TV3/Discover Ireland

Freddie59

I know this has been raised before, but TV3, as usual, are excluding Waterford from the weather reports. This was bad enough at night, but it has now spread to the Ireland AM programme, when only one screen is displayed.

To cap it all off this website:

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/experience-ireland/city-breaks-experience/

must take the biscuit. It is truly maddening.:mad:

Cabaal

Wow, its really the little things that piss you off

Its not like its the end of the world to be honest, have you perhaps e-mailed TV3 regarding their choice to ommit Waterford from its weather coverage.

I don't watch TV3 myself but I'm happy as long as Kilkenny is on it

road_high

Freddie59 wrote:

I know this has been raised before, but TV3, as usual, are excluding Waterford from the weather reports. This was bad enough at night, but it has now spread to the Ireland AM programme, when only one screen is displayed.

To cap it all off this website:

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/experience-ireland/city-breaks-experience/

must take the biscuit. It is truly maddening.:mad:

I know loads of Dubs and Waterford doesn't really register in their 'subconcious', not in the same way Wexford or KK do at any rate. Perhaps thats the reason for Waterford's exclusion?

Cabaal

mfitzy wrote:

I know loads of Dubs and Waterford doesn't really register in their 'subconcious', not in the same way Wexford or KK do at any rate. Perhaps thats the reason for Waterford's exclusion?

I guess not enough stag party's go to Waterford at the weekend

mike65

Dubs out! Oh they're not here...I see.

Mike.

Freddie59

Cabaal wrote:

Wow, its really the little things that piss you off

Its not like its the end of the world to be honest, have you perhaps e-mailed TV3 regarding their choice to ommit Waterford from its weather coverage.

I don't watch TV3 myself but I'm happy as long as Kilkenny is on it

Point taken. And yes - I have e-mailed TV3. But, as always, there will be no response. But if it was the other way round, and say, Mullingar was included instead of Kilkenny, I'd say you lot might have something to say then.:rolleyes:

All joking aside, while it may appear small, it represents the thinking inside the Pale towards Waterford City. It is, IMO, very disrespectful towards us.:mad:

It is all about exposure and promotion Cabaal. And equality. Three things we receive very little of in Waterford City - the oldest city in Ireland.

Dan133269

it really is a joke in my opinion, I noticed it ages ago aswell.
5th largest city in Ireland and that doesn't warrant a mention on the weather report. Hopefully it will come back to bite them in the arse, somehow

Bards

Dan133269 wrote:

it really is a joke in my opinion, I noticed it ages ago aswell.
5th largest city in Ireland and that doesn't warrant a mention on the weather report. Hopefully it will come back to bite them in the arse, somehow

get a peitiion going and send it to the advertisers stating we the undersigned will not be watching any programmes on TV3 until Waterford City is put back on the map.

get WLR and Timmy Ryan to back it and ask Waterofrd people to bycot TV3.

See how the advertisers react to TV3

Asmodean

I guess not enough stag party's go to Waterford at the weekend

Me hole!! The train is basically crammed with the loud obnoxious ***** every other friday!!

Tbh I think ye're making a bit too big a deal out of it. Who cares if its omitted. Just watch the weather on rte instead! TV3's a crock of **** anyway. TG4 totally kicks its ass!

Fandyfan

hee hee the weather will forever be a mystery to us waterford folk maybe its gonna snow tomorrow...who knows!

Dan133269

Fandyfan wrote:

hee hee the weather will forever be a mystery to us waterford folk maybe its gonna snow tomorrow...who knows!

Nothing like the talk of the weather around the town, random punters in the pub swearing with their life on there being a feckin meteorite shower the following day. good fun though

Freddie59

Bards wrote:

See how the advertisers react to TV3

Brilliant suggestion. Hit them where it hurts. Well done.

kilkennycat2004

KK is a far more important part of the country anyway so that can be reason number one but also Met Eireann have 13 weather monitoring centres & KK is one of those.

For the record the 13 are Belmullet, Birr, Casement, Claremorris, Clones, Cork, Dublin & Shannon Airports, Malin Head, Mullingar, Rosslare & Valencia & the greatest one of all in KK City.

Psychedelic

Freddie59 wrote:

To cap it all off this website:

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/experience-ireland/city-breaks-experience/

must take the biscuit. It is truly maddening.:mad:

haha some coincidence you mention this Freddie. I received an email pointing this out to me this morning, so I rang Discover Ieland (well it was actually Tourism Ireland) and they they got back to me and said they would add Waterford as a city, that they are working on it now and it should be ready in the next day or two.

fricatus

kilkennycat2004 wrote:

KK is a far more important part of the country anyway

I admire your pride, sure, but I'd like to see you back that statement up with a few concrete facts

Let's see, a Met station and a nice tally of All-Irelands, for starters... what else?

Roen

Don't worry lads, we have an automated station up at Tycor, provides endless entertainment for the disaffected hoards with nothing better to do than vandalise it.

Freddie59

kilkennycat2004 wrote:

KK is a far more important part of the country anyway so that can be reason number one but also Met Eireann have 13 weather monitoring centres & KK is one of those.

For the record the 13 are Belmullet, Birr, Casement, Claremorris, Clones, Cork, Dublin & Shannon Airports, Malin Head, Mullingar, Rosslare & Valencia & the greatest one of all in KK City.

:rolleyes: comment as expected.:rolleyes:

Freddie59

Psychedelic wrote:

haha some coincidence you mention this Freddie. I received an email pointing this out to me this morning, so I rang Discover Ieland (well it was actually Tourism Ireland) and they they got back to me and said they would add Waterford as a city, that they are working on it now and it should be ready in the next day or two.

Well Psych.

That's gas alright. But as I've said already we got the result. www.daft.ie also had us excluded from the City list. Following a quick e-mail (to which they responded very nicely) we're now on it.

Pity TV3 were not as mannerly.

Freddie.

Dan133269

kilkennycat2004 wrote:

KK is a far more important part of the country anyway so that can be reason number one but also Met Eireann have 13 weather monitoring centres & KK is one of those.

Don't worry about that, sometime in the near future we'll have encroached into Kilkenny so far that it'll be a waterford station!

merlante

Freddie59 wrote:

Well Psych.

That's gas alright. But as I've said already we got the result. www.daft.ie also had us excluded from the City list. Following a quick e-mail (to which they responded very nicely) we're now on it.

Pity TV3 were not as mannerly.

Freddie.

I sent daft an email on that about 5 years ago and got no response.

Cabaal

fricatus wrote:

I admire your pride, sure, but I'd like to see you back that statement up with a few concrete facts

Let's see, a Met station and a nice tally of All-Irelands, for starters... what else?

Ok lets not start this ****e again, you know that neither side will win or back down so just leave it :rolleyes:

Hell I'm from Kilkenny but I'm not going to start this **** here because in the end Waterford think their great and we think we're great so nobody is going to win this bloody pointless argument.

merlante

kilkennycat2004 wrote:

KK is a far more important part of the country anyway so that can be reason number one but also Met Eireann have 13 weather monitoring centres & KK is one of those.

For the record the 13 are Belmullet, Birr, Casement, Claremorris, Clones, Cork, Dublin & Shannon Airports, Malin Head, Mullingar, Rosslare & Valencia & the greatest one of all in KK City.

We don't care where the weather stations are, we want to know what the weather will be like in Waterford.

As for KK being far more important, there are probably places on the internet you could write that without getting laughed at, but I don't believe here is one of them.

road_high

kilkennycat2004 wrote:

KK is a far more important part of the country anyway so that can be reason number one but also Met Eireann have 13 weather monitoring centres & KK is one of those.

For the record the 13 are Belmullet, Birr, Casement, Claremorris, Clones, Cork, Dublin & Shannon Airports, Malin Head, Mullingar, Rosslare & Valencia & the greatest one of all in KK City.

Jesus I'm sure the people of Waterford are so envious of us and our crappy little weather station:rolleyes: and mentions on TV3 weather that nobody even watches!

I would gladly trade the weather station (2 employees max) for Waterford IT or Reg Hospital! Any takers? Didn't think so...

merlante

mfitzy wrote:

Jesus I'm sure the people of Waterford are so envious of us and our crappy little weather station:rolleyes: and mentions on TV3 weather that nobody even watches!

I would gladly trade the weather station (2 employees max) for Waterford IT or Reg Hospital! Any takers? Didn't think so...

Right so, when do you think we could do the deal?

Roen

Who's on for a Simponsesque weather station raid into North Waterford?

merlante

Roen wrote:

Who's on for a Simponsesque weather station raid into North Waterford?

Sure how feckin' expensive can they be?

Still, we were really caught sleeping at the wheel when weather stations were given out, weren't we? :eek:

Bards

merlante wrote:

Sure how feckin' expensive can they be?

Still, we were really caught sleeping at the wheel when weather stations were given out, weren't we? :eek:

I think we were on Strike at the time:D

mike65

Just to be serious for a moment, Waterford does'nt need a station. Rosslare covers the South East costal zone while Kilkenny town covers in South East interior. As anyone who ever travelled from the coast to Kilkenny will know the climate can be quite different esp during high pressure. in winter its fupping freezing, in summer stifling hot.

Mike.

Cabaal

mike65 wrote:

As anyone who ever travelled from the coast to Kilkenny will know the climate can be quite different esp during high pressure. in winter its fupping freezing, in summer stifling hot.

Mike.

Well thats cause Kilkenny City and county are an inland county so it works that way

mike65

I know that! Thats why they have a station there and in Rosslare and not in Waterford.

Mike.

Our man in Havana

There is no pleasing some people.

Dilbert75

The thing that always amuses me about the usual Waterford "the Dublin meeja are ignoring Waterford as a city in its own right (boy)" is this: if you, as a non-Waterford person, cross the bridge into Waterford city, you will be reminded at every opportunity that you are not a native and that you don't belong there and you will continue to be reminded of that fact till you cross the bridge on the way back out. But then the same "welcoming" people whinge about people not giving Waterford the credit for being the modern city it is. Can anyone else see the contradiction here?

fricatus

Dilbert75 wrote:

...you will be reminded at every opportunity that you are not a native and that you don't belong there and you will continue to be reminded of that fact till you cross the bridge on the way back out.

I agree, and it's a phenomenon I hate among my fellow Waterfordians! (friendly slagging excluded - let's have a sense of humour)

But how are we any different from the likes of Dublin or Cork?

"Ah, jaysus buud, dem cuulchies dawent knaw how te druive, fooksayek!"

or...

"Aroo fram Cark baay? No? Den you're a langer and I'm a ligind! We bech'ee in de semi final baay!"

Sully

Switching back onto the topic at hand...

Discover Ireland have updated their website to include Waterford.

merlante

Sully04 wrote:

Switching back onto the topic at hand...

Discover Ireland have updated their website to include Waterford.

Good stuff!

I wonder will it last, though?

Freddie59

Sully04 wrote:

Switching back onto the topic at hand...

Discover Ireland have updated their website to include Waterford.

Am I missing something or am I visiting the wrong page?

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/ireland-places-to-go/areas-and-cities/

merlante

Freddie59 wrote:

Am I missing something or am I visiting the wrong page?

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/ireland-places-to-go/areas-and-cities/

Bastards. So TV3 decided what is and what is not a city now do they?

Maharet

It's a city in the list of places yet some retard didn't make the connection of putting it in the Cities and Areas section. :rolleyes:

I contacted them anyway to tell them to cop on, if we all do they'll have to listen!

derdoh

Ive just sent them an e-mail as well

if everybody does it I'm sure they'll listen

Sully

Freddie59 wrote:

Am I missing something or am I visiting the wrong page?

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/ireland-places-to-go/areas-and-cities/

That page is a right mess. The original link added a piece on Waterford under Kilkenny. The Areas & Cities have Waterford & Kilkeny under "South". They didnt list a few places as cities. Talk about un-organized and messy!

Sully

OK I sent an email onto Discover Ireland, as this is disapointing. We pay them enough to get our B&B listed, and they fail to mention Waterford city in places.

This would be the second time I have had to contact you regarding your lack of knowledge of Ireland. You claim to be a website where you can "Discover Ireland" yet time and time again you fail to mention Waterford City (you know, Ireland oldest city and fifth largest city) in
descriptions of places in Ireland (you do of course, mention the majority of other places including Kilkenny) AND to top it of you have failed to list Waterford (and other cities)
in the drop-down box (never mind the page content, which is a complete disaster) titled
"Places to Stay".

I think its time management and the web development team of Discover Ireland educated themselves and then reviewed the website to ensure that the websites information is as accurate as possible, and to area / city is left out from any section.

How are tourists supposed to tour Ireland, or "discover" it - if you fail to provide proper
information?

I expect an immediate response to this, as my last contact with you went on ignored.

Regards,
Kevin O'Sullivan

merlante

Yeah, I sent an email a couple of days ago. It's basic stuff, they should get it right. It's not like we're asking for a full page advertisement!

Bards

merlante wrote:

Yeah, I sent an email a couple of days ago. It's basic stuff, they should get it right. It's not like we're asking for a full page advertisement!

I presume these guys are publicly funded.. a letter to the Public Accounts Committee I think is in order to ask why is this lot wasting my hard earned tax money by not getting the basics right.....

Also a letter to Dept of Education to find out what studets are being taught in school with regards to the five cities of this State.

A couple of geography teachers should be fired for this on going fiasco

merlante

Bards wrote:

I presume these guys are publicly funded.. a letter to the Public Accounts Committee I think is in order to ask why is this lot wasting my hard earned tax money by not getting the basics right.....

Also a letter to Dept of Education to find out what studets are being taught in school with regards to the five cities of this State.

A couple of geography teachers should be fired for this on going fiasco

I don't think geography is an option in Dublin schools. (Withdrawn due to lack of interest. :rolleyes: )

Some good ideas there though.

merlante

I received a response; here is the text:

"Thank you for your email.

It would appear that your main concern is that waterford is not on all
our maps. TV3 uses a variety of maps with a variety of urban populations
marked. It is not practical for all maps to have all urban populations
on them."

I replied, pointing out to them that Waterford is not just an arbitrary urban population, but one of the 5 major cities in the state. Probably news to them.

Are there any TV3 shareholders from Kilkenny by any chance?

Freddie59

merlante wrote:

I received a response; here is the text:

"Thank you for your email.

It would appear that your main concern is that waterford is not on all
our maps. TV3 uses a variety of maps with a variety of urban populations
marked. It is not practical for all maps to have all urban populations
on them."

I replied, pointing out to them that Waterford is not just an arbitrary urban population, but one of the 5 major cities in the state. Probably news to them.

Are there any TV3 shareholders from Kilkenny by any chance?

Update on DiscoverIreland.com They've now included Waterford on the following link:

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/experience-ireland/city-breaks-experience/

but not on this one:

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/ireland-places-to-go/

Is anyone working there checking the continuity of their content at all?

It should possibly be called www.discoverirelandexceptwaterford.com

merlante

Freddie59 wrote:

Update on DiscoverIreland.com They've now included Waterford on the following link:

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/experience-ireland/city-breaks-experience/

but not on this one:

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/ireland-places-to-go/

Is anyone working there checking the continuity of their content at all?

It should possibly be called www.discoverirelandexceptwaterford.com

Waterford is not in the drop-down menu on the first link.

It's a complete joke.

They've obviously been caught out badly. They're designed the whole site on the basis that Waterford doesn't exist.

mike65

Any other cities?

Don't they know? :rolleyes:

Mike.

Bards

I just viewed the weather on TV3 with the intention of writing to the main sponsor.. But guess who spopsors TV3 weather

yep the most evil Kilkenny company, Avonmore... no doubt the conspiracy theorists will say that this is their handywork

Avonmore have shut down all the waterford foods companies except for Snowcream which I believe is next to face the axe and moved them to their production facilities in Kilkenny..

it might be just co-incidence.. but I doubt it somehow

Dilbert75

So its not just Dublin that's out to get Waterford, its also Kilkenny....

Maybe I'm being uncharitable to ye Blaas - after all, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you.

Bards

Dilbert75 wrote:

So its not just Dublin that's out to get Waterford, its also Kilkenny....

Maybe I'm being uncharitable to ye Blaas - after all, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you.

Hey this is the Waterford Forum.. get back over that bridge to the Kilkenny Forum.. you Troll:D