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    #1652
    hacx
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭hacx


    They're better that 70% of all the non-music radio shows put togethr. 85% if you count music shows.


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    #1653
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Listened to the Dunphy show in full this morning for the first time. Michael O Leary, Jill Kirby, Dan Boyle & Karl Whelan were on the panel. Kirby spent the whole hour and a half so far up O Leary's arse that I felt embarrassed for her come the end. O Leary used the oppurtunity as a vehicle to advertise his company although he did make the occassional good point. Boyle just spent the time defending the Green Party. Whelan made the most salient points but contributed the least.
    Dunphy bringing up some rag article from the Mail seemed a strange call and was shot down with the disdain it deserved.
    The final half hour was dedicated to sport, ten minutes of which was a Giles appreciation call.
    Overall a mixed bag, mildly enjoyable and worth another listen.


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    #1654
    Roanmore
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Roanmore


    Have Newstalk ababdoned their breakfast summer schedule already? Conor Brophy was back on at 6.30 am this morning. I'd say Breakfast Business at 7 am didn't go down too well when up against Morning Ireland.


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    #1655
    Poly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    I caught a bit of Alan Short covering for Moncreif this week, pretty good, imo,
    fairly laid back, he needs to back off a tad during the interveiws though.


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    #1656
    Chasing Dreams
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭Chasing Dreams


    Poly wrote: »
    I caught a bit of Alan Short covering for Moncreif this week, pretty good, imo,
    fairly laid back, he needs to back off a tad during the interveiws though.

    Yeah, I thought he was good. Had a bit of an obsession with skinny-dipping though.

    I thought Giles was great as usual at the OTB roadshow on Monday.


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    #1657
    dh0661
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    Aidric wrote: »
    Michael O Leary, . O Leary used the oppurtunity as a vehicle to advertise his company although he did make the occassional good point.

    I wonder what DOB would make of MOL as a guest on one of his stations?


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    #1658
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    Chasing Dreams wrote: »
    Yeah, I thought he was good. Had a bit of an obsession with skinny-dipping though.

    I thought Giles was great as usual at the OTB roadshow on Monday.

    I thought he was much better than normal! Gilsey, I mean. Some genuine lol Moments


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    #1659
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    tbh wrote: »
    I thought he was much better than normal! Gilsey, I mean. Some genuine lol Moments

    When John Giles has an audience, he plays to them and he is much less guarded than when in a studio.

    He was equally good in another Off The Ball Roadshow last year. Also remember him singing a duet with Dana (Think it was on The Right Hook) at an outside broadcast a while back.

    Some great stories the other night - he wasn't impressed that Dunphy and Ossie gave him the slip before they headed to Lillies Bordello!


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    #1660
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Anyone else esp in South East finding NT reception is on/off? RTE and Today FM both loud and clear from Mt Leinster.


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    #1661
    barneygumble
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭barneygumble


    Apart from the occasional evening where I'll tune in to OTB for a while, I've completely given up on Newstalk.

    And am feeling a lot better for it :D


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    #1662
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    Did I hear right this morning, Has Yates left the breakie show for good?
    Hopefully not. I have got to like his interviews, especially the political ones. Couldn't listen to Byrne and Broffey, he's to nerdy and she's just...sh1te.


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    #1663
    RangeR
    Registered Users Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    fred funk }{ wrote: »
    Did I hear right this morning, Has Yates left the breakie show for good?
    Hopefully not. I have got to like his interviews, especially the political ones. Couldn't listen to Byrne and Broffey, he's to nerdy and she's just...sh1te.

    I heard that too. Might just be true.


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    #1664
    Poly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    Is he taking over from Hook?
    I get the feeling Hook is going to go full-time selling sky dishes.


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    #1665
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    He's filling in for Hook next for sure but I don't know if it's permanent. I wouldn't mind seeing him in the afternoon slot. He's good current affairs.


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    #1666
    Badabing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    Have they filled the Lunchtime slot yet?


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    #1667
    fred funk }{
    Registered Users Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    Damo is doing at the moment but the position hasn't been permanently filled yet AFAIK.


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    #1668
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    Allegedly Claire Byrne is moving there in September when George Hook and Ivan Yates swap.


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    #1669
    parasite
    Registered Users Posts: 2,077 ✭✭✭parasite


    heh, a Marc Coleman slip of the tongue last week -> http://achgohairithe.tumblr.com/post/841150373/massive-slip-of-the-ahem-tongue-on-newstalks


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    #1670
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    parasite wrote: »
    heh, a Marc Coleman slip of the tongue last week -> http://achgohairithe.tumblr.com/post/841150373/massive-slip-of-the-ahem-tongue-on-newstalks
    :D:DBRILLIANT!!!Where has that clip been hiding?


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    #1671
    Koloman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Koloman


    Lenny Lovett wrote: »
    :D:DBRILLIANT!!!Where has that clip been hiding?

    Do you think he meant it?biggrin.gif


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    #1672
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Marc Coleman has to be THE worst presenter I've ever heard on radio.. He cant get through a sentence without either spluttering or making a mistake or saying "eeeeeehhhhh"... awful.. Give the lad a bit of coaching before ye put him on national radio will ye ... ffs


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    #1673
    Barname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Barname


    Badabing wrote: »
    Have they filled the Lunchtime slot yet?

    with such pun ability you could get an internship with joe duffy


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    #1674
    bernardo mac
    Registered Users Posts: 903 ✭✭✭bernardo mac


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Marc Coleman has to be THE worst presenter I've ever heard on radio.. He cant get through a sentence without either spluttering or making a mistake or saying "eeeeeehhhhh"... awful.. Give the lad a bit of coaching before ye put him on national radio will ye ... ffs

    To me the Smug Smoothie Tom Dunne is worse and unbearable.He announced this morning that he loves alcohol and never has a hangover.But the smarmy preek is a fcuking Hangover! :eek:


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    #1675
    fatbhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭fatbhoy


    Shameless promoting of IKEA today, I really hate Newstalk but I'm a bit addicted to it too. :(


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    #1676
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    My god Tom Dunne is sooooo boring.. Item on now about a lad who is putting on a different t-shirt every day and posting a picture of it on the Internet.. my god..


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    #1677
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Jesus, Mary White can rabbit on and on and on. What an annoying monologue on the lunchtime show for the last 10 mins.
    Come back Mary O'Rourke wherever you are.


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    #1678
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Lapin wrote: »
    Jesus, Mary White can rabbit on and on and on.

    :D


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    #1679
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    :D

    A cuneen pun , to be sure! :)


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    #1680
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Well spotted :)


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    #1681
    bernardo mac
    Registered Users Posts: 903 ✭✭✭bernardo mac


    Tom Dunne on again talking about enjoying himself in Galway.Loves himself does the unctuous one.And he talked about how beautifully dressed the ladies in the Radisson were dressed last night adding: "we should dress like that more often" !! A Freudian Slip,no doubt.The ladies love him.


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