Who are the top 3 talent in RTE?

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Very very low on talent as they have all

I don't want to name shows - but they are a joke, completely talent-less. And , this relentless need for every voice to be female , is killing radio.

Rather than give a female the job - what is wrong with Wexford/ Monaghan /Galway / Donegal - Regionalise it based on talent as opposed to sex.

We have basically got to a point you can not listen to RTE from 0900 hrs to 2200 hrs. Unreal - considering you could listen to it all day from 0700 hrs to 0200 hrs.

Females rule heavy in RTE, as demonstrated by every evening news showing someone interviewing 7 yr old squeaky children asking their views on XYZ, prime time new FFS!!!

Most of the good ones are gone
bill o herlihy
cathal o'shannon
jimmy mcgee
Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh
Derek Davis
Michael Lyster
Gráinne Seoige


Of what's left
Darragh Maloney
Brendan O'Connor
joanne cantwell (think some of the hate she gets is due to people not used to a women doing the job)

jprboy wrote: »

"A nation holds..... "

"Oh, danger here...…"

It was actually "the nation holds..." though for years I always thought it was "a" too.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

There's something so hopeless, angry, and despairing about all the negativity that gets thrown towards RTÉ and its staff on sites like Boards, the Journal, and Twitter. It moves beyond valid criticism into this brain dead diatribe about the entire semi-state organisation being filled exclusively with talentless morons. It shows a real lack of critical thinking to be honest. I think the majority of it is down to some sort of innate jealousy and frustration from angry and confused men (it's always men) who project their own insecurities onto public figures. Men who would never have the ambition, talent, or initiative to become a politician, presenter, or public figure themselves.

RTÉ produce world class radio and television documentaries. Their current affairs and investigative journalism output is worthy of the television licence by itself. It has excellent presenters like Audrey Carville, Bryan Dobson, Rachel English, Sarah McInerney; Cormac O'hEadhra, Gavin Jennings and so on and so forth.

Then you have the wonderful John Creedon, the slightly hammy but entertaining (and knowing) Marty Morrissey. GAA, Horse Racing, and Football coverage is excellent, as is most of their sporting output. Then you have orchestras, journalists, producers etc.

I even happen to think Ryan Tubridy is grand. Certainly not deserving off the almost visceral hatred thrown at him online.

No. The issue is that we're not getting bang for our buck. Don't know too much about the state of RTE radio as I'm not a big radio listener. Although Miriam Finuacan and what she got paid and worked says it all.

Cancelled show after cancelled TV show with the same presenter throughout and they still keep them on. You would think, hmm, this is your fifth go at it and you're not really taking off. I think it may be best we part ways. But NO! Not with RTE let's shove them somewhere else.

Then you have the blatant nepotism, the awful shows they bring out and their documentaries are just fine. Just ok. BBC do world class documentaries so let's not delude ourselves here into thinking RTE has produced anything of note. But that's not their fault as they are hardly going to have the production value of the BBC, but let's not blow hot air either.

Sporting coverage is a disgrace. Some of Ireland's most successful athletes are barely promoted. Think boxing and athletics. League of Ireland, which I always thought could have been something great if RTE would give it proper coverage.

Their current affairs programmes are prime time. That's it. That is good as it gets. Otherwise are we referring to the carousel of untalented so and so's I've alluded to? The same people who are generally ill prepared to present the show and all generic surface area reportings in these "investigative pieces"? Yes, very "hard hitting". I have seen better documentaries and current affair pieces from independent Irish producers. Better yet TG4 do great Irish documentaries, RTE aren't even the best in their own field.

Why would a man be jealous of a broadcasting station? Are you mad or something? Yeah me, I absolutely hate TV3, absolute notions......?????

What is this projecting you speak of? Is it a projecting of frustration that we pay a tv licence for sub standard programming. Paying for wages that are in line with legitimate global broadcasting stations like the BBC? For presenters who aren't worth their weight in salt? That projection is it?

Right.

There are about 5 good folks in RTE and they will all be retiring in the next 10 years if not sooner. That tells you about the state of the whole thing.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

There's something so hopeless, angry, and despairing about all the negativity that gets thrown towards RTÉ and its staff on sites like Boards, the Journal, and Twitter. It moves beyond valid criticism into this brain dead diatribe about the entire semi-state organisation being filled exclusively with talentless morons. It shows a real lack of critical thinking to be honest. I think the majority of it is down to some sort of innate jealousy and frustration from angry and confused men (it's always men) who project their own insecurities onto public figures. Men who would never have the ambition, talent, or initiative to become a politician, presenter, or public figure themselves.

RTÉ produce world class radio and television documentaries. Their current affairs and investigative journalism output is worthy of the television licence by itself. It has excellent presenters like Audrey Carville, Bryan Dobson, Rachel English, Sarah McInerney; Cormac O'hEadhra, Gavin Jennings and so on and so forth.

Then you have the wonderful John Creedon, the slightly hammy but entertaining (and knowing) Marty Morrissey. GAA, Horse Racing, and Football coverage is excellent, as is most of their sporting output. Then you have orchestras, journalists, producers etc.

I even happen to think Ryan Tubridy is grand. Certainly not deserving off the almost visceral hatred thrown at him online.

In your opinion

jim salter wrote: »

In your opinion

Ya, that’s what message boards are about, dude. Not sure you needed to spell that out to be honest.

Iodine1 wrote: »

Females rule heavy in RTE, as demonstrated by every evening news showing someone interviewing 7 yr old squeaky children asking their views on XYZ, prime time new FFS!!!

There’s two major problems with RTÉ, one is overpaid presenters and the other is that a large number of, really creepy, angry, men having issues with female presenters and female “woke” content.

You see the same lads giving out about “woke” sport shows in the “Radio” forum and complaining about the BLM Movement in “Current Affairs”.

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I don’t think anyone has much issue with Cantwell being a woman, more that she comes across as very cold and unlikeable. Evanne Ni Chuilinn should have got that ahead of her.

A lot of guys on here seem to have a “problem” with women knowing more about sports than they do.

Sitting on a bar stool roaring at the tv is an ill-fitting United jersey counts for nothing compared to actual sporting “experience” and hours, upon hours, of research and education.

Obliviously, when they “pit” two female presenters against each other they’ll always plum for the “hotter” one.

If RTÉ could solve their payroll problem they’d be fine, the second one is just a lot of “hot air” blowing out the arses of lads filled with impotent rage. And they have a lot of that. An awful lot.

Bill O’Herlihy
John ‘Senior Analyst’ Giles
Eamon Dunphy

Those were the days.

If RTE were to shut down in the morning, Tony Connolly would probably be the only one taken on by an overseas network, he's well informed, and very highly regarded, both here and abroad.

Most of the rest of the 'talent' are moderately sized fish in a parochial pond.