Sunday Miscellany - RTE

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Gave it a miss today - shopping and a good walk before it got too hot.

Del, you are on the right track there.

[Del.Monte]

GAA overkill and radio off.

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I turned on the program and got a long ad: Guess what Ad: TEE VEEEE Luicenssss it's the laww...... long radio ad. Followed by some equally long ad for a gig.
radio off.

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Different. A poet who converted Irish poetry to English - I guess Yeats? And a free Protestant School - New Park, Blackrock. I smell a very bias from the reader though. Something is rotten in the state of BLackrock
EDIT Just when I thought there might be a chink of light in the program, the dirge lyric "We're going the road to nowhere..." is cranked off. radio off straight away.

[Del.Monte]

Cringe making live recording today with embarrassed, tittering laughter......eugh.

Ridiculous made-up story about flies in the attic on Christmas Eve - so over the top I was embarrassed for the story teller. How hard up must people be to get themselves on national radio.

[Del.Monte]

Truly woeful, self indulgent old shite this morning - can't remember having heard worse.

[Del.Monte]

Awful nonsense this morning which started off with a fantasy, or story made-up for a child, about how an Irish man in the British army faced down a German Tiger tank - single handed.....followed, appropriately, by the theme music from a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western. Next up some absolute waffle that involved watching An Cailín Ciúin in a London cinema......and it continued with people trying to outdo each other with tales that involved how well travelled they were.

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Awful nonsense this morning which started off with a fantasy, or story made-up for a child, about how an Irish man in the British army faced down a German Tiger tank - single handed.....followed, appropriately, by the theme music from a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western. Next up some absolute waffle that involved watching An Cailín Ciúin in a London cinema......and it continued with people trying to outdo each other with tales that involved how well travelled they were.

But HE was THERE. It's the PERSON that's the principle.

[Del.Monte]

Allah be praised! Three amusing items in a row this morning - Birdwatching in Booterstown Marsh; Babycham; and Pele at Dalymount Park. I missed the rest of the show as I had to go for my Sunday walk to check-up on my own local Little Egrets. Amazing how good the programme can be once the self indulgent crap and holiday one-upmanship is left out.

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Allah be praised! Three amusing items in a row this morning - Birdwatching in Booterstown Marsh; Babycham; and Pele at Dalymount Park. I missed the rest of the show as I had to go for my Sunday walk to check-up on my own local Little Egrets. Amazing how good the programme can be once the self indulgent crap and holiday one-upmanship is left out.

Listened to it this morning for the first time in a while and really enjoyed the Pele story. It can be hit and miss but when it's on form it's a gem of a radio show

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Turned on Today, for what I was able to tolerate, not much:
first piece about HAPPINESS: The emotion, the weight, the high - The RTE agenda is soaking through here, Y'all be hap p e e c l a p e e n o w, or else.

I turned it off, and Radio 1 for the rest of the day.

[Del.Monte]

I had it on in the background this morning - pretty poor. Now Mammy Miriam O'Call on - radio off. Mood improving.

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Turned on today 4th june and tried to listen to first narrative. about preparing mushrooms and other stuff on a range......
...cue the obligatory "DELICIOUS" phrase that Tubbs uses in his morning show...
Radio Off.

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Sunday program today

A piece about Dermot Morgan .
Quite good.segment.
Recalling., fr trendy and scrap Saturday and fr ted
Then a music piece

And then a segment about someone's toddler. grandson. FFS
What the fook do I care about these cranky things in buggies on go ahead and dublin bus?
Turn off radio again..

[Del.Monte]

I thought it pretty poor this morning - save for the Dermot Morgan piece which was a repeat. The long winded old bs about rowing out to some island must be one of the worst pieces to feature on the show - ever - and that's saying something.

[Del.Monte]

Pretty dull fare this morning and the last piece - a poem (?) about Daniel O'Connell's funeral procession was self indulgent crap at its worst.

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Turned on today, on a segment about Cincinatus, a Roman citizen and historian. And there's a statue of him with curly hair in the centre of Cincinatti in Ohio.
...the narrator segues this in with the current RUGBY of course. ffs. Click.

[Del.Monte]

Rubbish this morning.

[Del.Monte]

One word for the programme this morning - AWFUL!!!

[Del.Monte]

Another dreadful dose this morning with the worst a makey-up story about traveling back to Ireland on the ferry, which apart from being factually incorrect, was just plain boring. I have generally given up listening to the programme but I was up early this morning and need background noise.

[Del.Monte]

One of the worst editions of the programme in years this morning with self indulgent crap celebrating the woeful Arts Council. Incidentally, I notice that two of the elite 7 member, Chairman-less, Council have only lived in the country since 2005 and 2011 respectively. There's diversity and inclusion in 21st century Ireland for you.