Boring Paddys Day parade in Dublin

kevin99

How many watched the Paddys Day parade on RTE Television yesterday?
I was in relatives house and they had it on, so had to endure an hour of listening to boring old Des Cahill, has-been Blaitnaid and the young pup.

Cahill spent the time explaining that the parade was about a short story written by the talented roddy doyle.

However, this went on and on and on.

Yer woman, the flame haired one was on O'Connell St interviewing people. She is ****e. RTE should just let her off. No talent.

Cahill is not funny. He thinks he is, but someone brave enough in RTE should tell him he is not. His command of English is limited. And his diction is awful.
Why oh why do RTE use these people who have no talent?

I would have engaged Mary Kennedy of RTE Nationwide to do the commentary with some younger presenters doing the vox pops.

As regards the coverage of the parade itself, RTE was again lacking in creativity and imagination. We were treated to the arrivals of the President and Lord Mayor at the viewing stand. We didn't see them sitting, reviewing the parade, just arriving. We didn't see any other dignatories either.
Why didn't RTE place a cameraperson on top of the big wheel at the Point Depot and show shots of Dublin from the sky?

Cahill not once told us who was present at the reviewing stand, didn't say how many people were participating in the parade and where they were from. He didn't tell us how many participants were from abroad.

These are basic journalistic traits any hack would ask the organisers and convey to the audience.

Why all the dancers? Mime artists?

It was totally boring. Thankfully, the relatives switched over to Cheltenhem coverage.

Ash.J.Williams

RTE are broke

kevin99

Being broke has nothing to do with the coverage.

They had all the cameras and other outside broadcast facilities.

But they made a hash of it.

Saying RTE is broke doesn't explain their poor coverage of the event and the hiring of those eeejits to present the programme.

If RTE is broke then it shouldn't cover the event and let TV3 do it.

Nolanger

kevin99 wrote: »

Why oh why do RTE use these people who have no talent?

Jobs for the boys/gals, political contacts, relatives already working there. If most of those fools were let go they would never work in television again because they're just not good enough.

kevin99

Nolanger wrote: »

Jobs for the boys/gals, political contacts, relatives already working there. If most of those fools were let go they would never work in television again because they're just not good enough.

You have taken the words right out of my mouth. None of them would hack it in BBC. I listened to their radio sport yesterday afternoon and it was is awful.
They had reporters at all of the GAA National League games and some of them were dreadful. No sense of creating an atmosphere from the ground, an inability to capture a score in less than three sentences.
Why don't they have a hack in Libya? Or is it too dangerous for the overpaid and underworked staff to venture there.
The sooner they hire consultants to give Montrose the once over and better.
Send in Colm McCarthy to carry out a cul of staff numbers.
I remember someone comparing RTE to a typical semi-state outfit where you could come and go as you pleased.

baalthor

kevin99 wrote: »

Why don't they have a hack in Libya?

They do: Margaret Ward.
She was reporting from the rebel area last week when the Libya AF dropped a bomb a few hundred metres away.

kevin99

I thought she was RTE's China Corr. Could they not have sent one of their intrepid reporters from Donnybrook? I mean she has travelled around the world to get to Libya, whereas, a hack from their overstaffed newsroom could have been there in no time.

baalthor wrote: »

They do: Margaret Ward.
She was reporting from the rebel area last week when the Libya AF dropped a bomb a few hundred metres away.

reprazant

She was but the Chinese bureau was closed.

patrickrushe

I was actually driving an ambulance that followed the last participants along the whole route.

I really enjoyed the day. The atmosphere in the city was absolutely brilliant. I don't think TV would properly convey that, and I can understand it might have looked dull on the box in the corner especially with RTE running the show. Yawn..

As I was kinda in the parade, got some nice photographs. The following has some of them at the bottom of the page:

St Patrick's Day Parade - Pics and Article.

shotgun mike

RTE.ie did a tracker for the day, which made references to paddy's day up and down the country

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0317/stpatricksday.html