Words fail me. Good night. @rte
— Mary Lou McDonald (@MaryLouMcDonald) February 14, 2022
Last night.
Claire Byrne Live on RTÉ One.
Seemed to go well.
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Everything. As It Happens.
Words fail me. Good night. @rte
— Mary Lou McDonald (@MaryLouMcDonald) February 14, 2022
Last night.
Claire Byrne Live on RTÉ One.
Seemed to go well.
Stunning bit of TV! Absolutely stunning! It will be interesting to see how Dee Forbes approaches a Sinn Fein government looking for funding.
I saw most of it.. jaw dropping.. I can see why so many nationalists in the North want nothing to do with the South. The dissonance between what has happened, and is happening on this Island and RTÉ.. there are just no words. There is a long overdue and much needed shake up on the way.
that’s exactly what I thought…what’s going to happen to your funding and what happened to being impartial
And it seems that RTÉ rolled out Eddie Hobbs – the reverse Midas – to have a go at the Shinners!
The shark has been well and truly jumped.
And Hobbs got his bottom handed to him on a plate by the academic chap from UCD.
Eddie Hobbs? That’s the best Claire Byrne could do? She has as good professional judgement as Hobbs himself obviously.
Hahahaha.
isn’t it funny though that some just seem to have the knack of rehabilitation?
Hobbs, Yates, Ahern and the like…all regular guests and learned opinionates on this show and that
we even have operational versions like Lowry day to day up on Kildare St.
like “it” never happened
kinda fascinating and depressing at same time
Oh that looks like it was a doozy.
As impartial as ever. Exactly what you’d expect from our national broadcaster.
I’m not a Sinn Fein supporter, but this was incredible. It was more suited to the programming of a tin-pot banana republic.
Is that the sound of a penny dropping, Sara?
No, I never had much respect for RTE because of the censorship of Section 30. But last night’s program didn’t even pretend to be fake neutral. Not that it matters, because this won’t hurt Sinn Fein in the slightest.
“Anyone would think you’d want Ireland to lose the next Eurosong contest.”
Pandemic of the republicans
Make sure to check under your bed for Shinners
They havent gone awauy
caught the ad for this while flicking around….couldn’t believe what I was seeing
if this is the level that RTE & Friends are operating at now just wait till GE time
LOL
My heart really went out to poor Alison O’Connor having to grow up during D’troubles on the mean streets of… Bantry
Leave Eddie alone, he’s a genius. He can get everyone in the country a cheap house. In Detroit.
Don’t worry. As soon as they find a place for that Robocop statue, good old Detroit’s gonna turn itself around.
https://www.mlive.com/life/2021/02/detroits-giant-robocop-statue-is-real-and-its-spectacular-at-11-feet-25-tons.html?outputType=amp
“Ol’ Gil’s gotta good feeling about this one”
€13,000,000 of investor funds spunked and a lone boarded up house worth €7000 at the end of it all.
The house ALWAYS wins.
Don’t watch the program but wanted to join the righteous mocking of waddling punchline Eddie Hobbs so, LOL.
Demographics (largely people old enough to remember Jerry McCabe’s murder still being alive) and our history of coalition governments mean that SF might just fall short of taking the reins at next GE but it will happen in the next 10 years.
Voted SF in the last GE.
well I’m certainly voting SF
#1 and #2 if there is a second candidate
and strategically the rest to ensure as little transferability risk to FFG as possible
these ***** have no idea what is going on in real life and I want to teach them a well earned lesson and derail a few cronies along the way why not
Sounds good to me, both FF and FG and now FFFG have had their chances and we need to give someone else a go, I just don’t think the country as a whole is quite there yet.
Would it be crass to laugh at Arkham Asylum escapee Eddie Hobbs again ?
Who cares!?
LOL.
The odour of closet FGer is strong off ANO..
I’ve voted in a lot of elections, for a lot of different candidates and many of them would have been from one of the two big parties.
I’m not a member of a political party.
Would you actually give that Andrews chap a vote?
Holy moly, Eddie Hobbs.
With socialism, a man has 2 cows, the state takes 1.
Sinn Fein are coming to take your cows.
The Irish Labour Party’s slogan for the 1969 general election was THE SEVENTIES WILL BE SOCIALIST.
Fianna Fail and Fine Gael then campaigned around the country with threat of the farmer having 2 cows and Labour coming to take 1 cow away.
Now its Sinn Fein that are coming to take the 1 cow away according to Eddie Hobbs last night.
That programme reminded me of the attempted stitch up of Gerry Adams on the LLS by Gay Byrne. That was received badly as will that show last night.
An array of right wingers – O’Connor, Power, Hobbs – used as attack dogs.
‘…the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing but hoping for a different result…’
Voting Sinn Fein is an admission that you have failed in life.
The fact that you posted this comment is an admission that you have failed in life.
Or an admission that the current government has failed its citizens
Wake up, they are all the same, nothing changes.
Mary Lou has a kid in Gonzaga, the most elite school in the country.
She does not give a “you know what” about you.
You are all being played.
Hello. We’ve been expecting you:
https://twitter.com/DrHaroldNews/status/1493344480111607810
that would make a great t-shirt
you’d make a fortune selling them at the FG ard fheis.
Well I look forward to the rest in the series – “Reasons not to Vote for FF, FG, Greens, Indies etc” followed by “Reasons to vote for SF, FF, FG, Greens, etc.” because RTE is nothing if not balanced and equanimous, eschewing bandwagons and hysteria, knee-jerk reactionary programming and commentary. Likewise it treats its potential audience as adults. never talking down to people or being patronising. Oh sorry – this is Prime Time, apologies. I thought we were talking RTE Junior ..
Somewhere in the Prime Time ahem “news” room a decision was made that this particular item would represent a fabulous piece of programming. Some of these people may even have journalistic credentials and qualifications which makes a mockery of journalistic credentials and qualifications unless of course you’ve spent a considerable period in your professional life working for the North Korean or Russian State.
I haven’t seen the programme in fairness but if the snappy title isn’t presented as an ironic twist on the actual content then this is really deplorable stuff. It should be to anyone regardless of one’s political allegiances or otherwise (unless of course there’s a similar set to follow where Eddie Hobbs discusses all other political parties).
Coveney?
Hilarious stuff.
Hopefully RTE will be forced to do some severe tightening of their belt if SF do get in and hopefully one of the first casualties will be the useless Claire Byrne.
As for Eddie Hobgoblin, why, just why?
Hang on- is this the same Eddie Hobbs who has been appearing on The Irish Inquiry lockdown / vaccine sceptic round tables?
Now on the biggest plandemic propaganda mouth piece RTE could offer?
Talk about running with the hare and hunting with the hounds…
The same Eddie Hobbs from Broadsheet On The Telly ?
I’m starting to think the controlled opposition was all of us, all along.
Jesus just saw some of that, watch for yet another SF bump.
Blonde white middle-class woman gets cushy job stand-up presenting on RTE about how bad a not-blonde white middle-class woman is because when they’re in power it’s the end of the blonde white middle-class woman’s nosebag.
Tremendous sisters.
Claire’s moustache is nice though.
Yes she is moving with the times- she now identifies as: who me?, dey dem, wee woo and hee haw.
All of which makes as much sense as the other tripe she churns out.
That is a very nice moustache……
Not Burt Reynolds but give it time
The days of Sinn Fein taking protection money from drug dealers, covering up paedophilia, arranging disappearances of “grasses” are long in the past, the new Sinn Fein will bring free homes, free services, free bins, free education and free healthcare, they are the party of the people and will win the next GE by a landslide
The desperation is creeping in again from this government and poor ol Claire it backfired the last time and it will the next time
The only socialism that was exposed on this show was the governments socialist attitude to landlords. Taxes being raided to pay overpriced rents via HAP. Hobbs and Flynn a disgrace