RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

New thread for the new presenters, and we wish them well at their new desks. Usual rules apply in posting, and especially please note this is not a thread for political point-scoring. Take politics to the appropriate forum please, it will not be tolerated in the radio forum.

HeidiHeidi

Looking forward to the new presenters very much, couldn't listen to Mary Wilson at all for the last long time.

Hopefully they'll breathe a new lease of life into the show, a decent drive time current affairs show is badly needed.

If Sarah McInerney's stint during the summer was anything to go by, it should be half decent.

generalgerry

Sorry I must have missed all of this. Where is Mary Wilson gone to?
They need to get PBH out of there asap, before he contaminates the whole studio with his SMUG2020 virus

Losty Dublin

generalgerry wrote: »

Sorry I must have missed all of this. Where is Mary Wilson gone to?
They need to get PBH out of there asap, before he contaminates the whole studio with his SMUG2020 virus

She’s retired. Next stop Live at 3 😊

amlinopta

Mary is joining the near all female cast at Morning Ireland

Pelvis Parsley

And so the interrupting will be confined to 0700-0900.

Maybe the fact that she has co-presenters now will rein her in a bit.

Once that other smug git doesn't step in too often, he was worse than her.

Brendan Bendar

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

And so the interrupting will be confined to 0700-0900.

Maybe the fact that she has co-presenters now will rein her in a bit.

Once that other smug git doesn't step in too often, he was worse than her.

Pity she didn’t take “The Doomsday Dog’ Lenihan with her.

The early mornings might slow him down a bit.

Radio5

Will both presenters be on together - strange how this show now needs 2 presenters after years of having only 1?

ShamNNspace

Radio5 wrote: »

Will both presenters be on together - strange how this show now needs 2 presenters after years of having only 1?

I see this a lot on rte both tv and radio, where once one presenter was perfectly adequate, there's now 2 or sometimes 3 presenters

ford fiesta

"Reports from a busy college bar" ????

Clon63

Looking forward to the new line up.

Great line for tbe first interview with the Bus Eireann CEO

Brendan Bendar

Sarah comes across as a bit ‘shrill’ in the early minutes.


No need to shout.....

Brendan Bendar

First ‘hang on’ from Cormac 15 mins into the prog.

ford fiesta

The pair inviting and reading out texts from listeners....that's a new feature for the show. Don't like it.

This show is all a bit "Newstalky"....

Pelvis Parsley

Radio5 wrote: »

Will both presenters be on together - strange how this show now needs 2 presenters after years of having only 1?

Because Mary did enough talking for two people.

Brendan Bendar

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Sarah comes across as a bit ‘shrill’ in the early minutes.


No need to shout.....

True, but she seems to have settled now.

I like the double-handed format. It should facilitate a bit of time for consideration and better questioning.

Very early days so let’s see how it goes. A viable alternative to Matt Cooper has long been needed

amlinopta

Grim reaper Barry Lenehan loving the 390 new cases

Brendan Bendar

amlinopta wrote: »

Grim reaper Barry Lenehan loving the 390 new cases

The Doomsday Dog, was out of the traps before Cormac was finished.

Someone should put linoleum on the floor of the trap, would slow him down a bit.

Brendan Bendar

Deleted User wrote: »

True, but she seems to have settled now.

I like the double-handed format. It should facilitate a bit of time for consideration and better questioning.

Very early days so let’s see how it goes. A viable alternative to Matt Cooper has long been needed

Squeaky wouldn’t hold down much of an audience.

pc7

Got to listen to quite a bit this evening and enjoyed it, good mix and match with them. Way better that Kieran over on Newstalk, he’s not able to hold the show at all.

0xzmro3n4y7lb5

I don't like the two presenters format and don't like Cormac's tone.

Agree Sarah was pitchy at the start but it settled down.

The content of the show seems different. The segments feel longer.

I'm finding it a bit dull.

Brendan Bendar

Three ‘hang ons’ from in the space of a minute, from Cormac.

Needs to get a grip on those bad boys.


There will be more......

Infoanon

Good to hear some serious questioning from Cormac and Sarah.

0xzmro3n4y7lb5

What way is he pronouncing Oireachtas? ERRRRRRRRRRRRACKTOS?

Brendan Bendar

Judson Quick Scabby wrote: »

What way is he pronouncing Oireachtas? ERRRRRRRRRRRRACKTOS?

Better get used to that dude, native Irish speaker.

Watch for Fianna Fáil, and Fine Gael......

Cole

Judson Quick Scabby wrote: »

What way is he pronouncing Oireachtas? ERRRRRRRRRRRRACKTOS?

Seeing as he's a native (Connacht) Irish speaker, I'd imagine he's pronouncing it the 'correct' way.

0xzmro3n4y7lb5

I know him and have heard him before, I think maybe my Alexa is too near the wall because the reverberation of that r sound went through me, in a good way.

Cole

Cole wrote: »

Seeing as he's a native (Connacht) Irish speaker, I'd imagine he's pronouncing it the 'correct' way.

I'm sure he is, he's a man for accuracy. But native speaker doesn't always mean correct, example Joe Duffy

@RTESecretpro

When listening to the segment about whether or not to use crowd noises (Fake Noise?) I reflected on the posts elsewhere on Boards about RTE’s ways of workings according to @RTESecretpro, mentioned here https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/719cv4/ive_compiled_all_the_tweets_from_secret_rté/

On the basis he or she was using, it would have required a team of half a dozen sound engineers to provide crowd noises. I breathed a sigh of relief when the idea was shot down by Marty plus a load of listeners texting in opposition to such Alsn idea

Cole

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm sure he is, he's a man for accuracy. But native speaker doesn't always mean correct, example Joe Duffy

You're opening up a can of worms here...well for me anyway! I put 'correct' in inverted commas to suggest that there is often no single way to pronounce words, just standard (correct) or non-standard (incorrect/inferior) pronunciations depending on people's perceptions of different dialects. Joe Duffy's pronunciation is pretty standard for his Dublin dialect, but it is see as non-standard and, therefore, not 'correct' by many.

Anyway, Cormac's pronunciation of Oireachtas is the standard pronunciation in Connacht Irish...as far as I'm aware.

Brendan Bendar

Cole wrote: »

You're opening up a can of worms here...well for me anyway! I put 'correct' in inverted commas to suggest that there is often no single way to pronounce words, just standard (correct) or non-standard (incorrect/inferior) pronunciations depending on people's perceptions of different dialects. Joe Duffy's pronunciation is pretty standard for his Dublin dialect, but it is see as non-standard and, therefore, not 'correct' by many.

Anyway, Cormac's pronunciation of Oireachtas is the standard pronunciation in Connacht Irish...as far as I'm aware.

I’ll back you up on that Cee

You won’t hear the auld Dub ‘ Fine Gwael’ from him anyway.

So beloved of MLMCD

0xzmro3n4y7lb5

Cole wrote: »

You're opening up a can of worms here...well for me anyway! I put 'correct' in inverted commas to suggest that there is often no single way to pronounce words, just standard (correct) or non-standard (incorrect/inferior) pronunciations depending on people's perceptions of different dialects. Joe Duffy's pronunciation is pretty standard for his Dublin dialect, but it is see as non-standard and, therefore, not 'correct' by many.

Anyway, Cormac's pronunciation of Oireachtas is the standard pronunciation in Connacht Irish...as far as I'm aware.

He's got a knee trembling R on him then.

Who needs French or Italian when you've got a Connacht R.

Cole

Judson Quick Scabby wrote: »

He's got a knee trembling R on him then.

Who needs French or Italian when you've got a Connacht R.

He does lay it on fairly thick alright.

padd b1975

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Better get used to that dude, native Irish speaker.

Watch for Fianna Fáil, and Fine Gael......

Bus Eireann is another one that gets the full treatment.

Cole

Cole wrote: »

You're opening up a can of worms here...well for me anyway! I put 'correct' in inverted commas to suggest that there is often no single way to pronounce words, just standard (correct) or non-standard (incorrect/inferior) pronunciations depending on people's perceptions of different dialects. Joe Duffy's pronunciation is pretty standard for his Dublin dialect, but it is see as non-standard and, therefore, not 'correct' by many.

Anyway, Cormac's pronunciation of Oireachtas is the standard pronunciation in Connacht Irish...as far as I'm aware.

What I'm really getting at here, and worded it badly, is that Joe Duffy's *diction* is appalling, irrespective of his accent. Cormac's diction is excellent although to non-native speakers like myself it pulls my ears out on stalks.

padd b1975

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What I'm really getting at here, and worded it badly, is that Joe Duffy's *diction* is appalling, irrespective of his accent. Cormac's diction is excellent although to non-native speakers like myself it pulls my ears out on stalks.

He's definitely "mickey-waving" his bilingualism.

That's what's annoying.

pc7

I think its kind of sexy.................. runs off and waits for the thread to explode!

amlinopta

“The window closing on perhaps a national lockdown,” Grim Reaper in full flow yesterday revelling in another 400 cases

Brendan Bendar

amlinopta wrote: »

“The window closing on perhaps a national lockdown,” Grim Reaper in full flow yesterday revelling in another 400 cases

The Doomsday Dog was fast out of the traps, the deep breathing, the rasping breath, the doomsday pump being pressured up and exulting in the spread and problems.

Lad needs to be cut down.

Cole

I listened for the first time this evening (from around 5) and thought it was pretty awful.

An interview with the parents of a young lad who got Covid-19. Good that he's recovering, but don't we get enough of this kind of interview with Tubridy, Byrne, Duffy and D'Arcy everyday?

Inviting listeners to text in their opinions on ministers' performances in the new government so far...cue Fianna Fail and Fine Gael supporters texting in praise for their favourite ministers. Then we had the farcically bad piece with Barry Lenihan and journalist Aoife-Grace Moore (sounded really out of her depth) reviewing the new government's performance and pulling scores out of their arses for ministers.

The Hazel Chu and Gina Miller interview was okay.

A 'journalist' from the Daily Star reviewing TV shows...not even worth a comment.

Brendan Bendar

Cole wrote: »

I listened for the first time this evening (from around 5) and thought it was pretty awful.

An interview with the parents of a young lad who got Covid-19. Good that he's recovering, but don't we get enough of this kind of interview with Tubridy, Byrne, Duffy and D'Arcy everyday?

Inviting listeners to text in their opinions on ministers' performances in the new government so far...cue Fianna Fail and Fine Gael supporters texting in praise for their favourite ministers. Then we had the farcically bad piece with Barry Lenihan and journalist Aoife-Grace Moore (sounded really out of her depth) reviewing the new government's performance and pulling scores out of their arses for ministers.

The Hazel Chu and Gina Miller interview was okay.

A 'journalist' from the Daily Star reviewing TV shows...not even worth a comment.

Going very tabloid Cole, inviting judgement from Lenihan is hardly impartial.

All you can do with that lad is wind him up like the Duracell bunny and let him off.

Negativity central.

Not good so far.

Cole

Cole wrote: »

An interview with the parents of a young lad who got Covid-19.

Just saw this young lad on TV. He's gone through a hell of a time but fair play to him, he's a rock of sense...appealing to other young people to do the right thing and that sticking to the public health advice is not that difficult. We need more like him and fewer of those queuing up to sympathise with (some) 'young people' who moan about not being able to socialise with groups of friends...so they can go on the p1ss.

sligojoek

Cole wrote: »

Just saw this young lad on TV. He's gone through a hell of a time but fair play to him, he's a rock of sense...appealing to other young people to do the right thing and that sticking to the public health advice is not that difficult. We need more like him and fewer of those queuing up to sympathise with (some) 'young people' who moan about not being able to socialise with groups of friends...so they can go on the p1ss.

That's all well and good. But how many of the "target" young people actually listen to Cormac and Sarah's show. Might be better off putting that stuff on 2fm or i104 or suchlike.

Cole

sligojoek wrote: »

That's all well and good. But how many of the "target" young people actually listen to Cormac and Sarah's show. Might be better off putting that stuff on 2fm or i104 or suchlike.

I wasn't suggesting that he should be on the likes of Drivetime (even his parents interview didn't work there imo). I mean media more broadly...TV, radio, social media...the aul Tickety Tock etc.

Brendan Bendar

‘The Doomsday Dog’ is scraping in the traps.......

amlinopta

Back to back grim reapers George Lee and Barry Lenehan, major disappointment if we only go to level 3

Brendan Bendar

And they are off.........building up around the first bend........ breathing heavy ..... on the back straight....funerial vioice....stirring up the ante...... more bad news ....great .... cadence rising......The Doomsday dog has eased into a win.... now that the place has well and truly stirred up .....back to the kennels.

Harry Palmr

I just heard about 5 minutes on the way home, it's very "casual Friday" between the hosts, more like local radio than the news channel of record.

Brendan Bendar

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I just heard about 5 minutes on the way home, it's very "casual Friday" between the hosts, more like local radio than the news channel of record.

Both seem to be ‘spaffing ‘ off the wall after hearing all this bad news.

Unfortunately gone down the tabloid track..... not a good idea.

Getting difficult Harry, as you say, to take their reportage seriously.

Well Sarah certainly kept pressing the point and questioning Josepha Madigan, much better than Claire in the morning

washiskin

I can see her getting very fed up of his interruptions and guffaws...... it's gone from a reasonably serious news and current affairs programme to Daithí and Maura.