Eamon Keane, you are a fanny
Eamonn Keane presents the lunchtime program on Newstalk, a talk radio station in Ireland.
I was listening yesterday as he spoke to a person from Dublin Bus. Quite reasonably, I thought, she laid out the company’s objections to the strike action by employees who from a certain depot. She said they were not asking workers to work longer days, they were not asking workers to do anything different from any of the workers in the other bus depots and I have to say she sounded fair and reasonable.
“Well”, said Keane, “I have to say you’re being very disingenous there”. He had the bit between his teeth, he was going in for the kill, he wasn’t going to let this perfectly eloquent woman away with making perfect sense on his radio show. He wanted to get her. You could hear it in his voice.
Then I thought back to last week when I heard him interviewing some bloke who was a spokesperson for a Muslim convention soon to take place over here. I missed the start of if but the crux of it was there was a bit of a debate about one person that was due to address young Muslims in Ireland.
Keane quoted a person who was due to give a speech at this address who basically said anyone who kills Jews via a suicide bombing is a martyr. It’s not wrong, it’s jihad and all that stuff. I’m not exaggerating here. That’s what this bloke is on the record as saying.
Keane said “Is this the sort of person that we should have addressing young Muslims in Ireland?”
A very reasonable question. Whoever the cunt he was talking to said “Well, I can’t really believe he said that. We need to look at what he said in context” and waffled on, not answering the question, for quite some time.
And I’m sitting there going, Come on. Ask him ‘In what context is it ok and acceptable to talk about killing Jews as part of a holy war?’ but he didn’t. He had the chance to make the person he was interviewing appear to be the bigoted, narrow-minded zealot he was but he let it go. Keane tried to bring it up again but he did it in a way that showed he was far too careful about causing offence to the bloke he was talking to. He pussy footed around it. Any semi-intelligent person could have ripped this person to shreds. Keane is not a stupid man, he could have fleeced this bloke on the air if he had chosen to do so but was so worried about causing offence to a minority group of listeners he let him away with it over and over again.
Yet he tries to act the hard man with a lady from Dublin Bus who was intelligent, reasonable and didn’t say anything about killing a whole group of people because of their religion. All they wanted to do was to get some bus drivers to drive a bus on a new route.
So, what we can gather from this is that Eamon Keane will happily go to war on behalf of a minority group of bus drivers who are willing to inconvenience thousands of commuters, yet when a person who advocates killing Jewish people via suicide attacks is brought into our country he pussies out of it like a fucking cunt.
Pathetic, embarrassing and contemptible. Newstalk, PPI station of the year say their jingles. Imagine how far they could go if their presenters weren’t too afraid to ask really difficult questions.
November 13th, 2007 at 1:07 am
Its not his job to ask those essential questions!!!
November 13th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Erm, yes it is.
November 13th, 2007 at 1:19 am
You see; Women are still fair game (rightly or wrongly? You can debate amongst yourselves) but the fact is that women in Ireland don’t matter. (apparently.) Whatever comes out of a womans mouth should be taken as slight of tongue.
Like the Harry Enfield sketch years ago. “Women, know your place.”
Right, that was me taking the piss obviously but you have a good point there. In our new modern Ireland it seems to be still ok to take the piss out of women while tip-toeing around minorities for fear of offence? Can’t even make jokes about
knackerstravellers now.November 13th, 2007 at 2:35 am
If I were a reasonable and well-spoken lady from the bus company I’d have broken his head.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:51 am
“The Jews are the ones that won’t be blamed for nothing;’ or something like that. Jack the Lad.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Given the evidence presented here, it sounds like this cunt might actually be Phil Collins in disguise.
Does he sound bald Twenty?
November 13th, 2007 at 8:19 am
You can all sit there on your high horse but in fairness society has got to the point whereby we are not allowed to be seen to antagonise certain groups of people for fear of offending their delicate sensibilities. Those of a different religion are particularly sensitive and the Muslim community only need an excuse to be seen as victims of the evil infidel. I understand the need to protect certain people/groups within society but if you yourself are part of an intolerant, warmongering group you should be open to be lambasted by all other parts of a sane society (and of course twenty major). I am not defending weak reporting/interviewing just putting some context around the difficult position we are put in…fucking sand niggers!!!!
November 13th, 2007 at 8:57 am
An eloquent lady from Dublin Bus?
You’ve gone too far beyond the realms of reality this time, Major.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Y’know I’m startin to really sympathise with suicide bombers. They feel that the only way they’re going to be heard is to explode themselves all over people. I feel the same way, now if you’ll excuse me I’m going down to the Dail to spontaneously combust!
November 13th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Theres only one good thing on news talk – off the ball, all except Ken Earley – who when reading out a newspaper article from spain about the stunningly bad behaviour of rangers fans last week – took it upon himself to edit the article by leaving out 2 lines.
It suited him – he has a reputation.
Oh – and whats with all the adds on the breakfast show?
November 13th, 2007 at 9:40 am
I don’t listen to the breakfast show. It’s too early in the morning for noise. I need a quiet, calm, contemplative start to the day.
What two lines did he leave out?
November 13th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Did you hear the one about, the fucken White, Heterosesual,Bacon eating, Cow killing, Fox hunting, GAA member, Whale hunting, SUV driver, whos’e daughter wears a Seal skin mini skirt, and Mrs Murphy’s son..Christian bastards!
Don’t mention the War, the Coons, the Rag heads, Dung packers, no Dick Dykes, Bus drivers, Kerrymen, or Mr’s Murphys son!
November 13th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Stay at home and vomit in your own living-room, urinate in your sitting-room corners, fight with your neighbours, the Celtic supporters (who deserve a prize just for putting up with you) and foul the streets of Glasgow instead. Don’t come back here again, because it is not a laughing matter. And, by extension, don’t play in the
Champions’ League either. You are not at that level neither in a sporting nor human sense
He left out the bit about the celtic supporters deserving a prize – he seems to hate them.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:05 am
I rem hearing you on the breakfast show twenty – just after you were named blogger of the millenium!
November 13th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Yeah, that was very early in the morning. Too early, although to be fair Claire Byrne tried to sound interested.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I think she fancied you. You’re obivously a looker as your pic shows.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Yes, I’ve noticed the subliminal hints she’s been giving out in her Tribune articles every Sunday. I am hard to resist.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Not exactly a unique crime of Newstalk, failing to ask the hard questions, is it?
Why pick on this hapless cunt when the entire staff of the Irish Times are guilty of similar daily?
November 13th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Twenty, you’re a man in the know.
whats the story with blogorrah? Are they in some kind of legal wrangle?
November 13th, 2007 at 11:13 am
“They feel that the only way they’re going to be heard is to explode themselves all over people. I feel the same way, now if you’ll excuse me I’m going down to the Dail to spontaneously combust!”
Eat falafel with Guinness, McMad – you’ll save a fortune in explosives.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:17 am
that well spoken articulate young lady is only a mouth piece for the bigwigs in dublin bus who haven’t the balls to do their own dirty work…..i know that was a rant about newstalk but just to make the point that dublin bus aren’t being fair and reasonable….ok they are asking the drivers in harristown to do the same as everyone else but the same as everyone else involves them having to drive in from beside the airport to take their breaks and all that and it will add an extra four hours on to their working day…..dublin bus management; on the way to being as big as the cuntish management in aer lingus……bunch of fucking wankers the lot of ‘em.
anyway, not asking hard questions is the way to go in journalism these days…just look at ursula halligan. that silly bint got a fucking tv show out of it. remember that when you’re carving out yer career in the media twenty!
November 13th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Jeezus Twenty, I would’ve given you more credit than that. Did it ever cross your mind to question WHY Dublin Bus chose to send a “perfectly eloquent woman” to do said interview? Maybe all the sweaty arsed shiny suits were on their lunch? Or maybe it’s because gullible people are more inclined to believe lies told to them by a “perfectly eloquent woman”
The Dublin Bus strike is a little more complicated than we’re being led to believe. If what you say she said had a grain of truth in it, why on earth would there be a strike?
Eamon Keane may very well be a fanny. A talking fanny. Newstalk and Dublin Bus both seem to understand that people will listen to talking fannies.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:21 am
remember that when you’re carving out yer career in the media twenty!
Carving out a career in the media ? That would be a backwards step for Twenty – he’s already bigger than the Irish Media FFS. He’s an author now!
Claire Byrne has amazing eyes – in fact they are a bit scary. Any blank spots in your memory that morning Twenty?
November 13th, 2007 at 11:29 am
yeah her eyes….like that song… that one hit wonder by kim carnes “she’s got alan davies eyes…”
November 13th, 2007 at 11:33 am
I like a woman with eyes
November 13th, 2007 at 11:45 am
stig – hahahahaha!
November 13th, 2007 at 11:48 am
whats the story with blogorrah? Are they in some kind of legal wrangle?
http://thechancer.ie – Blogorrah reborn. Same bloke.
The Dublin Bus strike is a little more complicated than we’re being led to believe. If what you say she said had a grain of truth in it, why on earth would there be a strike?
To be honest I don’t really give a fuck about the bus strike. Anyone who strikes should be fired and buried in a shallow grave. The point was that Keane was quite happy to go to tow on this woman yet completely pussied out of asking hard questions to the other bloke.
JC – I happened to hear this on radio. I don’t take a newspaper.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
“To be honest I don’t really give a fuck about the bus strike. Anyone who strikes should be fired and buried in a shallow grave.”
Ah i’ve said it once i’ll say it again…you obviously never had a real job in yer life have you cuntyballs? What if your nice publisher changed the terms and conditions of your nice little deal? what would you do then? keep writing? tell them to stick it up their holes? bury yourself in a shallow grave?
November 13th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
wonder why he would take it easy on a bloke who has mates who like exploding themselves in crowded areas? dublin bus, on the other hand, occasionally kill just a few people using non exploding buses. if it was bus eireann, that would be different – they’ll kill your children, and your neighbours’ children if you so much as say a word about them.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Ah i’ve said it once i’ll say it again…you obviously never had a real job in yer life have you cuntyballs?
No, I was born into a life of luxury and after a 4 figure publishing deal I can now retire, quaff fine ales and eat myself into an early grave.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
you lucky bugger.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Ah, Twenty. Read them for free online. Then you too can share my anger at the incompetence of the Irish print media too!
Has Derek lost the doggie mogul, incidentally? This Chancer thing looks like his own shebang. Go Derek.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Newstalk? Is that a Dublin radio station? Can’t get it here, it must be the trees.
November 13th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Ah Twenty & Puerile too you don’t suppose that KEANE is a misogynist do you ?
November 13th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
I’m with Twenty on this one. Trade Unions are a relic of the past who’s leaders consist of beardy cunts to the man. I have always been suspicious of beardy cunts… what are they trying to hide behind that matted greying face-wig? Actually, Twenty is a beardy cunt too – answers a lot of questions, doesn’t it!
November 13th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Ah Twenty & Puerile too you don’t suppose that KEANE is a misogynist do you ?
That wasn’t even nearly my point.
JC – It’s a hound free venture, I believe.
Beards rule.
November 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Conan, It’s nation wide these days, 106 fm.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
where can i get a copy of those cartoons from denmark that sent the fanatic muslims mental?
PS: Celtic supporters are uniformly scumbags.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I Groucho wear a beard it doesn’t mean a thing :-)
November 13th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Britney Spears has a matted beard and I don’t trust her. As to the comment about Celtic Supporters…fucking hun cock jockey
November 13th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
nothing like a night out at the hun cock races.
why support a scottish team cos of their religion anyway? Retards.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
morgor – you are showing yourself up a bit here.How do you know why celtic fans support them? Could it not be because of the fact they were set up by irish people? Could it be because they like the colour of the strip? And even if it was because of religon…..what have you got against it?
why does someone support say man utd? I don’t know. i wouldn’t pretend to know?
I do know that rangers denegrate other religons, especially the catholic religon. And as far as i know, celtic fans are not scumbags – the very opposite apparently.
Maybe you are mixing working class with scumbags. And that is a reflection on you.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
I dislike them through experience, cos most of the people i’ve met who are avid supporters of celtic are morons.
I really don’t know why people support all those foreign soccer teams anyway.
Might as well support hulk hogan.
but each to their own i suppose.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Morans are diffrent to scumbags – lets be fair here. And as a Bohs fan, I must agree with you. But one thing for sure – it makes alot more sence to support Celtic or Hibs than any EPL team.
I know alot of Celtic fans. Mad, yes, passionate, yes, highly charged yes, daft as brushes, yes, but scumbags – no.
and as a group, well – you just need to look at the trail of destruction left by english clubs last season (google it) and then compare celtics travelling fans record.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I’ve just worked out what you remind me of, Twenty. You’re the half-cut undergraduate at a house party who doesn’t want to pull, becuase you tried to ride a doll during Freshers Week and something strange happened your foreskin, and doesn’t really know anyone there. So you get worked up over the most banal, simplistic political matters, about which everyone’s mind is already made up, and you drink cheap wine out an eggcup and try and impress everyone else there by foaming with indignation, but they’re all talking about the football or charming some BESS student. Go back to funny, is what I’m trying to say.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Fuck sake – twenty is funny and political. He shoots it as he sees it.
He can’t always try to be funny, hes got to expand. He has a platform, we come on and nudge it. Every now and then, something you don’t like is going to crop up – but then it swings back to what you like.
I’d like to think we can come on here, all crack stupid jokes, then sometimes get political and even talk sport. theres room for everything………but we all know its largely a howl.
November 13th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
ok ok ,Jeesus fearghus no need to tell everyone my secrets. . . Do you think it’s herpes?
November 13th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
and there’s nothing wrong with cheap wine from an egg-cup (or a pint-glass)
November 13th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Woowoo,
I like celtic as a team and their genuine supporters
are decent people. But I think I know where morgor is coming from. I know quite a few irish celtic supporters who are both morons and scumbags. They know nothing about football, they just associate IRA, Sinn Fein and Celtic as all the one. Remember the Dublin riots last year? A lot of celtic jersys popped up there.
But there’re not real supporters so I suppose they shouldn’t reflect, in anyway, on the club or the genuine supporters
November 13th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Fearghus, your cheque must have bounced.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Exactly Peadar. SF and their ilk seem to have tried to usurp the club.
You are exactly right. there was also a few ireland tops, dublin tops and even a liverpool top at those riots. Never a mention of them.
look – we live in a country where 10% voted for facist murdering supporters, so its no surprise if they pop up everywhere.
But word on the street is celtic is trying very hard to shake them out. If only the irish voter would do the same.
November 13th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I agree. Its just unfortunate that they seem to taint the real supporters. I’m sure they’ll be stamped out eventually. I don’t know a great deal about the history of celtic but I get the impression that in the past these type of supporters (sinn fein, ira chanting morons)were accepted as being part and parcel of the club.
Celtic have copped on now that they don’t need this shit but it’ll take time to weed them out
November 13th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Britney Spears has a matted beard and I don’t trust her.
Outrageous.
And scumtic are cunts. Ditto Liverpool.
November 13th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
“Beards rule.”
Beards DO rule. I have recently started to sport a big full on mountainy-man beard.
People look at me differently on the street.
They even offer me money when I’m sitting by the canal drinking coffee on a bench.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Perhaps it might be possible to get the fucking Muslim Jihad cunt to practice his blowing up on the Dublin Bus fucking driver cunts, whether they are the ones on strike or not. THEY ARE ALL CUNTS !!!! Inconvenience people – only cunts travel by bus, Fuck the Greens, They’re cunts too.. SUV’s are the only way to travel, Big Carbon footprint to trample cunts with..
November 13th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
People who vote for Sinn Fein are uneducated, bigoted and a complete embarrassment.
A Celtic jersey is without doubt the first sign that the wearer is a complete Skobie & Knacker. The wearer will probably either keep Pigeons himself or will know someone who does, will certainly come from a household that keeps at least 1 horse without the proper facilities, possibly sells cigarettes & lighters on Henry St. and if not will refer to his place of employment as “The Job”.
Morons, Morons, Morons all of them.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:07 am
People who vote for Sinn Fein are uneducated, bigoted and a complete embarrassment.
I wouldn’t accept any invitations to Monaghan for a while mate.
November 14th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
With regard to the Celtic fans can piss higher up the wall, er, sorry, behave better than Rangers fans debate, has it occurred to anyone that Scottish football is just shite?
November 14th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
I don’t think anyone can possibly argue with that.
November 14th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Complete and utter shite. But rangers & celtic have huge support and therefore huge potential
November 14th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
For shite? For pissing up walls?
July 4th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I love eamon he is really hottt