Marian Finucane

Mr Pseudonym

Evan DietrichSmith wrote: »

Have to say Harold,and no disrespect,knowing the name of 'that fella' wouldn't be the top of most peoples agenda.

Most serious commentators anyway.

Who is he anyway?

Some B lister who pumps out ****e movies ad nauseum

One of the most significant American comics of his generation.

But, even if he weren't, that's not the point. Kenny should have been prepared for the interview, and he wasn't.

Evan DietrichSmith

Mr Pseudonym wrote: »

One of the most significant American comics of his generation.

But, even if he weren't, that's not the point. Kenny should have been prepared for the interview, and he wasn't.

In who's opinion.

I see him a a jerk who throws out film chaff for the masses and would not criticise PK for not knowing about him.

About as funny as anal polyps.

Mr Pseudonym

Evan DietrichSmith wrote: »

In who's opinion.

I see him a a jerk who throws out film chaff for the masses and would not criticise PK for not knowing about him.

About as funny as anal polyps.

You claimed not to know who he was in your last post, so I submit that you are not the best person to judge his legacy.

RTE regularly has undistinguished guests. You'd be happy if their names were regularly mistaken, would you?!

Evan DietrichSmith

Mr Pseudonym wrote: »

You claimed not to know who he was in your last post, so I submit that you are not the best person to judge his legacy.

RTE regularly has undistinguished guests. You'd be happy if their names were regularly mistaken, would you?!

I wouldn't use that incident as a stick to beat Mr Kenny , buddy.

alaimacerc

Evan DietrichSmith wrote: »

In who's opinion.

I see him a a jerk who throws out film chaff for the masses and would not criticise PK for not knowing about him.

Because the PK apologists always trot out his "huge knowledge" and how he's always "well-prepared" for interviews. You point out that he's overpaid, full of his own self-importance, humourless, and charisma-free, and the line of defence is always "but he knows a lot of stuff!"

Evan DietrichSmith

alaimacerc wrote: »

Because the PK apologists always trot out his "huge knowledge" and how he's always "well-prepared" for interviews. You point out that he's overpaid, full of his own self-importance, humourless, and charisma-free, and the line of defence is always "but he knows a lot of stuff!"

I never pointed out anything like you suggest.

alaimacerc

Evan DietrichSmith wrote: »

I never pointed out anything like you suggest.

Eh, you said he "always knows what he is talking about", and a couple of posters before you were playing very similar mood music. It's pretty much the go-to play.

I think what's worse is that PK seems to believe it himself, and have rather a lot vested in the idea, to the point of seemingly hampering his ability to occasionally shut up and let other people say what they'd otherwise sensibly be on to say.

IvyTheTerrible

Just listening back to Sunday's Marian Finucane and you have a whole panel of people talking about the French "law" against answering work phones or checking work mails after 6pm.

FFS, have they no researchers at all? IT IS NOT A LAW. It is a charter or recommendation that has been drawn up in a bid to stem workplace depression and suicide, and has so far only been signed up to by one company.

And they've been talking about it for 10 minutes. What a waste of time.

Evan DietrichSmith

alaimacerc wrote: »

Because the PK apologists always trot out his "huge knowledge" and how he's always "well-prepared" for interviews. You point out that he's overpaid, full of his own self-importance, humourless, and charisma-free, and the line of defence is always "but he knows a lot of stuff!"

Where did I say that?

Roger_007

I didn't hear the beginning of this. What's the story?........or is there one?

HeidiHeidi

Auld fella bought a horse last August for 5K, won its first race last week, sold it for 225K (sterling).

The boy done good. Sounds like a right character!

Roger_007

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Auld fella bought a horse last August for 5K, won its first race last week, sold it for 225K (sterling).

The boy done good. Sounds like a right character!

Sooooo....she didn't ask about any useless nags he bought that won nothing?

HeidiHeidi

Roger_007 wrote: »

Sooooo....she didn't ask about any useless nags he bought that won nothing?

Didn't get the impression he was a horsey wheeler-dealer. Just a punter that struck lucky.

Why spoil his party

Roger_007

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Didn't get the impression he was a horsey wheeler-dealer. Just a punter that struck lucky.

Why spoil his party

Guys of 84 don't suddenly start buying horses.........but good luck to him anyway.:pac:

HeidiHeidi

Is this fella Rachel Allen's brother?

Took me ages to figure out, but he sounds exactly like her.

IvyTheTerrible

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Is this fella Rachel Allen's brother?

Took me ages to figure out, but he sounds exactly like her.

His accent is completely different, IMO.

Roger_007

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

His accent is completely different, IMO.

I've never heard of anyone else with an accent like Rachel.:rolleyes:

my friend

RTE should have to declare how much they pay for Eastenders

Lapin

I'd love if Marian told him Paul Kimmage was on line 2.

my friend

Who's this fraud?

IvyTheTerrible

Why wouldn't her children be able to speak English to her?
My son is two and already he speaks both French and English.

Also, making sweeping generalisations about them "not liking foreigners" is hardly going to endear you to them.

Also being part of a community is not "uniquely Irish"! You just have to make an effort.

Harry Angstrom

This one suffers from an acute case of High Rising Intonation.

IvyTheTerrible

What's this one's point?
She wasn't happy abroad and she's not happy in Ireland. I don't think other people are the problem here.

my friend

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Why wouldn't her children be able to speak English to her?
My son is two and already he speaks both French and English.

Also, making sweeping generalisations about them "not liking foreigners" is hardly going to endear you to them.

Also being part of a community is not "uniquely Irish"! You just have to make an effort.

I will second her, Switzerland is the most unfriendly place I've ever spent time

Lapin

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

This one suffers from an acute case of High Rising Intonation.

She definitely didn't get that accent in Ballinasloe.

my friend

Is this yoke that lived in Chicago sane?

She had her uncle in Detroit record Coronation Street and send the tapes to her, insane.

my friend

Ireland wasn't booming in 2007

Harry Angstrom

They couldn't get decent grass in New York? They should have got themselves a better class of drug dealer.

my friend

Where were those 3 nanny goats sourced from?

Seriously ?

Who invited them in?

What's the link?

Harry Angstrom

my friend wrote: »

Where were those 3 nanny goats sourced from?

Seriously ?

Who invited them in?

What's the link?

It's Marian's obligatory middle-class whinge slot. She probably met them at a dinner party somewhere.

Callan57

God these two are painful ... if either of them moved near me I'd be keeping well away from them. If you want to fit into a new community YOU make the effort - you can't expect people established in the community & getting on with busy lives to worry about you fitting in.

There are loads of east europeans here and their kids speak both English and their parents native language .. non issue IMO

Harry Angstrom

I don't see the point of these "lyrics" competitions. All you have to do is Google them.

honeybear

Very good section on walks home & abroad. Think the lady speaking was Tania Bonotti! She was informative & her enthusiasm was infectious...so jealous of her walking trips abroad. Someday....

Lapin

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

I don't see the point of these "lyrics" competitions. All you have to do is Google them.

I'd enter the competition if there was spending money included in the prize.

If I won I'd take that and do a Late Late Toy Show Pat Kenny job with the rest and let Marian tear up the Elton John tickets.

constitutionus

ah jaysus lap.

Ebays your friend !

CountyHurler

constitutionus wrote: »

ah jaysus lap.

E-bays your friend !

Havent you heard .. Forget about E-bay, Lapin's been in sick-bay for the last couple of days..

Callan57

Normal service resumes after Easter - and the super pensioned former civil servants speed-dial numbers are being answered again

sudzs

Note the massive difference in the way Marian deals with a contributor who calls someone a thug and the way Joe Duffy does!!

Infoanon

Calling someone on national radio 'a thug' is irresponsible, can see a big pay out from this....

Infoanon

sudzs wrote: »

Note the massive difference in the way Marian deals with a contributor who calls someone a thug and the way Joe Duffy does!!

Basically Marian didn't deal with it, I would expect an apology after the midday news

serfboard

Infoanon wrote: »

Calling someone on national radio 'a thug' is irresponsible, can see a big pay out from this....

He didn't call someone a thug. He said "behaving like a bunch of thugs".

sudzs

serfboard wrote: »

He didn't call someone a thug. He said "behaving like a bunch of thugs".

Did he not specifically refer to the guy with the megaphone as a thug??

Callan57

I don't often disagree with Theo Dorgan but in ralation to his quote that a "teacher married to guard can't make ends meet" - surely that depends on the outgoings of the couple concerned and most certainly does not apply to all or indeed most teacher/guard couples. What they really mean is that their combined salaries (still well ahead of most couples) doesn't allow them to lead the lifestyle they feel entitled to.

I wish that lady on the panel who said she was editor of the Farming Independent (I think) would learn to pronounce "th" ... Gay Byrne would go demented listening to her

Infoanon

sudzs wrote: »

Did he not specifically refer to the guy with the megaphone as a thug??

Thats what I heard, it was a comment on one particular individual, the same individual that Theo Dorgan then spoke about - married to a Garda etc

my friend

Theo Dorgan defends megaphone dick

Theo then makes outrageous and silly claim that a Garda and a Teacher can't make ends meet

And to polish it off he landed an unchallenged dig at Ryanair

Theo, you dick.

my friend

Ehhhhhhhh

Ahhhhh

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Ehhhhhh

Ehhhh

Ahhhhh

Paddy Agnew

Ahh

constitutionus

Callan57 wrote: »

I don't often disagree with Theo Dorgan but in ralation to his quote that a "teacher married to guard can't make ends meet" - surely that depends on the outgoings of the couple concerned and most certainly does not apply to all or indeed most teacher/guard couples. What they really mean is that their combined salaries (still well ahead of most couples) doesn't allow them to lead the lifestyle they feel entitled to.

I wish that lady on the panel who said she was editor of the Farming Independent (I think) would learn to pronounce "th" ... Gay Byrne would go demented listening to her

actualy i think it was more a refernce to what teachers and gards got up to during the nuttery of the boom. theyre part of the "We" in the "we all partied" trope the media love to trot out.

remember the teacher on joe duffy crying that she coudlnt live on 68k a year cause her bratislavan appartment was killing her ?

and the gards were one of the biggest purchasers of property over the whole boom .some of em combining to buy whole apt blocks. there was a solicitor on the radio waaaaaay back saying they made up his whole client base.

if your a bog standard teacher with no debts your laughing now as even with the cuts your able to live like a lord. but if you got burned in property your ****ed. its ironic to say it but many of the teachers and gards on the higher union protected wage are actually worse off financially than the newbies on the 30% less pay scale who owe no one nothing.

theyre middle class on paper alone. in reality theyre debt slaves. still theyve only themselves to blame and if their up and coming peers learn anything its to be fecking happy with what they got least they end up the same in 20yrs time.

CountyHurler

Infoanon wrote: »

Calling someone on national radio 'a thug' is irresponsible, can see a big pay out from this....

The thing I cant believe about that clown with the megaphone is that none of the other teachers present at that conference had the b*lls to approach him and tell him to stfu... They must have known how badly it would look for ALL teachers, and the fact that nobody would reprimand him made it seem like he had the full backing of everybody present.

The other thing I find confusing is why a PE teacher, who apparently runs his own private fitness business on the side, thinks that he should be dictating policy when it comes to education. He's a PE teacher .. either teach PE (inasmuch as it is a subject that requires any teaching) or choose a different profession.

Infoanon

CountyHurler wrote: »

The thing I cant believe about that clown with the megaphone is that none of the other teachers present at that conference had the b*lls to approach him and tell him to stfu... They must have known how badly it would look for ALL teachers, and the fact that nobody would reprimand him made it seem like he had the full backing of everybody present.

The other thing I find confusing is why a PE teacher, who apparently runs his own private fitness business on the side, thinks that he should be dictating policy when it comes to education. He's a PE teacher .. either teach PE (inasmuch as it is a subject that requires any teaching) or choose a different profession.

Still can't call him 'a thug' on national radio

Callan57

CountyHurler wrote: »

The thing I cant believe about that clown with the megaphone is that none of the other teachers present at that conference had the b*lls to approach him and tell him to stfu... They must have known how badly it would look for ALL teachers, and the fact that nobody would reprimand him made it seem like he had the full backing of everybody present.

The other thing I find confusing is why a PE teacher, who apparently runs his own private fitness business on the side, thinks that he should be dictating policy when it comes to education. He's a PE teacher .. either teach PE (inasmuch as it is a subject that requires any teaching) or choose a different profession.

Who else but a teacher would be able to conbine the two ... certainly not anyone on a normal private sector work schedule. My heart bleeds for him