Marie-Louise O Donnell on Kenny

Rebelheart · 01-09-2010 03:12PM #1

I'm a regular listener to Pat Kenny, if only because he is, despite the many criticisms of him, very much on the ball with current affairs and economic issues. He gives us a serious discussion on economics in the morning, while also giving a decent conversation on a wide variety of books.

Of late, however, there has been this Marie-Louise O Donnell character on his show. In a sentence: she sounds as obnoxiously nasal and "horsey" as that awful article, Avril Doyle. Listening to her now several times it was killing me where I heard that name before, and then I finally remembered. Over on The Midnight Hour on RTÉ 1 television about 8 years ago one "Marie Louise O Donnell" went on the show with Vincent Browne where she went on a rant against the Irish language and, wait for it, the money given to promote Irish should instead be given to promote ...you guessed it ...OPERA! (she was representing DCU that night, if I recall)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Browne, and the other members of the panel, rightly hammed ten (at least) shades of shíte out of her there and then.

Anyway, why is this pretentious D4 gobdaw - who hasn't even a doctorate to match her pretensions (shock, horror) - on an otherwise intelligent current affairs programme? She would be more suited to some lightweight X Factor/America's Next Top Model, etc programme. TV3 would, like, love her, like.

There are many other serious, contemplative people who could be on Today with Pat Kenny, people who add to my knowledge of current affairs, history and the world in which I live. She offers nothing.

/rant over.

JonathanAnon · 01-09-2010 04:54PM

LOL... that's some rant. But I do agree with a lot of what you say.

Plowman · 01-09-2010 06:18PM

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Aidric · 01-09-2010 09:04PM

She is a regular on Vincent Browne. Her hurried hot air delivery carries all the authority of an Enda Kenny speech, who she happens to be a cheerleader for. Go figure.

irishh_bob · 02-09-2010 11:04AM

Rebelheart wrote: »

I'm a regular listener to Pat Kenny, if only because he is, despite the many criticisms of him, very much on the ball with current affairs and economic issues. He gives us a serious discussion on economics in the morning, while also giving a decent conversation on a wide variety of books.

Of late, however, there has been this Marie-Louise O Donnell character on his show. In a sentence: she sounds as obnoxiously nasal and "horsey" as that awful article, Avril Doyle. Listening to her now several times it was killing me where I heard that name before, and then I finally remembered. Over on The Midnight Hour on RTÉ 1 television about 8 years ago one "Marie Louise O Donnell" went on the show with Vincent Browne where she went on a rant against the Irish language and, wait for it, the money given to promote Irish should instead be given to promote ...you guessed it ...OPERA! (she was representing DCU that night, if I recall)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Browne, and the other members of the panel, rightly hammed ten (at least) shades of shíte out of her there and then.

Anyway, why is this pretentious D4 gobdaw - who hasn't even a doctorate to match her pretensions (shock, horror) - on an otherwise intelligent current affairs programme? She would be more suited to some lightweight X Factor/America's Next Top Model, etc programme. TV3 would, like, love her, like.

There are many other serious, contemplative people who could be on Today with Pat Kenny, people who add to my knowledge of current affairs, history and the world in which I live. She offers nothing.

/rant over.

she is indeed an incredibly obnoxious , crass and overbearing woman , the kind you imagine might sprawl herself across the bonet of your car if that was what it took to gain your attention

JonathanAnon · 02-09-2010 11:10AM

He sensationalist description of countryside life was that akin to a member of the Star Ship Enterprise going in back in time and describing the life of a caveman... I reckon she thinks most people outside the Pale still eat with their hands..

TimmyTarmac · 02-09-2010 02:57PM

irishh_bob wrote: »

she is.......the kind you imagine might sprawl herself across the bonet of your car

Indeed. I am imagining this right now. Thank you, Mr. Bob.

irishh_bob · 02-09-2010 08:42PM

TimmyTarmac wrote: »

Indeed. I am imagining this right now. Thank you, Mr. Bob.

btw , im good friends with an excellent panel beater

Callan57 · 02-09-2010 08:50PM

I think she is just a 'filler-in' for the silly season ... hope she will be gone back to DCU or wherever when normal service resumes

JonathanAnon · 02-09-2010 10:19PM

Hey Rebel heart, she's on The Vincent Browne Show now.

Callan57 · 03-09-2010 10:45AM

Pat Kenny back to normal prog. length on Monday .. summer officially over & normal service restored. No more Marie Louise :P

JonathanAnon · 03-09-2010 10:55AM

I dont know whether it's hopeless optimism, Callan57, but just cos she is back working in DCU doesnt necessarily mean that she wont be appearing with Pat Kenny again.

FlutterinBantam · 03-09-2010 11:54AM

irishh_bob wrote: »

she is indeed an incredibly obnoxious , crass and overbearing woman , the kind you imagine might sprawl herself across the bonet of your car if that was what it took to gain your attention

Bonnet

Hmmm... on her front or back:cool:

:eek:

Rebelheart · 03-09-2010 05:40PM

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Hey Rebel heart, she's on The Vincent Browne Show now.

Feck off with yourself there ya rising bollocks!;) Not surprising. TV3 is so seriously trash - Next Top Model/X Factor, me arse - yer wan who hasn't even got a PhD would be in her element there. The dimness of it all is ineffable.

On a more serious note it's despairing that the Irish broadcasting industry is apparently regulated but people polluting the Irish broadcasting environment with the "economies of scale" (i.e. trash foreign programmes made by TV3's owners, Doughty Hanson, are widely used in the supposedly "Irish" TV3) TV3 trash receive no penalty for bringing the population's entertainment/intelligence level down to that of the British tabloids (and their "Oirish" representatives).

I'm thinking with this sort of cultural sell-out that Ray Burke was the minister when this licence was given out, which happened in 1990 according to this. And holy Mary mother of God, guess who was Minister for Communications in this state in 1990? Raphael Burke!

(not that I've gone serious off-topic there! Mea culpa)

Callan57 · 07-09-2010 01:06PM

She turned up again this morning ... hanging around Temple Bar with a squad of likely lads who apparently are unable to exchange a couple of words with the other half of the human race.
Would she ever go away?

Poly · 07-09-2010 02:20PM

It's better than the other weekly feature, Valarie Cox roots around rubbish bins.
Yeah, people are dumping illegally, we get it. We don't need to hear it every fcukin week.

washiskin · 21-09-2010 10:05AM

*facepalms* she's down at the Ploughing Match today - is nothing safe from this haridan?

I thought she was a lecturer in DCU? If so, are we paying her wages and whatever she charges RTE for her insights - if of course - she charges them? :mad:

JonathanAnon · 21-09-2010 10:16AM

arrrrrgggghhhhh my ears..

hinault · 21-09-2010 10:19AM

I like MLD.

She's a regular on Vincent Brownes programme.

Callan57 · 21-09-2010 05:53PM

God I can't abide that woman with her fake over the top enthusiasm ... she must have the most annoying, shrill voice on Radio. Would RTE ever please get rid of her? :eek:

Dostoevsky · 21-09-2010 06:06PM

Poly wrote: »

It's better than the other weekly feature, Valarie Cox roots around rubbish bins.
Yeah, people are dumping illegally, we get it. We don't need to hear it every fcukin week.

Whatever you might say about Valerie Cox, she does benefit local communities fighting campaigns for rights and so forth. Last April, for example, she came out to my local community, on behalf of the Pat Kenny show, to report on the NRA's removal of pedestrian rights of ways and how local people were in effect forbidden from now walking to their local villages because of this NRA decision. Shortly after that we got the NRA to place footpaths all along the roundabouts in question. From her visit to that public meeting in our community centre last April she seems to be a really nice, genuine person (I know for a fact she kept in touch with the organisers for some time after the show was produced to see how they were getting on)

This part of the Pat Kenny show, in other words, makes localities better by highlighting abuses of power by more powerful actors in society and seeking to change them. This is an extremely valuable service on the part of RTÉ.

I doubt this Marie Louise O Donnell would be seen dead in my part of the world - and she certainly isn't doing a job on RTÉ which will highlight issues faced by communities across Ireland. As somebody else said she seems to be very "horsey" in her socio-economic sentiments. We shouldn't have our licence fees resurrecting that culture.

Rebelheart · 30-11-2010 12:01AM

Oh Jesus. Turned on the TV anocht and I can hear her horsey Avril Doyle accent before I see her. I looked up and there she was in her full glory talking through her nasal things down at us, the poor little people without affected accents, horses (and blue shirts). Cheap, tabloid, lower class stuff - in fairness, she's on The Apprentice. Mutton. Lamb.

Well done, TV3 - as classy as you've always been.

telekon · 30-11-2010 09:59AM

Don't mind her myself.

Surely people's anger should be redirected towards a more worthy cause such as messrs Duffy and Tubridy...

Much more offensive.

neris · 30-11-2010 11:13AM

oh god shes on now talking about teh sewers in dublin. she needs to pull her head out of her backside with her language and speech. She sounds like shes rehearsing for shakespere. By the way what does coagulate mean? sounds like a posh d4 way of saying blocked

tbh · 30-11-2010 11:22AM

neris wrote: »

oh god shes on now talking about teh sewers in dublin. she needs to pull her head out of her backside with her language and speech. She sounds like shes rehearsing for shakespere. By the way what does coagulate mean? sounds like a posh d4 way of saying blocked

I really hate her attitude. "Oh there's these jolly little men and would you look at them working away in the filth and them so jolly because they don't know any better. What a chirpy lot the working classes are!"

FlutterinBantam · 30-11-2010 12:50PM

neris wrote: »

oh god shes on now talking about teh sewers in dublin. she needs to pull her head out of her backside with her language and speech. She sounds like shes rehearsing for shakespere. By the way what does coagulate mean? sounds like a posh d4 way of saying blocked

From the latin vb cóaguláre to make a liquid thick .also cogére to drive together.

You might be familiar with the word 'cogent' as in 'she put forward a very cogent argument' i.e. very precise and tightly put together.

This would be an English derivation of the word.

Hope that helps.

Poly · 30-11-2010 12:58PM

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Hope that helps.

Thanks Flutt, that helps alot. Now that we can fully comprehend the PK show, it's much more enjoyable.

JonathanAnon · 30-11-2010 01:14PM

Quick lads, she's still down there... lock her in...

JonathanAnon · 30-11-2010 01:18PM

Poly wrote: »

Thanks Flutt, that helps alot. Now that we can fully comprehend the PK show, it's much more enjoyable.

You think that MLD would know not to use big "college" words so that the punter of average intelligence (similar to the working class people she meets) might have a chance of understanding her monologues..

Rebelheart · 30-11-2010 01:38PM

telekon wrote: »

Don't mind her myself.

Surely people's anger should be redirected towards a more worthy cause such as messrs Duffy and Tubridy...

Much more offensive.

If somebody had nipped Duffy and Tubridy in the bud when they were starting out we might not have to endure them now. Anyway, if I'm not mistaken those two supreme wafflers have many threads dedicated to them already so the answer to your rhetorical question is: surely not!

neris wrote: »

oh god shes on now talking about teh sewers in dublin. she needs to pull her head out of her backside with her language and speech. She sounds like shes rehearsing for shakespere. By the way what does coagulate mean? sounds like a posh d4 way of saying blocked

She probably meant Colgate and it was a convoluted attempt at product placement? Or maybe she was just absolutely mentally exhausted from the intensity of being on The Apprentice on that most intellectual of stations, TV3, last night.

dory · 30-11-2010 02:16PM

In fairness to her her website is a work of art. Lol

JonathanAnon · 30-11-2010 02:25PM

dory wrote: »

In fairness to her her website is a work of art. Lol

Maybe that will be next week's segment.. MLD getting a website done...

"Pat, this man sits down at a computer... and like a modern day Caravaggio, illuminates the screen with these fantastic colours and designs"... etc etc

Lapin · 30-11-2010 02:58PM

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dRNk SAnTA · 30-11-2010 03:40PM

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Maybe that will be next week's segment.. MLD getting a website done...

"Pat, this man sits down at a computer... and like a modern day Caravaggio, illuminates the screen with these fantastic colours and designs"... etc etc

Lol! That's exactly the way she goes on. I've seen her on Vincent Browne many times but heard her on PK for first time this morning, she is so feckin' scatterbrained with her stories.

"Rats the size of cats... grease coagulates Pat!... honestly pat, public servants!... poo in the truck... oh and the grease is there because... great men pat, better than bankers!... poo on newborn babies... grease from the fryingpan... bankers flushed our money like poo... great men, did I mention the balls of grease Pat?"

mrsdewinter · 30-11-2010 11:33PM

Marie Louise has been knocking around mediaville for yonks. I'm sure I can remember her as a Late Late Show rentaquote back in Gaybo's day. One thing that stays with me is the regular rolling out of anecdotes that hinged on one of her elderly uncles in Mayo making some savant-like ruling on some folly of the late 20th-century world All delivered in a thick Mayo accent.
I never minded her myself but she seems to regard herself as A Personality.
So it surprises me that she turns up on the PKS reporting from afternoon tea dances, marts, etc (anywhere, basically, where the people can be relied upon to make savant-like rulings on the follies of 21st-century life. In thick Mayo accents, if poss).
Unlike Valerie Cox's reports, Marie Louise's reports seem to be about Marie Louise, not about whatever phenomenon she is supposed to be covering.
Just my 2c

FlutterinBantam · 01-12-2010 08:20AM

And a very erudite and perceptive 2c it is too Maa'm.

Dr. Fell · 09-01-2011 02:58AM

TimmyTarmac wrote: »

Indeed. I am imagining this right now. Thank you, Mr. Bob.

I can't stop thinking about it!

dirtyden · 20-03-2011 03:04PM

'They have great wonderful wide faces, sparkly eyes and thick wiry hair and kind of big ears'

What was the brash Marie describing, only the people of Mayo welcoming Enda home.

A lecturer in communictions?

If communications involves shouting loudly without thinking in a condescending and obnoxious manner then she will be head of department soon.

Aidric · 20-03-2011 04:34PM

dirtyden wrote: »

'They have great wonderful wide faces, sparkly eyes and thick wiry hair and kind of big ears'

One might be forgiven for thinking they had sent her to middle earth. It may not be a bad idea now that I think of it.

JonathanAnon · 20-03-2011 05:29PM

dirtyden wrote: »

'They have great wonderful wide faces, sparkly eyes and thick wiry hair and kind of big ears'

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One would wonder what hyperbolic adjectives Mary Louise would use if she had walked in to the room and saw this:

mikom · 20-03-2011 05:36PM

JonathanAnon wrote: »

One would wonder what hyperbolic adjectives Mary Louise would use if she had walked in to the room and saw this:

Wrinkle tits?

FlutterinBantam · 21-03-2011 08:33AM

This lady is building up quite a tank of bile,and rightly so.

Who the fcuk does she think she is talking about people in that disparaging way.

Kenny would be well advised to tone her down, or get rid of her.

Lapin · 21-03-2011 11:04AM

Looks like they sent her off to spend time with sheep this week in the knowledge that they are unlikely to text in a plethora of complaints relating to her hyperbolic descriptions of them.

ADD
Just a question - Is the word ewe (a female sheep) not pronounced as yo?

I'm not from a farming background but thats the way the few farmers I know pronounce it.

Maybe the word has regional variations.

FlutterinBantam · 22-03-2011 08:26AM

Lapin wrote: »

Looks like they sent her off to spend time with sheep this week in the knowledge that they are unlikely to text in a plethora of complaints relating to her hyperbolic descriptions of them.

ADD
Just a question - Is the word ewe (a female sheep) not pronounced as yo?

I'm not from a farming background but thats the way the few farmers I know pronounce it.

Maybe the word has regional variations.

Regional variations apply to that word.

Simplyjoe · 22-03-2011 02:39PM

If what she has reported on the Kenny homecoming does not amount to racism then I do not understand the English language. Such people should not be employed by state sponsored bodies. Having said that this is a common thread amongst Dublin based journalists and personalities. Terms such as bogger, culchie and such like are extremely derogotary and are aimed at a specific group of people. What do you think its like explaining to my 8 year old what Dustin and other TV pesonalities are talking about when such language is used? Do I tell her that these people feel that we in the West are less refined, ignorant, physically less attractive and more corrupt than people in Dublin? Do I tell her that feel they are superior to her?

SeaFields · 23-03-2011 10:01AM

Lapin wrote: »

Looks like they sent her off to spend time with sheep this week in the knowledge that they are unlikely to text in a plethora of complaints relating to her hyperbolic descriptions of them.

I suspect it was an exercise in damage limitation after her last performance when she referred to country people as having a "smell of porridge, turf and pray" about them. She wanted to get out to the country again and attempt to show herself blending in with the natives. I listen to Pat Kenny every morning. I will promptly be turning the program off as soon as this self-obsessed idiot begins her self promoting drivel again.

mikemac · 23-03-2011 07:27PM

Did a better job with the sheep after that segment about people in the West of Ireland. The show must have been inundated in complaints

Lapin wrote: »

ADD
Just a question - Is the word ewe (a female sheep) not pronounced as yo?

I'm not from a farming background but thats the way the few farmers I know pronounce it.

Maybe the word has regional variations.

yo or u, both are fine. Depends on where you are in Ireland, you are correct there are regional variations

Rebelheart · 20-05-2011 07:54PM

No, it couldn't possibly be: I've just read that this awful, awful, awfully pretentious, shallow, vacuous and patronising article has been appointed to Seanad Éireann by Kenny: Taoiseach names Seanad 11

Well, whoever promised us a new type of politics when this new government took over? She's been richly rewarded with €100,000 per year from the hard-working taxpayers of this state for being cheerleader extraordinaire on the national media for Enda Kenny prior to the election.

Truly disgusting, the equivalent of Ahern appointing Eoghan Harris to the same position for his support in the media prior to the 2007 election. Fine Gael: the new Fianna Fáil.

JonathanAnon · 20-05-2011 08:01PM

That really is a fukn joke... Close the place down like you said you would Enda for the love of god..

constitutionus · 21-05-2011 09:11AM

Rebelheart wrote: »

No, it couldn't possibly be: I've just read that this awful, awful, awfully pretentious, shallow, vacuous and patronising article has been appointed to Seanad Éireann by Kenny: Taoiseach names Seanad 11

Well, whoever promised us a new type of politics when this new government took over? She's been richly rewarded with €100,000 per year from the hard-working taxpayers of this state for being cheerleader extraordinaire on the national media for Enda Kenny prior to the election.

Truly disgusting, the equivalent of Ahern appointing Eoghan Harris to the same position for his support in the media prior to the 2007 election. Fine Gael: the new Fianna Fáil.

that is really is hilarious.

but not a surprise when you think about it, tonally she's got alot in common with hairyarse. im surprised i didnt cop the similarities sooner.

no surprise on FGs part though, second cheek of the same arse so what can you expect?

only surprise is some people genuinely seem to think they voted for something different than FF.

Barname · 22-05-2011 04:26PM

JonathanAnon wrote: »

That really is a fukn joke... Close the place down like you said you would Enda for the love of god..

Perhaps ? (hoping in optimism) this is Enda's master strategy for abolishing the Seanad?

One or two pontificating self centred pee on the masses rant from Bint-in-Chief and the other Senators will demand the Senate be abolished.

Marie-Louise O Donnell on Kenny

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