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non existent ethnic diversity in Irish media

  • 09-08-2017 06:31PM
    #1
    School Socks
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    Isn't it strange after all these years, that there aren't any TV/Radio presenters, weather presenters, talking heads etc on the Irish media from other ethnic backgrounds Fair city only has one token black woman afaik.


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  • #2
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    We have dathai o se, isnt that diverse enough?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    We had Jonathan Rachel Clynch on RTE radio. He/she is gender fluid. That's more diverse than anything I can think of, unless you want her/him to show up top work in a wheel chair with an eyepatch on. Is that what you want OP, is it?


  • #4
    Nabber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    Ray shah?
    Ray D'Arcy is from another planet.


  • #5
    Turtyturd
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    Martin Collins gets trotted out as a talking head every time attention needs to be deflected away from travellers' actions.


  • #6
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,488 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    We have dathai o se, isnt that diverse enough?

    He's barely human.


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  • #7
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,488 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    You have that perpetually-offended Dil person on Newstalk, along with a cast of equally offended nodding dogs.


  • #8
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    certainly a shortage of hot South American weather girls

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #9
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,087 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    No more surprising than the lack of ethnic diversity among bus-drivers outside of Dublin. It's all about supply and demand, and the locals keeping a tight grip on the best jobs.


  • #10
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    No more surprising than the lack of ethnic diversity among bus-drivers outside of Dublin

    Do culchies not count as an ethnic group? :pac:


  • #11
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    It's really terrible sitting watching the walking dead and they have no good looking Zombies cast , like there all bleeding ugly ,
    Totally discrimination against beautiful people
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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    I dont really care to be honest, do you really want to force people to hire people of different ethnicities just to have 'diverstiy'. Irish people Irish TV in Ireland :O


  • #13
    Jim Bob Scratcher
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    School Socks wrote: »
    Isn't it strange after all these years, that there aren't any TV/Radio presenters, weather presenters, talking heads etc on the Irish media from other ethnic backgrounds Fair city only has one token black woman afaik.

    Considering 96% of this country is white, what the hell do you expect ?


  • #14
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Gatling wrote: »
    It's really terrible sitting watching the walking dead and they have no good looking Zombies cast , like there all bleeding ugly ,
    Totally discrimination against beautiful people

    Maybe they should go for a casting cruise around Abbey Street on Tuesday afternoons :D


  • #15
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    There was Kevin Sharkey for a while. Where is he now?


  • #16
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    There are several weather forecast presenters on RTE radio from Eastern Europe.


  • #17
    Annasopra
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I dont really care to be honest, do you really want to force people to hire people of different ethnicities just to have 'diverstiy'. Irish people Irish TV in Ireland :O

    I didnt know only Irish people watch RTE.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #18
    tomwaterford
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    Tinley Uneven Guillotine wrote: »
    There are several weather forecast presenters on RTE radio from Eastern Europe.

    Are they hot though?


  • #19
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Are they hot though?

    Only in good weather.


  • #20
    LadyMacBeth_
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    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Are they hot though?

    Nah, that's why they are on the radio :P


  • #21
    Billy86
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    We're a few years off still I reckon. I went to primary school in the 90s and the two black kids in my class were the only two in the school, bar both of their younger brothers. It's still catches me off guard on occasion even though it's common now, to see black, brown, Asian etc looking kids walking out of school with full Dublin accents. Give it a decade or so, for all the criticisms some may have of Ireland we're definitely not a nation who would have issue to someone who looked different on our TVs.


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  • #22
    Capt'n Midnight
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    There was Kevin Sharkey for a while. Where is he now?
    Painting.


  • #23
    GerryDerpy
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    We had Jonathan Rachel Clynch on RTE radio. He/she is gender fluid. That's more diverse than anything I can think of, unless you want her/him to show up top work in a wheel chair with an eyepatch on. Is that what you want OP, is it?

    Just when you thought the world was crazy enough...


  • #24
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,427 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    If you look at the beloved institution that is The Angelus, that has loads of ethnic diversity. I know that's not like being a presenter, but it's faces on the screen....
    pickarooney wrote: »
    There was Kevin Sharkey for a while. Where is he now?
    He's been an artist for years now. He used to present Megamix in the 80's. (What? A black presenter on Irish television is the backward 1980s?)


  • #25
    Robsweezie
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    teachers too...never had a black/foreign teacher or saw one in any school i was at.


  • #26
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Nepotism runs RTE and RTE run Irish media.*
    When it's just one big circle-jerk it's hardly a surprise that the whole situation lacks diversity.


  • #27
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,325 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Seen an Oriental Gardai at the Beatyard festival in Dublin last weekend.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #28
    Ralf and Florian
    Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    pickarooney wrote: »
    There was Kevin Sharkey for a while. Where is he now?

    There was also a mixed race Garda on Garda Patrol back in the day. A Vietnamese lady on Anything goes (or the show that replaced it, not sure). RTE in the 80's was more ethnicly diverse than it is now.


  • #29
    JupiterKid
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    Ireland has only begun to become ethnically/racially diverse in the past 20 years and this will take time to filter through to the media, politics and other professions. It will happen, given time.

    In the UK the first immigrants from the former colonies arrived in significant numbers in the 1950s. It took until the late 1970s/early 1980s for the first non-white TV presenters to appear.

    And despite what some on boards would have us imagine, Ireland is still overwhelmingly white.


  • #30
    The_Valeyard
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    There's a really annoying and female version of Ray D'Arcy on Newstalk. Think she is Indian or something. Does that count?


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  • #31
    PistolsAtDawn
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    And despite what some on boards would have us imagine, Ireland is still overwhelmingly white.

    Ireland is still overwhelmingly white though!

    Just like the Congo is overwhelmingly black.

    Whats the problem?


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