RTE Correspondents

[Rocko]

@Bandage

Somebody referenced it in the Olympics thread but I thought it was gas the amount of people RTE had over in London for the 2 weeks, especially considering they’ve just announced a substantial deficit and stated that they’re strongly committed to eradicating it as soon as possible.

Fair enough, you need a few commentators on site but they’d all manner of people over there. Des Cahill was over there to read the sport news every morning on Radio 1 and there was also the likes of Joe Stack and Clare McNamara over there for the entire period. Marty Morrissey was over there to commentate on the boxing for the radio also. John Kenny and yer man Paul with the funny hair that reads the sport news sometimes were over there too - they offended Melanie Nocher.

Obviously there were some commentators operating from Dublin, which is fine - you need to have someone describing the events being shown. But I thought it was amusing that they had specialist pundits in for all the events. You had randomers in to provide background on the modern pentathlon and badminton and all sorts. That’s probably €500 a pop minimum for each appearance. Surely the presenter can give a bit of background to these events before going to the action instead of having some token chat with a freak who’s into shooting or something.

They must have racked up some bill.

The randomer they brought in to analyse the shooting when Derek Burnett was a bit controversial. Seems he was under suspension from the clay pigeon crowd for pinching a bottom at an event. RTÉ just hired him anyway because he was the guy they had in last time.

[The_Dunph]

@Bandage

Somebody referenced it in the Olympics thread but I thought it was gas the amount of people RTE had over in London for the 2 weeks, especially considering they’ve just announced a substantial deficit and stated that they’re strongly committed to eradicating it as soon as possible.

Fair enough, you need a few commentators on site but they’d all manner of people over there. Des Cahill was over there to read the sport news every morning on Radio 1 and there was also the likes of Joe Stack and Clare McNamara over there for the entire period. Marty Morrissey was over there to commentate on the boxing for the radio also. John Kenny and yer man Paul with the funny hair that reads the sport news sometimes were over there too - they offended Melanie Nocher.

Obviously there were some commentators operating from Dublin, which is fine - you need to have someone describing the events being shown. But I thought it was amusing that they had specialist pundits in for all the events. You had randomers in to provide background on the modern pentathlon and badminton and all sorts. That’s probably €500 a pop minimum for each appearance. Surely the presenter can give a bit of background to these events before going to the action instead of having some token chat with a freak who’s into shooting or something.

They must have racked up some bill.

And you can be sure Marty was drinking champagne and eating caviar every night too…

[Bandage]

[quote=“Sidney, post: 504029”]
Well it is only the biggest sporting event in the world.[/quote]

Important to get Des Cahill over there for a couple of weeks so.

[Sidney]

@Bandage

Important to get Des Cahill over there for a couple of weeks so.

It got him away from the Sunday Game for two weeks. That’s worth the money alone.

[RaymondCrotty]

My RTE source has just told me Charlie Bird will be leaving Montrose on Sunday after doing Marian show from 11 to 1. I think Charlie may move to a different organisation though my source didn’t confirm this.

[Juhniallio]

@larryduff

My RTE source has just told me Charlie Bird will be leaving Montrose on Sunday after doing Marian show from 11 to 1. I think Charlie may move to a different organisation though my source didn’t confirm this.

The breaking news on the Irish times is hardly a source.

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[Sidney]

A little less Charlie in RTE from now on so?

[Bandage]

larry or others with contacts in Montrose, do we know if there are going to be (m)any other high profile RTE departures? Is Charlie Bird at ‘retirement age’ or has he simply taken a voluntary redundancy package as part of their cost cutting programme?

[anon61956325]

@Bandage

larry or others with contacts in Montrose, do we know if there are going to be (m)any other high profile RTE departures? Is Charlie Bird at ‘retirement age’ or has he simply taken a voluntary redundancy package as part of their cost cutting programme?

Is he not ill?

[Bandage]

@Bandage

larry or others with contacts in Montrose, do we know if there are going to be (m)any other high profile RTE departures? Is Charlie Bird at ‘retirement age’ or has he simply taken a voluntary redundancy package as part of their cost cutting programme?

Con Murphy and Brian O’Connell are the latest high profile departures.The RTE London Bureau is closing today and all London based staff are leaving the station. An end of an era - I recall Brian O’Connell’s reports from outside the Old Bailey in London when I was a youngster.

[tallback]

Poor decision to close the London bureau in my opinion. Probably the most important of our foreign bureaus and there must be a lot more fat that could be cut ahead of it.

[balbec]

any chance that rugby guy, Corcoran would go?

[Georgy_Comerford]

@balbec

any chance that rugby guy, Corcoran would go?

Amen to that, but not a hope. Bullshit cheerleading onanist.

Con Murphy wasn’t the worst cunt in RTE.

[Rocko]

@Bandage

Con Murphy and Brian O’Connell are the latest high profile departures.The RTE London Bureau is closing today and all London based staff are leaving the station. An end of an era - I recall Brian O’Connell’s reports from outside the Old Bailey in London when I was a youngster.

Brian O’Connell is yet another victim of the IRA ceasefire but you won’t hear the Dublin media complaining about the price of peace.

[Bandage]

@Rocko

Brian O’Connell is yet another victim of the IRA ceasefire but you won’t hear the Dublin media complaining about the price of peace.

:lol:

[anon95599269]

why is the great Con Murphy leaving?

[kerry1891]

@Georgy Comerford

Amen to that, but not a hope. Bullshit cheerleading onanist.

Con Murphy wasn’t the worst cunt in RTE.

indeed con was the finest. He would make a better fist of championship matters than poor ould marty. any man that could make MNS half watchable must have some talent. He would be a better anchor man than Des Cahill as well or okey dok Bill O’Herlihy.

is he really gone?

[dodgy_keeper]

@Bandage

Important to get Des Cahill over there for a couple of weeks so.

For the sole reason that it would keep Des Cahill away for a few weeks the Olympics should be an annual event.

[dodgy_keeper]

@balbec

any chance that rugby guy, Corcoran would go?

We’d never be that lucky. His commentaries are laughable when he does an Irish/Munster/Leinster match. Any decision in favour of Ireland/Munster/Leinster is correct while any decision against them is due to either rank bad refereeing or some grey area in the rules like the breakdown whereby Ireland/Munster/Leinster can consider themselves unfortunate…

Tubridy, Ryle Nugent, Corcoran, Hook - ship all the rugger goys off.

[carryharry]

@dodgy-keeper

We’d never be that lucky. His commentaries are laughable when he does an Irish/Munster/Leinster match. Any decision in favour of Ireland/Munster/Leinster is correct while any decision against them is due to either rank bad refereeing or some grey area in the rules like the breakdown whereby Ireland/Munster/Leinster can consider themselves unfortunate…

Tubridy, Ryle Nugent, Corcoran, Hook - ship all the rugger goys off.

Not wrong lad, Tony Ward is the only one of them who calls a spade a spade. Corcoran is an embarrassment.