RTE

[Hibs4Ever]

sorry to post this rant, but today St Patrick's Athletic got one of the best results in the history of our league, and RTE 9 o'clock news didn't even give the fooking score!!!

Their sports news consisted of talking about a Liverpool friendly. Disgrace!!:mad:

[Magicme]

Outrageous.

[GlasnevinRed]

Hardly surprising though. They don't give a fcuk and haven't for years and won't for years to come.

[Hairy Bowsie]

I'm writing a strongly worded letter to my local politician as we speak. I mean while they're off ****ing about with the Health service and driving scumbag terrorists home from prison, this is going on :mad:

[sullanefc]

I'm writing a strongly worded letter to my local politician as we speak. I mean while they're off ****ing about with the Health service and driving scumbag terrorists home from prison, this is going on :mad:

You should send it to MNS. I don't know what a politician can do though.

6 O'Clock news didn't mention it either. Started with Dunmanway, then Cork City, then on to GAA.

In fairness to TV3, as bad and all as it is (eL weekly included), their sports department usually put LOI football ahead of english football in bulletins. As they did this evening. Started with Dunmanway alright, but at least there was an Irish team involved. But they went on to St Pats after in fairness.

[KianD]

RTE radio sport was treating Pats as first story all evening though, weirdly.

[holidaysong]

There was a good chat about St. Pat's and Cork City with Johnny Mac on RTÉ Radio 1 on Drivetime Sport at 6.30pm.

[Dunny]

There was a good chat about St. Pat's and Cork City with Johnny Mac on RTÉ Radio 1 on Drivetime Sport at 6.30pm.

Sadlier on it aswell.

[Maicon]

I'm pretty sure that it was the first soccer story on the Six One so it's kinda baffling that it didn't get a mention on the 9 o clock news.

[ger121]

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.

[KR's Post]

I'm pretty sure that it was the first soccer story on the Six One so it's kinda baffling that it didn't get a mention on the 9 o clock news.

spot on and sadlier on the phone!

[dcfcsteve]

I tuned in to the 9 o'clock news especially to see what they'd say.

Instead of even a mention of the Pats score - a game that had finished 4hrs earlier - we were treated to salivating coverage of the visit of Liverpool's U14 B team to Ballygoplaybanjo in West Cork or wherever.

'The biggest day for Ballygoplaybanjo'. What about the biggest result for an Irish football team in years you fcukwits ?

I'm emailing the jokers as I type. They really are un-feckin-believeable in Montrose.

[thischarmingman]

I'm emailing the jokers as I type. They really are un-feckin-believeable in Montrose.
Send us a copy of the email you write or post it up here? I'd like to read the DCFCSteve ire directed at Dublin 4.

[Dunny]

As was said before, send it to MNS.

[dcfcsteve]

Send us a copy of the email you write or post it up here? I'd like to read the DCFCSteve ire directed at Dublin 4.

Has a bit more anger and a bit less 'bite' than I'd usually resort to, but I am genuinely angry at the feckers :



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.

[christo]

all the wonderful things you do on MNS. Yes, it is a good show.

In all fairness, it is a good awful show and even eL weekly was better than that kitsch amatuerish rubbish

[thischarmingman]

In all fairness, it is a good awful show and even eL weekly was better than that kitsch rubbish

You're clearly a total mentalist. Or blind.

Nice letter Steve, I may follow your lead in the morning. As you mentioned, the sense of injustice is compounded by the "Liverpool" coverage.

[kingdomkerry]

Top story on news two but not even a mention on nine o clock news??????

[Dunny]

Dunmanway

WTF is a Dunmanway..?

[dcfcsteve]

WTF is a Dunmanway..?

The dyslexic cousin of Faye Dunaway...

[Dunny]

And the Liverpool first team played this lot...:confused:

[Hairy Bowsie]

DCFCSteve, is your national broadcaster not BBC?

[dcfcsteve]

And the Liverpool first team played this lot...:confused:

No.

Not even the Liverpool first team's neighbours.

I think it was their Legends ballboy team.

[saintmaniac]

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.
Jaysus, what was that like? Was your man Ken Early on? I hate that tosser. God forbid he should acknowledge Irish football (not the international game) for all of 5 seconds. Twilight Zone stuff I'm sure...

I presume they had Dan McDonnell talking, he's the only person they use that I'd trust to cover LOI properly. The rest of the time, their coverage is an embarrassment. Although I hardly ever listen anymore - I hate the show, can you tell? :D

[dcfcsteve]

DCFCSteve, is your national broadcaster not BBC?

As an Irish national - no. Though thanks for asking.

Honestly HB - even for you, that's embarrasingly weak....... :o

[Hairy Bowsie]

It was a genuine question. Officially who does your licence money go to?

Speaking of embarrassing, just have a read over your email again there, actually the thread in general. Although it must be said that the outrage shown is pretty f*cking hilarious too.

[thischarmingman]

Even the RTE match report could have been written by someone with a general knowledge of the LOI and the times of the goalscorers: http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0806/stpats.html

I take it they had noone out there...

[Dunny]

Even the RTE match report could have been written by someone with a general knowledge of the LOI and the times of the goalscorers: http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0806/stpats.html

I take it they had noone out there...

"St Pat's will now be entered in tomorrow's final qualifying round draw where they could be paired against the likes of Everton, Aston Villa, Villarreal, Valencia and Ajax."

Jesus fcuking wept....:rolleyes:

[saintmaniac]

Even the RTE match report could have been written by someone with a general knowledge of the LOI and the times of the goalscorers: http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0806/stpats.html

I take it they had noone out there...
No Irish journalist there of any description apparently. :( Well there were photographers there obviously, but not sure if they were Irish or just locally-based.

All I want to see is Fabio's goal. A Samara fan posted up his video phone footage of the first goal, but his battery ran out, so we're reduced to imagining what it could be like. Even a still shot of the ball in the net would do me at this stage! :o

[thischarmingman]

All I want to see is Fabio's goal. A Samara fan posted up his video phone footage of the first goal, but his battery ran out, so we're reduced to imagining what it could be like. Even a still shot of the ball in the net would do me at this stage!

Ok, don't look at these as separate images; scroll your webpage up and down really quickly until it looks as though the ball is moving into the net;

http://www.laretesrl.it/images/attrezzature/p70.jpg
http://www.soccerballworld.com/images/Ball-UEFA-FINALE.jpg

No? Oh man, this is going as badly as my Penumbral Lunar Eclipse Thread... (http://foot.ie/forums/showthread.php?p=1206409#post1206409) http://www.gamedip.com/gamesUpload/1152759505.jpg

[CF1989]

this should have been in the news itself let alone the sports news.

[Dunny]

http://www.acasports.co.uk/images/products/full/adidas-europa-football.jpg

;)

[saintmaniac]

Ok, don't look at these as separate images; scroll your webpage up and down really quickly until it looks as though the ball is moving into the net;

Eh, thanks? :o

For about a millisecond I thought you might have unearthed an actual photograph of the actual goal - vengeance shall be served, sir, I say! :D

[dcfcsteve]

It was a genuine question. Officially who does your licence money go to?

Who says I pay one.... :)

RTE is the Irish national broadcaster. I am an Irish national. Therefore, RTE is my national broadcaster. There's not a lot to grasp here, so please at least try.


Speaking of embarrassing, just have a read over your email again there, actually the thread in general. Although it must be said that the outrage shown is pretty f*cking hilarious too.

It's late, I'm tired, and you're boring me.

So read it yourself sweetheart... :D

[sfc red]

Who says I pay one.... :)

RTE is the Irish national broadcaster. I am an Irish national. Therefore, RTE is my national broadcaster. There's not a lot to grasp here, so please at least try.



It's late, I'm tired, and you're boring me.

So read it yourself sweetheart... :D

Location: London

Don't think your national broadcaster will care too much about Pats advancing tbh.

[sonofstan]

TBF, it was the lead story on the sports bit of 6.1, and i don't think the 9 O' clock news actually has a sports segment usually - the Liverpool/ Dunmanway story was there as a human interest/ colour piece part of the news proper, not as sport news.

[Hairy Bowsie]

Who says I pay one.... :)

RTE is the Irish national broadcaster. I am an Irish national. Therefore, RTE is my national broadcaster. There's not a lot to grasp here, so please at least try.

OK, you've dodged the question twice now so i'll ask again. Who do you pay your licence fee to?



It's late, I'm tired, and you're boring me.

So read it yourself sweetheart... :D

I have and you know what, it's just as embarrassing as it was last night, with yourself as the main protagonist.

[eamo1]

I've given up emailing them.I did it a few times and use to get a standard reply every time along the lines of "we have read your email but we dont care,now pi** off".Not quite as colourfull as that though.Then they stopped responding altogether.RTE DO read these threads as was evident from the last thread about them not showing the Bohs Salzburg game.
If Pats dont draw a big club i wonder will RTE bother even sending a camera to the home leg???

[GuisaSaigon]

I was raging watching the 9 o'clock news. Like most other people I tuned in to see the report on the Pats and Derry games only to see Liverpool's academy side play a west Cork pub team.
It sums up all that is wrong withthis country when 10,000 attend ****e like this and senior clubs across the country are struggling to get a couple of thousand.

[Sunny Jim]

I was following the Derry game on Errortel and was delighted to see that Derry had gone one up. That was until five minutes later they decided it was actually CSKA that had scored. Top notch stuff from RTE as usual. :rolleyes:

[Straightstory]

It sums up all that is wrong withthis country when 10,000 attend ****e like this and senior clubs across the country are struggling to get a couple of thousand.

Exactly. It's ludicrous.

[Blue-Army]

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...

[dcfcsteve]

Location: London

Don't think your national broadcaster will care too much about Pats advancing tbh.

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.

[razor]

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.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?

[dcfcsteve]

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?

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...... :D

[razor]

Why would I receive RTE while living in London ?So you have an Irish TV licence then?

[tiktok]

Why is the milka cow so lilacy ?

Purple Hay?

[osarusan]

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.
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.

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 -



(grammatical note : it should be 'whilst', not while)

[longfordjames]

No doubt they'd show a possible game v Villa.

[sligoman]

I hope Celtic Vs. Arsenal clashes with St. Pat's game, will be interesting to see what game RTE would show then...