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Anne Doyle retires from RTE

  • 26-12-2011 06:18AM
    #1
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1128438
    6:59 onwards.


    So Anne Doyle has retired from RTE, it was all a bit sudden, they could have given us a bit of forewarning to get used to the idea.

    She'll be missed, not least by Inda Kenny who talks about his hard soft spot for Anne.

    It won't be the same without her.
    Sunrise, sunset, sunrise sunset, cats in the craddle and the silver spoon.
    :-/


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  • #2
    MrPirate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭MrPirate


    A bigger "Meh" (Well, bar MEH in really big font...) couldn't be given, if I'm honest.


  • #3
    cloneslad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭cloneslad


    she's fond of animals....particularly cats!!

    What great added information on the RTE website that was


  • #4
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    MrPirate wrote: »
    A bigger "Meh" (Well, bar MEH in really big font...) couldn't be given, if I'm honest.

    We're all hurting in our own ways MrPirate.
    You'll let it out when the time is right.


  • #5
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    Meanwhile in East Africa...


  • #6
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    She's no Trevor McDonald.

    Indeed.


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  • #7
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    so can we just get someone on min wage to read the news now and save some money?


  • #8
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    I'll gladly read the news for half of what Anne Doyle was getting.


  • #9
    Skulldigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 ✭Skulldigger


    RIP Anne Doyle.

    I knocked many out to her.


  • #10
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Ah sure we export all our best stuff.

    Safe Journ


  • #11
    giles lynchwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭giles lynchwood


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    so can we just get someone on min wage to read the news now and save some money?

    Please not in pigeon English anything but pigeon English.:(


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  • #12
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Skulldigger wrote: »
    RIP Anne Doyle.

    I knocked many out to her.


    ^^
    should have gone to specsavers.


  • #13
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    so can we just get someone on min wage to read the news now and save some money?

    Those people on min wage will only tell us bad news.

    Happy retirement to Anne, she was a good news reader.


  • #14
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    hondasam wrote: »
    Happy retirement to Anne, she was a goodexpensive news reader.

    FYP

    I've never understood why they feel the need to have "celebrity" news readers in RTE on massive massive salaries when they could get any competent and capable people to do it for a fraction of the price


  • #15
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    FYP

    I've never understood why they feel the need to have "celebrity" news readers in RTE on massive massive salaries when they could get any competent and capable people to do it for a fraction of the price

    How much was she paid? How long did she work there?
    How is she a ''celebrity'' or is it because she has read the news for the last number of years that has made her a ''celebrity''


  • #16
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    would have preferred if it was Craig Doyle retiring


  • #17
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I seen her in 3D RTE years ago, a total and awesome roide, stunning, the newsdesk never done her justice.


  • #18
    ItsAWindUp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭ItsAWindUp


    Who?


  • #19
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1128438
    6:59 onwards.


    So Anne Doyle has retired from RTE, it was all a bit sudden, they could have given us a bit of forewarning to get used to the idea.

    She announced many months ago that she was retiring. Hard to believe she's 60!

    Pity she's retiring, would have preferred Tubridy and Joe Duffy to go. Even Pat Kenny has redeemed himself now at this stage with Frontline, the other two are just overpaid knobjockeys that are out of touch with the demographic they're supposed to entertain.


  • #20
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    ItsAWindUp wrote: »
    Who?
    It explains who she is here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056494830&pp=15


  • #21
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    She would always say hi when I'd pass her on the street in Dublin. Saw her a while ago sitting in O'Donoghues on Merrion Row listening to the trad seisiún and as usual she'd pass a smile and a hi. That sort of down-to-earth attitude is sound.

    I particularly appreciate that she can pronounce the letter 'h' correctly, which is more than can be said for Eileen Dunne or Brian Jennings - both fine newsreaders - who have imported this inappropriate "aitch" pronunciation from British tv and radio in the misguided belief that it is more correct than the established Hiberno-English 'haitch'.


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  • #22
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Dionysus wrote: »
    She would always say hi when I'd pass her on the street in Dublin. Saw her a while ago sitting in O'Donoghues on Merrion Row listening to the trad seisiún and as usual she'd pass a smile and a hi. That sort of down-to-earth attitude is sound.

    I particularly appreciate that she can pronounce the letter 'h' correctly, which is more than can be said for Eileen Dunne or Brian Jennings - both fine newsreaders - who have imported this inappropriate "aitch" pronunciation from British tv and radio in the misguided belief that it is more correct than the established Hiberno-English 'haitch'.

    She clearly wants you, go for it ;)


  • #23
    decisions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭decisions


    Enda's a weird little creature at the end there.


  • #24
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Could never see what the attraction of Ann Doyle was. Id rather ride Dobbo tbh.


  • #25
    Dubs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭Dubs


    Loving the woman at 6.40 in that video!


  • #26
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Fcukin legend.
    RIP


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,079 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    so can we just get someone on min wage to read the news now and save some money?

    nah today we can do it for less with the national internship scheme :)
    For once i agree with it! :) Could be like a national service this reading the news
    only volunteers even! Bet you would still get people who would want to do it!


  • #28
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Who cares, Michael Ryan leaving was the big news of the season :(


  • #29
    Wetai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    Sudden?


  • #30
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    Good riddance to Anne and her wishy washy smile and wishy washy vocal delivery. I always thought she was a poor newsreader. In fairness though, she comes across as more bubbly in real life


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  • #31
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    i couldn't really care...

    it doesn't make me care any more :pac:


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