Sean O'Rourke Today Show

Mark Oxford

Yakuza wrote: »

Tuned in to RTE for the first time in a while at this time of the day. To be greeted by the dulcet tones of Mary Hanafin pontificating about the the current government's mistakes. Has she forgotten about the train wreck of an adminstration that she participated in??? I bloody haven't, that's for sure.

I wouldn't really blame her, I'd blame the electorate who voted her back in.

endas donkey

Hanafin has selective amnesia all of a sudden.

Oops69

endas donkey wrote: »

Hanafin has selective amnesia all of a sudden.

Bet she doesn't forget to collect her pension though

Roger_007

Mark Oxford wrote: »

I wouldn't really blame her, I'd blame the electorate who voted her back in.

Irish people haven't yet made the connection between the mark they put on the ballot paper and who ends up running the country. They vote for any old Del-boy/girl or cute hoor and then wonder why the inevitable happens......a sh1te government made up of Del-boys and cute hoors.

Callan57

Oops69 wrote: »

Bet she doesn't forget to collect her pension though

That's pensions (in the plural) - what a generous nation we are

michael999999

Oops69 wrote: »

Bet she doesn't forget to collect her pension though

All four!

signostic

Pavee pt on line 2

Callan57

signostic wrote: »

Pavee pt on line 2

Usual apologist - always everybody elses fault :mad:

snubbleste

What's he not saying?

Martin has got a degree in Spin

touts

Terrible story about the estate in Sligo. Families being terrorized in their own homes by anti-social elements. Some houses seem to have had the water tanks, pipes etc stolen out of them WHILE people were living in them. People coming knocking on doors demanding things from the residents. All the residents and the councilor who were interviewed put the blame firmly on some settled travelers who moved into the estate. Then Michael Collins from Pavee Point comes on admits he doesn't know about the estate but then puts the blame on the council, the guards, schools, the government etc etc etc for failing to meet the needs of travellers. Basically its everyone's fault bar the travellers.

ellejay

I missed the name / area of that estate, did anyone catch it please?

snubbleste

ellejay wrote: »

I missed the name / area of that estate, did anyone catch it please?

Tower hills? unsure

signostic

snubbleste wrote: »

Tower hills? unsure

Tower Hills or Hill, Ballymote, Co Sligo

artful_codger

Huffpo - the Journalistic equivalent of Jobsbridge...or it was at the time she sold it and made millions on the backs of regular contributors who got nothing.

SEPT 23 1989

this makes for deeply upsetting listening:(

Callan57

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

this makes for deeply upsetting listening:(

When will we stop being shamed by the RC? Sure it's only the UNBORN that matter :mad:

touts

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

this makes for deeply upsetting listening:(

I swear I can't understand why our jails are not filled with priests, brothers and nuns. It used to be said that Ireland didn't have any serial killers because all the psychopaths just joined one of the Republican or Loyalist terror groups. I think a fair few became Nuns. Mass graves of babies. BABIES for Christ sake!!!

Harry Angstrom

Yer one says have a banana before you go to bed.

That's a one-way ticket to Indigestionville.

michael999999

touts wrote: »

I swear I can't understand why our jails are not filled with priests, brothers and nuns. It used to be said that Ireland didn't have any serial killers because all the psychopaths just joined one of the Republican or Loyalist terror groups. I think a fair few became Nuns. Mass graves of babies. BABIES for Christ sake!!!

Even more baffling why Fianna fail leader Bertie ahern paid the majority of the compensation they owed out of state coffers!

touts

michael999999 wrote: »

Even more baffling why Fianna fail leader Bertie ahern paid the majority of the compensation they owed out of state coffers!

I'm sorry but that is not even close to what these Nuns did. I'm no fan of Bertie and what he did to the country but these Nuns basically allowed (by action or inaction) hundreds of babies to die and then threw them into mass graves. That is evil. Pure and simple evil and something must be done to hunt these women and their orders down and bring them to justice no matter what their age now or what good they claimed to be doing.

Busted Flat.

touts wrote: »

I'm sorry but that is not even close to what these Nuns did. I'm no fan of Bertie and what he did to the country but these Nuns basically allowed (by action or inaction) hundreds of babies to die and then threw them into mass graves. That is evil. Pure and simple evil and something must be done to hunt these women and their orders down and bring them to justice no matter what their age now or what good they claimed to be doing.

Why do posters keep calling it a mass grave, The kids were thrown into a septic tank, they were not buried, the so called nuns did not have the decency to bury the children.

Callan57

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Why do posters keep calling it a mass grave, The kids were thrown into a septic tank, they were not buried, the so called nuns did not have the decency to bury the children.

Not likely that they were going to pay for funerals and of course the usual deafening silence from these great paragons of Christian virtue. They have shamed and disgraced this country again & they haven't the decency to face up to their actions - cowards.

michael999999

touts wrote: »

I'm sorry but that is not even close to what these Nuns did. I'm no fan of Bertie and what he did to the country but these Nuns basically allowed (by action or inaction) hundreds of babies to die and then threw them into mass graves. That is evil. Pure and simple evil and something must be done to hunt these women and their orders down and bring them to justice no matter what their age now or what good they claimed to be doing.

You do know that the Catholic church were ordered to pay compensation to the victims of child abuse?

And that Bertie ahern used state money to pay a vast percentage of that compensation on behalf of the catholic church!

And the small bit of compensation left for the catholic church to pay, they still haven't paid it!

constitutionus

talking about eating wild bull and truffles in lisbon now.

the austerity in RTE is fecking shocking.

HeidiHeidi

I want to go to Lisbon now :mad:

Lenin Skynard

Paddy O'Gorman off riding on a sulky now. Love him or hate him, he's always good for a laugh.

Harry Angstrom

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Paddy O'Gorman off riding on a sulky now. Love him or hate him, he's always good for a laugh.

And Sean worrying about him using a mobile phone while driving a sulky

constitutionus

And hands the phone over to the driver who's patently still driving it

washiskin

This is in danger of turning into an Adrian Kennedy type discussion.....

constitutionus

Sean getting his eyes opened now !

250k for a horse.

He thought only himself n marrion could afford that

Harry Angstrom

Yeah Sean, I can just about imagine Leopardstown allowing these fellas in to use the racecourse :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuMS3WRGIvQ

touts

constitutionus wrote: »

250k for a horse.

I hope the CAB and Revenue commissioners are listening to this.

constitutionus

Yeah didn't think this lad would have a prob with "normal" racing . Half his doctor mates prob own a few

Have to say I can't stop smiling after that one. Didn't go the way I expected at all.

Ya can see a few revenue heads perking up after those revelations

Callan57

constitutionus wrote: »

Yeah didn't think this lad would have a prob with "normal" racing . Half his doctor mates prob own a few

Have to say I can't stop smiling after that one. Didn't go the way I expected at all.

Ya can see a few revenue heads perking up after those revelations

Ah sure aren't they "the lowest economic section of our society" ... sure they are with 10,000 to put on a horse.
Revenue & Social Welfare listening I HOPE! :rolleyes:

washiskin

Ah Jaybis!!!! I only tuned in because PK is on hols!! They're still employing MLOD!!! :mad::mad:

*flees*

artful_codger

I'd love to shove a pot noodle down this ones throat.

Everything is homemade and twee in her World.

Harry Angstrom

There is a word called cannot. It's called cannot.

Callan57

washiskin wrote: »

Ah Jaybis!!!! I only tuned in because PK is on hols!! They're still employing MLOD!!! :mad::mad:

*flees*

Everytime Sean says MLOD is next I switch over to Lyric .. and again today I missed whatever came after her because I forgot to switch back :mad: I really wish she'd disappear up her own pomposity.

Harry Angstrom

What is the point of conversations like this? Children take up time and energy. It's a fact of life. If they want a full blown career, don't have kids. End of.

Callan57

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

What is the point of conversations like this? Children take up time and energy. It's a fact of life. If they want a full blown career, don't have kids. End of.

I always find this amusing (to a point) - nobody worries about the women trying to balance having kids and maybe a career cleaning offices or working in the local supermarket! What about their life balance? A very middle class concept life balance isn't it? :rolleyes:

IvyTheTerrible

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

What is the point of conversations like this? Children take up time and energy. It's a fact of life. If they want a full blown career, don't have kids. End of.

Yes but why is this not an issue for men? They are the fathers but no-one asks them how they balance child care and career.

Harry Angstrom

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Yes but why is this not an issue for men? They are the fathers but no-one asks them how they balance child care and career.

Olwyn Enright is married to a fellow politician. They could have easily swapped parenting/career roles if they wanted to.

Callan57

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Yes but why is this not an issue for men? They are the fathers but no-one asks them how they balance child care and career.

Or guilt trips them

Harry Angstrom

"IT'S NOT A PARLOUR GAME!"

CountyHurler

Does EVERYBODY in RTE have a book they are trying to promote..?? RTE give a half hour to promote their old pal Joe O'Connor, in spite of their guest attempting to flog everything he has written since he was 10 years old.. I'm only surprised he didnt try to sell us the colour telly he has up on Adverts... And then Cahill, purportedly the sportsreader, tries to flog us a GAA book from one of his pals. Up next Clodagh Walsh promoting her book on the history of newsreading (edited by Myles Dungan)...

On another note, this whole discussion of the poll has been an unmitigated mess, hasnt it... Not impressed by that northern guy at all..

CountyHurler

Whatever about the Government having a majority in that banking commission, how does anybody think it makes sense to have ANY Fianna Fáil members of it??? To be honest there should not be any politicians on such a committee, because as we see from their efforts this morning, none of them are objective (or mature) enough to sit on such an investigation.

Harry Angstrom

The Duffmeister won't be happy. Sean is encroaching on his misery territory.

IvyTheTerrible

Never got to hold her baby, how cruel.

SEPT 23 1989

So children's adventure books now have to have a supervisor as a character or it wont be believed by kids:(

touts

Poor Sean is getting his ass kicked on this. "Humph! Challenges? Why don't you try doing a film on the toughest cycle race in the world!". "Well I've got an actor playing him so I can't show his face from the archives!". "Have you got any suggestions!".