RTÉ 6.1 News changes

Elmo · 12-07-2020 5:44pm

Radio5 wrote: »

Who'll go to Prime Time? Maybe a job for a correspondent returning from abroad?

Washington correspondent

I’d say Sarah mcinerny will get PT.

imme · 12-07-2020 5:51pm

Elmo wrote: »

Washington correspondent

I’d say Sarah mcinerny will get PT.

They have only just handed her the morning show.
I don't see them giving her Prime Time as well.

Richard Downes might be given a job to earn his paycheck. He does a piece for Prime Time about once a month. :eek:

Elmo · 12-07-2020 6:09pm

imme wrote: »

They have only just handed her the morning show.
I don't see them giving her Prime Time as well.

Richard Downes might be given a job to earn his paycheck. He does a piece for Prime Time about once a month. :eek:

Today hasn’t been given to her yet she’s just standing in, while Pat Kenny was on both Today & Prime Time.

Muahahaha · 12-07-2020 6:27pm

Radio5 wrote: »

Yes I think it's a strange move for him. I don't think he was ever a News reader before. Ray Kennedy tweeted that he'd be doing the weekend Six news.

Who'll go to Prime Time? Maybe a job for a correspondent returning from abroad?

Poor Ray Kennedy, shafted again. Agree with others that he is a bit wooden but I dont want all singing and dancing news anchors either. Ray is a solid pro but always seems to get overlooked as he was before when Perry got the gig.

You can always tell who is the lowest in the RTE newsroom pecking order by who gets landed with reading the Sunday 9pm news on a Bank Holiday weekend.

Elmo · 12-07-2020 7:15pm

"Muahahaha;114010911&#8221 wrote:

You can always tell who is the lowest in the RTE newsroom pecking order by who gets landed with reading the Sunday 9pm news on a Bank Holiday weekend.

Brian Finn

imme · 13-07-2020 12:08am

Elmo wrote: »

Today hasn’t been given to her yet she’s just standing in, while Pat Kenny was on both Today & Prime Time.

I think we all know that it's hers

Did Pat do Prime Time or the Front line, which was a replacement for Questions and Answers, a pet project.

icdg · 13-07-2020 7:47am

imme wrote: »

I think we all know that it's hers
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I wouldn’t take that as read at all.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/a-shoo-in-claire-byrne-described-as-frontrunner-to-replace-sean-orourke-on-today-programme-39362212.html

imme · 13-07-2020 1:30pm

icdg wrote: »

I wouldn’t take that as read at all.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/a-shoo-in-claire-byrne-described-as-frontrunner-to-replace-sean-orourke-on-today-programme-39362212.html

Claire Byrne is now favourite according to the Indo.
I was surprised to see that earlier.

Will the bookies be happy or pissed off that this speculation came out.

Sarah mcinerney has eaten anyone alive whose gone on the today show in the last few weeks apart from Mary 'I will seek advice' Kenny this morning.

She went very easy on old Mary.

HeidiHeidi · 13-07-2020 2:03pm

imme wrote: »

Claire Byrne is now favourite according to the Indo.
I was surprised to see that earlier.

Will the bookies be happy or pissed off that this speculation came out.

Sarah mcinerney has eaten anyone alive whose gone on the today show in the last few weeks apart from Mary 'I will seek advice' Kenny this morning.

She went very easy on old Mary.

I thought she gave her exactly enough rope to completely hang herself. It was excellent radio.

In no way could Sarah be accused of bullying or haranguing her, she let Mary do all the damage herself.

Best interview I've heard in a good while!

California Dreamer · 13-07-2020 2:27pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

I got the impression.

Slightly OT, but do many people get your username these days?

AndrewJRenko · 18-07-2020 5:48pm

California Dreamer wrote: »

Slightly OT, but do many people get your username these days?

I was accused of being a redneck racist recently, so I guess some do!

dublinman1990 · 20-07-2020 9:21pm

What's going on with the RTÉ News background in Studio 3?

Radio5 · 22-07-2020 11:50am

They're back to summer Six One now. half hour bulletin followed by Reeling in the Years...

Brendan Bendar · 03-09-2020 8:17am

Hmmm.. McCullagh and Perry....

Saw it for the first time last night.... not bad.

McCullagh more lively than usual, better haircut and looks less like a rural undertakers assistant.

Still has that habit of turning a statement into a question, bit irritating.

Needs to keep the head up and to use an NFL term, ‘don’t lead with the crown of the helmet’.

Perry was.....well.. Perry

B- from this poster...but pleasantly breezy.

Will keep a watching brief.

California Dreamer · 03-09-2020 8:46am

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Hmmm.. McCullagh and Perry....

Saw it for the first time last night.... not bad.

McCullagh more lively than usual, better haircut and looks less like a rural undertakers assistant.

I thought he had robbed Ray Kennedys suits!

Muahahaha · 03-09-2020 2:40pm

Well hopefully they get McCullogh to interview any Ministers on the program and keep Perry well away from them after that car crash sit down interview she had with Michael Martin over Golfgate two weeks ago.

I dont think McCullogh is any great shakes but he is significantly better than Perry at interviewing politicians who have spent all afternoon getting trained by Terry Prone before their interview.

Brendan Bendar · 03-09-2020 5:16pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Well hopefully they get McCullogh to interview any Ministers on the program and keep Perry well away from them after that car crash sit down interview she had with Michael Martin over Golfgate two weeks ago.

I dont think McCullogh is any great shakes but he is significantly better than Perry at interviewing politicians who have spent all afternoon getting trained by Terry Prone before their interview.

I would have to agree with that synopsis.

alaimacerc · 04-09-2020 6:52pm

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

I was accused of being a redneck racist recently, so I guess some do!

Renko, Hill, my office! Leave the door open.

Montage of Feck · 04-09-2020 6:57pm

imme wrote: »

I think we all know that it's hers

Did Pat do Prime Time or the Front line, which was a replacement for Questions and Answers, a pet project.

Too much to ask for a return to the Q&A format on Monday nights I suppose.

Brendan Bendar · 04-09-2020 7:00pm

Lenihan spaffing off the wall in this report.

alaimacerc · 04-09-2020 7:01pm

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Too much to ask for a return to the Q&A format on Monday nights I suppose.

Not the best time for it, with the world as it is. And really needs a good presenter: you don't get many John Bowmans to the kg. And to be well-produced generally. Look at the shouty gammonfest that the BBC's Question Time has turned into in recent years.

alaimacerc · 04-09-2020 7:09pm

imme wrote: »

I think we all know that it's hers

Did Pat do Prime Time or the Front line, which was a replacement for Questions and Answers, a pet project.

PT briefly went three-days-a-week, with a 'perm two presenters from three' rota, briefly including PK. Either side of that there were 'put my name into the title, dammit!' shows first with the Plank, and then with Claire Bryne.

California Dreamer · 04-09-2020 7:15pm

Always some dick who thinks it’s hilarious to be blowing the horn during a live report!

imme · 04-09-2020 10:05pm

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Too much to ask for a return to the Q&A format on Monday nights I suppose.

This would be a bit too serious for RTE who don't seem interested in looking at anything serious in anything other than snippets.

alaimacerc · 05-09-2020 3:37am

California Dreamer wrote: »

Always some dick who thinks it’s hilarious to be blowing the horn during a live report!

Anti-vehicular rocket-launchers required.

05-09-2020 12:01pm

alaimacerc wrote: »

Renko, Hill, my office! Leave the door open.

I was always somewhat jealous of Renko, who had the lovely Helen Shaver cast as Teresa, his girlfriend, in a few episodes. 35 years on, and I think she is still a lovely looking woman.

yaboya1 · 05-09-2020 12:24pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Well hopefully they get McCullogh to interview any Ministers on the program and keep Perry well away from them after that car crash sit down interview she had with Michael Martin over Golfgate two weeks ago.

I dont think McCullogh is any great shakes but he is significantly better than Perry at interviewing politicians who have spent all afternoon getting trained by Terry Prone before their interview.

Her effort the other night with Catherine Martin wasn't any better. Very, very poor.

Muahahaha · 05-09-2020 2:35pm

yaboya1 wrote: »

Her effort the other night with Catherine Martin wasn't any better. Very, very poor.

yeah I saw that and it wasnt great though not quite the car crash the Michael Martin interview was. She just seems to have her cue cards with 10 questions on them and shes asking those questions no matter what the interviewee says back to her.

Catherine Martin herself was pretty ropey too which surprised me. All she had to do was explain the scheme to get your tax back from hotels & restaurants but she was stumbling over her words and sowing even more confusion.

Its been that way a good few times with Covid messaging, a minister does an interview to outline the latest regulations and instead of getting a simple message across with concise language and to the point sentences they end up sowing even more confusion. A couple of weeks ago there was so much confusion that Dr.Ronan Glynn had to make his own video to explain what was going on because the politicians had messed it up royally. They're the ones who are supposed to be expert communicators, not the acting CMO.

tintin67 · 05-09-2020 3:19pm

Is there some sort of Beth Rigby test they do before allowing male presenters on now? "Good evenin' , we'll be talkin' to the taoiseach but we're goin' for a break first." Dobbo was the same. Not a g string in sight.

Brendan Bendar · 23-09-2020 7:41pm

Where did they get that lad McCullagh from.

What’s with the hair style

Like something out of The Big Bang Theory.

Stop that f uking pursing the lips after every delivery.

C’mon dude.

California Dreamer · 24-09-2020 6:11am

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Where did they get that lad McCullagh from.

What’s with the hair style

Like something out of The Big Bang Theory.

Stop that f uking pursing the lips after every delivery.

C’mon dude.

Do you reckon he would have some interesting stories from the RTE jacks!?

Brendan Bendar · 24-09-2020 4:40pm

California Dreamer wrote: »

Do you reckon he would have some interesting stories from the RTE jacks!?

No, reckon he could make nothing interesting.....

dublinman1990 · 07-10-2020 6:06pm

The video wall in Studio 3 is on the blink again.

Brendan Bendar · 07-10-2020 6:34pm

These two presenters are about as dynamic as a brace of dead hedgehogs.

McCullagh with the purse of the lips after every ‘contribution’ and leading with the top of the head.

Don’t get me going about the eyebrow gymnastics........... change has to happen.. but it won’t.

yaboya1 · 09-10-2020 11:43pm

What was Perry doing in Derry tonight?
Surely that couldn't be considered essential? Not only has she left the county, but the country. What sort of example is that setting to the nation? Especially considering she'll likely be (hypocritically) preaching to viewers next week to obey the guidelines.
It appears the reason was to conduct an interview, but that could have easily been done by RTE's northern correspondent (who's a better interviewer and was in the same room anyway).

Very disappointing from RTE, but not unexpected.

SteM · 09-10-2020 11:57pm

yaboya1 wrote: »

What was Perry doing in Derry tonight?
Surely that couldn't be considered essential? Not only has she left the county, but the country. What sort of example is that setting to the nation? Especially considering she'll likely be (hypocritically) preaching to viewers next week to obey the guidelines.
It appears the reason was to conduct an interview, but that could have easily been done by RTE's northern correspondent (who's a better interviewer and was in the same room anyway).

Very disappointing from RTE, but not unexpected.

I don't mind her as an interviewer to be honest but was wondering the same thing myself. Seemed silly sending her there. Also, the live report with the aviva in the background was equally pointless (was it Tony O'Donoghue?). 30 second piece to camera that could easily have been done in studio, there must be a cost for these outside reports.

Radio5 · 10-10-2020 2:53pm

Not to mention sending Marty Morrissey to Donegal to interview a few GAA heads and lament the fact that the County Final isn't happening there this weekend. Hardly essential.

Atlantic Dawn · 10-10-2020 3:23pm

yaboya1 wrote: »

What was Perry doing in Derry tonight?
Surely that couldn't be considered essential? Not only has she left the county, but the country. What sort of example is that setting to the nation? Especially considering she'll likely be (hypocritically) preaching to viewers next week to obey the guidelines.
It appears the reason was to conduct an interview, but that could have easily been done by RTE's northern correspondent (who's a better interviewer and was in the same room anyway).

Very disappointing from RTE, but not unexpected.

With Derry having a higher rate than Spain she should be self isolating for 14 days when she returns.

yaboya1 · 10-10-2020 6:13pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

With Derry having a higher rate than Spain she should be self isolating for 14 days when she returns.

Yes, the UK is not on the green list afaik, but I doubt she (or anyone who travelled with her) will self isolate. It's more likely she'll return to our screens from Donnybrook on Monday lecturing us plebs to obey the guidelines.

Remember, these are the same people who vilified Phil Hogan for doing similar (not defending Hogan, just pointing out the extreme hypocrisy).

But hey, watch RTE if the truth matters to you

:P

California Dreamer · 14-10-2020 6:26pm

Catriona looks like she got a new make up artist.

14-10-2020 6:29pm

California Dreamer wrote: »

Catriona looks like she got a new make up artist.

Given she was unnecessarily in Derry earlier this week, it may be the early onset of some disease or other

spakman · 14-10-2020 8:39pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Given she was unnecessarily in Derry earlier this week, it may be the early onset of some disease or other

stay classy

Muahahaha · 25-01-2021 7:23pm

They seem to have kicked Sharon Tobin out of the studio and out onto the road doing reports. Pity that, I like Sharon reading the news.

HeidiHeidi · 25-01-2021 7:25pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

They seem to have kicked Sharon Tobin out of the studio and out onto the road doing reports. Pity that, I like Sharon reading the news.

She's alternated between both for a good while now.

I think everyone has to be prepared to do anything and everything these days!

California Dreamer · 23-02-2021 7:49pm

I would have thought poor choice of outfit for Perry tonight. Trying to challenge Sharon?

thesultan · 24-02-2021 1:13am

California Dreamer wrote: »

I would have thought poor choice of outfit for Perry tonight. Trying to challenge Sharon?

How.? She looked well..

California Dreamer · 24-02-2021 8:18am

thesultan wrote: »

How.? She looked well..

I didn't think the outfit suited a prime time news programme.

the-island-man · 24-02-2021 9:09am

thesultan wrote: »

How.? She looked well..

https://youtu.be/X_x-AhHulqc

Skip to 1:50

Doodah7 · 24-02-2021 1:07pm

California Dreamer wrote: »

I would have thought poor choice of outfit for Perry tonight. Trying to challenge Sharon?

What has what she wears got to do with anything? Do David McCullough's suits generate the same interest? No.

She is a journalist and a news presenter not a fashion model.

crossman47 · 24-02-2021 1:10pm

Doodah7 wrote: »

What has what she wears got to do with anything? Do David McCullough's suits generate the same interest? No.

She is a journalist and a news presenter not a fashion model.

Whatever she wore, her interview with Mary Lou last night was terrible. She didn't challenge anything she said but gave her free rein to criticise the government without any question on what she would do.

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