RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

Well done Neil, ripped her out a new one.

The sigh at the end confirmed the ripping of a new one.

Neil took her out with remarkable ease .. jacking up the word rate duddnt always work😲

I think at this stage we are all struggling and not necessarily in the same way.

Richmond ripped her a new one to be honest.

When she tries to flash bang and up the word rate to warp speed, one knows she is done.

Thats a well known tactic of the Shinners beloved by Doherty, O ‘Reilly and Sherlock.

In all fairness she took a good tonking in that exchange.

Brophy was well able for her too.

😁

Cormac just interviewed Doherty there. Maybe Brendan could tell us who got ripped a new one?

Get your bets ready!

Personally I think Cormac was as robust as I would expect an interviewer to be and Doherty, while not wholly convincing at least had the numbers and answers and didn't waffle.

Appalling interviewer. You can be firm, fair and tough without what she does: She thinks shouting down and attack attack attack, butting in and not allowing free flowing discussion is what listeners want. All it does is shows her up as inept and agenda driven.

I find her, at times, dreadful. And that sighing at the end.. so disrespectful.

Nonsense. Her whole agenda is attack attack. She doesn’t listen. You can be firm and fair without resorting to her exaggerated and contrived aggression . She’s useless. And she stymies structured debate and dialogue.

Guaranteed if that was a shinners she kept interrupting you’d be swinging the other way.

and I’m well aware that she can interview without the attack approach. She only employs the contrived aggression for certain people in certain positions.

Have to agree with the boy Walsh, described the shortcomings of McInerney expertly and the reaction from certain quarters to his posts, was of course no surprise.

Jacking up the word rate to warp speed is not a good interviewer technique, you will find that the more experienced and competent interviewers don’t need to adopt that rubbish.

I would have to say the whole Drivetime programme to me is badly produced, badly presented and tries to gives the impression that there is ‘good banter’ between the presenters.

There isn’t as is perfectly obvious, just a cacophony of false guffawing and stupid carry on that just doesn’t work-end of.

Is Neil Richmond the new Colm Brophy one has to ask? A straight talker who knows his brief and can put away the various trotters and others with ease.

Cue Francie.

I didn't hear it.

But if Carroll-McNeill was involved I will be dusting off my supply of the word 'waffle' no doubt. 😁

What was being discussed?

Destined for higher places, that little trotter Barry is on borrowed time.

Her command of the facts and figures while under pressure with generalities from Shortall was indeed impressive.

If her arrogance on display on the Tonight Show is anything to go by, she won't be attracting new voters to FG. I thought Leo was cold and unempathetic, but he's been outflanked. 😁

Agree totally, it’s gone to the dogs and almost unlistenable to.

You have that guffawing baboon O’hEadhra trying to wreck every cringeworthy effort to ‘do the banter’ It doesn’t fokking work

They are then peddling 51551 contact ab initio and trying to give the impression of ‘rivalry ‘ between the two presenters.

Its sinking into a swamp of bulldust and has now marinated into a cheap imitation of rubbish for the masses with nothing to do with good reportage.

Don’t like the production values and the presentation style Breener.

Mary Wilson could do a two hour show with no problem in the past, while not everyone’s cup of tea, she got through it without the dumbing down and cringeworthy bolloxology that goes on on the current presentation.

Nobody give a fohherke what either O’hEadhra or McInerney have for their meals, what they sleep in, how they get ready for work etc etc.

Id suggest that a well read well educated professional like yourself,Breener, would probably agree but not express in such crude language.

Apologies for the tone of the language but those inserts at 1655 boil my pïss bigtime.

Mary was better. And thought Sarah was good on her own when she replaced Sean O’Rourke. But this stuff is awful and seems to be getting worse. Happy clappy, fake laughter, text us now on 51551.

I took a look at Tonight VMTV recently and there was a presenter called Claire Brock on it.

She had a panel on it.. four persons.

Now I had never heard of her prior to this event and I have to say she was extremely professional, controlled the panel expertly and all with a calm assurance of a well trained professional.

None of the flash banging looking for a head stuff of the “hang on now…hang on” beloved of O’h’Eadhra, just calm probing questions which gave the viewer a good insight into the nub of the question.

Was very impressed based on a small sample!

Surprised she hasn't been headhunted by the national broadcaster, probably on a decent enough salary but doubt it is anywhere near what the crowd over in RTE are paying their presenters.

Thought Cormac did extremely well unpicking the Protocol stuff and the various opinions of it.

The producers and RTE obviously think this magazine type programme fits that slot.

They need to balance what they do better.

Just saying he is a good interviewer/journalist when he is allowed to be. I.E. I would blame the producers, who control the content, rather than the presenters.

Personally I would prefer them to alternate the days and present on their own, both are competent enough.

Correct Breener , as I pointed out in the thread on an earlier post, those behind the scenes must take responsibility.

As you pointed out having a rehearsed happy five minutes at 1655 and sometimes 1755 on some stupid theme is indeed cringeworthy.

They tried the same with John Murray and it took them five years to figure out it didn’t work and disrupted the lads career.

They could do the same with the Drivetime two and I’d blame themselves for allowing producers to try to wedge them into shoes that blatantly don’t fit.

It just doesn’t work……when will they realise that….. 5 years time when the sponsorship is pulled due to falling audience?