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EACH WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you five stories you really should check out by 5pm.
1. #RACE FOR THE ÁRAS: Dana Rosemary Scallon has threatened to pull out of the presidential election if details of a business dispute within her family are “dragged across” the campaign. In the meantime, we’ve been putting together a list of the remaining Presidential debates.
2. #HUMAN RIGHTS: The UN has published its draft report following last week’s review of Ireland’s human rights – and revealed that Ireland has rejected recommendations to legislate for abortion in line with the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of A, B and C versus Ireland.
3. #BOY RACERS: A new survey from the Road Safety Authority has found that one in five young male motorists have raced another motorist on the roads. The RSA’s figures, to mark Irish Road Safety Week, also said that drivers aged between 17-24 were five times more likely to die on the roads than other motorists.
4. #NOBEL PRIZE: US academics Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have shared the Nobel Prize for Economics, for their work in examining the cause-and-effect relationship between government and central bank actions and the markets. One of the two 68-year-old winners was on an early train between colleges when he learned of his victory – and continued on his journey nonetheless.
5. #FORWARD THINKING: Robbie Keane has been officially ruled out of the Republic of Ireland’s make-or-break Euro 2012 qualifier against Armenia tomorrow evening. Simon Cox has been named in the starting line-up – ahead of West Brom team-mate Shane Long – while boss Giovanni Trapattoni warns that even if Ireland get the draw they need to make a play-off, Keane may not be fit to participate.
That person in fairness had to listen to torture before that outburst .
Jason Byrne “comedian” was excruciating as is the norm with him.
Nail on the head there Hole Lee.
Ho Lee, Ho, Ho, Ho.
Jason Byrne and Tommy Tiernan should be tied together and just let roll around the countryside spouting humourless crap about hedges and cows until they both finally collapse from exhaustion. It’s an old Irish remedy for curing bullshitters.
Say what you want about Byrne, but leave tiernan out of it!!!
This week it was revealed that the extent of torture in Guantanamo Bay by the CIA went far beyond what had previously come to light. When waterboarding failed, detainees were subjected to videos of Jason Byrne shows for hours and sometimes days on end.
It will give him something to write about on a Sunday
Handled it well I thought
As a stand-up comedian he would have an entire arsenal of put-downs for hecklers. “Sit down you clown” would not go down in the annals of comedic history!
Who’s a stand up comedian???
Ha ha Grande Dame – you should get yourself a job as a Brendan O’Connor
I remember Jimmy Carr’s treatment of a heckler a few years back.
A man in the audience shouted “when’s the comedy starting”
Jimmy then took out one of those paper fortune teller things everyone used make as a kid and asked to man to choose a number, Jimmy used it and said “it says, if you want my comeback you’ll have to wipe it off your moms teeth.”
Or his best heckler, guy shouts from the audience “my mum died of cancer” Jimmy replies, “I never said anything about your mum or cancer” guy replied “I know, but it was funnier than this”!
Remember seeing him on a chat show once and a talked about the best heckle he ever heard was at his gig. At a particularly quiet part of the show, a voice from the crowd said ,
” There used to be a pool table in here ” !. Jimmy said there was nothing a comedian could comeback with to top that !
F**k it!!
The only 2 minutes ever worth watching on O’Connor’s show.
And I missed it.
Thank God for Youtube.
He loved it
The ‘insufferable a**eholes’ guy will never be topped.
Who, Brendan?
You and Gay Byrne are both insufferable arseholes, you’re an arsehole, you’re a piece of shit.
Fair play to the guy I’m sure his protest was enjoyed by the dozens of Saturday night live viewers.
If only Brendan could get Twink & Linda Martin back together for an Xmas special, the people would be happy and not feel the need to protest.
Protest only works if it breaks rules. Have things now come to such a pass that a punter in a studio audience is demanding a leadership change and accusing the national broadcaster of being propagandist? The fact he transgressed a social norm and yelled out of place is the reason this story is even news. Protesters in the republic have been in the news for weeks now for agitating for change, this guy is just an extension of that. Portraying him as obnoxious only serves to invalidate or even criminalise what is a perfectly legitimate protest.
Does good manners have no part to play anymore?
Well said
“Good manners”? The lives of thousands of people are being destroyed by our government, yet that’s all you’re bothered about? Is it “good manners” to repeatedly shaft the public for years?
Rectally insert your good manners, Mary.
“Portraying him as obnoxious only serves to invalidate or even criminalise what is a perfectly legitimate protest.”
Leaving aside for one moment the ludicrous suggestion that portraying this guy as obnoxious “criminalises” him (LOLing at that)…
When a person decides that their opinion is so much more important than anyone else’s that they have the right to interrupt what everyone else has chosen to pay attention to and demand that they listen to their rant instead, that is _highly_ obnoxious. Admittedly, there are some extenuating circumstances in this case. Given that the guy was presumably a bit of a loo lah to begin with, and that he had just endured the entire Saturday Night Show (god love him), a plea of temporary insanity must deserve some credence.
People are annoyed and the government are doing their best to ignore the problem of Water/anti austerity protesters and hope it goes away. They want next year to go smoothly so they can get reelected again. That is all FG/LAB are about at this stage. The media is aiding this to an extent by criminalizing ordinary people and making them out to be dissidents and SF, when really its dissatisfied people marching against a whole range of things that they feel is wrong. I don’t really see what interrupting the Brendan O’Connor show gained to be honest. Its just a gauge of the anger out there.
Seamus McAllister you sound like your Mother reared a lovely lad! Hope she is real proud of you!!
Bill Cosby was renowned for his clean act and good manners, Mary. He’s renowned for something else now. People get too worked up over manners and language; and in Ireland, the “what will the neighbours say” mentality is especially problematic and is a major obstacle in the way of sorting out the country.
We’ll leave my mother out of this.
What a stupid comment to make.
I never ever gave a continental damn what the neighbours thought. Maybe that is where your problem lies and what makes you such an ignorant shit.
I still think that a live TV show was not the place to protest about anything. It was underhand and cowardly knowing that the show was live.
What Bill Cosby has to do with anything I dont know. I never liked him and always thought he was an arrogant pr..k something like yourself I’d say!
Has your HRT patch fallen off or something? Calm down.
In fairness he handled that as well as you could have hoped for.
Jason was as funny as a stone in your shoe
Was it Pat or Enda he wanted out?
If he wanted Kenny out, out, out, and don’t a lot of us, I hope we dont get his lot in. Brendan did well.
Now how did the clown make his way into the circus tent that is rte that by the way is full of overpaid clowns who can, t even count
Bet they know how to use a comma though.
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Are you waiting for someone to say “chameleon”?
these protestors are just complete idiots
You use that same brush for all your tarring do you?
All the ones who shout their heads off on the Saturday Night show; yes
It seems unwise to generalise so broadly. However, I must admit that I have yet to come across a _single_ protestor or protest organiser articulating a credible position on the Irish Water issue.
I’m no expert on water utilities, but 10 minutes googling the topic seems to provide a deeper understanding than just about everyone you hear parroting some guff about “double taxation” from an AAA leaflet. Clearly, the introduction of water charges was not managed well, but I’m still waiting for someone to propose a credible alternative I could get behind.
What protesters, the 300,000+ that marched in the last few months?
Your just not listening maybe. I have listened to many credable info on Vincent Brown .
Well you can’t argue with the propaganda element, this is evident in the news coverage.
What news coverage ?
Is it news worthy?
Pot calling the kettle black.
“Oho!” said the pot to the kettle;
“You are dirty and ugly and black!
Sure no one would think you were metal,
Except when you’re given a crack.”
“Not so! not so!” kettle said to the pot;
“‘Tis your own dirty image you see;
For I am so clean – without blemish or blot –
That your blackness is mirrored in me.”
I’ve never understood that phrase. What’s so bad about being black??
It’s about a racist pot.
Not to generalise but ALL pots are racist b*stards
Didn’t spoil my viewing I don’t look at crap.
Only one clown here, the one on screen. He, like Enda, is about to be replaced – Ray D’Arcy just got his job – maybe Brendan can get a job in Europe – he’s the head off Phil Hogan and just as useless….
What was the point in shouting at the end when the credits are rolling and the show was over? If you want to make a tit of yourself at least do it mid show !!
This is just getting boring now.
TheLiberal.ie had this up immediately last night. Bit slow off the mark journal. PS O’Connor is an egit
What’s the hurry?
THE PROTESTERS HAVE’T GONE AWAY YOU NO……………
Run a poll on rte to see if it’s bias
‘know’
Know *
“THE PROTESTERS HAVE’T GONE AWAY YOU NO……………”
Stay in school, kids.
BiasED*
R.T.E.*
R.T.É.*
Jason Byrne and brendan o’connor, what a combination, that’s Saturday night entertainment, who the fuk wot want to listen to that nonsense?
Ridiculous amounts of our money being paid to these Rte presenters,and the sickening part is Ray Darcys salary will be kept secret for 3 years.Its our money!!
You would think if they wanted to get a message out they would do it on a show that was watched by more than 10 people. Nationwide par example
Pravda RTE is determined to drown us in an ocean of inane waffle and Govt press releases.
Their coverage of Irish Water over the past week was akin to something the Nazis would’ve been proud of. Pure propaganda. George Lee reporting from Ringsend, the first time someone’s emitted more nauseous gas than the treatment facility he was talking about. What bothers me and a hell of a lot of other people is RTE and Independent newspapers aren’t even trying to disguise their blatant bias.
“How did that gobsh!te get on the television?”
Did nobody not tell the protester Pat Kenny hasn’t done the RTE’s Saturday Night show in years and already is gone.
DUH !!
A triple negative. That’s impressive this early on a Sunday morning.
Saturday night show kenny kenny kenny out out out: http://youtu.be/2a87kpyiczA
They keep taking it down and we’ll keep posting it back up ;)
The Video is blocked on “copyright grounds”.
I have payed my TV licence to RTE which pays for their content and I have a right to view such content without censorship.
The copyright claim is against YouTube, not the people watching it. RTÉ will host the content on their own player.
The licence fee doesn’t change copyright law.
Kenny Kenny Kenny…..
Dagleish! Everett! G!
Powers?!
McCormack!
Loggins.
@Aidan Duggan:
……out, out, out!
bit unfair of ray darcy to wake up the viewers of this clowns show before he replaces him…..o connor will regurjitate this for the next few months in his sindo column…..dark forces
Rte saturday night`s schedule does wonders for the pub trade, in fact I believe they must sponsor this show so that everyone goes out.
You’d think Gerry Adams would be at home playing with his ducks and Ted on a Saturday night !
I thought he was at home playing with your ma.
Clearly your mother didn’t teach you much about manners.
Your ma taught me a few things, not manners though. The durt!
That awkward moment when jason byrne is a comedian
Video linky no worky…
I hope people start doing more of this heckling… RTE/TV3/TG4 .. plenty of audience participation to be had by Irish Water protesters…
Can’t stand Brendan O’Connor or his show..
He got his spoke in,RTE are trying to block the video, ha ha ha! He may be a clown, but it’s the talk of the town now. better then 30’000 oops’s 100’000 people marching.
In what conceivable sense could this one poor soul’s deluded outburst be “better then 30’000 oops’s 100’000 people marching” ? The only possible beneficiary of this cringe-making scuffle that I can see is the Saturday Night Show, and given that it barely registered on the Pat Kenny / insufferable-arsehole scale even that’s a bit of a stretch.
About time brendan looked in the mirror #clown
I’d say you are tall dark and handsome! Please confirm!
Great publicity for the show.
Clip blocked now so maybe they don’t want the publicity. RTE not exactly the most adventurous when it comes to taking a stand. State run and (partially) funded broadcaster. Very unhealthy situation but I’m afraid the other offerings offer little more. They all have agendas.
I know can’t find the clip anywhere now. Bit of free advertising for the show and they have blocked it! Sure so long as we have the licence fee from the people we can squander away all good opportunities like most other state bodies in the country…
RTE is not impartial and is an establishment broadcaster. It should be funded by advertisement and sponsorship alone. Too many people in RTE on excessive pay for the poor service it delivers. Times have changed since it was set up, but it has always been a government friendly broadcaster, not good for informing the people or promoting debate and democracy.
Calling someone a clown….witty. what a great stand up. But What probaganda? Maybe the one sided garbage the TV and radio stations and newspapers of this country spout on a daily basis to protect the govt and their cronies and to demonise those who are tring to help people abnd those who won t take more punishment for banker debts.
RTE’s blocking of the clip proves the protester’s point!
This clown should have been dragged out of the audience. These water protest gimps are such a waste of airtime muppets the lot of them.
Stop sulking Enda, its not our fault your hated in this country.
‘should of” that sounds like a ‘threat of violence’ according to irish media rules! you ‘should’ be arrested..oops!
The only Muppet Leigh is you. If you understood what was going on you would change your tune. Educate yourself
on the matters at hand before you Criticise. I hate it when People like yourself Portray yourself as Stupid.
Educate myself about what prey tell. Believe me I am far from stupid maybe that’s why I have better things to spend my time doing than worrying about water charges and such.
Sinn Fein Key Board warriors on the ball early here I see. Which SF Cumann was the protester a memebr of.
What are you on about at all?
Give it another hour sure, weren’t all the YFG up past their bed time last night attacking Paul Murphy. Bless, sure their still dreaming of being appointed a seat at the big boys table one day with glorious leader Enda for all their hard work here on the front lines.
SF is only a minority in the Water Protests. AAA and the left as much as they would love to think that they are controlling the movement, aren’t. This is ordinary people putting boots on the ground for walking demonstrations and leaving when all the left nonsense begins. The people that voted FG/LAB in the last general election are the bulk of these people and credit to Kenny and Joan/Eamon they were a success in alienating the ordinary worker, unemployed person, student, OAP, housewife etc.
Bottom line is that FG and co need to stop making it seems as though these are SF et. al. supporters. They are literally people sick of them that hate the ground they walk on for the lies, corruption, and the audacity to ignore people over the last 3 years.
I don’t blame Brendan telling him to sit down no great support for Enda myself but how much of this chanting can we take ? The proper place to get Enda out is the next general election as usual will be a tiny few to exercise that job of which the guy in question may not be one of them like many more of the protestors
I think he thought everyone was going to get up and chant with him live on air. It didn’t happen because it was the wrong crowd full stop like.
Sorry Alan but we are not going to wait until the next general election,
Maybe they al work for RTE,because they could not find anybody desperate enough to watch this crap.
I hope you are still around Wilfried Keulemans,
The problem is that you seem to have this fascination of speaking for everyone on the Journal but sorry to disappoint you my friend you don’t and I don’t have any great time for Rte or Enda but some at Rte stand out from others. Standing up in a audience chanting a slogan is not any entertainment Brendan this time was correct in telling to sit down. but unlike you this my view only
Says one clown to another.
What about the Clown already sitting down , telling the Clown to sit down?
Who was the complete and utter dick that was doing the heckling? And has he not a vote like the rest of us! Moran!!!
Kenny is an idiot
I was actually impressed initially last night that RTE’d left it on the Plus 1 feed and also on the Player.
If you look at the RTE Channel, they’ve left the Frontline heckler from 2009 up there and similarly when Dalkey man told PK he was insufferable on the Late Late they didn’t remove it either.
There is a #Right2Protest of course, I’d never deny anyone that but then there’s also a time and a place for it & I’m not at all convinced that the Saturday Night Show last night was it?
they are still dreaming*
So rte is propaganda and so is the indo. Where do we go for the truth? Socialist worker newsletter perhaps?
RT centre-right agenda E
What RTE Propaganda ? says O’Connor
LOL
What kind of fool is O’Connor.
Doesn’t he make a living from the two biggest establishment organs of the state with the Sindo & RTE.
Mirror http://youtu.be/MlPbwgkxslQ
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