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UTV IRELAND HAS had people talking since its launch on New Year’s Day.
While it has not always been for the right reasons, the station today launched its news programme, Ireland Live.
The show airs at 6.30pm, an hour after TV3 and into the second half of RTÉ’s Six One.
Anchored by Alison Comyn, today’s inaugural broadcast has received a largely warm welcome from viewers.
There was a hairy moment for Political Editor Mary Regan, when a van interrupted her piece to camera outside Government Buildings.
And, as always, you can’t please everyone.
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O Christ I hate when Enda goes anywhere. As an Irishman he usually brings out a sense of shame in me anytime he opens his mouth!!!
Thank god Europe doesn’t see him the same way!
A sense of shame is a national character trait, along with begrudgery, catholic guilt and pessimism – sitting uncomfortably with a peculiar self-importance and superiority complex.
”election” my arse, picked in a back filled room based on who’s going to be the biggest wh–re to the army of lobbyists that cling around Brussels
Any chance they could keep him there?
There is, actually!
Only if they lost the receipt Kerry…otherwise they can return him within 30 days..
Tusk would be a decent appointment. His foreign minister, Sikorsky would be even better but is too Atlanticist and a bit too much of a Polish Leo Varadkar to get the job. So long as the post doesn’t go to that Italian, it’ll be grand.
Umm, a word about the democratic “deficit” present in this election. These heads of government have more of an electoral mandate than almost all MEPs, based on the frankly abysmal turnouts for European elections of late. Added to that, few European republics directly elected their own presidents. So calm down.
Well done on actually talking about the subject of the article Fergal.
The point on what I term competing democratic mandates is true. MEPs increasingly seek more power in the face of ever decreasing turnouts in elections primarily focused on national issues than European ones. Despite early figures suggesting otherwise, the last European elections had the lowest ever turnout.
So there really is an argument that Kenny (elected on 70% turnout), Merkel (elected on 71% turnout) and Hollande (elected on 80% turnout) do have more of a democratic mandate than MEPs elected on around 40% turnout.
Jurgen Habermas, the famous German Sociologist and Europhile wrote a excellent piece where he described Europe as now being Post-democratic as a result of the machinations in the EU.
That is what the EU’s friends are saying.
Flying Ryanair business class to save us some money I trust.
Why can’t the people elect the candidates to these top jobs?
Limerick people don’t want that idiot coming to Limerick.
Says the self-appointed spokesperson of all Limerick people I suppose?
Don’t tell me he is going to miss the Mayo attempt to beat Kerry? Does he not like the Gaelic Grounds either??
What on earth are you on about ‘Does he not like the Gaelic Grounds either??’? Do some research next time you jump on the “Down with Enda” bandwagon!
While any Irish politician with a brain would certainly be racing home for the GAA, Enda *may* have more pressing work to do in Brussels!
In fairness to Enda any politician that goes out of his way to be seen at a game of any kind needs to be beaten with a stick and any voter that is influenced by them going or not needs to be beaten around the head with an iron bar.
Bertie was and is an avid sports fan… part of his “man of the people” image.
Would love to beat him with a stick…
He’ll have to be back in limerick for the game this evening
God I hate those ‘Enda goes to…’ films too, they got so repetitive.
It’s the country Enda not the vegetable. ….you vegetable
Enda and Dara … a handy double to lead us on the front line of the European borders… .
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