RTE's sign of the times. Image by Infomatique
- 8:51 PM Simon McGarr -
- 8:51 PM Simon McGarr - Photo courtesy of cc licence by Infomatique, via Flickr
- 9:51 PM Simon McGarr - Waiting for TWIP. A self described broadcaster and mum is explaining how Actimel has little white balls that plug holes in your innards so purple balls can’t escape through. It is at moments like this when I wonder are ads really a price worth paying for programmes.
- 9:54 PM Suzy Byrne - If anyone knows the names of the independent gay rights candidates who contested the 1989 general election let me know – I’m stuck at the moment… Got Don Donnelly and Tonie Walsh. But third one has eluded me!
- 9:54 PM Alexia Golez - On tonight’s show – Richard Bruton and Brian Lenihan
- 9:55 PM Suzy Byrne - Oh RTE Sound problem – Sean sounds like he’s in a broom cupboard..give the size of the new studio for news and current affairs that`s about right
- 9:55 PM Alexia Golez - Coming up later – the Ryan report
- 9:55 PM Niall001 - Maybe, but certainly not after you’ve paid for a tv licence
- 9:55 PM Fergal Crehan - Vincent Brown upstaged RTE on the abuse report story. RTE not exactly winning us back tonight by leading with NAMA on TWIP
- 9:56 PM Simon McGarr - Starting with NAMA! Cloth ears on what really matters this week!
- 9:57 PM Simon McGarr - Hadn’t seen the Michael Somers footage before. Body language suggests weight of world on shoulders. Or total panic and defeat. Neither too cheerful.
- 9:57 PM Niall001 - Unless RTE are organising the show along chronological lines, the decision to lead with NAMA is incomprehensible
- 9:58 PM Suzy Byrne - This is a Lenihan as guest driven show obviously..
- 9:58 PM greenparty_ie - Director of Elections Mary White on the Week in Politics, RTE1 at 22.50 to discuss euro campaign with Phil Hogan & Pat Carey. #twip #ep09
- 10:00 PM Niall001 - Ha! Who would have thought that the government would have to use an interview with Brian regarding NAMA as a distraction to the most damaging issue of the day? Not I!
- 10:00 PM Simon McGarr - I’m feeling my brain freezing under the verbiage. Cognitive dissonance between what he’s saying and what he’s doing gives me a buzzing between my ears.
- 10:01 PM Simon McGarr - GAH! The fabled All-Party Approach meme strikes again.
- 10:01 PM Fergal Crehan - RTE response to Ryan report has been dreadful. The fact that Mary Raftery, who made State of Fear for RTE, appeared on TV3 says it all.
- 10:02 PM Niall001 - Oh Richard, you’re so dreamy!
- 10:03 PM Simon McGarr - OK, Lenihan’s hurt look just injured my health.
- 10:03 PM Simon McGarr - Shareholders need to end with nothing. And if Lenihan isn’t accepting that we’re doomed! He’s arguing the principle!
- 10:05 PM Niall001 - “long term economic value” – Guess that means we’ll be paying well over the market rate.
- 10:06 PM Simon McGarr - Lenihan has now decided to introduce a new, even broader, state backing for bank bondholders. Apparently he can do this on the fly, without even making a full statement on it. Was this something he promised on his bond selling tour of Europe?
- 10:07 PM CllrKeithMartin - On Week in Politics Minister Brian Lenihan says the 6 billions Anglo Irish Bank has lost was a bit above expectation! Bloody hell!
- 10:08 PM Christine Bohan - I like how outraged Lenihan looks at the suggestion that developers could have any kind of influence on FF policies.
- 10:09 PM Simon McGarr - @christinebohan It was that hurt/outraged look that made me go and get a chocolate biscuit for mental health.
- 10:10 PM Fergal Crehan - FF politicians consistently appear genuinely hurt these days, almost everytime they appear on TV. They must have thought up to now that everyone loved them.
- 10:11 PM Simon McGarr - Bertie’s protection of the Church hangs over this whole things still. He effectively admitted he was behind Michael Woods’ deal with the Church in his interview with TV3.
- 10:11 PM Christine Bohan - This is the first time that anyone has talked about that report by the Comptroller and Auditor General. I’ve been digging around for it but haven’t been able to find it. Michael Woods went on record and called the €1bn figure a ‘guesstimate’. The C&AG was – understandably – furious at the suggestion that the figure they’d worked out wasn’t accurate.
- 10:12 PM Fergal Crehan - Bertie was in today’s paper saying that the Church have no money. I think he thought we should feel bad for them. Misplaced appeals for sympathy a common FF meme these days
- 10:13 PM Suzy Byrne - All this stuff about claimants dying and needing justice in 2002 – what absolute rubbish! They weren’t believed!
- 10:14 PM Simon McGarr - www.tv3.ie The Bertie interview.
- 10:14 PM Fergal Crehan - Ways and means can be found to bring the church to heel, if the will is there. Its not like the State is powerless.
- 10:15 PM Simon McGarr - Ack! The numbers were wrong because more people came forward, because it turned out there was bad abuse. Logic being tortured in my brain.
- 10:16 PM Niall001 - Children weren’t priorities? They’re still not!
- 10:16 PM Niall001 - Jesus Christ! That’s all the time they’re devoting to the Ryan report?
- 10:17 PM Simon McGarr - That was a terrible, terrible failure to reflect in any real, or any way at all on the only story of the week that will echo for years.
- 10:17 PM Alexia Golez - where does one find someone that would want to canvas for Ganley?
- 10:17 PM Suzy Byrne - I have a youtube for you Alexia
- 10:17 PM Christine Bohan - @Simon Agreed.
- 10:18 PM Simon McGarr - @lexia you put an ad in the recruitment section of the paper, I suppose.
- 10:18 PM Christine Bohan - Interesting seeing what a group of Libertas canvassers look like. Generally old, benign-looking folk.
- 10:18 PM Fergal Crehan - Dreadfully shallow treatment of the report. Insider-iness endemic of so much of RTE’s current affairs
- 10:18 PM Simon McGarr - Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher- A man who would eat your chips out of your hand.
- 10:19 PM Suzy Byrne -
- 10:19 PM Niall001 - Harkin makes me grit my teeth. She’s so false that her voice grates on my soul
- 10:21 PM Simon McGarr - Alan Kelly needs to learn to talk without closing his eyes. Though if someone tells me he is unsighted I am going to look really bad for saying that.
- 10:21 PM Fergal Crehan - Conventional wisdom is developing in today’s papers that if FF can save Eoin Ryan’s seat, Cowen is saved. Conventional wisdom adds that Ryan is likely to be elected. Conventional wisdom is wrong on the first count, and probably the second.
- 10:22 PM Simon McGarr - What is the point of The Week in Politics? It feels like Nationwide for politics.
- 10:22 PM Christine Bohan - OMG, it’s like a repeat of the FF Ard-Fheis zombies.
- 10:23 PM Fergal Crehan - @simon It does what it says on the tin. Shallow, pol corr-driven, politics. Hence the approach to the Ryan Report
- 10:23 PM Alexia Golez - @Suzy Epic! * stars *
- 10:24 PM Niall001 - “country and western” – what the heck does that mean?
- 10:25 PM Simon McGarr - The Ryan report was something that needed the decks cleared for. It was, instead, kicked about between two inappropriate finance spokesmen.
- 10:25 PM Christine Bohan - Ah, Mary White subscribes to the Declan Ganley view of polls.
- 10:25 PM Simon McGarr - Is that Mary White who disapproves of Playstations?
- 10:26 PM Fergal Crehan - And text messaging. And probably television and alcohol and crisps. She is one of the “eat your” Greens
- 10:26 PM Niall001 - @Simon White is right! The notion that any Irish child would have to use a playstation in 2009 is ridiculous. They’re entitled to an Xbox 360. We’re not a third world country!
- 10:27 PM Fergal Crehan - In my house, S.31 was never repealed. Sound goes down
- 10:28 PM Niall001 - Joan looks like one of the girls who used to be on Bosco.
- 10:28 PM Simon McGarr - I used the time while SF man was making noises with his face to rummage around on Kildarestreet.com
- 10:28 PM Niall001 - How the mighty have fallen!
- 10:30 PM Simon McGarr - And now we have Pat Carey who wanted us all to have our mobile phones kept on a register to stop drug dealing.
- 10:30 PM Simon McGarr - I got a phantom drop. Leaflet hit the floor to, literally, the sound of running feet.
- 10:31 PM Fergal Crehan - I got one of those phantom drops yesterday. Grand sunny day, I was stting on the couch, visible from outside, even made eye contact with canvasser as he walked up the driveway. He dropped a leaflet and ran.
- 10:31 PM Christine Bohan - Ah, Pat Carey. True story: During the 07 general election, one of his canvassers came to my door and told me not to vote for FG because they’d bring abortion back in.
- 10:31 PM Simon McGarr - Ha! Just noticed that SF have exposed their own cloth ears. Sent a man with an Ulster accent onto RTE.
- 10:34 PM Simon McGarr - Mary White’s plan to tax youths using mobiles: www.kildarestreet.com
- 10:34 PM Fergal Crehan - FF will not get any transfers this time around. That will have a huge effect on the outcome.
- 10:35 PM Simon McGarr - DeRossa was not an excellent MEP for little old me.
- 10:36 PM Simon McGarr - RTE runs its “Loser List”
- 10:36 PM Niall001 - Well, that wasn’t worth it.
- 10:36 PM Fergal Crehan - Bosco’s Birthday roller
- 10:36 PM barratree - Liking the extending outro-music-rave on #twip
- 10:37 PM Simon McGarr - He wishes every one of them the best!
- 10:37 PM Suzy Byrne - Tomorrow’s Campaign Daily will have piece on Elections and the Internet.
- 10:38 PM Fergal Crehan - What a trivial program that was
- 10:39 PM Simon McGarr - Pfft. I did Nationwide a disservice. At least you can be sure of hearing or seeing from a new voice on it from around the country telling something you didn’t know.
- 9:55 PM Simon McGarr - Liveblog: www.scribblelive.com Hashtag: #twip2
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