That’s a hard watch 
Had to go up early to Dundalk this morning and back so caught all three of the Dazzlers morning sports bulletins. In each of them he said that Fiji had beaten Australia 25-15. The score was 22-15.
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Locally on Saturday John Mulligan gave the result of the senior b hurling preliminary quarter final in Loughrea as ‘Ahascragh-Fohenagh have beaten Beagh by a single point 1-17 to 0-16’ and repeated the dose again later on.
The Dazzler is not alone.
Maybe it’s a Galway sports-media thing?
Perhaps. Maybe a soft handy car would entice better performance?
Darren has Lar Corbett on along with Marty Morrissey. Darren asks Lar around stopping the Drive for Five in 2010 and who will stop Limerick next year. Lar proudly states that Tipp had the magic portion in 2010 and Liam Cahill will do it next year.
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*potion
I also enjoyed Darren asking Marty Morrisey if he was familiar with "the backs to the wall challenge "
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Oh he said portion…
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Are they broadcasting live from “The Ploughing”? I believe Lar has a stall there
Since 2011 apparently. Sure you’re at nothing if you’re not at The Ploughing.
Would that be lar’s magic vodka potion???
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This morning Darren was giving a run down of the new Louth football mgmt. He mentioned that his RTE colleague Paul O Flynn was part of the backroom team as a sports psychologist.
Totally different fella with the same name.
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I think that fella used to present News 2 day on the Den back about 20 years ago. He’s since married a fellow RTÉ staffer Mary Regan.
You can’t be serious?!
Should we give Darren the benefit of the doubt here? Are we sure this wasn’t a quip, an attempt at a little joke to have a laugh with his sports department colleague?
No, because no one else laughed.
Middletown GAA won the hurling final in Armagh. Darren called the Midleton, who of course lost the Cork final
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Classic Darren on the 7.30am sports report there, where he gets bits of a story correct but ultimately makes a hames of it.
‘Summerhill of Meath overcame Tullamore in the Leinster club football championship in a game which was overshadowed by a spectator appearing to push a referee at full time.’
So far so good until Darren adds ‘Tullamore had a penalty saved in the last minute.’
What actually happened is that the ref awarded a free in, then awarded a penalty on the advice of his umpire before the linesman intervened and eventually a free in was given instead, which was saved as the Meath champions held on to win by two points.
His ability to get stuff partially right in parts, but completely wrong in others, is absolutely unrivalled in Irish sports broadcasting.
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