News at One pomposity!

mike65

Seriously is anyone listening to these last few minutes? You'd swear Brian Lenihan had cured cancer and climate change.

SEPT 23 1989

Sickening stuff

padd b1975

With all the talk of greek, I expected David Norris to flounce onto the airwaves.:cool:

miketv

Yeah I thought it had run its course over the weekend, Its still heading the news almost a week on.

ThisRegard

I thought there was only one Grinch in the world, and that he only came out at Christmas.

steelcityblues

More proof that State broadcasters are propaganda outlets, behind the benign image.

Our man in Havana

FF may be gone from office but RTE still knows who really runs the show.

yosser hughes

What went on today was outrageous.I couldn't believe my ears with the crap John Waters was coming out with,that was bad enough.Then Sean O'Rourke read out a poem in Irish.
Am I missing something here? RIP and all that but this coverage is disproportionate.

Coillte_Bhoy

Our man in Havana wrote: »

FF may be gone from office but RTE still knows who really runs the show.

Ah so FF are still in charge? Thanks for that.

Our man in Havana

Within RTE, FF still run the show.

Derryleigh

Our man in Havana wrote: »

FF may be gone from office but RTE still knows who really runs the show.

How would someone with 23,000 posts on this site have a clue about anything else going on in the world!!! Holy Mariah!, 23,000, thats 23 thousand posts!

Derryleigh

mike65 wrote: »

Seriously is anyone listening to these last few minutes? You'd swear Brian Lenihan had cured cancer and climate change.

Hold on a bell,..............65,000 posts. How sore are your fingers??
Do you get out often?

mike65

A quality contribution.

Derryleigh

mike65 wrote: »

A quality contribution.

You mean your own suggestion relating to a dead man was quality?

Back into your dark little bunker with the few cans of Dutch gold there now. Good man,

furiousox

Anyhoo, back on topic.....

I thought Waters' eulogy today was sickening.
Maudlin f'ing drivel.
Even Brian Lenihan would have been embarrassed by it.

JonathanAnon

Yeah I thought it was way over the top.. News At One is meant to tell us the news dispassionately, those poems at the end were just embarrassing..

PaulieBoy

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Yeah I thought it was way over the top.. News At One is meant to tell us the news dispassionately, those poems at the end were just embarrassing..

I found it hard enough to put up with the first poem, but no, they had to do more... totally over the top.

Donal Og O Baelach

furiousox wrote: »

Anyhoo, back on topic.....

I thought Waters' eulogy today was sickening.
Maudlin f'ing drivel.
Even Brian Lenihan would have been embarrassed by it.

Waters should be locked into a room and played a looped recording of that drivel until he curls up into a ball and shivers with shame.

furiousox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE_K7eM2wl8

Coillte_Bhoy

Our man in Havana wrote: »

Within RTE, FF still run the show.

Really??? And of course you can back this up???

Our man in Havana

Who appointed the current DG and board of RTE? FF of course

Aidric

mike65 wrote: »

You'd swear Brian Lenihan had cured cancer

Very clever choice of hyperbole. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

mike65

True and I didn't even think about that angle, so it was unintended. Still he won't care but he'd probably been uncomfortable at such a carry-on in his name. Sean O'Rourke nearly sounded sorry for himself.

Welsh Megaman

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2011/06/14/rte-radios-coverage-of-brian-lenihans-death/

fryup

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Yeah I thought it was way over the top.. News At One is meant to tell us the news dispassionately, those poems at the end were just embarrassing..

Bang on the money, well said

By all means mention his passing talk to colleagues and friends but no poems please.

But then again with FF lackey Sean O'Rourke at the helm it was no surprise:cool:

Wester

For all that I disagreed with his policies and the ruination they have brought to the country, I can't help but think that on a personal basis, Brian Lenihan was a modest man. So why RTE felt the need to go ott on the News at One is beyond me, I don't think Brian Lenihan would have approved at all. Of course, John Waters is an egomaniac who would do anything to get on the airwaves but I had respect for Sean O'Rourke until yesterday. The News at One should be exactly that, the News, not puff pieces.

decies

He was a modest man who fought the battle well, but his career and overall contribution to Irish politics was short and sweet certainly not garret Fitzgerald like. RIP

tipptom

decies wrote: »

He was a modest man who fought the battle well, but his career and overall contribution to Irish politics was short and sweet certainly not garret Fitzgerald like. RIP

Never saw anything great economically about Garrets political career.I think Brian did his best but his decisions were a disaster for his country and this over the top stuff would have embarrased him and an excuse for some of these idiots to say i knew Brian and look how clever i am because i know greek to.thats the trouble with irish journalism,they think they should be part of the story and if they are not they will crowbar their way in to it anyway a la Sunday Independant.