The Meaning of Life - RTE1

Denn Forever · March 06, 2011, 11:09:12 PM

Just saw the end of this. Gay Byrne interviewing pople about their beliefs. Next week BrendanO'Carroll.

He makes interviewing seem so easy.

Eamonnca1 · March 07, 2011, 07:19:56 AM

Didn't know he was from Barnsley. Can hear it in the accent now that he mentioned it.

Hardy · March 07, 2011, 09:06:19 AM

The meaning of life and Brendan O'Carroll on the one page. Are the hallucinations back?

Denn Forever · March 13, 2011, 10:54:37 PM

Why do people hate Brendan O'Carroll? Interesting guy.

Rav67 · March 14, 2011, 02:14:00 AM

Quote from: Denn Forever on March 06, 2011, 11:09:12 PM
Just saw the end of this. Gay Byrne interviewing pople about their beliefs. Next week BrendanO'Carroll.

He makes interviewing seem so easy.

Who was this week's about?

fearglasmor · March 14, 2011, 11:25:06 AM

Quote from: Denn Forever on March 13, 2011, 10:54:37 PM
Why do people hate Brendan O'Carroll? Interesting guy.

As usual, people confuse stage and tv persona's with real life. (Charlie Sheen eexcepted

)

Hardy · March 14, 2011, 11:26:20 AM

That happens to me all the time.

Denn Forever · March 14, 2011, 01:50:02 PM

Quote from: Rav67 on March 14, 2011, 02:14:00 AM
Quote from: Denn Forever on March 06, 2011, 11:09:12 PM
Just saw the end of this. Gay Byrne interviewing pople about their beliefs. Next week BrendanO'Carroll.

He makes interviewing seem so easy.

Who was this week's about?

Next week its the Abbot of Glenstal Abbey.

ONeill · February 21, 2013, 11:05:55 PM

Watched a right few of these over the last few days. Was never fond of Byrne but thought they were excellent programmes.

laoislad · February 21, 2013, 11:15:06 PM

Quote from: ONeill on February 21, 2013, 11:05:55 PM
Watched a right few of these over the last few days. Was never fond of Byrne but thought they were excellent programmes.

I enjoyed the Maria Doyle Kennedy one recently.

stew · February 22, 2013, 04:26:25 PM

Quote from: ONeill on February 21, 2013, 11:05:55 PM
Watched a right few of these over the last few days. Was never fond of Byrne but thought they were excellent programmes.

Byrne was and is a smug git who has alienated many's a viewer on the way he handled interviews like the Murphy interview, when he decided it would be fun to totally lose all sense of objectivity and set Annie Murphy with lying bitches who were planted in the audience and tried to discredit her, yet it was obvious they were lying!

The Bishop was a thief and robbed one of the poorest regions in the Country at the time, he ad already admitted that he was the boy's father and yet this one bitch lied through her teeth and said that the Bish was in fact noit the baby daddy, Byrne was 100% in the corner of the Church, Bishop and in my opinion he threw her to the lying wolves!

I have had no time for him since nad never will, he is a part of the establishment and should be ashamed of the way he has handled some politicans (shinners) yet gushed over Paisley when they met.

ONeill · June 08, 2014, 11:29:00 PM

Did ye see Dunphy tonight?

Emotional but unstable.

muppet · June 08, 2014, 11:47:03 PM

Quote from: stew on February 22, 2013, 04:26:25 PM
Quote from: ONeill on February 21, 2013, 11:05:55 PM
Watched a right few of these over the last few days. Was never fond of Byrne but thought they were excellent programmes.

Byrne was and is a smug git who has alienated many's a viewer on the way he handled interviews like the Murphy interview, when he decided it would be fun to totally lose all sense of objectivity and set Annie Murphy with lying bitches who were planted in the audience and tried to discredit her, yet it was obvious they were lying!

The Bishop was a thief and robbed one of the poorest regions in the Country at the time, he ad already admitted that he was the boy's father and yet this one bitch lied through her teeth and said that the Bish was in fact noit the baby daddy, Byrne was 100% in the corner of the Church, Bishop and in my opinion he threw her to the lying wolves!

I have had no time for him since nad never will, he is a part of the establishment and should be ashamed of the way he has handled some politicans (shinners) yet gushed over Paisley when they met.

I know this is from 2013, but.........

Gay Byrne, for all his faults, was never in the pocket of the Church.

"...in 1966 when the Bishop of Clonfert condemned The Late Late Show as immoral and Gay Byrne as a promoter of "filth"..."

http://www.independent.ie/style/sex-relationships/the-sex-factor-26482629.html

That night there were only three phoned complaints to Montrose, and one telegram. Sent from the Bishop of Clonfert, it read: "Disgusted with disgraceful performance."

The next morning the Bishop let fly from the pulpit, calling on "all decent Irish Catholics" to protest. The public ignored the call, leaving it to a handful of obedient public bodies to work up a head of righteous indignation.Loughrea Town Council branded the Late Late "a dirty programme that should be abolished altogether". Meath VEC accused it of "anti- national" treachery.

The bishop had called it badly wrong, and the vast majority of "decent Irish Catholics" left him to hang.

Apparently though Gaybo was friendly with the bauld Bishop Casey.

rossiewanderer · June 09, 2014, 01:54:59 AM

Its a national disgrace that Gay Byrne only has three RTE shows on the the go in his retirement ( RTE pension ongoing) Its a national disgrace that we cant find another TV show for Uncle Gaybo.He is our national Uncle and Twink is our Aunt we desperately need to find more work for these legends.

T Fearon · June 09, 2014, 07:01:14 AM

Dunphy's meaning of life was good,not great.His decision not to join Jack's Army will haunt him for the rest of his days