Nicky Byrne to replace Colm Hayes

Dan Healy. What a bull s*it artist

Is Colm Hayes on gardening leave at the moment?

Major U-Turn right there.

It's great to see that nepotism is alive and well in RTÉ, that they are being consistently lousy, that Dan doesn't like change and made no difference, and that we can all continue to enjoy a rubbish network.

Piss away the money, lads. Piss it away.

How did they get rid of Jim Jim and were lumbered with Colm Hayes

Where's Matthew Bannister when you need him?

that rte circle is still intact so i see...#jobsfortheboys
ridicolous...Where was the advertisment for this job?

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Because Hayes and Gerry Ryan were buddies outside of RTE. Have been for years. I suspect they couldn't get rid of Gerry's pal when Gerry was all powerful in Montrose.

How could Gerry influence this when after he passed away? Am I missing something?

For a so-called talk show with music Colm Hayes showed very little interest in talking about anything his listeners wanted to talk about, and he certainly hadn't a clue about music. From the moment he got that slot the show was doomed, with his pompous upper middle class nonsense taking over. He has no empathy with the 'common man' and no interest in music, but give him an upper class twit to talk to and a new Coldplay single to play and he was away. His twitter post tonight just about sums him up. Good riddance to him I say. He was rubbish.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Watch this space. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=#notleaving2fm&amp;src=hash&quot;&gt;#notleaving2fm&lt;/a&gt;.&#10;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=#honest&amp;src=hash&quot;&gt;#honest&lt;/a&gt;.&#10;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=#lovemyRTEparkingspace&amp;src=hash&quot;&gt;#lovemyRTEparkingspace&lt;/a&gt;.&#10;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=#lovetheRTEcanteenespeciallyonfridays&amp;src=hash&quot;&gt;#lovetheRTEcanteenespeciallyonfridays&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=#wheresPatKenny&amp;src=hash&quot;&gt;#wheresPatKenny&lt;/a&gt;??&lt;/p&gt;&mdash; colm hayes (@colmhayes2fm) <a href=" 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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@colmhayes2fm
Watch this space. #notleaving2fm.
#honest.
#lovemyRTEparkingspace.
#lovetheRTEcanteenespeciallyonfridays!#wheresPatKenny??

All in all though, Dan Healy is making a shambels of his new announcements. There seems to be no plan, just sticking announcements out there willy nilly. He should have waited and did a thorough relaunch in one - bang - Here's Nicky, Here's Brezzie, Here's Republic of Telly, Here's yer man from the Voice, here's some of my old pals from iRadio, here's Tubridy who we can't get rid of and there's one of your old favourites on a 6am or in the graveyard shift.

Instead, Hayes goes on "holidays" two weeks into the new year, Leahy a dead man walking for weeks, a job-bridger on breakfast, poor Larry left dangling, Dan Hegarty auditioning for a Phantom show, Hector obviously walking before he was fired.

What will become of Fanning and Larry? Aside from his stupid studio guests on a Saturday, Fanning is brilliant and should be cherished as such. Larry would be grand at at the weekend, but one thing I've noticed in recent weeks, when all the others have either fecked off on hols or sound like their working out their notice, Larry is still enthusiastic about his music, which is how it should be at 2fm. There's enough talking on the other stations.