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NATIONAL BROADCASTER RTÉ has announced plans to move some of its regional operations to a number of institutes of technology around the country.
The new partnerships with local ITs in Sligo, Dundalk, Galway/Mayo, Athlone and Waterford will create savings of more than €1 million, according to management.
RTÉ says there will be no job losses as a result of the moves and regional correspondents will continue to provide coverage from their existing areas. However, some other staff roles will be reviewed.
Director General Noel Curran has previously stated that seeking external partnerships will be an important part of the group’s strategy over the next five years.
This new plan will begin from January 2013 and some journalists from Cork, Limerick and Belfast have already been redeployed to Dublin. Curran said that the moves do not signal a more capital city-focused operation.
Nuacht staff have moved from Donnybrook to Connemara. From January, Nuacht Radio will broadcast from Casla, which will also be the base from where the first-ever Irish language online unit will operate.
Offices in Cork and Limerick will be maintained but the size of the current Belfast operation will be reduced.
RTÉ has also announced that it has started advertising for the role of Western correspondent which has remained vacant since Jim Fahy retired in January.
Nothing more annoying than idiots who stand in the security queue for 20 minutes and are completely unprepared for it when their turn comes. Then to really annoy you they laugh about!! Champagne and smoked salmon await me – move it idiot!!
These are undoubtedly the very same people who are taken by surprise every time they have to pay for their groceries in a supermarket and only start rummaging for their purses when everything has gone through and been packed.
Or the People who get to the ATM and look perplexed, confused about the next step………
Haven’t been able to afford a holiday since 2007. None of that airport stress for me!
Fly from shannon ..It’s the most stress free airport you’ll ever use.. no queues at check in or security and car park is outside the front door.
Fly from Knock its dirt cheap but they catch you with the €10 “development charge” that isn’t mentioned anywhere before you get to the airport!
Or flash the gold circle card and you can skip the security queues! And travel with a full service airline and get free hold luggage and food, so thers no hassle! Why put up with hassle in life?
Well the main reason would be it can be double or three times the price. Call be crazy but paying an extra few hundred for a bad ready meal and and hold space I do not need does not sound like value to me.
My top top is get good luggage. I have this really light carry on bag that I use:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2863599/Trail/searchtext%3ELIGHT+LUGGAGE.htm
Backpack are also a good option, and also buy your own luggage scale, a lot of euro shops do them.
Learn to pack light, people bring to much crap on holiday. I brought carry on bags when we went to Boston. When we landed in Dublin from the time the plane landed till we where on the bus home was only 20mins! No waiting around at the baggage reclaim saves you a ton on time, not to mention you don’t have the hassle of managing huge suitcases.
Doesn’t matter how many gold cards you flash or how much you pay. First class or economy. First through security or last. Your both on same plane so your holidays begin at same time.
Airports are not just for holidays, some of us are there for work amid the holidaymakers! Great tips, but common sense for business travellers, hope people will take note. Some more tips: stock up on little plastic bags at airports like Gatwick where they’re free, buy the mini-toileties which fit in the bags, and yes the 1-bag on board policy does apply to you and does mean your laptop and/or handbag have to fit in your bag, no exceptions! That’s being enforced a lot more these days, even if it wasn’t the last time you flew the same route.
Pay extra??????? Or just bend over and put a red hot poker up your arse while looking at a foto of Michael O Leary.
If that works for you Peter, then why not! Sounds a bit too kinky for my liking though!
How much did O’Leary charge for the photo?
All pretty common sense stuff The idiots who wait till last minute to get their stuff out of their bags at security are really annoying they should have a separate stupid line for them!! With ryanair ladies your handbag is considered luggage and I was told to put it into my carry on or pay extra I have chosen not to fly with them again
Or you could just get the ferry. Make the trip a part of the holiday.
As someone who gets the ferry regularly and thinks it’s great, I still have issues with that advice, as you need to be going somewhere te ferry goes to and you need to have plenty of time for travel. Also for short hops bringing a car on the ferry can work out more expensive than flying.
And don’t waste your time getting priority boarding with SwineAir. Chances are if the flight route is under pressure for time, they’ll just bundle everyone on together anyway after a token effort to separate the queues. They’ve already got your money so why should they care?
I fly a lot with Ryanair, I’ve never paid for priority boarding and I’ve often got on the plane before those that have.
WHy people are in such a hurry to get on a plane mystifies me. You are pushing and pulling so as to sit in a cramped aluminium tube waiting for the last passenger before you can depart. Better to stay sitting in waiting area and stroll up to boarding as last passengers are boarding.
Valid option Joe and one I would take if going on holidays. The reason I’d like to be one of the first on the plane means I can get a seat that has me off the plane first and speeds up my journey at the other end.
Yes Daithi, because after you land and on the taxi into the gate, the cabin crew are going to open the door and let you take the 10ft drop?
I wouldn’t fly Ryanair without the priority boarding, and have always been boarded before the folk who don’t have it. Though now that you have to pay extra for an exit row, which was the main advantage of getting on first, it’s less useful.
I fly from Dublin every couple of weeks and am amazed at how efficient the security is at getting people through. Not much hassle imo. With regards the carry on see through bags they charge a euro for: in terminal 1 departures level there’s a chemist that sells them for 30c ;-)
Totally agree Damien, I pass through 3 times a week on business and they are actually brilliant. Then I have to go through the shambles of security in Terminal 5 in Heathrow and it’s awful!
I better leave earlier to get through all this…..and then drive to the b+b in Wexford.
People should be holidaying at home here in Ireland, why bother going through an hour or two of airport stress to fly away for a fortnight on foreign shores when for the same price you can get a weekend away here?
A weekend in Ireland or a week away somewhere sunny and warm for the same price…. let me think about that..
To get away from our putrid summer weather
You were being ironic weren’t you… :)
Yes indeed :P
People stand up immediately the plane taxies to the arrivals area. They then push and shove, bags falling on peoples heads, to get out as soon as possible. they then get on the airport bus.
Whereas if they relaxed and waited for others to get organised and get on the bus they would be able to stroll off the plane and onto the bus. They would then be first off the bus and out of the airport with hand luggage.
Travelling long haul at this time of the year wear flip flops or easy to slip on shows as they’ll give you socks on board. Also wear layers, the temperature in airports varies with air conditioning, especially in Asia. Avoid caffeine as you’ll waste time queuing for the loo in busy airports. And definitely 1 bag for hand luggage preferably with wheels or on your back if you have the energy for that.
Wear slip on shoes & no belt. If two travelling,take a check-in line each,whoever reaches desk first calls other.Take the security line with business ppl queueing,they know the routine.
holiday in Ireland! that is the most idiotic remark here. The weather is a disgrace, food over priced, beer too. need i go on!? its only a dump!
He was being ironic..
spent a few days in nw Ireland end of June.Lousy weather,bad,rude service,prehistoric shower stalls,boring food.locals come first,tourists, who cares.
Happy to go back to new home in Florida..
Relax Gavin…….Re-read my comment, the clue to my sarcasm is the bit about the price of a fortnight away foreign costing the same as a weekend here.
Another tip, although I don’t know how widely spread it is… Last time I came home through Manchester airport, Ryanair allow each passenger one bag of shopping from duty free on top of their luggage allowance – I spent £6 on a pair of headphones and the nice checkout girl gave me a large bag when I asked for one. I’m keeping hold of that bag now! It held all those little bits that fitted in to my bag on the way out, but mysteriously didn’t on the way home.
The Airport Genie at Dublin Airport is brilliant!
going on what?
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