The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

Good call Gen. very observant, easy to see how you rose thru the ranks.

Olympics “team” is interesting, seems to be chosen on a rota basis.

Cahill seems to be there to get ‘emotional’ and highlight the tears and blubbering

Then you have various ‘lesser’ lights including Damian who has form in attendance, he was at Rio too.

Then u have Jaqui and Damian o Meara, Paul for the swimming, no one really appearing from left field yet…… Brenda Donoghue!!

will give a small prize (two likes) for whoever spots the most ‘off piste’ junketeer.

Keep your ears peeled.😉

He's in Tokyo, but isn't working for RTÉ. He's doing commentary for the world feed, RTÉ are using this for some events.

RTÉ could not afford Ryle anymore.

Something tells me they won’t be emigrating anytime soon- the dole and handouts here are far better than anywhere else. These idiots are the product of all that is wrong here.

At this stage the only people who should be offered housing in the city are those working. End of story, my patience is wearing thin to think (maybe wrongly) that city centre expensive housing that few can afford might be assigned to those not contributing much to society.

As for this show, I am not a fan. At. All. But that's a personal thing.

Not a fan, but that's a bit unfair. One of the lads is working as a QA for Amazon. Not dole for him.

“even though you’ve been complaining about how bad life is in the inner city yet you still want a free gaff there handed out to you”

I must of missed that part.

No idea what they were on BOC or what there podcast is about? All a bit pointless.

I haven't heard the name Terrence in a long time. Did John Creddon have a character called Terrence at one point? "Its a lot like liiifffffffeeeee" Wasn't that his catchphrase or am I getting him confused with someone else?

And RTE wonder why they are in serious financial trouble, when BOC is 'worth' a quarter of a million a year.

I've always thought that one of the benefits of paying Tubs and BOC so much. Is that it distracted how much every one else in RTE is earning. RTE employs about 1800 people. Of that 1800, 24 earn between 100k and 150k. That is base pay, before any bonuses or commission or what ever. 98 people earn between 100k - 100k. And a further 170 earning between 75k and 100k.

None of these are "talent" since all of the talent are contractors

Who are the 24, what are they doing to warrant that much. Why are RTE over paying so many people. I appreciate that some of the jobs are technical and highly skilled. Department heads are highly skilled and demand a high wage. Sales people will obviously be high earners. But none of the figures contain bonuses or commissions.

A lot of the content gets farmed out to production companies. So it is not as if they are paying for top tier directors or production staff.

Who is making 100k?

Is it the lighting and sound guys on The Late Late. Someone in HR, the accounts department? Who?

Yet they continue to tell us that they pay their 'talent' accordingly.

It is run like a business that knows it will never be allowed to fail, and thats why the tough decisions are never taken.

When Anthony Staines mentioned other health conditions today, Brendan jumped straight in with his "what health conditions " question. Is it a condition of going on the show that you have to be willing to share personal medical information?

I felt a bit uncomfortable about that as well. He mentioned underlying conditions. I don't think he was expecting to be speaking about getting a liver transplant on the today's show. Mad for the misery porn.

Ah now, that was before he was full time on The Marian Finucane Show, still trying to figure out what he did in 2019 other than fill in, was The Cutting Edge still going?

You're absolutely right, though it is fairly standard practice on RTE and most other media outlets in fairness.

Put any person with a disability on for interview, and the first question is a version of 'What's wrong with ya' - sometimes slightly more nuanced than that, sometimes not.

No way?? Are you serious? What an absolute waste of €250K. His annual fee should be cut to €50K as of and from next week.

No wonder so called Ballsy has lost his balls and not wont to rock any boats.

Derval is in for him for a couple of weeks, might give a listen today

I think Dearbhail is a million times better than Brendan, she has her research done, she's bright and intelligent. Overall I feel like the show is dumbed down radically since Brendan took over. You can hear his relief when the politics section is over on Sunday and he can sit back and listen to others talk about what's on the telly. He just doesn't have an agile enough mind to handle the job and the truth is the whole national discourse will suffer for it because its the one point in the week where people are off and can passively catch up on what's going on in the country newswise. Without the engagement of the public p politicians can get away with anything.

Only game in town on a Saturday though, B.

Newstalk should give Gavin Reilly a Saturday show but until then the bold Brendan can take on whomever Noel King wants him to and the only “option”, for the common punter, is to turn off the radio altogether.