Sean O'Rourke Today Show

Right2Write

Couldn't agree more with that chap when he says that public service wages and pensions need to be looked at very seriously. Horgan has a very good point when he says that striking Gardai should lose some pension entitlements and that's an idea that could well be extended to other essential public services. Enough of being held to ransom.

Frances Fitzgerald may be off in Greece or wherever but I think she's out of touch with public opinion on this one.................

Brendan Bendar

Right2Write wrote: »

Couldn't agree more with that chap when he says that public service wages and pensions need to be looked at very seriously. Horgan has a very good point when he says that striking Gardai should lose some pension entitlements and that's an idea that could well be extended to other essential public services. Enough of being held to ransom.

Frances Fitzgerald may be off in Greece or wherever but I think she's out of touch with public opinion on this one.................

On listening to that lad, looks we were royally conned by the Force.

I would agree that all these legacy pension arrangements be looked at from an affordability viewpoint.

Lot of this stuff is not relevant in 2016, like the travel days which were only gotten rid of not long ago.

Time to wake up folks.

neris

only caught the 1st 5 minutes of sean today but i thought the letter in the times he read out was quite good about the gardai retiring at 50 living to mid 80s and living of a garda pension for longer then they actually worked.

Brendan Bendar

neris wrote: »

only caught the 1st 5 minutes of sean today but i thought the letter in the times he read out was quite good about the gardai retiring at 50 living to mid 80s and living of a garda pension for longer then they actually worked.

That's providing as quite a lot of them do, get other jobs after 'retiring' on index linked pensions.

Whole area of PS pensions needs URGENT re-organisation before they break the country.

djemba djemba

I am currently looking for something to listen to during the day. Giving SOR a try at the moment. Can anyone tell me what is the benefit of the Family courts report. Where is the public interest broadcasting in that.

sligojoek

djemba djemba wrote: »

I am currently looking for something to listen to during the day. Giving SOR a try at the moment. Can anyone tell me what is the benefit of the Family courts report. Where is the public interest broadcasting in that.

It's almost as important as Paddy O Gorman trawling the graveyards and courthouses of the country looking for misery.

Brendan Bendar

sligojoek wrote: »

It's almost as important as Paddy O Gorman trawling the graveyards and courthouses of the country looking for misery.

Id call it reality myself, shining a little torch under the slates to show us what is really going on, and not the spin of the current bunch of lefties in the Dail like to promulgate.

Can be very informative.

Paddy Porter

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

On listening to that lad, looks we were royally conned by the Force.

I would agree that all these legacy pension arrangements be looked at from an affordability viewpoint.

Lot of this stuff is not relevant in 2016, like the travel days which were only gotten rid of not long ago.

Time to wake up folks.

Clean head shot there Brendan.....lavish pensions by any standard...still an unsustainable amount of trained gardai licking pencils behind desks ,,,Time to winkle these drones out now that their union has bullied the taxpayer into an even bigger pay out.
Earn you money lads ....

Right2Write

Sad story from the courts re house repossession - but why doesn't that woman seek help from her family if she's under that much stress? Seems crazy to be as worried as that and not let on to your siblings/ parents that you're in trouble.

Lady Chatterton

Right2Write wrote: »

Sad story from the courts re house repossession - but why doesn't that woman seek help from her family if she's under that much stress? Seems crazy to be as worried as that and not let on to your siblings/ parents that you're in trouble.

Very sad story, she seemed to be doing her best to meet her commitments.

As for asking for help..... you're presuming that she has a supportive family. They mightn't want to know or they may be struggling to make ends meet themselves.

The other thing is pride prevents some people from approaching family and friends when they're in financial difficulties.

Brendan Bendar

Hmm...... listening in on today's show and wonder did RTE really try to produce the dullest, most lifeless, most monotonous delivery,most disinterested and most robotic presenter to replace SO'R.

Give them 8/10 for success there......



Squeeeeeeeeeelcccch.

neris

Who is she? Heard a bit of Berlin and Turkey stuff with Tom "I was in the lebannon" clonnan and I think insomnia has a cure

Joe_ Public

It's Kayteeeee Hannon, finally getting her big break after about 20 years in the montrose shadows. She's the political equivalent of Kathryn Thomas, just there really, hovering away in the background, keeping the gender imbalance in check if not a whole lot else.

constitutionus

lads its the "finucane factor"

last time she fecked off on holliers for weeks on end and got someone better than her to take over she took a 50% pay cut !

Sean aint risking that so yer getting miss "competent but dull" instead.

Right2Write

Journalists being wise after the Trump event

Brendan Bendar

Paschal gave a very sure footed performance there, ably dealt with O'Rourke.

clunked

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Paschal gave a very sure footed performance there, ably dealt with O'Rourke.

Sleep inducing more like. A leader needs to inspire. Paschal though must be the most boring man on the planet but has quite a right wing agenda.

Brendan Bendar

clunked wrote: »

Sleep inducing more like. A leader needs to inspire. Paschal though must be the most boring man on the planet but has quite a right wing agenda.

Hmmm..... I'd always like to be able to sleep soundly knowing that safe hands, not some mad gimp has his or her paw on the tiller, like what happened in Greece and about to happen in the US.

I'll take boring any day over that.:cool:

clunked

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Hmmm..... I'd always like to be able to sleep soundly knowing that safe hands, not some mad gimp has his or her paw on the tiller, like what happened in Greece and about to happen in the US.

I'll take boring any day over that.:cool:

Wouldn't have put him down as a mad gimp either.

dulpit

Something very strange about that woman yesterday with the mortgage arrears problem. Sure it's an awful situation, but people giving her donations won't solve the problem - will it? The fundamental issue is that she can't afford the monthly repayments, so arrears will start building up again, right?

Also, I have a problem with how she's getting sympathy/donations because she spoke on the radio, what about other people? And what about the husband/partner she bought house with (I think that's what she said Monday...)???

Right2Write

Rather poor interview from Sean with the Navy lads. Happy clappy stuff and lets pat ourselves on the back. No questions as to the gender breakdown of the refugees or their countries of origin. Well I didn't hear them anyway. Poor public broadcasting IMVHO.

Right2Write

Safeguarding?? Sounds like just more intrusion by the state into the private lives of citizens. There was a chap on Duffy's show a while back and he was finding it very difficult to deal with handling his mother's modest pension, as she was in a nursing home. And this premises presumably with backing of HSE was guarding her pension like a hawk. So much so that he needed to fund her few bob a week himself so as to preserve her dignity. Has to be a balance in all these matters and the balance should be towards the family and not the state/ business interests with their eyes on old peoples savings.

P. Breathnach

Right2Write wrote: »

Rather poor interview from Sean with the Navy lads. Happy clappy stuff and lets pat ourselves on the back. No questions as to the gender breakdown of the refugees or their countries of origin. Well I didn't hear them anyway. Poor public broadcasting IMVHO.

"We can't rescue you from the sinking boat, because we have exceeded the quota for male Eritreans. We'll take the women."

lawlolawl

This guy doing "funny" voices is absolutely bombing.

HeidiHeidi

Bring back the normal, depressing, current affairs reporting shows.

This stuff is just cringe (well, the 10 seconds I lasted listening was)

Pat Kenny talking about De Weather and babies.

Even Lyric is gone mad this weather.

Nothing to listen to :mad:

lawlolawl

ANOTHER GUY DOING FUNNY VOICES!?!?

Irish comedy is such utter twaddle.

PeterTheNinth

lawlolawl wrote: »

ANOTHER GUY DOING FUNNY VOICES!?!? Irish comedy is such utter twaddle.

The level of Irish comedy is terrible. All falling back on hackneyed old Irish stereotypes of the irish mammy and "leaving on the immersion".

Brendan Bendar

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Bring back the normal, depressing, current affairs reporting shows.

This stuff is just cringe (well, the 10 seconds I lasted listening was)

Pat Kenny talking about De Weather and babies.

Even Lyric is gone mad this weather.

Nothing to listen to :mad:

You ain't heard nothing yet!!

HeidiHeidi

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

You ain't heard nothing yet!!

And I'm continuing to hear nothing - silence reigns in my house this morning

Brendan Bendar

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

And I'm continuing to hear nothing - silence reigns in my house this morning

Might follow your example:cool:

Joe_ Public

Sean's really earning his crust today. "So Kelly, it's a question of taking one fight at a time, if that's not too much of a cliche?"

"Marty, I'd say you're a real Christmas sort of guy?"

Tis truly the season to forget about professional broadcasting standards and serve up any oul guff.

PeterTheNinth

How many times have they gone to speak to somebody only to realise they dont have a mic.. You'd swear it was their first broadcast

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Tis truly the season to forget about professional broadcasting standards and serve up any oul guff.

As creepy Brendan Keenan reads out a Christmas poem, and NT give us their usual "Angela Merkel good, Donald Trump" narrative.

Joe_ Public

Nice subtle dig from Ronan Collins on the changeover there, wondering if it wasn't a bit early for Sean to be knocking off for the year.

Paddy Porter

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Nice subtle dig from Ronan Collins on the changeover there, wondering if it wasn't a bit early for Sean to be knocking off for the year.

Lookit ! ALL the RTE A Listers will be off till the New year..absolute disgrace !

constitutionus

God the stand in for Sean couldn't hide her disgust at brexit !

Near half hour of mewling about it off 3 luvvies that don't have a breeze.

Nice to see RTEs learned nothing.

PeterTheNinth

constitutionus wrote: »

God the stand in for Sean couldn't hide her disgust at brexit ! Near half hour of mewling about it off 3 luvvies that don't have a breeze.

Katie Hannon again. Yeah I was thinking the exact same. The same narrative - It was racists, as obviously no clever person would have voted for BREXIT. And it's funny that these journalists should comment on how the Irish emigrants didn't appreciate Enda Kenny telling them how to vote (i.e. to stay in EU), yet still don't realise that one of the motivating factors for the No vote was that people didn't like being told what to do by the media themselves.

foxtrot101

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

yet still don't realise that one of the motivating factors for the No vote was that people didn't like being told what to do by the media themselves.

The majority of the UK print media - The Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun and The Express have been anti-The EU for decades and were pro-brexit. Broadcasters were governed by Ofcom rules which meant they had to give both the Leave and Remain camps equal airtime. So this notion of "the media" telling people what to do was just not case.

Joe_ Public

Is there anything Fiona Looney isn't an expert on?

Lady Chatterton

RTE's New Year countdown on TV was the most depressing bit of television I've watched for a while. I think they should consider letting Marty Morrissey (and Oliver Callen) present it next year, at least Marty is upbeat and knows how to party.

PeterTheNinth

Joe_ Public wrote: »

Is there anything Fiona Looney isn't an expert on?

And don't forget, Joe.. Kerry are a 'wounded animal'.
Marty, who actually knows something about sport, must have been cringing at her every cliché. I, on the other hand, had the choice to switch off. And did.

Lady Chatterton

I was looking for the Ronan Collins thread so I could say how much I'm enjoying Shay Byrne It turns out that the last time there was a dedicated RC thread was about two years ago :eek:....that's not good.

Anyway, RTE can we have more Shay Byrne please?

#SorryRonan
#FeelingGuiltyNow

Joe_ Public

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

And don't forget, Joe.. Kerry are a 'wounded animal'.
Marty, who actually knows something about sport, must have been cringing at her every cliché. I, on the other hand, had the choice to switch off. And did.

A sports "fanatic" who turned out to have no interest in half the sports he asked her about.

Joe_ Public

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I was looking for the Ronan Collins thread so I could say how much I'm enjoying Shay Byrne It turns out that the last time there was a dedicated RC thread was about two years ago :eek:....that's not good.

Anyway, RTE can we have more Shay Byrne please?

#SorryRonan
#FeelingGuiltyNow

I do quite like Shay but have to admit it took me quite some time to adjust to that monumental level of chirpiness in the mornings. His music choices are a bit safe, though, but then again, I've yet to hear him play The Conquerors!

One thing though: RTE should fix it that Shay and Des Cahill never come together in any capacity on air. Their early am "exchanges" are so bad they are beyond cringe.

foxtrot101

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I was looking for the Ronan Collins thread so I could say how much I'm enjoying Shay Byrne It turns out that the last time there was a dedicated RC thread was about two years ago :eek:....that's not good.

Anyway, RTE can we have more Shay Byrne please?

#SorryRonan
#FeelingGuiltyNow

I think he's a decent presenter, but his taste in music is even worse than Ronan Collins. He plays some truly awful stuff on Rising Time.

Lady Chatterton

I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooo not a morning person so couldn't cope with chirpy at 6am, Shay is better suited to this time of day.

PeterTheNinth

Neil seems to have softened his opinions on Trump ?

dulpit

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

Neil seems to have softened his opinions on Trump ?

Was that the lad talking about the new ambassador? Was almost sickening how he was fawning over him...

IvyTheTerrible

Ooh this guy saying a pound a week weightloss is grand won't please the producers of the ridiculous Operation Transformation!

SEPT 23 1989

If there is a bad deal going we will take it

we are screwed listening to this:mad:

PeterTheNinth

Another hit piece on Trump...

He uses the word "I" a lot, same as 99% of people in the world.