Category: RTE

I’m going to stop paying my tv licence for a week and buy a cup of coffee with the savings

by paddytm

I just renewed my television licence. What a rip-off. €160. For what? OK. There’s RTE 1 and it gives us 24 hours of broadcasting and regular news bulletins and current affairs programmes and investigations and great sports coverage and the Late Late Show and Nationwide and stuff like that. And I suppose RTE 2 does … Continue reading I’m going to stop paying my tv licence for a week and buy a cup of coffee with the savings

An Eco Eye programme plugging Bus Connects was fair according to the BAI – which hasn’t upheld a complaint for TWO YEARS!

by paddytm

I don’t know if you caught Eco Eye on RTE on February 25th last. It was about Bus Connects. The blurb for the programme on the RTE website said all the stuff about how big a deal it was. And it said Bus Connects was “divisive” and had been met with “stiff opposition.” So being … Continue reading An Eco Eye programme plugging Bus Connects was fair according to the BAI – which hasn’t upheld a complaint for TWO YEARS!

There’s nothing on telly you say? Well, there’s Friends 16 times in a row for starters. But when I was a boy…

by paddytm

Lockdown. Can’t go to the pub. Can’t go to a gig. Can’t get into a restaurant. So we stay home, open a bottle of wine and watch television. And there’s shag all on. Yes, I know there’s stuff on Netflix and what not. But I’m talking here about the channels I get as part of … Continue reading There’s nothing on telly you say? Well, there’s Friends 16 times in a row for starters. But when I was a boy…

Me and television. It was just one disaster after another…I never really threatened Gay or Pat or Ryan…

by paddytm

I bet you didn’t know I had a career in television. I did indeed. I fact, it had Gay Byrne quaking in his boots…with laughter. Because almost every time a camera was pointed at me, I made a complete and utter eejit of myself. THE TALENT SHOW EXPERIENCE Back in the 80s,  I was invited … Continue reading Me and television. It was just one disaster after another…I never really threatened Gay or Pat or Ryan…

We’ve been rumbled. There IS a media conspiracy in Ireland…

by paddytm

Dammit. We’ve been rumbled. I’ve seen a few people on the internet in the last few days complaining about the ‘media conspiracy” in this country. Normally, I’d just laugh it off. But it’s time to come clean. They’re right. Of course there’s a conspiracy. There always has been. Sure I was only in the Indo … Continue reading We’ve been rumbled. There IS a media conspiracy in Ireland…

Honour Gay by keeping RTE alive and helping it back on its feet

by paddytm

Yes, my eyes filled with tears watching Gay Byrne’s funeral. I’d like to have been there, but a combination of illness and being so far down the list of his friends that I hadn’t a hope of getting a seat in the Pro Cathedral, prevented me from attending. It is only right that a man … Continue reading Honour Gay by keeping RTE alive and helping it back on its feet

RTE’s €40m plan to house politicians

by paddytm

RTE is facing another massive bill. This time, it’s €40m for a new building the station says it has to construct at its Donnybrook headquarters. The new multi-storey facility, already nicknamed the Tower of Babble by RTE workers, will accommodate the hordes of politicians who have taken to hanging around the station hoping for an … Continue reading RTE’s €40m plan to house politicians

The Rose of Tralee: I’m going to rent out High Horses

by paddytm

I’m going to go into business. Yes, I am well aware that I flunked miserably at Commerce, unable to get past first year in UCD. But I have an idea which can’t fail. It’s up there with Netflix, the iPhone and, I don’t think I’m overstating this, the wheel. High horses. I’m going to talk … Continue reading The Rose of Tralee: I’m going to rent out High Horses