Marian Finucane

Lapin

Aidric wrote: »

I didn't catch the name of the aviation expert on the Malaysian airlines discussion but he gave a very informative and neutral input.

There were two. Didn't catch their names either but one was a former Irish pilot and the other was an expert in avation terrorism from Greenwich uni.

Both gave a very impartial account of their opinions. It was good to hear the item being discussed without the speculation and hype that went on in other discussions covering the tragedy.

Aidric

Lapin wrote: »

There were two. Didn't catch their names either but one was a former Irish pilot and the other was an expert in avation terrorism from Greenwich uni.

Both gave a very impartial account of their opinions. It was good to hear the item being discussed without the speculation and hype that went on in other discussions covering the tragedy.

Ya exactly, there have been too many agendas in the coverage so far. I just listened back there. The contributors were Chris Bellamy (Defense and Security expert at the University of Greenwich) and Evan Cullen (President Pilots Association).

pixbyjohn

Lapin wrote: »

There were two. Didn't catch their names either but one was a former Irish pilot and the other was an expert in avation terrorism from Greenwich uni.

Both gave a very impartial account of their opinions. It was good to hear the item being discussed without the speculation and hype that went on in other discussions covering the tragedy.

Captain Evan Cullen was one of the guys on, he is a current Aer Lingus pilot and head of the Pilots Union>>>http://www.ialpa.net/contact-us/1-president.html

Raspberry Fileds

This month's issue of Village magazine has a piece on the Marian Finucane Show. It gives a breakdown of the professions of guests on the Sunday panel over a representative period and shows that they are overwhelmingly involved in media or are politicians. Lawyers also feautre regularly. The analysis is pretty rudimentary and I disagree with the general thrust of the piece ("Why is the man-on-street not represented?") but it may interest some.

Dan Jaman

Raspberry Fileds wrote: »

This month's issue of Village magazine has a piece on the Marian Finucane Show. It gives a breakdown of the professions of guests on the Sunday panel over a representative period and shows that they are overwhelmingly involved in media or are politicians. Lawyers also feautre regularly. The analysis is pretty rudimentary and I disagree with the general thrust of the piece ("Why is the man-on-street not represented?") but it may interest some.

The guests are invited from Marion's dinner-party circle.

Onthe3rdDay

Dan Jaman wrote: »

The guests are invited from Marion's dinner-party circle.

To be fair to Marion that's more the fault of the production staff. Small contact books and no real effort made. Marion is too busy during the week reading papers to be looking for guests as well.
Considering that the show has a producer, Series Producer, researchers and other staff you have to really wonder if they're all introverts, Scared to talk to new people so that's why the same one's keep popping up.
The only other possible excuse is they don't make much of an effort.

CountyHurler

"We are looking for the most disappointed Garth Brooks fan"...

This sounds more like the sort of nonsense that John Murray would engage in .. Interesting to hear that Garth Brooks apparently has no problem playing two shows a day in Chicago... Maybe he's burying himself in work to get over his "broken heart" after the collapse of the Irish shows.. :rolleyes:

dvcireland

".....i'm shameless....."

Roger_007

"DINver Colorado..." ??

touts

"You are lying through your teeth" Marion tells it as it is to Ireland's "most disappointed Garth Brooks fan"

signostic

First one in with "our granny died in the queue for GB tickets, people stepped over her and we had to leave her until we got our tickets but when we returned her body was missing, eventually we tracked her down and after all that we were so disappointing that the concerts were cancelled" wins

Roger_007

This is proof positive that there is a silly season......a very VERY silly season.!

CountyHurler

"Hi Marian, I lied to my family so that I could go to the Garth Brooks concert, and I feel RTE reward me for this"....

sudzs

I notice that all these disappointed fans are female... I am embarrassed for womankind.

dvcireland

sounds like Marion is back presenting Liveline

signostic

She was going 3 nights :eek:

Dan Jaman

dvcireland wrote: »

sounds like Marion is back presenting Liveline

It's like an old carthorse back in the harness.

Harry Angstrom

touts wrote: »

"You are lying through your teeth" Marion tells it as it is to Ireland's "most disappointed Garth Brooks fan"

I'd have nothing but contempt for that caller. I hope her American cousin happens to come across the podcast sometime.

CountyHurler

I think Maeve must not have heard the previous caller...

Welsh Megaman

Surely the most disappointed Garth Brooks fan will be Shane Filan? :pac:

CountyHurler

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Surely the most disappointed Garth Brooks fan will be Shane Filan? :pac:

Ah he's used to it.. Not the first fortune he's lost..

touts

Listening to this I am actually disappointed Garth Brooks has been cancelled. I mean when else will we get this collection of numptys together in one spot in the hope an asteroid would strike the stadium and increase the collective intelligence of the country.

Dan Jaman

Ah, all these broken dreams...
Instead of a Honda ad, it's more like Lada.

Roger_007

dvcireland wrote: »

sounds like Marion is back presenting Liveline

If often happens that people in their dotage start believing that they are back in a long gone phase of their lives.;)

Callan57

I wish these people who spend their time doing studies on this and studies on that would go get a real job

Spuds & butter .... Ah good something enjoyable I can finally eat :cool:

Harry Palmr

Podato? Its potato! (Sorry, just one of the many things that annoys me!)

Michael Mosley is one of my favourite tv scientists/boffins

Harry Angstrom

If the Japanese only eat good stuff for the most part, what do they die of?

Roger_007

The only thing that you can be sure of as far as diet is concerned is whatever is supposed to be good for you today will be bad for you in a year or two!

Dan Jaman

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

If the Japanese only eat good stuff for the most part, what do they die of?

Time.

Harry Palmr

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

If the Japanese only eat good stuff for the most part, what do they die of?

A long blade to the stomach while dressed in ritual clothing so I hear!

Harry Angstrom

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Time.

There's not much difference between life expectancy in Japan and life expectancy in Ireland.....

Harry Angstrom

Harry Palmr wrote: »

A long blade to the stomach while dressed in ritual clothing so I hear!

We need a Harry Kiri, Harry.

Callan57

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

If the Japanese only eat good stuff for the most part, what do they die of?

Boredom ?????

sudzs

Tatoos.... I don't believe a word of it! :mad:

Roger_007

Is this a competition to find the biggest eejit in Ireland, (or anywhere else)?

CountyHurler

The first prize for this competition should be .... A BIT OF F**KING PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE....

Oops69

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

If the Japanese only eat good stuff for the most part, what do they die of?

Believe it or not but Japan has the highest rate of stomach cancer in the world , but they have a decent health service so they have high survival rate .

Oops69

touts wrote: »

Listening to this I am actually disappointed Garth Brooks has been cancelled. I mean when else will we get this collection of numptys together in one spot in the hope an asteroid would strike the stadium and increase the collective intelligence of the country.

And mo more longford or Laois accents to listen to any more !

Onthe3rdDay

Yet another very lazy show from Marion and Co. Please tell me that the researchers and Producer work on other shows during the week, because if they don't it's pretty scandalous what they get away with on a week to week basis. There seemed to be only two items that any real research was done. Tomorrow doesn't really count as work as Marion and the chosen few will read stories from the papers for a hour.

I was going to fill out another two paragraphs on this post but it's the summer and sure nothing at all happens in the summer anywhere.

So here are some lyrics from a Garth Brooks song...

You know a dream is like a river
Ever changin' as it flows
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes....

Oops69

Poor news reader , one of Marion's frogs escaped from her throat

CountyHurler

There's a few documentaries about Israel on the youtube. I watched a couple of them during the week but amn't much the wiser.. This is one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X4JCPckWgY

I hope we're not gonna spend the whole show on Israel...

Roger_007

I don't think Colm O'Gorman is much of an asset to Amnesty. He always come across as a pretentious git !

CountyHurler

Roger_007 wrote: »

I don't think Colm O'Gorman is much of an asset to Amnesty. He always come across as a pretentious git !

He gives me a pain in my a$$... He gives out about everything, but never suggests any way to resolve any of the problems.... He wants Blair and Bush arrested for war crimes, and would most likely now be complaining that the west did nothing about Saddam Hussein if they had left him in place... It's easy to sit on the fence and say how bad things are in those countries, but there are no easy solutions in countries like Syria and it's not necessarily easy to define good who the guys and bad guys are..

CountyHurler

It's a bit lousy to leave those people another week before telling them who won the Garth Brooks tickets...

I can hear Marian already packing her suitcase and getting ready to head to the airport..

Callan57

CountyHurler wrote: »

It's a bit lousy to leave those people another week before telling them who won the Garth Brooks tickets...

I can hear Marian already packing her suitcase and getting ready to head to the airport..

Very mean - I don't know whether to pack or unpack

CountyHurler

Callan57 wrote: »

Very mean - I don't know whether to pack or unpack

Some of the people were just eegits... "oh I queued for forty two hours Marian, and I was absolutely devastated"... and you wouldnt really care about them waiting another week.. But there was one woman who had lost her friend in a car accident, as was ill (with what sounded like cancer from her allusions)... I'm sure that if she is to be the winner the more weeks she has to make whatever preparations she needs the better.. No need to keep her waiting another week..

It was a dull show today... 50 mins on Israel, 5 mins on Irish health system, and the last 50 mins on plane crashes and Russian gas..

CountyHurler

Program about MH17 on right now (1pm) on TV3 if anybody is interested.... I'm hoping TV3 bring the same insight that they brought to that other documentary the other week "The Man Who Married A Tree"...

Callan57

You'd have to wonder how much disappointment the average Garth fan can take before they implode. No doubt Maureen Gaffney can produce one of her "a study shows" insiteful, useless but loaded with gravitas statements on it.

Lapin

CountyHurler wrote: »

Program about MH17 on right now (1pm) on TV3 if anybody is interested....

Feck, meant to watch that.

Any good ?

CountyHurler

Lapin wrote: »

Feck, meant to watch that. Any good ?

Hey Lapin, nah.. it wasnt great... only a half hour long.. Really just the bullet points of the incident.. The last 15 minutes was just pictures of the families laying flowers, messages on social media... Didn't really learn anything new.. I recorded it but I wouldnt be bothered watching it again..

What did you make of what Constantin Gurdgiev said yesterday on with Marian?