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TV3 WILL NOT be able to carry Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s address to the nation because of the late notice it received from the government and the technical changes involved, the station has said.
The government confirmed yesterday evening that the Taoiseach will address the nation on Sunday night after the Nine O’Clock News on RTÉ One ahead of next week’s budget.
TV3 said it will broadcast the address at 10.15pm tomorrow night, after the X Factor and Xtra Factor have finished and again on Ireland AM from 7am on Monday morning.
The station had asked the government to confirm details of the speech earlier this week but the late notification made it impossible to make changes to a live simulcast of programming which is also going out live on UTV/ITV in the UK.
A spokesperson for the station told TheJournal.ie it was trying to facilitate everyone. “We wanted this decision made midweek but at a last minute’s notice we can’t prepare for it,” the spokesperson said, adding that the government had given no consideration to TV3.
A statement from the broadcaster said:
It is not possible at such short notice to break into a simulcast show because this requires major technical changes. The first TV3 was advised of the time of the Taoiseach’s address was at 6.50pm last night.The scheduled time of the address at 9.30pm does not require a break in RTE programming but on TV3 it occurs in the middle of a programme which is extremely popular with viewers. 10:15pm is the first available opportunity without breaking into a programme.
Meanwhile there are few details of what the Taoiseach’s speech will contain although it is expected to focus both on the budget and the crucial EU summit next week and last between 10 and 15 minutes.
The Irish Independent reports it will be recorded ‘as live’ just before it is broadcast. It will be only the sixth time a Taoiseach has delivered a television address of this kind.
Charlie Haughey famously addressed the nation once in 1980 while former taoisigh Jack Lynch and Garrett Fitzgerald gave two addresses each. The last was by Fitzgerald in 1986 during a teachers’ strike.
- TheJournal.ie will be liveblogging the Taoiseach’s address to the nation tomorrow night as well as bringing you reaction to it.
Mother of devine God, EVERYONE has RTE! Get a Grip people,, watch it there or watch XFactor on TV3..Simple!!!
Its ok just tune into the german parliament for a pre recorded version!
Haha! Brilliant
It’ll be on rte, the national broadcaster. I’m sure there’s not a house in the country that can’t pick it up.
Stick to your guns tv3.
I wish TV3 would just go and change their name to ITV Ireland or something. They are just broadcasting the same shite as ITV at the same time as ITV.
And how would you know that Pedro??? ITV closet fan, are we?
TV3 is a commercial station and there is a recession on, so I don’t see why it should be criticized for making a commercial decision to not interrupt it’s flagship program. The Taoiseach will talk about challenges, tough decisions, we all have to adjust to the new realities, working with our European partners to achieve a common solution to the global crisis, ní neart le chur le cheile etc etc Louis Walsh would say it was a brave choice of lyrics and Cowell would criticize the folksy delivery. Voting is closed in the ROI.
seeing as they repeat the Xfactor 10 times a week anyway, what difference would it have made to them? No one watches their ads anyway, so them saying they’d lose revenue is shite. But Kenny should have timed his speech better.
@ pedro same can be said of state of nation speech except it will be repeated forever along with a two day budget.
If you want to watch the speech it’s on RTE. If you don’t you can watch the other channels. It does not need to be on every channel
I agree….
This allows more people to see it as well. For those of us who are late home can just watch it on TV3
Not everyone wants to see this feeble spineless jerk spilling out dribble
If you do want to
Watch him switch over to
RTE
Very simple really
Well done TV3… Sooner Inda and the girls get the point that we no longer hang on every word that comes from them and thus they feel they can swagger around the place , the quicker they’ll have started to work to earn our respect. TV3 has gone up biggy in my estimation.
Understandable decision by TV3. They’d lose all of their viewers to ITV if they split up the X-Factor, although they should at least show it on 3e. Will it be live on TG4 also?
it’s not understandable. This isn’t a ‘how are yis’ speech by our leader. Our country is neck deep in shite and this is a state of the Nation speech. In other words, it is bloody important. TV3 is a national channel, and all national channels should be carrying this simultaneously. Who gives a flying fuc* about the XFactor? A load of talent challenged nobodies making Simon Cowpat and Ms Louisa ‘I have no closet how dare you’ Walsh even richer.
A speech which is already being broadcast by RTE at 9:30. Having it on at the same time is near pointless and also undemocratic; no-one should be forced to watch the speech. In actual fact they are allowing greater choice by staggering a set of two broadcasts between them, RTE and TV3 will allow a greater amount of people to watch it (some people might miss the first broadcast due to kids and unruly children’s Sunday night baths etc) while not forcing them to.
It is a state of the nation Speech, how do TV3 deal with breaking news, ignore it too, stop playing TV station and get real
Most people these days have a tv remote control. Now, believe it or not, it actually has the ability to change the tv channel. So if you are watching tv3 you can (shock!) change to rte. What’s the problem?
We don’t need a State of the Nation address…. We know the Nation is in a State!!!!
Yerrrrrrrrrrr
I think this is a repeat…
“we (meaning you) are living beyond our( meaning your) means. Meanwhile, I am the highest paid government leader in the world surrounded by the highest paid advisors and senior civil servants in the world.
I’m going to deprive some of you of food for your families and a decent health and education for your children.
Why? Because I am totally spineless and am relying on the same ( highly paid) civil servants who fucked the country over to advise me.
He has taken two pay cuts already in less than a year. He’s nowhere near the highest paid anymore. And there’s plenty more Government reform to come yet.
We aren’t perfect but, christ, when it comes to cleaning up Government and reforming pay and practices (no more Garda escorts for Ministers, slimming down the Dail, slimming down Councils, reducing the number of envelopes to TDs and Senators (which in itself saves over 3 million a year!)) we’re actually doing loads of the right things.
Noel, how about slimming down the dry cleaning allowance, the walking around money and unvouched expenses. How much more would that save over the bloated salaries of TDs and Senators who sit for a ridiculously short time every year. TDs are hogs at the trough when it comes to ripping off taxpayers with their perks and expenses. Start at the top, work your way down and then see how much you need to take off the unemployed, the sick and the young.
People are working themselves up into a frenzy over Inda being bumped for UK Karaoke. If you have TV3 then you have RTE. It’s not like you’re being denied the opportunity to find out how far up Shit Creek without a paddle we are. Those having a conniption over it can always sky+ it and watch it in perpetuity.
Might have been an idea to give them more than a day’s notice. It’s not as though government types haven’t been talking about it for weeks without saying when they were planning on doing it.
Sure, if it was an alien invasion, all of Leinster going on fire or the Sam Maguire going missing, that’d be sudden. But deciding on Friday that they’ll be doing it at half nine on Saturday when it’s been on the cards for weeks, planned for weeks and expected for weeks? Government’s fault. Now they get far fewer people watching it as a chunk of people will be watching the other channel.
That’s incompetence.
Apparently he’s available to appear on the x-factor as a guest performer – the only stipulation being that his state of the nation address has to take the form of a rap between two verses of Kelly Rowland’s song.
For this he will require a flat-peaked cap and a large gold medallion.
ah now don’t be confusing Enda with Biffo or the Healy Rae’s ! :)
OK, so how about donning a false walrus moustache, a “fishing net” vest, tight body-hugging jeans (with rips) and a sailing captain’s fake leather hat as he sings “YMCA”…as that is where a lot of the elecorate appear to be heading for food and comfort.
Great decision by TV3- commercially. Which will have higher viewer figures do you reckon?
My God…the perfect reflection of how far Ireland and the Irish have disintegrated. The X-Factor is more important than life itself. I hate Ireland and what it has become, it shames me deeply
Sur hop on a plane if ya hate it that much, I’ll ring a taxi for ya.
come on, do you want to see that mugs head telling us we have to take even deeper cuts and higher taxes. Well done tv3.
Get a grip of yourself,what are you on about, should every citizen link arms in every household in Ireland and await the worthless meaningless speech from Enda Kenny to draw inspiration on how to talk yourself out of a recession by not remaining true to your words and taxing the poor and vulnerable.
or you could change channel, go out for a drink, restaurants, cinema, anything else is more valuable to my time on this planet then listening to a discredited government. If you think x factor is drawn out wait till you get a dose of our budget drawn out over 2 days and a historic state of nation speech to be forever repeated.
Dont go, we’ll miss your fresh bread
Your what Ireland has become a fuc*king winger!! Does it matter what channel it’s on if there both on at the same time? the country is fucked and you complain about what channel your goin to watch the address on! What the he’ll is wrong with people in this country
@Daryl You can’t even spell! You and people like you are the problem, products of a dumbed down educational system. So sad, the country is gone :(
I can’t spell? ‘He’ll’ was a grammar mistake which was corrected by the phone… If you don’t like the country off ya go.. What have you made of yourself, you’re only a bread maker you uneducated fuck
@Daryl Do you really think I make bread, because that is my screen name? :( You are very educated :) Using bad language makes you seem even less educated and articulate, you just come across as a delinquent. The more you write the more you embarrass yourself. Run along like a good little boy, you are making this too easy for me. See, Daryl is all that is wrong about the youth of Ireland, loud, arrogant yobs, incapable of even the very basic tiers of social interaction. I bet he would probably beat me up on the street!
Well done on becoming an adult you’re no longer this youth you talk about. I might see you in Austrailia or somewhere abroad one day, Pat. Bye for now. Or as we say in the land you hate so much, Slan go Foill!
People just couldn’t care less what Enda has to say! We all know that whatever he says, unless it is about leaving the euro, will have no major significance! Europe pulls the strings and that is that!
I’m sure will will go back on your words and wished you had done something more productive after you have heard what he is going to say tomorrow night.
As for the issue at hand… why don’t people see it as a good thing that the two major stations in Ireland are showing the address at different times. As far as I am concerned it will mean that far more people will have the opportunity to see the address.
What harm if it’s on RT
sure enda will jus fill us wit shite and jus tell lies and waffle waffle waffle and anyways xfactyor brings in the money for tv3 its not state funded unlike rte and the gov wudn have enuf respect to other stations and give the required notice to make the necessary changes
Noel, Enda kenny is still by far the highest paid leader, get your facts right.
Xpose fans keep tapping that thumbs down key.
What the Taoiseach should say:
- there has been lack of political leadership in this country since we joined the euro from all politicians and media;
- we’re all paying the price now, though not evenly;
- the election promises on which he and labour were elected on will have to be deferred and to say otherwise would be dishonest;
- the key targets are a 3% deficit by 2015, never reaching 500,000 on the dole and saying slan to the IMF and if these are not reached by the time of the next election he will not restand;
- Ireland needs to pay our way in the world and that means more productivity for less pay for the next 5 years at least;
- but it is not all doom and gloom, we are a globalized economy making products and supplying services which are always in demand, exports are up, our population is growing, interest rates are low and we are in track to balance the budget by 2016.
- but it will not be down to politicians alone, the people have the real power in where they shop, the origin of what they buy, where they holiday and above all how we act as a community and society working for each other.
- together we can save Ireland from ruin and if we succeed the 200,000 who emigrated can return, enriching the country even more with their experiences.
- oiche mhaith.
If kenny hasnt the balls to speak to the country live what does that tell you people? I am not interested in anything this shower of liars have to say remember when we wake on wednesday morning we will be on the verge of poverty as it stands most families are using credit cards to buy food, what happens when our VAT rises and we are hit with at least 4c a litre on petrol/diesel, household tax, reduced social welfare and a cut in childrens allowance, who will pick up the pieces then? We are living in a country that has put the needs of europe before that of its people when they were elected on the promise to put Irish Citizens first????
Don’t bother posting a rant and banging your drum until you’ve actually read the article
Tacky station that seems to appeal to the brain dead masses! If it wasn’t for family guy on e3 I wouldn’t bother with the outfit!
Agreed.TV3 is wall to wall trash.
Because Family Guy is of course the discerning viewer’s choice :P
NAMA Factor….
Is this the same Inda Kenny who made the Five Point U-Turn promises to the People of Ireland to get elected under false pretences. Is this the same politician who extended the bank guarantee and made the Labour Party look like the new Greens……Is this the same inda who lied about Roscommon Hospital and ‘Proposals on Oireachtas Reform’ policy and brought five party rebels back into the fold by giving them €9,500-per-year jobs as chairs of Oireachtas committees…not count judges and overseas jobs for his lackies….I think i’d rather watch x-factor…how dad is that….
This is Enda Kenny who was elected by the people of Ireland it is called democracy in action and if you do not agree with him you have to wait until the next general election or do you want to be another Padraig Pearce
This is ITV Ireland you are talking about. Why would a British
station interrupt something as important as X Factor for a
broadcast by the leader of Southern Ireland!
will this be broadcast on rte 2 and tg4 too. if not, why should tv3 have to be forced to air it?
Very disappointing decision by tv3 .I agree with @PatTheBaker It is a perfect reflection on far this country has disintigrated…… XFactor is more important than the state of the nation speech … Bad move tv3.
Absolutely crazy from TV3. Cant interrupt XFactor!
Arragh sure the Sunday Endapendent might even leak the contents of the address tomorrow and save us the bother of staying up to watch it.
Don’t blame them, it’s going to be a load of shite anyway. Just the government trying to lessen the blow from the Budget.
I actually saw an article on Reuters the other day where Merkel mentioned that Greece, Portugal and Spain were having a hard time. She did not mention Ireland. Either she just forgot or Enda has told her we are doing fine here in Ireland, which is in fact not true. We are not doing fine, he thinks the power of words will take us out of recession. Its actions that do it. No point thinking positive if those positive thoughts are not being backed up by serious actions.
Why does it need to be shown on TV3? Surely if RTE One are showing it people can access it? I’m sure it’s going to be rebroadcast and made available on demand. No reason at all for TV3 to show it.
edna to win x factor
Technical changes??They’re having a laugh.
Technical and TV3 are mutually exclusive. Probably technically the shoddiest tv channel in the western world.
They just do not give a shit.
Have you ever seen Czech telly?
This headline and article misrepresent the situation. The Government planned that it only be broadcast by RTE and so arranged the scheduling with them. Meantime TV3 thought that they wanted to broadcast it too – this was their initiative, not the Government’s. (See http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1129/1224308280998.html.) But as it turned out, the scheduling did not suit them because of it conflicting with their peak rating show. This is because the arrangements were negotiated with RTÉ only. If you read the Broadcasting Act, you will see that a broadcaster has to be compensated for any loss of earnings due to these directives. If TV3 were directed to broadcast during their peak rating show, they would have to be compensated from pubic funding for these losses. See Section 122 – http://www.bai.ie/pdfs/BroadcastingAct2009.pdf. I’m no big fan of TV3 but they should be encouraged in their move into more serious content, and they should not have their main income threatened as a result. No one required this speech to go out on two channels except TV3, so that they can be taken more seriously as a news and current affairs broadcaster. Society has much to gain from TV3 moving more into serious news and current affairs. Tonight with Vincent Browne has been a great addition to current affairs. TV3 has improved a lot since the vile, tasteless reporting of Brian Lenihan’s illness. If they got licence fee funding, they would be further obliged to ensure that their news and current affairs were responsible and serious.
Political X Factor?
Of course they can’t. Heaven forbid too many people’s eyes would be opened to whats going on. NOBODY WORRY, YOUR GOVERNMENT IS IN CONTROL!!
Although I have no respect for Enda Kenny, the fact that the Taoiseach`s adress to the nation has been postponed until after X Factor is a disgrace to the Irish nation, the office of Taoiseach needs to be respected not held second to some mindless British trash.
X Factor, Mindless Sheep, Head in the Sand. Need I say More?
today on the collapse of western civilisation …
Who wants to watch it we all know what he is going to say.
we are all going to be fleeced and if rte are showing it whats the problem,tv3 are probably right to go this route.
What will be interesting is the audience figures for the night. Did people forsake the X Factor for Enda. Seems to be that the X Factor is dying a death – if people tune out to watch Enda it’s definitely a gonner!
what a load of crap . were all going to be hammered on Tuesday and this pricx wants to tell us Y… Now if he was telling us all the Government are going to take a 50% pay cut and that Mary Harney an Co were giving up there Government presents sorry Pensions well then it might be worth watching . However thats not going to happen so tonight will be as bad as Tuesday . Will it be translated into German or is it German to Irish .There all the same . Labour have NO BALLS they got in with Fine Gael now there happy to sit back and row the boat to get there big Wage Packets. Joan the two faced Destroyer Burton for years criticised Finna Fail for not looking after Genuine Unemployed people etc and whats she doing now !!!! Lord Help Us …
to right tv3 should not interrupt the xfactor broadcast as if we want to hear the depressing speech we can change the channel….. who want to be forced into listening to depressing news!!! not me
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