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Late Late Weirdness

Admin at 10:23 am June 5, 2012

They call it a blonde crop.

What game was RTE playing at during the live showing of the 50th anniversary of the Late Late Show on Friday last?

Was it a coincidence that Terry Prone was sitting in the outer seat of the row of seats, when interviewed on the show?

Or was this arranged to save Ryan Tubridy, asking her husband Tom Savage to move out to sit on the steps of the aisle in full range of the audience and viewers.

Even the cameraman made sure by focusing his camera out of the full view of Mr Savage. However, a brief piece of film did show Mr Savage making himself smaller in his seat (click here).

In doing that Mr Savage has broken the golden rule of PR/communications that he preaches in his classes — “that you always look directly at the camera, and that assertiveness happens by making yourself look taller”.

Edward Mahon
76 Roebuck Castle
Clonskeagh
Dublin 14

Irish Examiner Letters

Thanks Sarah B and Miranda Wrights

Meanwhile, At The Count

Admin at 12:18 pm June 1, 2012

11:55 WICKLOW, Tally Received , 89% Boxes Open , YES 61% No 39%

— Damien Tiernan (@damienrte) June 1, 2012

Kerry North/West Limerick – 100% Boxes Open : Yes 60% No 40%. Wexford 100% Boxes Open: Yes 58% No 42% #euref

— RTE Referendum (@RTE_Referendum) June 1, 2012

LAOIS OFFALY – 90% OF BOXES opened51 % TURNOUTTALLIES – YES VOTE 60%, NO VOTE 40%

— Damien Tiernan (@damienrte) June 1, 2012

Results in the Dublin constituencies are expected to be announced from 2.30pm #euref

— RTE Referendum (@RTE_Referendum) June 1, 2012

(Photocall Ireland)

Late Late Too Late Late Says Latest Host

Admin at 3:43 pm May 29, 2012

“I’ll be honest, I reckon it’s too long by a part. It should be a three-part show, a lean mean fighting machine.”

The Late Late Show is too long – Tubridy (RTE Ten)

(Photocall Ireland)

The Chain of Command

Admin at 11:14 am May 21, 2012

Early on in the Fr Reynolds libel story RTE Board chairman Tom Savage (top) insisted the ultimate responsibility lay with Ed Mulhall, director of news and current Affairs.

Mulhall was the “ultimate court of judgment and appeal” on Prime Time content, said Mr Savage before the results of three separate investigations became known.

Significantly he took great efforts to exonerate RTE Director General Noel Curran (above).

Stephen Price, writing in yesterday’s Sunday Times (behind paywall), points out a few nagging questions:

“Now [Aoife] Kavanagh , [Brian] Páircéir and [Ken] O’Shea seem to be claiming the BAI reached conclusions on matters they weren’t questioned about. One might be tempted to dismiss such complaints as sour grapes by journalists who screwed up, if other gaping holes did not remain in the sequence.

For example we have have been told little about how the chain of command at RTE functioned (or malfunctioned) in this instance .

How did Kavanagh justify her story to her producer and executive producer, in spite of the denials from Reynolds.? How did [Mark] Lappin [the show’s producer] and Páircéir then justify the programme to their boss O’Shea?

How did O’Shea convince his boss [Ed] Mulhall?

Did the buck really stop with Mulhall – or did he never discuss the programme with his boss, [Noel] Curran?

Hmm.

Meanwhile: RTÉ Chairman Will Face Fresh Calls To Quit at Oireachtas Committee Hearing (Ronan McGreevy, irish Times)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Amatures

Admin at 4:44 pm May 19, 2012

Thanks Alan Glish

The Best Thing About Teh Soccers

Admin at 10:01 am May 18, 2012

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp8m1wPguQo&feature=player_embedded

From RTE:

Trap and Manuela take questions from the press on Billo’s head, Gilesy’s theories, and Andy Reid as it is confirmed that Après Match will be part of the Euro 2012 coverage.

Dear RTE, A Modest Petition

Admin at 4:09 pm May 17, 2012

We the undersigned were wondering…

On your next US telly purchasing round would you consider buying The Daily Show with Jon Stewart? You might be able to get a special deal if you also take The Colbert Report.

It being a US election year and all.

Yours,

Ewok, Bodger, Niall, John, Karl, Nat, Emily and Chompsky.

Please feel free to add your own digital John Hancock below…

Staying In This Summer?

Admin at 1:23 pm May 17, 2012

It’s Monkey Tennis time.

That Summer schedule in full.

From RTE.ie:

Creedon’s Cities: John Creedon travels to Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway to “meet the people that make each city so special and find out more about their hometowns”.

Martin & Paul’s Surf’n’Turf, chefs Martin Shanahan and Paul Flynn “travel to eight seaside locations in Ireland, source local produce and create a signature dish for the area in 24 hours”.

Chaplin: The Waterville Picture tells “the story of the screen icon’s love for the Kerry town”.

The Science Squad presented by Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, Kathriona Devereux and Jonathan McCrea and will “bring Irish viewers up to date with the latest developments in Irish scientific research across a wide range of sectors”.

Documentaries and factual programmes include Labour’s Way, Ireland outside the Euro? (hmm), Cracking Crime and Truckers and Faster, Higher, Stronger, which is part of RTÉ’s Science Week.

The Big Money Game returns with two new presenters Brian Ormond and Sinéad Kennedy.

And our favourite? For Fair City fans there will be “a wedding, an engagement, an injured child and teenage heartbreak this Summer”.

Glen Killane, MD, RTÉ Television, sez: ““There is so much to look forward to and the entertainment won’t just be confined to the various sports arenas, with the return of firm favourites like the Rose of Tralee, Saturday Night with Miriam and For One Night Only.

“If we can get some decent weather and some good results in Poland, London and in Croke Park, it just might be the tonic we all need in these difficult times.”

RTE Announces Summer Schedule (RTE)

Montroasting

Admin at 3:07 pm May 16, 2012

At the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications hearing into the defamation of Fr Kevin Reynolds by RTÉ’s Prime Time Investigates programme were, top from left`: Michael O’Keefe, chief executive of the Broadcasting Association of Ireland (BAI) and Bob Collins, BAI chairman; middle pic: Noel Curran, Director general of RTE, and, bottom pic, Tom Savage, chairman of the RTE Board.