Gaa managers refuse to speak to Rte over Brian Carthy treatment

[IolarCoisCuain]

Horrendous!! 
FFS, get over it. If he sticks his nose in where he has no business, he can expect some sort of comeback.

No need for the sarcasm Tubber. I just I felt the choice of song was in bad taste considering Michaela death. The wife was thinking the same when it was played and I'm sure we weren't the only ones. It must have occurred to Murray when he was setting it up. Inconsiderate in the extreme IMO. Anyhow, the skit as a whole wasn't even funny, just rude and insulting.

I used to buy Hot Press religiously, when I was young and foolish. Twenty years ago - I am now old and foolish - they had a sports special with articles about which was the best sport and all this crack. Fun stuff. One one page they had an argument between Liam Hayes defending football and some other buck talking up soccer. Fun stuff, as I say.

Turn the page, and there was quite a good piece about the importance of a GAA club to a small town. It was illustrated with a drawing of someone hanging from a crossbar - to illustrate rural anomie I guess.

This was on the page following Hayes' piece.

I once asked someone who worked in media if that could have been a coincidence. Just very, very bad luck. He told me coincidences don't really happen.

John Murray ought to be ashamed of himself yesterday. And I haven't bought Hot Press in twenty years.

[Jinxy]

RTE has an appointments process? Shit, I just thought they dished out jobs to the talentless offspring of deceased DJs.  BTW, I think Brian Carthy is a woeful commentator

Who are you talking about?

[muppet]

http://spailpin.blogspot.com/

Spailpín on form as usual with a thoughtful article.

He hits the nail on the head with his comment about Gaa people trusting everything Micheal O'Hehir said. I felt the same about MOM, but only during commentary, not during his interviews. I still don't know why I dodn't like his interviews.

We are now inclined to sneer at modern commentators as if we believe they don't know what they are talking about, or at least that they don't know as much as we do. That is probably very presumptuous of us but it might also reflect the way society has evolved from the trusting citizens we used to be to the cynics we have become.

However I don't think we are as critical of commentators in other codes. Why is that?

[cornafean]

RTE has an appointments process? Shit, I just thought they dished out jobs to the talentless offspring of deceased DJs.  BTW, I think Brian Carthy is a woeful commentator

Who are you talking about?

Lottie Ryan, presumably. 
http://www.rte.ie/fashion/2010/0809/ryanl.html

[lynchbhoy]

We are now inclined to sneer at modern commentators as if we believe they don't know what they are talking about, or at least that they don't know as much as we do. That is probably very presumptuous of us but it might also reflect the way society has evolved from the trusting citizens we used to be to the cynics we have become.

However I don't think we are as critical of commentators in other codes. Why is that?

Nah muppet, I have been critical regarding commentators on here for other sports like soccer and rugby not just football/hurling- I believe others have also.... George Hamilton on the soccer being a prime example!!

I never liked micheal o'H commentary either but most everyone else did!

[Aaron Boone]

Carthy is doing Wex v KK this evening, his biggest gig of the season so far.

[lenny]

Yeah Lenny but when men with the integrity, intelligence, ability and not to mention busy schedule of the likes of Harte, Mcgeeney and Cody take the trouble to make a unified stand on something I personally would respect it. There must be more to it if they're taking such a stance.

Think most of the other managers are backing Harte out of sympathy for what he has come through this year. I honestly think he has lost the run of himself with this dispute. I usually respect his opinions even though I don't always agree, but I think he is just behaving ridiculously here.

[Orangemac]

Carthy is doing Wex v KK this evening, his biggest gig of the season so far.

Will this please Mickey Harte? Or how will we know when Brian Carthy is being treated with the respect he deserves?

[ONeill]

We are now inclined to sneer at modern commentators as if we believe they don't know what they are talking about, or at least that they don't know as much as we do. That is probably very presumptuous of us but it might also reflect the way society has evolved from the trusting citizens we used to be to the cynics we have become.

However I don't think we are as critical of commentators in other codes. Why is that?

Nah muppet, I have been critical regarding commentators on here for other sports like soccer and rugby not just football/hurling- I believe others have also.... George Hamilton on the soccer being a prime example!!

I never liked micheal o'H commentary either but most everyone else did!

Well said. For the first time. Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's brand of commentary was unique but, in terms of doing the job, it was rather average. I managed to get copies of his commentaries of the '03, '05 and '08 finals and all three were littered with inaccuracies. His lilty tones were fantastic to listen to from an aesthetic point of view but as for factual information on the basic happenings on that field at that time he was error-prone. Prime example was referring to Brian McGuigan as Frank in the '05 final on numerous occasions.

[Orangemac]

We are now inclined to sneer at modern commentators as if we believe they don't know what they are talking about, or at least that they don't know as much as we do. That is probably very presumptuous of us but it might also reflect the way society has evolved from the trusting citizens we used to be to the cynics we have become.

However I don't think we are as critical of commentators in other codes. Why is that?

Nah muppet, I have been critical regarding commentators on here for other sports like soccer and rugby not just football/hurling- I believe others have also.... George Hamilton on the soccer being a prime example!!

I never liked micheal o'H commentary either but most everyone else did!

Well said. For the first time. Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's brand of commentary was unique but, in terms of doing the job, it was rather average. I managed to get copies of his commentaries of the '03, '05 and '08 finals and all three were littered with inaccuracies. His lilty tones were fantastic to listen to from an aesthetic point of view but as for factual information on the basic happenings on that field at that time he was error-prone. Prime example was referring to Brian McGuigan as Frank in the '05 final on numerous occasions.

Would have to agree. Often listening to games in the car you would realise a goal went in from the noise of the crowd as MOM was talking about something that was unrelated to the passage of play.

[muppet]

We are now inclined to sneer at modern commentators as if we believe they don't know what they are talking about, or at least that they don't know as much as we do. That is probably very presumptuous of us but it might also reflect the way society has evolved from the trusting citizens we used to be to the cynics we have become.

However I don't think we are as critical of commentators in other codes. Why is that?

Nah muppet, I have been critical regarding commentators on here for other sports like soccer and rugby not just football/hurling- I believe others have also.... George Hamilton on the soccer being a prime example!!

I never liked micheal o'H commentary either but most everyone else did!

Well said. For the first time. Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's brand of commentary was unique but, in terms of doing the job, it was rather average. I managed to get copies of his commentaries of the '03, '05 and '08 finals and all three were littered with inaccuracies. His lilty tones were fantastic to listen to from an aesthetic point of view but as for factual information on the basic happenings on that field at that time he was error-prone. Prime example was referring to Brian McGuigan as Frank in the '05 final on numerous occasions.

Mona Lisa was blonde and had acne.

[ONeill]

How do you know?

[muppet]

How do you know?

Heard it on the radio.

[ONeill]

So he wasn't. He knows nothing ffs.

[ONeill]

I thought it was an interesting move by the Irish News on Friday to run with Brendan Crossan's (I think) article criticising Harte on the day Harte's column is produced. Although Crossan was semi-sycophantic, he still reckoned Harte was ruining Carthy's future career.