Marian Finucane

constitutionus

jesus christ this is vomti inducing.

first joe duffy goes on a rehabilitation campaign for FF, now aine it lionising he PDs.

ya'd know the lads that got their jobs in pravda during their 3 terms are still there.

Callan57

Picking over the carcass of the PD's again .... boring, boring, boring :rolleyes:

Harry Angstrom

All this sentimental claptrap about the PD's is almost making me feel sorry for McDowell :rolleyes:

constitutionus

im thinking the made had a word with the production team.

i LIKE Aine, but those last two shows were atrocious. for a split second i actually thought "thank god marions back next week"

maybe she learned from the charlie bird incident !

mikom

The show is absolute muck for what is spent on it.
It's like overhearing conversations from some yahs at the table next to you as they drink lattes.

Callan57

constitutionus wrote: »

im thinking the made had a word with the production team.

i LIKE Aine, but those last two shows were atrocious. for a split second i actually thought "thank god marions back next week"

maybe she learned from the charlie bird incident !

Agreed, yesterday & today were pathetic. I used to like Aine on Morning Ireland and even when she stood in previously for Marian but recently she is really getting on my nerves (all that inane giggling and silly feigned laughing). I really am beginning to think the prog needs a major makeover or it should simply be scrapped

Aidric

Callan57 wrote: »

I really am beginning to think the prog needs a major makeover or it should simply be scrapped

RTE should scrap a show that pulls in over 300k listeners? Rrrrright

donaghs

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

In fairness though, she works very hard. I mean all that listening to the radio every day, and watching news bulletins on TV as part of her "research" for the weekend show must really take its toll.........

I noticed that just before I switched it off, the "Marion Finucane Show"......, (with Aine Lawlor).

senordingdong

Lads, does anyone know if RTE radio shows are in anyway based on 'viewership' ratings or whatever, or is that all out the window with the tv license?

Callan57

You couldn't make this up ... there's a box, we don't know what is in it, it's going round and round & back and fourth and nobody has yet opened the bloody box!
For the love of the Lord what kind of crxp is this?

michael999999

Callan57 wrote: »

You couldn't make this up ... there's a box, we don't know what is in it, it's going round and round & back and fourth and nobody has yet opened the bloody box!
For the love of the Lord what kind of crxp is this?

I think I seen a programme like that on channel 4!

Lapin

The only thing that sketch was missing was Joan Burton.

Oops69

Lapin wrote: »

The only thing that sketch was missing was Joan Burton.

Speaking of dead parrots !!!

Callan57

Oh Marian is really going to annoy Evelyn Cusack with that weather forecast for Jan/Feb

constitutionus

Jaysus recession biting hard at montrose .

8k for a telly and whisky advent callanders . Truly the bubbbles a sight to see

Callan57

constitutionus wrote: »

Jaysus recession biting hard at montrose .

8k for a telly and whisky advent callanders . Truly the bubbbles a sight to see

Marian will probably buy two - to help with the weekly research "so to speak":rolleyes:
Research defecit was obvious during the innterview with Tony Booth's wife today

CountyHurler

Has Ingrid been getting lessons from Charlie Bird.. Sounding a lot more sensationalist than usual.

sudzs

Nigella. :rolleyes:

Have they nothing better to be talking about?? :rolleyes:

Harry Angstrom

They're very keen to talk about Nigella's cocaine habit but there wasn't a peep out of Marian and her buddies when it emerged that Gerry Ryan was shoving it up his nose.

CountyHurler

Very poor show... Load of corrections to what they were saying.. particularly that g0bsh1te who went on and on about how a "beautiful" wall was pulled out by the evil council, only to have one of the callers ring in to say it was being removed for safety reasons and would be rebuilt shortly.. You think he would at least enquire about the thing before mouthing off on the national airwaves..

Interspersed with Marion's sarcasm and casual misandry..

CountyHurler

All hail the Rough Rider...

Who is this lad with the plums is his mouth.. He makes Lord Henry Mountcharles sound like a chav..

sudzs

Oh dear god, Spud Murphy and psychics! I'm morto listening to it!

morebarn2

CountyHurler wrote: »

All hail the Rough Rider...

Who is this lad with the plums is his mouth.. He makes Lord Henry Mountcharles sound like a chav..

Thats Jonathan Irwin, CEO of the Jack & Jill Charity Foundation. Married to Senator Mary O Brien, who owns Lily O Briens Chocolates.

honeybear

sudzs wrote: »

Nigella. :rolleyes:

Have they nothing better to be talking about?? :rolleyes:

I could be wrong about the following, but, were there 3 front page pictures of the Nigella case on the Indo last week?-thought it was a bit much!

georgesstreet

CountyHurler wrote: »

All hail the Rough Rider...

Who is this lad with the plums is his mouth.. He makes Lord Henry Mountcharles sound like a chav..

I love the old inverted snobbery. You don't see such unashamed examples of it nowadays.

IvyTheTerrible

georgesstreet wrote: »

I love the old inverted snobbery. You don't see such unashamed examples of it nowadays.

I see it a lot on the radio boards when anyone comes on with an English accent! Lots of "West Brit" comments bandied about!

CountyHurler

georgesstreet wrote: »

I love the old inverted snobbery. You don't see such unashamed examples of it nowadays.

He says, looking down his nose at me.

georgesstreet

CountyHurler wrote: »

He says, looking down his nose at me.

Again, inverted snobbery to assume that. An incorrect assumption, as it happens, as why you would assume anyone who notices inverted snobbery must themselves be a snob is a form of inverted snobbery.

RadioRetro

Marion: "So, are you still working?"

Guest: "Well, I'm a columnist with the Irish Independent..."

Marion: "Oh! Of course."

Research is still not her strongest skill. :rolleyes:

constitutionus

cant beat her earlier statement regarding who'd be hit by the powers cuts when she said "the dart and the luas, so thats dublin i think"

Harry Angstrom

Good interview with Mary Kenny this morning.

georgesstreet

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Good interview with Mary Kenny this morning.

I heard bits of it, but was shocked to hear her so ill prepared and asking Mary Kenny if she was still working at 70, and not apparently knowing she has a regular column in one of the newspapers Marian regularly reads from, at the top of the show.

To my ear, Marian sounds less interested than she used to be, and seems more to be more going through the motions these days.

IvyTheTerrible

georgesstreet wrote: »

I heard bits of it, but was shocked to hear her so ill prepared and asking Mary Kenny if she was still working at 70, and not apparently knowing she has a regular column in one of the newspapers Marian regularly reads from, at the top of the show.

To my ear, Marian sounds less interested than she used to be, and seems more to be more going through the motions these days.

I couldn't listen to today's show but last week there were also a few similar gaffes which she would have avoided if she had done even a basic bit of research.

Oops69

Charlie BIrd must need a few bob for xmas

snubbleste

Will the voice last till the end of the show?

CountyHurler

How difficult is it to get everybody to hand up their mobile phones before entering the studio.. Another one again this morning, fkn ridiculous..

Caller says: "First victory for de wurkers against right wing companies"...

A right wing company that pays their staff an average wage DOUBLE the average industrial wage, that has excellent conditions for employees, and whose pensions will not doubt be bailed out by the rest of the taxpayers if any problem should arise in the future. Unions were set up to defend the rights of the workers, not to facilitate a renegade bunch of spoilt brats holding the country to ransom.

Oops69

The level of discourse this morning is appalling lacking in insight and originality from any of the contributors and we all are paying these people for this , really Marian is taking the proverbial , time to retire Marian , you've lost the plot .

my friend

It's a requirement that you suck on the taxpayers tit in order to be a talking head...

Proof? Today's mouth pieces...

Senator Fergal Quinn ... Sal + Exp

Cllr Richie Culhane, retired Garda now Councillor

Charlie Bird ....

Bride Rosney Ex RTÉ , on your payroll for years via as an advisor to Mary Robinson and a director of Eirgrid and the National Orchestra

Patricia Quinn ex Temple Bar trough hog, Arts Council and now an advisor to charities

Farcical and unbalanced panel

my friend

Marian concerned at 'lack of hotels in rural area where Mandela is to be buried' ...

Oh the depth of thought ...

my friend

Navel gazing with the pied piper Niall 'NAMA' Mellon

Building houses in Africa while the Irish taxpayers pay Nialls bills in Ireland

Another guest that feeds on the taxpayers tit

Marian has form.

CountyHurler

This lad is a bit overfamiliar... "Madiba did this, Madiba did that"... Anyway, does he not understand that the term Madiba, when used within the four walls of RTE studios, refers to Joe Duffy.

snubbleste

"Most of them came from the Eastern Cape, which you know well Marian"
Was that a dig in?

my friend

Note to all:

Everyone that has spouted on the panel today has their hand in your pocket.

Shut up and keep paying.

CountyHurler

my friend wrote: »

Note to all: Everyone that has spouted on the panel today has their hand in your pocket.Shut up and keep paying.

But it's always been the same.. I remember Marian had Ming Flanagan on the phone a few weeks ago, and when he started telling a few uncomfortable home truths his line suddenly got awful bad... And Marian hasnt risked having any other contrary voices on the show since.

my friend

CountyHurler wrote: »

But it's always been the same.. I remember Marian had Ming Flanagan on the phone a few weeks ago, and when he started telling a few uncomfortable home truths his line suddenly got awful bad... And Marian hasnt risked having any other contrary voices on the show since.

Ah, but Ming is in your pocket too.

Ex Councillor, TD

Oops69

Charlie is right about the DUnnes workers , I know he's harping on bit but he's right,no one going to mention the sacred IRFU policy at the time though ?

my friend

What a bunch on narcissistic w@nkers!

Me, I, me, I, me, me, I ...

Do you hear this dick?

'We asked the local skangers if the vandalised our office in ballybough and they said no'

'So it must have been the SA secret service' !!!!!!

Walter Mitty stuff !

michael999999

my friend wrote: »

Navel gazing with the pied piper Niall 'NAMA' Mellon

Building houses in Africa while the Irish taxpayers pay Nialls bills in Ireland

Another guest that feeds on the taxpayers tit

Marian has form.

Didn't know about this, must do a bit of googling!

my friend

michael999999 wrote: »

Didn't know about this, must do a bit of googling!

Oh yes, and other stuff you won't hear from Marian and pals...

Around 50 people are murdered in South Africa each day and what about rape? South Africa are number one globally for rape.

But with Marian that won't be discussed

P. Breathnach

my friend wrote: »

What a bunch on narcissistic w@nkers!

Me, I, me, I, me, me, I ...

They were invited to tell us about their personal recollections of Nelson Mandela. How can they answer without using the first person?

Would it be a better programme if I, who never met Mandela, was invited in to say that I thought he was a great man, one I admired a lot?