What exactly is Charlie Bird doing in Kuwait...?

All I ever hear/see of the intrepid one is him reporting on news conferences there.
And on those in Quatar, which it appears he reports on from Kuwait.

I mean, why isn't he embedded with a division of troops somewhere??
He could report on what he's reporting, from watching Sky news in Montrose.

I'd love to see the expense bill, for this waste of licence payers money.
I mean the suite in the Hilton must be nigh on €300 a night.
And then theres the fine dining... another €100 a night.

Thats €3000 already and this could go on for weeks:eek:

I mean, it's going to be the whole profit on you're a star gone:eek:
mm

Victor

Originally posted by Man
Thats €3000 already and this could go on for weeks:eek:

This is probably nothing compared to the life / war insurance bill.

sceptre

Ah, Charlie Bird back in Kuwait, no longer shouting. Time to dig up those old tapes of Nurse Bernie from Scrap Saturday

Blitzkrieger

Was it really neccessary for him to go to the US for the elections? To Austrailia for the Olympics? To Cheltham for the gold cup?


That's why the license fee increase is so important. Not only to continue RTE's long tradition of making **** shows, but to send some useless excuse for a journalist globetrotting.

K!LL!@N

What's with all the hostility towards Charlie?
If it wasn't for Charlie we wouldn't know what was going on outside our front doors.
I for one love living vicariously through Charlie.
I like to see what he sees.
I like to hear what he thinks.
I just hope and pray that RTE can hang on to him as he's bound to be snapped up by Sky News or CNN, any day now.


Killian

daveirl

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yellum

Charlie hasn't done real news in years but what other reporters does RTE have that are good. I supposed we could get George whatshisname , Mucks fav guy.

Thorbar

Oi poor Charlie isn't afraid to put himself in danger, remember the time the taxi drivers stole his watch and wallet, or when he faced the phyco Roy da boi so the nation could get the full story.

drrnwbb

the fourth channel here in finland, nelonen, has a reporter in kuwait city. and the other night they tried to ring him (live on the news) to talk to him about the opening phase of the war. no answer, so they played a backup report he had done an hour earlier.. they played that and then they did the sport and then after the sport the newsreader came back to say this:

"we just had a text message from our reporter, the message reads: 'i had to go into a safe, air raid sirens' "
the anchor man then said that "safe means bunker" (all this was in finnish)

the best thing was that the anchor man had the phone in his hand and was reading from it. can you imagine any irish or american or english reporter sending a text message to the news???

dw

Originally posted by drrnwbb
the best thing was that the anchor man had the phone in his hand and was reading from it. dw

hilarious:D

How about, RTÉ send yer wan Ócras Burke from Exit Poll, out instead to ask really silly questions at the press conferences...

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ozt9vdujny3srf

See now that waould be entertainment :P

Personally i would rather the aprés match version o Joe Duffy going out