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    #2972
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,046 ✭✭✭✭neris


    chughes wrote: »
    Did I hear correctly or did Joan Burton belch during an interview a short while ago on the Breakfast Show ?


    would explain why the joan burton character on gift grub this morning was belching. was away last week so missed that


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    #2973
    tippx
    Registered Users Posts: 98 ✭✭tippx


    neris wrote: »
    would explain why the joan burton character on gift grub this morning was belching. was away last week so missed that
    Well her meet and greet with the Queen went belch free this evening,
    that said she was lookin well in a pink number!!never thaught I,d say that:eek:


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    #2974
    hacx
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭hacx


    oh holy jesus, Mark Coleman you ******.


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    #2975
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Whats he at now?

    edit, I'm listening, Coleman is a very dubious conservative/catholic figure.


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    #2976
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    hacx wrote: »
    oh holy jesus, Mark Coleman you ******.
    Whats he done?


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    #2977
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Is that Coleman with the noises off?


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    #2978
    hacx
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭hacx


    Saying the Irish fighting in WW1 should've been fighting in the Easter Rising.


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    #2979
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Not the Channel Islands!


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    #2980
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    i think the blokes lost the plot.

    his ego has inflated MASSIVELY leading to the failed senate bid.

    had to turn off yesterday as he basically went off on a polemic.

    what is it about newstalks presenters where given enough time they eventually disappear up their own backsides ?

    that said nice to hear the text about the ****ing nightmare that is gettinga round the city this week.

    it took me two hours waiting for a bus to get me across the suburbs which were no where NEAR the security stuff in town. whole pubic transport is fubard.


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    #2981
    Imhof Tank
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    So, Ivan has been off on sick leave for a couple of weeks at this stage and (imo) Chris and Shane Coleman have been worse than poor -their show is now an irrelevance - just a poor immitation of Morning Ireland.

    Yates' input is what differentiates the show. Without him, if say the back injury is so bad as to rule him out long term, they may as well scrap the format altogether.

    On Chris specifically- why the showman act? And the hip patter? He cant ask a question without putting it in his form of trendy "modern" speak

    - give us your take on ...........
    - how did it all play out .........


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    #2982
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I suspect at his age he doesn't know any other way to speak. I find Shane Coleman a more than adequate as a replacement for Yates (if he doesn't return).


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    #2983
    Imhof Tank
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    mike65 wrote: »
    I suspect at his age he doesn't know any other way to speak. I find Shane Coleman a more than adequate as a replacement for Yates (if he doesn't return).

    Maybe he should work on it then - it doesnt sound good to hear someone being asked about for example a fatality ......"tell us how the day played out".

    On Shane Coleman, he is completly different and is not a like for like replacement for Yates - the show himself and Chris are now delivering is really a different format to the Chris/Yates show.


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    #2984
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    May not be bad thing, Yates to my mind was getting a bit too "loud" and his repartee with Chris was frankly tedious


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    #2985
    Imhof Tank
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    mike65 wrote: »
    May not be bad thing, Yates to my mind was getting a bit too "loud" and his repartee with Chris was frankly tedious

    Meh, I like Ivan

    The perspective he brings to issues is unique.

    Shane Coleman was/is a good journalist and Chris is full of enthusiasm - but what do either of them (or any of the regulars on MI or drivetime) know about for example running for election, running a government department, coalitions generally, employers issues, running a business,crashing a business etc, etc.


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    #2986
    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,321 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    mike65 wrote: »
    May not be bad thing, Yates to my mind was getting a bit too "loud" and his repartee with Chris was frankly tedious
    I'm back listening to it a bit more with Coleman. He'll never last - not ranty right wing US talk radio enough for modern day Newstalk...


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    #2987
    magotch07
    Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭magotch07


    i have completely gone off the breakfast shows since Yates has been sick....its just not as good


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    #2988
    mike65
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    Maybe the solution is Yates and Coleman


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    #2989
    Imhof Tank
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    mike65 wrote: »
    Maybe the solution is Yates and Coleman

    That would be the dream team allright.

    NT snapped up Coleman the minute the Tribune went down which looked ominous for Chris at the time.


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    #2990
    fifth
    Registered Users Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭fifth


    Darragh from boards on Moncreif right now.


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    #2991
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    mike65 wrote: »
    Maybe the solution is Yates and Coleman

    That would be my preference aswell , with Chris maybe taking up a roving reporter role.


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    #2992
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    The Breakfast Show's listenership went up by 23,000 in the last quarter, so I don't think Newstalk will be sharing the view that the Yates-Donoghue combo is a problem that needs to be solved.


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    #2993
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    mike65 wrote: »
    I suspect at his age he doesn't know any other way to speak. I find Shane Coleman a more than adequate as a replacement for Yates (if he doesn't return).

    so replace a staunch FG man with a staunch FF one


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    #2994
    bamboozle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭bamboozle


    getting fed up with newstalk breakfast, this morning's 7.30 sports bulletin they give feck all time to the HC final tomorrow followed by golf and a 2 minute interview with a Kerry footballer, their 8.30 sports starts with a story on Carlos Tevez followed by Golf followed by news on the HC final.


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    #2995
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    I'm sorry to say it because I used to be a fan of his but Chris is really starting to grate on me lately. The over emphasis of the letter 'T' is unbearable at this stage. I turned off this morning when he was interviewing the mother of the unjoined-cojoined twins, dreadful interview.


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    #2996
    Speak Now
    Registered Users Posts: 8,535 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    According to Chris tomorrow is "Sattaday"!


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    #2997
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    ha !

    newstalk send sean moncreif down to cork and the lines gone down. davenport is doing his show now from dublin.

    of all the days, i bet seans raging.

    :)


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    #2998
    Imhof Tank
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    Rubik. wrote: »
    The Breakfast Show's listenership went up by 23,000 in the last quarter, so I don't think Newstalk will be sharing the view that the Yates-Donoghue combo is a problem that needs to be solved.

    Yes but would the Coleman -Donoghue combo we have at the moment maintain those figures?

    I doubt it.


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    #2999
    Skid
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    constitutionus wrote: »
    ha !

    newstalk send sean moncreif down to cork and the lines gone down. davenport is doing his show now from dublin.

    of all the days, i bet seans raging.

    :)

    Did Davenport just say Moncrieff was in Galway?

    Why would he go to Galway when they have studios in Cork, today of all days.


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    #3000
    Lapin
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    constitutionus wrote: »
    ha !

    newstalk send sean moncreif down to cork and the lines gone down. davenport is doing his show now from dublin.

    of all the days, i bet seans raging.

    :)

    I am now convinced that Fionn Davenport lives in the Newstalk building.


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    #3001
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    this is great craic.

    the whole stations falling apart, not only did they not get back to sean they couldnt even get quillys Q tip to play them out.

    now doing ads to get to hooky.

    :):)

    have to say though fionn is doing alright considering, just making a joke out of it and rolling with it which TBH is the best way to go in these circumstances.


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