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  • #122
    Derek Zoolander
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭Derek Zoolander


    Gibbonw2 wrote: »
    Re 'that sky sports' presenter, her name is Rachel Wyse. And trust me, she has had PLENTY of døors opened due to who she knows. For example, she writes a very, very mediocre, cringy weekly piece in the Saturday Indo. Her face and name is plastered on the back/front page of the paper as if she is chief sportswriter and she is regularly mentioned in radio/tv ads for the paper also. Her boyfriend at time of appointment: Cian O' Connor, godson of Denis O' Brien, ceo of Independent newspapers. Imagine you were a seasoned writer like Damien Mcllroy, colm Keys or henry winter and her piece was highlighted over yours.

    O'connor is tony o'reillys godson... Quite the faux pas there considering o'reilly and o'brien's continued conflict around IN&M


  • #123
    Hootanany
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Still people in high places ;)


  • #124
    Gibbonw2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭Gibbonw2


    Sorry its O reilly who is cian o connors godfather. Im sure he still has a major influence in Independent News & Media.


  • #125
    lufties
    Registered Users Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Gibbonw2 wrote: »
    Sorry its O reilly who is cian o connors godfather. Im sure he still has a major influence in Independent News & Media.

    And also pippa o connor is a sister of Cian.


  • #126
    Hootanany
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    "Who"?


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  • #127
    theSHU
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭theSHU


    lottie-ryan.png


  • #128
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    You'd swear RTE was the only organisation where a nod and a wink goes on when it comes to recommendations. Not saying it's right, just that the practice is widespread.


  • #129
    Pretty Polly
    Registered Users Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Pretty Polly


    Aidric wrote: »
    You'd swear RTE was the only organisation where a nod and a wink goes on when it comes to recommendations. Not saying it's right, just that the practice is widespread.

    I completely agree, a lot of the time when it comes to jobs it's all about who you know.


  • #130
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Aidric wrote: »
    You'd swear RTE was the only organisation where a nod and a wink goes on when it comes to recommendations. Not saying it's right, just that the practice is widespread.

    Ah, that's grand so.
    Except the public are forced to fund that nod, wink, and sniff/snort.


  • #131
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    mikom wrote: »
    Ah, that's grand so.
    Except the public are forced to fund that nod, wink, and sniff/snort.

    Would that be the same public who also benefit from a nod wink culture? Hypocrisy is a great thing.


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  • #132
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Aidric wrote: »
    Hypocrisy is a great thing.

    Gerry could have told you a thing or two about that.


  • #133
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    Aidric wrote: »
    Would that be the same public who also benefit from a nod wink culture? Hypocrisy is a great thing.

    No, presumably it's that part of the "nod wink culture" who don't benefit from it themselves, or who feel that it's a net downside to society.

    Whataboutery is a great thing, but try at least and out some effort into it.


  • #134
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Hootanany wrote: »
    Still people in high places ;)

    haha


  • #135
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    It seems RTE and certain newspapers are all controlled by the same people?


  • #136
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    It seems RTE and certain newspapers are all controlled by the same people?

    Who ?


  • #137
    joeperry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭joeperry


    BuilderPlumber wrote: »
    It seems RTE and certain newspapers are all controlled by the same people?

    No they just think the same, RTE see that she is a celebrity because she is Gerry Ryan's daughter. Women are interested in celebrity.

    The newspapers see her as a celebrity so that gives them more content to sell. Women are interested in celebrity.


  • #138
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭alaimacerc


    joeperry wrote: »
    Women are interested in celebrity.

    Is Lottie "coverage" really a huge hit with women in particular?

    I'd rather ascribe it to idiocy without respect to gender, but I might be whistling in the dark.


  • #139
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    Lottie was doing the breakfast show again today.

    Every time she came back from a song she repeated the exact same thing. Welcome back, your listening to me lottie ryan....

    Apart from that one time when she never knew the song had ended and there was 30 seconds dead air!

    Its somewhat tedious doing that for every link during a 3 hour show!


  • #140
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users Posts: 12,400 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    That and "Wait till you here my next fantastic song, it really is wonderful. Ok, now, I Lottie Ryan will play the exquisite Taylor Swift...."


  • #141
    BuilderPlumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    Lapin wrote: »
    Who ?

    I think it is very obvious who they are.


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  • #142
    theSHU
    Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭theSHU


    michael999999 wrote: »
    Lottie was doing the breakfast show again today.

    Every time she came back from a song she repeated the exact same thing. Welcome back, your listening to me lottie ryan....

    Apart from that one time when she never knew the song had ended and there was 30 seconds dead air!

    Its somewhat tedious doing that for every link during a 3 hour show!

    You can't blame her, that was on the script.


  • #143
    RTE Fan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭RTE Fan


    She is listed to do the Saturday breakfast show again next weekend.


  • #144
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,700 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    michael999999 wrote: »
    Lottie was doing the breakfast show again today.

    Every time she came back from a song she repeated the exact same thing. Welcome back, your listening to me lottie ryan....

    Apart from that one time when she never knew the song had ended and there was 30 seconds dead air!

    Its somewhat tedious doing that for every link during a 3 hour show!
    Must give it a listen:)

    It what you have outlined continues,the show can be considered "so bad, it's good".


  • #145
    bureau2009
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭bureau2009


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Must give it a listen:)

    It what you have outlined continues,the show can be considered "so bad, it's good".
    I bet a million euro it's better than Baz and Lucy's show! :)


  • #146
    Hart
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭Hart


    I notice on the RTE website that this Sunday Grace Waller is presenting the breakfast show on Sunday morning. Who's she?


  • #147
    Hootanany
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    Director General's niece.


  • #148
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,118 ✭✭✭✭Jimmy Bottlehead


    Hart wrote: »
    I notice on the RTE website that this Sunday Grace Waller is presenting the breakfast show on Sunday morning. Who's she?
    Hootanany wrote: »
    Director General's niece.

    You have got to be joking... does she have any experience?

    Or is the nepotism getting more shameless?


  • #149
    Hootanany
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Hootanany


    :D


  • #150
    Trebor176
    Registered Users Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    The link is a couple of years old, but Grace Waller has filled in for Cathal Murray for five weeks before http://www.rte.ie/presspack/2011/07/16/the-sunday-rise/. She's also a researcher on RTE, according to LinkedIn.


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  • #151
    Gibbonw2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭Gibbonw2


    Im currently going to put my past cynicism aside, grit my teeth and try see how long i can last listening to this one. Her first segment told me how she was going give all the 'celeb gossip' ''including why n gallagher is giving out about Rhianna . . Hes got to give out about something'' oh good 1 Lottie. Her 2nd segment, after 2 songs and 2 texts was her telling us how shes going to give all the 'celeb gossip' ''including why Noel Gallagher is giving out about Rhianna. Hes got to give. . . . '' Lottie stops mid sentence. Phew. Well done Lottie. You almost said the same thing twice. God , im on tenderhooks. This gossip must be great


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