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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

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  • #7892
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Why so much news time for the death of Sean Fitzpatrick?



  • #7893
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,457 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118147637#Comment_118147637

    Some RTE stars borrowed from Anglo...

    RUGBY players, RTE stars, musicians, judges and some of the country's senior legal professionals were among the people placed on a list of "sensitive" borrowers compiled by the former Anglo Irish Bank.


    The Irish Independent has learnt that the High Profile Persons (HPP) review, presented to the board of Anglo on a quarterly basis after it was nationalised in 2009, also includes an outspoken TD, accountants, stockbrokers, developers and more than 60 prominent businessmen.

    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-stars-judges-and-rugby-elite-who-owe-anglo-millions-29887499.html



  • #7894
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Exciting news.......turbidy has Mary Robinson on Friday night!!!!!!!!!!

    I can hardly wait 🤐



  • #7895
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,428 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118147682#Comment_118147682

    Old news, but it reminds me of Willie Sutton.

    Question - Why did you borrow money from Anglo well known person ?

    Answer - Because that's where the money was.



  • #7896
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118147751#Comment_118147751

    Flyin her in first class I suppose after her tears today in Glasgow, we must listen to the elders



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  • #7897
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,349 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118148012#Comment_118148012

    THAT was a classic....... I laughed twice today at the radio....... giftgrub on the Ian Dempsey show was good..... but the highlight was Mary's tearfest ..... it was pathetic/ embarrassing/ woeful all at once



  • #7898
    PuddingBreath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭PuddingBreath


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118132891#Comment_118132891

    I love des bishop almost as much as that time I fell assho first onto the top of a Xmas tree in February which went the hole way up ma poop chute and had no lube to pull it back out with. Well done rte on funding him all those years, WOW

    A wonderful guy, amazing talent. Definitely not a d1Ckhead.



  • #7899
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118149148#Comment_118149148

    Apparently he threw a massive hissy fit when one of his shows didn't win the Ifta.

    Like Jesus, most folks who won the 'Ifta' never went anywhere afterwards. You could probably get an Ifta if you collected enough tokens from the back of cereal boxes.

    At least he buggered off to other countries, thankfully. No longer in Ireland.



  • #7900
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,284 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118149234#Comment_118149234


    But he took all that time to learn Irish - showbiz is a fickle thing unless you work for RTE



  • #7901
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118149240#Comment_118149240

    Well, it's not really showbiz. It's Ireland. We're tiny. If you want to make it in comedy, you have to go to the UK. Prove yourself there, then try the US. Des material is all 'An American in IReland' with the culture clash that entails... but that doesn't translate outside of Ireland.

    When Des was starting out, he was playing to audiences that were much the same age as himself, tho slightly younger. So he accumulated this audience who were like 'He made me laugh (after 6 pints)... wonder where he's going next'. From there, he should have evolved, worked on his material, try to break the UK, then try to crack the US. He sort of let himself languish in Ireland.

    He's trying to break the US (he's even gotten engaged to a TV presenter). I'd say he's up against it, tbh.



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  • #7902
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,376 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118124595#Comment_118124595


    crying no less



  • #7903
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 38,131 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Somewhere along the way Des Bishop turned into a bitter, angry git, as if he forgot his job was to make peolpe laugh. But yeah his plastic paddy routines got old very fast.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #7904
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118149234#Comment_118149234

    No no no, you find them on the back of a packet of Jacob's Cream Crackers.



  • #7905
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,090 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118150064#Comment_118150064

    His brother Aidan is much funnier.



  • #7906
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    So, what will happen when the pandemic is finally over? The beautiful people from the millionaire factory will celebrate as follows:

    The lads will all head down to Louis Copeland for a free tailored suit while the girls meet up at Dylan Bradshaw's for a lovely girly afternoon of hair styling - all FOC of course.

    Then they'll rendezvous back at Hugo's restaurant (welcomed by the restaurateur to the stars and RTE's media sensation, Gina Murphy) for a free nosh-up washed down with lashings of ginger beer and Crème de Menthe. The wash rooms will be extremely busy that night as Dee wonders why everyone is peeing so much and Noel looks at her with equal amounts of incredulity and pity, which soon fades as he checks his bank balance while simultaneously replying to texts from Prof Luke O'Neill and his new kid on the block, Jen Hogan. They'll even cut Duffy a break for his methane emissions.

    Montrosia: Because we're worth it.

    Post edited by Gen.Zhukov on


  • #7907
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118153135#Comment_118153135

    From comedians in the know, who've spoken to me, Aidan and Des are (allegedly) not very nice people.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118150064#Comment_118150064

    I get the feeling he thinks he's great, and deserves more acclaim (Again, from people I've spoken to). He's not the nicest or most approachable individual. I'd say that stint on Dancing with the Stars stung him, hard. He was one of the earliest one's voted out.



  • #7908
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118148012#Comment_118148012

    Not so. I once dispatched an Airbus for the Former State Airline and Mary Robinson was in economy just like everyone else. I saw her, said hello to her, got a nod and a smile back and she took her seat and got stuck into some paperwork straight away. No airs and graces,no demands.



  • #7909
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,925 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    That poor girl that got Ronaldo's jersey last night has already been on Morning Ireland and Jennifer Z this morning. No doubt Liveline will have her on too. She'll be exhausted by the time she makes her appearance as the main guest on b the LLS tonight.



  • #7910
    MBE220d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭MBE220d


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118154273#Comment_118154273

    She must have been paying for it out of her own pocket so.



  • #7911
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 38,131 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It's been years now since Aer Lingus have had business/Premier class on European routes, so moot point. Although a few European flights get a transatlantic aircraft where you can pay extra for a business class seat (though not business class service). It was either that, or go on Ryanair 😋

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



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  • #7912
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 38,131 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Anyway... I thought pitch invaders got lifetime bans...!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #7913
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,376 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118154799#Comment_118154799

    She’ll be on last too



  • #7914
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,376 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118153135#Comment_118153135

    Aiden is as funny as aids , maybe I’m being harsh he was hilarious one night when he got drunk and forced his way onto the bill in his own club to the confusion of the other comedians and the bewilderment of any tourists and proceed to go blank the second the crowd went quiet 😂😂😂😂 delivering punchlines to silence and then going “no sorry that’s not it” etc 😂



  • #7915
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,376 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118129883#Comment_118129883 
    fuair mé rud éigin i mo phóca duit




  • #7916
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118155913#Comment_118155913

    I think it was how polite she was. That, and the fact that the game was more boring than a rice cake, she was the only discussion point, outside of Richie Sadler and Liam Brady having a tiff.

    (Don't really know, I didn't watch the game. No point, since Ireland aren't going anywhere).



  • #7917
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Last post:

    If RTÉ mention next year that the Executive Board took a pay cut of 10% and in particular Dee Forbes just make sure to mention on every social media site you have access to that she got a moving fee of €50,000 in 2016 when she joined the company so she is only just really repaying that.


    Good bye.



  • #7918
    PieOhMy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,530 ✭✭✭PieOhMy


    10 minute advert for a private for profit concert on during the main evening news today.

    Was this paid for?

    Will it appear as revenue on the books of rte?

    This is a company struggling financially that could be giving away its main source of income (along with tax payer money)

    Will rte staff and contractors be allocated free tickets for the concerts?



  • #7919
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118207486#Comment_118207486

    IF you show something like that on an instagram post, or in an online news outlet, you have to put a 'paid advertisement' or 'paid content' in the headline.

    Wonder will RTE news start doing the same?



  • #7920
    AndyBoBandy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,799 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    I'd say RTÉ aren't getting paid to promote the Garth Brooks gigs on the news.

    I would however say that RTÉ see these gigs as an ideal opportunity for at least 2-3 Late Late Show country music specials, featuring Nathan Carter, a rerun of the Nathan Carter Show, and at least 2 reruns of Stetsons & Stilettos....


    so for that reason they'll tag on to it, and promote the foooook out of the gigs, all with a view of whipping the country into a country music frenzy which they can capitalise on with Late Late Show country music specials, plus loads of additional Nathan Carter content.....



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  • #7921
    Pa ElGrande
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118209619#Comment_118209619


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    My lack of RTE consumption is showing I had to lookup who this guy is.

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



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