Sorry to go off topic, but I have to ask: does RTE ever update their "Nuacht" webcast? It has been showing the same thing about the Travers (sp?) Report for a long time!
Tut tut - another running order feck up. Rare for Dobson to get a bit flustered - still he ad libs well while the autocue gets repositioned.
Note that Sharon realises something's up during her LVO just before Bryan's link. Scroll to 43.00
That is shocking about the flustered "antique"... thought he was more professional than that... his ad lib was atrocious. You get the feeling he only barely remembered who Prince Philip was... one wonders does he know much beyond what's in front of him.
Again though it's definitely not up to the standard of 2006 where we have BBC News 24 churning out more news than any other channel flawlessly (no ad breaks). Even Sky News has it's hiccups but they're more contained. Maybe if the RTE news team were standing they might be better placed to 'hot-foot' on the topics.
In an age where CNBC can broadcast a show every morning, 5 days a week, from London, Singapore and New York, and where CNN can simultaneously broadcast from Hong Kong, London and Atlanta, where are RTE fitting in with modern news delivery?! I'd go so far as to say send them back into the closet studios again and learn the basics of scripting, sound quality and facial lighting (noticing a sheen on foreheads lately) and then move back into the big studio again. I really worry that with a makeover coming from Red Bee (possibly) in September, the crew will be retained. They should all be either forced to go back to directing school or be laid off (oh no! call the union!)
As for the Fallout drama, I unfortunately missed the first 25 minutes and subsequently all the mocks in the first episode. (if anyone has it please send it on!). Overall, the first one was quite good. The 'shock and awe' impact was excellent, but toward the end I felt it teased a little focusing on the guy who killed his son on the M50... they're doing a programme on radioactive fallout, and the best reason for people dying that they can come up with is a car going onto a 70degree embankment for the sake of beating exit traffic?! come on... had they even looked at the miles of documentary footage churned out over the past 20 years after Chernobyl they'd be better off. As for the second episode, I was so bored after the first ten minutes that I actually welcomed the break. I kept watching in the hope I'd see something spectacular, but the dead boy story kept cropping up too much. The farmer's story was excellent and the acting for those sequences were excellent also. I think though that for the couple who had the baby after their wedding was too 'acted' with the female being a former Ros na Run actress and the fella being vaguely familiar from Glenroe or something... ominous actors would've been more appropriate than the audience reaction "I know her!". The archetypal RTE stuff rang true though, focusing on Dublin about 90% of the time. Realistically, Ireland is so small that they whole country would be completely devastated and they failed to capitalise on this... even the short map of decontaminated zones in Dublin showed the southside being done before the northside!! (even if Tallaght was done). Also, the scumbag element was ridiculous. Had no relevance at all, other than highlighting the need to crack down on their growing numbers in our cities and towns.
Back with the newsroom, and tonight's broadcasts were largely without failure. Dobbo was his usual happy self and Sharon still changes her appearance every night (she must have f*** all else to do in fairness).
I was watching the Nuacht lately, and I think the female presenter on the programme, Siun Nic Gearilt, presents the news in a good way. I think she might one day travel the road that Ni Bheolain (sp?) travelled, and make it to English news.
Siún Nic Gearailt isnt' bad on the nuacht i guess. She's from my local area and that puts a bit more interest on her. She's very proficient in the irish language, having grown up speaking it as a first language (which is more than can be said about some of the other RTE presenters). I think it'd be a shame if she transitioned into English news like Aengus MacGrianna has of late (you'll notice his Irish is deteriorating).
1. What was that greeting Siún Nic Gearailt said right after the opening sequence (something "tron honen", sorry for that absolute butchery)?
2. You would never find me ask this again, but who sang those songs for the commercials that sold track suits and hoodies right before the Nuacht started? The commercial was for "Lifestyle Sports"
Siún Nic Gearailt is a superb newsreader - she has fabulous Irish and isn't exactly hard on the eye either . She ought to be dedicated to the flagship Nuacht slot. Recently she was reading a bulletin on Radio 1 during Ronan Collins, and when he came back he (
very
surprisingly for him) read out a text from someone saying 'I was watching that Siún Nic Gearailt on the Nuacht last night - she's a babe' .
As for her greeting - haven't seen the exact bulletin,. but the standard Irish introuction is 'tráthnóna mhaith agaibh' - simply meaning 'good afternoon to you' (plural) (pr: trawnona wha oggwiv).
The Lifestyle ad campaign has been running since before Christmas - the song "Living for the Weekend" is by Hard Fi. A lot of people like it.
And forget Aengus's Irish Diarmy, it's his standard of English that needs attention first.
Heheh, he was presenting a Late Extra bulletin there recently, filling the screen with an MCU as those productions do. Only his classic hideous pinstripe suit was so garishly dominant on shot as to induce heart failure in half the audience watching. Quite hilariously bad - you couldn't make it up if you tried
Grainne Seoige is to leave Sky News Ireland, it was announced this afternoon.
The anchor, who has fronted the channel's Irish news service since 2004 is to join RTE.
The national broadcaster has announced that the former TG4, Nuacht and TV3 broadcaster is to front a new afternoon daytime show.
Great news if its true!
BUT
What the hell are they thinking putting her on an afternoon show? She belongs in the newsroom! She's the best Irish newsreader to
ever
grace the TV screen and what do RTÉ want to do? Put her on a afternoon show??? Its ludicrous! Replace Ní Bheoláin with Gráinne Seoige and you have a winning team on the 6.01!
Grainne Seoige is to leave Sky News Ireland, it was announced this afternoon.
The anchor, who has fronted the channel's Irish news service since 2004 is to join RTE.
The national broadcaster has announced that the former TG4, Nuacht and TV3 broadcaster is to front a new afternoon daytime show.
Great news if its true!
BUT
What the hell are they thinking putting her on an afternoon show? She belongs in the newsroom! She's the best Irish newsreader to
ever
grace the TV screen and what do RTÉ want to do? Put her on a afternoon show??? Its ludicrous! Replace Ní Bheoláin with Gráinne Seoige and you have a winning team on the 6.01!
What the hell? Seoige leaving Sky? She was so good there! Also, she is not presenting news on RTÉ? This is absolutely ridiculous!
But, if you look at it in a different way, RTÉ might pair Grainne up with her sister, Sile, for the show.
Grainne Seoige is to leave Sky News Ireland, it was announced this afternoon.
The anchor, who has fronted the channel's Irish news service since 2004 is to join RTE.
The national broadcaster has announced that the former TG4, Nuacht and TV3 broadcaster is to front a new afternoon daytime show.
Great news if its true!
BUT
What the hell are they thinking putting her on an afternoon show? She belongs in the newsroom! She's the best Irish newsreader to
ever
grace the TV screen and what do RTÉ want to do? Put her on a afternoon show??? Its ludicrous! Replace Ní Bheoláin with Gráinne Seoige and you have a winning team on the 6.01!
What the hell? Seoige leaving Sky? She was so good there! Also, she is not presenting news on RTÉ? This is absolutely ridiculous!
But, if you look at it in a different way, RTÉ might pair Grainne up with her sister, Sile, for the show.
One word: Stupidity
Why would possibly the best anchor in Ireland give up her job which gives her oppertunitys to work in London and Dublin to present the Afternoon Show! Its so typical of RTE. Take someone from their job which they are good at and move them to something irrelevent! I find it happens a bit...just cant think of an example right now!
. She ought to be dedicated to the flagship Nuacht slot. Recently she was reading a bulletin on Radio 1 during Ronan Collins, and when he came back he (
very
surprisingly for him) read out a text from someone saying 'I was watching that Siún Nic Gearailt on the Nuacht last night - she's a babe' 
.
What the hell are they thinking putting her on an afternoon show? She belongs in the newsroom! She's the best Irish newsreader to
ever
grace the TV screen and what do RTÉ want to do? Put her on a afternoon show??? Its ludicrous! Replace Ní Bheoláin with Gráinne Seoige and you have a winning team on the 6.01!
