I’ll need to have a good think about my favourite correspondent actually, @Blake. Is that sarcasm regarding Coleman? Forgive me, I’m rather tired. What became of her anyway?
Actually, does anyone else think Sean Whelan is a bit out of his depth with the Economics Correspondent brief? He was fine talking shite over in Brussels for years but I sense he’s not all that sharp on the macro issues facing the country.
[quote=“Bandage, post: 857710, member: 9”]I’ll need to have a good think about my favourite correspondent actually, @Blake. Is that sarcasm regarding Coleman? Forgive me, I’m rather tired. What became of her anyway?
Actually, does anyone else think Sean Whelan is a bit out of his depth with the Economics Correspondent brief? He was fine talking shite over in Brussels for years but I sense he’s not all that sharp on the macro issues facing the country.[/quote]
Not at all, she genuinely was the best correspondent we ever sent stateside. She absolutely roasted Bush famously and was internationally recognised for doing so.
I’d agree regarding Whelan, he is winging it a lot of the time and lacks the nuanced and expert knowledge of Connelly or even McCullagh. He was a smashing foreign war correspondent though.
[quote=“Blake, post: 857716, member: 1755”]Not at all, she genuinely was the best correspondent we ever sent stateside. She absolutely roasted Bush famously and was internationally recognised for doing so.
I’d agree regarding Whelan, he is winging it a lot of the time and lacks the nuanced and expert knowledge of Connelly or even McCullagh. He was a smashing foreign war correspondent though.[/quote]
Remember Brian Dowling*? Is he knocking around these days?
[quote=“Bandage, post: 857718, member: 9”]Remember Brian Dowling*? Is he knocking around these days?
He presents The News at One with Claire Byrne on Saturdays in her absence. Fucking woeful at it.
I’d say he’s a real messy eater.
[quote=“Bandage, post: 857718, member: 9”]Remember Brian Dowling*? Is he knocking around these days?
[quote=“Blake, post: 857716, member: 1755”]Not at all, she genuinely was the best correspondent we ever sent stateside. She absolutely roasted Bush famously and was internationally recognised for doing so.
I’d agree regarding Whelan, he is winging it a lot of the time and lacks the nuanced and expert knowledge of Connelly or even McCullagh. He was a smashing foreign war correspondent though.[/quote]
Wasn’t Leitrim’s finest Carol banging Charlie Bird?
Not entirely sure. I remember vaguely something about her, but I thought it was Little. She’s hitched now anyway.
In his expert reporting on this years Ploughing Championships, Ciaran Mullooly showed that he’s one of RTÉ’s finest at present.
[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 857677, member: 24”]That one?
She’s been doing bitsey news stories since she came on the scene. Like one Saturday reporting on a murder, the next week reporting on a strike and the following week reporting on the Young Scientists Exhibition.
That said, she’s not the worst looking. She’s also got her own website. http://www.caitrionaperry.com/
http://www.caitrionaperry.com/uploads/1/6/9/7/16972956/3105323.jpg[/quote]
I would yea
I didn’t say she was savage or anything just that she wasn’t the worst.
I’d love to see the women you’ve done.
Why’s that, pal?
If he can be so dismissive of your wan.
Good points on Whelan above. He’s out of his depth. He’s fine as a reporter but his current role demands much more.
I imagine RTÉ were a bit burned by Charlie Bird and his stateside dramatics and are more interested in a competent reporter than a household name this time.
Western Correspondent - Pat McGrath.
Is he relatively new? First noticed him during the recent European elections and he cropped up just now on the Tuam Babies case.
Was that Jim Fahy’s old stomping ground or was Fahy just Galway?
As an aside, I noticed former RTE news reader Gareth O’Connor is now employed at Today FM.
Some detail:pint:
http://hoganstand.com/Hurling/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=224957
As ever, Marty Morrissey was a good sport at the National Ploughing Championships in Co. Laois yesterday.
When RTE Radio One’s Colm Flynn asked some of the ladies among the 125,000 attendance what the popular GAA commentator’s most attractive feature was, they said it was his eyebrows!
“It’s his sexy eyebrows. They’re just indescribable,” one female fan smiled.
Another Marty admirer said: “He’s the whole package, isn’t he?”
When the Clare man was later introduced to the same ladies, one of them was only too happy to tell him to his face of her love for his facial features.
Asked by Flynn what makes his eyebrows so special, a blushing Marty replied: “I have no idea. Sheer utter, natural talent!”
Some kid on the news there talking about our airspace and nobody told him to take his phone out of his pocket before going on screen.
They brought Tony O’Donoghue into the studio to talk about the Keane “incident” :rolleyes:
Ridiculous shit. He told some gag about his beard too. It’s supposed to be the fucking news. Pathetic shit.
Tony O’Donoghue doesn’t have a breeze.
[QUOTE=“Rocko, post: 1083437, member: 1”]Ridiculous shit. He told some gag about his beard too. It’s supposed to be the fucking news. Pathetic shit.
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Oh yeh it had fifty shades of grey (hee hee). Oh fuck off Tony
[QUOTE=“Bandage, post: 960231, member: 9”]Western Correspondent - Pat McGrath.
Is he relatively new? First noticed him during the recent European elections and he cropped up just now on the Tuam Babies case.
Was that Jim Fahy’s old stomping ground or was Fahy just Galway?
As an aside, I noticed former RTE news reader Gareth O’Connor is now employed at Today FM.[/QUOTE]
A poison chalice to take the role after the great Jim Fahy.
