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RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

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    #392
    Cole
    Registered Users Posts: 1,491 ✭✭✭Cole


    Jank1 wrote: »
    Does anyone agree that drivetime now sounds like a 2fm show rather than a Raidio Eireann program ?

    Let's bring back the 'eye in the sky' Electric Eddie for the traffic reports, Barry Lang as political reporter and Simon Young for the voxpops.


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    #393
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,977 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Jank1 wrote: »
    Does anyone agree that drivetime now sounds like a 2fm show rather than a Raidio Eireann program ?

    The demographic sitting in their cars that RTE are after in a 'Drivetime' show would be that demographic who first tuned into 2FM. So probably no accident that the style has been adjusted.


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    #394
    Robert McGrath
    Registered Users Posts: 437 ✭✭Robert McGrath


    The exchange just now between Cormac and the A&E doctor in Cork typified why I don’t like the approach of the new presenters. Cormac was disappointed that the doc didn’t bite at his leading question asking that surely the doc can’t take any more if we haven’t reached the peak. And then cut the doc off when he was trying to make a plea to the public to go to local respiratory hubs rather than acute hospitals. Communicating clear information to the public at the moment is too important to be at the mercy of the tabloid egos of some journalists


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    #395
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,977 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Have to knock a point ot two off Sarah's clapometer today. She let Archbishop Martin completely off the hook several times.


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    #396
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Hmmm ... lovely little coffee table interview with Alan Kelly just now, on first name terms, friendly attitude, you’re a great guy, yeh, you’re a great lady....... hmmmmm.

    Little bit different when dealing with those in charge.....

    And of course the ...we asked the govt to provide a spokesperson but none available.

    This from a crowd who couldn’t provide a spokesperson on their own premises for days.

    Hey.....what’s going on here...it’s like scrotes throwing bottles at firefighters fighting a fire.

    C’mon.


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    #397
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    JAysus........ there’s that tosser O hEadhra asking Josepha can she give “a cast iron guarantee” about special schools opening next week.

    Grow the **** up , nobody can give cast iron guarantees on anything to do with COVID.

    O’ hEadhra interrupting on everything ,obviously trying to match McInerney in abrasive attitude, obviously feeling he has to become more aggressive.

    Fair play to Josepha, handled him with consummate ease.

    Cormac struggling badly, got a new one ripped out for him.

    Well done Josepha..... put that tosser in his place.


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    #398
    ninebeanrows
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    gosh Jeffrey Donaldson sounding very level headed here so far


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    #399
    FrancieBrady
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    Sleety_Rain wrote: »
    gosh Jeffrey Donaldson sounding very level headed here so far

    She gave him enough rope to hang himself. Blaming everything and anything but themselves.


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    #400
    Mad_maxx
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    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    JAysus........ there’s that tosser O hEadhra asking Josepha can she give “a cast iron guarantee” about special schools opening next week.

    Grow the **** up , nobody can give cast iron guarantees on anything to do with COVID.

    O’ hEadhra interrupting on everything ,obviously trying to match McInerney in abrasive attitude, obviously feeling he has to become more aggressive.

    Fair play to Josepha, handled him with consummate ease.

    Cormac struggling badly, got a new one ripped out for him.

    Well done Josepha..... put that tosser in his place.


    o hEadhra is the Jonathan Healy of RTE


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    #401
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    O’hEadhra seems to like the affirmative mode of questioning.

    eg.... the Hse should have done something about that, isn’t that right?

    Strange way of putting things , I would have thought.


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    #402
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    Brendan Bendar wrote:
    O’hEadhra seems to like the affirmative mode of questioning.

    Brendan Bendar wrote:
    eg.... the Hse should have done something about that, isn’t that right?

    Brendan Bendar wrote:
    Strange way of putting things , I would have thought.

    Isn't he a barrister? Isn't that the way they frame things?


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    #403
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Isn't he a barrister? Isn't that the way they frame things?

    I did not know that Robert........ must delve further into his background.

    However, while that might be the way they frame things in the law courts, I think it’s not a very suitable method of eliciting information on national public radio.

    The interviewee is not in a court of law.

    Thanks for the info Robert.


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    #404
    Pelvis Parsley
    Registered Users Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭Pelvis Parsley


    As they call it on the TV shows, "leading the witness".

    I agree, it's not the best means by which a question can be phrased.


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    #405
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,977 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Pelvis Parsley wrote: »
    As they call it on the TV shows, "leading the witness".

    I agree, it's not the best means by which a question can be phrased.

    Might have a lot to do with how politicians/or similarly accountable present for interview, particularly the slippery and evasive.


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    #406
    [Deleted User]
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    Interesting indeed. Catholic right interviwee on at the moment.

    "Illegitimate sex..."

    Sister Helen Prejian


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    #407
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,977 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Timmy Dooley left sounding like a babbling idiot there and the questioning wasn't even aggressive


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    #408
    Infoanon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,624 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Timmy Dooley left sounding like a babbling idiot there and the questioning wasn't even aggressive

    You sound surprised !


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    #409
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,977 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Infoanon wrote: »
    You sound surprised !

    Yes, the babbling surprised me. :)


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    #410
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Corry shilling the travel industry full steam.


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    #411
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,977 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Corry shilling the travel industry full steam.

    Weren't Aer Lingus lobbying the government too. Vested interests do what vested interests do.


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    #412
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Weren't Aer Lingus lobbying the government too. Vested interests do what vested interests do.

    Ehh...... that’s kinda what I’m saying Francie. :confused:

    Had you a bit of a setback recently..... no need for the pushback.


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    #413
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,977 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Ehh...... that’s kinda what I’m saying Francie. :confused:

    Had you a bit of a setback recently..... no need for the pushback.

    You said it as if you expected him to be doing something different. So I just pointed out another example to you.


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    #414
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    You said it as if you expected him to be doing something different. So I just pointed out another example to you.

    Nah Francie..... just reminding folk as I always do, be aware where the person is coming from.

    Like the FR ‘jab and go’ ad.

    Hope that’s ok?


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    #415
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    O’hEadhra making a total tool of himself on Drivetime.

    What an idiot.


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    #416
    Infoanon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,624 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Corry shilling the travel industry full steam.

    Last time he was on Corry announced that he was not a vested interest and was speaking on his own behalf about the travel industry !!


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    #417
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Infoanon wrote: »
    Last time he was on Corry announced that he was not a vested interest and was speaking on his own behalf about the travel industry !!

    I hope you weren’t taken in by that........


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    #418
    Infoanon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,624 ✭✭✭Infoanon


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    I hope you weren’t taken in by that........

    For some strange reason I couldn't taken him at his word....


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    #419
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    I would be more than willing to accept that corry is speaking on his own behalf as regards the travel industry. It just happens to be the case that his interests are almost entirely aligned with theirs.


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    #420
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 66,977 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Construction Industry spokesman shilling for the construction industry there.


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    #421
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Corry classifies himself as a journalist, though, think thats the difference.


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