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Sports Bulletins on RTE Radio 1 morning shows

  • 22-08-2012 10:20AM
    #1
    win2one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭


    Why do the presenters of Risin Time, Morning Ireland and be it Pat Kenny or Myles Dungan always have to interrupt the sports bulletins and give their 5 cents worth ?


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  • #2
    europa11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Because it's Kooooooooool.

    And they haven't a feckin' clue about sports but like to rack up their "man-o'-the-people" rankings by either engaging in tribal banter - a.k.a. Inter-County GAA slagging - or pretending to have been glued to the previous days Premier****e match so that they can pay homage to "Sir Alex" or worse still Roy Keanes' humble thoughts by re-hashing them with Des or whoever.

    Worst of all are the ones who give their two cents on rugby games, where overheard and often cringeworthy opinions of some bar-stool genius get national airtime.

    And it eats up programme time so that important news items are then hurried along and interviews are carried out with the haste (i.e. interrupting-their-own-questions) RTE presenters seem to engage in afterwards.


  • #3
    mike65
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    Myles Dungan would like it known that he follows Arsenal! :p

    Don't always blame the presenter though - Des, or whoever it was invited a clearly disinterested Aine Lawlor to give her opinion on something or other this morning.


  • #4
    win2one
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭win2one


    mike65 wrote: »
    Myles Dungan would like it known that he follows Arsenal! :p

    .

    and Pat Kenny M.U.

    Yeah its that sort of crap that makes it sound like a show being presented by schoolboys (sorry silly schoolboys)


  • #5
    EchoO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭EchoO


    If they stopped doing it we would potentially miss comedy gold moments like this...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3xFxaVucmE


  • #6
    mike65
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    Arf! :D


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  • #7
    GSF
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    Lightens the mood & fills time in an otherwise misery filled running order.


  • #8
    Dirigent
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    Gives people time to fill the kettle while they waffle about grown men chasing inflated child's toys.


  • #9
    Imhof Tank
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    Bizarre sports bulletin this morning from Paudric Lodge - instead of giving the scores of last nights football matches he just listed out the Irish scorers with no mention of the outcome of the matches ........"Shane Long got 2 for West Brom, James McLean scored for Sunderland, Simon Cox scored for Forest, etc...."

    How could a producer think this was a good idea? What sort of listeners could be targeting with this approach?


  • #10
    mike65
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    Irish ones! Sure why would anyone want to know the scores of League Cup games ;).


  • #11
    europa11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    If only they could find the net so often in a green jersey :) Maybe we should apply to play in it.


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  • #12
    JonathanAnon
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXxjWeMS2g


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