Hector Breaks For The Border

Crooked Jack

Just saw an ad for Hector Breaks for the Border. this has the potential to be horrendous. it already loses points for having Stephen Nolan in it

AnonoBoy

So, this is not a thread about a Crash Test Dummies doc then?

Misleading title dude. :mad:

Crooked Jack

This thread can be whatever you want it to be, baby. so long as what you want it to be is about Hector Breaks for the Border. sorry about the title, dunno how to change it

M.E. Doyle

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Just saw an ad for Hector Breaks for the Border. this has the potential to be horrendous. it already loses points for having Stephen Nolan in it

What makes me sick is the way RTE say " let's see how they get on in each other's countries" last time I checked ulster is apart of Ireland. We are all one country. Shame on RTE , typical west Brit comment

_Kaiser_

M.E. Doyle wrote: »

What makes me sick is the way RTE say " let's see how they get on in each other's countries" last time I checked ulster is apart of Ireland. We are all one country. Shame on RTE , typical west Brit comment

Actually, last *I* checked NI is still part of the UK so they're actually right in that it IS a separate country.

Nothing to do with being "West Brits" - geographical and political fact

evilivor

M.E. Doyle wrote: »

What makes me sick is the way RTE say " let's see how they get on in each other's countries" last time I checked ulster is apart of Ireland. We are all one country. Shame on RTE , typical west Brit comment

Two countries - Ireland, United Kingdom.

M.E. Doyle

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Actually, last *I* checked NI is still part of the UK so they're actually right in that it IS a separate country.

Nothing to do with being "West Brits" - geographical and political fact

Geography is obviously not your strong point. The north of Ireland is on our island Ireland, while 6 of our counties are still under British occupation , yes it is apart of the United Kingdom politically, but it's not a country. Are you saying that our last president was British ???

spank_inferno

Occupation....

...Dear god..... Let it go!

Or better.... Run up there and conquer it yourself for all the true sons of Erin.



..... So anyway.

M.E. Doyle

evilivor wrote: »

Two countries - Ireland, United Kingdom.

2 countries Ireland and Britain

M.E. Doyle

spank_inferno wrote: »

Occupation....

...Dear god..... Let it go!

Or better.... Run up there and conquer it yourself for all the true sons of Erin.



..... So anyway.

Good answer..... Not!!

Crooked Jack

Ok, lets not make this the usual constitutional row. we all have different stronly held opinions on this. i gotta admit that whole "each others country" sh1t p1ssed me off too, but not nearly as much as the sight of stephen nolan. i can just tell how RTE is gonna portray the north in this. as soon as they cross the border it will be all marchin bands and people goin durdle durdle dur sitchy-ayshun. i'll reserve judgement until i see it but i imagine after it i'll have to begin drawing up a list of RTE bigwigs to punch in the face

REBELSAFC

Where is it ? ? ? ?

Crooked Jack

REBELSAFC wrote: »

Where is it ? ? ? ?

Ba5tardin RTE had technical difficulties. its on at a later date now

Stroke Politics

Maybe Nolan ate Hector....

ThisRegard

REBELSAFC wrote: »

Where is it ? ? ? ?

Ah, I was thinking it's not bad, mainly because of the lack of Hector. This is actually The Story of Ireland isn't it, a good series.

Lady Chatterton

Thread title changed.

Crooked Jack

Stroke Politics wrote: »

Maybe Nolan ate Hector....

Its possible. but hector would burst out of his chest alien style. Not that it would be easy, nolan has fairly taken hectors advice to heart and LET HIMSELF GOOOOOOOOOOOO

COYW

Switched on to watch this. Anyone know what happened?

Sheldons Brain

Technical difficulties in this day and age is very suspect, it is not as if there is only one copy of a film to be put on a projector. Did somebody sue?

Gilbert Grape

was looking foward to hearing Hector getting stuck into fat boy

Gilbert Grape

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

Technical difficulties in this day and age is very suspect, it is not as if there is only one copy of a film to be put on a projector. Did somebody sue?

I was'nt the only 1 to think that aswell

COYW

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

Technical difficulties in this day and age is very suspect, it is not as if there is only one copy of a film to be put on a projector. Did somebody sue?

I agree with you, utter tosh. Something else behind that.

Not a fan of Nolan or Hector. Was interested to see who would annoy me more. Let yourself gooo Hector, to Northern Ireland. Another country off the list, at the expensive of the tax payer.

ThisRegard

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

Did somebody sue?

A concerned licence payer trying to get to the bottom of how yet another vehicle for Hector got commissioned?

nedsgarden

Hector breaks the programme order.

BuzzG

Yes someone must have threatened to sue ... maybe RTÉ or someone had concerns it could cause tensions with our neighbours in NI. Very strange indeed anyway.

ThisRegard

Martin McGuinness tweeting about the return of the broadcasting ban.

COYW

BuzzG wrote: »

Yes someone must have threatened to sue ... maybe RTÉ or someone had concerns it could cause tensions with our neighbours in NI. Very strange indeed anyway.

I was watching it specifically to see the content. Lines must have been crossed that might upset some of the more tender folk in the two countries. I suspect that it the real reason it was pulled.

Biffo The Bare

They will show it eventually.
Tiocfaidh Ar Lá.:pac:

COYW

Lol, Stephen Nolan just tweeted :

For those of you in the south, what do you think of break4dborder so far !?

D1stant

COYW wrote: »

I was watching it specifically to see the content. Lines must have been crossed that might upset some of the more tender folk in the two countries. I suspect that it the real reason it was pulled.

LOL

Stroke Politics

Ulster Says No....

COYW

Biffo The Bare wrote: »

They will show it eventually.
Tiocfaidh Ar Lá.:pac:

I think it might be a case of Never, Never, Never!

D1stant

Stroke Politics wrote: »

Ulster Says No....

Munster says No also. See there is common ground. We all hate Hector. Its a start.

Sheldons Brain

D1stant wrote: »

LOL

LOL 1313 perhaps?

COYW

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

LOL 1313 perhaps?

Nah, Nolan saying it has been pulled on twitter. Don't want to post his twitter comments but it looks like it is political.

Happyman42

I think I'd prefer Hector to Fergal "I Love My Own Voice' Keane, heck give me Nolan even.

grey_so_what

It must have been very sudden, Hector was talking about it this morning plugging it like mad........

COYW

grey_so_what wrote: »

It must have been very sudden, Hector was talking about it this morning plugging it like mad........

Stephen Nolan tweeted when the programme was supposed to be on, asking people what they thought of it. Must have been pulled at the last minute.

JONJO THE MISER

Was looking forward to seeing this, who pulled it and why?

FearDark

Remember when Hector used be on TG4, he was enjoyable. Then he got a job with RTE...

JONJO THE MISER

Martin Mcguinness and nolan having a right too and fro on the twitter machine now:D.

Sound of Silence

https://twitter.com/StephenNolan/status/387335851438383104

mfceiling

FearDark wrote: »

Remember when Hector used be on TG4, he was enjoyable. Then he got a job with RTE...

FYP...

C.K Dexter Haven

ThisRegard wrote: »

Ah, I was thinking it's not bad, mainly because of the lack of Hector. This is actually The Story of Ireland isn't it, a good series.

I was wondering why it was so good:D

Oops69

Stroke Politics wrote: »

Maybe Nolan ate Hector....

He's stiil trying to cough up a bid red furball

Cris Jones

Are people saying this programme got pulled off the tv schedule? We are not on twitter so don't know what is being tweeted - but we deliberately did not tune in to this programme because of the title and the participants - Stephen Nolan is someone who promotes his radio programme as talking for his "wee country" a phrase which speaks for protestants/unionists/loyalists only and promotes their propaganda that the north of Ireland is a country in its own right and for which lie RTE have supported with this programme - alienating the catholics and Irish nationalists. He, Stephen Nolan, does not speak for everyone when he broadcasts but his own unionist side only - in case everyone else in the island isn't aware that it isn't just protestants who live in the six counties, you know! Very annoyed that RTE commissioned such a partition-supporting programme in the first place. A sad day for national broadcasting.

SEPT 23 1989

I thought Hector might have died and they pulled the show as a mark of respect

Frank Lee Midere

It sounds political for sure, but would have been very very last minute. I mean hollywood stuff. The announcer was sure it was going out until it didn't play. Did someone just run in in the nick of time with an injunction, and if so who? Nolan seems to have thought it was on, Hector was plugging it, Sinn Fein are annoyed. Who could have injuncted? And for why?

Maybe it was a technical problem, as odd as that is in 2013.

huskerdu

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

It sounds political for sure, but would have been very very last minute. I mean hollywood stuff. The announcer was sure it was going out until it didn't play. Did someone just run in in the nick of time with an injunction, and if so who? Nolan seems to have thought it was on, Hector was plugging it, Sinn Fein are annoyed. Who could have injuncted? And for why?

Maybe it was a technical problem, as odd as that is in 2013.

I know someone who works in RTE. Odd as it seems, it was a technical issue.
As you said, even the announcer thought it was going out.

recipio

'Technical problem' - why is it they only happen on RTE ? I was looking forward to Nolan giving Hector a few home truths about the Darby O' Gill fantasy world he occupies. No - I'm not Unionist ( or Nationalist ) - just fed up with this dysfunctional island we live on.

I Heart Internet

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

Maybe it was a technical problem, as odd as that is in 2013.

Anyone who's ever used a computer will know that technical problems can happen in 2013 too!

To be fair, the last minute nature of the swap would kinda make you believe the technical problem thing.....

Although I didn't see it happen. Did they have the Fergal Keane show pretty much ready to go or was there a few minutes of the RTE logo and silly music while they scrambled to fill the gap?