Newstalk Megathread Nov 2022

ButtersSuki · 10-03-2023 2:56pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120340478#Comment_120340478

I’ll beg to differ on that. It’s certainly not “classical” Irish. And with respect I’m not going to take a cd cover as evidence.

And what does that even mean in English? “My Róisín up to date”?

Again, you can’t just directly translate one language into another - and that’s what this is.

farmingquestion · 10-03-2023 2:56pm

I always viewed Newstalk as the more serious radio station but in the last year they've brought in the trash machine, have had politicians guest hosting shows and are up Berties hole. Pathetic.

Genghis · 10-03-2023 3:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339693#Comment_120339693

I didn't say I knew it was wrong. Quite the opposite.

Allinall · 10-03-2023 3:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120340740#Comment_120340740

Apologies.

I took you up wrong.

Allinall · 10-03-2023 3:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120340631#Comment_120340631

In a lot of cases you can just translate from one language to another.

Not every sentence is unique to one language only.

BPKS · 11-03-2023 9:25pm

What's the Irish for "If Shane Coleman was a lollipop he'd lick himself"

ButtersSuki · 11-03-2023 9:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120340941#Comment_120340941

I didn’t say that sentences were unique to one language. My point is that direct translation doesn’t work in most cases, and in Irish particularly so….it’s not about uniqueness, it’s about grammar and structure.

hamburgham · 11-03-2023 9:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120324044#Comment_120324044

In fairness, he has often acknowledged that his Irish is poor and he wishes it was better.

mykrodot · 12-03-2023 10:31am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120339205#Comment_120339205

I'm late to see this, but I'm so glad I'm not the only one! "Ta tu suas chun Data" may be right, there may be no other way of saying it, but every time I hear it I think surely not?? Anyway suffice to say its currently driving me mad!

hamburgham · 12-03-2023 9:09pm

Up to date is an idiom specific to English. The three words used together convey the meaning but the same three words used together in Irish and probably other languages mean nothing.

Think of the phrase ‘up to ninety’ meaning worried etc. Surely people can see how meaningless ‘suas chun nocha’ would be in Irish. Instead you would find a different way of conveying the same meaning.

Really don’t mean to sound condescending or anything but this is really basic to me. Grade As were few and far between when I did my Leaving. I know the top grades are ten a penny these days. It does make me wonder.

I really don’t know how there isn’t one person in Newstalk who can do something about that ‘suas chun data’. It makes them sound so stupid.

whisky_galore · 13-03-2023 9:24am

I guess we are going to have to put up with it until the end of Shock-tin na Bosca-Ticking.

Mullaghteelin · 13-03-2023 9:42am

In have noticed plenty of English phrases used in broadcasts other languages, German for instance. They simply use the English phrase untranslated as is.

There is something pathetic and backward about the need to translate every last phrase from English. It reminds me of the alleged expulsion from Gaeltacht schools of an unfortunate student who absent mindedly said "bless me" after sneezing.

Mr.CoolGuy · 13-03-2023 1:24pm

This is great craic on Andrea Gilligan right now. Someone comparing the first confession to Hitler Youth. I'd bet good money the child wouldn't care only the parent is projecting all of their own "concerns" on to them.

I remember doing it myself many years ago. Simply explain to the child that it's a formality and not to take it seriously. Why are people so adamant that they shouldn't be asked to explain anything to their kids?

You can tell Andrea thinks the topic is embarrassing. She's probably wondering what sins she committed in a past life to have to listen to this 😂

leath_dub · 15-03-2023 9:12am

Someone in Newstalk needs to put a gag on Ciara Kelly. With her fake outrage and bombastic bluster she's turning into a kind of George Hook with t1ts

mykrodot · 15-03-2023 9:21am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120360348#Comment_120360348

outrage over Green lights versus White lights or something? I just came in at the end of it. Who cares! This is just bluster to get people to text in and engage so the text lines will be "lighting up"!!

whisky_galore · 15-03-2023 9:36am

Couldn't give less of a shiny sh1te whether buildings worldwide are lit up green or not on St Junket's Day, a controversy all in Ciara's little head.

ballsymchugh · 15-03-2023 5:16pm

Jaysis. Dil Wickremashinghe is back looking for attention again!

whisky_galore · 15-03-2023 5:38pm

She's an absolute dose, now in wacky relationship(s).

15-03-2023 6:21pm

Is a referendum on polygamous Marriage the next woke cause?

Random sample · 15-03-2023 6:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120362518#Comment_120362518

I missed the start of it, but it came across that she was a bit disappointed and bored now that a lesbian couple is considered normal. She wants to be on the edge, which is hard when everyone accepts your choices.

EmmetSpiceland · 15-03-2023 7:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120362937#Comment_120362937

She went a bit antivax during the pandemic, didn’t she?

NIMAN · 15-03-2023 7:53pm

Not sure why folk like her are given airtime.

She's a great example to her kids. She basically wanted to go swinging but doesn't want to put it like that.

Random sample · 15-03-2023 10:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120363077#Comment_120363077

I haven’t seen her in the news since the babies were born, that could be 8-9 years ago.

EmmetSpiceland · 15-03-2023 10:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120363901#Comment_120363901

This was more of a Twitter thing, might even have been pre-covid but after leaving Newstalk.

amlinopta · 16-03-2023 12:22am

An unusual double this week, Paul Murphy set to raise his child as gender neutral and Dil and Ann Marie revealing they have entered a polyamorous relationship with a third party. The mind boggles.

farmingquestion · 16-03-2023 12:27am

What a messed up world. No wonder there's an increase in mental problems.

whisky_galore · 16-03-2023 10:23am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120364422#Comment_120364422

Bit of a naive Harry/Megan bang off PM.

Courts the media with a controversial story then asks for privacy.

SAMTALK · 16-03-2023 11:06am

Ciara is wound up this morning !

No one can get a word in edgeways with her

NIMAN · 16-03-2023 5:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120363901#Comment_120363901

Well that makes the interview I heard with her even stranger, as she said they had discussed their new threesome relationship with their kids.

Discussing this setup with 8 or 9 Yr olds!!

whisky_galore · 18-03-2023 8:53am

Thankfully Shock-tin na Nnngaelige is now over, the ropy cod-Irish can be put away for another year.

whisky_galore · 20-03-2023 9:07am

Ciara dared call the trans thing for kids a 'fad', living life on the edge!

leath_dub · 20-03-2023 9:14am

Ciara shouting over her guests again today. If you let Eouin O'Broin talk , Ciara he"d happily take you to school

mollser · 20-03-2023 9:27am

Thought she was excellent calling out his and SF bullsh1t, they always have a ready prepared ideological excuse to object to so much housing and it's right they are called out on it. Good job I say!

Genghis · 22-03-2023 5:36pm

The cash machine must be throwing off so much money they can abandon their 30c listener text 'premium'. I notice they are plugging heavily a WhatsApp number instead. Listener generated content must've been on the wane.

whisky_galore · 27-03-2023 3:09pm

That cost of living/housing article on Moncrieff sparked a load of "IN MY DAY we had to go barefoot etc" from older people.

Ol' Donie · 28-03-2023 12:45pm

If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone on Lunchtime Live (y'know, on mass media Newstalk) talking about how the media never talks about whatever they're whining about...

Exclamation Marc · 30-03-2023 2:49pm

Newstalk has just fallen off the airwaves entirely. Broadcasting silence as I type. Why couldn't this have happened to Lunchtime Live...

scotchy · 30-03-2023 2:55pm

Nothing on FM106, or streaming online either.

Exclamation Marc · 30-03-2023 3:00pm

All falling apart now.

Rakes of ads.

Brief return of Moncrieff who sounds like he's down a well who says the news is coming up.

Intro for news starts followed by silence. And back to ads.

scotchy · 30-03-2023 3:06pm

The sound is terrible.

It feels like I'm listening over a walkie talkie.

Exclamation Marc · 30-03-2023 3:09pm

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whisky_galore · 04-04-2023 8:10am

Leo attempting to put a garnish on a sh1t sandwich.

mykrodot · 04-04-2023 8:21am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120437947#Comment_120437947

he's all over the place. He doesn't sound believable, not a sincere word coming out of his mouth, covering his ass is all!

RINO87 · 04-04-2023 9:42am

https://www.newstalk.com/news/im-a-little-shook-myself-ciara-kelly-visits-scene-of-turkish-earthquake-1452575

"I'm a little shook myself" #100DaysOfWalking

......what an absolute funking gowlbag.

whisky_galore · 04-04-2023 10:22am

A little shook, god love her, making it all about herself as usual.

The bould Ciara and her 100 days of w*nking.

mykrodot · 04-04-2023 8:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120438369#Comment_120438369

unreal. Every single topic she makes about herself. I wonder is there a name for that affliction? And now she's in Turkey.................

BPKS · 20-04-2023 4:23pm

Des Bishop doing the Hard Shoulder today. It is mad Ted.

leath_dub · 21-04-2023 1:33pm

So: Newstalk 's story of the day is "Should women take their husband's name when they get married?"

The two Ciaras were all over it on breakfast

It features big on lunchtime live now and not a doubt in the world but it will be on The Hard shoulder

Believe it or not, Newstalk was once a serious news station. It has been so relentlessly dumbed down it is now a shadow of it's earlier self.

Pat Kenny, that's about the only reason to listen these days and even he is discussing more hairdresser radio currently

Exclamation Marc · 21-04-2023 2:12pm

Ah now, Moncrieff is still brilliant. The rest I agree with.

Sheep Shagger · 24-04-2023 1:23pm

A bit of rebranding unveiled today.

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