It’s the final Questions and Answers programme tonight. The funeral is a specially extended edition at 10.30pm on RTE1 with 20 mourners as guests. (Kathy Sheridan, one of the better panellists over the years interviewed John Bowman in Saturday’s Irish Times). Unfortunately there are very few Q&A clips on Youtube – so jogging your moment […]
It’s now a constant occupation of Government Press Officers to stop any criticism of Brian Cowen or his government. This includes reporting on the hanging of paintings in galleries or on their potential value or how they got to be hung in the galleries in the first place. Tonight RTE apologised for offence caused to […]
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(See updates at end of post for latest on this saga..) The nude pictures of Brian Cowen which appeared in the National Gallery over the weekend have been widely covered online. (Yes I know I can hear you groaning.) From RTE Website ‘Mr Cowen’s Closeup – The painting, though well-hung, was quickly taken down’ Last […]
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Flicking through some press releases in my reader tonight I noted one from Fine Gael regarding their decision not to participate in the Late Late Show debate on the Seanad earlier this evening. I was wondering about all that testosterone on the top panel. Reading the statement I was none the wiser that RTE had […]
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Update – It’s on Youtube. Thanks Duke At the moment I hope someone somewhere is preparing a Freedom of Information request on Prime Time on RTE1. I hope other people are getting their hard drives out and uploading the video. Will RTE show the programme online as it was transmitted? Tonight Minister for State with […]