A Limerick A Day

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90372638Miriam O’Callaghan and Ryan Tubridy at yesterday’s RTÉ International Player app launch

Television fans should be aware,
While gazing at Miriam’s hair,
That feast for the eyes,
Is a tissue of lies,
And I for one think it’s not fair.

John Moynes

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

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9 thoughts on “A Limerick A Day

  1. Clampers Outside!

    Poor pet, having to pay for her own hair do, on her paltry salary. It’s like when Joe moans ‘I know, I know… go on’ as if he is anywhere near the people he’s speaking to or when a-listers like Paltrow moaned about being a hard working Mum when she’s got two nannys….. hahaha…. will they all just fupp off! :)

    Beal bocht, me hole.

  2. Mikeyfex

    “A limerick about Miriam’s extensions?”
    I don’t think it errant to mention
    In context of Broadsheet’s appeal
    It’s bordering on the surreal
    It’s like something I’d say for attention

  3. Murtles

    It is very hard to say for certain
    What Miriam does sometimes be blurtin’
    Is it a bad hair day?
    Or is she trying to say,
    That the rug does not match the curtains

  4. Soundings

    Miriam’s hair is probably the most genuine thing about her. Genuinely.

    Her hair is part of her “wardrobe” allowance which she’s paid on top of her €211,000, though she hawks it around to every countless extracurricular engagement.

    An utterly uninformed (wasn’t always the case, but in the news and current affairs business, you need keep on top of your game every day), badly-aging talking head whose survival at RTE is the subject of many unpleasant, arguably true words.

      1. Soundings

        “badly aging” for an interviewer means, on one hand, misremembering or not remembering or not remembering quickly enough, details, and on the other hand, failing to strategise how an interview will be conducted where you know, or should know, the answers in advance. Vinbo, for example, suffers from the first condition (as most interviewers do as they age), but overcomes that by planning his interviews and the sequence of questions to try to get the specific interviewee to provide information or a position that they otherwise wouldn’t. In my opinion, Miriam thinks up questions to ask, fails to use the responses and doesn’t have a strategy for conducting interviews. When she was at the BBC, she remembered details which allowed her to improve her challenges to an interviewee. Kirsty Wark is an example of Miriam’s contemporaries who has also aged in her ability to remember relevant details but her interviews are far superior to anything Miriam does these days.

        As for looks, BS tends to censor my comments on Bryan Dobson’s weight, nothing sexist or even looksist about my comment above at all.

  5. aucontraire

    “Badly aging”.. is that a sexist swipe at her appearance? I would be interested to see what you look like Soundings

  6. Splendido

    Many of us left Ireland so that we wouldn’t have to watch Ryan Tubridy and Miriam…

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