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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

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  • #5072
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    She puts up photos on Instagram, and when she doesn't get fishing for compliments, she goes off on one. Started giving out to someone about the 'male gaze' in one comment.

    She also managed to take the whole Berlin club scandal (The one where they ignored social distancing) and spin it into a thing about direct provision. When the three counties went into lockdown, she also managed to wrangle direct provision into that-comparing to the the Magdalene Laundries.

    https://twitter.com/MuireannO_C/status/1294971634005278721?s=20

    God, no wonder she was fired.
    Had no problem with her until I read that post.
    Muireann O'Connell is a horrible, despicable person.
    Comparing the atrocities and deprivation of the Magdalene Laundries victims to Direct Provision is appalling. The women and children of the laundries could only dream of living in Irish Direct Provision centers with all its ancillary services provided to the residents. Irish workers are paying billions to house and provide services to the residents of Direct Provision centers, so it's a kick in the teeth to tax payers in Ireland too.
    Muireann O'Connell should crawl back into her hole.


  • #5073
    ligerdub
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭ligerdub


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    She puts up photos on Instagram, and when she doesn't get fishing for compliments, she goes off on one. Started giving out to someone about the 'male gaze' in one comment.

    She also managed to take the whole Berlin club scandal (The one where they ignored social distancing) and spin it into a thing about direct provision. When the three counties went into lockdown, she also managed to wrangle direct provision into that-comparing to the the Magdalene Laundries.

    https://twitter.com/MuireannO_C/status/1294971634005278721?s=20

    God, no wonder she was fired.

    I quite like Muireann but her politics are awful and posts like that tweet make
    me wince.


  • #5074
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    How do they know its 60M uncollected?


  • #5075
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    denartha wrote: »
    How do they know its 60M uncollected?

    10% - 15% of households only around €50m at the upper end. This includes those who don’t pay & those without a TV.


  • #5076
    Pa ElGrande
    Registered Users Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    denartha wrote: »
    How do they know its 60M uncollected?

    tvtaxpayers.png

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



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  • #5077
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Pa ElGrande wrote: »
    tvtaxpayers.png

    I am sure they have a spreadsheet. I am sure they all have the ECDL.


  • #5078
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,925 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Was watching the end of the Dundalk game tonight on RTE, and heard the presenter tell us about coverage of upcoming GAA club games they had.

    A load of teams I had never heard of, local level stuff.

    Why are GAA club games getting such coverage? OK I know they cover club finals, but are these finals or county level games?

    As a soccer fan, they barely cover the LoI, yet we are watching this level of GAA?


  • #5079
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,274 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    ligerdub wrote: »
    I quite like Muireann but her politics are awful and posts like that tweet make
    me wince.

    Ignores how, once again, we crapped on the elderly in nursing homes.
    Took their money, let them die.

    I see Claire Byrne has gotten(another) new gig. Sarah McInerney got pushed out of the gig, despite her allegedly (I don't listen to the radio) being very good in the job.

    Now Sarah will be getting a new job... but I don't understand why Byrne was seen as the 'hot prospect' for the job. Why not just leave McInerney there. All Byrne will do is reduce the show to a Dailymail like radio show-dipping her toe in multiple topics (while constantly mentioning how she survived Covid... or discussing Covid, or '21 ways your hand sanitizer might be trying to kill you and replace you with a clone who spreads Covid. Some of her pieces on the show were outlandish and stupid scaremongering).


  • #5080
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Re:GAA I think it’s due to the coverage initially by TG4 & later by Setanta/eir, I think RTÉ have a deal with eir.

    Re: Claire Byrne it’s what I call the Tubs conundrum. Your paying a presenter over the level of audience they achieve so you put them into a slot that will garner an audience. knowing that it’s the programme/station that gets the audience not the presenter, though they do help however because your paying them so much the only thing to do is highlight them on a show that is guaranteed an audience.


  • #5081
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Was watching the end of the Dundalk game tonight on RTE, and heard the presenter tell us about coverage of upcoming GAA club games they had.

    A load of teams I had never heard of, local level stuff.

    Why are GAA club games getting such coverage? OK I know they cover club finals, but are these finals or county level games?

    As a soccer fan, they barely cover the LoI, yet we are watching this level of GAA?

    Because the head of sport that took over from Ryle Nugent is a massive GAA man. Has cut coverage of other sports but thinks it's appropriate to show some club matches every weekend instead. It's a joke.


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  • #5082
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,274 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Brock Turnpike wrote: »
    Because the head of sport that took over from Rule Nugent is a massive GAA man. Has cut coverage of other sports but thinks it's appropriate to show some club matches every weekend instead. It's a joke.

    Ryle Nugent was heralded as a Rugby guy. Banked heavy on securing the rights to Rugby tournaments, Six nations etc etc
    Then he lost those, having lost the rights to the football, and I believe substantial coverage of horse racing.

    Once he lost the rugby, he was pretty much fired.

    Since then, RTE's sports coverage is abysmal. Couple that with many high profile sports pundits leaving, and some individuals who are rather crap at the job now covering sports (Darragh Moloney is no Bill O'Herlihy, Joanne Cantwell is no Michael Lyster, for one thing. Lyster and O'Herlihy could wrangle a memorable quote out of the likes of Giles, Brady Dunphy, Pat Spillane and Joe Brolly. Moloney and Cantwell would go to HR and get them fired instead).

    God damn shame what passes for sports coverage nowadays.


  • #5083
    Brock Turnpike
    Registered Users Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭Brock Turnpike


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    Ryle Nugent was heralded as a Rugby guy. Banked heavy on securing the rights to Rugby tournaments, Six nations etc etc
    Then he lost those, having lost the rights to the football, and I believe substantial coverage of horse racing.

    Once he lost the rugby, he was pretty much fired.

    Since then, RTE's sports coverage is abysmal. Couple that with many high profile sports pundits leaving, and some individuals who are rather crap at the job now covering sports (Darragh Moloney is no Bill O'Herlihy, Joanne Cantwell is no Michael Lyster, for one thing. Lyster and O'Herlihy could wrangle a memorable quote out of the likes of Giles, Brady Dunphy, Pat Spillane and Joe Brolly. Moloney and Cantwell would go to HR and get them fired instead).

    God damn shame what passes for sports coverage nowadays.

    Ryle certainly was a Rugby guy, but he also gave plenty of coverage to the other sports. McCarthy seems intent on making GAA the only sports covered by RTE.


  • #5084
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Brock Turnpike wrote: »
    Ryle certainly was a Rugby guy, but he also gave plenty of coverage to the other sports. McCarthy seems intent on making GAA the only sports covered by RTE.

    McBenet I think is his name. I can't see Virgin Media holding on to Six Nations. Look at how they overlooked the last RWC, mainly due to the hours but lets face it the numbers for the Irish games and finals weren't that different to 2015 AFAIK.

    TV3 grabbed sports when the lost the ITV Soaps, along with the former head of RTÉ Sport Quigley, not sure if his still with Virgin Media. Quigley, Killane and Nugent were all Rugby Heads, 20 years of Rugby people at RTÉ, if not more.

    They'll need to employ an LoI man at some point


  • #5085
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Cogley (not quigley) is gone a while from VM/TV3, Holden was there after him and they've only give his role to the Head of News, McCaffery, your head of news is now also your head of sport, that's a definite downgrade for sport IMO.


  • #5086
    samjames
    Registered Users Posts: 213 ✭✭samjames


    its nearly a year from i watched any RTE Or any irish station as total rubbish and dont miss it


  • #5087
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    samjames wrote: »
    its nearly a year from i watched any RTE Or any irish station as total rubbish and dont miss it

    what about

    RTÉ hopes to cash in on Claire Byrne's star appeal with €300,000 sponsorship

    and

    'I told RTÉ I'd clean the toilets if I had to' - Charlie Bird begged broadcaster to let him work for free during pandemic


  • #5088
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    samjames wrote: »
    its nearly a year from i watched any RTE Or any irish station as total rubbish and dont miss it

    Longer for me, 5 or 6 years id say, just got a TV licences summons in the door a few days ago as well, ffs:(


  • #5089
    cameramonkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,220 ✭✭✭cameramonkey


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Longer for me, 5 or 6 years id say, just got a TV licences summons in the door a few days ago as well, ffs:(


    Tell them you have no TV, they cannot inspect these days.


  • #5090
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    RTÉ planned to bring Sean O'Rourke back at the weekends. Not expected to happen now because of Golfgate. Shouldn't have even been an idea at RTÉ. Whole point of getting him to retire is to reduce down your top "stars" figure.


  • #5091
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,274 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Elmo wrote: »
    RTÉ planned to bring Sean O'Rourke back at the weekends. Not expected to happen now because of Golfgate. Shouldn't have even been an idea at RTÉ. Whole point of getting him to retire is to reduce down your top "stars" figure.

    Gotta love how the jokes came thick and fast. :D:D:D

    https://twitter.com/MallowNews/status/1297936206827859969?s=20


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  • #5092
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Elmo wrote: »
    RTÉ planned to bring Sean O'Rourke back at the weekends. Not expected to happen now because of Golfgate. Shouldn't have even been an idea at RTÉ. Whole point of getting him to retire is to reduce down your top "stars" figure.

    Can bring him back in as an independent contractor to milk the system some more, cant have sean showing up at golf dinners in his civvies...

    https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/rte-expects-loss-of-32m-as-coronavirus-hits-ad-revenues-39471184.html

    Read this over the weekend, so RTE are forecasting a loss of €36m, an increase of €25m over earlier projections. The telling part is that the only increase mentioned is solely from a €9m injection from the govt, and the fact they expect to get €5m more from the taxpayer by usign the wage subsidy scheme. Id love to know who is availaing of the WSS in there...financial basket case


  • #5093
    fritzelly
    Registered Users Posts: 17,226 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    Still waiting for all those cuts and changes they promised...


  • #5094
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 13,985 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    According to that link they have cut operating costs by 25m, but its a bit vague and wishywashy. That could mean layoffs or selling the fair city set, or cancelling an order for a new fleet of cars for dee and the 'stars'


  • #5095
    Gen.Zhukov
    Registered Users Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Gen.Zhukov


    retalivity wrote: »
    Id love to know who is availaing of the WSS in there...financial basket case

    The two orchestras for starters.


  • #5096
    Schnooks
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭Schnooks


    Not sure if on-topic, but watching the 9 o clock news last night, I was struck by the contrast between the 2 Sharons.

    Last night's Sharon speaks clearly, doesn't constantly pause in the middle of a sentence, doesn't rush through to the next sentence where a pause or full stop would be appropriate. Doesn't say "eh" every 2nd word when attempting to interview correspondents, and clearly has no idea of the overall picture of the subject they are supposed to be discussing. Last night's Sharon is clear, concise, and knows what the subject is about when interviewing.

    Why is the regular Sharon held in such high esteem by RTE, and I assume remunerated accordingly? Most people I know who watch the news do not rate her at all. Another example of RTE pushing people they have decided are the best on the viewing public, when the public do not agree?

    It struck me that last night's Sharon is in fact far superior to the regular Sharon in every single skill required of a good newsreader/anchor. Doesn't strike me as a diva either.


  • #5097
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,274 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    Schnooks wrote: »
    Not sure if on-topic, but watching the 9 o clock news last night, I was struck by the contrast between the 2 Sharons.

    Last night's Sharon speaks clearly, doesn't constantly pause in the middle of a sentence, doesn't rush through to the next sentence where a pause or full stop would be appropriate. Doesn't say "eh" every 2nd word when attempting to interview correspondents, and clearly has no idea of the overall picture of the subject they are supposed to be discussing. Last night's Sharon is clear, concise, and knows what the subject is about when interviewing.

    Why is the regular Sharon held in such high esteem by RTE, and I assume remunerated accordingly? Most people I know who watch the news do not rate her at all. Another example of RTE pushing people they have decided are the best on the viewing public, when the public do not agree?

    It struck me that last night's Sharon is in fact far superior to the regular Sharon in every single skill required of a good newsreader/anchor. Doesn't strike me as a diva either.

    She's also become rather arrogant as time has gone on. Often refusing to present the news.

    She complained about not being paid as much as Bryan Dobson... yet Bryan would never throw a strop.
    No surprise why he was paid more, then.


  • #5098
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    She's also become rather arrogant as time has gone on. Often refusing to present the news.

    She complained about not being paid as much as Bryan Dobson... yet Bryan would never throw a strop.
    No surprise why he was paid more, then.

    but rte dont like men even though they have to pay the licence fee also


  • #5099
    Schnooks
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭Schnooks


    RabbleRouser2k wrote: »
    She's also become rather arrogant as time has gone on. Often refusing to present the news.

    She complained about not being paid as much as Bryan Dobson... yet Bryan would never throw a strop.
    No surprise why he was paid more, then.

    Yes I've heard about some of her refusals to go on, thus requiring the parachuting in of emergency cover. And that she hasn't spoken to her boss in over a year? Not sure what other organisation would tolerate that kind of craic!

    Dobson was a far more experienced (and better) newsreader than her, that's why he was paid more.


  • #5100
    RabbleRouser2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,274 ✭✭✭RabbleRouser2k


    rightmove wrote: »
    but rte dont like men even though they have to pay the licence fee also

    Rte's home page is literally 'woe is woman'...

    Also happily posted the Muireann O'Connell 'ah, the poor woman lost her job on radio... nobody has suffered as much as Muireann, even Joan of arc had it easier'...

    Let it go, thousands are unemployed.


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  • #5101
    Schnooks
    Registered Users Posts: 184 ✭✭Schnooks


    rightmove wrote: »
    but rte dont like men even though they have to pay the licence fee also

    Starting to look like that alright, they seem to be over-compensating for the gender balance thing in the last few years, especially in the news department.


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