droning noise was.

signostic

the slobbering continues.........

Bits_n_Bobs

Paul Williams

farewell any chance of meaningful explanations or analysis, hello breathless hype and over-simplification

Bits_n_Bobs

Just as I type that

"Have you been doing a crash course in banking yourself Paul?"

"No Marion - I'm still clueless but some eejits with insufficient egos in comparision to mine in the Indo know stuff"

Callan57

This tripe is very very annoying .... there were people who were well aware that the "boom" could not & would not go on booming. I heard loads of people expressing the view that property prices were totally ridiculous and would collapse - it was just a question of when. But, of course, these were just ordinary joes and josephines not the overpaid, so-called educated know-it-all D4 yokels.
Thankfully personally I listened to one of those ordinary Joes otherwise I would be one of those in negative equity now.

Sir Oxman

The guy on now justifying the guarantee is not terribly convincing, if Marion was a tad more pushy I'm sure he'd collapse into a pool of his own muck.
(I think he's an ex-IMFer, he's definitely Mr We All Partied)

Sir Oxman

Callan57 wrote: »

This tripe is very very annoying .... there were people who were well aware that the "boom" could not & would not go on booming. I heard loads of people expressing the view that property prices were totally ridiculous and would collapse - it was just a question of when. But, of course, these were just ordinary joes and josephines not the overpaid, so-called educated know-it-all D4 yokels.
Thankfully personally I listened to one of those ordinary Joes otherwise I would be one of those in negative equity now.

Snap.
If I had listened to Official Ireland, I'd be totally fcked as well.

signostic

Sir Oxman wrote: »

Snap.
If I had listened to Official Ireland, I'd be totally fcked as well.

Me too, thank goodness i didn`t listen either to Mammy O`Rourke when she tried to sell me some eircom shares..

Callan57

Interesting that he thinks "there is no smoking gun, nothing else to come out" .... I do not believe that for one minute. Maybe he knew but the vast majority of the country did not know about the existence of this weeks Indo tapes until this week .... so it begs the question what else is there that we do not know about?
I can't get away from the feeling this guy is another one of the golden circle and even now is hell bent on waffling out excuses & giving cover to his mates.

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me what the well paid AUDITORS of the banks were doing and why they didn't see, or choose not to see, the threats to the banks. Were they blind, stupid, browbeaten, incompetent or just plain bought off? And what actual use are AUDITORS?

Bits_n_Bobs

Establishment line 2006: Boom is getting boomier
Establishment line 2013: No one is guility / we're all guilty

JonathanAnon

Callan57 wrote: »

I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me what the well paid AUDITORS of the banks were doing and why they didn't see, or choose not to see, the threats to the banks.

I was making the same point to a friend yesterday..
- The bankers have all fkd off with their money,
- The auditors gave us audits of the banks that had no resemblance of the truth yet, yet there has been no questioning of them... and they are STILL being employed by the State,
- The politicians are all on big pensions and keeping their mouths shut
- The public servants who worked in the Central Bank and Department of Finance all still have their jobs. Well except those that were promoted.

And this one really gets me.

- The so called economic experts..Brendan Keenan, Jim Power, Austin Hughes etc etc... who came on radio/tv panel shows saying there was no problem with banks (aside from liquidity), are STILL being asked to come on panels.. They are either incompetent or they lied for self serving reasons, but either way it is irresponsible in the extreme for them to be portrayed as independent economists and allowed airtime to influence people in their finances...

So in effect, nobody is responsible, and they are all still getting paid. The country will learn nothing unless some people are punished and punished seriously.. In Ireland if you bring in a load of garlic from China you get jailed, but if you bankrupt a country you get a State pension..

(sorry, my posts just seems to be getting longer and longer.. )

JonathanAnon

Jesus that guy on the radio now must have been reading my post..

Gergiev

Bits_n_Bobs wrote: »

Establishment line 2006: Boom is getting boomier
Establishment line 2013: No one is guility / we're all guilty

Can't top that for succinct analysis, so I'll just stay quiet...

constitutionus

marion defending her mates again i see

"despite sounding so relaxed they mustve been terrified"

base on what marion?

cause all i heard was a bunch of knobs laughing at us .

Callan57

Why is that American journo on acting as David Drumm's defence attorney?

constitutionus

hear that ?

thats martin manseragh running like fuk from that question !

Yakuza

Because Sheehan is acting as a prosecutor?

Mansergh - the latest in FFers to squirm "I didn't know anything, I wasn't in the building".

P. Breathnach

Yakuza wrote: »

Because Sheehan is acting as a prosecutor?

Good point. Sheehan has the easier job.

Mansergh - the latest in FFers to squirm "I didn't know anything, I wasn't in the building".

I find it easy enough to believe that Mansergh didn't know. I accept that he has some talents, but I can't see him getting his head around the banking crisis as it was emerging.

constitutionus

marion asks about people being doners to FF and manseragh goes on about the seperation of church and state.

did i miss something ?

JonathanAnon

Why does she get so many people in the studio, and then never allow them to contribute.. After about twenty minutes of staying quiet, that Martin chap (not Manseragh, the other Martin) tried to make a point about the bank crash and Marian then said "we'll talk about that later, but I have to take a break. But BEFORE I go to the break.. " and then proceeded to put a question to Fionnan Sheehan... I would have just walked out if I was yer man..

sligojoek

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Why does she get so many people in the studio, and then never allow them to contribute.. After about twenty minutes of staying quiet, that Martin chap (not Manseragh, the other Martin) tried to make a point about the bank crash and Marian then said "we'll talk about that later, but I have to take a break. But BEFORE I go to the break.. " and then proceeded to put a question to Fionnan Sheehan... I would have just walked out if I was yer man..

I noticed that too. I reckon someone had a word in her earpiece and told her to drop it like a hot spud.

honeybear

While her pay is crazy, last nights documentary "Nuala" showed how good Marian is at interviewing. Despite being incredibly sad, it was a wonderful programme. Well done!

Radio5

It was a great programme alright. I know radio and TV are different in many respects and the subject matter was unique but it was wonderful alright.