Comments on: Your favourite Q&A moment?

By: Fin Keegan

Fin Keegan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:10:56 +0000

Thanks for the live blog, Suzy: it’s fun to be in the peanut gallery but also useful too, as bloggers often come up with info/facts that are being passed over in silence by the pols/msm

By: Abie Philbin Bowman

Abie Philbin Bowman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:22:03 +0000

I can’t be objective about Q&A but, personally, my favourite moment came at the end of a debate on electronic voting – a terrible idea which would drain all the drama from our electoral process. (You might as well replace the World Cup or Wimbledon final with a single penalty shoot-out/tie-breaker.)

Anyway, at the end of the debate, John Bowman concluded ‘long may we decide elections in this country with a ballot paper in one hand and… a pencil in the other’.

It was a beautiful subversion of the old Sinn Fein line about the armalite and ballot box, with echoes of ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’.

By: Holemaster

Holemaster — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:17:15 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I’ll be watching. I still think of his poor every time I see John Bowman. Hope he copes ok.

By: Aidan M

Aidan M — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:47:30 +0000

“Never mind the quality – feel the width”. Wasn’t that quip from Q&A?

By: Daniel Sullivan

Daniel Sullivan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:52:14 +0000

Eoin, I read that and immediately thought of Shane Ross and was then thinking of some left wing type that he must have surprising agreed with who was called Rachel. Hey, can we call RBB ‘Rachel’ and find some show where they agreed on something?

By: Eoin O'Mahony

Eoin O'Mahony — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:27:52 +0000

How about the one where Ross and Rachel finally get together? Awww?

Wait, wrong show.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:36:25 +0000

Corrected Dan, my maturer recollection seems to have allowed me forget the important ‘not’!

By: Daniel Sullivan

Daniel Sullivan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:24:45 +0000

In the absence of youtube clips I put together this post a few years back to show how to be more self selective about which parts of an RTe show you might want to include.

http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=433

Might be a bit late now to get things up for tonight, but if people want to post on the show over the coming days and take out individual segments from tonight or other nights of their own choosing then it is one way to do it. You do need own hosting to post the resultant smil files.

As regards “The 1990 presidential election and Brian Lenihan Snr and his claims of having ‘no hand, act or part’ in attempt to pressurise President Hillery to dissolve the government comes to mind for me.”

I think that it was actually that Lenihan was pressuring Hillery to refuse a dissolution of the Dail as requested by Garrett who was then Taoiseach and that Haughey would try to form a government without an election. That’s my memory of it at least, on mature recollection.

By: Irish Election » Your Favourite Q&A Moment?

Irish Election » Your Favourite Q&A Moment? — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:19:51 +0000

[...] Suzy is putting together some favourite moments from Questions and Answers ahead of tonight’s final show and looking for some awards categories too. I’m also thinking up awards categories that you might not hear of on tonights show. Care to add a few? [...]

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:39:11 +0000

That’a a clip I uploaded a good while back. There are two others from the same show on my YouTube account, but they’re not as good (Northern Ireland & Saddam Hussein being the topics).
Judging by Morning Ireland today, they’ll be replaying the Brian Lenihan/Garrett FitzGerald moment over and over again for 90 minutes and call that a show.