New RTE Weather Presenter?

Ilovelucy · 21-04-2016 11:18pm

Nice little tribute to Prince there tonight by Joanna.

lab man · 21-04-2016 11:51pm

Ilovelucy wrote:

Nice little tribute to Prince there tonight by Joanna.

I seen the forecast but missed wat she said ... Wat did she say lucy

pauldry · 22-04-2016 12:23am

im not lucy but she said

no rain....purple or otherwise

lab man · 22-04-2016 12:29am

Aah ya I heard that but didn't cop on

PukkaStukka · 22-04-2016 4:35pm

She doesn't just deliver a good forecast. She looks fantastic too

Smoothrider · 23-09-2016 9:35am

Have to say that I am genuinely surprised by any authentic feedback on Joanna D that is encouraging. I find her manner of presenting the weather to be almost like a transition year student playing tv presenter in a amateur role play. She sounds like Bosco and seems completely on edge when on the air. She constantly stumbles all over the place with her start-stop, re-start sentences and seems to have real problems achieving the continuity required for a smooth presentation. When it comes to the weather, we really need a safe pair of hands for the six one or nine o'clock and JD is not even up to school girl league in my book. Nothing at all got to do with looks, it's just that she is clearly not even close to the best we have. Jean Byrne, Helen Curran, Audrey McGrath and Gerry Murphy are our current front bench people for the weather, so let's us them. Of course, in an ideal world we'd have Gerald Fleming back on six one. He was / is a natural and should be brought back to sort this crisis out.

jd · 23-09-2016 10:02am

Smoothrider wrote: »

Jean Byrne, Helen Curran, Audrey McGrath and Gerry Murphy are our current front bench people for the weather, so let's us them.

Helen Curran and Audrey McGrath are not meteorologists

pad199207 · 23-09-2016 11:06am

Smoothrider wrote: »

Have to say that I am genuinely surprised by any authentic feedback on Joanna D that is encouraging. I find her manner of presenting the weather to be almost like a transition year student playing tv presenter in a amateur role play. She sounds like Bosco and seems completely on edge when on the air. She constantly stumbles all over the place with her start-stop, re-start sentences and seems to have real problems achieving the continuity required for a smooth presentation. When it comes to the weather, we really need a safe pair of hands for the six one or nine o'clock and JD is not even up to school girl league in my book. Nothing at all got to do with looks, it's just that she is clearly not even close to the best we have. Jean Byrne, Helen Curran, Audrey McGrath and Gerry Murphy are our current front bench people for the weather, so let's us them. Of course, in an ideal world we'd have Gerald Fleming back on six one. He was / is a natural and should be brought back to sort this crisis out.

Couldn't disagree with this drivel anymore

Pat Dunne · 23-09-2016 1:51pm

pad199207 wrote: »

Couldn't disagree with this drivel anymore

You "couldn't disagree"? So you do agree?

Smoothrider · 23-09-2016 2:24pm

My preference would be for the announcers to be meteorologists but if it is a choice between a meteorologist who simply, and quite obviously, cannot deliver the weather news in a competent fashion and a professional announcer who can carry the presentation in a clear and concise manner then I'll opt for the latter any day of the week.

coillsaille · 23-09-2016 4:46pm

Pat Dunne wrote: »

You "couldn't disagree"? So you do agree?

I think he means at first he disagreed with the drivel but then just couldn't do it anymore and had to start agreeing with it.

Smoothrider · 23-09-2016 6:07pm

Seriously, the weather is the most important part of the news for many people, myself included.

A lot of people plan how they go about their business and or leisure dependent on the current forecast and it is important that weather news is presented in a professional manner by the best people we have available.

DOCARCH · 23-09-2016 8:07pm

Smoothrider wrote: »

Sin é!

Mod Note: As above. We now know your position at this point, so, can we leave it that. Thanks

TheRiverman · 23-09-2016 9:55pm

Call me Al wrote: »

Siobhan Ryan (I think) just said County Mullingar.. I can just imagine the stick she will get for this.

"North westerly component" "across the board" "15 degrees tops".

Oneiric 3 · 23-09-2016 11:09pm

Smoothrider wrote: »

Seriously, the weather is the most important part of the news for many people, myself included.

A lot of people plan how they go about their business and or leisure dependent on the current forecast and it is important that weather news is presented in a professional manner by the best people we have available.

I must say I enjoy JD's quirkiness and original style. Very relaxed and is clearly someone who is not up her own backside. You can only be so dour and serious and 'professional' about that next band of 'patchy rain' that is moving in from the wesht.

ArKl0w · 25-09-2016 6:31pm

TheRiverman wrote: »

"North westerly component" "across the board" "15 degrees tops".

Not forgetting the classic "cloudy outbreaks of rain"

Oneiric 3 · 27-09-2016 7:05pm

Though she is one of my favorited forecasters, Evelyn Cusack just now on the TV forecast just mentioned 'so-called' mountain waves while showing a sat pic.

She seems to do this a lot like 'so-called cold front' or 'so-called Azores High'. Surely any noun could be considered 'so-called'? In this same manner, wouldn't it be more correct to say that we could get some 'so-called rain' tonight? or that we could get some 'so-called sunshine' tomorrow? Where would it end for Christ's sake? :P

Larbre34 · 05-10-2016 12:35pm

The typos on Met É TV forecasts really grind my gears. How simple is it to spell check? If I see TOMRROW or Hurricane Matthew approaching JAMCAIA one more time I'll have to tut tut strongly at no-one in particular!

Oscar Bravo · 21-10-2016 5:06pm

Met Eireann's Michelle Dillon on this evenings weather forecast on Rte1

Oneiric 3 · 30-10-2016 7:34pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Met Eireann's Michelle Dillon on this evenings weather forecast on Rte1

She was just on the Sixone now too. Really like her relaxed presentation style.

Larbre34 · 30-10-2016 10:23pm

Shes on the 9 there now, all the others must be on the lash. Ive never even heard Michelle on radio before?

Comhrá · 30-10-2016 10:27pm

I just feel that she smiles a little too much throughout her broadcast......gives the whole presentation a slightly 'forced' nuance.

Maidhci · 31-10-2016 9:22am

tippman1 wrote: »

I just feel that she smiles a little too much throughout her broadcast......gives the whole presentation a slightly 'forced' nuance.

She just enjoys imparting good news - let's hope it doesn't turn to a frown any time soon!

Oneiric 3 · 31-10-2016 2:57pm

tippman1 wrote: »

I just feel that she smiles a little too much throughout her broadcast......gives the whole presentation a slightly 'forced' nuance.

I would put that down to her very nervous as she is new. As anybody who has done a public presentation may know, it is possible one of the most terrifying things you can do, and this feeling is undoubtabley enhanced when doing a national TV broadcast.

squonk · 08-01-2017 2:38pm

I really like Michelle's forecasts. She comes across as very genuine, happy and down to earth. She's also someone I could listen to all day long. I think she's the best new addition in recent times.

lab man · 11-01-2017 12:30am

She was born not far from me she's from a really nice family an i can assure ye she is just a genuine happy person ..also she's one of the only met ppl that does the weather for the airports

She's with met eireann with years not a newbie

ongarboy · 23-01-2017 7:57pm

Siobhan holding her own in a leather skirt and see through top tonight!!

Tom Mann Centuria · 23-01-2017 7:59pm

ongarboy wrote: »

Siobhan holding her own in a leather skirt and see through top tonight!!

You can see her arms and everything, pure filth.

TheRiverman · 23-01-2017 8:46pm

ongarboy wrote: »

Siobhan holding her own in a leather skirt and see through top tonight!!

Sometimes I wonder is it a fashion show instead of a weather forecast:)

Oneiric 3 · 24-01-2017 7:41pm

Maybe change the title of thread to 'What Siobhan is Wearing Tonight'? :rolleyes:

Larbre34 · 25-01-2017 1:23pm

Oneiric 3 wrote: »

Maybe change the title of thread to 'What Siobhan is Wearing Tonight'? :rolleyes:

Still waiting....

Nice little chanel-esque pink number with a plunging neck Siobhan had on last night. Still no idea what she said the weather would be, thank heavens for this forum!

LordSutch · 26-01-2017 1:02am

She ended last night's RTE forecast (wed) with the words "Goodnight Mary" .....

Which left us a little baffled.

Anyone know what she meant?

mansize · 26-01-2017 1:04am

LordSutch wrote: »

She ended last night's RTE forecast (wed) with the words "Goodnight Mary" .....

Which left us a little baffled.

Anyone know what she meant?

It was a code. Or a bet

infogiver · 26-01-2017 1:06am

LordSutch wrote: »

She ended last night's RTE forecast (wed) with the words "Goodnight Mary" .....

Which left us a little baffled.

Anyone know what she meant?

Mary Tyler Moore died today. Her eponymous US sitcom was groundbreaking in the early 70s in that it depicted an unmarried woman getting a senior position in a city newsroom and with WIT and humour battling all the sexism and so on. Much loved in her day,
RIP MTM.

mansize · 26-01-2017 1:09am

infogiver wrote: »

Mary Tyler Moore died today. Her eponymous US sitcom was groundbreaking in the early 70s in that it depicted an unmarried woman getting a senior position in a city newsroom and with WIT and humour battling all the sexism and so on. Much loved in her day,
RIP MTM.

Good shout

LordSutch · 26-01-2017 8:07am

Sure we remember well the Mary Tyler Moore show and the fact that she had died yesterday, but the news had finished and we had moved onto the weather forecast, and then suddrnly at the end of the forecast Joanna says "Goodnight Mary".

...who's Mary said my wife? I have no idea? Maybe its to a friend? Dunno was my reply, sounds odd said my wife, to which I replied maybe its got something to do with MTMs death? No, can't be, sure she said Goodnight Mary, I don't know?

So then, it seems like it was for MTMs death. I don't remember Goodnight Mary being a catchphrase, but maybe it was? either way, now we know.

Thanks.

infogiver · 26-01-2017 11:51am

LordSutch wrote: »

Sure we remember well the Mary Tyler Moore show and the fact that she had died yesterday, but the news had finished and we had moved onto the weather forecast, and then suddrnly at the end of the forecast Joanna says "Goodnight Mary".

...who's Mary said my wife? I have no idea? Maybe its to a friend? Dunno was my reply, sounds odd said my wife, to which I replied maybe its got something to do with MTMs death? No, can't be, sure she said Goodnight Mary, I don't know?

So then, it seems like it was for MTMs death. I don't remember Goodnight Mary being a catchphrase, but maybe it was? either way, now we know.

Thanks.

For a lot of women the MTM character was their first exposure to a woman "making it" in the hithertoo male dominated world of broadcast news and,I suppose, weather forecasting on TV/radio. She may just have inspired many girls to press on "I'm gonna make it on my own!".

lab man · 26-01-2017 9:15pm

If ppl remember on the singer princes death at the start she said we'd have purple rain tonight, if im not mistaken

nagdefy · 26-01-2017 10:39pm

Just a thought crossed my mind regarding Joanna Donnelly's mention of goodnight Mary re. Mary Tyler Moore's passing on the 9.30pm forecast last night..

It's all very arbitrary who she's giving personal little tributes to. They're usually music or film stars. TK Whittaker did more for this country than any she mentioned so far but he's just a civil servant!

An old Michael Collins word comes to mind 'Ballsology'!

tphase · 01-02-2017 11:50pm

lab man wrote: »

If ppl remember on the singer princes death at the start she said we'd have purple rain tonight, if im not mistaken

I think she something like 'no rain, purple or otherwise'

lab man · 02-02-2017 12:50am

Yep that was it you've a great memory

Oscar Bravo · 19-03-2017 7:30pm

Nice little sign off from Joanna Donelly there in reference to Chuck Berry "be good"

Bellerstring · 21-03-2017 11:14pm

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

Nice little sign off from Joanna Donelly there in reference to Chuck Berry "be good"

So, she seems to have a little thing going on now, where she cryptically references the name of someone who died that day, at the end of her weather report...
And the whole country goes "Ahh..wasn't that nice"
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miketheDIYman · 21-03-2017 11:20pm

she's a great sense of humour:D - you should follow her on Twitter

Oscar Bravo · 21-03-2017 11:21pm

shes gas on twitter alright

pedigree 6 · 21-03-2017 11:35pm

So who are we looking forward to dying now?.:):D

Rougies · 21-03-2017 11:40pm

pedigree 6 wrote: »

So who are we looking forward to dying now.:):D

Dean Martin for "Let it Snow", but since he's already dead maybe she can use his anniversary which is interestingly on December 25th!

Bellerstring · 26-03-2017 6:36pm

Well that's it for the weather, now I'm ready, for, to, watch the dancin'.!!!
(Big cheesy grin and exagerated shoulder shrug)
These quirky sign offs are becoming much more frequent.
And irritating.

Wanderer78 · 26-03-2017 8:29pm

Bellerstring wrote: »

Well that's it for the weather, now I'm ready, for, to, watch the dancin'.!!!
(Big cheesy grin and exagerated shoulder shrug)
These quirky sign offs are becoming much more frequent.
And irritating.

was wondering what the hell she said

Kristopherus · 26-03-2017 8:40pm

Bellerstring wrote: »

Well that's it for the weather, now I'm ready, for, to, watch the dancin'.!!!
(Big cheesy grin and exagerated shoulder shrug)
These quirky sign offs are becoming much more frequent.
And irritating.

Get a sense of humour ffs. She's doing no harm to you.

New RTE Weather Presenter?

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