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Weekend on One

  • 17-01-2011 3:39pm
    #1
    cwgatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭


    I was wondering if anyone heard John Lynn on this show at the weekend. I like the programme (both the Sat and Sun editions), but this guy was awful IMO. He was reading over the papers and mispronounced both Michaela Harte and Richie Boucher's names. He also said that the 'raptures' were encircling Brian Cowen.

    Just thought it was a particularly ill-informed and poor performance. Anyone else hear it?


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  • #2
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Pronouncing it Michaela Harte would be wrong as her name was Michaela McAreavey. Harte was her maiden name.

    Is your problem with John Lynn only with his few mispronunciations?


  • #3
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    The problem is Cathal Murray is far too straight-laced to have John Lynn doing his newspaper reviews. Murray is just too concerned that Lynn might say something that might even vaguely offend someone, which kills the thing stone dead.


  • #4
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Is that the guy with the appalling Sahrf' Dublin accent?


    That guy should never be let within a mile of a mic.


  • #5
    cwgatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭cwgatling


    That's him. The accent grates on me as well.

    Harte/McAreavey: understood ;)


  • #6
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    cwgatling wrote: »
    That's him. The accent grates on me as well.

    Harte/McAreavey: understood ;)


    Sweet Jesus... what an accent..... makes me want to throw up.


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  • #7
    real rocker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭real rocker


    I tend to go for Gloria on Lyric so avoid the reviews - which I can hear on the RTE Radio 1 news bulletins.


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