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grainne/sile seoige worst presenter on irish radio

  • 03-08-2010 03:42PM
    #1
    adamski8
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    Just was listening to the tom dunne show this morning on newstalk.
    One of the seoige sisters was filling in for him. (i think sile)
    Anyway it was one of the worst performances I ever heard, she seemed to get everything wrong, cutting across everyone and seemed to make a fool out of herself the whole time. She asked the most idiotic questions to guests as well. Think she introduced some guy as an 18 year old and then proceeded to ask him his age :pac:
    Anyone else listen. It was strangly entertaining how wooful she was. I don't like the tom dunne show but she made him seem brilliant in comparison.
    Is this her first time presenting???


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  • #2
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    adamski8 wrote: »
    . Think she introduced some guy as an 18 year old and then proceeded to ask him his age :pac:

    lol! fail...

    anyway, no problem with the OP, OP, but just to remind posters of the admin thinking on threads where public figures get critisised:
    oscarBravo wrote: »
    This seems to have been missed.

    As I understand it (and I'm not a lawyer), the fact that what you say is true may be a defence in a defamation action. The problem is, if a poster says something nasty about a public figure, and the public figure sues boards.ie for defamation, then it becomes boards.ie's problem to try to create a defence by establishing the truth of the allegation. Part of our role as mods and admins is to try to prevent the website from getting sued, because getting sued isn't fun.

    I'll reiterate what Tom Dunne has said: I don't understand the need to be abusive when criticising someone.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055985102


    basically, feel free to criticise, but just be careful you don't cross the line to abuse.


  • #3
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    She's cute though !


  • #4
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    That's what you get when you put a person presenting a radio programme who isn't a radio presenter...


  • #5
    Badabing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    Lenny Lovett wrote: »
    That's what you get when you put a person presenting a radio programme who isn't a radio presenter...

    Sile Seoige or Tom Dunne?


  • #6
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    I think Tom Dunne was (nearly as) bad when he started out but has improved much since. His show would be my preference over Today FM and 2FM 9 - 12 shows.

    Síle was very bad I think, probably mostly due to nerves, but also due to lack of preparation, subject knowledge and possibly interest!

    It reminded me of show's such as TV3's morning show where they have demonstration segments in which the presenter is so worried about time than listening to the demonstator!

    It wrecks my head to have to watch these when you can feel the tension between the two!


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  • #7
    adamski8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    tbh wrote: »
    basically, feel free to criticise, but just be careful you don't cross the line to abuse.
    yeah fair enough, I have nothing against her, it was just her once off performance today i was talking about.
    It might not have been all her fault of course, the producing was probably a major cause. She had a few bad lines and one got dropped as well. It was quite car crash.
    Anyway I'd be amazed if newstalk let her present a 3 hour long show without thinking she can't do the job.
    Anyway im gonna tune in and hope she is still filling in tomorrow so i can have more of a laugh


  • #8
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Just to clarify adamski, there was no problem with your post. It's just... These threads can bring out the worst on people :)


  • #9
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    This really is the silly season. Sile Seoige filling in for Tom Dunne again for a week later on in the month merits a news article these days. Or is this super agent Noel Kelly at work?

    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/sile-gets-coverted-holiday-slot-on-radio-2282808.html


  • #10
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    You mean this Noel Kelly?

    It does kinda deserve a bit of an article! Give her a listen!


  • #11
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,872 ✭✭✭Skid


    Sile Seoige had a nightmare filling in the other day, odd to give her a full week based on that.

    However, The thread title is a bit unfair to Grainne Seoige, can't blame her for her sister's performance.


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  • #12
    heybaby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭heybaby


    adamski8 wrote: »
    yeah fair enough, I have nothing against her, it was just her once off performance today i was talking about.
    It might not have been all her fault of course, the producing was probably a major cause. She had a few bad lines and one got dropped as well. It was quite car crash.
    Anyway I'd be amazed if newstalk let her present a 3 hour long show without thinking she can't do the job.
    Anyway im gonna tune in and hope she is still filling in tomorrow so i can have more of a laugh

    Another example of a PD making it up as they go along, why they cant give a chance to someone who already works in radio a at a local or regional level is beyond me. This purely smacks of a PD taking the lazy option of getting a 'celeb' to fill the gap for a week in the hope that her previous media experience and celebrity will carry her through. The same could be said of Kathryn thomas filling in for Tubs, it just isnt working. While I cant blame sile or kathyrn for saying no if offered work, I find it exceptionally annoying that sile, kathyrn etc resort to radio when their chosen format, tv, has turned its back on them. (granted thomas is still on in some form but , no frontiers has been pulled). If the product they both offered on radio was of a high standard then the respective PD's decison to parachute them into a slot may be easier to justify, but when standards suffer as a result of their inclusion, you really gotta feel for the many genuine radio presenters out there around the country screaming for a fair crack at the big time even if it is only for a week.


  • #13
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    Yeah I tend to agree. Much like Kathryn Thomas and Lucy Kennedy over in RTE, their TV presenter careers are based largely on their looks. But that all becomes a bit redundant on the radio.


  • #14
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    Rubik. wrote: »
    Yeah I tend to agree. Much like Kathryn Thomas and Lucy Kennedy over in RTE, their TV presenter careers are based largely on their looks. But that all becomes a bit redundant on the radio.
    Credit where it's due - Kathryn Thomas is a damn sight better than the other two.


  • #15
    messymess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 359 ✭✭messymess


    Wow, was that Sile? I remember listening to her on the way into work, thinking "jesus, did they just pull some randomer out of their office cubical to present the Tom Dunne show this morning in there or what?".

    She was very nervous and very self critical of herself in places. It was a train wreck, no doubt about it ... but look we're only human at the end of the day. Personally, I couldn't do it !


  • #16
    Rebelheart
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    adamski8 wrote: »
    Just was listening to the tom dunne show this morning on newstalk.
    One of the seoige sisters was filling in for him. (i think sile)
    Anyway it was one of the worst performances I ever heard, she seemed to get everything wrong, cutting across everyone and seemed to make a fool out of herself the whole time. She asked the most idiotic questions to guests as well. Think she introduced some guy as an 18 year old and then proceeded to ask him his age :pac:
    Anyone else listen. It was strangly entertaining how wooful she was. I don't like the tom dunne show but she made him seem brilliant in comparison.
    Is this her first time presenting???

    I find it hard to conceive of somebody worse than Tom Dunne. I stopped listening to him on 5 March last when he had some arsehole with an English accent named Julian ranting and raving against the Irish language. All Dunne could say was "I agree" "Yeah" and the like. He didn't even make an attempt at being impartial. It was just a cowardly gang-up on the Irish language. Definitely lost me that day.

    Anyway Síle is a babe in any weather.:)


  • #17
    uvox
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    Rubik. wrote: »
    Sile Seoige filling in for Tom Dunne again for a week later on in the month merits a news article these days.

    Is she filing in a moderator too?


  • #18
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    For a radio presenter career that spans 3 hours, it sure is getting a lot of media attention.

    http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/station-chiefs-have-sile-on-the-radar-as-beauty-considers-radio-2285266.html


  • #19
    barneygumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭barneygumble


    Rubik. wrote: »
    For a radio presenter career that spans 3 hours, it sure is getting a lot of media attention.

    http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/station-chiefs-have-sile-on-the-radar-as-beauty-considers-radio-2285266.html

    Slow news week I guess.

    The most common sound to be heard on Irish radio these days is that of a barrel being scraped.


  • #20
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    messymess wrote: »
    ... but look we're only human at the end of the day. Personally, I couldn't do it !
    True. But you're not getting wads of cash for it. It's the management's fault at NT. They put her in there with little live radio experience. They seem to be in a daze there for some reason?
    barneygumble wrote: »
    The most common sound to be heard on Irish radio these days is that of a barrel being scraped.
    Sad... but true!


  • #21
    paddyland
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    It appears to me that we have these two 'lovely' sisters from the wesht of Ireland, who speak fluent Gaeilge to boot, and they seem to be owed media careers as some kind of right of course.

    Except that nobody can seem to find the right vehicle for them. Their tv chat show together was a disaster, and individually, they don't seem to last long anywhere. Yet they keep reappearing constantly, on all kinds of programs, that they just don't seem to be able to establish a following on.

    As somebody else said, there must be hundreds of personable amateurs out there crying for a bite at the big time, yet we keep pulling back the two ice queens in the hope that one of them will find a slipper that fits.


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  • #22
    irishh_bob
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    paddyland wrote: »
    It appears to me that we have these two 'lovely' sisters from the wesht of Ireland, who speak fluent Gaeilge to boot, and they seem to be owed media careers as some kind of right of course.

    Except that nobody can seem to find the right vehicle for them. Their tv chat show together was a disaster, and individually, they don't seem to last long anywhere. Yet they keep reappearing constantly, on all kinds of programs, that they just don't seem to be able to establish a following on.

    As somebody else said, there must be hundreds of personable amateurs out there crying for a bite at the big time, yet we keep pulling back the two ice queens in the hope that one of them will find a slipper that fits.


    but neither of them are ice queens , grainne is an absolute dear


  • #23
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,942 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Lenny Lovett wrote: »
    True. But you're not getting wads of cash for it. It's the management's fault at NT. They put her in there with little live radio experience. They seem to be in a daze there for some reason?

    they did this before, when sean moncreiff was off for a week, they had a different presenter every day. most of them were shocking. brian dowling and jennifer maguire ffs? it's amazing what'll get you a job on the airwaves these days, but being told you're fired by alan sugar is one way to do it.

    and... sile is 32??!! bloody hell, thought she was much younger!


  • #24
    Lahm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 534 ✭✭✭Lahm


    Sile Seoige only got a job in media because of her sister. She is the ugly duckling - not rotten but not as nice as Grainne.

    Sile and Grainne have a fakeness about them and I'm not talking about their breasts. They wear low-cut top to display themselves, woo men acrosss the country and then are presented as broadcasting beauties.


  • #25
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    paddyland wrote: »
    It appears to me that we have these two 'lovely' sisters from the wesht of Ireland, who speak fluent Gaeilge to boot, and they seem to be owed media careers as some kind of right of course.

    Except that nobody can seem to find the right vehicle for them. Their tv chat show together was a disaster, and individually, they don't seem to last long anywhere. Yet they keep reappearing constantly, on all kinds of programs, that they just don't seem to be able to establish a following on.

    As somebody else said, there must be hundreds of personable amateurs out there crying for a bite at the big time, yet we keep pulling back the two ice queens in the hope that one of them will find a slipper that fits.
    Grainne had a good opening at Sky News. She presented the evening bulletins on Sky Ireland and did quite a bit of presentation on the main Sky News channel as well but she gave it up to come back to RTE.


  • #26
    Btr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 281 ✭✭Btr


    Lenny Lovett wrote: »
    Grainne had a good opening at Sky News. She presented the evening bulletins on Sky Ireland and did quite a bit of presentation on the main Sky News channel as well but she gave it up to come back to RTE.

    Wouldn't disagree with a lot of what's being said here but ITV obviously fell for that fake charm as well . Grainne is going to itv brekkie in next couple of weeks. whatever Sile has , I don't get it


  • #27
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    Lahm wrote: »
    Sile Seoige only got a job in media because of her sister. She is the ugly duckling - not rotten but not as nice as Grainne.

    Sile and Grainne have a fakeness about them and I'm not talking about their breasts. They wear low-cut top to display themselves, woo men acrosss the country and then are presented as broadcasting beauties.

    your right , they need to get thee to a nunery pronto


  • #28
    JonathanAnon
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    Station chiefs have Sile on the radar as beauty considers radio switch

    I hate inaccurate reporting.. ;-)


  • #29
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Lahm wrote: »
    Sile Seoige only got a job in media because of her sister. She is the ugly duckling - not rotten but not as nice as Grainne.

    Sile and Grainne have a fakeness about them and I'm not talking about their breasts. They wear low-cut top to display themselves, woo men acrosss the country and then are presented as broadcasting beauties.

    WTF? What have their breasts got to do with their ability to engage a listener's attention?

    For that matter, why is Grainne being dragged into this discussion? If she's a talentless fake, she's doing a damn good job of feigning ability - isn't she off to GMTV now? ITV is hardly in the grip of the gaeilgeoir media mafia, or do you know something we don't?


  • #30
    bbability
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    Ok folks a quick reminder to keep this discussion radio related. I think it was made clear earlier that this post is about Sile as she was the one presenting on Newstalk. This is not the place to discuss GMTV or peoples body parts. Any more off topic and I'll have to close it off.


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  • #31
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    This media campaign to get Sile a job is getting beyond ridiculous now. Some eejit actually asked her if she thinks she could be a possible replacement for Claire Byrne (did they not hear her one and only show?).

    Newstalks CEO Frank Cronin said last night... "We're taking it one step at a time. Sile is doing Tom Dunne's programme for us next week. After that there will be discussions between Sile and Newstalk to see what the future holds for both sides".

    http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/sile-reveals-surprise-at-finding-love-new-love-2295595.html

    Sile Seoige is not the answer to Newstalks problems Frank. If she gets a permanent gig on the back of this, it will really be the triumph of "celebrity" over any discernible talent at presenting a radio show.


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