2020 Irish Election Thread

This is rather an interesting coincidence about RTÉ's Election branding. I found it on boards.ie this minute.



http://halfpintsbrewing.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/queerbeer-box.jpg

Which one had the design principles first? RTÉ or the Queer Beer for their logo?

The beer is made in Winnipeg in Canada and was created in 2018.

RTÉ have been using that logo since 2016, giving it another outing last year and now again this year.

Hardly, given RTÉs logo is meant to be a rosette. Long gone are the days you could pick a simple election colour and run with it.

Winnipeg is in Manitoba, Canada

Whoops! Still, RTÉ's logo is older so no copying done by them.

Are Virgin Media trying hard this election to provide a proper, decent competition to the election coverage on RTE?

Virgin Media Ireland have been really blowing their trumpet over the last year about how much they are investing in news and home productions, is this coming true now with the 2020 general election?

This will be the first general election branded as Virgin Media and not TV3 right?

RTÉ had the Bryan Dobson interviews with 4 representatives from all of the political left parties/movements along with The Green Party.

The roll call was as follows

Brendan Howlin - The Labour Party
Catherine Murphy - Social Democrats
Richard Boyd Barrett - Solidarity/PBP
Eamon Ryan - Green Party

The next interview on Friday at 7pm will be with Michael Martin who is the leader of Fianna Fáil.

Bryan Dobson had sat right to left with the representatives in the studio being interviewed tonight.

He had sat left to right with Fine Gael Leader Leo Varadkar for last Friday's interview.

Just looking at the Irish TV listings for Election Count day Sunday 9th of February. RTÉ 1 will have continuous live coverage called Election 2020 from 9 am on Sunday morning until 2 am on Monday morning with extended news bulletins at 1, 6 and 9. Virgin Media One have an election programme from 9 am until 12 pm with Colette Fitzpatrick and then a Virgin Media News programme from 5.10 pm until 6 pm. TG4 have Vota 2020 from 10.30 am until 1.40 pm, from 3.45 pm until 5.45 pm and then from 7.15 pm until 1 am broken up by a couple of live GAA matches. No presenters listed for RTÉ on my EPG. Paidi O’Lionaird will anchor the TG4 coverage.

That 2am will push out to 3am and possibly 4am... The earliest I ever saw RTE close on a General election night was 3.15am. is there any coverage on Virgin Media after 6pm? All the main action in an Irish election takes place between 6pm and 2am.

I agree with you. I suspect the RTE coverage will run long ultimately. No coverage listed on Virgin Media at present after 6 pm. Normal Sunday fare listed at present including Dancing on Ice and Love Island. I thought there might be a Tonight Show special with Ivan Yates and Matt Cooper or something but no. It seems hopes that Virgin Media might have expanded coverage this time have not come to pass.

It would cost money to have coverage and Virgin Media don't like spending Money. If that's all they're offering it's basically an extra 20 minutes of coverage, as between 9am and 12 it's just talking heads filling time with an exit poll.

Couldn't Virgin Media transfer their prime time Sunday VM 1 to VM 2? Of course not, they want the advertising revenue from Dancing on Ice etc.