Marian Finucane

lempsipmax

He is STILL going on about it. Why? What is his agenda? Bringing in the gender issue now.

lempsipmax

'What was the break-down in terms of messages of congratulations and messages of you woz robbed'?

Bird is a bird brain.

telekon

Besides Charlie's tabloid gutter journalism, Burton is coming off quite well here. Needless to say Charlie is not.

Birdsong

telekon wrote: »

Besides Charlie's tabloid gutter journalism, Burton is coming off quite well here. Needless to say Charlie is not.

yea, I think she is coming accross quite well, Charlie is just a bad interviewer

Cole

I only listened to the first part of the Burton interview.....you know, the part where Charlie was desperately trying to get her to say how p1ssed off she was about not getting a finance brief and Joan, equally desperately, trying to talk about anything other than that........any post is an honour blah, blah, blah.

It was hilarious. My favourite part was where she talked about taking the bus from Blanchardstown into the Dail last week and "being with her people" on the bus.:rolleyes:

Lapin

Helen Lucy Burke to Charlie Bird about promoting Dublin Tourism.

"Paris, I'm sure you've been there yourself".

"Abbey Theatre, I'm sure you've been there yourself".

"Marsh's Library, I'm sure you've been there yourself".

"Gravediggers Pub, I'm sure you've been there yourself".

Charlie banging his head off wall, "I'm sure you've been there yourself".

I know Charlie gets around, but Jebus missus, Enough with the feckin presumptions,

Aidric

Lapin wrote: »

"Paris, I'm sure you've been there yourself".

"Abbey Theatre, I'm sure you've been there yourself".

"Marsh's Library, I'm sure you've been there yourself".

"Gravediggers Pub, I'm sure you've been there yourself".

Charlie banging his head off wall, "I'm sure you've been there yourself".

Ha, don't know why but your post reminded me of the Easter masses.

St Nicholas, pray for us

John The Baptist, pray for us

St Jude, pray for us

Mary Immaculate, pray for us

Charlie Bird, pray for us :eek:

FlutterinBantam

Cole wrote: »

I only listened to the first part of the Burton interview.....you know, the part where Charlie was desperately trying to get her to say how p1ssed off she was about not getting a finance brief and Joan, equally desperately, trying to talk about anything other than that........any post is an honour blah, blah, blah.

It was hilarious. My favourite part was where she talked about taking the bus from Blanchardstown into the Dail last week and "being with her people" on the bus.:rolleyes:

So anyone who does not travel by bus is 'not her people'

Lemme say a few things, this new Govt. better wise up pretty rapido that everybody who pays taxes is 'their people'

Labour will be under pressure from Higgins ,Daly and the Red lefties to be 'more red' and this kind of crap will do them, if they succumb.

The lefties will spout all kinds of rhetoric, confident that nobody even dreams that they will have to put their rubbish to the test.

Free "everything" for "everyone" , don't bother helping yourself, just leave school at 14 and expect the state to support you.

Heh heh and the assholes actually believe that that system will work.

Cole

Did you hear Sam Smyth in the first hour today? All about Lowry/tribunal.

Nothing much new, but a few anecdotes about Lowry which really reaffirmed the shyster reputation.

constitutionus

best show she's done in ages.

i may be wrong but i dont think there was and ad in that whole hour !

the digging out the re enactments from way back when of the tribunal was a stroke of genius and really added to the show. i thought she handeld the subject far better than pat "sorry i had to say that dennis" kenny did during the week.

more stuff like this and she might be on her way to earning her wages .

Cole

constitutionus wrote: »

i may be wrong but i dont think there was and ad in that whole hour !

There was, just before she played some of the re-enactments.....I'm a stickler for detail me.;)

It was a good show alright, just hope she can start to breathe a bit of life back into the Sunday show now.

FlutterinBantam

constitutionus wrote: »

best show she's done in ages.

i may be wrong but i dont think there was and ad in that whole hour !

the digging out the re enactments from way back when of the tribunal was a stroke of genius and really added to the show. i thought she handeld the subject far better than pat "sorry i had to say that dennis" kenny did during the week.

more stuff like this and she might be on her way to earning her wages .

Not even close:rolleyes:

JonathanAnon

Was listening to Marian yesterday with Pat Cox, and then today supping tea with Alan Dukes and John Lonergan... I find it completely ironic that she is giving out about what "Europe has done to US", and "have WE not taken enough austerity", "WE cant take any more"..

Even if we didnt have to bail out the banks, there would still be an Exchequer deficit of 19 Billion... or if you want to take it on a more micro level RTE are set to post losses of 25 Million for 2010... Marian taking 600k out of RTE for four hours a week is criminal, and still she pontificates about "what Europe has done to US".. At some stage Marian should look in the mirror and see that whether it is the blame of the RTE head staff for paying her 600k, or her own fault for being greedy, she IS part of the problem..

FlutterinBantam

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Was listening to Marian yesterday with Pat Cox, and then today supping tea with Alan Dukes and John Lonergan... I find it completely ironic that she is giving out about what "Europe has done to US", and "have WE not taken enough austerity", "WE cant take any more"..

Even if we didnt have to bail out the banks, there would still be an Exchequer deficit of 19 Billion... or if you want to take it on a more micro level RTE are set to post losses of 25 Million for 2010... Marian taking 600k out of RTE for four hours a week is criminal, and still she pontificates about "what Europe has done to US".. At some stage Marian should look in the mirror and see that whether it is the blame of the RTE head staff for paying her 600k, or her own fault for being greedy, she IS part of the problem..

Yes heard a bit of that. Lonergan saying everyone is inherently good, and Dukes talking in his usual staccato way and pronouncing 'money' as 'munny'

Soon as I heard that, I thumbed the off button.


On your second point of course you are right, how do they get away with it?

DublinWriter

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Marian taking 600k out of RTE for four hours a week is criminal, and still she pontificates about "what Europe has done to US".. At some stage Marian should look in the mirror and see that whether it is the blame of the RTE head staff for paying her 600k, or her own fault for being greedy, she IS part of the problem..

It's called capitalism.

I don't blame Finucane, as a business-woman fair play to her for squeezing the pips in RTE.

I blame the board of directors of RTE for not having much business sense and allowing Finucane, Tubridy, et al to be able to rail-road them at contract negotiation time.

FlutterinBantam

DublinWriter wrote: »

It's called capitalism.

I don't blame Finucane, as a business-woman fair play to her for squeezing the pips in RTE.

I blame the board of directors of RTE for not having much business sense and allowing Finucane, Tubridy, et al to be able to rail-road them at contract negotiation time.

That ain't capitalism bro. Nepotism, Autism,Stupidism, maybe.

But while RTE is subsidised heavily by J.Q Taxpayer ,capitalism it aint:cool:

edwinkane

It's hardly the employee's fault if the employer calls them in and tells them they want to increase their renumeration to €600k+ per annum.

The fault is RTE management for spending the licence payers money in this way, and ultimately the fault of the government who allows rte to spend the licence fee payers money in this way.

I used to listen to Marian Finucane but no longer do as the quality of her program has declined and there are other shows on at the same time now which are usually more interesting.

FlutterinBantam

edwinkane wrote: »

It's hardly the employee's fault if the employer calls them in and tells them they want to increase their renumeration to €600k+ per annum.

The fault is RTE management for spending the licence payers money in this way, and ultimately the fault of the government who allows rte to spend the licence fee payers money in this way.

I used to listen to Marian Finucane but no longer do as the quality of her program has declined and there are other shows on at the same time now which are usually more interesting.

You make a series of excellent points there.

bureau2009

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Was listening to Marian yesterday with Pat Cox, and then today supping tea with Alan Dukes and John Lonergan... I find it completely ironic that she is giving out about what "Europe has done to US", and "have WE not taken enough austerity", "WE cant take any more"..

Even if we didnt have to bail out the banks, there would still be an Exchequer deficit of 19 Billion... or if you want to take it on a more micro level RTE are set to post losses of 25 Million for 2010... Marian taking 600k out of RTE for four hours a week is criminal, and still she pontificates about "what Europe has done to US".. At some stage Marian should look in the mirror and see that whether it is the blame of the RTE head staff for paying her 600k, or her own fault for being greedy, she IS part of the problem..

I think you've hit the nail on the head there Jonathan Anon.

I have VERY STRONG FEELINGS about the OBSCENITY of Ms Finucane's remuneration and I believe the Board of Directors in RTE should call an emergency meeting to review in detail all aspects relating to it. It is BEYOND scandalous and is STILL ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.................

Corsendonk

I remember hearing her waffle live on air to the ex-editor of the Sunday Tribune about how her show was kinda like how the Tribune prepared an edition, she had to prep from Tuesday to latenight friday for her weekend shows. I nearly had a Lowry-Mary Lou moment.

mike65

Struggling to wade through her sticky platitudes this morning.

JonathanAnon

"There's a picture of.. the man who was convicted... eh .. Wayne Rooney... eh I beg your pardon, no it's not Wayne Rooney.. Wayne O'Donoghue "

bizarre mistake for her to make I thought.. You think that she would have been sure of a name before airing it, never mind mixing up the probably the most famous footballer in the world with an Irish lad charged with manslaughter...

That Gavin Titley guy is extremely sharp.. Thought he was excellent on VB Show, and he's even better on radio.. He just needs to slow down a small bit I would think..

constitutionus

clowns without boarders.

im not making this up.

jesus wept.

mike65

I like the idea but its a classic Finucane number isn't it? "won't someone think of the children?" touchy feely guff.


http://clownswithoutborders.org/

Lapin

constitutionus wrote: »

clowns without boarders.

im not making this up.

jesus wept.

Absolute rubbish programme today. Especially after the first hour was taken up with a chat about performing Riverdance for the Queen of England.

This kind of shíte would be more at home on the Mooney show.

It really is hard to justify how Finucane gets paid €50 a minute for this crap.

JonathanAnon

Yeah, half an hour hero spent worshiping Bill Whelan.. A story told 1000 times before .. "we never knew people Riverdance would be a hit", "when people go to China, all the Chinese know about Ireland is Riverdance".. Well except now maybe they have heard we're all dancing to Europe's tune.

Really didnt like that property section. Smug lad from Galway says he could have flipped the apartment he bought in a couple of days and made a profit... Have we learned NOTHING...

Blobby George

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Yeah, half an hour hero spent worshiping Bill Whelan.. A story told 1000 times before .. "we never knew people Riverdance would be a hit", "when people go to China, all the Chinese know about Ireland is Riverdance".. Well except now maybe they have heard we're all dancing to Europe's tune.

Really didnt like that property section. Smug lad from Galway says he could have flipped the apartment he bought in a couple of days and made a profit... Have we learned NOTHING...

Good post Flutt. Fully agree.

FlutterinBantam

Blobby George wrote: »

Good post Flutt. Fully agree.

Off the mark Blobby....as usual;)

JonathanAnon

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Off the mark Blobby....as usual;)

I didnt even bother indulging him Flut, if he looked back at previous threads he would have noticed us at each other's throats, so not sure how he can make out we are the one poster.

Blobby George

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I didnt even bother indulging him Flut, if he looked back at previous threads he would have noticed us at each other's throats, so not sure how he can make out we are the one poster.

Ah, you must have read that on page 1 of trolling for dummies under the heading 'throw em off the scent'. The game is up 'lads'.

LordSutch

Lapin wrote: »

Absolute rubbish programme today. Especially after the first hour was taken up with a chat about performing Riverdance for the Queen of England.

She never misses an opportunity to have a snide remark about the 'Queen of England' (as she calls her) and several months ago when Terry Wogan was visiting these shores and she interviewed him 'In Studio' (as she put it) with snide questions like "So have you never had any reservations about taking the Queens shilling" . . . or some such guff to that effect :cool:

She is truly awful, & I think its high time she retired.

giftgrub

Its a special on mutton and its uses today. In studio....Twink!!
For the love of god....

Harry Angstrom

A This Is Your Life for Twink. Jaysus, the words bottom, scraping and barrel are coming to mind.

Is it just me or is Twink talking posher with every year that passes?

mike65

She is, Pat Kenny on the other hand is distinctly less posh - I heard a clip of him from 1984 (Reagan in Tipperary) yesterday and he was in full 1950s dinner jacket mode

giftgrub

This is the type of irish luvvie Mareen Potter b***ocksology that makes me want to pull my heart out through my foot. I'm off to smash the radio in. Good Day.

telekon

Whats she plugging this time?...."Nepotism: The Musical"? :rolleyes:

JonathanAnon

I was screaming at the radio earlier... Finucane. They were discussing this article:

Public sector elite enjoy pay splurge

A 'GOLDEN Circle' of 66 elite public servants are being paid more than the Taoiseach's salary of €228,466, with many getting over €500,000 a year, the Sunday Independent can reveal. This is in spite of the country's economic demise and the arrival of the IMF.

how can Finucane sit there in judgement of these people, and call for cuts in their wages.. when her wages far exceed most of the people they are discussing.. How does she get away with this??? They must have complete censorship of the texts they receive..

JonathanAnon

And why dont they use that fingerprinting system in the social welfare offices to distinguish whether a person is who they say they are... Civil Liberties groups no doubt would be up in arms, but would it not be reasonable to say okay you have two choices...
a) no dole and we wont infringe your civil rights by asking you for your fingerprint
or
b) you get dole, but you must give your fingerprint to prove who you are..

I dont think it's too much to ask..

constitutionus

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was screaming at the radio earlier... Finucane. They were discussing this article:

Public sector elite enjoy pay splurge



how can Finucane sit there in judgement of these people, and call for cuts in their wages.. when her wages far exceed most of the people they are discussing.. How does she get away with this??? They must have complete censorship of the texts they receive..

same way joe duffy does man.

shame and montrose have NEVER met.

bob50

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was screaming at the radio earlier... Finucane. They were discussing this article:

Public sector elite enjoy pay splurge



how can Finucane sit there in judgement of these people, and call for cuts in their wages.. when her wages far exceed most of the people they are discussing.. How does she get away with this??? They must have complete censorship of the texts they receive..

Couldnt agree more what a waste of money she really is

also agree on negative texts in their eyes are all deleted

DublinWriter

Saturday was a new low and I've just gone click on the show for good.

The programme has gone steadily downhill which I suspect is more to do with the producer than Finucane herself. For the past 12 months it's been a constant procession of economic punditary, media rent-a-gobs and of course, Marianne herself becoming increasingly hysterical and bronchial in equal measures as repeats her question-cum-mantra "But what CAN we DO?"

Welsh Megaman

"Happy birthday Twink, Linda Martin here, I...''

"Sorry to interrupt you Linda, but we have to pause for the 12 o'clock news.''

*muffled sounds of Marian hitting her researcher*

DublinWriter

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

"Happy birthday Twink, Linda Martin here, I...''

"Sorry to interrupt you Linda, but we have to pause for the 12 o'clock news.''

Linda Martin being interrupted in her congratulations of Twink in order to play the angelus...I'm surprised half of Montrose didn't instantly disappear in a banality-singularity.

JonathanAnon

Getting sick of that Thomas Byrne lad's half arsed attempts at assigning the barest minimum of blame to Fianna Fáil.. And phrases like "Fianna Fáil have done well in the Seanad elections" really make my blood boil... They get decimated in the election by the democratic vote, yet they can still get their own people into power and subverting democracy by getting their own little lobby groups to vote for their members..

Enda really needs to push this Seanad abolition motion through quickly, or people are gonna think that nothing has changed..

Oracle

It's a well kept secret that Marion doesn't actually travel to Montrose to do the show at all. She is in fact sitting at home having a fag and a drink. She hosts the show remotely by using a mobile phone and a remote control device which she presses periodically. The buttons on the remote control device are marked as follows ...

1) WIHTBS ("Well it has to be said .... ")
2) Yeah (short "Yeah")
3) Yeeeeaaahhh ..... (long "Yeah" with pause)
4) WYHY ("Whatever you're having yourself ..... ")
5) Right ("RighT" emphasis on the T)
6) SO ( "Steady on ... " for emergency guest control)

JonathanAnon

Dont forget

7) "Uncle Tom Cobbley"
8) "Since God was a child"

bob50

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Getting sick of that Thomas Byrne lad's half arsed attempts at assigning the barest minimum of blame to Fianna Fáil.. And phrases like "Fianna Fáil have done well in the Seanad elections" really make my blood boil... They get decimated in the election by the democratic vote, yet they can still get their own people into power and subverting democracy by getting their own little lobby groups to vote for their members..

Enda really needs to push this Seanad abolition motion through quickly, or people are gonna think that nothing has changed..

Yeah with their selective memory FF are a insult to democracy

Sooner the the better Enda get rid rid of this albatross

FlutterinBantam

Pissing off to the States for a few weeks for some 'filming'....:eek:

Rebelheart

LordSutch wrote: »

She never misses an opportunity to have a snide remark about the 'Queen of England' (as she calls her) and several months ago when Terry Wogan was visiting these shores and she interviewed him 'In Studio' (as she put it) with snide questions like "So have you never had any reservations about taking the Queens shilling"

As regular as clockwork you post in order to make some British nationalist point. :rolleyes: Anyway, what is wrong with calling the Queen of England the, em, Queen of England? Tell us: what should non-British people call her?

jimmyw

Another week without her.Where is she now?Might be better for her to take it easy and give the gig to Charlie full time.I did notice with a while she was coughing a bit more than usual.Fags might have finally caught up with her.


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