RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

[Deleted User] · 27-09-2020 7:19pm #1

New thread for the new presenters, and we wish them well at their new desks. Usual rules apply in posting, and especially please note this is not a thread for political point-scoring. Take politics to the appropriate forum please, it will not be tolerated in the radio forum.

HeidiHeidi · 27-09-2020 8:54pm

Looking forward to the new presenters very much, couldn't listen to Mary Wilson at all for the last long time.

Hopefully they'll breathe a new lease of life into the show, a decent drive time current affairs show is badly needed.

If Sarah McInerney's stint during the summer was anything to go by, it should be half decent.

generalgerry · 27-09-2020 9:34pm

Sorry I must have missed all of this. Where is Mary Wilson gone to?
They need to get PBH out of there asap, before he contaminates the whole studio with his SMUG2020 virus

Losty Dublin · 27-09-2020 9:39pm

generalgerry wrote: »

Sorry I must have missed all of this. Where is Mary Wilson gone to?
They need to get PBH out of there asap, before he contaminates the whole studio with his SMUG2020 virus

She’s retired. Next stop Live at 3 😊

amlinopta · 27-09-2020 9:50pm

Mary is joining the near all female cast at Morning Ireland

Pelvis Parsley · 27-09-2020 11:37pm

And so the interrupting will be confined to 0700-0900.

Maybe the fact that she has co-presenters now will rein her in a bit.

Once that other smug git doesn't step in too often, he was worse than her.

Brendan Bendar · 28-09-2020 5:51am

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

And so the interrupting will be confined to 0700-0900.

Maybe the fact that she has co-presenters now will rein her in a bit.

Once that other smug git doesn't step in too often, he was worse than her.

Pity she didn’t take “The Doomsday Dog’ Lenihan with her.

The early mornings might slow him down a bit.

Radio5 · 28-09-2020 9:30am

Will both presenters be on together - strange how this show now needs 2 presenters after years of having only 1?

ShamNNspace · 28-09-2020 4:20pm

Radio5 wrote: »

Will both presenters be on together - strange how this show now needs 2 presenters after years of having only 1?

I see this a lot on rte both tv and radio, where once one presenter was perfectly adequate, there's now 2 or sometimes 3 presenters

ford fiesta · 28-09-2020 4:31pm

"Reports from a busy college bar" ????

Clon63 · 28-09-2020 4:41pm

Looking forward to the new line up.

Great line for tbe first interview with the Bus Eireann CEO

Brendan Bendar · 28-09-2020 4:42pm

Sarah comes across as a bit ‘shrill’ in the early minutes.

No need to shout.....

Brendan Bendar · 28-09-2020 4:47pm

First ‘hang on’ from Cormac 15 mins into the prog.

ford fiesta · 28-09-2020 5:45pm

The pair inviting and reading out texts from listeners....that's a new feature for the show. Don't like it.

This show is all a bit "Newstalky"....

Pelvis Parsley · 28-09-2020 6:06pm

Radio5 wrote: »

Will both presenters be on together - strange how this show now needs 2 presenters after years of having only 1?

Because Mary did enough talking for two people.

[Deleted User] · 28-09-2020 6:23pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Sarah comes across as a bit ‘shrill’ in the early minutes.

No need to shout.....

True, but she seems to have settled now.

I like the double-handed format. It should facilitate a bit of time for consideration and better questioning.

Very early days so let’s see how it goes. A viable alternative to Matt Cooper has long been needed

amlinopta · 28-09-2020 6:44pm

Grim reaper Barry Lenehan loving the 390 new cases

Brendan Bendar · 28-09-2020 6:49pm

amlinopta wrote: »

Grim reaper Barry Lenehan loving the 390 new cases

The Doomsday Dog, was out of the traps before Cormac was finished.

Someone should put linoleum on the floor of the trap, would slow him down a bit.

Brendan Bendar · 28-09-2020 6:51pm

Deleted User wrote: »

True, but she seems to have settled now.

I like the double-handed format. It should facilitate a bit of time for consideration and better questioning.

Very early days so let’s see how it goes. A viable alternative to Matt Cooper has long been needed

Squeaky wouldn’t hold down much of an audience.

pc7 · 28-09-2020 6:52pm

Got to listen to quite a bit this evening and enjoyed it, good mix and match with them. Way better that Kieran over on Newstalk, he’s not able to hold the show at all.

0xzmro3n4y7lb5 · 28-09-2020 6:53pm

I don't like the two presenters format and don't like Cormac's tone.

Agree Sarah was pitchy at the start but it settled down.

The content of the show seems different. The segments feel longer.

I'm finding it a bit dull.

Brendan Bendar · 29-09-2020 5:22pm

Three ‘hang ons’ from in the space of a minute, from Cormac.

Needs to get a grip on those bad boys.

There will be more......

Infoanon · 29-09-2020 5:27pm

Good to hear some serious questioning from Cormac and Sarah.

0xzmro3n4y7lb5 · 29-09-2020 5:32pm

What way is he pronouncing Oireachtas? ERRRRRRRRRRRRACKTOS?

Brendan Bendar · 29-09-2020 5:43pm

Judson Quick Scabby wrote: »

What way is he pronouncing Oireachtas? ERRRRRRRRRRRRACKTOS?

Better get used to that dude, native Irish speaker.

Watch for Fianna Fáil, and Fine Gael......

Cole · 29-09-2020 5:52pm

Judson Quick Scabby wrote: »

What way is he pronouncing Oireachtas? ERRRRRRRRRRRRACKTOS?

Seeing as he's a native (Connacht) Irish speaker, I'd imagine he's pronouncing it the 'correct' way.

0xzmro3n4y7lb5 · 29-09-2020 5:59pm

I know him and have heard him before, I think maybe my Alexa is too near the wall because the reverberation of that r sound went through me, in a good way.

[Deleted User] · 29-09-2020 6:06pm

Cole wrote: »

Seeing as he's a native (Connacht) Irish speaker, I'd imagine he's pronouncing it the 'correct' way.

I'm sure he is, he's a man for accuracy. But native speaker doesn't always mean correct, example Joe Duffy

[Deleted User] · 29-09-2020 6:41pm

When listening to the segment about whether or not to use crowd noises (Fake Noise?) I reflected on the posts elsewhere on Boards about RTE’s ways of workings according to @RTESecretpro, mentioned here https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/719cv4/ive_compiled_all_the_tweets_from_secret_rté/

On the basis he or she was using, it would have required a team of half a dozen sound engineers to provide crowd noises. I breathed a sigh of relief when the idea was shot down by Marty plus a load of listeners texting in opposition to such Alsn idea

Cole · 29-09-2020 6:43pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm sure he is, he's a man for accuracy. But native speaker doesn't always mean correct, example Joe Duffy

You're opening up a can of worms here...well for me anyway! I put 'correct' in inverted commas to suggest that there is often no single way to pronounce words, just standard (correct) or non-standard (incorrect/inferior) pronunciations depending on people's perceptions of different dialects. Joe Duffy's pronunciation is pretty standard for his Dublin dialect, but it is see as non-standard and, therefore, not 'correct' by many.

Anyway, Cormac's pronunciation of Oireachtas is the standard pronunciation in Connacht Irish...as far as I'm aware.

Brendan Bendar · 29-09-2020 6:51pm

Cole wrote: »

You're opening up a can of worms here...well for me anyway! I put 'correct' in inverted commas to suggest that there is often no single way to pronounce words, just standard (correct) or non-standard (incorrect/inferior) pronunciations depending on people's perceptions of different dialects. Joe Duffy's pronunciation is pretty standard for his Dublin dialect, but it is see as non-standard and, therefore, not 'correct' by many.

Anyway, Cormac's pronunciation of Oireachtas is the standard pronunciation in Connacht Irish...as far as I'm aware.

I’ll back you up on that Cee

You won’t hear the auld Dub ‘ Fine Gwael’ from him anyway.

So beloved of MLMCD

RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

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