Does the media be focusing too much on Dublin?

Mike 1972

Aldebaran wrote: »

I was just saying how After Hours could do with another Dublin vs. rest of the country thread.

Could be worse could be a Nortsoide/Soutsoide thread

biko

After Hours is very Dublin centred too.
Something happens somewhere else, it's posted in a regional forum.
Someone gets stuck on a train in Dublin, posts it in After Hours...

John_Rambo

biko wrote: »

After Hours is very Dublin centred too

In fairness, most of them are started by non-Dubliners bitching and moaning that either Dublin has everything or they hate Dublin cause it has nothing, or they saw something happening in Dublin. Those type of threads won't be moved to the Dublin forum cause they wouldn't be tolerated and rightly so.

It's the age old story or non-Dubliners being obsessed with Dublin.

As Capt'n Midnight said... the offer was there to the rural civil servants, move out of Dublin (along with incentives) and none of them would move, they love it.

The women love the accent too, makes them melt.

Skid

phill106 wrote: »

Fair City?
Whats the new one, fade street?

But sure isn't there a Wexford girl in Fade Street?,

Having said that, RTE are so out of touch with the rest of the country they showed the Wexford train arriving at Heuston station!

John_Rambo

SkidMark wrote: »

But sure isn't there a Wexford girl in Fade Street?

Exactly, and like most country girls hasn't she come to Dublin looking for Cockles and mussels alive alive oh!

Terry

biko wrote: »

After Hours is very Dublin centred too.
Something happens somewhere else, it's posted in a regional forum.
Someone gets stuck on a train in Dublin, posts it in After Hours...

Sometimes I report Dublin threads in AH and use just one word as an inside joke.

twinytwo

PrincessLola wrote: »

lol at dubliners trolling culchies! :pac:

Seriously tho, its about time we rename Ireland 'Dublin' coz Dublin is so great ya' know??

best thing to ever come out of dublin.. is the road to cork...







and brian o driscoll

Donal Og O Baelach

Duggy747 wrote: »

Dublin is the only village / town / city in this country..............everywhere else is just baron wasteland populated by muck mountain men who sprouted out of the ground like potatoes.

When it comes to Irish Media, I refer it to Republic of Dublin.

You spelled "baron" incorrectly there.

pickarooney

bluewolf wrote: »

Mr & Mrs Does Be and all the little Do Bes

Ah we all loved the do-be brothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9URZfqYf2o

Star Bingo

the media does be focused too much on being from dublin, from that exclusive sect confined to.. a certain region like can be heard in..
TV3 reporters n playstation move ads they really get my goat, no way is that toff the greatest fighter of all time

Snakeblood

FF and proud wrote: »

Ive just been thinking right, we all pay our taxes to them people in RTE and yet despite this the media and news does be dominated by Dublincentric stuff. Everything from the news to the weather to the sitcoms is based around Dublin with not much else focused on the rest of the country. Theres times when you just have to say ah sure this kind of thing isnt on at all, and do something about it.

Do you think its time to protest about the Dublincentric orientation of the media like them people protesting about the IMF and public sector.

What about that program Single handed about a garda in the somewhere that isn't dublin. I'd watch it but A: RTE is ****e, B: Who cares about what happens outside Dublin?

mikemac

OP, check out Nationwide, they visit a new area every week

Not a bad show

Wompa1

feelingstressed wrote: »

OP, check out Nationwide, they visit a new area every week

Not a bad show

That's two nationwide pops from you today. What gives? Also what's with all the anti dubs anti non-dubs garbage..horse crap, why don't we just ignore each other. Dubs can come to our side for stags/hens and we can go there for sporting events. Settled.

mikemac

Wompa1 wrote: »

That's two nationwide pops from you today. What gives?

Are you mixing me up with somebody else?
I've checked my history, I never mentioned Nationwide anywhere else recently

whatdoicare

People still watch RTE??:eek:
I have sky, I don't need to waste my time watching old people,Mass, Bingo and what cows are doing for entertainment.

baltimore sun

Does the media be focusing too much on Dublin

ffs man :eek:

*Are the media focusing on Dublin too much?* :

Do you really think people will take this thread seriously if you cannot be bothered writing a title that's grammatically correct :rolleyes:

Gummy Panda

OP, no one cares if your bog is frozen so stop your envy of Dublin

Donal Og O Baelach

baltimore sun wrote: »

Does the media be focusing too much on Dublin

ffs man :eek:

*Are the media focusing on Dublin too much?* :

Do you really think people will take this thread seriously if you cannot be bothered writing a title that's grammatically correct :rolleyes:

And where's your punctuation? How can anyone be expected to take your comment seriously? fffs:rolleyes:

topper75

The laziness and ignorance in Montrose and D'Olier Street is responsible for 95% of this unnecessary Dublin/Provinces animosity. The Indo also likes to stick a dollybird posing in Stephen's Green as their default front page photo.

The tabloids are too busy worrying about British celebrities to even pay heed to Dublin.

I read the Examiner.
Problem solved.

Donal Og O Baelach

topper75 wrote: »

The laziness and ignorance in Montrose and D'Olier Street is responsible for 95% of this unnecessary Dublin/Provinces animosity. The Indo also likes to stick a dollybird posing in Stephen's Green as their default front page photo.

The tabloids are too busy worrying about British celebrities to even pay heed to Dublin.

I read the Examiner.
Problem solved.

In fairness, I think it started a bit before the emergence of RTE, give or take a thousand years. There was a bit of needle going on about the time of the battle of Clontarf in 1014. (incidentally, they didn't have Boards to argue on then, only a few Bards - boom-boom!)

Strangely, (cue Twilight Zone music) while checking this date out on wikipedia here I came accross this:

"However this alliance was destined not to last, and in 1013 Máel Mórda again went to Sigtrygg for help after being admonished by Gormlaith for accepting Brian's rule. This time Sigtrygg was ready to fight, and various Irish clans who were envious of Brian quickly joined him."
:eek:

phasers

phill106 wrote: »

Fair City?
Whats the new one, fade street?

Not sitcoms.

Also Ros na Rún balances out Fair City

Pherekydes

You're all concentrating on the OP's bad grammar and offensive anti-Dublin rhetoric (amongst others), but nobody (that I can see) drew attention to the OP's username. He's just a jealous eFFer, and recognises that the eFFers are going to be annihilated in the greater Dublin area.

@R C H P: That was a cheap and offensive shot. I worked with guys from all over the country and while the slagging got occasionally nasty on both sides no one ever said anything as offensive as Dublin = Engerland.

baltimore sun

Donal Og O Baelach wrote: »

And where's your punctuation? How can anyone be expected to take your comment seriously? fffs:rolleyes:

good sir, i was writing in prose, so they're run on lines.

John_Rambo

topper75 wrote: »

The laziness and ignorance in Montrose and D'Olier Street is responsible for 95% of this....

Irish Times today:

Front Page - Financial stuff, economic crises, nationwide issues. Weather report mentioning in order Limerick, Dundalk, Waterford, Dublin and Cork.

Page Two - Poaching article in Leinster, Kerry killing verdict, Cork woman not guilty. Dundalk Mortor. Galway Doctor. Rural networks. Baby death Sligo. Westmeath family's poverty plight. Sligo business woman.

Page Three - Reconnection fees halfed. Rape cases. School age childcare.

Page Four - University Cork lecturer story. Judgement on Romanian. Age enhanced photo of Kildare man missing in Dublin. Athlone raid...

And so on...

You should read more than one paper. Open your eyes and your mind.

cazzak79

dublin is the capital of this country of ours. the state of the roads up here due to the snow and weather its embarrassing.

figarofigaro

Dublin is the best part of the country in my opinion. All you people talkin' bout "Dublin ain't shit" best not bother coming back.

Gator

fail

johnnyskeleton

FF and proud wrote: »

Do you think its time to protest about the Dublincentric orientation of the media like them people protesting about the IMF and public sector.

If you commit more murders, have more protests/riots, have industrial plants close with losses of jobs and encourage more of your local banks to scam a load of people out of all their money then your local area will get just as much media attention as Dublin.

Dublin may be a media whore, but it's almost like the rest of the country is just not trying, leading fairly ordinary, non violent or outrageous lives.

EDIT: Except for that guy down Offaly way, who imprisoned his elderly parents and fed them (both diabetic) nothing but red lemonade and chocolate burbons. And a lot of those paedophiles - they've really done a lot to raise the rest of the country's media profile.

RockinRolla

Greyfox wrote: »

Yes it does but that's only because Dublin is the greatest city in the world

LOL....quite the opposite.

Dublin is a fcuking sh1thole of the highest order.

(I'm from there)

Capt'n Midnight

topper75 wrote: »

I read the Examiner.
Problem solved.

Not called the Cork Examiner any more is it boy ?

Sold out , but to no avail the Irish Times is our only national newspaper.

flas

John_Rambo wrote: »

In fairness, most of them are started by non-Dubliners bitching and moaning that either Dublin has everything or they hate Dublin cause it has nothing, or they saw something happening in Dublin. Those type of threads won't be moved to the Dublin forum cause they wouldn't be tolerated and rightly so.

It's the age old story or non-Dubliners being obsessed with Dublin.

As Capt'n Midnight said... the offer was there to the rural civil servants, move out of Dublin (along with incentives) and none of them would move, they love it.

The women love the accent too, makes them melt.

every single girl i know thinks the complete opposite, they think its a vile accent and say its a massive turn off!

Lapin

OP. most of the Irish media is Dublin based, and most of the people who phone Joe Duffy are from Ballyfermot or Clontarf.

So if they get a dash of snow over there or an off licence on De Nortside runs out of Dutch Gold - its national news.

markesmith

figarofigaro wrote: »

Dublin is the best part of the country in my opinion. All you people talkin' bout "Dublin ain't shit" best not bother coming back.

Dublin ain't **** but hoes and tricks

John_Rambo

flas wrote: »

every single girl i know thinks the complete opposite, they think its a vile accent and say its a massive turn off!

Ah yes, they tell you this!!

I Posted this three days ago and not one girl has disagreed. So, before you get every girl you know to post up, my point has been made.

Anyway, just go out to the regular haunts on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday night. Thousands of rural chicks married, engaged, single looking for action in Dublin. Must be the anonymity or something, but. It's easy pickings!

Off to Dublin for some "shopping"!

uwala

Boggers should realise we don't give a sh1t what they think. The bog could float off into the Atlantic tomorrow and we wouldn't miss the inbred inhibited ugly little hillbillies one little bit. For some reason they have a huge chip on their shoulder about us.

And "Jackeen" isn't an insult, it's meaningless to us.

Jamiekelly

figarofigaro wrote: »

Dublin is the best part of the country in my opinion. All you people talkin' bout "Dublin ain't shit" best not bother coming back.

GTFO

RobbieTheRobber

flas wrote: »

every single girl i know thinks the complete opposite, they think its a vile accent and say its a massive turn off!

Yeah but thats like women saying they dont like violence, if thats true why do they stay with me!

mikemac

Ever listen to Joe Duffy

The caller says they live on some street and just assume the rest of the country has a clue where they are. Arrogance tbh

"Ah yes, I live Clanbrassil Street"

And then Joe has to jump and point out where that is.
Now fair enough, that may be the only Clanbrassil Street in the country but it's just one example

Yesterday the call was about Sundrive Road, no more required. Yes, that's in Crumlin and the caller reckons everyone in the country knows this too

just-joe

I've never actually been to Dublin. What's it like?

Is it possible to get there by public transport from Cavan?

RobbieTheRobber

feelingstressed wrote: »

Ever listen to Joe Duffy

The caller says they live on some street and just assume the rest of the country has a clue where they are. Arrogance tbh

"Ah yes, I live Clanbrassil Street"

And then Joe has to jump and point out where that is.
Now fair enough, that may be the only Clanbrassil Street in the country but it's just one example

Yesterday the call was about Sundrive Road, no more required. Yes, that's in Crumlin and the caller reckons everyone in the country knows this too

Point 1
TBH every old biddy on that show assumes everyone knows what the hell they are talking about and most of the callers use some form of Colloquial crap talk.

Point 2
Its the feckin joe duffy show, why the hell are you listenign to that and then complaining here?
shouldnt you ring Joe?

mikemac

Maybe I will

I'll tell him I'm in "town"

One thing that wrankles me is ads leaving out the 01 when giving the number.

Any time I come across it in person I make a point of saying "what code's that?" I mean, you need it if you're dialling from a mobile anyway-it's good practice.

fakearms123

Dublin is the mecca center of earth, it's modern architecture and its picturesque skyline calls across the waters of the tranquil River Liffey, it is one of the greatest metropolitan cities in the world. It's shopping, theatres, transport, fine dining and other luxuries are unmatched. It's rows and rows of skyscrapers and other buildings hit the horizon like a knife, this city could be explored for days, weeks even months on end and the city would still not be fully seen.

One of Dublin's major attractions, Junkie with sh*t covered jacket unconscious on McDonalds happy meal with syringe in left elbow can be found on Dame St. Another famous attraction is wait at Dublin city bus stop for 1 hour longer than the intended time. Or if you are a fan of world renowned cuisine, you should visit Le Spar where you can purchase a bottle of Fanta and packet of Tayto crisps for affordable price of €29.99. Take a trip down Henry St and enjoy getting spit on by a scumbag wearing his counterfeit reebok tracksuit bottoms inside his socks.

Visit Dublin - where it isn't unusual to catch syphilis from touching the outside of the luas.

biko

I wonder if people from other capitals like Paris, London, Mexico City etc have the same mindset about the rest of their countries. Probably.

They are jealous about us

They have a chip on their shoulder about us

Jackeens/culchies, this thread is about to be wrapped up soon.
Get your piece of mind in before that happens.

maximoose

biko wrote: »

I wonder if people from other capitals like Paris, London, Mexico City etc have the same mindset about the rest of their countries. Probably.

I dunno. What always amazes me when i've gone to capitals like Paris, London, Berlin is the amount of tourists about from that country who have gone just to see the capital.

Maybe its just that I dont pick them out from the hoards of spanish, but it seems everyone outside of Dublin stays away from the place.

RobbieTheRobber

maximoose wrote: »

I dunno. What always amazes me when i've gone to capitals like Paris, London, Berlin is the amount of tourists about from that country who have gone just to see the capital.

Maybe its just that I dont pick them out from the hoards of spanish, but it seems everyone outside of Dublin stays away from the place.

Dublin is full of meck savages on day trips, granted the snow has slowed that presently.
Isnt there a day when they all come to Dooblin for their shopping for Xmas?

strawberryb0y

maximoose wrote: »

I dunno. What always amazes me when i've gone to capitals like Paris, London, Berlin is the amount of tourists about from that country who have gone just to see the capital.

Maybe its just that I dont pick them out from the hoards of spanish, but it seems everyone outside of Dublin stays away from the place.

I'd say your not picking them out, sure how many non Dubs are in college there. And on tourism,Dublin is hardly London, Pars or Berlin

ricman

Well say you are in clare ,you can listen to local radio, read local papers, acess the internet.
YOU might say rte focus,s too much on dublin cos most of its reporters are based there, our government is based there.
IF you look at tv schedules, most programs, are either british or american shows.I was only watching rte or irish programs i would be very bored,ie much of it is 2nd rate copys of american or uk program formats or talk shows/
soap operas.
tg4s no use to me as i do not understand the irish language, i have no wish to watch us programs dubbed into irish either, and i dont like crap tv.
You might say the same of the bbc, most of the programs seem to be based in london,although they have bbc wales,scotland etc ie regional stations.
theres probably loads of young people with sky tv,who never watch rte at all, ie they watch british or american tv.

passive

biko wrote: »

I wonder if people from other capitals like Paris, London, Mexico City etc have the same mindset about the rest of their countries. Probably.




Jackeens/culchies, this thread is about to be wrapped up soon.
Get your piece of mind in before that happens.

Better a Jackeen than a Gombeen

Son Of A Vidic

I've no problem with Dublin, except for the fact that it's a pathetic excuse for a capital city really. Its own high opinion of itself, sadly isn't matched by reality on the ground.