QuoteIt was on RTE News later on in the night anyway...at 11 I think?
They interviewed a load of Pat's fans in McDowells...
Exactly. It's ludicrous.Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
It was on RTE News later on in the night anyway...at 11 I think?
They interviewed a load of Pat's fans in McDowells...
I'll try one more time for the hard of understanding.
The national broadcaster for Ireland is : RTE.
The country that I am a national of is : Ireland.
Just like your national anthem or your national football team doesn't change when an Irish national changes physical location, neither does their national broadcaster.
Please don't reply.
I disagree, I think your national boradcaster is purely defined by your location.
Why would you buy an Irish TV licence while living in London?
"Must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing."
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Why would I buy an Irish football ticket while living in London....? (grammatical note : it should be 'whilst', not while)
Why would I receive RTE while living in London ?
Why is the milka cow so lilacy ?
Why am I bothering to even respond to this nonesense......?
Good point Steve - I won't......
So you have an Irish TV licence then?
"Must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing."
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I'd like to point out that Steve never actually says it is his licence fee they are wasting - he never specifies or implies that he pays one. No doubt RTE will asusume he lives in Ireland and pays his licence fee, but that's their problem.Dear Sir/Madam,
RTE are nothing short of a disgrace - worthy neither of the title 'national broadcaster' nor of the TV license money that you continue to have handed to you on a plate under that pretence.
Earlier today, Irish football club St Patricks Athletic pulled-off a fantastic late away comeback against a quality Russian side to advance further than any Irish club has ever gone in European football. With only 20mins left in the game, and looking dead and buried at 3:0 down, Pats rallied to finish the game 3:2 and progress past the Russian's on an aggregate scoreline.
The game finished at 5pm Irish time - over 4hrs before the sports section of this evening's 9 o'clock news. Yet despite this, RTE deemed the event unworthy even of a passing mention.
To add insult to injury, you instead did an in-depth story on the visit of an Under 18 Z team of professional bench-warmers playing under the badge of English club Liverpool FC to a village in West Cork. A big day no doubt for that village in Cork, and probably also a big day for the Liverpool players - most of whom are doomed to never start a senior game for their club. Yet was it more worthy of mention thatn a thrilling and spirited away performance by a senior Irish club in European competition, and their progression to a level never before reached by an Irish team ? Any sensible or balanced analysis would say not. But you couldn't even bring yourself to mention the St pats score in your programme tonight.
RTE are nothing short of a disagrace. You are NOT by any stretch a national broadcaster - as if you were you'd be mentioning Irish news, rather than triping over yourself to chase after nobodies from the youth section of a British football team. You don't deserve a penny of license payers money for your disgraceful and continuing ignorance of Irish football, and this view will be made verty clearly to my local politicians.
Yours in disgust,
Steve Bradley
P.S. Please don't respond to tell me all the wonderful things you do on MNS. Yes, it is a good show. But as we both know, you only air it because the FAI forces you to. Your coverage to Irish football is, and always has been, nothing short of pathetic.
The issue here is RTE's lack of acknowledgement of the result on the 9pm news, though I gather it was mentioned elsewhere. If you think Steve's point is valid, it's a bit pedantic to question the method he chooses to make the point.
I mean, if you want to be pedantic towards him, there is always this -
No doubt they'd show a possible game v Villa.
I hope Celtic Vs. Arsenal clashes with St. Pat's game, will be interesting to see what game RTE would show then...
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
To state the obvious they'll cream themselves over it.
Look, I would be, and have been, the first to criticise RTE in the recent past for the relative prominence given to LoI teams in Europe V premiership 'news'. In this case however, i think folks are going off without actually looking at the format of the 9 O'Clock news - check any other night and i think you'll find they generally don't carry a sports report at all. The Liverpool story last night was a colour piece carried on every other bulletin as part of the news and not as part of the sport coverage. RTE did lead with the Pat's result on every other news i saw or heard last evening.
A patriot is someone who knows how to hate his country properly.
Yes, you're right. (And I think the onus is clearly on DC Steve to voluntarily pay a TV license fee to RTE).
'Off the Ball had it as their top story as well. They spent a good few mins at the start of the show talking about the result.'
sorry for changing subject slightly but reminds of when when the wall fell over at bray with those rovers fans. the clown on newstalk said ''hopefully there are not to many fatalities there''
i hadn't heard the full news and thought there was a major disaster
The RTE website is all about Arsenal and Celtic it doesnt even tell us who Pats got. F*****g Joke
It was St.Pats first, Cork City and Dunmanway last, proper order!!
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Could start a thread on that actually.
"Declan 'Fabio' O'Brien got the crucial goal for Pat's."
"Why's he called Fabio?"
*Awkward silence*
"I think he's got Italian relatives somewhere"
Eejits.
Why is he called Fabio?
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
He signed for Drogheda from LSL side Verona, is the most plausible reason I've heard. Someone texted that into the show too.
In fairness, how the hell are they going to know that?
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
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