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Terry Wogans Ireland

  • 23-01-2011 9:09pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else watching. Brit abroad vibe about it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Lollers wrote: »
    Anyone else watching. Brit abroad vibe about it.
    Still trying to make up my mind whether I like it or hate it. I feel we are being portrayed as the little people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭eigrod


    cringe @ the moving statue


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    True, he is playing to a BBC audience. But he still has the ''Wogan'' charm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    At least Bord Failte will be happy. The scenery looks terrific.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Bodhisopha


    1 minute in and i'm already offended. Fukk off Wogan.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭sudzs


    eigrod wrote: »
    cringe @ the moving statue

    My toes are curling! Spending far too long on the subject.

    Oh cripes, they keep showing the 2 saying the rosary. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Does Terry wear a wig?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    Does Terry wear a wig?

    He has very vigorous hair for a man his age. pacman.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    It's v twee!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Lollers


    It didn't come off there. The scarf regrettably stayed on.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭IsaBrown


    Did he just call himself a Dub? I thought he was a limerick man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Bodhisopha


    IsaBrown wrote: »
    Did he just call himself a Dub? I thought he was a limerick man.

    Yeah, i thought i heard that alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭Carroller16


    Have to say this country looks astounding.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    efb wrote: »
    It's v twee!

    If twee was a sugar I'd be having a diabetic fit about now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Have to say this country looks astounding.
    I think that Bord Failte will be happy....Dave the driver is a pain in the ass though...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭sudzs


    I just hope there's no sign of any of the Healy Raes now he's in Kerry! :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    I think that Bord Failte will be happy.....

    +1

    Well done BBC and Terry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,114 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Lollers wrote: »
    The Irish drink :rolleyes:

    Jesus NOT THE ROSE OF TRALEE
    He presented it, so they could hardly leave it out, could they? :rolleyes:

    "Study, Rugby, Prayer and Punishment." Yikes ...

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Bodhisopha


    Found it pretty boring myself. Oh well, to each their own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Majorettes next week! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    Very enjoyable. Bord Failte must be delighted with two hours of free advertising at primetime on the BBC!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    Bodhisopha wrote: »
    Found it pretty boring myself. Oh well, to each their own.

    It may have been a bit boring to us but then we know all about the places he visited.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    eigrod wrote: »
    cringe @ the moving statue

    It happened and it happened here! Mind you I thought it actually started in West Waterford at Mount Melleray Grotto


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    The BBC Press Release for this says
    After 40 years, Sir Terry Wogan returns to Ireland, stepping back into his past to explore how the country helped shape him, and looking at what it means to be Irish in the 21st century.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y44gx


    So what exactly have Moving Statues in 1985 to do with either

    a) The Ireland that Terry Wogan left in 1971 or

    b) Ireland in the 21st Century ?


    They could have stuck on a repeat of Ballykissangel, it would have been equally as informative about Ireland today.

    Also,

    Dear Sir Terry

    The language is Irish, not gaelic

    Thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,355 ✭✭✭punchdrunk


    I really like Terry wogan,enjoyed the historical slant/ family side of it
    he's a gent


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    missed this......whens it repeated?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Have to say, the country looked just beautiful! As has been said a few times in the thread, Bord Failte must be chuckling with glee.

    There was a smack of the oirish thing going on, no too much, but a bit. Overall I enjoyed watching it though. Wogan is charming to the end!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    I preferred watching "Three men in a boat go to Ireland". Having said that Terry has a massive fan base in the UK, so if any of the TOGS decide to come over for a visit it can only be good for our ailing tourism industry. God knows we need all the help we can get these days!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    SkidMark,

    Quite a lot I'd say but the point left hanging in the air wasn't finished off, namely in 2011 if anyone attempted to try that stunt it would be subjected to 99.9% ridicule, rather than hundreds of thousands making the visit to one of the many alledged moving statues. Part two may fill in teh gaps.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    I preferred watching "Three men in a boat go to Ireland". Having said that Terry has a massive fan base in the UK, so if any of the TOGS decide to come over for a visit it can only be good for our ailing tourism industry. God knows we need all the help we can get these days!

    The 3 men in a boat go to Ireland show was a bit more cynical and sarcastic I thought.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    tallpaul wrote: »
    Very enjoyable. Bord Failte must be delighted with two hours of free advertising at primetime on the BBC!!


    It will all be undone when BBC1 shows 'Mrs Brown's Boys' next month.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    This was better than I expected. I figured with the music and everything it would be very blarney altogether but it was quite an interesting documentary. A bit like Who Do You Think You Are. The one in Northern Ireland should be interesting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    Koloman wrote: »
    The 3 men in a boat go to Ireland show was a bit more cynical and sarcastic I thought.
    There was no shamrocks and sheilaghs element to TMIAB though. It was up to date and relevant, they portrayed an Ireland that we are more familiar with.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Well done Sir Terrence, I thought it was a brilliant advertising campaign for Ireland, and on prime time BBC1 too! Yes of course there were cringe worthy moments like the moving statues piece, but that was the reality back in 85. With our ailing tourist industry, a series like this can only do Ireland's tourism image a massive amount of good, specially with tourist numbers from Britain down soo much in recent years > most people in Britain just love Terry, so this should go down very well.

    Good job BBC Wales I say.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    MrsD007 wrote: »
    There was no shamrocks and sheilaghs element to TMIAB though. It was up to date and relevant, they portrayed an Ireland that we are more familiar with.

    The show was not aimed at us though, the parts of the show where you had the pubs with Irish music etc.. is very up to date and relevant to those people that live there I would have thought.

    Mind quite alien to the Ireland where I live which is M&S, Next, Starbucks,Boots etc... though I think that might not be a very interesting show.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    I thought it was awesome as well. They even poked fun at the Irish weather.... I don't think they'll be laughing about it if they actually come over here and Wogan charm isn't around. :rolleyes:

    I'd thank Wogan for making sure it got done right rather than the BBC, I'm sure it was Wogan's doing.

    One last hurrah for Irish respectability in the UK before its irreperably damaged for all time by Mrs. Browne and Her Boys.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Have to say this country looks astounding.

    Yes thought it was a pleasent and interesting programme and the country does looks stunning .As Wogan said himself , as a complement '' he's being living outside the country so long and to anglicized but once an Irishman , always an Irishman '' .Looking forward to part two next week .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    I thought it was awesome as well. They even poked fun at the Irish weather.... I don't think they'll be laughing about it if they actually come over here and Wogan charm isn't around. :rolleyes:

    I'd thank Wogan for making sure it got done right rather than the BBC, I'm sure it was Wogan's doing.

    One last hurrah for Irish respectability in the UK before its irreperably damaged for all time by Mrs. Browne and Her Boys.

    Will that be shown across all the BBC regions?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Latchy wrote: »
    Yes thought it was a pleasent and interesting programme and the country does looks stunning .As Wogan said himself , as a complement '' he's being living outside the country so long and to anglicized but once an Irishman , always an Irishman '' .Looking forward to part two next week .

    In fairness to Terry, England is his home. It's just like we always seem to say that immigrants coming to Ireland have to integrate, the opposite also has to be the case ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Koloman


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Will that be shown across all the BBC regions?

    It will be on BBC1.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x17n9


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭Carroller16


    Had to laugh at them getting on the now defunct 10 bus. Just shows how quickly this country changes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    In fairness to Terry, England is his home. It's just like we always seem to say that immigrants coming to Ireland have to integrate, the opposite also has to be the case ;)

    Something that people who bandy the term 'west or east brit' against somebody whom they consider to be pro british dont really understand .

    Any Irish person who lives abroad as long as Wogan has will become accustomed to the culture and way's of the country they now reside in ,be it Canada ,Australia , USA or Britain while still cherishing their own roots and countrys culture .Wogan is as proud as any Irishman of who he is , were he comes from and that showed in tonights programme .

    Comment from somebody in next weeks programme '' sure there's more Irish people living in Britain than there are in the whole of Ireland '' :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Koloman wrote: »

    meant BBC 1 South East, NI etc.... looks like it is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Latchy wrote: »
    Something that people who bandy the term 'west or east brit' against somebody whom they consider to be pro british dont really understand .

    Any Irish person who lives abroad as long as Wogan has will become accustomed to the culture and way's of the country they now reside in ,be it Canada ,Australia , USA or Britain while still cherishing their own roots and countrys culture .Wogan is as proud as any Irishman of who he is , were he comes from and that showed in tonights programme .

    Comment from somebody in next weeks programme '' sure there's more Irish people living in Britain than there are in the whole of Ireland '' :p

    Which I agree which is why I never understand the anti Terry Wogan thing here. :)

    Just like any immigrant who comes here should be proud of where they come from rather than been be asked, so do you consider yourself Irish now ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Which I agree which is why I never understand the anti Terry Wogan thing here. :)

    I guess like Gaybo some like him , some dont and same might be said for many famous Irish people abroad and at home . :)
    Just like any immigrant who comes here should be proud of where they come from rather than been be asked, so do you consider yourself Irish now ;)
    Indeed , why should you want to or have to turn your back on your were you come from ,in order to feel more accepted ? .Nobody ever asks the Irish abroad to forsake their culture ,same for any other race to .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    On reflection I might have been a bit harsh on it (That Moving Statues lark gets my blood boiling :mad: ...).

    Harmless enough, all designed and packaged for a British audience.

    I liked Terry's driver going the wrong way around the Ring Of Kerry just for the craic, and stopping to take in the 'magnificent views' in the mist and rain!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Well done Sir Terrence, ...
    Sir Michael. Wogan is Michael Terrance Wogan, thus Sir Michael. Sir Michael never wanted to be called "Mick" hence the use of his second name.

    Sir Terrance is Terry Leahy, the Tesco bossman from Tipp via Merseyside.

    FYI & FWIW :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    mathepac wrote: »
    Sir Terrance is Terry Leahy, the Tesco bossman from Tipp via Merseyside.

    incorrect it seems.......he was born in liverpool:rolleyes:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Leahy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,103 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Was a good programe and he did make the point a good bit about the landlords and the treatment of the irish. Great shots of wicklow and powerscourt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,222 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Could they not have waited till the drizzle cleared from the Connor Pass, what a waste of a trip .


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