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Technocentral · 13-08-2019 10:27am

Oh no thought she was left behind at RTE!!

whisky_galore · 13-08-2019 10:35am

Who's the dope having a poetry orgasm about a train journey now?

Technocentral · 13-08-2019 10:39am

whisky_galore wrote: »

Who's the dope having a poetry orgasm about a train journey now?

She used to be on his RTE show.

Odyssey 2005 · 13-08-2019 10:58am

Didn't realise he was back till I read the thread just now. Thank fook. That yoke on rte is unbearable

Duggie2012 · 13-08-2019 11:01am

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Didn't realise he was back till I read the thread just now. Thank fook. That yoke on rte is unbearable

who?

zell12 · 13-08-2019 11:05am

Marie Louise O'Donnell

She's like the female version of Michael D.
I found her piece on the Limerick-Galway railway enjoyable though - "the granite crochet walls", "the ugly architecture" were apt descriptions

Odyssey 2005 · 13-08-2019 11:10am

Duggie2012 wrote: »

who?

O'callaghan

Duggie2012 · 13-08-2019 11:13am

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

O'callaghan

oh right, havent been listening.

serfboard · 13-08-2019 1:25pm

Technocentral wrote: »

Oh no thought she was left behind at RTE!!

It's funny, Pat used to have MLOD on his show on RTE. Sean O'Rourke inherited her without much enthusiasm it seemed to me.

Now she's on Pat's show on Newstalk. I can't imagine that anyone on the production team there wanted her on, so I can only conclude that she is on at Pat's request.

kneemos · 13-08-2019 1:27pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Who's the dope having a poetry orgasm about a train journey now?

That's her shtick, everything is magnificent.

Gets old after twenty seconds.

serfboard · 13-08-2019 1:42pm

kneemos wrote: »

That's her shtick, everything is magnificent.

Of course you'd think like that when you're on a gravy "train" (;)) like she is.

Getting paid to go on a jolly to Galway? Sure that is magnificient!

QueensGael · 13-08-2019 1:47pm

Ah Jayz, not MLOD. Her exuberance at the banal is too much. The Callan version of her is spot on though!

13-08-2019 1:56pm

QueensGael wrote: »

Ah Jayz, not MLOD. Her exuberance at the banal is too much. The Callan version of her is spot on though!

"I once milked a fox!"

Callan57 · 13-08-2019 3:23pm

kneemos wrote: »

That's her shtick, everything is magnificent.

Gets old after twenty seconds.

A little of MLOD goes a long, long way but she knows how to "milk" the gravy train for sure.

BarryM · 14-08-2019 7:20am

Now that PK is back from his holliers, maybe we can desist from the brain dead comments on the personalities?

Beechwoodspark · 14-08-2019 8:47am

Regarding MLOD I’d say her expenses are interesting reading

Tell me how · 14-08-2019 9:37am

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Regarding MLOD I’d say her expenses are interesting reading

Why would you say that?

Stirring things or evidence based?

brooke 2 · 14-08-2019 11:25pm

zell12 wrote: »

Marie Louise O'Donnell

She's like the female version of Michael D.
I found her piece on the Limerick-Galway railway enjoyable though - "the granite crochet walls", "the ugly architecture" were apt descriptions

Ardra-HAN, Croosheen (Crusheen) :rolleyes:

If she is going to list off the names of places, she could try to pronounce them properly!

whisky_galore · 15-08-2019 12:22am

brooke 2 wrote: »

Ardra-HAN, Croosheen (Crusheen) :rolleyes:

If she is going to list off the names of places, she could try to pronounce them properly!

It's art dahling. She's interpreting the placenames.

She's some spacer.

15-08-2019 10:18am

I know it's been mentioned before but the phone lines used by Newstalk are a disgrace !!

Technocentral · 15-08-2019 10:56am

Book Clubs are so early 2000s bourgeois.

It wasnt me123 · 15-08-2019 11:26am

I missed the name of the book they were discussing - did anyone get it?

15-08-2019 1:17pm

It wasnt me123 wrote: »

I missed the name of the book they were discussing - did anyone get it?

It was called "Men are Baaaaaad" lol

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BarryM · 16-08-2019 6:59am

5555555555 wrote: »

I know it's been mentioned before but the phone lines used by Newstalk are a disgrace !!

To be fair, NT are at the mercy of the local environment of the call.

I very much doubt if their telecoms supplier lays on specific facilities, so they just have the number of lines they pay for and data connections, etc. All 'digital' i.e their exchange, like all the others, handles calls as 1s and 0s. However, the quality of the other end of the call is a lottery. We are all familiar with dropout, especially on a mobile phone.

Tell me how · 16-08-2019 7:04am

BarryM wrote: »

To be fair, NT are at the mercy of the local environment of the call.

I very much doubt if their telecoms supplier lays on specific facilities, so they just have the number of lines they pay for and data connections, etc. All 'digital' i.e their exchange, like all the others, handles calls as 1s and 0s. However, the quality of the other end of the call is a lottery. We are all familiar with dropout, especially on a mobile phone.

Yeah but if you were making a call to a national radio broadcaster your try to get to a place with good reception or use a landline. It happens too frequently to be excusable, they're seems to be an acceptance amongst the sound engineering staff that it's ok but I don't know if it happens as much on RTE for example.

Pat himself has commented on it.

I remember listening to a podcast on NT and it was recorded in a room/studio in which the door was constantly being opened. Every time it was, you could hear ambient sounds from outside the room and then hear it swing and close shut. 55 minutes that podcast was and it lasted the whole way through it. Drove me nuts.

jeremyj1968 · 16-08-2019 10:13am

Would it not have been a good idea of the Data Protection Commissioner to contact the other department when this card was mooted.

Or was it better for Helen Dixon to knowingly let them set up the card so that they could have their big victory today?

kneemos · 16-08-2019 10:20am

It's a godsend in fairness. Rather than hunting for your birth cert, something with your PPS number etc, you can just hand them your card.
These civil liberties crowd are a dose.

BillyBird · 16-08-2019 10:21am

jeremyj1968 wrote: »

Would it not have been a good idea of the Data Protection Commissioner to contact the other department when this card was mooted.

Or was it better for Helen Dixon to knowingly let them set up the card so that they could have their big victory today?

People involved in data protection have been going on about this since it was introduced/since it started to slide into other departments. It's not a big surprise that the Commissioner sprung on the departments.

Also it is not the Data Protection Comissioner's job to act as a Data Protection consultant to every government department, the Comissioner's role is outlined in legislation.

That the government departments went at this half cocked is 100% at their doorstep. Too easy for people to blame the Comissioner for doing her job while ignoring the incompetence for the departments involved.

Callan57 · 16-08-2019 10:33am

kneemos wrote: »

It's a godsend in fairness. Rather than hunting for your birth cert, something with your PPS number etc, you can just hand them your card.
These civil liberties crowd are a dose.

Why is it that the same people who get all hot and bothered about the PPS card have no problem giving their entire life & the lives of their children to the likes of Facebook etc :rolleyes:

serfboard · 16-08-2019 2:31pm

Callan57 wrote: »

Why is it that the same people who get all hot and bothered about the PPS card have no problem giving their entire life & the lives of their children to the likes of Facebook etc :rolleyes:

While I take your point, have you considered that there are people who are "hot and bothered about the PPS card" and who are not on Facebook et al for the same reasons?

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