Upfront with Katie Hannon

 Claire Brock or Clara Doherty

Have either of them surfaced anywhere else since TV3?

I don't listen to her on podcasts but if she's as boring as she is on presenting Upfront, I can't imagine it gets many listeners.

The Group Chat is particularly embarrassing. You can see why so many Irish people prefer British and American podcasters.

Edit: a quick look at the top 100 podcasts in Ireland and The Group Chat is not even in the list. I'm open to correction but this is clearly embarrassing and one suspects the presenters are not paid anything for it.

Ciara Doherty has just started presenting a new Podcast called “Newstalk Daily” for Newstalk. I’m not sure what Claire Brock is doing now.

Katie Hannon and Catriona Perry. Just cannot understand the hype around these two. They are a typically useless Irish public sector product. Go off script for just a second and suddenly they're like a deer in headlights.

Yes, and just because you are on the BBC does necessary mean you are good at your job, Jon Williams form Head of RTÉ news once worked for the BBC, can we can safely he was on the Pigs back in RTÉ and not doing much more.

No it says series not episodes

Similarly, the series grew on the RTÉ Player, attracting 269,000 streams in series three, from 209,000 in series two.

That's a total not an average.

But happy to be corrected but it would put the series at the top of the streaming programmes

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/rte-player-has-most-successful-year-with-142-million-streams-in-2024-1716180.html

It was a very bland and dull current affairs show. Starting with the presenter who is maybe better off behind the camera.

She's not the greatest, but I hope they haven't just given up on the idea of a current affairs programme in that timeslot altogether.

Not sure about a monthly show TBH, there is no reason why a Q&A type programmed can be produced on a weekly basis, the problem lies with the producers trying to fit everything in rather than allowing it to flow more generally with a group of politicians.

The series was hobbled by having a panel and then in the audience having an expert in the audience, that's not really audience participation.

You could do an audience show as they had done with Derek Davis, which was the format of the presenter talking with a group and experts about issues of the day.

What Frontline et al wanted to do was to mix both together.

Here is a panel, and we have a second panel or guest after the break, and in our audience we have prof so and so from such and such what do you think prof are the panel right, well Katie they aren't wrong and they aren't right either.

Suspicion would be that RTE don’t really care about viewership and actual public broadcasting.

Unfortunately she was totally biased in the chair

All she wanted was gather a group of dissidents and turn them on some poor Govt. TD whilst cheerleading from the sidelines.

Straight out of the Vinnie Browne playbook, I would suggest.