Why is Ronan Keating's separation considered news worthy enough for the 6.01?

runswithascript

rovert wrote: »

You are expecting RTE at 6 to cover a story which is only breaking news at 8.

AMAZING

It's not breaking news at 8pm. I saw it on another news show and on-line earlier, please verify your facts before you spew them on the internet.

rovert

LA3G wrote: »

It's not breaking news at 8pm. I saw it on another news show and on-line earlier, please verify your facts before you spew them on the internet.

Sky News broke it at 7.31pm, you expect RTE to prepare a story for 6.01 :pac:

sponsoredwalk

deelite wrote: »

RTE probably put it on the news as it was apparently the most clicked news story of the day on BBC - so maybe RTE didn't want to let a possible rating winner pass them by.

What are you talking about, spider-goat?

Link?

walshb

This news was on the radio today at 1 pm. Old if you ask me.

rovert

walshb wrote: »

This news was on the radio today at 1 pm. Old if you ask me.

They are milking it

sponsoredwalk

Nvm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7132299.ece

Woah, Craig Venter, you da man!

Get some of his mp3 lectures online, they are fascinating!

walshb

rovert wrote: »

They are milking it

Good one....

BTW, if Keating is on the Late Late about this then he really deserves stick.
Maybe he'll get two for one with this story, throwing in Gately for good measure.

rovert

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

Nvm

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7132299.ece

Woah, Craig Venter, you da man!

Get some of his mp3 lectures online, they are fascinating!

The Times have just posted a story and LA3G is expecting RTE to the same two hours ago. lolz

rovert

walshb wrote: »

Good one....

BTW, if Keating is on the Late Late about this then he really deserves stick.
Maybe he'll get two for one with this story, throwing in Gately for good measure.

Well done on getting most of your talking points all in one post. But what about round two?

moonpurple

why is separation such a shock horror topic

the world is full of happy separated parents, creator of the simpsons, current french PM, recent irish PM, last most senior irish judge, all 3 people who went for the late late show job..etc etc

GROW the FCK up Ireland:pac:

sponsoredwalk

moonpurple wrote: »

why is separation such a shock horror topic

Because Ronan represented the last of the old guard

Now we're all aware the divorce demon can get any of us, any time

No one is safe:eek:

I had money riding on the strength of their marriage too

Mister men

I actually thought Ronan Keating was gay until i read this thread. Honestly did'nt know he was married. Was the other bloke from Boyzone that died recently gay?

walshb

Mister men wrote: »

I actually thought Ronan Keating was gay until i read this thread. Honestly did'nt know he was married. Was the other bloke from Boyzone that died recently gay?

Yes, Rip Van Winkle

moonpurple

Mister men wrote: »

I actually thought Ronan Keating was gay until i read this thread. Honestly did'nt know he was married. Was the other bloke from Boyzone that died recently gay?

family lawyers believe they deal with a lot of gay parents...

deelite

Can't remember but when Gerry and Morah Ryan separated was it on the 6:01 news.

My name is URL

It says a lot about the media's view of what people care about when this story is considered as big news by people while at the same time this isn't

force majeure

lordi a lot off folk here look as though they have anger management probs, may I suggest therapy, like a pint and a packet off taytos. :rolleyes:

rovert

Mister men wrote: »

I actually thought Ronan Keating was gay until i read this thread. Honestly did'nt know he was married. Was the other bloke from Boyzone that died recently gay?

So if you in the proximity of a gay person that makes you gay too?

I dont think Gately post humously turned gay either.

Gigiwagga

Someone please light the back of his woolly blue underpants.

Ronan is cool, like a concussion.

Mister men

rovert wrote: »

So if you in the proximity of a gay person that makes you gay too?

I dont think Gately post humously turned gay either.

You've lost me. TBH until my wife told me today i thought the bloke that died was from westlife.

rovert

Mister men wrote: »

You've lost me.

Too funny.

Tail Wagger

rarnes1 wrote: »

Isn't it a wonder it was on the news at all?

Ronan probably contacted the media and told them he wanted to make a statement on behalf of Boy-Zone and then told them about his break-up. Oh and it was stuck in at the end that he was a selected judge for the X factor in Australia this year. Rock-on-Ronan...

ScumLord

I wouldn't have known it happened if you hadn't brought it up.

Poly

ScumLord wrote: »

I wouldn't have known it happened if you hadn't brought it up.

Does Mrs Keating know? he might have just told the press

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I just hope and pray that this doesn't affect his music

MrVestek

fontanalis wrote: »

Because if tomorrow never comes he wants to know if we still love him.

Bwhaahahah!

That actually made me lol.

I'd go with the general consensus here.. slow news day. That and we live in a society where it's easy to ignore all the other issues in the world. That and the general media want us to so that they can tell us things.

Nah I'm not cynical...

Sod'o swords

Well life's one big roller coaster, there's ups and downs to the news.

Puns aside, it's stupid, Thailand's in flames after a Final crackdown on the protests which have lasted weeks. Yet all i could hear on the radio today was Ronan Keating's separation.

rovert

Sod'o swords wrote: »

Well life's one big roller coaster, there's ups and downs to the news.

Puns aside, it's stupid, Thailand's in flames after a Final crackdown on the protests which have lasted weeks. Yet all i could hear on the radio today was Ronan Keating's separation.

Untrue

Tail Wagger

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

Q: Why is Ronan Keating's separation considered news worthy enough for the 6.01?

A: Because compared to their stellar reporting on the trilateral commission & their parsimonious coverage of the protests this is hardcore reality.

Thank's, nice one Ronan?

MrsToad

LA3G wrote: »

As the title says.... WTF?

Surely this is the sort of thing that should be learned about by those who care from entertainment shows or glossy women's magazines.

Who are these glossy women of whom you speak, and why do they have their own magzines....?

Sonnenblumen

LA3G wrote: »

As the title says.... WTF?

Surely this is the sort of thing that should be learned about by those who care from entertainment shows or glossy women's magazines.

Something to do with a northsider behaving in a responsible way?:D

Ban Ki Moon

When you see the both of them together you would be forgiven for thinking that his wife looked as if she were his mother!

His next girlfriend will be much younger than him..Wait and see,ye all grown up yet Ronan?

She must of got sick of listening to him singing in the shower

Ya-Boy-Ya

Rumour has is they couldnt see "Eye to Eye" !! *boom*boom*

opinion guy

Abigayle wrote: »

Ronan and Brian up a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! :pac:

hahahah leave Mr Kennedy out of this

Odds that Ronan will be publicly out by Christmas ?

Turpentine

"Why is Ronan Keating's separation considered news worthy enough for the 6.01? "

It's not.

But the awesome power of this fluff piece will take precedent over most things that you (one) actually want(s) to hear about.

The_B_Man

Hes headin down here to OZ as part of the X-Factor tour. I reckon hes tryin to do a Brian McFadden and get his rocks off with one of the youngones from Home & Away, which in turn automatically qualifies him to get his own radio show and become a judge on australias got talent!

Pretty_Pistol

I don't think the story was 6:01 worthy but I'd rather listen to that than about the R and people losing their jobs.

Kasabian

Just hearing on the radio that there is another woman involved. Kiss and tell story due Sunday.

Minstrel27

This has made the front page of the papers today. Rags every one of them. So much going on in the world and they focus attention on that crap.

Mister men

Minstrel27 wrote: »

This has made the front page of the papers today. Rags every one of them. So much going on in the world and they focus attention on that crap.

If you read those papers you deserve stories like that.

Bill2673

Biggins wrote: »

Aaa well... we ARE talking about RTE here! LOL

This one says it all for me.......

amiable

LA3G wrote: »

As the title says.... WTF?

Surely this is the sort of thing that should be learned about by those who care from entertainment shows or glossy women's magazines.

Why is it deemed worthy of its own thread to discuss its newsworthiness?

AskMyChocolate

Because apparently it is worthy of 94 replies and over 3,000 views. Please don't point out the irony. I feel dirty enough already.

Liam Byrne

Biggins wrote: »

Well known character, both for his terrible band/songs and his more so commendable charity work.

Band ???? What instruments do they play ?

runswithascript

Minstrel27 wrote: »

This has made the front page of the papers today. Rags every one of them. So much going on in the world and they focus attention on that crap.

Mister men wrote: »

If you read those papers you deserve stories like that.

Hear hear!

amiable wrote: »

Why is it deemed worthy of its own thread to discuss its newsworthiness?

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

Because apparently it is worthy of 94 replies and over 3,000 views. Please don't point out the irony. I feel dirty enough already.

This thread is titled and about RTÉ deeming tabloid crap worthy of the 6.01, not about the tabloid crap itself. I mean didn't you read the name of it before clicking?

To make the point I had to elude to allude to the story, it's not rocket science.

cournioni

Well it does brighten up the news a bit, nothing but doom and gloom on it these days. A bit of the aul separation is just whats needed.

amiable

LA3G wrote: »

Hear hear!





This thread is titled and about RTÉ deeming tabloid crap worthy of the 6.01, not about the tabloid crap itself. I mean didn't you read the name of it before clicking?

To make the point I had to elude to allude to the story, it's not rocket science.

you've obviously taken me up wrong

stovelid

Whatever your thoughts on it, a lot of people are interested in that sort of thing. Even people that see themselves as being above will invariably pass comment on it in some fashion.

Now, on to more important matters: where does his ex-wife hang out?

amiable

stovelid wrote: »

Whatever your thoughts on it, a lot of people are interested in that sort of thing.

Now , on to more important matters, where does his ex-wife hang out?

She's pushing on a bit now. Time he traded her in anyway