Marian Finucane

CountyHurler

I still dont understand why she brings five guests in to studio and barely talks to them for the hour.. You can be sure that at least half of them will be gone after noon...

Oops69

CountyHurler wrote: »

I still dont understand why she brings five guests in to studio and barely talks to them for the hour.. You can be sure that at least half of them will be gone after noon...

and they're being paid !!!

Lapin

CountyHurler wrote: »

I still dont understand why she brings five guests in to studio and barely talks to them for the hour.. You can be sure that at least half of them will be gone after noon...

And one of them is usually just off a plane or has a plane to catch.

Almost every week.

CountyHurler

Marian, if it's the week when you had Mary Hanafin and Mary O'Rourke on the panel, I'll throw the bomb in to the studio myself..

Wow after 4 years this thread is still running ? 288 posts ?

CountyHurler

Researchers googling like mad to prove this man wrong..

Dan Jaman

CountyHurler wrote: »

I still dont understand why she brings five guests in to studio and barely talks to them for the hour.. You can be sure that at least half of them will be gone after noon...

I don't think Ebola works quite that quickly.

Lapin

Why the discussion on crappy US Presidents?

Is there a book out?

If so, expect George Hook to continue on this topic for a fortnight.

CountyHurler

Nixon certainly did a lot of underhand things and had a huge chip on his shoulder.. But he was a very impressive man in other ways.. He helped to pull the troops out of Vietnam, tried to make peace with the Russians and the Chinese.... I really like his final speech to White House staff..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfNjpHAMy2E

Oops69

Did myles read his ' compendium of American presidents ' last night , total lack of objectivity , and does he call himself a journalist ?

Lapin

I think history will show 'Baroque' Obama up as one of the most inept, indecisive and useless people ever to sit in the oval office.

But hey, at least he has one lasting legacy to look back on.



A service station on the M7.

Callan57

Oops69 wrote: »

Did myles read his ' compendium of American presidents ' last night , total lack of objectivity , and does he call himself a journalist ?

Worse he considers himself a "historian" :rolleyes:

Lapin

Does Marian have a problem with the starvation of a million people on this island being referred to as 'The Great Famine' ?

Callan57

I'm made very, very uneasy with all this glorification of war ... reminds me very much of what was going on prior to WW1

Oops69

'Great' means ' largest ' in this context Marion , I thought she spent the whole friggin week ' researching ' .

Dan Jaman

Oops69 wrote: »

'Great' means ' largest ' in this context Marion , I thought she spent the whole friggin week ' researching ' .

Exactly so. It's surprising the number who don't know that. It's a measure of how much of a legacy it left on various national psyches that it was called that subsequently, and also an indication of how meanings shift. I blame the DJs - everything from Tony Blackburn on was Great, Fantastic, Marvellous.
Oh, Oh, Oh, What a Lovely War.

Lapin

Damn - If Myles broke out in poetry about 30 seconds earlier I would have won the euro bet I had with herself.

serfboard

Lapin wrote: »

I think history will show 'Baroque' Obama up as one of the most inept, indecisive and useless people ever to sit in the oval office.

The many poor Americans, who now have health insurance, and who can now go to the doctor for the first time in years, wouldn't agree with you.

honeybear

I listened to the podcast on American Presidents last night. I'm not a fan of Myles Dungan and his contribution on this subject reflected why I don't like listening to him. Unlike the other participants he was very one-sided with his comments. There was a female contributor and she was great at ensuring it was a more measured discussion, e.g. if someone suggested x was a bad President, she referred to the economic conditions etc. Even Marion was trying to look at the pros and cons of suggested Presidents.

CountyHurler

Raspberry Fileds wrote: »

"One of the things, a point was made by a guest on the programme a couple of weeks ago, that when The Wall came down, you know, and compared it to what had happened after the Second World War where there was the Marshall Plan and all that, but when The Wall came down and people said, "Well there you go…Communism was a disaster" - mind you, since then, we know Capitalism isn't that brilliant either, but that's another day's story - and that, you know, by Europe cosying up to Ukraine and by expanding Nato and all of that, it was kind of like rubbing the Russians' in general, but most particularly, Vladamir Putin's nose in it, and that he also has to, as it were, defend Russian pride and dignity."

^ I think she's outdone the above with her intro this morning.. She nearly needed to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find her way back to the original question she was supposed to be asking.

dvcireland

I wonder if Richard will review this book:

CountyHurler

We had Mary Hanafin's re-election campaign launched by RTE on the Marian Finucane show a while back... Is this RTE helping to start the re-election campaign for Conor Lenihan now as well?

constitutionus

jays i bet life in russia is Sooooooo different to life in FF !

michael999999

So Conor is now working in a place full of corruption, blackmail fraud and deceit.

Must be just like being in Fianna fail!

signostic

C`mon Marian ask the the question " Conor, are you going to stand at the next election?"

constitutionus

ya know who's buttering his bread with those comments on the crimea !

Marcusm

CountyHurler wrote: »

^ I think she's outdone the above with her intro this morning.. She nearly needed to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find her way back to the original question she was supposed to be asking.

Surely the truly shock g thing is that there were only two "you know"s, you know?

CountyHurler

Conor, ye were in Government for 14 years and did nothing to reform, cos it suited yerselves... you can F**k off with your talk of reform... Come on Marian, are you not gonna challenge him on this?

constitutionus

its fupping mad.

its like the bloke hasnt a bulls notion his party of choice was running things for the MAJORITY of the countrys existance.

the reason weve hospitals in the middle of nowhere serving fup all is because your lot needed to buy votes off the jackie healy raes of the world.

god what a tosser.

michael999999

Its all the publics fault!

CountyHurler

michael999999

I think I'm going to vomit!

signostic

Good ole Conor losing it in VB

constitutionus

only two texts sent in...

... yeah right marion !

Callan57

I hate the way people throw the word "extraordinary" about ... it's getting like "absolutely" a few years ago

constitutionus

how, in the name of god, is this relevent to ANYONE ?

Celo player FFS.

CountyHurler

"When it came to anything physically taxing for my right arm, I couldnt do it"..

:eek:

Oops69

Watch Marion hamming up her posh accent and dropping composers names for Julian

constitutionus

poor family.

da's a music teacher and so's the ma.

jesus wept.

CountyHurler

Oops69 wrote: »

Watch Marion hamming up her posh accent and dropping composers names for Julian

Ah yes, Charlie Kelly syndrome... when you talk high fellutin in the presence of a person from a superior social class..

Oops69

That's why empathy and sympathy are two separate words Marion.

sudzs

She did not come back from the dead... she wasn't dead! :rolleyes:

Callan57

Let a 5yr old off with a total stranger -are these people for real?

IvyTheTerrible

Callan57 wrote: »

Let a 5yr old off with a total stranger -are these people for real?

I've seen it a fair bit on internal Air France flights here. Children of divorced parents travelling to the other parent, often.

CountyHurler

Marian is a northsider.. In the same way that the President is a northsider.

Callan57

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

I've seen it a fair bit on internal Air France flights here. Children of divorced parents travelling to the other parent, often.

Imagine a 5yr old on their own on a plane during an emergency...... Good job I don't have kids I guess

IvyTheTerrible

Callan57 wrote: »

Imagine a 5yr old on their own on a plane during an emergency...... Good job I don't have kids I guess

Yeah I know. On Air France they have one staff member (separate to the actual crew) who looks after 2 or 3 kids. They are all seated together, with a little flag thing signalling where they are sitting.

serfboard

constitutionus wrote: »

its like the bloke hasnt a bulls notion

Agree.

CountyHurler

Could you make any more noise with the papers?

Lapin

John Bruton is very vocal these days, (speaking this time 'in New York, or somewhere in the states').

Is there a book coming out or a plum job vacancy on the horizon?