Nice to see our TV License money going to use.

splinter65 · 07-05-2018 12:10PM

Zebra3 wrote: »

Who said RTÉ should only show Irish produced programmes? :rolleyes:

It’ll be great to see a nice long religious ceremony back on RTE of a Saturday.
I never checked if it’s being conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, I hope so. He’s C if E of course but gets his spiritual guidance from a RCC priest and goes on retreat to the Benedictines so he’s really holy in a Catholic kind of way and is a wonderful man.

Mutant z · 07-05-2018 12:13PM

It sure is pathetic pandering this isnt the UK why should RTE be obligated to show a wedding of British royal family members watch the BBC if you want to see it i dont know why RTE has to as well.

_Kaiser_ · 07-05-2018 12:13PM

These threads depress me. Always a sad reminder that despite how far we've come (or like to imagine we have), there's still those who have a significant chip on their shoulder about "de Brits"

Surprisingly though those same people rarely have an issue with shopping in "British" stores, following "English" football teams, or watching "English" soaps and TV every night.

BattleCorp · 07-05-2018 12:19PM

Mutant z wrote: »

It sure is pathetic pandering this isnt the UK why should RTE be obligated to show a wedding of British royal family members watch the BBC if you want to see it i dont know why RTE has to as well.

RTE aren't obligated to show it. They are choosing to show it as they believe there are a significant number of people here who would like to watch it.

I don't know why you are getting your knickers in a twist. If you, like me, don't want to watch it, then don't watch it. Simple.

The Aintree Grand National is shown on BBC and on RTE. It's not uncommon for big events to be shown on both channels.

Mutant z · 07-05-2018 12:26PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

RTE aren't obligated to show it. They are choosing to show it as they believe there are a significant number of people here who would like to watch it.

I don't know why you are getting your knickers in a twist. If you, like me, don't want to watch it, then don't watch it. Simple.

The Aintree Grand National is shown on BBC and on RTE. It's not uncommon for big events to be shown on both channels.

Its the state broadcaster funded by the tax payer many of whom dont agree with this they have a right to complain about what their own money is going towards the British Royal family is irrelevant to this country let their own broadcasters show it i dont understand why an Irish broadcaster such as RTE need to when its the British royal wedding which is nothing to do with this country.

BattleCorp · 07-05-2018 12:34PM

Mutant z wrote: »

Its the state broadcaster funded by the tax payer many of whom dont agree with this they have a right to complain about what their own money is going towards the British Royal family is irrelevant to this country let their own broadcasters show it i dont understand why an Irish broadcaster such as RTE need to when its the British royal wedding which is nothing to do with this country.

Lads, you have a serious chip on your shoulder regarding the Brits. Seriously.

The British Royal family is irrelevant to you and me but not to everyone in this country. There's a huge number of Brits living here, they might be interested in watching it. My Mam (an Irish catholic with no English blood in her) will watch it. For her it probably beats the fcuk out of Murder She Wrote or Oireachtas Report or whatever sh1te RTE normally have on during the day. There's probably 100,000 or more other auld wans in the same boat too who would watch it.

Plus plenty of other people will watch a few minutes of it to see the carry on and then switch to something else.

You'd be very wrong if you think there's no interest in watching this wedding over here.

Mutant z · 07-05-2018 12:41PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

Lads, you have a serious chip on your shoulder regarding the Brits. Seriously.

The British Royal family is irrelevant to you and me but not to everyone in this country. There's a huge number of Brits living here, they might be interested in watching it. My Mam (an Irish catholic with no English blood in her) will watch it. For her it probably beats the fcuk out of Murder She Wrote or Oireachtas Report or whatever sh1te RTE normally have on during the day. There's probably 100,000 or more other auld wans in the same boat too who would watch it.

Plus plenty of other people will watch a few minutes of it to see the carry on and then switch to something else.

You'd be very wrong if you think there's no interest in watching this wedding over here.

Then why not get the BBC if you're so desperate to watch it is there any other country on the planet that has such an obsession of the affairs of another country its beyond tedious.

BattleCorp · 07-05-2018 12:54PM

Mutant z wrote: »

Then why not get the BBC if you're so desperate to watch it is there any other country on the planet that has such an obsession of the affairs of another country its beyond tedious.

I already said that I have no interest in watching it. And for most people who will watch it, they won't be desperate to watch it. They'll watch it out of curiosity. If it wasn't on, they probably wouldn't go out of their way to watch it. But if it is on (which it is), they'll watch it.

But to follow on from your point about watching it on BBC, not everyone here in Ireland has BBC. Lots of people are stuck in little old RTE land.

Should we stop watching the news, because that contains the affairs of other countries too?

And one last point, it seems like you are the one with an obsession with the affairs of another country - in that you don't want anything from there shown on terrestrial television.

lawred2 · 07-05-2018 12:56PM

Mahony0509 wrote: »

https://twitter.com/RTEOne/status/993122367504310277

What a joke of an organisation.

that is stomach churning

lawred2 · 07-05-2018 12:57PM

Fanny **** wrote: »

Because a sh1tload of people will watch it.

and? surely that should be a consideration for the likes of TV3

splinter65 · 07-05-2018 12:59PM

Mutant z wrote: »

It sure is pathetic pandering this isnt the UK why should RTE be obligated to show a wedding of British royal family members watch the BBC if you want to see it i dont know why RTE has to as well.

They’re not obligated at all . They’ve decided it’s good for business.

BattleCorp · 07-05-2018 12:59PM

lawred2 wrote: »

that is stomach churning

lawred2 wrote: »

and? surely that should be a consideration for the likes of TV3

I'm confused. Are you annoyed that RTE are showing the wedding or that the comments in the twitter feed are so anti-British?

Mutant z · 07-05-2018 01:00PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

I already said that I have no interest in watching it. And for most people who will watch it, they won't be desperate to watch it. They'll watch it out of curiosity. If it wasn't on, they probably wouldn't go out of their way to watch it. But if it is on (which it is), they'll watch it.

But to follow on from your point about watching it on BBC, not everyone here in Ireland has BBC. Lots of people are stuck in little old RTE land.

Should we stop watching the news, because that contains the affairs of other countries too?

And one last point, it seems like you are the one with an obsession with the affairs of another country - in that you don't want anything from there shown on terrestrial television.

There's a huge difference between watching the news and endorsing the monarchy of a different country that fact clearly escapes you.

splinter65 · 07-05-2018 01:02PM

Mutant z wrote: »

Its the state broadcaster funded by the tax payer many of whom dont agree with this they have a right to complain about what their own money is going towards the British Royal family is irrelevant to this country let their own broadcasters show it i dont understand why an Irish broadcaster such as RTE need to when its the British royal wedding which is nothing to do with this country.

If enough people are upset enough then they will complain in advance and I’m sure rte will simply change the schedule to meet public opposition.
Obviously your going to object yourself and your confident that enough people agree with you so they’ll all complain too and it’ll be cancelled.

_Kaiser_ · 07-05-2018 01:04PM

Mutant z wrote: »

Then why not get the BBC if you're so desperate to watch it is there any other country on the planet that has such an obsession of the affairs of another country its beyond tedious.

What's "tedious" are these nationalist/republican-style posts/threads complaining about an issue which (thankfully!) most people on this island have managed to move past.

I'm going to guess you don't remember or never experienced the "bad old days" of border checkpoints, armed soldiers boarding buses, almost daily violence and death, bomb threats and so on?

What happened were atrocities that were committed by BOTH sides but while there is still a long way to go, luckily there were those (again on BOTH sides) who realised that only by working together would a lasting peace be achieved.

Plus, as much as it may annoy you and people like you, we have a lot more in common with our English/British neighbours than we do with most of the EU.

I won't be watching the wedding myself, but I'm sure there's many who will and I see absolutely no reason why RTE shouldn't carry it - as someone else said the cost will be minimal anyway.. it'll just be a rebroadcast of ITV/BBC coverage with a voiceover.

Time to join the rest of us in the 21st century lad!

splinter65 · 07-05-2018 01:04PM

Mutant z wrote: »

There's a huge difference between watching the news and endorsing the monarchy of a different country that fact clearly escapes you.

The British monarchy doesn’t even need endorsing in Britain never mind Ireland so I don’t know what you mean by this.

lawred2 · 07-05-2018 01:05PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

I'm confused. Are you annoyed that RTE are showing the wedding or that the comments in the twitter feed are so anti-British?

you are easily confused...

RTE which is funded by taxpayers in a republic should not be showing this sh!t

If TV3 or the likes want to milk ad revenues because people will watch this stuff then fine. That is their remit as a commercial station. They can show whatever they like.

Surely some events should be off limits to RTE

BattleCorp · 07-05-2018 01:09PM

Mutant z wrote: »

There's a huge difference between watching the news and endorsing the monarchy of a different country that fact clearly escapes you.

Watching a Royal wedding is hardly endorsing the monarchy in the UK. It's being nosey. I couldn't give a toss about the monarchy but I'd be curious to have a look around their houses. I couldn't give a sh1t about Kim Jung Un but I'd like to look around his place too. And Trumps. Guess what, I don't give a toss about him either. I'm just a nosey bugger. And so are a lot of other people and that's the main reason anybody over here would watch the Royal wedding.

I doubt many here will be sitting watching the wedding waving little Union Jacks around. They'll be watching to see the carry on, and probably laugh at the pomp and ceremony. Hardly a ringing endorsement of the monarchy.

07-05-2018 01:12PM

Don't see the problem.. Everything else is doom and gloom so why not have something on that might make some people happy while watching it.

Mutant z · 07-05-2018 01:12PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

What's "tedious" are these nationalist/republican-style posts/threads complaining about an issue which (thankfully!) most people on this island have managed to move past.

I'm going to guess you don't remember or never experienced the "bad old days" of border checkpoints, armed soldiers boarding buses, almost daily violence and death, bomb threats and so on?

What happened were atrocities that were committed by BOTH sides but while there is still a long way to go, luckily there were those (again on BOTH sides) who realised that only by working together would a lasting peace be achieved.

Plus, as much as it may annoy you and people like you, we have a lot more in common with our English/British neighbours than we do with most of the EU.

I won't be watching the wedding myself, but I'm sure there's many who will and I see absolutely no reason why RTE shouldn't carry it - as someone else said the cost will be minimal anyway.. it'll just be a rebroadcast of ITV/BBC coverage with a voiceover.

Time to join the rest of us in the 21st century lad!

RTE is the public funded national broadcaster of Ireland let TV3 show it if it must at least it wont cost anything to tax payers but not RTE.

BattleCorp · 07-05-2018 01:14PM

lawred2 wrote: »

you are easily confused...

RTE which is funded by taxpayers in a republic should not be showing this sh!t

If TV3 or the likes want to milk ad revenues because people will watch this stuff then fine. That is their remit as a commercial station. They can show whatever they like.

Surely some events should be off limits to RTE

I seriously don't get this anti-British stuff. I thought we had moved on from the 800 years stuff. Clearly not.

I'm an easy going guy. I'm no Brit lover but they are our neighbours and it's time to start getting on with them instead of objecting to what will be a few hours of television that nobody has to watch if they don't want to.

The facts are that if nobody wanted to watch the wedding over here, then RTE wouldn't show it. RTE (and me) believe that there will be a significant audience who will watch the wedding. I won't watch it but hundreds of thousands over here will watch at least some of it.

lawred2 · 07-05-2018 01:20PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

I seriously don't get this anti-British stuff. I thought we had moved on from the 800 years stuff. Clearly not.

I'm an easy going guy. I'm no Brit lover but they are our neighbours and it's time to start getting on with them instead of objecting to what will be a few hours of television that nobody has to watch if they don't want to.

The facts are that if nobody wanted to watch the wedding over here, then RTE wouldn't show it. RTE (and me) believe that there will be a significant audience who will watch the wedding. I won't watch it but hundreds of thousands over here will watch at least some of it.

anti British?

i'm born British to Irish parents - don't try to reduce what I posted with such puerile jaded crap.

Thanks

_Kaiser_ · 07-05-2018 01:21PM

Mutant z wrote: »

RTE is the public funded national broadcaster of Ireland let TV3 show it if it must at least it wont cost anything to tax payers but not RTE.

Why? Genuinely now.. what is it that offends you so much about this?

If it was Trump and Melania renewing their vows live on RTE would that offend you as much?

Or is it just "de Brits/Royals" you have a problem with?

dr.fuzzenstein · 07-05-2018 01:22PM

lawred2 wrote: »

you are easily confused...

RTE which is funded by taxpayers in a republic should not be showing this sh!t

If TV3 or the likes want to milk ad revenues because people will watch this stuff then fine. That is their remit as a commercial station. They can show whatever they like.

Surely some events should be off limits to RTE

Well then call the programming department of RTE post haste!
I'm sure they will apologies profusely "Yes Mr lawred,y certainly, we do apologise, next time we make a programming decision we WILL make sure to call you beforehand, once again, terribly sorry, please forgive this mishap, we will be more careful in the future"
There now follows a program on spuds...

lawred2 · 07-05-2018 01:26PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Well then call the programming department of RTE post haste!
I'm sure they will apologies profusely "Yes Mr lawred,y certainly, we do apologise, next time we make a programming decision we WILL make sure to call you beforehand, once again, terribly sorry, please forgive this mishap, we will be more careful in the future"
There now follows a program on spuds...

you probably thought that was humorous

lawred2 · 07-05-2018 01:26PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Why? Genuinely now.. what is it that offends you so much about this?

If it was Trump and Melania renewing their vows live on RTE would that offend you as much?

Or is it just "de Brits/Royals" you have a problem with?

well that would be fairly awful really

objectively

_Kaiser_ · 07-05-2018 01:29PM

lawred2 wrote: »

well that would be fairly awful really

objectively

Just picking a random example of something else many people here would probably watch - if for no other reason than to see what he might come out with!

Same question is open to you - what is it about RTE showing this wedding that offends you so much?

lawred2 wrote: »

you probably thought that was humorous

It was

Yamanoto · 07-05-2018 01:31PM

Mutant z wrote: »

RTE is the public funded national broadcaster of Ireland let TV3 show it if it must at least it wont cost anything to tax payers but not RTE.

If value for money for the taxpayer is the issue, there are a thousand other issues in RTE more deserving of scorn than piggy-backing a BBC feed of an event that will likely deliver decent ad revenue to the station.

average_runner · 07-05-2018 01:33PM

So its ok for people to watch english football teams on rte but not a english royal wedding?

lawred2 · 07-05-2018 01:33PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Just picking a random example of something else many people here would probably watch - if for no other reason than to see what he might come out with!

Same question is open to you - what is it about RTE showing this wedding that offends you so much?

the goings on of foreign monarchies beyond covered by a state broadcaster in a republic..

It's not about 'de Brits' or whatever else childish slur you'd like to fling about

Nice to see our TV License money going to use.

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