Cad a cheapann sibh?
http://www.rte.ie/brodclub/
Been watching the series over the last few weeks. Obviously anything designed to promote the national language is going to come under fire from all the usual clichés (no economic benefits, culturally irrelevant with globalisation, hard to learn, taught badly in schools etc) but to be fair the series certainly has a few good points and Dunne himself seems convinced he's doing the right thing. Having come from a profession that has nothing to do with the language whatsoever gives him some credibility. If it was Hector you'd apply far more cynicism.
I didn't know Dunne spoke Irish and he seems to have a very good command of it. Tá blas ó Conemara aige...b'fheidir gur chaith sé am sa Ghaeltacht. Togha le Katie Taylor chomh maith.
One thing I'm not fond of is the preachy nature of it trying to get you to sign up for a website with no apparent value. It seems now that he set his target too high at 100,000 and is currently only just over 10,000 with half the series and Seachtain na Gaeilge well over.
I understand the point they are trying to get across with the gathering of women each week who have very little Irish but that scene goes on painfully long each episode. It's bad and boring TV and critics like Liam Fay (undoubtedly Ireland's most cynical man!) will probably savage it for reasons like that.
The supposed carrot of seeing Mr. World strip if over X,000 sign up per week is fairly patronising IMO plus it seem to alienate those who are turned off by that in itself or hetrosexual men who have no interest (cough). This makes me think the producers are deliberately targeting females and not men.
The team he confides in each week seems to be heavily populated with women which might have something to do with it. Maybe the marketing 'experts' think that women are more easily won over by campaigns like this and men are less likely to try the cúpla focal.
http://www.rte.ie/brodclub/
Been watching the series over the last few weeks. Obviously anything designed to promote the national language is going to come under fire from all the usual clichés (no economic benefits, culturally irrelevant with globalisation, hard to learn, taught badly in schools etc) but to be fair the series certainly has a few good points and Dunne himself seems convinced he's doing the right thing. Having come from a profession that has nothing to do with the language whatsoever gives him some credibility. If it was Hector you'd apply far more cynicism.
I didn't know Dunne spoke Irish and he seems to have a very good command of it. Tá blas ó Conemara aige...b'fheidir gur chaith sé am sa Ghaeltacht. Togha le Katie Taylor chomh maith.
One thing I'm not fond of is the preachy nature of it trying to get you to sign up for a website with no apparent value. It seems now that he set his target too high at 100,000 and is currently only just over 10,000 with half the series and Seachtain na Gaeilge well over.
I understand the point they are trying to get across with the gathering of women each week who have very little Irish but that scene goes on painfully long each episode. It's bad and boring TV and critics like Liam Fay (undoubtedly Ireland's most cynical man!) will probably savage it for reasons like that.
The supposed carrot of seeing Mr. World strip if over X,000 sign up per week is fairly patronising IMO plus it seem to alienate those who are turned off by that in itself or hetrosexual men who have no interest (cough). This makes me think the producers are deliberately targeting females and not men.
The team he confides in each week seems to be heavily populated with women which might have something to do with it. Maybe the marketing 'experts' think that women are more easily won over by campaigns like this and men are less likely to try the cúpla focal.
