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Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.
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Very funny!
But seriously Marty Whelan is like an Irish version of Terry Wogan really and that isn't a bad thing. All God's Creatures have a Place in the Choir.
He had a great Irish mezzo on yesterday as his guest and I thought that would shut up some of the criticism but no it didn't. I think he can't do anything right for some people. Either he's too funny or he's too heavy or he's too light or he's too MOR.
But Ronan Gilligan went too far today with some of his jokes. He isn't able to tell them the way Marty does and they are sometimes off colour. Like today.
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I know what you mean about Terry Wogan but I think he only was Irish. He was made a Sir and this means he's English now. What I meant is that Marty Whelan is like an Irish version of him made for the Irish palette.
Derek Mooney is probably a bit young for Lyric I'd say but he is good. He's a bit on the light side for the station and the listeners. He is good at what he does though.
I don't understand what you mean by This:
"Can we just have informed musical presentation from Lyric?"
But Ray Darcy isn't even on Lyric!!!
The interviews are good really for letting us see behind the scenes behind a singer who is coming up to a concert. And he had made the career for Vladimir the violin virtuoso who is a big hit now.
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I meant that there are talk shows on all national networks during the 9-10am hour and surely Lyric was meant to be an exception to that.
We had another round of self-promotion from two of these people this morning (not the nice lady), paid for by the licence-fee.
Photo courtesy of www.purcellmasterson.com.
If you have something you'd like to hoor on MITM, all things are possible for those in the know.
You must be represented by them by now Hugo/Yvonne?0 -
I've just come in from the golf Open after a lovely day and I am really disappointed by this comment. It is uncalled for. That is terrible language to use about three people who are only doing their best. See - I'm defending Neven Maguire now. Actually he was quite good this morning and what he is doing with the new book is for charity and not for himself. So put that in your pipe and put it and smoke it!!:mad:
I am not represnting any one not even Neven Maguire or Marty Whelan. He can look after himself. But it wasn't selfish promotion. They were giving recipes for museli for people to follow for the good of their health. I don't knwo what Mary Kennedy has to do with things. (I like her new book mind you.)
Marty Whelan announced that he is taking a few weeks off now to go to Verona for the opera and that he is turning the programme over to Lorcan while he is away. That will make some of ye happy here I am sure. :mad:
I can take it but sometimes I get very down on the dumps with the kind of ugly things that some people are able to put on paper here.0 -
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Only a week of Trish
Can't someone persuade Mr. Wogan Whelan and his Hugo alter-ego to take the usual RTE 'break' time. He should take a leaf out of Marzie's book and swan off for two or three months. I'm sure we'd get over the loss.
Maybe Tesco could keep him out in Italy (If indeed he has gone to Verona;) ) to do a few voiceovers for a forthcoming Italian Week promotion. Anything.0 -
OK gentlemen. And I see the people criticising other people's tastes are all men funnily enough!
She said he is gone to Verona for two weeks so Trish will be with us for another week after this one it seems. Then Marty will be on doing the opera with the people who won all the tickets to join the tour. Join the JWT Set!!!:cool: As the man said when he ate the egg.
Who is Marzie supposed to be, Europa!?
And how did you do that with Terry Wogan's name? I don't see how.
The problem with Trish besides being so dry is that she looks down when she's talking to the camera. Marty always holds himself up and this inflates his diaphragm. We learned this at school and it seems Trish didn't. Maybe she isn't too like Sr Mary Basil so much after all!:)
I got a copy of Neven Maguire's free cookbook this afternoon from one of my friends and it looks good. I don't have a child the age but even so. He has a lovely granola recipe in it that Amelda learned from his mother. We will see if Trish has him on on Friday I suppose.0 -
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Trish has finished her time spell on Marty Whelan's show today and I have to give her marks for doing music all the way. Neven has moved to where he belongs which is in a special food cookery show that is on Lyric now. Good!!! :pac:
Whatever you say Marty Whelan is a fine figure of a man and is Fashionable Man about Town 2013 from Louis Copeland. You don't lick that off a stone I can tell you. :P He would look good on TV from the radio.
She did well this week but nothing happened when I was listening that made me jump for joy the way he can. Even the comps were a bit dry. And the AA Roadshow parts were even drab and they're a highlight. Marty must have taken Hugo Time and the Major General OBE away with him to Italy because she didn't have them either. And none of the listenership were calling in with their jokes. If you didn't wake up she would put you back to sleep. Which is a pity because some of the music was suitable.
I like the Lion King for the children. And she gave us a bit of the old Andre Rieu this morning too. It keeps it light. 
I don't think I have ever heard Marty Whelan interviewing Marian Finucane on his show on radio. :eek: Maybe you meant in the TV show that he had with Mary Kennedy in the afternoons. I think Marty would like to be doing that still.:rolleyes:
I think she said that Lorcan Murray is taking over on Monday while Marty stays away in Verona with the listeners. They are going to have a Christmas Special on TV about the trip. Maybe they will have a call up programme next week where he can talk to Lorcan from the opera there. The tour is going to Venice as well. It must be a dream for the lucky ones who won tickets. :cool:0 -
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Coleyoscar wrote: »Really enjoyed the last week with Trish on the Breakfast Show. Reminded me of what Lyric used to be like when it was good. Yvonne23R, continuing her PR campaign for Marty Whelan, makes one good point. Marty's 'banter' with the AA Roadwatch girls is indeed a 'highlight': says it all really.
Funny! :rolleyes: Ha! Ha!
I have no PR campaign for Marty Whelan, :mad: although like most people I like him a lot on radio and TV. Trish has done quite well in the past week in her own way but things will get back a bit closer to normal tomorrow because Lorcan Murray will be hosting. He could be able to get a rise out of Ronan or Rebecca I'd say! :P And maybe he will have Hugo and the Major General on tomorrow.
We are getting near Verona time with Marty who will be presenting the show from the arena in the mornign after the opera. And he says he will be doing a special from Venice the next day with the tour people on Vivaldi the Red Priest with Katherine Jenkins doing a special spot down the line from Wales. That's the following week when he is back in his harness.0 -
Trish has finished her time spell on Marty Whelan's show today.....
She did well this week but nothing happened ...And the AA Roadshow parts were even drab and they're a highlight.
Traffic reports - a highlight! ..are you serious?
Marty must have taken Hugo Time and the Major General OBE away with him to Italy because she didn't have them either.
Well, it's kind of hard to physically separate the various entities that seem to inhabite the mind of Marty, so he might indeed have "brought them along", I'm sure they're busy scribbling notes to "Mart" for the inevitable return to the airwaves.
They are going to have a Christmas Special on TV about the trip. Maybe they will have a call up programme next week where he can talk to Lorcan from the opera there. The tour is going to Venice as well. It must be a dream for the lucky ones who won tickets. :cool:
Let's just hope that Christmas spectacular:eek: isn't aired on the one day in that holiday period when the pubs are closed. Why would Lorcan Murray try to engage Marty in talk of opera from Verona when it would be most likely that the discussion would quickly descend into chatter about the weather, the city's restaurants and famous buildings and some possible connection or other to the two Italians that Marty seems to have any knowledge of; Sophia Loren and Ennio Morricone.
in any case Marty is I presume on holiday. Crass thing to be calling work while on a break don't you think?
As for Venice being a dream destination, not at this time of the year I can assure you, but good luck to those who are there. Hope they like crowds. Must be even fuller now than normally in July with the multi-personed one there too. Kind Regards to the Admiral and Hugo and whoever else is in there.:rolleyes:0 -
I'm tired and it's hot but anyway. He doesn't just like Ennio. He loves Nina Rota and Einaudi too. He has interviewed Einaudi on the show. :P
He has also interviewed Leslie Garrett, Katherine Jenking, Haley Westenra and even Lloyd-Weber, the brother of the famous one who was touring Ireland with his cello a couple of times. And he has Cara O'Sullivan in and the other greats of the Irish music world. He gives more publicity to them that their agent could if they had one. Also Regina Nathan and the other one who gives great value laughing all the time. And he had on once people who knew Veronica Dunne who trained Bernadette Greevy and everyone else. My sister knew Ronnie when she took singing lessons and she says that she would like Marty Whelan because he is full of fun like she is herself.
And he likes the film stars too witness how he has such fun with Rebecca from AA Roadshow over Gregory Pecker which she once made a mistake calling Gregory Peck!!! That one has gone around the world and it keeps coming up! :rolleyes:
What else? Well the TV Xmas Special will be heartwarming over Christmas when we are remembering Morecambe and Wise and the great days when we had Perry Como for Christmas. I - for one!! - will really look forward to nearly being there in Venice and Verona with Mart. Venice is where the Red Priest comes from -- Il Prete Rossi -- which is what they called Vivaldi in his time because he wore red cloaks.
The traffic today with Lorcan wasn't so good Ronan was calling in on a phoneline because the other connection went wallop on them.
Lorcan is good enough but he somehow doesn't have Marty's sparkle and spangle and vavavoom!! :pac: But he will do for now and he'll make us more thankful for when the master of the mike comes back on Monday coming. Lorcan should be able to get in a few funny stories and jokes out of the listeners. But maybe the problems they had today meant they were cut off. :mad:0 -
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I couldn't write much today in that because of being out and I see nobody has apologised for this. This speaks yards for the kind of people here who will pout up horrible things like this and not take them down. I don't see anybody protesting.:mad:
I am getting to like Lorcan in the morning now. He is getting into his stride and is getting a second wind. He might just not have been used to it on the first day so early. It is a tough old station doing that from so early. He said Mart will be back next week which will be something to look forward to.:) But I appeal to you to take away if you can that dreadful picture. It isn't funny and it shows you up and what you came from. What would your mother say to it if she saw it? What? :eek: 0 -
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Ehm!, you realise that you actually "thanked" the so-called offensive image.
Apologies! Protests! What do you think this is, the Abortion debate thread?
I think europa, that you may be misunderstanding the target of Yvonne23R's complaint :mad:. I thnk, the 'image' in question, was this one from yourself 
"The thought of watching Marty's inflated diaghphram and even more inflated ego is incentive enough for me to never "watch" radio.". And I would have to agree that the picture it generates in my mind is rather offensive. Then again it could be my cartoon. But, as you observe both are Thanked , so maybe it is neither.:p. I presume then it is some earlier post that Y23R has not thanked.:rolleyes: 0 -
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