Bill O’Herlihy is truly our David Attenborough. Everybody adored the man. Miss you Billo
mclean not hiding his hatred for england is quality though
A come on now Eamon, you can’t be saying that.
Kevin Doyle looks bored most of the time …
What happened to Didi Hamann? He was always good for a controversial comment or two? Always looked like he’d been out on the tear the night before
The good ol days
Not just the punditry, the commentary was painful at times last night. I know I should watch it via the UK channels but I don’t.
💯 It’s piss poor now.
Okie doke, we’ll leave it there so.
It really was a Golden Age. These four plus the Apres Match sketches. Incredible.
I find Darragh Maloney and Ray Houghton such a painful pairing. Just a series of conversations where they’re correcting each other as to what’s going on in the game.
The Germany opener for the Euros where Gundogan almost got his ankle snapped in two. Houghton was actually debating he got the ball first.
Like man, the game has moved on in 30 years. Reckless challenges endangering opponents are a no no.
There was a 5 minute debate between him and Darragh about that. Use your eyes and ears Ray, studs up malicious follow through. It was a red card all day. And all he showed was his lack of awareness of the rules around such challenges and by extension the modern game.
Same with Moany Whelan. Picks one player/aspect of the game he’s commentating on and continuously goes back to moan about it. He has ruined games for me with this. No one cares about your dumb ill thought out brain fart that you think warrants mentioning again and again.
I just don’t feel the commentating team they have is in tune with the modern game and they rely on lazy tropes and repeatable sound bites with no depth.
Kenny Cunningham really melts my noodle. Just doesn’t stop with the shite jokes.
Unpopular opinion, I’m really enjoying the RTE analysis. Most of the commentary is great too, apart from yer lad Collins.
Shur don’t we have that fella that scored once in an U23’s third place play off or something?
To be honest I don’t miss dunphy, he was just an agro merchant out to generate heat, so he could then write about it in his column John Giles nice chap but his analysis wasn’t great. I liked Liam Brady, he didn’t suffer Dunphys bullshit and called it like it was without being cheap and self-serving.
I miss Bill every match day though.
Liam Nolan had some great segues when he occasionally hosted…
It’s pure shite. BBC is better and that’s not saying much.
I think they’re all sound enough. Better than that prick Micah Richards on BBC. Plus the wonderful George Hamilton is back on commentary.
They were shite…harking back to their time..Dunphy made it up…
Its a bit bland nowadays but i dont mind it. Pundits aren’t terrible, they call it like they see it and your still likely to get a good moment now and again. Richie sadliers rant about red bull/psg/uefa and the general state of football a couple of seasons ago was somthing you would never get on English channels
It’s absolutely awful. Talk for an hour and say absolutely nothing. Almost impressive.
Liam looking like hes about to take confession there 
He left his wife and ran away with a youngwan!!
My favourite moment of the tournament was the commentary slaging off Shaqiri only for him to score an incredible goal five minutes later.
It hurts to say but the BBC production is miles ahead.
I saw Bill once walking down Earlsfort Terrace I just nodded and smiled not wanting to bother him. He was a legend.
“Okey doke, we’ll leave it there so. From Eamon, John, Liam and myself, God bless and goodnight”.
RIP Bill, absolute treasure.
This guy Ronaldo is a cod
When they were there all I saw was non stop bitching about everything they said.
The revision I’m seeing about those days is definitely interesting.
Richie’s always interesting, I like Didi, Kenny Cunningham and Lisa Fallon are good too.
Brian Kerr is one of the best out there, even if he plays up the Old Mr. Brennan act a bit much.
Anyone know who the woman is in the studio for the Poland-Austria game?
When I saw McClean I knew he would ruffle a few feathers, given McBennett is trying to move away from the controversial sound bite merchants, I’m surprised RTE have him on.
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Bill O’Herlihy is truly our David Attenborough. Everybody adored the man. Miss you Billo
mclean not hiding his hatred for england is quality though
A come on now Eamon, you can’t be saying that.
Kevin Doyle looks bored most of the time …
What happened to Didi Hamann? He was always good for a controversial comment or two? Always looked like he’d been out on the tear the night before
The good ol days
Not just the punditry, the commentary was painful at times last night. I know I should watch it via the UK channels but I don’t.
💯 It’s piss poor now.
Okie doke, we’ll leave it there so.
It really was a Golden Age. These four plus the Apres Match sketches. Incredible.
I find Darragh Maloney and Ray Houghton such a painful pairing. Just a series of conversations where they’re correcting each other as to what’s going on in the game.
The Germany opener for the Euros where Gundogan almost got his ankle snapped in two. Houghton was actually debating he got the ball first.
Like man, the game has moved on in 30 years. Reckless challenges endangering opponents are a no no.
There was a 5 minute debate between him and Darragh about that. Use your eyes and ears Ray, studs up malicious follow through. It was a red card all day. And all he showed was his lack of awareness of the rules around such challenges and by extension the modern game.
Same with Moany Whelan. Picks one player/aspect of the game he’s commentating on and continuously goes back to moan about it. He has ruined games for me with this. No one cares about your dumb ill thought out brain fart that you think warrants mentioning again and again.
I just don’t feel the commentating team they have is in tune with the modern game and they rely on lazy tropes and repeatable sound bites with no depth.
Kenny Cunningham really melts my noodle. Just doesn’t stop with the shite jokes.
Unpopular opinion, I’m really enjoying the RTE analysis. Most of the commentary is great too, apart from yer lad Collins.
Shur don’t we have that fella that scored once in an U23’s third place play off or something?
To be honest I don’t miss dunphy, he was just an agro merchant out to generate heat, so he could then write about it in his column John Giles nice chap but his analysis wasn’t great. I liked Liam Brady, he didn’t suffer Dunphys bullshit and called it like it was without being cheap and self-serving.
I miss Bill every match day though.
Liam Nolan had some great segues when he occasionally hosted…
It’s pure shite. BBC is better and that’s not saying much.
I think they’re all sound enough. Better than that prick Micah Richards on BBC. Plus the wonderful George Hamilton is back on commentary.
They were shite…harking back to their time..Dunphy made it up…
Its a bit bland nowadays but i dont mind it. Pundits aren’t terrible, they call it like they see it and your still likely to get a good moment now and again. Richie sadliers rant about red bull/psg/uefa and the general state of football a couple of seasons ago was somthing you would never get on English channels
It’s absolutely awful. Talk for an hour and say absolutely nothing. Almost impressive.
Liam looking like hes about to take confession there 
He left his wife and ran away with a youngwan!!
My favourite moment of the tournament was the commentary slaging off Shaqiri only for him to score an incredible goal five minutes later.
It hurts to say but the BBC production is miles ahead.
I saw Bill once walking down Earlsfort Terrace I just nodded and smiled not wanting to bother him. He was a legend.
“Okey doke, we’ll leave it there so. From Eamon, John, Liam and myself, God bless and goodnight”.
RIP Bill, absolute treasure.
This guy Ronaldo is a cod
When they were there all I saw was non stop bitching about everything they said.
The revision I’m seeing about those days is definitely interesting.
Richie’s always interesting, I like Didi, Kenny Cunningham and Lisa Fallon are good too.
Brian Kerr is one of the best out there, even if he plays up the Old Mr. Brennan act a bit much.
Anyone know who the woman is in the studio for the Poland-Austria game?
When I saw McClean I knew he would ruffle a few feathers, given McBennett is trying to move away from the controversial sound bite merchants, I’m surprised RTE have him on.