I saw a recent episode of Reeling in the Years which featured Lee’s move into politics.
The speech he gave at the time was proper cringe.
‘How can I look at my children in years to come and say to them that I did nothing when things were bad?!’
Someone had an over inflated sense of their own importance.
True but I do admire that he had the balls to run, unlike so many others at the time who claimed to be saviors.
Of course the financial head on him took over eventually and he creeped back to RTÉ…
This surely marks George’s return to the bigtime. The economics lad is moving to London and George will be back to his old haunt in no time.
Brian O’Connell in London must be seething. RTE closed their London office a few years ago and he quit after many years service. Then Brexit kicked off. Tony Connolly has basked in the Brexit glory now for years.
He has timed it well with storm clouds gathering and Séamus coffey’s crew issuing warnings . Doomporn is back boys .
An insufferable depressing prick. Then you’d catch him leaning against the ring at some obscure mart asking farmer’s opinions. What he was really doing was alerting us to what a clever and forward-thinking genius he was or imagined he was.
If he fell into a boghole I wouldn’t give a shit about him the pretentious bollocks.
Robert Shortt new economics correspondent. George still out in the cold
I hear this economics appointment is due to Shortt selling himself well in the interview
Congratulations to George Lee, the new Environment and Science Correspondent for RTÉ.
With global warming reaching crisis proportions, if any RTE correspondent isn’t out in the cold it’s Environment correspondent George Lee
Sharon is gone fucking terrible at presenting when she does a live piece or an interview. Seems slightly manic and struggles with the continuity bit after it.
She’s on a few tablets for something, I’d say.
I still would
It was research for a new idea I had for the vending machines.
Vivienne Traynor co presenting the 6:01 
She has awful trouble with the autocue which confirms my suspicions she’s as blind as a bat. Justin Tracey took full advantage the cute hoor.
Conor Kane is a very tentative and lightweight replacement south east correspondent for Damien Tiernan. Strange delivery as if he’s a child reading a passage from a book aloud. I want to see improvement here.
There was some chap on the sports bulletin at the weekend (think it was the Sunday 6.01) who was absolutely all over shop, almost to the point of incoherence. These cutbacks are hitting RTÉ hard.
RTÉ don’t give a tuppeny fuck about the South East