What dose it mean for Ireland!

Am I the only one that finds this funny, maybe its just my odd sense of humour.

Ireland is a very small country on the edge of Europe with a population of apx 4,0000,

You turn on the news and terrible things are happing in the world, at the end of whatever report it is the newsreader says 'now Brian (or who ever is doing the reporting ) what does that mean for IRELAND' as if Ireland is the centre of the universe and somehow its all about us and how we will be affected!!!.

Sykk

Another recession thread? It dose not surprise me, really.

petes

mariaalice wrote: »

'now Brian (or who ever is doing the reporting ) what does that mean for IRELAND' as if Ireland is the centre of the universe and somehow its all about us and how we will be affected!!!.

Maybe because it's Irish news?

Jaafa

Yes our small Island of 40000 should be less concerned with far away things.

meditraitor

Stop watching Irish news if you dont want an Irish slant,

chin_grin

The way news works is that local news takes preference over world. Like the way Sky News was suddently 24x7 about the riots and we've all forgotten about the famine going on in Africa. Convenient. <puts on tin foil hat>

pajunior

mariaalice wrote: »

Am I the only one that finds this funny, maybe its just my odd sense of humour.

Ireland is a very small country on the edge of Europe with a population of apx 4,0000,

You turn on the news and terrible things are happing in the world, at the end of whatever report it is the newsreader says 'now Brian (or who ever is doing the reporting ) what does that mean for IRELAND' as if Ireland is the centre of the universe and somehow its all about us and how we will be affected!!!.

We might be a small country but we manage to punch above our weight when it comes to national debt.

Come on boys lets go bail out some other bank, we'll show those frogs and krauts how it's done

Cill Dara Abu

So I hear you're a racist now Father

Knasher

mariaalice wrote: »

Ireland is a very small country on the edge of Europe with a population of apx 4,0000,

Where have the other apx 4,410,000 people disappeared to?

FatherLen

you forgot two zeros
one I could forgive but two!?!?

I am exaggeration this slightly to make my point...it will go something like this.

A large bomb explodes in Russia, the reports will end with the newsreader saying ' Brian will this affect Irish exports to Russia'!, and by the way 50 people were killed!!!!!

TheZohanS

Knasher wrote: »

Where have the other apx 4,410,000 people disappeared to?

They caught some sort of "dose"...'twas terribly sad...all over Sky News...

Chuck Stone

It's a bit like that movie...

Robocop!

Thatnastyboy

mariaalice wrote: »

Am I the only one that finds this funny, maybe its just my odd sense of humour.

Ireland is a very small country on the edge of Europe with a population of apx 4,0000,

You turn on the news and terrible things are happing in the world, at the end of whatever report it is the newsreader says 'now Brian (or who ever is doing the reporting ) what does that mean for IRELAND' as if Ireland is the centre of the universe and somehow its all about us and how we will be affected!!!.

HALT!

Hammerzeit..

Well, i presume that Dobby does be talking about financial reports, eg Eurozone things, that do affect us.

I doubt that at the end of a report on the famine in the horn of Africa that they turn around and say "Well, what does this mean for Ireland?"

Dravokivich

Knasher wrote: »

Where have the other apx 4,410,000 people disappeared to?

Ozland

Cill Dara Abu

FatherLen wrote: »

you forgot two zeros
one I could forgive but two!?!?

You forgot two Capital letters.

One I could forgive, but two???

VenusPlays

Its no worse than any other country in world commentating on a plane crash or similar and stating how many of their own countrymen were injured or killed. That's why people choose to watch RTE in Ireland or BBC in England rather than tuning in to CNN etc.

Turtyturd

mariaalice wrote: »

] I am exaggeration this slightly to make my point...it will go something like this.

A large bomb explodes in Russia, the reports will end with the newsreader saying ' Brian will this affect Irish exports to Russia'!, and by the way 50 people were killed!!!!!

WTF is this sh*t??

DjFlin

Of course they're going to say that, this is Ireland. If something happens somewhere else, the main reason we pay attention, is because of the effects it has on us.

AnamGlas

Turtyturd wrote: »

WTF is this sh*t??

RTÉ, I think it's called.

Cill Dara Abu

Turtyturd wrote: »

WTF is this sh*t??

Haha he's stupid, it's exaggerationing you fool.

Tut tut

:pac:

petes

Turtyturd wrote: »

WTF is this sh*t??

Seriously? Commenting on someone's spelling mistakes using 'WTF'?

Arianna_26

mariaalice wrote: »

Am I the only one that finds this funny, maybe its just my odd sense of humour.

Ireland is a very small country on the edge of Europe with a population of apx 4,0000,

You turn on the news and terrible things are happing in the world, at the end of whatever report it is the newsreader says 'now Brian (or who ever is doing the reporting ) what does that mean for IRELAND' as if Ireland is the centre of the universe and somehow its all about us and how we will be affected!!!.

In fairness I don't think I've ever heard a newsreader ask what the London riots or the problems in the Middle East/Syria mean for Ireland. The news tends to carry it's fair share of human interest stories too.

I think you'll find it's mainly issues regarding EU meetings or the worsening euro that are related back to us in Ireland because it will affect us as we are part of that larger community. It's a way of simplifying things for viewers so they can translate it into how it will change their daily lives.

It's not a matter of having a huge ego and thinking that the world revolves around Ireland. I think most of the time it's a fair question.

I think its more how its reported than anything else, there is a difference between saying this might have implications for Ireland and asking in an almost breathless way 'how will this effect Ireland' as if that is the most important/only important point about the report.

The King of Moo

I remember during the trouble with the nuclear power plant in Japan after the tsunami, Dobbers asked an expert on the news what it would mean for Ireland.

Stuff like that is just silly, compared to something like asking how talks on the Eurozone will affect us (and yes, I know some miniscule amounts of radioactive material may have reached us, but we're all ok aren't we? I don't think anyone expected very potent material to swamp us from so far away).