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RTE 1: 'Today' with Claire Byrne

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  • #4982
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,918 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616978#Comment_123616978

    Well then that is the debate that Claire needs to be having.

    The general population is baffled about why it rains so much here and yet we keep getting told as soon as the sun comes out that we need to take it easy on the showers, baths or watering hoses.



  • #4983
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616957#Comment_123616957

    We have underinvested in infrastructure like water for decades. They even explained in the section that we lack sufficient storage in the system and that the Dublin area is already operating with very little contingency for extra demand. I'm sorry for the snarky one liner but it i felt the piece explained pretty clearly what the issues were.



  • #4984
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,918 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123617000#Comment_123617000

    Im totally with you!

    I actually agreed with water charges when they tried to bring them in about a decade back. I think need to pay to fix the system.



  • #4985
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123617007#Comment_123617007

    Unfortunately radioactive topic for the government to raise again (until the IMF are back)!



  • #4986
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616988#Comment_123616988

    In fairness it was a topic in the conversation - it comes back to the same thing as always with 90% of everything in Ireland: lack of investment in infrastructure, chronic lack of leadership and planning from the top.



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  • #4987
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,918 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123617025#Comment_123617025

    Maybe some of the Apple money could be spent on it?

    Would be money well spent.



  • #4988
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,477 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Claire doesn't want to get into investment questions, which requires intelligence and genuine scrutiny of the institutions of the state, she just wants to introduce scare topics as a strategy to keep ratings and keeps it at a level she can handle.



  • #4989
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123617460#Comment_123617460

    I feel like we are probably expecting a bit much from a magazine show in that respect. The format doesn't really lend itself to proper analysis or interrogation of matters - because you move swiftly on to the next segment and it's always led by items high on the news agenda.

    I think Claire isn't the worst: she doesn't ask really stupid questions and keeps things moving along, but she never manages to get to the heart of things either, there's a superficial quality to her approach overall. I don't know whether that's her fault or just the way the show is formatted.

    But, I would agree that the overall emotional state of the show is one of bubbling under anxious fear.



  • #4990
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,417 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616988#Comment_123616988

    Another debate in that case should be the state of our education system. Over half of the population has been to university. Such ignorance is just crazy.



  • #4991
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123616978#Comment_123616978

    THIS!!! I see my own county is one of the 12 counties under the drought warning. There really was no shortage of rain in June. Our proximity to the sea usually means some showers at least. What bugs me is that they haven’t the infrastructure in place but it’s our fault for wasting water.



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  • #4992
    Icsics
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Icsics


    Claire on about the Ukrainians in Millstreet, integrated says she & then they interview a woman with no English. Of course the Duggans want the centre to continue, they are absolutely coining it.



  • #4993
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,477 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    Interesting discussion on AI and replacing jobs etc.

    First job AI should take is Claire Byrne's.

    Sometimes I can't tell the difference if it's human presenting the show or a robot.



  • #4994
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    AIBciuld replace most of the Radio 1 daytime schedule and few would notice. The big giveaway would be Ray Darcy’s sudden mastery of the desk.



  • #4995
    amlinopta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 962 ✭✭✭amlinopta


    Staright down to business with some status yellow heat alerts, forest fires, animal welfare issues etc etc



  • #4996
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123623391#Comment_123623391

    "Not to catastrophize the weather" says a contributor.... Buddy, you are on the wrong show.

    Another segment now on how your children are at risk of being, I don't know, being boiled alive in the heat.



  • #4997
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Item on rabies - "The most painful death you could possibly have"

    There has been no reported case of rabies in Ireland for, AFAIK, a century.



  • #4998
    RoscommonHero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭RoscommonHero


    Generally, scaremongering in our media landscape is anywhere near as pronounced as it is in America, for example, but Claire Byrne seems to have a particular fondness for searching out alarmist stories and trying to put the fear of god into people based around issues with limited or negligible or unproven risk. It's a cheap tactic and I am fed up of them for constantly seeking to exploit people.



  • #4999
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,599 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632743#Comment_123632743

    well, she was called “Scare Byrne” for a reason 🥴



  • #5000
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,918 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632751#Comment_123632751

    "And up next, a warning for those about to......"



  • #5001
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632682#Comment_123632682

    And that's the way we want to keep it.

    Almost zero chance of contracting it in Ireland but higher risk abroad.

    This is the time of year that many people go abroad.



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  • #5002
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632763#Comment_123632763

    Sure, sure, there's a logic in what you say. But it's just the way it's even talked about on the show adds to that patina of barely suppressed anxiety that the show adds to 90% of its items.

    Let's focus first on how agonising the death is, precisely how it will agonisingly kill you, the doc they had on was relishing the details - and then talk about how it's still rare and that it's a good idea to be cautious.

    So yeah, I know why's it's there as an item, but it is very much the CB style to give it that extra dose of worry and fear: to lead with that.

    I wouldn't say it annoys me, it's actually comical tbh how that's the default tone for so, so, many items on the show.



  • #5003
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632869#Comment_123632869

    Maybe you heard the bit about electric cars and the presidential election chat that were on since.

    There was some GAA stuff and three more items to follow by 12.

    That's the format perhaps you can find a show elsewhere that suits you better.



  • #5004
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123632981#Comment_123632981

    I don't dislike the show overall, I wouldn't have it on if I did!

    Not everything on it is worthless - there was a great interview with one of the guys working in the injection centre in Dublin on Friday. He had great insight and really articulated the complexity of that entire project and all that goes with it.

    But I think it's a fair comment to say that they can have a melodramatic tone to a great deal of their items. The rabies item today was a completely representative example.



  • #5005
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123633183#Comment_123633183

    It's a popular show with growing listenership figures.

    A magazine type show that covers multiple topics over the two hours.

    An individual listener can't expect to hear everything they would like to hear. For instance I zone out of golf related items.

    If you think there is a problem with an item it is absolutely fair comment to say so.

    Where I part company with you is your assertion concerning

    barely suppressed anxiety that the show adds to 90% of its items



  • #5006
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123633244#Comment_123633244

    Okay, I'll be more scrupulously fair - the barely suppressed anxiety that the show adds to approximately 75% of its items.



  • #5007
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123633289#Comment_123633289

    Maybe you could adjust the anxiety detector control on your radio 📻



  • #5008
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,477 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    I do expect a segment on the lack of Vitamin D soon after the scare stories about the good weather which had a portion on forest fires.

    The scare stuff is also a sign that She's just not up to it. I'm baffled She's still the presenter given how bad she is. And she certainly isn't cheap.

    If she left tomorrow, she would be instantly forgotten.



  • #5009
    gigantic09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    The Night time officer on this morning sounding like he's already enjoying later opening hours.



  • #5010
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,504 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123636820#Comment_123636820

    I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say it might have been nerves - he was fairly struggling at the start, but he's warmed up a bit now.



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  • #5011
    gigantic09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123636843#Comment_123636843

    Ya you could be right, sounds more healthy now.



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