RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

padd b1975 · 23-08-2021 06:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117794102#Comment_117794102

The current run of adds bigging up the plight of the entertainment industry can't have come cheap.

Wonder did they get a "rate"...

HeidiHeidi · 23-08-2021 06:23PM

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Try Pat Kenny some time for being a show-off know-it-all - PBH is a model of restraint in comparison!! 🙄

Have to say I thought PBH was a vast improvement on Claire Byrne, and a close second to Sarah McInerney. Would love either to be given the gig, as an alternative to Pat, whom I suspect at this stage is starting to lose the plot.

padd b1975 · 23-08-2021 06:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117794255#Comment_117794255

Pat is a lost cause on that front but otherwise still an excellent broadcaster.

Claire would benefit from a strong executive producer I feel, way too many solo runs of little interest.

Reminds me of Mooney at his worst.

ShamNNspace · 24-08-2021 10:37AM

Allow me to raise a sceptical eyebrow at these "gremlins" who seem to appear at very oppertune times for the interviewee sometimes😏.... That interview with Coveney I think (I came to it late) ended very abruptly, I know, I know, I'm a terrible cynic these days

djemba djemba · 24-08-2021 10:53AM

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I was thinking the same. The line was as clear as if Coveney was sitting in studio during the piece about the army rangers. He got questioned on comments he made before the all Ireland and covid protocols and suddenly his line deteriorated.

padd b1975 · 24-08-2021 11:52AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117796453#Comment_117796453

Nothing post.

He came back on a few minutes later on a better line and finished the interview.

NIMAN · 24-08-2021 11:56AM

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... and I didn't realise that they were supporting me all this time.

I always assumed they were doing it to make money.

HeidiHeidi · 24-08-2021 12:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117796720#Comment_117796720

Eh, no he didn't!

Came back on the line, gave half an answer, and the line went dead completely.

Not sure whether I'm on board with the conspiracy theories, but it was a bit odd to say the least!

ShamNNspace · 24-08-2021 12:39PM

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He didn't finish the interview, the line went dead, were you listening?

hankless · 24-08-2021 02:51PM

He came back and finished the interview. Did you turn off?

ShamNNspace · 24-08-2021 03:44PM

"gremlins" on the line, Pbh went to a break, came back to the minister, the line went dead in a matter of seconds... Did they get him on the line for a third time after that??.. was driving so I may have missed that

golondrinas · 25-08-2021 11:09AM

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Media already hinting Pat may be back in cushy propped up RTE shortly.

NIMAN · 25-08-2021 11:17AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117800997#Comment_117800997

What slot would he be getting?

ShamNNspace · 25-08-2021 11:28AM

You have to plan ahead in order to be spontaneous sez she... Shyte-talk we used call that round these parts I believe, and it still holds true

25-08-2021 11:55AM

Colonoscopy relatively painless? 😵‍💫As somebody who has had a mammoth number of them, I could never say relatively painless, but it is still no reason to avoid one. Don't have to have 'em anymore as I no longer have a colon.

hankless · 26-08-2021 09:48AM

Thought Philip was the biggest "child in the room" when he was interviewing the colon expert. We get it, Philip, it's not often talked about, but there's really no need to talk down to the listeners for 'giggling' and 'laughing' at the subject when I genuinely can't imagine too many were.

Losty Dublin · 26-08-2021 12:01PM

That idiot "DIY blogger" was just on again. Utterly clueless stuff; even PBH hadn't the heart to hard question her.

Gen.Zhukov · 27-08-2021 10:03AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117805477#Comment_117805477

Philip giving people a taster of what the show will revert to next week, just in case they'd forgotten -- Hair, nails, kitchen de-cluttering, up-cycling your underbags etc.

Furze99 · 27-08-2021 10:16AM

The usual 'military' experts on now.. handy little number every time there's a flare up around the world.

Brian Scan · 27-08-2021 10:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117809739#Comment_117809739

Probably no need for the inverted commas around "military"

From the Irish Times

"A former senior Defence Forces chief is to hand back his US-awarded medal of service over the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

Ray Lane, a retired lieutenant colonel and globally renowned expert in improvised explosive devices (IEDs), built up through his experience in Ireland, led a mission to save countless lives in Afghanistan from makeshift bombs.

The military chief said his time – along with eight other Irish soldiers – was “totally wasted” as the Taliban takes over the country following the withdrawal of US and British troops.

“When I left Afghanistan, I was awarded a meritorious medal, which they don’t normally give to non-Americans,” he told The Irish Times.

“I am going to send that back to the US embassy now.”

Mr Lane said he was “outraged” by the retreat.

“We went into Afghanistan 20 years ago to help the people of Afghanistan, to give them a stable environment, to allow children and women to go to school, to give people a chance of a fair crack, that’s why we went in,” he said.

“The mission was to achieve that. We failed to see out our mission. In military terms that is not on.”

Mr Lane said he led a reconnaissance mission to Afghanistan in 2002 for two months. In 2009, he led an Irish delegation over seven months who worked with Nato chiefs, Afghan military and police as well local schools and the general population to warn of the dangers of IEDs.

The explosives account for 55 per cent of all casualties in the country, he said.

Mr Lane said the mission saved countless lives.

“We have totally wasted our time there,” he said.

“Thank God I brought the people who were there with me home alive. They could have been killed. The last thing I expected to see was Nato retreating from Afghanistan. Our time there was totally wasted. I feel really bad today.”

‘It’s a black day’

Of the families of thousands of Nato soldiers killed in the region and those of Afghan civilian fatalities, he said: “I wonder how they feel today. It’s a black day.”

Mr Lane warned he believed the pull out would lead to other terrorist atrocities like the 9/11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre.

“In a few months time, when the Taliban stop talking rubbish about how they’re a different Taliban, when they start applying Sharia law, just wait for it,” he said.

“Talk about the Twin Towers. That is where this is going. We’re going to see other terrorist acts globally starting in Afghanistan. It will be a training ground for terrorists. We will see major terrorist acts.”

Afghanistan will become a “training ground” for terrorists, he said.

“The Americans are the senior partners in Nato. How can the other members of countries like Germany and France not stand up and say this is wrong,” he added.

“It’s over. There’s no going back here. The Taliban has developed capability under the eyes of Nato, with predators in the air 24/7. Imagine what they are going to do with nobody there.”

padd b1975 · 27-08-2021 12:58PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117797909#Comment_117797909

He came back on just before 12.

Sorry for the delay in replying, kinda lost interest in the site since the big change.

dulpit · 31-08-2021 11:11AM

Haven't posted here in ages, but have been listening. Thought PBH was a decent fill in, was bummed out when I heard Claire was back on.

On another note, the IMRO nominations announced today. No nomination for today CB:

https://twitter.com/IMRORadioAwards/status/1432629263228878849

I feel that it would ordinarily be nominated in previous years?

SpitfireIV · 31-08-2021 11:51AM

OMG loike loike loike...

serfboard · 31-08-2021 01:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117826882#Comment_117826882

No IMRO nomination for CB, but Sarah Mc gets two nominations - as part of the DriveTime team and for "Radio Moment of the Year" (the Eoghan Harris interview).