Sean O'Rourke Today Show

snubbleste

Fascinating stuff there from the Divorce courts.

Meathlass

snubbleste wrote: »

Fascinating stuff there from the Divorce courts.

That last guy questioning the statement of means and petrol money sounds like a real charmer :cool:

CountyHurler

Ruth Coppinger was a school teacher.. My god, could you imagine her at the top of a classroom, influencing young minds...

Callan57

CountyHurler wrote: »

Ruth Coppinger was a school teacher.. My god, could you imagine her at the top of a classroom, influencing young minds...

I'd really rather not imagine that :mad:

Oops69

CountyHurler wrote: »

Ruth Coppinger was a school teacher.. My god, could you imagine her at the top of a classroom, influencing young minds...

At least Enda KEmmy moved to the Dail early in his teaching career ,so he didn't influence many young minds, unfortunatley he influences plenty of 'little minds ' in his PArty.

touts

You've got to love Willie Fraiser. He comes out with some classic lines. "We met with Enda Kennedy, I think it was, The Taoiseach down there a couple of years ago"

And it's 9 years since he organised the last Love Ulster Parade. I suppose it's time he had another one. The bhoys who lead the brave assault on Foot Locker last time must be in dire need of a new set of trainers at this stage.

Callan57

That representative of walkers is one arrogant individual - would he be prepared to give "free access" across his back garden?
His arrogant "I'm right and no one else has rights except me" will get him absolutely zero cooperartion.
I was born and reared in rural Ireland and I would not dream of marching uninvited across someone else's farmland anymore than I would march uninvited through someone garden or house.

my friend

Callan57 wrote: »

That representative of walkers is one arrogant individual - would he be prepared to give "free access" across his back garden?
His arrogant "I'm right and no one else has rights except me" will get him absolutely zero cooperartion.
I was born and reared in rural Ireland and I would not dream of marching uninvited across someone else's farmland anymore than I would march uninvited through someone garden or house.

The demand for the right to walk anywhere would if granted would end up being abused by our supposed native nomads , that and argumentative litigious mouths such as Albert will do nothing towards harmonious progress on walkways
For once I found myself agreeing with Eddie Downey although he should have had more facts at hand.

Callan57

IMO supermarkets should not be allowed sell alcohol in the same premises as bread, milk etc
Alcohol is a drug and should not be "normalised" as being the same as any other item in the shopping trolly .. to get a packet of Ibuprofen I am subjected to a KGB like interrogation but I can buy unlimited quantities of alcohol with question. Doesn't make sense to me

ThisRegard

So should the remove headache pills, cough medicines, all these types of stuff too, not forgetting coffee ?

Callan57

ThisRegard wrote: »

So should the remove headache pills, cough medicines, all these types of stuff too, not forgetting coffee ?

I didn't say alcohol should not be available, just that a bottle of vodka should not be treated as though it were the same as a bottle of milk.

ThisRegard

They're not treated the same. Vodka can only be sold within a certain time frame, outside of this time frame access to the vodka is restricted.

And I can't send my child up to buy a bottle of vodka for me.

Callan57

ThisRegard wrote: »

They're not treated the same. Vodka can only be sold within a certain time frame, outside of this time frame access to the vodka is restricted.

And I can't send my child up to buy a bottle of vodka for me.

I wouldn't be too sure about that :rolleyes:

ThisRegard

Really, you really think I can send a kid into a supermarket and come out with a bottle of vodka ?

CountyHurler

"Rory McIlroy would like to wish Horizon the best for the future, and Horizon would like to wish Rory McIlroy the best for the future"..

Did you ever hear such a mealy mouthed, disingenuous load of rubbish in your life ... outside of politics, I mean..

ThisRegard

I dislike the guy as a person, and just don't get the platitudes he's getting all over the radio, he comes across as dislikeable to me.

Del.Monte

How is Rory McIlroy's private financial business of interest to the nation and worthy of the blanket coverage it's getting?

Oops69

This 'couples working together' item just isn't working for SEan , he can't get them to come up with any good arguments and is getting exasperated trying.

P. Breathnach

Del.Monte wrote: »

How is Rory McIlroy's private financial business of interest to the nation and worthy of the blanket coverage it's getting?

Although I am not very interested in it, I think there are a lot of people who are.

mikom

Callan57 wrote: »

IMO supermarkets should not be allowed sell alcohol in the same premises as bread, milk etc
Alcohol is a drug and should not be "normalised" as being the same as any other item in the shopping trolly ..

Checks shopping basket for Tea, Coffee, calpol.......

sligojoek

Callan57 wrote: »

I didn't say alcohol should not be available, just that a bottle of vodka should not be treated as though it were the same as a bottle of milk.

Don't go pouring it over your corn flakes,:D

Del.Monte

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Although I am not very interested in it, I think there are a lot of people who are.

It's a media inspired interest inflicted on the listener at every opportunity.

Bits_n_Bobs

Lottery down yesterday, back today...thinly disguised opportunity for RTE, Irish newsagents t al to whinge at new lotto UK overlords. Who cares???

Callan57

I think Sean the answer is NO

Callan57

Seán going baldheaded for this guy - serious waffler being savaged.
Wonder was one of Séan's kids victim of an incompetent teacher? :rolleyes:

Oops69

Politicians shouldn't be ringing up these people on whether they get the drug or not , could these politicians get more parasitic? , they should have NO input into individual medical care.

tampopo

Callan57 wrote: »

I think Sean the answer is NO

what was the question?

CountyHurler

"Pat I came on to talk about something else".

Joan Collins out of her league...

touts

This morning's show is like a Party Convention for all the Socialists scrambling to express outrage at the arrest of Paul Murphy. All this talk of this being evidence of us living in a police state is comical. Ironically if we lived in the sort of socialist state they want to impose on us Murphy wouldn't have been arrested three months after leading a mob to attack the car of the Deputy Prime Minister. He would have been "disappeared" three hours later.

neris

touts wrote: »

This morning's show is like a Party Convention for all the Socialists scrambling to express outrage at the arrest of Paul Murphy. All this talk of this being evidence of us living in a police state is comical. Ironically if we lived in the sort of socialist state they want to impose on us Murphy wouldn't have been arrested three months after leading a mob to attack the car of the Deputy Prime Minister. He would have been "disappeared" three hours later.

and the funny thing is that if they did they get their socialist state an elite at the top would be creaming it off and using their power and influence while the police force are rounding up the middles classes and having their private limited companies nationalised

michael999999

neris wrote: »

and the funny thing is that if they did they get their socialist state an elite at the top would be creaming it off and using their power and influence

Like when Bertie the crook ahern was taoiseach?

mikom

neris wrote: »

and the funny thing is that if they did they get their socialist state an elite at the top would be creaming it off and using their power and influence

Charlie and Bertie must have headed up a socialist state.

L1011

mikom wrote: »

Charlie and Bertie must have headed up a socialist state.

Bertie claimed to be a socialist, not sure about Charlie though...

neris

please make her stop

sudzs

neris wrote: »

please make her stop

My toes still haven't uncurled after her singing at the start.

Loafing Oaf

Just flicked over momentarily to SOR to hear an unmistakeable voice declaring something to be "bee-youtiflee preserved":rolleyes:

Del.Monte

sudzs wrote: »

My toes still haven't uncurled after her singing at the start.

Compare Sean O'Rourke's piece on the Car Sale with this 'interesting' Ad on Done Deal.

http://cars.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/terrible-car-auction/8651659?offset=4

alaimacerc

Del.Monte wrote: »

How is Rory McIlroy's private financial business of interest to the nation and worthy of the blanket coverage it's getting?

It's a remarkable confluence of the various obsessions of the country. Sports, nationalism (in this case combining both the sporting kind and the National Question sort), the agrarian fetish for golf, and some sort of boyband/cleb gossip angle on his relative youth and romantic antics. Oh, and money, of course. Lots and lots of money. Everything is inherently more interesting with lots of zeroes at the end of it.

Oops69

I'm allergic to that Dr Donal o Shea guy, whenever I'm about to have a guilty snack pleasure , up he pops with no notice to put the mockers on everything , he seems to be everywhere, and he has an old fashioned condescending type attitude as well.

Callan57

FGM truly horrendous listening - barbaric in the extreme

CountyHurler

Oops69 wrote: »

I'm allergic to that Dr Donal o Shea guy, whenever I'm about to have a guilty snack pleasure , up he pops with no notice to put the mockers on everything , he seems to be everywhere, and he has an old fashioned condescending type attitude as well.

I guess he had to create a profile for himself in his own right, cos he was sick of being asked "Didnt you play for Ireland?"

Del.Monte

Cancer again - is there any radio programme that doesn't do wall to wall medical slots?

Bits_n_Bobs

Del.Monte wrote: »

Cancer again - is there any radio programme that doesn't do wall to wall medical slots?

I think you will find Joe Duffy only deals in hokeypokey quackery misery and steers well clear of anything that could be described as actually 'medical'

Loafing Oaf

I love the way Sean made sure to clarify AI meant Artificial Intelligence, he clearly has a finger on the pulse of the R1 audience.:P

Harry Angstrom

Del.Monte wrote: »

Cancer again - is there any radio programme that doesn't do wall to wall medical slots?

PK is talking about it now......

Callan57

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

PK is talking about it now......

It's ridiculous - every prog on every station has to have a daily slot for cancer or some other obscure illness same thing week after week on the Late Late & on the Brendan O'Connor show.
OMG I feel mean complaining about what is life and death for some unfortunates but that's human nature I guess me, me, me

Del.Monte

Well I wouldn't mind all the talk and crummy Ads for medical products + insurance if it lead to cures for things. Instead, we are being brow beaten by a tidal wave of patients on trolleys, medical cock-ups, health service in chaos etc.etc.

Loafing Oaf

Was that the Andrei Shevcenko?:eek:

foxtrot101

No, it was this Andrei Shevcenko.

CountyHurler

Thought it was a good performance by Willie Walsh. Though it was really naive of him to say "I've lost 20% of my pension" as well, as this teed it up for the interviewer to draw further comparisons between his pay and conditions and those of the Aer Lingus workers..