The Week in Politics, 24th May

There's only one topic that matters this week.

by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 8:51:02 PM
Photo courtesy of cc licence by Infomatique, via Flickr
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 8:51:32 PM
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.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 9:51:20 PM
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!
by Suzy Byrne at 5/24/2009 9:54:39 PM
On tonight's show - Richard Bruton and Brian Lenihan
by Alexia Golez at 5/24/2009 9:54:47 PM
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
by Suzy Byrne at 5/24/2009 9:55:00 PM
Coming up later - the Ryan report
by Alexia Golez at 5/24/2009 9:55:16 PM
Maybe, but certainly not after you've paid for a tv licence
by Niall001 at 5/24/2009 9:55:43 PM
Vincent Brown upstaged RTE on the abuse report story. RTE not exactly winning us back tonight by leading with NAMA on TWIP
by Fergal Crehan at 5/24/2009 9:55:47 PM
Starting with NAMA! Cloth ears on what really matters this week!
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 9:56:16 PM
Hadn't seen the Michael Somers footage before. Body language suggests weight of world on shoulders. Or total panic and defeat. Neither too cheerful.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 9:57:34 PM
Unless RTE are organising the show along chronological lines, the decision to lead with NAMA is incomprehensible
by Niall001 at 5/24/2009 9:57:36 PM
This is a Lenihan as guest driven show obviously..
by Suzy Byrne at 5/24/2009 9:58:04 PM
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
by greenparty_ie via twitter at 5/24/2009 9:58:38 PM
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!
by Niall001 at 5/24/2009 10:00:17 PM
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.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:00:46 PM
GAH! The fabled All-Party Approach meme strikes again.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:01:08 PM
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.
by Fergal Crehan at 5/24/2009 10:01:23 PM
Oh Richard, you're so dreamy!
by Niall001 at 5/24/2009 10:02:56 PM
OK, Lenihan's hurt look just injured my health.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:03:02 PM
Shareholders need to end with nothing. And if Lenihan isn't accepting that we're doomed! He's arguing the principle!
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:03:46 PM
"long term economic value" - Guess that means we'll be paying well over the market rate.
by Niall001 at 5/24/2009 10:05:35 PM
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?
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:06:31 PM
On Week in Politics Minister Brian Lenihan says the 6 billions Anglo Irish Bank has lost was a bit above expectation! Bloody hell!
by CllrKeithMartin via twitter at 5/24/2009 10:07:08 PM
I like how outraged Lenihan looks at the suggestion that developers could have any kind of influence on FF policies.
by Christine Bohan at 5/24/2009 10:08:13 PM
@christinebohan It was that hurt/outraged look that made me go and get a chocolate biscuit for mental health.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:09:09 PM
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.
by Fergal Crehan at 5/24/2009 10:10:26 PM
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.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:11:12 PM
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.
by Christine Bohan at 5/24/2009 10:11:44 PM
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
by Fergal Crehan at 5/24/2009 10:12:38 PM
All this stuff about claimants dying and needing justice in 2002 - what absolute rubbish! They weren't believed!
by Suzy Byrne at 5/24/2009 10:13:49 PM
www.tv3.ie The Bertie interview.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:14:13 PM
Ways and means can be found to bring the church to heel, if the will is there. Its not like the State is powerless.
by Fergal Crehan at 5/24/2009 10:14:47 PM
Ack! The numbers were wrong because more people came forward, because it turned out there was bad abuse. Logic being tortured in my brain.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:15:16 PM
Children weren't priorities? They're still not!
by Niall001 at 5/24/2009 10:16:47 PM
Jesus Christ! That's all the time they're devoting to the Ryan report?
by Niall001 at 5/24/2009 10:16:50 PM
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.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:17:22 PM
where does one find someone that would want to canvas for Ganley?
by Alexia Golez at 5/24/2009 10:17:31 PM
I have a youtube for you Alexia :)
by Suzy Byrne at 5/24/2009 10:17:52 PM
@Simon Agreed.
by Christine Bohan at 5/24/2009 10:17:54 PM
@lexia you put an ad in the recruitment section of the paper, I suppose.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:18:06 PM
Interesting seeing what a group of Libertas canvassers look like. Generally old, benign-looking folk.
by Christine Bohan at 5/24/2009 10:18:25 PM
Dreadfully shallow treatment of the report. Insider-iness endemic of so much of RTE's current affairs
by Fergal Crehan at 5/24/2009 10:18:39 PM
Pat 'the Cope' Gallagher- A man who would eat your chips out of your hand.
by Simon McGarr at 5/24/2009 10:18:45 PM
by Suzy Byrne at 5/24/2009 10:19:01 PM