Newstalk Megathread Nov 2022

Ciara not letting Gino get a word in and finding it hard to hide her contempt.

Poor Gino.

It's almost as if suggesting that the current government are actively encouraging far right extremist activity or that a far right coup lead by the Gardai and defence forces would be inevitable in the case that a wonderful fluffy and cuddly far left government were elected.

The man is also charging people €3 to read this rhetoric in a totally understandable charge to cover the cost of printing in an era when he could have circulated his manifesto as a bloody pdf.

Why should Gino Kenny be given any more respect than someone like Justin Barrett? They're both peddling insane nonsense that preys on peoples fears.

The guy sounded unhinged, not because the nasty woman interviewing him made him sound that way but by the very content of his own manifesto.

Gino deserves contempt and people need to know what he and his left wing cronies are actually thinking. They're a danger to this country and if anyone can't see that they're being willfully ignorant of reality.

That is the limit of GAA ‘marketing’ I wouldn’t call that hype by a long stretch. Rugby do it much better. Onesided game v Italy AVIVA packed.

Ah now, anyone comparing Gino Kenny to Justin Barrett can’t be taken seriously. I don’t agree with everything he says but he’s a long way off someone like Barrett.

I don’t think he suggested that it was going to happen with the current government, he was in the middle of explaining a process in which that could happen but, unfortunately, he was interrupted anytime he went to explain.

I heard Terry Prone on yesterday talking to Pat Kenny she was waffling on about a statement that older people should be encouraged to integrate following Covid. I immediately turned it off. Ten minutes later flicked it on to see if she was finished. Still talking about nothing. Just aimless generalities.

I then turned it off again. Prone seems to fulfil a role in the media what I used to call the ‘Mary O’Rourke role’.

Any general comment something happening ring Mary/Terry. Now at least O’Rourke had political knowledge. But for Prone expertise on any given subject does not matter. She is invited on to give her ‘opinion’/‘advice’ regardless. The one thing Prone has going for her is that her job title is suitably vague. I am starting to think they should just shorten it to ‘guru’ . ‘Communications specialist’ is not vague enough.

If your mind boggles over why fans watch a game then it's your mind that you need to worry about

"Tá tú suas chun dáta" is rearing its ugly head again......

Does former Dr. Ciara have some kind of verbal tic or something? It's not a stutter or anything like that. She's constantly "The-the-the" or S-S-so. I assume it's a tic but it's getting worse.

Similar stuff last Monday morning (Monday February 27th)

Coleman announced that it was Monday the 27th of January and his co-host appeared oblivious .....

It's just not good enough 😀

What would be a more correct way to say "You are up to date" in Irish?

bet she didn't have that "tic" when she was a GP. "and and and and and and and and and...........here is your perscription" !

No idea but it likely won't follow a modern English sentence structure.

funny segment this morning when Frank Coughan Columnist with the Irish Indo debating the pros and cons of trying to speak the Irish language. He has a problem with the "cupla focal" thrown around on radio, TV and by celebrities saying they're keeping it alive. Frank's article says it is hypocrisy at its finest, these people never progress yet they are on their pedastal preaching to everyone else about how great they are and how much they are keeping the Irish culture alive

It seems to include Shane Coleman's pathethic attempt every day to throw in the cupla focal at every ad and news break! I find this really annoying, or maybe I just find Shane Coleman really annoying, he tends to get up on a pedastal about everything, high moral grounding the plebs among us.

I don't have an opinion either way on the cupla focal being thrown around, but where I live in Kerry I regularly hear true Irish speakers and its beautiful spoken fluently.

I was just happy to see Shane Colemman being challenged on his smugness, it made my day.

It should be pointed out that Coleman did say that he asked himself after reading the article if it ‘was talking about him’ but Frank said it wasn’t and that he didn’t know what level Coleman was at.

Kelly up to her usual "I-I-I", "The-the-the", "we-we-we" etc. verbal tic stuff again.