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RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

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  • #4532
    littlevillage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,158 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    Royalcentral.

    Is it not anachronistic in this day in age to have a monarch anywhere.

    Are they just tourist catnip?



  • #4533
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭squonk


    I heard some of that. Seemed very odd. I’d kind of expect this old tat on Today with Maura interviewing this lady or one of tge morning shows filling up time for bored ladies with this type of fluff but I was surprised Claire went anywhere near it.



  • #4534
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭squonk


    Lord Boucher-Hayes in today. Should be fun.



  • #4535
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    Tuned in just now. Interviewing some yank about recent gaffe biden made. And the difference between biden uttering "only God" and "only God almighty...."

    Click



  • #4536
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,425 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122394815#Comment_122394815

    Not just today. The next few weeks. Aren't we lucky.



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  • #4537
    amlinopta
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭amlinopta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122394877#Comment_122394877

    No reference from Claire signing off yesterday that she wouldn't be around. PBH in full flow….



  • #4538
    avfc1874
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,629 ✭✭✭avfc1874


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122395064#Comment_122395064

    Even longer Holliday's for staff 🤔 now that Kevin said he's cut costs

    = Same pay and more Holliday's



  • #4539
    amlinopta
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭amlinopta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122396599#Comment_122396599

    Brand new lad on Morning Ireland sport this morning, never heard of him before. So much for the staff cutbacks



  • #4540
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,349 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122394851#Comment_122394851

    I mentioned this on another thread but even since then this appears to be getting worse. The editorial fixation that RTÉ Radio 1 has with American politics is getting to the point of bizarre at times imo. Even allowing for the political and cultural influence the US has globally plus the level of FDI from American companies here, they seem totally obsessed with reporting on, and discussing what happens in, the US political system. Whatever about the attempt to kill Trump, that's clearly newsworthy, they talk about mundane aspects of politics over there as is everyone in this country thinks about this daily. It spans multiple shows so it's not like it's a hobby horse of a particular presenter either.



  • #4541
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,582 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122397281#Comment_122397281

    American stories often take precendance over Irish stories. You have to wonder about the licence fee sometimes when this happens. What is often cringey is people taking sides on American issues. RTE feeding this nonsense.



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  • #4542
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,235 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    I enjoyed the few days of PHB, I must say. Long live actual covering news as news and not interviewing bloggers for 2 hours.



  • #4543
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    this is exactly why the US news is everywhere , people want to jump on the bandwagon . Same political stuff is happening in France to , but no one cares because is not the trendy wagon to hop onto



  • #4544
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,349 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122399927#Comment_122399927

    The worst example I can remember off the top of my head was one day last year the headline story on the news was 'Biden says electing Trump would be bad for America' or some equally banal statement. This was after a weekend where there had been fatalities in road traffic accidents. I thought it was incredibly poor judgement, and even if nothing serious had happened, who the hell thought this deserves to be headline news on an Irish news report.



  • #4545
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,937 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Radio shows that are on air for a couple hours each day for 5 days each week need filler content.

    I give you American politics. The content that keeps on giving.



  • #4546
    Shan Doras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 440 ✭✭Shan Doras


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122404837#Comment_122404837

    Let's not also forget that pre 2007, Today would be off air completely this time of year for summer holidays, even when the 7/7 bombing happened in 2005, it wasn't reinstated. In a way life was probably better when we weren't all plugged into the news 24/7



  • #4547
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122382506#Comment_122382506

    Billy Bass was it?



  • #4548
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,582 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122404837#Comment_122404837

    Lazy fillers. Plenty of other topics from around the world outside of the Anglo American bubble which dominates Irish news.



  • #4549
    RINO87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭RINO87


    I Wasn't paying attention.....why is Barry Kenny of Irish Rail talking about the Olympics?



  • #4550
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,962 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    I can't blame him for being jealous of the French network.



  • #4551
    gym_imposter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭gym_imposter


    Boucher Hayes today, every pour oozes smugness

    Truly insufferable



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  • #4552
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122415481#Comment_122415481

    Pour me a shot of smug there, lad, cleans out the pores.



  • #4553
    glenfieldman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭glenfieldman


    Jesus PBH was very rude and smug in that interrogation of MLM, interrupting and speaking over her. But fair play she called him out on it

    Smug git



  • #4554
    Sigma101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,239 ✭✭✭Sigma101


    PBH shredding Mary Lou on the radio right now. He's challenging her on what appears to be a very flimsy new policy document on immigration and international protection. Mary Lou is resorting to ad hominems and accused him of being rude.
    What's happened to her? I know she was always full of sh1t but she was once formidable. Seems to have completely lost her mojo. No doubt there'll be lads in Belfast having a think about this.



  • #4555
    Kerry_2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭Kerry_2008


    Think MLM resorted to giving out about 'rudeness' as she couldnt answer the questions being asked.



  • #4556
    Bellbottoms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    Mary Lou not coming across well there. Aside from all the double speak. She is coming off like a narky teenager.



  • #4557
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,734 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    I don't think she realised PBH was covering for Claire and hadn't her strategy prepared.



  • #4558
    Brian Scan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭Brian Scan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122419317#Comment_122419317

    Smug git interviewing a smug git. Amusing but not particularly informative.



  • #4559
    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭mattser


    3…2…1…



  • #4560
    Bellbottoms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122419370#Comment_122419370

    ???



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  • #4561
    squonk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,670 ✭✭✭squonk


    I usually don’t like him y y ok much but he was fair in asking direct questions MLM couldn’t answer. I mean, looking at 6-1 last night, it lined like that whole policy was a load of populist shít that won’t fly anyway. PBH called her on it and she certainly didn’t like it. At her age you’d think she’d have realised that if you don’t do your homework the teacher might catch you it. Mind you at her age she might have forgotten that point as well!



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