Henry McKean

17-03-2010 10:44pm #1

I came across a documentary of his last night (I think it was a repeat), where Henry spent 24 hours homeless

You gotta admire the man, he has got balls. Anything can happen to people sleeping in streets he went undercover sleeping alongside heroin addicts and their syringes

I remember last summer he reported on an Orange Order parade and it was a great insight into the atmosphere and the attitudes of the people there.

Didn't he also spend three days begging on the street to see how much money could be raised?

Southsider1 · 17-03-2010 11:00pm

I used to think he was a poor man's Paddy O'Gorman but he's presented some good documentaries on Newstalk. It's a shame they don't use him a bit more for these instead of being Moncrieffs roving reporter?

Poly · 18-03-2010 9:36am

Yeah, he used to be on Moncreiff alot, not heard too often now. I remember a great piece when he tried to beat the cadbury's cream eggs eating world record.

Donkey Oaty · 19-03-2010 8:03pm

His documentary on the travellers was great, as was his piece on the Tara protestors.

There's a real touch of the Louis Theroux-type, innocent abroad about him which you don't hear very much on Irish radio. I can't imagine Duffy, Kenny or Tubridy phoning up prostitutes or having a colonic irrigation session and being able to carry it off like Henry did.

FlutterinBantam · 19-03-2010 8:06pm

Indeed, they have a lot more class than that.:cool:

Leave the tabloidazion to the tabloids I always say.;)

Donkey Oaty · 19-03-2010 9:03pm

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Indeed, they have a lot more class than that.:cool:

Leave the tabloidazion to the tabloids I always say.;)

I'm sure Henry would be shocked/bemused/bewildered that you think of him as tabloidy. He's more a low-circulation, subscription-only, special interests quarterly in a dentist's waiting room, albeit one which for some unfathomable reason decides to do a piece on phoning prostitutes, colonic irrigation, etc.

littlefriend · 20-03-2010 12:06am

I love him! Wish he was on air more often.

I don't think he is in the least bit tabloid-y?

Dan Dare · 20-03-2010 8:15am

I think Henry McKean is very good. Is he related to BBC 2's Newsnight reporter Liz McKean, they cerrtainly sound pretty similar?

Cunsiderthis · 20-03-2010 8:19am

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Indeed, they have a lot more class than that.:cool:

Leave the tabloidazion to the tabloids I always say.;)

It's not often that boards provided a marmalade dropper in our house, but the though of Joe Duffy having "class" (what a dreadful word that is) made me choke, with laughter, on my boiled egg.