Seanad debates

Tuesday, 4 November 2003

Broadcasting (Funding) Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

Senator Kenneally mentioned hurling and football as if they were rural experiences whereas both games, particularly football, are an urban experience today and both have a modern context. Colm Keane's documentaries, to which Senator Kenneally referred, are not only documentaries on past heroes of the games but are excellent examples of commentaries on a major leisure activity and part of social and cultural life in modern Ireland. Those programmes are part of the modern experience, not the historical experience. As a public service broadcasting organisation, RTE is fulfilling a major mandate in ensuring that it reflects our heritage and modern culture. It also reflects the changing nature of modern Ireland and the drama programmes in particular attempt to do that, although not always successfully.

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