Oiling up the Tape Players out in Montrose.

Pelvis Parsley

I can understand them just fine-I find their unique take quite entertaining as it happens.

Reminds me of the olden days.

Brendan Bendar

Jaysus!!!!

They have started cutting the hours of MI already, in one of the biggest crises in the States history.

Let me guess, it will be cut to one presenter and feature ‘inserts’ for the main.

crazy stuff

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354618#Comment_118354618

What happened in the “olden days”Pel?

Take us back

StevenToast

Licence fee be f*ucked....

Why would you pay tubridy and scare byrnes (et al) salary when RTE dont even think theyre needed....

Nevin Parsnipp

🐷

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354010#Comment_118354010

The good news is that your symptoms are treatable......off with you to a darkened room with a slab of cheap eastern European beer and you should be ok.

PS ...make sure your cat is in a secure safe place....

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118353842#Comment_118353842

Obviously you've missed a basic understanding about how unions operate.

bureau2009

No John S Doyle "What it says in the papers" on the extended Rising Time?

B2021M

They will be all be back on 4th January with guns blazing about all the 'crises' we face...and demanding to know what's been done about them since they went on holidays.

Brendan Bendar

First appearance of what I call the ‘Xmas Wheelouts’… ie geezers who only appear once or twice a year.

I give you: The Space Fella……. Mr Leo Enright.

Will we hear from Mr Joe Jackson, Mr Sean O’Rourke, Ms Mary Kennedy, Ms Olivia O’Leary…….

A nation holds its breath………

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118355569#Comment_118355569

He was on the truncated MI……. I think….

StevenToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118355569#Comment_118355569

How will the nation cope without all the multitude of different presenters on Morning Ireland?

NIMAN

Tommy Mescal will no doubt be back on the tv news.

Usually he is standing outside somewhere, but at Xmas he gets to sit in the big boys and girls seats, while they enjoy an extended Xmas break.

StevenToast

If they are not needed in the next 2 weeks, they sure as f*uck arent needed for the rest of the year.....

We needn’t worry really. Nothing newsworthy can happen during the long Christmas vacuum. News only happens when there’s somebody to report it.

Just thinking, imagine there was a massive newsworthy event concerning Ireland, like a Boeing 747 ploughing through north Dublin (heaven forbid 😱) and it was just covered in the standard short Christmas news bulletins, whilst next feature is some tape playing of Tara Flynn doing a “comedy” selection about the hilarious ways people act at airports going on holiday. The tape would have e been pre-loaded, and programmed to run, nobody in the office to actually change it, and no expansive coverage about how north Dublin has been half demolished by the suburban ploughing by the aircraft.

Pelvis Parsley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118354834#Comment_118354834

Well, the first thing that comes to mind is/was the illustrious and perhaps departed author of this epic thread, Brender.

Many in number were the ripe and steaming bolus' of wit and wordplay, skillfully unleashed by the unforgotten Flutther, and hoisted with care and considerable effort, into the hitherto pristine and virginal porcelain whiteness of the boards.ie khazi!

Brendan Bendar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118358038#Comment_118358038

Aaah The Flutt..rare one that lad…..them was the good old days.

They say he was sponsored by Armitage-Shanks….

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118357962#Comment_118357962

I'll always remember the night of the Buttevant rail crash in 1980. The news broke around midnight on Radio 1 with the sad news and live reports from the scene etc.

Then the next programme came on with it's usual powerful intro/Jingle "YOU'RE LISTENING TO THE NIGHT TRAIN" complete with the sound of horns and the clickitty clack of trains on the track.

I can't remember who was doing the show on the night, it may have been Mark Cagney but not a word of apology or embarrassment was uttered.

Nevin Parsnipp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118358274#Comment_118358274

Uuuummmm ? Think it was DynoRod Dude....or The Drain Doctor...one o them I'm sure.!

Sadly missed though.....

padd b1975

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118359407#Comment_118359407

Something similar happened on BBC radio when the Chernobyl disaster happened. I think The Smiths wrote a song about it.

Anyway, as the Brendo mentioned earlier Morning Ireland was cut by an hour which gave us another hour of Shay Byrne who seemed to be après a sugary breakfast.

Christmas cracker jokes and way too much giggling with Des Cahill.

He's a complete manchild.

Ballycommon Mast

It might surprise younger listeners that until the late 90s, RTE Radio had seasonal schedules like Television. For example in summer 1989, Liveline was off air from June until October and Maxi who had just been axed from the 2fm breakfast show hosted a lite music and requests show in it's place, when her show would finish at 3, Ronan Collins came on air till 6 with more lite music and requests, at 6 Brendan Balfe came on air with 6 o clock Rock

Brendan Bendar

Turn on Athlone there Missus ,it’s nearly half one, time for DinJoe.

padd b1975

Did Harbour Hotel survive?

Brendan Bendar

Time of a bit of doggerel here I think.

***The Spirit of Montrose**

T’was the season of Xmas

In a place called Montrose

The world was in chaos

With disease of the nose

***************

The big stars were laughing

They were packed for their flight

If the Fcukking place folded

Could we give a shïte

********************

The listener was worried

What would happen with health

will we have only music

Thats the card we’ve been dealt

****************/

The stand ins were trembling

The riggers went mad

The cameras stopped rolling

No dhrink to be had

*******************

So balls to the listener

We’ll look after our mates

Throw on an auld tape there

Goggins closes at eight.

****************

©️ M.Arnold Balliol Coll.Oxon,M.Litt D.Mus.

Losty Dublin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118360877#Comment_118360877

It's now an direct provision centre 😒

ford fiesta

up to the mid 80s, there was not much current affairs /news/ debate on radio 1 during the daytime: lots of drama, documentaries, arts shows, classical music, opera, variety concerts, trad music, some general music programmes, book shows, news bulletins, mart reports, fish market reports etc.

Ballycommon Mast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118362660#Comment_118362660

It was a wonderful time to be alive. Now because of 24/7 rolling news media, idiots go out panic buying toilet rolls after seeing CCP propaganda videos of Chinese people collapsing on the streets.

StevenToast

Morning Propaganda...setting the governments agenda for the day....instill fear with a hugely bloated staff to read different lines to ensure maximum attentiveness and fearfulness of the listener....

Tubridy...fake kindness with misery slots...reinforce our need to be fearful...

Today with Scare Byrne....fear mongering mixed in with nonsense....

All before lunch.....

Sure how could you not pay the licence fee....well over €1,000,000 in staff salaries for 4 presenters of those 3 programmes alone...

Losty Dublin

Tubs is probably off on another windswept walk down Kingstown pier today as poor Oliver was sitting in today.

thesandeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365140#Comment_118365140

Apparently he's a close contact so isolating with his books.

Losty Dublin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118366610#Comment_118366610

He should isolate at a BBC Radio 2 studio. Long term.