Sean O'Rourke Today Show

neris

CountyHurler wrote: »

Not impressed by this guy at all...

Are there off the shelf packages that could do the job?
I'm sure there are ...

Was that the garda guy? Has to be a programne they can get and modify to suit ireland however the problem wont be getting a new system it,ll be trying to get gardai to use it without whinging about change or their unions looking for more pay. Dont forget in this country the public service always need an incentive to change even if it makes easier and more modern

alaimacerc

Oops69 wrote: »

Brian DoWling can't even give the results of an opinion poll without garbling up the numbers into an incomprehensible mish- mash and sean needing to repeat all the numbers, then he goes on about them as if theres some great relevations within.

DDP read out the RedC poll on the Six-One and read Labour's 8% as "18". Which really would have been news. No correction by either himself on the desk-jockeys.

Maybe RTE needs to invest in some entity able to read numbers off a piece of paper. Like say, a speak-your-weight machine.

touts

Sean is filleting Joan Burton live on air. Tune in quick. She is getting her arse handed to her as he is destroying the usual vague non-committed bullsh1t she has relied on to spoof her way through the last 30 years in politics. He is asking her for specific details and she can't provide anything.

dulpit

touts wrote: »

Sean is filleting Joan Burton live on air. Tune in quick. She is getting her arse handed to her as he is destroying the usual vague non-committed bullsh1t she has relied on to spoof her way through the last 30 years in politics. He is asking her for specific details and she can't provide anything.

Stuck at work, hopefully will catch podcast later.

You can't beat a good Sean O'Rourke beatdown of a politician. He seems to save them up and then, boom goes the dynamite, and the politician is found out.

gladrags

touts wrote: »

Sean is filleting Joan Burton live on air. Tune in quick. She is getting her arse handed to her as he is destroying the usual vague non-committed bullsh1t she has relied on to spoof her way through the last 30 years in politics. He is asking her for specific details and she can't provide anything.

Unbelievable

He's having to force her for at least one straight answer.

O'Rourke asked will the promise of 5,000 social houses in 2015 be met.

She drags in Sinn Fein,O'Rourke asks the same question again...

She is too busy making an election spiel.

touts

Finished and gone to the ad-break. I'd say things are fairly frosty in the studio now. She doesn't strike me as a woman who likes being challenged and she just got badly exposed. The poor assistant who scheduled the interview is in for a bollocking in the back of the Merc on the way back to Government buildings.

Odyssey 2005

touts wrote: »

Sean is filleting Joan Burton live on air. Tune in quick. She is getting her arse handed to her as he is destroying the usual vague non-committed bullsh1t she has relied on to spoof her way through the last 30 years in politics. He is asking her for specific details and she can't provide anything.

Best bit of radio I've heard in ages. I'll bet she left with her head buzzing,she couldn't think of anything to say:eek:. Blame everybody else, well Joan,for my money you have put your own grave in the footpath outside every house in the country. Labour me hole !

CountyHurler

Terrible to think that there is no money in the country for that woman and her sick child, but all these useless f**kwits get free legal aid, dont have to pay fines, get the dole / medical cards...

CountyHurler

Do RTE always have to facilitate this self indulgent, self promoting, shameless woman??

Callan57

CountyHurler wrote: »

Terrible to think that there is no money in the country for that woman and her sick child, but all these useless f**kwits get free legal aid, dont have to pay fines, get the dole / medical cards...

Terrible to think that probably one of Mary Hannafin's pensions would solve a lot for that sick child. :mad::mad:

Oops69

Hanafin trying to rewrite history , fianna fallers have been at this in earnest for the last year , I think they believe our memories only last about five years, arrogant shower of traitors .

CountyHurler

If Mary Hanafin was being a bit more honest about what Honohan said yesterday... He said the opportunity to do something about the crash was in 2006... And at the stage where they were all around the table trying to fix the banking situation there was no easy fix, there was gonna be a big crash of some sort... But Mary and her Government were busy trying to buy the next election and looking after the builders in 2006 to run the country responsibly... .

CountyHurler

For anybody who wants to hear the "Bart's People" version of the report, Angela O'Connor will be on with Jonathan Healy next, to speak about her difficulty getting a medical card for her 8 year old daughter Lucy who has cancer.

gladrags

CountyHurler wrote: »

If Mary Hanafin was being a bit more honest about what Honohan said yesterday... He said the opportunity to do something about the crash was in 2006... And at the stage where they were all around the table trying to fix the banking situation there was no easy fix, there was gonna be a big crash of some sort... But Mary and her Government were busy trying to buy the next election and looking after the builders in 2006 to run the country responsibly... .

Were was Honahan when the writing was on the wall?

CountyHurler

gladrags wrote: »

Were was Honahan when the writing was on the wall?

tbh, I always find it hard to work out which side he's on...

Callan57

gladrags wrote: »

Were was Honahan when the writing was on the wall?

Was he not an academic in Trinity?

sligojoek

gladrags wrote: »

Unbelievable

He's having to force her for at least one straight answer.

O'Rourke asked will the promise of 5,000 social houses in 2015 be met.

She drags in Sinn Fein,O'Rourke asks the same question again...

She is too busy making an election spiel.

She was speaking really slowly with long pauses. Winding down the clock. Stock phrases and repeating. I was in the car talking to someone and couldn't hear it properly. I'll give it a proper listen later.

Odyssey 2005

sligojoek wrote: »

She was speaking really slowly with long pauses. Winding down the clock. Stock phrases and repeating. I was in the car talking to someone and couldn't hear it properly. I'll give it a proper listen later.

She was trying to figure out where to get a new ass,cos SOR ripped her's to shreads .:)

BabySlam

gladrags wrote: »

Were was Honahan when the writing was on the wall?

He was doing his job in Trinity College - he came to the Central Bank only when the bubble burst and in my opinion is an honest man who tells it like it is - only for him we wouldnt have known the IMF were in town.........

CountyHurler

Just listening to Brendan Keenan on The Business with Richard Curran now... Richard should ask him, "on a scale of 1 to 10 how embarrassed were you looking at The Guarantee the other night"...

constitutionus

amazing he still gets airtime when getting it so spectacularly (and condecendingly at the time) wrong.



that ECB thing is gonna be massive though.

STG and US are doing great agin the euro now so if youve any lying about ya dont need thereve been worse times to change it.

CountyHurler

Does she do an inventory of every place that she visits or what?

CountyHurler

The reason they use plastic knifes and forks is surely for safety reasons?

CountyHurler

"And I will go in and speak to them if that's what's required"...

Yeah and after MLOD has given them a lecture about having a "social conscience", they can ask her about 70k she gets from the public purse for a part time job in that talking shop they call the Seanad. Given to her by her old pal Enda.. Maybe they could give that money to the homeless..?

BarryD

CountyHurler wrote: »

Does she do an inventory of every place that she visits or what?

Dunno, whenever I hear the gushing tones of MLOD coming on, I exercise the OFF button!!

Callan57

Wooooooooooooow Séan - confusing Robbie Williams and Robin Williams

Callan57

Fairly inexpert expert there - she really should do her research before bluffing on national radio

CountyHurler

Jesus if I hear that phrase "job of work" one more time from labour... :mad::mad:

efb

CountyHurler wrote: »

Jesus if I hear that phrase "job of work" one more time from labour... :mad::mad:

Maybe they like synonyms

CountyHurler

Mick Wallace is not the greatest public speaker we've ever had is he..

sligojoek

CountyHurler wrote: »

Mick Wallace is not the greatest public speaker we've ever had is he..

Aaaaaah Aaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaah

Callan57

CountyHurler wrote: »

Mick Wallace is not the greatest public speaker we've ever had is he..

The understatement of the year

CountyHurler

sligojoek wrote: »

Aaaaaah Aaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaah

Maybe he's sponsored by Aaaa-Alliance insurance..

Odyssey 2005

CountyHurler wrote: »

Maybe he's sponsored by Aaaa-Alliance insurance..

Nice one CH.:P

mickydoomsux

Ah, time for The Plummy Accent Middle Class "My Gosh, Those Poor Blighters" Court Report.

Marvel at various stories of "the unfortunate"!

Oh look, a woman who couldn't pay her TV licence because she is a single parent. She can afford €70 a month for UPC though.

neris

rte trying to scare the **** out of people by sending paddy to court for tv license court cases for people dont pay the rte tax

neris

€70 for the upc and a home schooling mother. only 1 man for her to talk to and its not paddy

Callan57

neris wrote: »

€70 for the upc and a home schooling mother. only 1 man for her to talk to and its not paddy

"I have principles" - but they don't involve not breaking the law :rolleyes:

fg1406

I'm finding this show to be increasingly dull. It seems to follow a format. Every week he interviews the parents of an ill or deceased child, the chef/ cookery spots are tedious, an author or playwright (generally british), someone flogging something etc
I can't recall PKs show being so rigid in its format, or maybe I just have a short memory.

neris

im sure what this guy is talking about is very interesting and scientific but he reminds me of this guy

califano

Jasus what was Des Cahill trying to do at the end there, he was sinking the ship with that ramble. Bad spot for Sean O'Rourke, he really was sorry he asked.

Oops69

This author john Connolly on now , has to have the most annoying voice I've heard since Abie Philbin Bowman, thank god he dosent narrate talking versions of his books .

Callan57

fg1406 wrote: »

I'm finding this show to be increasingly dull. It seems to follow a format. Every week he interviews the parents of an ill or deceased child, the chef/ cookery spots are tedious, an author or playwright (generally british), someone flogging something etc
I can't recall PKs show being so rigid in its format, or maybe I just have a short memory.

Seems to be format for every programme lately

ThisRegard

Oops69 wrote: »

This author john Connolly on now , has to have the most annoying voice I've heard since Abie Philbin Bowman, thank god he dosent narrate talking versions of his books .

Really? I was just thinking he was interesting to listen to. Maybe it's just the subject matter.

Ol' Donie

Just flicked over from Newstalk...is that Smug Smugenport I hear?

Haven't heard him on NT for a while. Not that long ago you could hardly turn it on without hearing him.

brooke 2

Roundstone garda station? In Wicklow??

ThisRegard

Presumably Roundwood.

brooke 2

ThisRegard wrote: »

Presumably Roundwood.

Fergal Keane sounded a bit
confused making that report.
Sean had to correct him re
the name if the girl who was
murdered. He also referred to
her and her father's visit to
her mother's grave 'near Bray,
Co. Dublin'.

CountyHurler

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Just flicked over from Newstalk...is that Smug Smugenport I hear?

lol... I switched over to him as well when Connolly was on... there's just something about the all knowing Fionn Davenport that irks everybody I think.

mikom

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Just flicked over from Newstalk...is that Smug Smugenport I hear?

Haven't heard him on NT for a while. Not that long ago you could hardly turn it on without hearing him.

He ran out of free air-miles.
Back to regale everyone with his tales of how he was bathing off of St. Barts with spider monkeys for the past two weeks.