Or not, as it happens.

RTE’s America correspondent-elect, Charlie Bird, has a blog on the RTE site, which was being pimped on Morning Ireland this am.

So naturally, I signed up.

But lo, it seems it’s ghost-written. The Bird is on the wing. too busy to blog, but has the time to take the credit for someone else’s work. (No, not Robert Shortt)

Behold the grab from my google reader, which shows the post written by ‘hennesm’:

Sure enough, if you’re sad enough to dig into the code – here’s the evidence:

 Posted at <a href="http://www.rte.ie/ie/charliebirdsblog/entry/monday_afternoon_chicago">09:47PM Nov 03, 2008</a>
            <!--by Mark Hennessy in <span class="category">General</span> &nbsp;|&nbsp;
                        -->

Same for the other entries, too.

Charlie Bird: Never the same after the battle of O’Connell St.

Update: Seems hennesm is also updating Mark Little’s blog, Race to Washington. Could be that both Little & Bird are zapping their ‘blog posts’ back to a webmaster?

No other RSS posts are tagged with the same byline, though. Weird…

Maman Poulet already highlighted the fact that the RTE blogs don’t do comments – perhaps this is why?