Morning Ireland still getting time wrong !

four18

Twice this week giving me heart attacks. I was dozing before getting up at 7.20, they announce "Its just coming up to 20 past eight ! FFS can they not read the bleedin clock AND the gob****e MUST realise he is only on air the last 20 minutes NOT an hour and 20 minutes.
Much as the Ivan and Chris show on Newstalk niggles me, they give the right time always. :mad:

mike65

So it wasn't Aine O'Clock?

fatgav

Sure if you know the time, what does it matter if the people on the radio get it wrong?

mike65

It matters if you are in bed in a semi slumber and you hear 8.40 rather than 7.40!

Fuzzy Clam

Must be your clock that faulty. RTE are never wrong. Just ask anybody whose complained to them over the years;)

four18

mike65 wrote: »

It matters if you are in bed in a semi slumber and you hear 8.40 rather than 7.40!

Exactly! " I must have dozed off". That 20 seconds of panic seems longer.

And they dont correct themselves until after the ad break, If they do at all

Newstalk on my radio now.

europa11

Today's clanger was at 7:45, which suddenly zoomed forward to quarter to nine and sent me fleeing for the front door, until it was quickly corrected.

Must pop into a bookshop someday and purchase The Ladybird book of "How to tell the Time" and send it on to the Mourning Oirland crew.

JonathanAnon

I'm surprised nobody has suggested this, but why dont you invest in YOUR OWN time telling device ..



They are not that expensive these days, and have come down a lot since the Brits bought Big Ben..


(but I do know what mean... they have given me a heart attack once or twice as well)

Wertz

I honestly think they do it on purpose at this stage...I can recall David Hanley or someone used to gte it wrong when I'd be eating breakfast back when I was in school, 20 odd yrs ago.
That said the Today Programme manages to get it wrong the odd morning too, but they're usually pulled up on it immediately by production....that's teh difference here.
How hard is it to read the time? I mean most of us can do it before we start primary...

padd b1975

Interesting sign off from Aine Lawlor this morning.
It would appear she is taking some extended leave for medical treatment. Looks like she may be gone for some time because she thanked the listeners for the past 16 years shes been on.
Expect the accuracy of the time reading to improve drastically.

eigrod

padd b1975 wrote: »

Interesting sign off from Aine Lawlor this morning.
It would appear she is taking some extended leave for medical treatment. Looks like she may be gone for some time because she thanked the listeners for the past 16 years shes been on.
Expect the accuracy of the time reading to improve drastically.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/aine-lawlor-signs-off-morning-ireland-for-cancer-treatment-2906655.html

WELL KNOWN RTE journalist Aine Lawlor ended today’s Morning Ireland programme with a farewell as she undergoes medical treatment for cancer.

The mother-of-four didn’t specify the nature of her illness on air, but shocked listeners just before 9am when she said she was “taking a break for medical treatment”.


She has worked for the national broadcaster since 1984 and has presented the nation’s most listened to radio show for the last 16 years.


She will be off air for an unspecified period of time while she undergoes treatment.


Morning Ireland has 460,000 listeners daily and is regarded as RTE’s flagship current affairs programme.


A Trinity College graduate, Ms Lawlor (49) was president of the students’ union and is married to RTE producer Ian Wilson.


RTE did not specify what kind of cancer Ms Lawlor is suffering from and asked that her privacy be respected.


Just last month Ms Lawlor chaired a questions and answers session at Trinity College where four patients charted their individual cancer journeys at a major conference on cancer care.


She is an accomplished gardener and has often spoken of how plants are her second love after radio.


Over the course of her career she has worked on the Pat Kenny show, Today at 5 and Today Tonight at RTE.


She was the narrator on the highly acclaimed States of Fear programmes that lifted the lid on abuse in residential institutions in Ireland.


- Independent.ie reporters

mike65

Just saw that, good luck to her.

mari2222

The government could introduce a tax on radio presenters for every time they announce the wrong time.

Might improve things.

Losty Dublin

padd b1975 wrote: »

Interesting sign off from Aine Lawlor this morning.
It would appear she is taking some extended leave for medical treatment. Looks like she may be gone for some time because she thanked the listeners for the past 16 years shes been on.
Expect the accuracy of the time reading to improve drastically.

It didn't; yesterday Aoife Kavanagh declared it to be an hour earlier than it actually was.

I won't be putting my clock back an hour on their word next weekend :cool:

Lapin

Solution.

Get up before Morning Ireland starts. :pac:

real rocker

Losty Dublin wrote: »

It didn't; yesterday Aoife Kavanagh declared it to be an hour earlier than it actually was.

I won't be putting my clock back an hour on their word next weekend :cool:

GIVE HER A PART WHEN " THE HOUR " GOES INTO 2ND.SERIES ON BBC

Guramoogah

I think some of these bleary-eyed presenters are simply having trouble reading RTÉ's old analogue clocks. What they need is a clock with a large digital display. Then they just need to read out the numbers as they see them.

eigrod

They announced at 7am this morning "today, Thursday 6th April" :rolleyes:

my friend

Guramoogah wrote: »

I think some of these bleary-eyed presenters are simply having trouble reading RTÉ's old analogue clocks. What they need is a clock with a large digital display. Then they just need to read out the numbers as they see them.

Yeah, they are so Dinosauric with their 'quarter to eight'

Just say 7:45

Simplify

padd b1975

Clare Byrne in the hot seat this morning.


Was this her debut?

mike65

Oh FFS, she killed Newstalk breakfast and now Morning Ireland will be turned into a dust bowl

Itssoeasy

I heard her this morning and was thinking "have I put on an old Marion podcast ," so is aine lawlor coming back soon ?

yosser hughes

The powers that be in RTE obviously rate Claire Byrne. I think she's dim but it doesn't matter what I think. I saw one journalist in the Sunday Times yesterday refer to her stints filling in for Marian Finucane as 'sensational'

fishy fishy

who is the idiot woman on morning ireland who tries to "tell a story" with all the false excitement, voice getting shaky with excitement and going up octaves all the time. the "stories" are pure gossip. she needs to calm down - we're not 5 year olds. :mad:

bureau2009

I'm sure I'm not alone in being shocked at hearing Claire Byrne on Morning Ireland.

One can only think that standards - usually very high on Morning Ireland - have seriously slipped.

I find her difficult to listen to and feel she has only a very basic knowledge of the subject at hand. She must have a brilliant agent who has been able to negotiate new programmes for her and thus raise her profile.

I am bewildered at RTE.

EchoO

bureau2009 wrote: »

She must have a brilliant agent who has been able to negotiate new programmes for her and thus raise her profile.

That would be Noel Kelly, who does seem to have an extraordinary influence in the goings on at RTE. Newstalk's Breakshow Show had 70,000 listeners when Byrne left, it now has has 133,000 - says it all really. As a radio presenter is just not very likeable.

fishy fishy

is that the one that gets excited over her own voice - usually talking about a nonsensical issue for a couple of minutes - its like she's reading an animated book to a kid.

she needs shooting whoever she is.

puffishoes

EchoO wrote: »

That would be Noel Kelly, who does seem to have an extraordinary influence in the goings on at RTE. Newstalk's Breakshow Show had 70,000 listeners when Byrne left, it now has has 133,000 - says it all really. As a radio presenter is just not very likeable.

That's an incredible increase in listeners. She did leave at a time when the country started to have an incredible appetite for doom and gloom updates which newstalk specialise in. I wonder how what % of the increase was down to organic growth and how much was down to the departure of Byrne.

sudzs

fishy fishy wrote: »

is that the one that gets excited over her own voice - usually talking about a nonsensical issue for a couple of minutes - its like she's reading an animated book to a kid.

Do you mean the wan doing what it says in the papers?? I just heard here on there and came on here to say just the same thing you have! It was like she was reading from a Roald Dahl book when she was quoting Kevin Myers!! :rolleyes:

Losty Dublin

padd b1975 wrote: »

Clare Byrne in the hot seat this morning.


Was this her debut?

She is fitting in nicely. Already got the time wrong a **** load of times this week

Itssoeasy

sudzs wrote: »

Do you mean the wan doing what it says in the papers?? I just heard here on there and came on here to say just the same thing you have! It was like she was reading from a Roald Dahl book when she was quoting Kevin Myers!! :rolleyes:

Ya it like listening to the radio version of a rollercoaster.

sudzs

Would someone ever give Des Cahill a hanky. I'm feeling sick here listening to his phlegmy sniffs and snorts...

europa11

"Dess hore widd desport....."



He could do with a box or three of nasal spray alright, wonder do the other MI presenters maintain a snot-safe distance when he goes on?