PJ Coogan

fedor.2.

= disaster, Colm did a much better job

54kroc

fedor.2. wrote: »

= disaster, Colm did a much better job

96FM = disaster, Today FM do a much better job.

pow wow

More annoying than 'himself' if that were possible...

Cadyboo

Agree, cant stand PJ, his voice is sooo irritating. Loves to drag out two sentences into a paragragh...

corkcomp

most annoying radio presenter i've ever heard.. well theres one other.. hmmm clue = neurofen

54kroc

pow wow wrote: »

More annoying than 'himself' if that were possible...

Oh god no, "he" was the worst.

curly from cork

Ray D Arcy is your only man !

Is Prendy definitely not coming back ?

pow wow

cork45 wrote: »

Oh god no, "he" was the worst.

I thought he was too but at least he had some comprehension of what he was talking about to people (however off the wall his opinion was). This guy.....eugh.

gimmick

cork45 wrote: »

96FM = disaster, Today FM do a much better job.

curly from cork wrote: »

Ray D Arcy is your only man !

Whats wrong with Cork?

RoverJames wrote: »

Is Prendy definitely not coming back ?

Rumours suggest he will be back late January/early Feb!

curly from cork

gimmick wrote: »

Whats wrong with Cork?



em well p.j coogan and neil prendeville for a start !!! as for the red fm presenters.. dont get me started. i just find ray d arcy s show entertaining, interesting and humourous. each to their own i suppose.

Kimono-Girl

curly from cork wrote: »

i just find ray d arcy s show entertaining, interesting and humourous. each to their own i suppose.

i have to say i agree. i first got listening to today fm when i was working in an IT company as we'd have it on in the background in the office, i loved it!

i used only listen to 96fm occasionally to keep up with local topics, P.J and Colm then irritated me so much i had to switch back to Darcy full time.
Prenderville had off the wall opinions but he really was the man you love to hate!

corkcomp

+1 to the last two posts ^^^ .. D'arcy manages to be reasonably entertaining without any BS.. there is another 96fm presenter on in afternoons, cant think of his name but even more annoying than the others cos he keeps repeating everything.. "accident on the south link so avoid the area" and just a word to listeners to avoid the south link .. blahh blahh 10 minutes later:rolleyes:

gbee

It's like this, a very childlike character getting excited about childish things. Three times today I turned off the radio.

I've already warned my wife that 96FM will be banned completely, as it was I only listened to Prenders ~ love/hate/idiot whatever ~ I used to switch him off too occasionally when he'd get too much, but now I just don't want to know and have no interest in the current presenter of the show.

Dermighty

corkcomp wrote: »

most annoying radio presenter i've ever heard.. well theres one other.. hmmm clue = neurofen

Uh...Charlie Wolf (Red FM), Steve Hayes (96FM), Ryan Tubridy (whatever). All far worse than PJ.

Dean820

Bring back Prenderville.

Dan Dare

Prendeville is a tosser!

gbee

Dan Dare wrote: »

Prendeville is a tosser!

Ye, but he always was like

fedor.2.

96fm was always on in my house, but i actually cant listen to coogan anymore. he's awful

Fairdues

What about Victor Barry on Red FM? It's a pity they don't stick to music rather than boring the pants off us with so called 'chat'.

Nidot

I have to say I really don't know what people go on about when they give out about prenders, I thought he was a great presenter of the type of show he was aiming to present.

People seem to come on and say oh he had off the wall opinions but he presented an open opinion show he had to have an opinion on each subject to make the show an actual show. You also forget that in alot of cases he played devils advocate which is very important to get people to actually open up about an issue. I admit I do thus myself at times, it makes people question their opinions and beliefs and doesn't allow them to spout out some populist line and call it their opinion, make them actually believe in something and be willing to support their argument.

Worztron

The show is terrible with PJ on it. He has an irritating habit of repeating words and babbling tripe.

kcb

There's just something about Coogan!
I'm sure he's a nice guy, just not an easy to listen to guy!

96FM must be panicking at the moment in fairness.

Worztron

kcb wrote: »

There's just something about Coogan!
I'm sure he's a nice guy, just not an easy to listen to guy!

96FM must be panicking at the moment in fairness.

PJ is not suited to hosting a show - better suited to doing short news reports.

ROY RACE

Worztron wrote: »

PJ is not suited to hosting a show - better suited to doing short news reports.

shorter the better how about saying feck all the gombeen

TheChizler

He has his good moments, doesn't accept bs. But the dragging out sentences/outright indignation thing gets a bit annoying.

Worztron

PJ has a knack of using 50 words where 5 would suffice. The show is going nowhere but down.

Red Nissan

I can in all honesty no longer comment on PJ Coogan, I've saved myself that pain, weening off 96fm quite nicely thank you very much. :pac::pac::pac:

corkonion

PJ is the bomb...not a bother on him...he will slaughter Neill in the ratings....roll on the radio wars.

Harry Angstrom

corkonion wrote: »

PJ is the bomb...not a bother on him...he will slaughter Neill in the ratings....roll on the radio wars.

Hi Peej.

Red Nissan

Woke up the morning and PJ was on the clock radio. He asked enthusiastically for callers to ring in.

Quite late in the show my wife calls me to say he eventually got one caller.

Milly33

I quite like him have to say! Used to avoid listen to the other twat since his gone I have been tuned in like all the time.. He seems very nice

zetalambda

Red Nissan wrote: »

Quite late in the show my wife calls me to say he eventually got one caller.

A Trocaire call no doubt.

Rhys Essien

Red Nissan wrote: »

Woke up the morning and PJ was on the clock radio. He asked enthusiastically for callers to ring in.

Quite late in the show my wife calls me to say he eventually got one caller.

Not sure what your on about but I noticed over the last few weeks that PJ is getting a lot more callers than what Neil was getting.

I think PJ is doing a good job overall.He sure knows his stuff and can have a bit of a laugh aswell.

hoodwinked

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Not sure what your on about but I noticed over the last few weeks that PJ is getting a lot more callers than what Neil was getting.

I think PJ is doing a good job overall.He sure knows his stuff and can have a bit of a laugh aswell.

really?? my grandmother was listening in all week, and was saying that the only calls he had seemed "lined up", she mentioned one was with the gaelscoil peig sayers or something? she was saying they were more news orientated than the usual chat show calls would be.


apparently pj's voice is going through her head so she's waiting until neil's back to switch over, her friend that calls up said the same i think both Neil and pj are like marmite, you either love them or hate them.

mikeym

My mother listens to Neils show and even though she finds him annoying at times she thinks he does a better job than PJ.

Are 96fm keeping PJ on to do the morning show?

corkonion

Pj is doing a good job at the minute. He does try a little too hard at times, over exaggerating his concern and over exaggerating his shock at various callers comments. Some people find his lisp or his slight speech impediment annoying, and while this does seem to be getting more pronounced as the years go by I am sure that his genuine interest in broadcasting makes up for it.
That said I believe when Neill comes onair back in four weeks time it will be difficult for Pj to keep any listeners,

Gamb!t

Stick a fork in 96,they're done.

Sofa King

I heard today that a lot of the internal Sales Staff/Account Managers have left 96FM & moved to RedFM also.

This will cripple 96FM if they take their black books with contacts in them.

Red Nissan

We stopped to get parking disks this morning, my wife jovially leap from the car and went into the shop.

A few moments later she came out angry and upset, "Is there anyway to BAN that idiot"

What's wrong says I, you were only in the shop two minutes. I was standing under the bleeding speaker and PJ was rabbiting on, on one of his pet subjects, he's so annoying.

She was genuinely upset and she eat her lunch before we got to our job. She is seriously getting withdrawal symptoms for the other presenter to appear on Red FM, she's counting down the bleedin days.

PJ should be in a plain white box with a health warning, "hazardous if listened too."

Nonoperational

Red Nissan wrote: »

We stopped to get parking disks this morning, my wife jovially leap from the car and went into the shop.

A few moments later she came out angry and upset, "Is there anyway to BAN that idiot"

What's wrong says I, you were only in the shop two minutes. I was standing under the bleeding speaker and PJ was rabbiting on, on one of his pet subjects, he's so annoying.

She was genuinely upset and she eat her lunch before we got to our job. She is seriously getting withdrawal symptoms for the other presenter to appear on Red FM, she's counting down the bleedin days.

PJ should be in a plain white box with a health warning, "hazardous if listened too."

Ah steady on...

Red Nissan

Sofa King wrote: »

This will cripple 96FM if they take their black books with contacts in them.

You'll most likely see massive changes in ITV/UTV. too, it's no coincidence that they are challenging TV3 [in Ireland] ~ and they probably want to divest 96FM ... watch this space.

ROY RACE

When pj has someone on he never listens to them-hes already planning his next gombeen statement -absolutely terrible to listen to -they need to replace him fast or else their advertising revenue will disintegrate.

Red Nissan

ROY RACE wrote: »

When pj has someone on he never listens to them-hes already planning his next gombeen statement -.

Succinct and to the point.

corkonion

Red Nissan wrote: »

Succinct and to the point.

Agreed, not like Neil who always rambled on. Pj is the bomb...straight to the point.

On a serious note, if 96fm stick with Pj, realistically they might as well pull the plug!! to be fair he is no broadcaster.

I would imagine that most people in Cork are thinking ..."I could do better than that"

j8wk2feszrnpao

corkonion wrote: »

I would imagine that most people in Cork are thinking ..."I could do better than that"

Exactly. He's awful. Go to wonder if 96FM has any plans to place to replace him.
Still, he hasn't exposed himself on a plane and come up with a non-believable excuse, so he's got at least one attribute that's better than his predecessor.

Dbu

Guys, give the guy a break, he is a human being after all
He was jettisoned into the job at short notice
I'm sure he will be back on the road doing his real job soon enough


Mods any chance you could close this thread? I find the abuse he is getting here unpalatable and unjustified.

And no, I dont know him or have any connections to him or 96fm before you ask...

j8wk2feszrnpao

Dbu wrote: »

Guys, give the guy a break, he is a human being after all
He was jettisoned into the job at short notice

He's taking the money to do the job, he's open to criticism.
Perhaps your correct that some comments are a bit overboard, but I doubt some messages on Boards.ie are going to bother him.

Dbu

munstermagic11 wrote: »

He's taking the money to do the job, he's open to criticism.
Perhaps your correct that some comments are a bit overboard, but I doubt some messages on Boards.ie are going to bother him.

hey magic,
not his real job though, i think he is a reporter on the road
what i find funny is that people who seem to dislike him on the radio STILL listen to the show...why ?
I dont like yogurt, so i dont eat it

evilivor

Dbu wrote: »

Guys, give the guy a break, he is a human being after all
He was jettisoned into the job at short notice
I'm sure he will be back on the road doing his real job soon enough


Mods any chance you could close this thread? I find the abuse he is getting here unpalatable and unjustified.

And no, I dont know him or have any connections to him or 96fm before you ask...

He may be jettisoned from the job but I don't believe one can be jettisoned into a job.

j8wk2feszrnpao

Dbu wrote: »

not his real job though, i think he is a reporter on the road

I've never liked his style; i.e. that drawn out end to a sentence just bugs me

Dbu wrote: »

what i find funny is that people who seem to dislike him on the radio STILL listen to the show...why ?

It's Cork's 96FM; the local station that discusses local issues. Many people will put it on no matter who presents the show.
That's why I'm not convinced that people will now flock to RedFM and 96FM will somehow end up in the gutter.

Dbu wrote: »

I dont like yogurt, so i dont eat it

True.
But you'll find that some (not all) of the comments here are for those that are championing Prenderville and so will automatically take it out on PJ and 96FM.
Others just don't like PJ for their own reasons, which may be as trivial as mine.