BBC and UTV. What a Pair!
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It is understood that despite the presence in Ulster of 580 GAA clubs, the BBC decided to go south for their feature.
That’s the sort of community focused approach that makes the BBC the organisation it is today. Maybe it made so much money out of Iris Robinson that it wants to spread its wings and head for pastures anew. I wonder how many people in Kiltegan pay their licence fee?.
A BBBC spokesman confirmed: “Every time we feature a local club we show them in a fight of some description. Noel Thompson loves nothing better than to lead the news on a Monday night with exclusive footage of two sets of GAA boys batin the shite out of one another. This sort of coverage will be different. Southern clubs are that bit more respectable.”
The Kiltegan GAA club was apparently picked because the club doesn’t have the facilities of other clubs and therefore made a better story. This is the same BBC that wouldn’t venture south of the border to cover matches involving Ulster teams in Croke Park. Shower of hoors.
But, then again maybe this is the start of something big.
Meanwhile over in Havelock House, news has emerged that UTV and Logie have settled their difference, or rather have settled something. Some of you will remember that amidst its cutbacks last year and, in a bid to make it easier for the tumbleweeds to blow up and down the corridors of power at UTV, they terminated Logie. For many he is the face of GAA in the Nort. With him and Jerome out of the picture, things are different to say the least!
We don’t know whether it was because Logie wanted to go and make a programme about Kiltegan GAA club. But perhaps if they hadn’t been so quick to get rid of the resident GAA expert their 125 coverage wouldn’t have been as bad.
Anyway, here’s to the BBC and all who sail in her. And here’s to UTV and especially Jackie Fullerton, the worst and worst made up sports reporter we’ve ever seen.
