The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

recipio

Did the current crop of RTE presenters ( Claire Byrne excepted ) go to the school of serial interruptions. ? It seems to me that BOC and Co think their own voice is God's gift to mankind and allow everybody about five secs to answer before interjecting some irrelevant factoid. They should be forced to watch a box set of Gay on the late late to learn from the master.:rolleyes:

generalgerry

recipio wrote: »

Did the current crop of RTE presenters ( Claire Byrne excepted ) go to the school of serial interruptions. ? It seems to me that BOC and Co think their own voice is God's gift to mankind

Brendan is particularly bad when it's a phone line that you know is bad with a long delay. He still keeps interrupting and causing confusion.

riclad

There's 2 weeks in a row of long interviews with a dj from the
80s about their medical problems . Well even djs grow old and
are as likely to have health problems over a certain age like anyone. After talk of covid I don't really want to hear a list of medical issues and diagnosis procedures even from a famous dj. But I don't think Brendan chooses a guest or the subject to talk about every week so he does his best.
At this point kid Jensen from bbc is probably an oap.
I have never noticed him interrupting anyone unless it's to move
away from going into detail about topics that could be legally dodgy or defamatory
At some point the presenter has to end the topic
being discussed

Infoanon

generalgerry wrote: »

So any contributor that you hear on a radio station has to be cleared by the HSE to make sure that they are on message, even though RTE will present them as if they are giving their own independent opinions. They are just PR for the HSE. It sort of reminds me of the "independent economic experts" that RTE gave us pre-2008.

Bog standard clause in most people's contracts that you need to get permission from the entity first before writing / talking etc - certainly not exclusive to the HSE - mountain out of a molehill comes to mind.

BOC interrupts a lot ,especially when a contributor is disagreeing with his/ BOCs view of the world.

Aidric

He has definitely gravitated to a moral guardian role on the radio. His edgy posits in the Sindo don't carry as much weight as they used to as a result.

Infoanon

Infoanon wrote: »

Bog standard clause in most people's contracts that you need to get permission from the entity first before writing / talking etc - certainly not exclusive to the HSE - mountain out of a molehill comes to mind.

BOC interrupts a lot ,especially when a contributor is disagreeing with his/ BOCs view of the world.

Agreed with a lot of this. When it comes to public health communications, which have already been dire, the last thing the country needs tight now — during an actual emergency — is more chaos. That's what would happen if public health medics went on strike, or began a PR campaign against the Department of Health via the media.

They have rights as whistleblowers to highlight any sincerely held concerns over operational matters.

I feel very sorry for the public-health doctors, and I think they should be given proper pathways to consultant positions, but much of the blame there lies with their specialist organisations for not standardizing training. They deserve better working-conditions and supports, but the country needs a coherent Public Health system, speaking with one voice.

There will be investigations and inquiries when this emergency is over, and that will be the time to fundamentally review Public Health, as we did with our financial & economic systems post 2009. Right now, we should remind NPHET to "hold firm".

curioser

recipio wrote: »

Did the current crop of RTE presenters ( Claire Byrne excepted ) go to the school of serial interruptions. ? It seems to me that BOC and Co think their own voice is God's gift to mankind and allow everybody about five secs to answer before interjecting some irrelevant factoid. They should be forced to watch a box set of Gay on the late late to learn from the master.:rolleyes:

Don't agree re Claire Byrne. Her interview with the HSE man this morning was a classic example of the current trend of serial interrupting by RTE presenters.

recipio

curioser wrote: »

Don't agree re Claire Byrne. Her interview with the HSE man this morning was a classic example of the current trend of serial interrupting by RTE presenters.

Didn't hear it - I usually have Pat Kenny on. She is normally a reasonable interviewer although her put down of Joe Brolly on TV last week was just pandering to political correctness.

ButtersSuki

recipio wrote: »

Didn't hear it - I usually have Pat Kenny on. She is normally a reasonable interviewer although her put down of Joe Brolly on TV last week was just pandering to political correctness.

Missed that, what did she say?

Infoanon

recipio wrote: »

Didn't hear it - I usually have Pat Kenny on. She is normally a reasonable interviewer although her put down of Joe Brolly on TV last week was just pandering to political correctness.

Basically kept interruptting with questions from an article by an Irish Times journalist - it was awful ,fairly clear to this listener that she had done very of her own prep.

Back to BOC - last few weeks in particular he's being very cautious around anything controversial

recipio

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Missed that, what did she say?

Joe Brolly started to have a go at the DUP and she cut him off because they 'were not present to defend themselves' Come on !!

ButtersSuki

recipio wrote: »

Joe Brolly started to have a go at the DUP and she cut him off because they 'were not present to defend themselves' Come on !!

:pac:

Ah, the sketch on Callan's Kicks last Friday makes a lot more sense now.

Thanks!

elperello

recipio wrote: »

Joe Brolly started to have a go at the DUP and she cut him off because they 'were not present to defend themselves' Come on !!

Not quite.

He made personal accusations against a named individual who was not present.

recipio

recipio wrote: »

Didn't hear it - I usually have Pat Kenny on. She is normally a reasonable interviewer although her put down of Joe Brolly on TV last week was just pandering to political correctness.

Wait, so it's too PC to defend the DUP from allegations of racism and homophobia..?

Others would probably say Joe Brolly was being PC. But it's such a meaningless expression, anyway, that we can probably just accuse everyone of being PC-gone-mad at this stage.

Brendan Bendar

curioser wrote: »

Don't agree re Claire Byrne. Her interview with the HSE man this morning was a classic example of the current trend of serial interrupting by RTE presenters.

It’s what I call the ‘flash bang’ system.

The question is asked and after about 5 or 6 seconds into the answer an interruption is rattled in very quickly which confuses the interviewee and ruins their train of thought.

McInerney is the main proponent of this tactic.

Cole

This professor of psychology is not doing herself or UL any favours here..."win hearts and minds" of the 18-25 year olds who are (still) breaking the restrictions and getting fined. No 18-25 year olds involved in the decision making/on NPHET...

At least Damien is challenging her...unlike Audrey Carville on Morning Ireland during the week when she made the ridiculous remark about "bald men telling us not to get our hair cut"

pc7

Really enjoyed the first interview with the authors son, not sure I know the author but was a lovely listen.

recipio

pc7 wrote: »

Really enjoyed the first interview with the authors son, not sure I know the author but was a lovely listen.

David John Moore Cornwell AKA John Le Carre. This story was well documented in the papers at the time.

Cole

pc7 wrote: »

Really enjoyed the first interview with the authors son, not sure I know the author but was a lovely listen.

I think Damien's good at those kind of interviews.

yosser hughes

pc7 wrote: »

Really enjoyed the first interview with the authors son, not sure I know the author but was a lovely listen.

It was John le Carrés son. John wrote many spy novels one of which was Smiley's People, George Smiley was the Smiley in question. Damien referred to him of course as George Miley

I thought it was terrible interview, another RTE presenter who couldn't be arsed preparing properly and getting so many other things wrong about John le Carré and repeating these even when he was corrected. I was cringing all the way through it. The focus on the Irish flag, the whole parochial approach which is endemic now with RTE.

Beechwoodspark

Seems that the Uk PR agencies def have RTÉ in their sights now

Seems like Any time some minor Uk public figure or celeb publishes a book etc they get a big fawning interview on the show

Beechwoodspark

This una Healy has been given so much publicity from RTÉ.

Shelga

Oh god, Damien just did it again to Una Healy: "I loved your new song, Sweat It All Again"

Una: "You mean Swear It All Again"

Cringe! It's just sloppy presenting, makes him look like an amateur. I missed the George Miley thing, thank god. I haven't even read any Le Carré novels and even I know it's Smiley! :rolleyes:

Beechwoodspark

Shelga wrote: »

Oh god, Damien just did it again to Una Healy: "I loved your new song, Sweat It All Again"

Una: "You mean Swear It All Again"

Cringe! It's just sloppy presenting, makes him look like an amateur. I missed the George Miley thing, thank god. I haven't even read any Le Carré novels and even I know it's Smiley! :rolleyes:

Heard that. And he prefaced it saying he had been listening to it all week and loved it

He didn’t even know the title

Caught rapid

pc7

yosser hughes wrote: »

It was John le Carrés son. John wrote many spy novels one of which was Smiley's People, George Smiley was the Smiley in question. Damien referred to him of course as George Miley

I thought it was terrible interview, another RTE presenter who couldn't be arsed preparing properly and getting so many other things wrong about John le Carré and repeating these even when he was corrected. I was cringing all the way through it. The focus on the Irish flag, the whole parochial approach which is endemic now with RTE.

Think I enjoyed the human element, how the son referred to missing him and the loss. But as you say poor of damo having details wrong.

Bellbottoms

yosser hughes wrote: »

It was John le Carrés son. John wrote many spy novels one of which was Smiley's People, George Smiley was the Smiley in question. Damien referred to him of course as George Miley

I thought it was terrible interview, another RTE presenter who couldn't be arsed preparing properly and getting so many other things wrong about John le Carré and repeating these even when he was corrected. I was cringing all the way through it. The focus on the Irish flag, the whole parochial approach which is endemic now with RTE.

Did Le Carre son mention what time the documentary is airing on Radio Four. Loves Le Carre, The Spy who came in from the cold. Has to be one of the bleakest books I have ever read.

pc7

Bellbottoms wrote: »

Did Le Carre son mention what time the documentary is airing on Radio Four. Loves Le Carre, The Spy who came in from the cold. Has to be one of the bleakest books I have ever read.

8pm

Brendan Bendar

Bellbottoms wrote: »

Did Le Carre son mention what time the documentary is airing on Radio Four. Loves Le Carre, The Spy who came in from the cold. Has to be one of the bleakest books I have ever read.

Bit harsh, Beller, in my opinion.

Sorry bell replied to the wrong post.

Rabbit Redux

You'd have to wonder what Damien thought a song called "Sweat It All Again" would be about? The rigours of marathon running? The excessive intensity of hot yoga?
Maybe he was confusing Mick Lally and Alec Guinness when he was interviewing John le Carre's son?

"Winging it" seems to be part of the culture with RTE radio presenters. We hear it most days with D'Arcy and Tubridy on their radio shows.

AndrewJRenko

Shelga wrote: »

Oh god, Damien just did it again to Una Healy: "I loved your new song, Sweat It All Again"

Una: "You mean Swear It All Again"

Cringe! It's just sloppy presenting, makes him look like an amateur. I missed the George Miley thing, thank god. I haven't even read any Le Carré novels and even I know it's Smiley! :rolleyes:

She very nicely told him to feck off and MYOB when he asked about her kids relationship with their dad.

PieOhMy

Rabbit Redux wrote: »

You'd have to wonder what Damien thought a song called "Sweat It All Again" would be about? The rigours of marathon running? The excessive intensity of hot yoga?
Maybe he was confusing Mick Lally and Alec Guinness when he was interviewing John le Carre's son?

"Winging it" seems to be part of the culture with RTE radio presenters. We hear it most days with D'Arcy and Tubridy on their radio shows.

I caught picturehouse playing 'sunburst' on the late late a few weeks ago. A song RT told us he 'loves' and proceeded to call it 'sun shine'.

If it was a one off I'd be inclined to give the benifit of the doubt and say it was a slip of the tongue but being somewhat familiar with the hosts work I would think that it's more likely to be another example of:

1. Insincerity by the host ( I get such a creepy sly vibe from him); and
2. Lack of preparation and effort.

Havent seen any newspapers yet, but it seems there is a bit more fuel in the tank on vaccine queues. Paul Cullen had a piece in The Irish Times last week about tens of thousands of missing vaccines in the nursing-homes

There are 32,000 patients in nursing homes, and somewhere between 20-30,000 staff. 177,000 vaccines were dispatched to their sector so that leaves about 60,000 unaccounted-for.

I'm sure the same happened in the UK, they never really broke the news; but when the progress is so slow, stories like this really irk people. Rightly or not.

Bellbottoms

Nora Casey, bringing her long dead husband up constantly. No thanks, I am out.

Atlantic Dawn

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Havent seen any newspapers yet, but it seems there is a bit more fuel in the tank on vaccine queues. Paul Cullen had a piece in The Irish Times last week about tens of thousands of missing vaccines in the nursing-homes

There are 32,000 patients in nursing homes, and somewhere between 20-30,000 staff. 177,000 vaccines were dispatched to their sector so that leaves about 60,000 unaccounted-for.

I'm sure the same happened in the UK, they never really broke the news; but when the progress is so slow, stories like this really irk people. Rightly or not.

What's strange is if they are 'unaccounted for' surely that would mean the HSE has no record of who received them which would mean whoever received them will have zero benefit should vaccine passports become a thing.

RINO87

Jesus Nora Casey..... Off to Gavin Reiley in this house.

Beechwoodspark

Norah Casey acting as if she’s some sort of Expert....

When in reality her boorish rubbish is at the level of a deluded coffee shop mouth piece warbling on

NIMAN

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

When in reality her rubbish is at the level of a coffee shop mouth piece warbling on

Or as some of us call it, The Claire Byrne Show.

Cole

RINO87 wrote: »

Jesus Nora Casey..... Off to Gavin Reiley in this house.

The only place to be at this time on a Sunday morning. I just switched over during an ad on GR's show and heard Norah shouting at Damien...see yah.

EmmetSpiceland

Hear, hear! Now let’s hear what a man has to say.

newcavanman

This show always had it level of Bullsh1t, but this must be setting new standards. Terrible terrible programme

Beechwoodspark

newcavanman wrote: »

This show always had it level of Bullsh1t, but this must be setting new standards. Terrible terrible programme

Gone are the days of somewhat intelligent conversation on this...long gone

walshb

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Norah Casey acting as if she’s some sort of Expert....

When in reality her boorish rubbish is at the level of a deluded coffee shop mouth piece warbling on

Wanting our elected officials to dress like scruffs to deliver the Covid news...

What a tit!!

angel eyes 2012

They didn't even cover the story about the two women arrested on their way back from Dubai, just 10 minutes wasted on the lack of diversity in politics.

ButtersSuki

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

They didn't even cover the story about the two women arrested on their way back from Dubai, just 10 minutes wasted on the lack of diversity in politics.

#woke

I see sheep

That rant was a bit comical alright

ButtersSuki

I can’t believe she was on again, so soon after her last show.

She’s a self-proclaimed expert on everything.

Beechwoodspark

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Gone are the days of somewhat intelligent conversation on this...long gone

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

They didn't even cover the story about the two women arrested on their way back from Dubai

Hmm. I wonder which forum has the more intelligent conversation.

bossdrum

Did I hear Nora mention she was a victim of domestic abuse from her husband for 9 years?
Is this a different husband than the one that died?
Was this guy convicted in court or are you allowed to make such statements about people on air?

ButtersSuki

bossdrum wrote: »

Did I hear Nora mention she was a victim of domestic abuse from her husband for 9 years?
Is this a different husband than the one that died?
Was this guy convicted in court or are you allowed to make such statements about people on air?

The dead can’t be libeled.

Did Damian just say "your feral upbringing"? The man was an orphan, not a stray cat.