They've covered all his fights in Dublin live and they had a couple online as well. RTE have given heavy coverage to him since he returned from the States.
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This is so wrong it's hilarious. The anti-RTÉ rubbish on here is something to behold. RTÉ Television have been 100% behind Bernard from day one. Which is why both Bernard and Brian Peters thanked RTÉ after the fight.Originally Posted by A face
RTÉ's first ever live sports webcast was Bernard's fight in Italy in April - http://www.rte.ie/sport/2006/1108/dunneb.html
A Face, at least try and get your facts right before sharing your opinions with the rest of the world.
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Yeah I think A face jumped in too quickly with the anti-RTE stuff this time. As others have mentioned they have given Dunne a lot of live coverage since he returned to Ireland.
Think it was fight 17 actually. And it was the first pro boxing shown live in roughly 20 years so wouldn't start throwing parties for RTÉ yet, despite the massive improvement. Tells us more about Brian Peters than it does RTÉ...
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Wouldn't disagree with that, he's a very impressive bloke.
What gets me is the knee-jerk anti-RTÉ stuff like A Face's post. By all means criticise when it's warranted but going off half **** says more about A Face than RTÉ.
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That's 'half cóck' BTW.
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In fairness Dunne fought a good fight Pickering was very tough Dunne could have wasted a lot more energy going all out for an early knock out and failed, then he'd have been really screwed when Pickering came on strong later in the fight. Dunne looked much more solid defensively in this fight and I can't remember him really dropping his guard or showboating at all. No doubt he's improved massively as a boxer recently and really seems to be learning fast. This was a huge step up in class and many top English pundits had Pickering down as favourite. Dunne certainly has the class to be a world champion and fights like the Pickering one will do him the world of good.
It wasn't the first pro-boxing shown live for 20 years. Wayne McCullough had at least two fights live, when he won the WBC title and his second defence. He also had a fair few shown on delayed transmission.
While I wouldn't sing the praises of RTE's overall support for boxing they have done a great job backing Dunne.
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Forgot about the McCullough fights. Fair play.
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well done to Dunne, I'd keep him away from Molitor just yet (the guy from Canada who destroyed Hunter last weekend) but the future is promising.
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On the RTE issue (and I'm not a lover of our national broadcaster in any sense of the word) they have covered Bernard very well and also the first Live feed on there website ever was a Bernard Dunne Fight
Oi gypo, if you're going to copy me and least give me some credit.
See my post above - "RTÉ's first ever live sports webcast was Bernard's fight in Italy in April - http://www.rte.ie/sport/2006/1108/dunneb.html"
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That webcast was technically woeful. Poor picture quality, horrible download, just really bad streaming. I have a very good broadband connection here and watch a lot of streamed media with no difficulty so I can assure you that it was on their end where the fault lay.
That said it was great to see them move into that arena, already do a good job with current affairs shows being available online (not streamed, but available for viewing afterwards).
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In defence of A face, as a fan of real football, rather than overhyped millionaires poncing about, you get to be anti-RTETV very easily because of their persistent ignoring of EL football down through the years, including failure to cover several European ties in the mid 1990's.
Dunne has been on before, however , the fights that were shown on the Web, the TV rights may have been too expensive to get or may have been acquired by others first.
See it tonight...****ing hell!
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Delighted he got a hammering, cocky little pup
If I'd have known that Spanish lad was that big, I'd have joined his buddies in backing him. Not at that 66/1 for the first round but still. No more Bernard Dunne and his merry band of drunken bandwagoners. Great stuff
All boxers are cocky. They have to be
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All boxers are confident, more are cocky. Dunne is not cocky to the point of being offensive, he just thinks he's far better than he actually is. He got shown up tonight for his attitude and deserved his pummeling
EVERY boxer thinks they're better than they are. Even the truely great ones, of which Dunne is most certainly not.
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If you are going to argue over semantics, knock yourself out. Bernard Dunne certainly couldn't haahaa
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