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Eileen 'Still to come...' Dunne RTE

  • 25-05-2020 1:44pm
    #1
    bobbyss
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    Efficient. No fuss. Calm. A real pro. Solid as a rock.

    But compared to, say Fiona Bruce? Would Eileen cut it on BBC News at Ten? There's no adds there so she'd have to stop saying 'Still to ..." . That might mean stretching herself more than just 'What happened today Tommy? She'd might even have to engage in robust questioning of politicians? Isn't it part of the job? Bruce has been doing that for decades. Can't remember Eileen ever once.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    Yeah..


  • #3
    Sam Hain
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    Is she the one whos face looks like shes just about to have a stroke with that droopy eye?


  • #4
    Your Face
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    Fiona Bruce was no-nonsense journalist asking all the tough questions on...Antiques Roadshow.


  • #5
    bobbyss
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    Your Face wrote: »
    Fiona Bruce was no-nonsense journalist asking all the tough questions on...Antiques Roadshow.

    Not only fine newsreader but doesn't she host BBC flagship Question time?


  • #6
    bobbyss
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    Sam Hain wrote:
    Is she the one whos face looks like shes just about to have a stroke with that droopy eye?


    For me that's not important. Is she part of the deadwood that drifts around RTE is more relevant.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    Didn’t her father work for RTÉ also?


  • #8
    El Weirdo
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    Sam Hain wrote: »
    Is she the one whos face looks like shes just about to have a stroke with that droopy eye?

    She has a glass eye.


  • #9
    Revit Man
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    She has a glass eye.

    She does not.
    “I don’t know where it started. I’ve had letters from people saying, ‘I’m about to get a glass eye’. Years ago, it was said that [newscaster] Michael Murphy was in a wheelchair which wasn’t true either.

    “What is true is I have a gammy eye. My left eye is practically blind. I have peripheral vision in it so if I close my right eye I couldn’t say who you are but I’d know there was someone sitting opposite me. It was detected when I was seven. I was rubbing my right eye one day and I started screaming ‘I can’t see, I can’t see’.”

    She says it’s had no impact on her work. “I don’t know if it’s harder to read an autocue because I’ve known nothing else. It’s normal for me now.”

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/reading-bad-news-every-dayleaves-its-mark-on-rtes-eileen-dunne-364922.html


  • #10
    Stacksofwacks
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Didn’t her father work for RTÉ also?

    Mick Dunne, Original Sunday game commentator.


  • #11
    ILoveYourVibes
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    What made you think of her OP?


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  • #12
    El Weirdo
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    Revit Man wrote: »
    She does not.



    https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/reading-bad-news-every-dayleaves-its-mark-on-rtes-eileen-dunne-364922.html

    Ah cheers.

    I've heard that she had several times.


  • #13
    bobbyss
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    What made you think of her OP?

    Her mediocrity and how she can survive with same in broadcasting.


  • #14
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Her mediocrity and how she can survive with same in broadcasting.
    Well its not like i could do better.:o


  • #15
    Central Services
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    She's been written off many times and come back to silence the critics.
    Donnybrook is littered with the gravestones of those who thought they could take her on.

    Eileen's at her best when her back is up against the wall.


  • #16
    Stacksofwacks
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    I think she's got an empathetic tone to be telling bad news


  • #17
    Archeron
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    I like her a lot, one of my favourite news readers.


  • #18
    padd b1975
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Didn’t her father work for RTÉ also?

    He did.

    Mick 'its a goooal' Dunne.

    Her husband also plays the best bad guy in a soap ever on Ros na Rùn.


  • #19
    Wanderer2010
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    Eileen...


  • #20
    barney shamrock
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    Why does rte news always have "more on this" when they've just discussed the same item for the previous 5 mins?


  • #21
    LeYouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭LeYouth


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Efficient. No fuss. Calm. A real pro. Solid as a rock.

    But compared to, say Fiona Bruce? Would Eileen cut it on BBC News at Ten? There's no adds there so she'd have to stop saying 'Still to ..." . That might mean stretching herself more than just 'What happened today Tommy? She'd might even have to engage in robust questioning of politicians? Isn't it part of the job? Bruce has been doing that for decades. Can't remember Eileen ever once.

    Fiona Bruce does my head in - is it her that's shaking her head or that other yoke with the glasses. I can't see why other lads find her sexy neither. I just can't see it.

    Eileen is too sound for the BBC.


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  • #22
    Mad_maxx
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Didn’t her father work for RTÉ also?

    mick dunne , GAA broadcaster back in the day

    shes married to the actor who plays Tadhg in ros na run

    shes in the sean o rourke category for me , solid , reliable , nothing more than that


  • #23
    Stacksofwacks
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    mick dunne , GAA broadcaster back in the day

    shes married to the actor who plays Tadhg in ros na run

    shes in the sean o rourke category for me , solid , reliable , nothing more than that

    Quite a good commentator actually, just described the game no trying to be entertaining bs like you hear nowadays



  • #24
    Hamsterchops
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    She has a glass eye.

    That rookie RTE weather girl Siobhan Ryan has a gammy left eye that keeps flickering as struggles to do the weather.


  • #25
    razorblunt
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    bobbyss wrote: »
    Efficient. No fuss. Calm. A real pro. Solid as a rock.

    But compared to, say Fiona Bruce? Would Eileen cut it on BBC News at Ten? There's no adds there so she'd have to stop saying 'Still to ..." . That might mean stretching herself more than just 'What happened today Tommy? She'd might even have to engage in robust questioning of politicians? Isn't it part of the job? Bruce has been doing that for decades. Can't remember Eileen ever once.


    Miles above Fiona Bruce, who's closer to the likes of Mary Kennedy, she's a TV presenter they made read the news.
    Emily Matliss is probably the pick of the Beeb.


  • #26
    lertsnim
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    bobbyss wrote: »
    Efficient. No fuss. Calm. A real pro. Solid as a rock.

    But compared to, say Fiona Bruce?

    Fiona Bruce is too animated. Her head movements when trying to emphasise something annoys me greatly.


  • #27
    bobbyss
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    Watching the news you see Sharon ni Bheolin and that Perry presenter/journalist (forget her first name) and he co-host whose name I also can't place having a good robust interview with some politician or other. No quarter spared. Tough, perceptive questions.

    Is it by accident that the days these tough interviews are the days when Eileen is not on duty? The only tough questions she asks are: What happened today at Stormont Tonmy? or and what did the Taoiseach say Tommy?

    Has anyone seen Eileen having an interview, asking probing questions, accepting no waffle from senior politicians?

    Are news presenters journalists?


  • #28
    Revit Man
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    You're really out for poor Eileen aren't you!
    She does a perfectly adequate job. Nothing more, nothing less.


  • #29
    branie2
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    She's a great newsreader


  • #30
    bobbyss
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    branie2 wrote: »
    She's a great newsreader

    I agtee. Very professional. But isn't she a journalist also with a duty to ask questions?


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  • #31
    topper75
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    Stacksofwacks wrote: »
    Quite a good commentator actually, just described the game no trying to be entertaining bs like you hear nowadays


    Can't be that long ago. D'Unbelievables are there at 02:20.

    Yeah Stacks, Mick was good. He trusted in the game itself to deliver so no need for hype.


  • #32
    cameramonkey
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    Stacksofwacks wrote: »
    Mick Dunne, Original Sunday game commentator.


    Gene-pool RTE has a long and undistinguished list.


  • #33
    NeinNeinNein
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    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Gene-pool RTE has a long and undistinguished list.
    RTÉ, aka Loreal Towers.


  • #34
    cml387
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    There is a long tradition of having an experienced hand reading the news.

    Charles Mitchell, Don Cockburn and Maurice O'Doherty all had long careers, it's a question of having a trustworthy person reading the news.

    Of course we could go the route of having a Corky Sherwood Forrest (see "Murphy Brown") type, replaced immeditaly they turned thirty assuming they were female.:rolleyes:


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