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Who is Sarah Mulkerrins and what is her background?
This is an Irish Independent Podcast. I have a shocking kind of story to bring to the listeners. Oh, wow. Yeah. So do you know Sarah Mulkerrins? I do. Yeah.
Familiar with her work.
BBC Northern Ireland, GAA coverage in particular. So good at that. I mean, Ulster final day on BBC is kind of just a kind of day of colour on the Beeb. It's brilliant. BBC radio and television, you know, big career. You'll see her interviewing the England manager on BBC One. You know, Gary Lineker throwing down to Sir Mel Kearns. So from Galway, doing us proud. I have thought a good person. And then last year, you might remember, we discussed a Daily Telegraph list of the 10 greatest... How could I forget it? Mark Poo, guys. How could I forget it? I haven't stopped thinking about it since. The 10 greatest TV broadcasters of all time. And Mark Pugach was in there. Now, I think Sue Barker wasn't.
Oh, it was after the fact that there was three or four egregious submissions. Yeah, Hazel Irvine. What's that guy? John Inverdale was not in either. John Inverdale. No, he had a few mishaps. As we discussed at the time, he had a few mishaps that maybe were disqualifying in some people's eyes. Okay. But come on, everyone deserves a second chance.
You have to look at the broad picture. You know, Doyen. So that's fine. I moved on with my life. And then I got an email. Sarah Mulcairns pops up in my inbox. And defending Mark Pugach, viciously attacking me, you know, it was a real, the mask had slipped.
Viciously attacking us, I would say, as a show. It was a nasty rebuke, I would actually say, of our professionalism in some ways.
And so I sort of said, Sarah, who do you think you are? You know, who do you think you are? Respectfully. Respectfully. And I said, if you think you could do better than me and Will, like ever, name the date, come on in. Sarah Mulcairns, welcome.
I'm ready. I'm ready. I've got my case.
To bring. In the grand kind of tradition of media, the story I told there was basically true, but I juiced it up.
Oh, listen, I love to embellish things. So, you know, I'm with you on that, Joe.
You're very welcome. Your Bits and Mobs debut. We're thrilled to have you in.
Oh, listen, I'm very excited. Thank you for having me. I feel like I've kind of, you know, injected myself into it, though, by sending that email.
No. Well, it's funny. My wife recently suggested, would you ever think of having just a listener, a bits and bobs listener on? And I said, that's a terrible idea. But this is kind of a good halfway. It's a listener, but a listener with bona fide. So if there's anyone else out there listening, if John Inverdale is a listener and he wants to come in and we can, you know, do a rehab tour. He needs to wash his mouth out.
But yeah, he's welcome. I got a twang of English in there, in the accent.
Do you know what? It's awful. It is because I'm there 15 years in Manchester now. And I had to go back and find something like of my work from like when I first started. I found my old showreel from like Satanta Sports before I left. And I listened to it. And it's always horrific watching your work, especially at the start of your career when you're really bad. And I was like, gosh, my voice sounds a little bit, you know, different now. And I think it's just, it just melds and changes and moulds. And I moved from Galway to Dublin and I think it changed there a little bit for the first few years. And now it has clearly changed in another way. And I feel like I'm just in the Irish Sea because when I'm here, people can sense little things that are like, you've been living in Manchester for 15 years.
I never picked it up before on the BBC TV coverage.
oh that's good yeah because I never want to lose it but I do feel that obviously I'm going to there are going to be bits that will change and that's hard do you sound different on your BBC Northern Ireland Ulster final coverage than you do doing something else potentially BBC-ify your accent Potentially, yeah. Yeah, potentially. I remember I did the open back in 2019 in Portrush and I had one of my producers call me.
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