Weekend Radio Heckle - Marian Finucane - Newstalk and So On

[DCon]

Radio 1 have Lucinda and Dunphy on

Dunphy raising the ineffectiveness of elected European politicians when unelected officials have all the power

[goatstoe]

Niall Quinn "mother Teresa" as Dunphy used to call him making deflecting comments about the criminal Quinns, saying they are being crucified. Niall Quinn is a creep.

[Holly]

I don't listen to the Marian Finucane Show because I learn nothing from it.

[Baron von Biffo]

Retail Excellence Ireland doing some serious brown-nosing. They've given a 'Best town in Ireland' award to Westport and 'Best City' award to Kilkenny.

Crawling to Gump and Hogan.

[DCon]

Retail Excellence Ireland doing some serious brown-nosing. They've given a 'Best town in Ireland' award to Westport and 'Best City' award to Kilkenny.

Crawling to Gump and Hogan.

Reilly even got Swords bumped to third best town in Ireland

That'll be woth a whole lot of first preferences

The top 25 in order are: Westport, Killarney, Swords, Ashbourne, Dungarvan, Carrickmacross, Clonakilty, Malahide, Skerries, Listowel, Kilkenny City, Castleknock, Tramore, Galway City, Tullamore, Wexford, Ratoath, Carrick-on-Shannon, Cobh, Kinsale, Monaghan, Middleton, Cork City, Letterkenny and Carlow.

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-3258554.html

[Baron von Biffo]

Someone should explain to RTE that 'criteria' is the plural of 'criterion'.

[PaddyJoe]

Vrad the Impaler, Cormac Lucey, Kathy Sheridan, Joe Purcell.
What's this with Enda's letter to Shatter?

[PaddyJoe]

The Kenny/Shatter story:

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny asked Justice Minister Alan Shatter to "intervene" in a court case related to the marriage breakdown of one of his constituents, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
Mr Kenny made the extraordinary request of the Justice Minister twice in the past year despite the stringent in-camera rule that protects the privacy of individuals involved in family law proceedings.

Breaching the in-camera rule is considered a contempt of court and can result in a jail sentence and/or a significant fine.

Letters obtained by the Sunday Independent show Mr Kenny's constituent alleging that documents in the proceedings had been "forged or otherwise invalid".

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...e-3276736.html

[PaddyJoe]

Kathy Sheridan saying she made 'a ham fisted attempt' at the figures in the story about the Garda's wife's family eating cornflakes
She's an Irish Times journalist. So 'ham fisted attempts' at dealing with facts aren't a big deal when it comes to the IT?

[Baron von Biffo]

Kathy Sheridan saying she made 'a ham fisted attempt' at the figures in the story about the Garda's wife's family eating cornflakes
She's an Irish Times journalist. So 'ham fisted attempts' at dealing with facts aren't a big deal when it comes to the IT?

Is getting the figures wrong on PS pay not a condition of employment for Irish journalists?

[PaddyJoe]

Malachy Steenson on as well. I guess he's only there because he's on the No side for the Children's Referendum.

[Baron von Biffo]

Malachy Steenson on as well. I guess he's only there because he's on the No side for the Children's Referendum.

Having to go on all those TV and radio shows - I bet he's sorry now that he raised his head above the parapet.

[Captain Con O'Sullivan]

Is getting the figures wrong on PS pay not a condition of employment for Irish journalists?

Well there isn't much point in checking the figures with the public service is there? The last high profile appointee managed to be wrong by a mere 5billion euros.

[Greengoddess]

Well there isn't much point in checking the figures with the public service is there? The last high profile appointee managed to be wrong by a mere 5billion euros.

Ooh! Bold.

[Baron von Biffo]

The Kenny/Shatter story:

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...e-3276736.html

Shatter has called the article "thoroughly dishonest and inaccurate" and wants an apology from the Sindo.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/s...ry-572140.html