Weekend Radio Heckle - Marian Finucane - Newstalk and So On

[Dr. FIVE]

Spotted this comment during the week

Seán Sherlock's Irish Times letter about science funding in Ireland shows he is either willfully or negligently ill-informed: baddy or fool.


Ireland's science funding policy is like buying a racing stallion and then gelding it after it wins races because you fancy a feed of balls

Blog post here also

http://sciencecalling.com/2012/07/14...to-the-basics/

[riposte]

Baby Brute on This Week boasting that government policy is to promote only such research as is desired by business.

What a small, unimaginative, money-grubbing little plan.

There can be no doubt that Baby Brute is engaged full time in digging man-traps for Enda Kenny. Every single idea he comes up with is caculated to make the government more unpopular. Noel Dempsey did much the same for Fianna Fail proposing the introduction of Voting Machines, re-introduction of of 3rd Level frees, the requirement that provisional drivers should have a fully qualified driver present in their car and his involvement in the Corrib gas project. Dempsey also received widespread criticism across all the Irish media over his January 2010 holiday in Malta and perceived uncontactability at this time when severe weather conditions led to massive disruption in across Ireland's transport systems

[C. Flower]

Baby Brute on This Week boasting that government policy is to promote only such research as is desired by business.

What a small, unimaginative, money-grubbing little plan.

I heard something about only projects with a minimum of 30% advance corporate funding will be approved. I hope I got that wrong.

[Baron von Biffo]

I heard something about only projects with a minimum of 30% advance corporate funding will be approved. I hope I got that wrong.

Alas you didn't.

[Baron von Biffo]

Bit of a mix up on This Week? Sounded like the wrap-up clip was played out of turn.

[Slim Buddha]

There can be no doubt that Baby Brute is engaged full time in digging man-traps for Enda Kenny. Every single idea he comes up with is caculated to make the government more unpopular. Noel Dempsey did much the same for Fianna Fail proposing the introduction of Voting Machines, re-introduction of of 3rd Level frees, the requirement that provisional drivers should have a fully qualified driver present in their car and his involvement in the Corrib gas project. Dempsey also received widespread criticism across all the Irish media over his January 2010 holiday in Malta and perceived uncontactability at this time when severe weather conditions led to massive disruption in across Ireland's transport systems

Indeed. I always wondered whether Dempsey was deliberately and actively working against Biffo, or whether he was just incredibly thick (even by FF standards) and possessed, like so many others of his ilk, of an insufferable sense of entitlement.

I finally leaned towards the "incredibly thick (even by FF standards)" option.

[Baron von Biffo]

This Week has Martin on the last Dail term & Dev Óg, the ongoing health mess and the Norway massacre a year on.

[Baron von Biffo]

Kathleen Lynch doing an uber waffle on cuts to mental health budgets.

[Baron von Biffo]

Lynch says the health service will need to 'employ a different type of person at a different rate'. Or in other words - Labour wants to Yellow-pack the health service.

[PaddyJoe]

I didn't know you could watch it live on de ould webcam:
http://www.rte.ie/player/#l=7

[PaddyJoe]

All Cork today, boy. Here's Micheal.

[Baron von Biffo]

I didn't know you could watch it live on de ould webcam:
http://www.rte.ie/player/#l=7

It's hard enough to listen to Lynch and her dis, dat and doze without having to look at her as well.

I wonder if her mother regretted, in retrospect, giving her a name with 'th' in it.

[Baron von Biffo]

Is it farce or tragedy for a minister in Cowen's government to criticise a minister for being 'haphazard'?

[PaddyJoe]

It's hard enough to listen to Lynch and her dis, dat and doze without having to look at her as well.

I wonder if her mother regretted, in retrospect, giving her a name with 'th' in it.

Not nice.

[Holly]

RTE gives a lot of air time to members of the small Fianna Fail Party.