RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

FrancieBrady

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

What kind of an interview was that with Michelle O’Neill?

Poor sound ...couldn’t understand a word she was saying.

Jaysus ,surely get her into a studio.

Must be your reception Brendi, I heard it the best and I was out for my daily run along the border too.

Brendan Bendar

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Must be your reception Brendi, I heard it the best and I was out for my daily run along the border too.

Must be, strange that Sir Geoff came over loud and clear.

Hope you weren’t on an unapproved road...... I know they aren’t there anymore ,to deflect about fifty posts.

FrancieBrady

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Must be, strange that Sir Geoff came over loud and clear.

Hope you weren’t on an unapproved road...... I know they aren’t there anymore ,to deflect about fifty posts.

'Unapproved roads' were a foreign concept to us Brendi. And reception must've been bad btw as it's 'Jeffery'.
Jeffers wouldn't take kindly to you ignoring the Anglicisation of his name fadó fadó

Brendan Bendar

FrancieBrady wrote: »

'Unapproved roads' were a foreign concept to us Brendi. And reception must've been bad btw as it's 'Jeffery'.
Jeffers wouldn't take kindly to you ignoring the Anglicisation of his name fadó fadó

Having a bad day today Francie , you are correct.

FrancieBrady

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Having a bad day today Francie , you are correct.

Everyday the same...'Groundhog Day' I think it is called across the big pond Brendi.

Nevin Parsnipp

FrancieBrady wrote: »

'Unapproved roads' were a foreign concept to us Brendi. And reception must've been bad btw as it's 'Jeffery'.
Jeffers wouldn't take kindly to you ignoring the Anglicisation of his name fadó fadó

Not to be pedantic but is it not Jeffrey ?

FrancieBrady

Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »

Not to be pedantic but is it not Jeffrey ?

Correct, I used the wrong variant. Apologies Jeffrey.

amlinopta

Painful stuff, flirting feature with Roe McDermott.

Brendan Bendar

amlinopta wrote: »

Painful stuff, flirting feature with Roe McDermott.

Very painful, complete heavy handed rubbish.

I could accept it if it wasn’t so obvious with O’hEadhra and Sarah trying to hint there’s a bit of ‘banter ‘ between them.

Abject failure is my opinion, either present a decent programme with reasonable gravitas and content ,or piss off to Dave or something like Off Road Truckers or ‘My Hell in a Vietnamese Prison”

Terrible stuff.

Nevin Parsnipp

O'headhra giving both barrels to Byrne from FG....lad got a terrible batterin ...

FrancieBrady

Nevin Parsnipp wrote: »

O'headhra giving both barrels to Byrne from FG....lad got a terrible batterin ...

Fully deserved. Another lad who thinks waffle will suffice.

Odyssey 2005

Cormac o Hara just went through a full interview with a senior doctor who is engaged in attempting to gain Irish citizenship. Not once did he ask the doctor "where he originally came from", nor did he thank the good doctor for his services. The ghoul duffy should take note !

Infoanon

Sarah giving Billy Kelliher a very easy interview there unfortunately

Brendan Bendar

Infoanon wrote: »

Sarah giving Billy Kelliher a very easy interview there unfortunately

She could hardly inject too much bile into what he is trying to do.

Minister Donnelly on later.... would predict the tone might be different, whoever gets the gig.

mzungu

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Very painful, complete heavy handed rubbish.

I could accept it if it wasn’t so obvious with O’hEadhra and Sarah trying to hint there’s a bit of ‘banter ‘ between them.

Abject failure is my opinion, either present a decent programme with reasonable gravitas and content ,or piss off to Dave or something like Off Road Truckers or ‘My Hell in a Vietnamese Prison”

Terrible stuff.

A bit harsh. The two of them strike the right balance between having a bit of craic and switching to serious when necessary.

FrancieBrady

mzungu wrote: »

A bit harsh. The two of them strike the right balance between having a bit of craic and switching to serious when necessary.

I agree. They have settled in and you know what you are getting. Never get the feeling the banter is rehearsed like some duo shows.

Cole

mzungu wrote: »

A bit harsh. The two of them strike the right balance between having a bit of craic and switching to serious when necessary.

Not harsh enough. I think they're both decent presenters/interviewers individually, but this new format has ruined what was once a solid news and current affairs programme imo. Maybe this is the kind of stuff/sh1te most listeners want nowadays...who knows.

FrancieBrady

Cole wrote: »

Not harsh enough. I think they're both decent presenters/interviewers individually, but this new format has ruined what was once a solid news and current affairs programme imo. Maybe this is the kind of stuff/sh1te most listeners want nowadays...who knows.

Will probably gain more listeners than it loses. It's a long stint and I'm sure many switched off when it was all too serious.

Pelvis Parsley

I agree-I think they're doing ok, and an improvement for sure on the Great Interrupter.

mzungu

Cole wrote: »

Not harsh enough. I think they're both decent presenters/interviewers individually, but this new format has ruined what was once a solid news and current affairs programme imo. Maybe this is the kind of stuff/sh1te most listeners want nowadays...who knows.

Ruined in what way? Mary Wilson had her own way doing it which was indeed solid. The new format is also solid and covers all the same ground as before. The only difference being the dynamics in how it's presented has changed.

Brendan Bendar

Jaysus.... that lad John Cooke is some negative individual.

Never seems to have anything positive to report on.

Doesn’t seem to have the concept of balance quite fully handled.

Brendan Bendar

What a load of tosh on now........ what kind of rubbish is this.

C’mon.... who comes up with this crap.

Robert McGrath

Claire Daly getting an easy time here. No real challenge to her agenda. Surprised Sarah hasn’t raised the issue of Daly’s quasi anti-vax Dail questions in the past

Bellbottoms

Missed the start. Who is this spoofer.

Brendan Bendar

Robert McGrath wrote: »

Claire Daly getting an easy time here. No real challenge to her agenda. Surprised Sarah hasn’t raised the issue of Daly’s quasi anti-vax Dail questions in the past

Surprised!!!

Uhmmm.

Brendan Bendar

Sarah is flash banging..... the Doc is well able for her.

Slow it down Doc, let her blow out the wind...

amlinopta

“Text us your favourite 80s song” on a current affairs show. Dumbing down at an alarming pace here.

ShamNNspace

Just who's idea is it to have this stuff on rte's premier radio news programme? I really miss the times when I would get the state broadcasters version of the news each day between 5 and 7 and I could take it or leave it as I please, those days are long gone now, everything heading off in the direction of the lowest common denominator

Brendan Bendar

O’Broin getting a new one ripped out for him.

mcAuliffe tore nim assunder

About time, even McInerney couldn’t save the guy.

About time someone stood to these charlatans.

Grolschevik

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

O’Broin getting a new one ripped out for him.

mcAuliffe tore nim assunder

About time, even McInerney couldn’t save the guy.

About time someone stood to these charlatans.

I was just passing and saw who the last poster was. I literally clicked in just to see if someone critical of the government was "getting a new one ripped for them". I was not disappointed.

In other news, this is apparently on offer: https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Illustrated-Thesaurus-DK/dp/1465462376/ref=sr_1_3?crid=163US4L4FMRWE&dchild=1&keywords=thesaurus+for+kids+grades+4-9&qid=1613499212&sprefix=thesaurus%2Caps%2C270&sr=8-3

Brendan Bendar

Grolschevik wrote: »

I was just passing and saw who the last poster was. I literally clicked in just to see if someone critical of the government was "getting a new one ripped for them". I was not disappointed.

In other news, this is apparently on offer: https://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Illustrated-Thesaurus-DK/dp/1465462376/ref=sr_1_3?crid=163US4L4FMRWE&dchild=1&keywords=thesaurus+for+kids+grades+4-9&qid=1613499212&sprefix=thesaurus%2Caps%2C270&sr=8-3

Are you trying to suggest that the post is not true?

Brendan Bendar

There’s that idiot O’HEadhra making sure they leave with another cut at the HSE.

Different attitude when they broke all the rules at the birthday party, nobody available to comment.

These people should be called out on these issues


Surely there’s a reason why the Hotel in Carlow was taken off the COVID jab venue.

These Rte people need to be called to account for this poor reportage.

ShamNNspace

Should have tubbs or D'Arcy on for this item on smalltalk with the amount they trouser per year for their smalltalk

Brendan Bendar

ShamNNspace wrote: »

Should have tubbs or D'Arcy on for this item on smalltalk with the amount they trouser per year for their smalltalk

Yeah.

I notice they seem to ‘slot’ this crap in between around 1646 and 1700.

They were struggling to fill the gap and avoid ‘dead air’ today.

Cormac was cast as the talkative dude and Sarah as less fond of small talk.

They got ‘rent-a-gob ‘ Lise Hand and some other non-entity to act as foils, but as usual this rubbish sank like a stone.

The ‘ chemistry’ between these two does not exist naturally, totally contrived and false.

It’s obvious, but hey, it took RTE years to figure poor John Murray wasn’t a fit for a one hour 5 day a week prog.

No disrespect for John... square peg ....round hole.

Obvious after the first two months.

Del.Monte

Poor John Murray, like Bobby Kerr, a voice made for silent radio.

tomglsn

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Yeah.

I notice they seem to ‘slot’ this crap in between around 1646 and 1700.

They were struggling to fill the gap and avoid ‘dead air’ today.

Cormac was cast as the talkative dude and Sarah as less fond of small talk.

They got ‘rent-a-gob ‘ Lise Hand and some other non-entity to act as foils, but as usual this rubbish sank like a stone.

The ‘ chemistry’ between these two does not exist naturally, totally contrived and false.

It’s obvious, but hey, it took RTE years to figure poor John Murray wasn’t a fit for a one hour 5 day a week prog.

No disrespect for John... square peg ....round hole.

Obvious after the first two months.

Absolutely just filling time. Frustrating to listen to.

Brendan Bendar

Listen for the slot between around 1645 and 1700, let’s see if that stupid ‘banter’ bit comes on.

Odyssey 2005

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Listen for the slot between around 1645 and 1700, let’s see if that stupid ‘banter’ bit comes on.

FFS. Words fail me

Brendan Bendar

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

FFS. Words fail me

There ya go dude.

ShamNNspace

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

FFS. Words fail me

Ya wouldn't catch David Hanly at that craic, I know he was morning Ireland
but "different class... different class" as Jimmy magee might say long ago

Gen.Zhukov

I enjoyed Sarah's chat with Peter Burke yesterday. She was sharp and had done the research re dates etc. The first part she basically handed the waffler his arse on a silver platter. For the second topic, she took his arse back off him - gave it a few slaps and presented it to him again.

Nevin Parsnipp

Gen.Zhukov wrote: »

I enjoyed Sarah's chat with Peter Burke yesterday. She was sharp and had done the research re dates etc. The first part she basically handed the waffler his arse on a silver platter. For the second topic, she took his arse back off him - gave it a few slaps and presented it to him again.

The lad might have enjoyed that ?

Del.Monte

More woke/BLM ****e about Trinity College - where will it end? A backlash I suspect. There are far more pressing items in Ireland and the World than all this virtue signalling ****e...:mad:

Nevin Parsnipp

Del.Monte wrote: »

More woke/BLM ****e about Trinity College - where will it end? A backlash I suspect. There are far more pressing items in Ireland and the World than all this virtue signalling ****e...:mad:

Be interesting to know how is the cost of this stuff being accounted for ?

Like, where will it show up in the College Accounts .

Similiarly in U. L where they are having to provide free covid tests because our "Future leaders" can't be arsed following public health guidelines.

How is this being funded ...be interesting to find out ?

Clon63

Actually find this an improvement on the Mary Wilson version. I went over to Ivan Yates when he was on Newstalk.

Think the 2 presenters approach has freshened things up. The slot at 4.50 can be painful and the texting jars but otherwise I find it an Ok listen. I think the presenters are more energetic and sometimes are more hostile to the government side but that is probably to be expected.

amlinopta

Bed cleaning etiquette in the dreadful 16.50-17.00 slot. Dire.

Odyssey 2005

Poolbeg chimneys,running out of content now.

ShamNNspace

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Poolbeg chimneys,running out of content now.

"Dublins Eiffel tower" what are we like at all??

Brendan Bendar

O’H’Eadhra losing it ...... getting a new one ripped out for himself.

Fair play to Peter Burke, tore out a new one for Kenny.

Brendan Bendar

Heh heh heh

Here’s Cooke coming up to interview the vintners about the lockdown.

I’ll give you a guess what will be the outcome.

They will say that it was a great idea and that it really helped the fight against the pandemic.



:D


What’s the freaking point of these slots.