Brendan O’Connor is joining the RTÉ Radio 1 Weekend family. Starting in mid March from 11am-1pm Saturdays & Sundays.🎙 pic.twitter.com/1H8u4DBcOz
— RTÉ Radio 1 (@RTERadio1) February 14, 2020
This afternoon.
“After 15 years working in the Sunday Independent, I’m delighted to be joining the weekends on RTÉ Radio 1.
The weekend is a time to pause, take a breath and review the week, and it’s also a time when people like a different, more reflective kind of radio, maybe even a bit of fun.”
Marian’s legacy will inspire us to continue to explore, challenge and debate the issues that truly matter to Irish people.”
Brendan O’Connor.
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Brendan O’Connor gets weekend mid-morning slot on RTÉ Radio 1 (RTÉ)
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Same old same old
Shocker…another right wing talking head on rte.
I wish companies would stop using the word ‘family’. Such a corporate America term.
what other word could they use to convey the level of abject dysfunction within RTE?
Or the FAI
(Till recently anyway fingers crossed)
Mafia?
in French they might use words like claque or clique, instead of family.
…this used to be one of my favourite Radio 1 slots…if Marian irritated me I had only to open the drawer and look at my iodine tablets…really hoped Rachel English would fill this slot…anyone but this langer…
Rachel English is a corporate dose….o Connor is a decent interviewer
odious.
remember he use to do the sexist captions under the photographs in the LIFE magazine supplement. making smutty jokes about photocall girls.
a gas man.
why not just get Dustin the Turkey
Until such a time as the RTE get fed up with him again and decide that what we really need is Lottie Ryan in that slot.
Ballsy O’Connor, up there with the worst of them
Mind you it’s hard to think of anyone who could be worse than the late Finucane.
For someone who only had two shows a week she was always remarkably unprepared and always gave the impression she didn’t have much of a clue what was going on.
Although to be honest I never managed more than five minutes of her before turning back to Talksport.
Agree
She was absolutely phoning it in for years
How can you stand us at all you poor oul divil?
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/the-smart-ballsy-guys-are-buying-up-property-right-now-26307728.html
Thank you for bringing this back
To be honest he was bang on the money there.
Some of us did start hoovering up cheap property in 2007 and we’ve been laughing ever since.
“hoovering up cheap property in 2007”
is that the same 2007 as when property prices were at an all time high?
Good catch BB. Reel him in.
He was bang on the money. Replace “ballsy guys” with “vulture funds” and voila – that is what happened.
Your lack of self awareness never ceases to amaze.
Ballsy will always be Ballsy…..what a guy. Surprised he survived the recession….what a guy. Outstanding in his field.
Reading back over the coughing articles shows the great travails of Broadsheet !
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Well done .Have a good day .
On the upside, Marian’s death has freed up my Saturday mornings. Anyone for tennis?
Appalling timing of her death. Can you imagine the 00bolloques she would presided over with Sinn Fein, Megan and Harry, CoronaVirus, FAI, etc., mistress of overpaid ceremonies with the usual know-all dinner party set stuffed shirt numpties? Vile.
Sarah McInerney, in my opinion, is a far superior broadcaster.
She’s awful. So far in this so-called ‘current affairs’ show she has plucked out the following headlines from the newspapers; Emmerdale, Strictly Come Dancing and Kate Middleton. 15 mins out of a 120 min slot spent on government coalition predictions solely with none other with Fionnan Sheehan. No debate, no discussion.
*throws radio into recycling appliance bin
The interview with Allison Morris wasn’t bad. I wonder why no one mentioned that he was a dissident Republican though? I’d have thought that was a salient fact, which might explain why he got away with terrorising her for so long.
The same reason nobody mentions MaIRiA cahill is not a dissident republic. The anti-Sinn Fein narrative.