Eamon Keane is gone from Newstalk

IrishTonyO

Just been confirmed to me that Eamon Keane is gone from Newstalk. A bad thing for Newstalk I reckon, and strange the way there has been no announcements from News talk about it

_feedback_

confirmed by who? Link?

IrishTonyO

I asked Sean Moncriffe on Twitter and he said yes, also on the Newstalk site, Keane's profile is gone a blank picture where he used to be and the programme name used to be 'Lunchtime with Eamon Keane' and now it is just called Lunchtime.

Wonder is he going to be filling Gerry Ryan's old slot

mallet head

Always thought Keane was awful. His show was the weakest part of newstalk's daytime schedule. The pretending to be shocked by stories which involved joe public being hard done by always made me cringe.

TimmyTarmac

The fella doing that slot now in my view is streets ahead - Jonathon Healy is it? Good presence, seems to be on top of his brief, no bull plop, he just gets it done.
It's a pleasure to listen to. Keane's 'C'mere till I tell ya' style is no loss.

todolist

I enjoyed Keane's show.Ivan Yeates would be great in that slot.

positivenote

Ivan Yates is not a broadcaster or any repute and the likes of him being employed by Newstalk is what frustrates me most about the talk radio station.

mike65

Happy enough with that!

robo

Wonder is Keane gone to another radio station?
Usually when radio presenters etc move station, they disppear from the airwaves suddenly and turn up on another station a few weeks later. Any one care to guess where he might have gone???

TimmyTarmac

Is there a community station in Listowel? That's the place for him.

wobblyknees

He always sounded like he was trying to be as shocked as Joe Duffy.

mallet head

positivenote wrote: »

Ivan Yates is not a broadcaster or any repute and the likes of him being employed by Newstalk is what frustrates me most about the talk radio station.

Sometimes when you look outside the box you find a gem. Better then the RTE crony-ism anyway.

Back in the day I was a huge fan of David Mc Williams breakfast show. Worst thing they ever done was shaft him to bring someone as unprofessional as Eamon Dunphy.

robo

I can't imagine that his rants and bad interview skills would be welcome at any other station.

ballsymchugh

he is definitely no loss to the station. hearing him tutting in the background while listening to someone's story of a hard life was irritating. at least it'll be a while before we hear the likes of "anyway there's some rugby on this weekend, here's mick galwey. jaysis mick we had a great night out the last time i met ya, how's the head been since?"

Uoykcuf

ballsymchugh wrote: »

he is definitely no loss to the station. hearing him tutting in the background while listening to someone's story of a hard life was irritating. at least it'll be a while before we hear the likes of "anyway there's some rugby on this weekend, here's mick galwey. jaysis mick we had a great night out the last time i met ya, how's the head been since?"

"Bear with me now, because I think this is important...."

"Come here to me........"

No loss. I had ALMOST resorted to leaving on Ronan Collins to fill that early afternoon void before the 'News at One' and Moncrieff.

jacaranda

ballsymchugh wrote: »

he is definitely no loss to the station. hearing him tutting in the background while listening to someone's story of a hard life was irritating. at least it'll be a while before we hear the likes of "anyway there's some rugby on this weekend, here's mick galwey. jaysis mick we had a great night out the last time i met ya, how's the head been since?"

I can't help agreeing. When Damien Kyberd (not sure if that's how he spells his name) was hosting the lunchtime show, it was an interesting and thoughtful show. Eamonn Keane's style was more tabloid and dragged the show downmarket, and made it more or less unlistenable. Sean Moncrief, one of the gems in Newstalk's schedule, would be much better in the Gerry Ryan slot than Eamonn Keane, and I hope RTE don't make the error of giving him the slot.

IrishTonyO

I liked Eamon Keane, at least he wasn't afraid to ask hard questions and challenge people on their replies.

Pin_Cushion

positivenote wrote: »

Ivan Yates is not a broadcaster or any repute and the likes of him being employed by Newstalk is what frustrates me most about the talk radio station.

Yeah I agree with this, he's an awful broadcaster- I'm not sure why they ever gave him that job. Also glad to see Eamon Keane gone, he was starting to become a caricature of himself with all this "My gripe with elite all the civil service is this, lads..."
Trying far too hard to come across as a man of the people.

Yates and Keane are the two weak links in Newstalk's weekday lineup in my opinion, the rest are great. Well, I could do with a little bit less of Fionn Davenport...

danbohan

Pin_Cushion wrote: »

Yeah I agree with this, he's an awful broadcaster- I'm not sure why they ever gave him that job. Also glad to see Eamon Keane gone, he was starting to become a caricature of himself with all this "My gripe with elite all the civil service is this, lads..."
Trying far too hard to come across as a man of the people.

Yates and Keane are the two weak links in Newstalk's weekday lineup in my opinion, the rest are great. Well, I could do with a little bit less of Fionn Davenport...

Yates and Keane are the two weak links in Newstalk's weekday lineup in my opinion, the rest are great. Well, I could do with a little bit less of Fionn Davenport
tom dunne is great ? wow

Pin_Cushion

danbohan wrote: »

Yates and Keane are the two weak links in Newstalk's weekday lineup in my opinion, the rest are great. Well, I could do with a little bit less of Fionn Davenport
tom dunne is great ? wow

Tom Dunne especially.

IrishTonyO

Pin_Cushion wrote: »

Tom Dunne especially.

Tom Dunne is the most boring person on the radio at the moment, I do not need to know he has a hole in his coat, or how his shoes fit, or that his kid coughed twice last night. My God such inane drivel I have never heard.

IrishTonyO

Newstalk have revealed that Eamon Keane tendered his resignation last week. Wonder what he has lined up............

danbohan

IrishTonyO wrote: »

Tom Dunne is the most boring person on the radio at the moment, I do not need to know he has a hole in his coat, or how his shoes fit, or that his kid coughed twice last night. My God such inane drivel I have never heard.

hes a cross between a knitting machine and a sheep , the most irritating fu''' up on radio apart from tubridy

todolist

positivenote wrote: »

Ivan Yates is not a broadcaster or any repute and the likes of him being employed by Newstalk is what frustrates me most about the talk radio station.

Ivan Yates is suprizingly good on the breakfast show.His recent interviews with Brian Lenihan and Eamon Gilmore were superb.As an ex-politican himself he knows when these guys are waffeling and spoofing.Go to newstalk and listen to his interview with Eamon Gilmore from last week.Superb stuff.

Pot Noodle =

All the ones i liked were pushed mc williams kiybird keane wont be listening anymore

seachto7

I actually like listening to Ivan Yates in the morning...

Koloman

seachto7 wrote: »

I actually like listening to Ivan Yates in the morning...

At least he seems to know what he is talking about, unlike some others I could mention. Claire Byrne is definitely the lightweight in that partnership.

Heckler

Yates is bad. Keane is brutal. "Bare with me now lads, this is important".

No loss. If he liked his interviewee twas asslick central and if he didn't it was a sad attempt at "hard questioning".

Kristopherus

IrishTonyO wrote: »

Newstalk have revealed that Eamon Keane tendered his resignation last week. Wonder what he has lined up............

Hope he's gonna jump off Slea head:D:D:D. Was an absolutely useless opinionated git ! Back to kerry with him:D

JonathanAnon

Wasnt mad the way that he had his usual spots from Mattie McGrath and Mary O'Rourke .. and dont get me started on Dan Boyle... Didnt like his use of hyperbole or his juvenile rants about the bankers.

But to say that Ronan Collins was better

Barname

eamon keane is a perfect example of a gombeen sycophant

unfortunately for the license paying taxpayer keane will be living off our euros in the employ of RTE

keane is the classic 'independent' FF'er

well done Eamon, we know you take the soup.

kippy

Barname wrote: »

eamon keane is a perfect example of a gombeen sycophant

unfortunately for the license paying taxpayer keane will be living off our euros in the employ of RTE

keane is the classic 'independent' FF'er

well done Eamon, we know you take the soup.

Dont like his style at all.
Lets hope he is not on his way to RTE on the same (taxpayers) money that Ryan was on.

_blank_

jacaranda wrote: »

Eamonn Keane's style was more tabloid and dragged the show downmarket

Newstalk have always been a tabloid type station, real LCD stuff*. It really started to show when Claire Byrne got the breakfast gig, she wouldn't be out of place on Sky News imo.



*apart from OTB

tbh

imagine how long it would have taken him to tell the boss he was off!

A P

Which station is going to schtump up for his services next I wonder?

robo

Des wrote: »

Newstalk have always been a tabloid type station, real LCD stuff*. It really started to show when Claire Byrne got the breakfast gig, she wouldn't be out of place on Sky News imo.



*apart from OTB

You hit the nail on the head, Claire would be so suited to Sky News - sensationalism interview techniques. Kind of would give Kay Burley a run for her money!

markfla

Eamon Keane having a holier than thou pious rant on the Late Late show a good while back about drink driving made me wretch. I actually didn't mind listening to him up until then. I'm very bored of Moncrief now. Off the Ball FTW.

ntlbell

Des wrote: »

Newstalk have always been a tabloid type station, real LCD stuff*. It really started to show when Claire Byrne got the breakfast gig, she wouldn't be out of place on Sky News imo.



*apart from OTB

Sky wouldn't have her.

markfla

ntlbell wrote: »

Sky wouldn't have her.

I'd have her!!!:D

Btr

positivenote wrote: »

Ivan Yates is not a broadcaster or any repute and the likes of him being employed by Newstalk is what frustrates me most about the talk radio station.

I agree -Yates is no broadcaster no matter what his ego tells him. They'll probably move him to lunch now that he's shown how to loose listeners on brekkie

fans of newstalk should google an interview their CEO did let year where he said in essence that newstalk would be anti public sector to differentiate from rte ( not sure how he came to that conclusion)

anyway, I'd suggest their new strapline be "Newstalk -FoxNews for Radio"

henryporter

The only bits of Newstalk I find palatable at this stage are Montcrieff and Off the Ball - the agenda driven drivel of the Morning Show, Keane and that clown Hook turn my stomach. Maybe Keane is off to follow a career in singer-songwriting - remember the stint on the Brendan whatshisface show?

robo

Piece from the Indo - I couldn't imagine him doing a 3 hour slot on 2FM, but they could change that 3 hour slot to 2 hours and extend the Breakfast show to finish at 10am.

Rumours of RTE move for Keane

EAMON Keane has quit his lunchtime show on Newstalk, leading to speculation that he may return to RTE Radio.

A source close to the presenter said last night that "nothing is in place" regarding a return to the national broadcaster. But it is understood that there has been some contact between the two parties.

RTE has a three-hour morning slot to fill in its schedule following the sudden death of Gerry Ryan, but sources within the station have said that it is unlikely that Mr Keane would be given the responsibility of replacing the hugely popular star.

Switch

Ryan Tubridy is thought to be more likely to move to 2fm, although he appeared to distance himself from the switch last week, claiming the increased workload would not appeal. That would leave a one-hour slot open on Radio One.

Mr Keane could not be reached for comment last night.

"Newstalk would like to confirm that Eamon Keane will no longer be presenting the 'Lunchtime Show', as he has tendered his resignation to the station this week," the station said in a statement.

"Newstalk wish Eamon the best with his future career and would like to take this opportunity to thank him for his valuable contribution to the station."

It is understood that Keane, who has been off the airwaves for three weeks, was due to meet with Newstalk management "for talks" on Monday. However, he instead tendered his resignation in writing.

His profile and that of his show was pulled from the station's website yesterday.

Members of his backroom team said they were in the dark as to his future plans as he had been on holidays for a fortnight.

"It is definitely a shock," one said.

The Minstrel

I hope that's the last we've heard of Eamon Keane - he really was awful, wasn't he?

Back to working in a hair salon I'd say, if his accent is anything to go by.

Jip

positivenote wrote: »

Ivan Yates is not a broadcaster or any repute and the likes of him being employed by Newstalk is what frustrates me most about the talk radio station.

Would completely disagree with that statement, he can be an excellent interviewer, one recent example being the interview of Eamon Gilmore last week. The contrasting Yates and Byrne work well together I think, Byrne is not as bad as she's made out.

As for Dunne, leave that man alone, he's a great start to the working day

jacaranda

Jip wrote: »

Would completely disagree with that statement, he can be an excellent interviewer, one recent example being the interview of Eamon Gilmore last week. The contrasting Yates and Byrne work well together I think, Byrne is not as bad as she's made out.

As for Dunne, leave that man alone, he's a great start to the working day

How are Tom Dunnes ratings? Or the breakfast show ratings?

popebenny16

Uoykcuf wrote: »

"Bear with me now, because I think this is important...."

I'll miss that, along with "I am going the read the whole thing and then I want to say something"

not to mention going live, breaking news style, to some stringer on the mobile out in the sticks where someone has just been fined for shoplifting. Well, if you listened you'd know what I mean.

mike65

Ivan Yates angling for a move to lunchtimes according to a comment in the Star.

steelcityblues

I'll miss Keane, if alone for the fact that he seemed to be genuinely p*ssed off with the direction the country has been going in, unlike the agenda ridden outbursts of likes of Hook and Yates. I thought he was very good in particular during the release of the Ryan Report.

Must here are awake to the direction that a lot of RTE's Current Affairs output has gone in, but I have to wonder if a certain party entered government in the near future, would NewsTalk maintain the 'maverick' approach it started out with?

orourkeda

In todays independent

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/rumours-of-rte-move-for-keane-2196179.html

Plowman

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MidlandsM

Shock!

Lazy annoying hack goes to RTE!! lol