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grey_so_what · 05-11-2014 9:03pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Man that parenting expert on Moncrieff is irritating. It was funny when a texter suggested a swift boot up the arse as a remedy to behavioral issues.

:)

I'm your man / or woman DLH....:)

ballsymchugh · 05-11-2014 10:18pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Man that parenting expert on Moncrieff is irritating. It was funny when a texter suggested a swift boot up the arse as a remedy to behavioral issues.

was it the usual guy? i think he's pretty good. there's notable difference between him and the irish experts.

he has no problem with saying NO to kids, whereas the others will tell you to sit down with your child and explain the ins and outs of why they can't shove 6 inch nails in their baby sisters ears...

SEPT 23 1989 · 08-11-2014 9:21am

Henry interviewing his mother. Cutting edge radio

Muff Richardson · 11-11-2014 10:38pm

jaysus, after that interview mortimers book is priority on my must read book list just behind mein kampf. what an painful interview, listening to a lad for a good half hour trying to justify and figure out why he was dropped. it was too much to hope for Ger to say "emmmm, do ye think maybe you were dropped in your prime years because you are a complete pr*ck?"

woolys endorsement of the book and of Mortimer as a "real character" is further reason to use this book as toilet paper if you are unlucky enough to find this in your Xmas stocking.

woolys outdone himself with his clueless punditry tonight and his "we need more characters in the game and it's a shame they are gone", no it's not you twat, they were and are annoying just like himself and GAA is a hell of a lot better without idiots like himself and Mortimer

kumate_champ07 · 11-11-2014 11:20pm

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

All they need to do now is get rid of Bill Hughes's slot where he plays George's favourite songs and we might have a half-decent show again.

why? Its actually an interesting slot

edit* do you mean thursday when Bill selects a classic song and explains its history?

Judgement Day · 12-11-2014 12:49pm

Pat Kenny Show: 'It's a while now since I put on my boots or whatever'...some horrible heart/stroke Ad for the ****ing umteenth time. Unplugged transistor and removed from room - it will now be Liveline before it's switched on again. Is there ever going to be an end of the deluge of parasitic medical advertising? It should be banned like cigarette advertising as nothing is worse for my blood pressure. :mad:

ballsymchugh · 12-11-2014 1:25pm

Judgement Day wrote: »

Pat Kenny Show: 'It's a while now since I put on my boots or whatever'...some horrible heart/stroke Ad for the ****ing umteenth time. Unplugged transistor and removed from room - it will now be Liveline before it's switched on again. Is there ever going to be an end of the deluge of parasitic medical advertising? It should be banned like cigarette advertising as nothing is worse for my blood pressure. :mad:

i've noticed that lately. it's like american tv on the radio. ads for health checks, supplements, insurance.
at least the lads in clonmel pharma are looking out for us though, what with all the trust we have in them.

Iranoutofideas · 12-11-2014 2:34pm

Jonathan Healy's show is just turning into the lunchtime bash Sinn Fein slot now - the radio equivalent of the Indo.

It's getting on my nerves

nicedryturf · 12-11-2014 3:13pm

Sean to David Quinn: "Does it ever get exhausting when nobody agrees with you?"

Nice.

Say Your Number · 12-11-2014 3:56pm

Just coming back from an ad break Sean said: "You're listening to Pinkotalk, a propagandist tool of the Catholic Facist state" :pac:

kumate_champ07 · 12-11-2014 5:24pm

"George Hook is sitting in for George Hook today" nearly spat out my coffee

PopePalpatine · 12-11-2014 6:32pm

nicedryturf wrote: »

Sean to David Quinn: "Does it ever get exhausting when nobody agrees with you?"

Nice.

I'd say Sean will find a few solicitor's letters in his letterbox tomorrow morning.

ballsymchugh · 12-11-2014 6:43pm

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

"George Hook is sitting in for George Hook today" nearly spat out my coffee

listening to the show for the past couple of days, he still had the travel slot and the medical slot, so shane coleman finished at about 6.15. how much live work does george hook do per day??

michael999999 · 12-11-2014 7:13pm

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

Jonathan Healy's show is just turning into the lunchtime bash Sinn Fein slot now - the radio equivalent of the Indo.

It's getting on my nerves

When Denis o Brien pays the wages, he picks the editorial!

Riverireland · 13-11-2014 9:18am

Ivan trying to interview Joan burton now, my god I hate her voice..... Have to switch over.

SEPT 23 1989 · 14-11-2014 6:42pm

Middle class chat

Ol' Donie · 14-11-2014 7:42pm

Is there something wrong with Newstalk today?
I turned it on earlier and didn't hear Shane Coleman's voice.

Very strange.

CountyHurler · 16-11-2014 1:24pm

What right does Paul Murphy think he has to "slow march" Joan Burton away from the event yesterday... He has no right to interfere with her movement in any way..

McDave · 16-11-2014 9:32pm

CountyHurler wrote: »

What right does Paul Murphy think he has to "slow march" Joan Burton away from the event yesterday... He has no right to interfere with her movement in any way..

Spine chilling stuff. Shane Coleman let him off quite lightly. But Murphy hung himself. Especially after Zappone came in with her eyewitness account.

CountyHurler · 18-11-2014 1:44pm

Mary Lou isnt fooling everybody... the day before herself and Adams were running for the hills when they were asked questions about sex abuse.. Nobody is fooled by their distraction...

19-11-2014 10:46am

Muff Richardson wrote: »

jaysus, after that interview mortimers book is priority on my must read book list just behind mein kampf. what an painful interview, listening to a lad for a good half hour trying to justify and figure out why he was dropped. it was too much to hope for Ger to say "emmmm, do ye think maybe you were dropped in your prime years because you are a complete pr*ck?"

woolys endorsement of the book and of Mortimer as a "real character" is further reason to use this book as toilet paper if you are unlucky enough to find this in your Xmas stocking.

woolys outdone himself with his clueless punditry tonight and his "we need more characters in the game and it's a shame they are gone", no it's not you twat, they were and are annoying just like himself and GAA is a hell of a lot better without idiots like himself and Mortimer

I sometimes think Wooly's idea of "character" is a weird haircut and flashy boots

CountyHurler · 19-11-2014 1:49pm

Jonathan Healy's smart ar$e, cynical, sarcastic presenting is just boring at this stage...

brooke 2 · 19-11-2014 1:52pm

CountyHurler wrote: »

Jonathan Healy's smart ar$e, cynical, sarcastic presenting is just boring at this stage...

Absolutely! Making such a big deal of An Post knowing how to get to people's
houses!!

Bits_n_Bobs · 19-11-2014 1:54pm

To be fair he never actually quite reaches the level of 'sarcasm'...he generally flounders about at smartass'ness

CountyHurler · 19-11-2014 2:08pm

You think the unions would have made it a prerequisite of any prospective leader that they be able to put a full sentence together.

He makes Elmer Fudd sound like John F Kennedy..

Loafing Oaf · 19-11-2014 4:57pm

CountyHurler wrote: »

Jonathan Healy's smart ar$e, cynical, sarcastic presenting is just boring at this stage...

Nothing worse than a know-it-all who actually knows very little...

Harry Angstrom · 19-11-2014 6:17pm

Hook seems to think that Chavez is still alive. He's even more out of touch than I thought.

Harry Angstrom · 19-11-2014 6:20pm

brooke 2 wrote: »

Absolutely! Making such a big deal of An Post knowing how to get to people's
houses!!

He didn't seem to kick up half as much of a fuss when Irish Water wanted our PPS numbers. Denis wouldn't have liked that, though. It might have interfered with the installation of water meters....

bbability · 20-11-2014 2:11am

Folks,

I'm closing this thread on Saturday. Please continue to discuss Newstalk shows in separate threads from Saturday.

brooke 2 · 20-11-2014 6:22am

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Hook seems to think that Chavez is still alive. He's even more out of touch than I thought.

Just heard him say that you have to shop off pallets in Lidl and Aldi!!
'It's not like shopping in other shops.'

:(:(

neris · 20-11-2014 8:43am

oh the irony in one of their little info ads this morning. some muslim kid going on about how people should be allowed to practice their religious beliefs without having someone tell them their religion was wrong.

ifconfig · 20-11-2014 11:05am

Is Pat Kenny on a weeks holidays ? Stand in people over the past 3 days

Claude Burgundy · 20-11-2014 11:32am

ifconfig wrote: »

Is Pat Kenny on a weeks holidays ? Stand in people over the past 3 days

Yep,

He said it before he left on Friday. In fairness he's on air a lot more than he was on RTE or to that fact than Hook.

ifconfig · 20-11-2014 11:47am

Claude Burgundy wrote: »

Yep,

He said it before he left on Friday. In fairness he's on air a lot more than he was on RTE or to that fact than Hook.

Absolutely agree.
I've only switched the dial to him in recent weeks.
The RTE/SOR show isn't working for me.
Also the RTE stand in at the moment Keelin hurts my ears, unfortunately.

ballsymchugh · 20-11-2014 9:12pm

bbability wrote: »

Folks,

I'm closing this thread on Saturday. Please continue to discuss Newstalk shows in separate threads from Saturday.

i wonder who's going to be annoyed enough to start a jonathan healy thread!

Judgement Day · 20-11-2014 9:23pm

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i wonder who's going to be annoyed enough to start a jonathan healy thread!

Not to mention a Shane Coleman one...

Loafing Oaf · 20-11-2014 9:54pm

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i wonder who's going to be annoyed enough to start a jonathan healy thread!

I'll probably have the Marc Coleman thread to myself, as I seem to be the only boardsie masochistic enough to listen to him!:p

wnolan1992 · 20-11-2014 10:31pm

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

I'll probably have the Marc Coleman thread to myself, as I seem to be the only boardsie masochistic enough to listen to him!:p

I always keep forgetting to listen to him tbh. I genuinely used to enjoy his show during the week before. But that time on Sunday isn't exactly prime radio listening time for me. :P

Loafing Oaf · 20-11-2014 10:43pm

wnolan1992 wrote: »

I always keep forgetting to listen to him tbh. I genuinely used to enjoy his show during the week before. But that time on Sunday isn't exactly prime radio listening time for me. :P

I actually like the format of the show and appreciate many of the guests but Coleman himself I find borderline insufferable. He actually said a couple of months ago, and it's imprinted on my memory: "A lot of people on the left still have a soft spot for Stalin, or 'Uncle Joe' as they call him".:rolleyes:

foxtrot101 · 21-11-2014 1:54am

Much like Mooney a couple of months age, Chris Donoghue has had a complaint against him upheld for stating that he would vote in a referendum in favour of changes to Irish law to permit same-sex marriage. The BAI really thinks we're all idiots who have to be saved from radio presenters expressing an opinion.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/media/complaint-over-radio-host-backing-same-sex-marriage-upheld-in-part-1.2008972

wnolan1992 · 21-11-2014 9:18am

foxtrot101 wrote: »

Much like Mooney a couple of months age, Chris Donoghue has had a complaint against him upheld for stating that he would vote in a referendum in favour of changes to Irish law to permit same-sex marriage. The BAI really thinks we're all idiots who have to be saved from radio presenters expressing an opinion.

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/media/complaint-over-radio-host-backing-same-sex-marriage-upheld-in-part-1.2008972

Loved his response to it this morning at around 7:40 where he basically calls the decision bullsh*t. :P

Muff Richardson · 21-11-2014 11:26am

delighted with himself, raise his profile with his ever present and tiresome people pleasing populist viewpoints. his rant this morning was pathetic with his repetitive "it means i'm pro-equality" whinging. There was a gay rights spokesperson/campaigner who gave a very good in-depth interview a few weeks ago on a Saturday on Newstalk, who himself raised serious concerns over passing legislation for gay marriage, I can't remember his name but he gave a very balanced viewpoint on the issue, I'm pretty sure he was pro equality, would Chris regard him not to be or as bigoted because he didn't share his opinion? <Mod: snip - no personal abuse, including presenters and guests.>

Bits_n_Bobs · 21-11-2014 12:28pm

I couldn't give a toss about Chris's opinion on gay marriage however the BAI's busy body vocal interference in his voicing an opinion is in stark contrast with its continuing deafening silence on DOB's (whose winning of the ESAT contract was due to payments he made to FG's Michael Lowry, the then communications minister, who unduly influenced the bidding process accoridng to the Moriarty report...), ever increasing strangle-hold on Irish media.

As usual with most Irish institutions, the BAI is intent on policing Irish peoples morals and ethics while ignoring the golden circle 'establishment' surrounding our politicians...

hullaballoo · 21-11-2014 12:33pm

Moderator: can we leave out the personal sniping please? Posts deleted.

robbe · 21-11-2014 3:36pm

Noticed that the Tom Dunne Film review thingie podcast was available yesterday evening before the actual radio show aired...always thought it was live but tbh never listened to a whole show so could be wrong....he did mention txting in on 53106 which I thought was a bit odd considering it wasn't live - anyone?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-11-2014 5:14pm

bbability wrote: »

Folks,

I'm closing this thread on Saturday. Please continue to discuss Newstalk shows in separate threads from Saturday.

Is it not handier for everyone to have one general thread like this?

Loafing Oaf · 21-11-2014 9:31pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Is it not handier for everyone to have one general thread like this?

Alongside ones for the big shows: Hook, Breakfast etc. I thought that system worked well, but les mods have ses raisons that the rest of us ne connait pas...

Ol' Donie · 21-11-2014 9:37pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Is it not handier for everyone to have one general thread like this?

Was gonna say this.

I don't want to start a Global Village thread. :-(:-(

Glebee · 21-11-2014 9:43pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Is it not handier for everyone to have one general thread like this?

Hear hear. I second that.

ballsymchugh · 21-11-2014 9:44pm

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Was gonna say this.

I don't want to start a Global Village thread. :-(:-(

there is one already. it'd be racist not to have it. or is that homophobic? sectarian anyone?

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