UTV & BBC & RTE & TV3

[Rois]

I've just sent a complaint to UTV about it. Be interesting to see what reply I get, if any.

Dear Mr ******,

Thank you for your email regarding UTV Live which I have past onto the News Editor for his information.

We appreciate when viewers take the time to contact us as your views are important and have been seen by UTV senior management.

Kind regards

Sarah

That's Sarah's spelling, not yours Ziggy? 

[ziggysego]

I've just sent a complaint to UTV about it. Be interesting to see what reply I get, if any.

Dear Mr ******,

Thank you for your email regarding UTV Live which I have past onto the News Editor for his information.

We appreciate when viewers take the time to contact us as your views are important and have been seen by UTV senior management.

Kind regards

Sarah

That's Sarah's spelling, not yours Ziggy?

The only thing I edited was starring out my surname.

[johnneycool]

Well as far as I know UTV will be taking a much more positive editorial slant on the GAA tonight.  I know it wasn't pretty to watch last night but you know the GAA isn't an all glorious organisaiton with absolutely no flaws or issues from the past or present.

I know UTV aren't perfect but GAA people need to learn to take a bit of criticism of things that went on in the past and continute to go in in the present.  And if anyone tells me Kevin Lynch's is named after him because he captained them to an Intermediate Hurling Title they can go and jump.   

It depends on whether UTV are going to follow up on why Winsor park and the IFA are a cold house for nationalists with Tony Fearon giving his opinions as facts.

just a bit of balanced journalism would be nice for a change.

[Tyrone Dreamer]

Last nights show was another joke and again underlined they have little interest in the gaa. Completely dominated by political association. In relation to Gregory Campbell, for a man who has no interest what so ever in gaelic games he spends some time talking about it. He said he could never imagine a unionist sport such as cricket or rugby having clubs named after loyalists. But its ok for the orange order to march hand in hand with loyalist bands through nationalist area's,I assume that's different as its culture and tradition!

[Tyrone Dreamer]

Bit better tonight although its hardly about the history of the gaa. If you were looking to know how many All Irelands Kerry won or that Killkenny play hurling this isnt the place to find out.

[ziggysego]

Didn't watch it tonight out of protest. A bit better? How?

[orangeman]

Off the Fence are giving it a good showing today.

[tyroneboi]

Was a better showing last night from them. Talked about the emergence of Ulster football in the early 90s up to the present day. Had contributions from Paddy Heaney, Enda Gormley and Diarmud Marsden. Only gripe was when it said at the end that Kerry and Cork have been dominating the past couple of years which wasn't the most well informed remark. Interesting to see what their final piece tonight will be like?

[Maguire01]

Last night was marginally better in so far as the recognised Donegal as being an Ulster county.

[never kickt a ball]

Scary!!!

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=6729.msg690940#msg690940

[Tyrone Dreamer]

They had about 12 minutes to talk about the history of the gaa and gave 2 of them to that well know expert Gregory Campbell, great call. Maybe we'll get big Ian himself tonight.

[Hardy]

Gregory Campbell ... said he could never imagine a unionist sport such as cricket or rugby having clubs named after loyalists. But its ok for the orange order to march hand in hand with loyalist bands through nationalist area's,I assume that's different as its culture and tradition!

Why are you drawing an equivalence between the GAA and the Orange Order?

[Tyrone Dreamer]

Because he basically said the average unionist would not be associated with loyalist figures which isn't true.

They are using a a very small number of club names to beat the gaa with. As has been discussed before there is a good reason behind the Kevin Lynch name.

[Hardy]

No - he said certain sports wouldn't have clubs named after loyalists. I don't know whether that's true or not. But I know a few other things and one of them is that I'm not alone in being uncomfortable with the naming of clubs after political/paramilitary figures of any hue. Another is that it's a tactic of the enemies of the GAA to trot out the OO as the unionist equivalent of the GAA when there is not a single point of convergence I can think of between a voluntary community development organisation and a sectarian organisation that exists solely to denigrate the religion of a signficant proportion of the community. To see GAA people advancing the same proposition is depressing.

[windyshepardhenderson]

I don't see why Mr Campbell feel's he is any position to comment on the naming of GAA grounds when
a. he has absolutely no interest in the GAA regardless
b. he supports (quite possibly) the most bigotted, sectarian, rascist club in western Europe