“When you’re dealing with programmes in Irish and trying to attract people to TG4…. do you think they are being ‘tacky’ so as to entice people? – that’s what I think is happening.
You can write an article that can cause a lot of damage to people and shame people, or you can produce programmes that shame people …this programme shames that young girl.
It doesn’t matter what [people] think … she may be laughing about it but I was uncomfortable watching it. A lot of people felt very uncomfortable about this programme….Where is the humanity in these actions? There is none.
I’d like to hear from TG4 what were they thinking when they planned this, when they commissioned it”
Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh discussing Pioc Do Ride, TG4’s new dating show on her new radio show.
Reáchtáil!
Thanks Gerry Keely
A self righteous (although not particularly self aware) pain in the hole, that woman
“she may be laughing about it but I was uncomfortable watching it”
She may not have been offended but I am offended therefore it’s shaming. She doesn’t think it’s shaming but it is shaming coz I say so. She obviously doesn’t know her mind or enough about feminism to realise it’s shaming.
I stopped listening to this person the day I saw her snapping her fingers to call a waiter in a restaurant.
Piocin’ hell!
Imigh as Blathnaid. Pian sa thóin.
As usual, someone claiming to be a feminist is offended on someone else’s behalf while simultaneously ignoring that person’s agency.
Blathnaid tried to throw the lips on me at a Picture House gig in 1998, I have questioned her decision making skills since
Now I have the gawks
She didn’t seem too shamed on the Ray D’arcy Show.
https://twitter.com/coreyhanna92/status/650702855360413696
No no she was shamed. She just doesn’t know it yet
her opinion matters little.
A 250 quid voucher or a date where you have to spend 250 quid on a person you wouldn’t normally take out. Rocket science this is not. Entertainingly cringey it most certainly is. That boy racer lad is class and should have his own radio show, can we give him Blaithnaid’s?
Kindly delete my post instead of editing the heart out of it thank you very much broadsheet.
Wouldnt you just take the 250 quid every time, you’d be retarded not to
Eh no not if was hot and up for it. 250 quid covers a nice weekend for two in a hotel room with a do not disturb sign on the door.
Eh no not if *she* was hot and up for it. Still no edit button on the comments section. Is that database read only or what lads?
If it was read only, surely you wouldn’t be able to post.
Who da’ púc does this bonabh think she is?
Sh1t sick of this ‘wan being given free air time
to spout sh1t
as she sees fit
WTF lady
Find annuder trough
For your snout
Is that last bit an actual haiku?
Sur I dunno
Ask one of the Creatives
Did the lady in question not ‘shame’ the other two lads by flinging ’em to the kerb if that’s the criteria?
I mean is it only shaming if you reject someone for money and not the ride?
It’s not as if she was bungled into the back of a van and filmed for this show at gun point.
Would Blathnaid apply the same criteria to someone getting voted off The X Factor or one of these other freakshows?
you can’t protect people from themselves after all
I wonder does she remember those cúpla focals of encouragement that she uttered to Dara Ó Briain just before they went to air on his debut on Echo Island?
I forget
Remind me
Well, let’s just say that he proved her wrong in the immediate short term and by his longevity in the business, also in the long term.
Latest TAM figures are from August 2015
TG4’s share of the total viewing each channel received 1.89%
The top ten programmes on TG4 in August were as follows
Top 10 August 2015
GAA BEO 2014 – 2015
The Life of David Gale
Fleadh TV 2015
Peil na mBan Beo 2015
Lawman
Vanity Fair
NUACHT TG4 2015
Ar Bhóithrín na Smaointe 4
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Boat That Rocked
5 of the top 10 programmes were films ; I had to check Lawman and it was a 1971 Western directed by Michael Winner
Have to wonder if it would be wiser to simply close TG4 (which costs over €30 million a year) and broadcast on YouTube.
Hey
See that
Look how easy it is t’put Tub
On UTube
Put the púcin lot’ve it inta RTubE
Cept R1
Move all that crowd down to Lyric
N’flog Montrose to Daddy O’ Bribucks
Before the Foreign National himself gets gifted it
Blathnaid’s Wimmins studies have fried her brain cells, all three of them :)
TG4 does some good investigative programmes, some good Euroseries, and good documentaries, and their news reporting is good. They offer good quality programming; if the viewers want instead to watch Fair City and Eastenders that says more about the intellectual level of Irish TV watchers than the intellectual quality of TG4 programming.
Yep
I’m no stranger ta’ it meself
The Sport, esp midweek stuff,
Is as good as ya’d get anywhere
Yep that Pioc do Ride is real intellectual stiff.