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Anne Doyle retires from RTE

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  • #32
    imitation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭imitation


    Ally Dick wrote: »
    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

    Yeah, bubbly is a trait we all look for when were being told how many died in a tsunami.


  • #33
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    imitation wrote: »
    Yeah, bubbly is a trait we all look for when were being told how many died in a tsunami.

    In fairness, I thought your response was hilarious


  • #34
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    TheZohan wrote: »
    She announced many months ago that she was retiring. .

    Guess I missed it. :pac:


  • #35
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Good night sweet princess.


  • #36
    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    She wasn't bad looking in her day, would definitely have given her one back then.


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  • #37
    Einhard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭Einhard


    the groutch wrote: »
    would have preferred if it was Craig Doyle retiring

    From life.


  • #38
    MrPirate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭MrPirate


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    We're all hurting in our own ways MrPirate.
    You'll let it out when the time is right.

    Can we have that kinda-hot weather girl from the six 1 instead now? :pac:

    Edit: Or this guy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDgl-Y-kiU&feature=related


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Suppose the odd time you come into AH you might find something interesting. This isn't one of them.


  • #40
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    What if they resurrected Naked News and had her as chief newsreader. I'd watch that.


  • #41
    Firefox11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Firefox11


    Maybe thay might be able to get someone that will actually be present the news properaly (as the do on the BBC) allthough since this RTE, I dout it. The woman should have been sacked years ago!!!:eek:


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  • #42
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    She's no Trevor McDonald.[/URL]
    As is Trevor McDonald Knight Bachelor, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire


    But News Knight with Sir Trevor McDonald was kinda milking it a bit.


  • #43
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Saw her comin outta the Swan centre years ago, carrying her bags I was on the 18 bus. do you think she is happier as a blonde?


  • #44
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    FloatingVoter wrote: »
    What if they resurrected Naked News and had her as chief newsreader. I'd watch that.


    Yeah, if you are into granny porn. Not my cup of tea.


  • #45
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    smellslikeshoes wrote: »
    She wasn't bad looking in her day, would definitely have given her one back then.

    I think she is defo still doable, a good looking woman.

    I seen her years ago at RTE a sexy beaut to say the least.


  • #46
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    I just watched the video ...
    whoa, she was some cracking girl when she was younger :eek:


  • #47
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Jay D wrote: »
    Suppose the odd time you come into AH you might find something interesting. This isn't one of them.

    Thanks for coming.

    smellslikeshoes wrote: »
    She wasn't bad looking in her day, would definitely have given her one back then.

    phaaaaaaaaaaaaaaor!


  • #48
    Serena Thoughtless Top
    Posts: 4,333 ✭✭✭ Serena Thoughtless Top


    giles lynchwood wrote: »
    Please not in pigeon English anything but pigeon English.:(

    Pidgin.

    Pigeon is a bird.


  • #49
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    I just watched the video ...
    whoa, she was some cracking girl when she was younger :eek:

    Really? She looked a bit like that other Anne, the rather horsefaced Princess Royal.

    Anne has aged very well, but she wasn't always particularly good looking.

    I wonder if she's friends with Jean Byrne...


  • #50
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,102 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Poor Ruu, does anyone know how he's taking the news?


  • #51
    SillyMcCarthy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 372 ✭✭SillyMcCarthy


    Retire??? :eek:
    People don't retire in RTE!
    Just look at Gay Byrne & Mike Murphy.
    Before you know it she'll have a spot on Lyric FM.


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  • #52
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    She was our princess di.


  • #53
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    She's big into yokes; many's the time I've seen her around late drinking venues in D2 and 4 mashed off her face.


  • #54
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    SillyMcCarthy wrote: »
    Before you know it she'll have a spot on Lyric FM.

    Touché - but if she evicts Marty Whelan in the morning there'll be a lot of people very, very happy, myself included.

    Éamon Lawlor made a very successful transition from RTÉ News to Lyric FM years ago. No reason why Anne can't, as long as she doesn't waffle, keeps a mood to her music and only talks when passing information on to us.


  • #55
    Stovepipe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    She's got a good pension, a lump sum and a big fat millionaire boyfriend, so she'll never need to work again. Why bother?

    regards
    Stovepipe


  • #56
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    jean byrne to take the crown :cool:


  • #57
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Stovepipe wrote: »
    She's got a good pension, a lump sum and a big fat millionaire boyfriend, so she'll never need to work again. Why bother?

    regards
    Stovepipe

    Dan McGrattan a millionaire?

    In Zimbabwean dollars, maybe?


  • #58
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Saila wrote: »
    jean byrne to take the crown :cool:

    And how will we see her legs?


  • #59
    Gophur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭Gophur


    Anne Doyle was a newsreader, just a newsreader. Why all the fuss? It's not as if she brought any insight to what she was reading ? Any questions she ever asked were scripted for her.


  • #60
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Gophur wrote: »
    Anne Doyle was a newsreader, just a newsreader. Why all the fuss? It's not as if she brought any insight to what she was reading ? Any questions she ever asked were scripted for her.
    Or... by her?

    Has it ever struck you that Anne Doyle and the other newsreaders can actually be responsible for their own scripts, much in the same way that newsprint journalists are?

    Also, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss good diction. Anne Doyle's clarity was her greatest vocational asset.


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  • #61
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Gophur wrote: »
    Anne Doyle was a newsreader, just a newsreader. Why all the fuss? It's not as if she brought any insight to what she was reading ? Any questions she ever asked were scripted for her.

    And quite a bad newsreader she was. This is one doyle boil I'm glad to see is finally being lanced.


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