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Liveline Thread 22/01/2013 to 09/04/2013

  • 22-01-2013 10:24pm
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    Will I call Joe to let him know? :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Hope the Mods dont mind me posting this up,just a few notes about our joe :)





    Joseph "Joe" Duffy (born 27 January 1956, Mountjoy Square, Dublin)[2] is an Irish broadcaster employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). A Jacob's Award winner, he is the current presenter of Liveline, which is broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1, Monday - Fridays between 13:45 and 15:00.
    Duffy has a history as a student activist; he was President of the Union of Students in Ireland (U.S.I.) and was once jailed for an occupation in which he participated. In 2008, he appeared on the RTÉ television series Who Do You Think You Are?,[3] where his family history in the British Army in India was revealed.[4] In 2010, Joe Duffy began hosting a new show on RTÉ One called Joe Duffy's Spirit Level. The show discussed the different religions in the country and the faith of the people in Ireland.
    Duffy was named 11th most influential person of 2009 by Village.[5] His autobiography Just Joe was launched by Gay Byrne in Harry's Bar in October 2011.[6][7] He is married with triplets and resides in Clontarf, Dublin.

    Duffy was born in Mountjoy Square, Dublin, and brought up in Ballyfermot. He had four siblings, his father was Jimmy and his mother Mabel, Jimmy died aged 58 in 1984, and had problems with alcohol, Duffy described Jimmy as "a small man, nimble on his feet . . . with a rugged round face, button nose and prominent teeth".[8] Joe's brother Aidan was killed in a road accident on the Maynooth Road in 1991 aged 25, with Joe first learning of the "horrific accident" on the news on RTÉ Radio.[8] Joe's brother Brendan was described by him as "crippled, ruined and wrecked by a savage addiction" to sniffing glue which he developed as a teenager.[8]
    Duffy went to Trinity College, Dublin (TCD) in 1977 (to study Social Work) and was elected President of Trinity College Students' Union in 1979, becoming President of the Union of Students in Ireland (U.S.I.) four years later.[2]

    Duffy claims he thought about resigning from RTÉ in 2007 after the broadcaster forced him to give Justice Minister Michael McDowell a platform on Liveline to make a "party political broadcast". Duffy considered it "direct party-political interference" in Liveline.[9] However, he went ahead with the broadcast and did not resign or make any protest on air.
    In October 2008 he was proactive as a supporter of Irish pensioners who marched on Leinster House (home of the Oireachtas) to protest at the proposed means testing of their medical cards in the Government Budget.[10][11] However, earlier that month, he was reportedly censored by the government when he attempted to continually discuss the effects of the global financial crisis on Ireland.[12] This followed on from the outrage caused when Duffy was held responsible by Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, for inciting widespread public fear that Irish citizens were on the verge of losing their savings. Several callers freely spoke of their lack of confidence in the banking system, of how they had withdrawn their money from banks, some of which were identified, and were either carrying it around on their person, or considering keeping it "under the mattress", or burying it in their garden. Lenihan personally rang Cathal Goan, the Director-General of RTÉ, on 18 September 2008 (the date of the show) to express his outrage at the sudden increase in potentially disastrous speculation following the show.
    The extent of the Finance Minister's concern first publicly emerged the following morning when he was interviewed by RTÉ's economics editor George Lee. In that interview, Lenihan insisted that deposits were not in any danger and said that people should not be going to banks to shift their deposit accounts "on the basis of unfounded allegations made on radio programmes".[13]
    Rival broadcaster TV3 accused Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and Joe Duffy of waging a "dirty tricks" war against them after a late-night game show run by TV3 was berated by callers to Liveline and saying several times on air that he had been unable to get a representative from the station to reply to callers' concerns. TV3 said a lengthy statement was sent to the Liveline office almost two hours before the September 2009 show went on air was ignored, despite the fact that it clarified some of the issues.[14] The Play TV service was discontinued by TV3 in March 2010 after 29 complaints to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI), though TV3 said it was because of a decline in viewership.[15]
    Journalist Kevin Myers wrote in October 2009, "Throw in some mob-oratory from the national broadcaster's disgraceful 'Liveline', and almost no state institution and no politician is safe from the vengeful, idiot wrath of Madame La Guillotine, or Les Heureuses Tricoteuses."[16]
    A common occurrence is a "Funny Friday" version of Liveline, which takes place on Fridays, where Duffy is joined by comedians such as Clint Velour, Brendan Savage, Brush Shiels and Syl Fox. It is very unpopular among regular Liveline listeners[17]

    Duffy earned €408,889 in 2008.[18] RTÉ's Director General said there was “no question that by today's standards” the salaries paid to its top presenters last year “were excessive. I have to repeat that they were set at a different time in a different competitive reality where some of this talent might be up for poaching by other organisations and in RTÉ's view at the time, they delivered value for money". Listeners, who contacted RTÉ Radio 1's Drivetime programme were swift to condemn the salary level, saying it was ironic that programmes like Liveline – presented by Joe Duffy – were used as a platform for criticising the pay and expenses of Oireachtas members.[19]
    Duffy defended his own high wages and those of his fellow RTÉ presenters while appearing on TV3's Midweek in October 2011, claiming they were agreed “fair and square”.[20] The following month, his 2009 earnings were revealed by RTÉ to have been €389,314.[1] He defended this by saying he considered himself and his Liveline show "good value" for RTÉ.[21]

    Joe Duffy is married with triplets (two sons and one daughter named michael, and mellen.).[6] He currently resides in Clontarf on Dublin's Northside.[2]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Boombastic wrote: »
    Will I call Joe to let him know? :D

    Ask him how the leg is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    realies wrote: »
    ...........
    Joe Duffy is married with triplets (two sons and one daughter named michael, and mellen.)....

    Do the 3 twins only have 2 names between them? Tis terrible
    syklops wrote: »
    Ask him how the leg is.

    Of course :D Promo for tomorrows show: the dufster's leg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    I love how that caller says "On a number of occasions", which usually means it happened over a few days or weeks, but in the context of this story, and according to the caller it happened in a few minutes.

    A lady, A Lay-dee, A. Lay. Dee.








    And I love when he does the accent too. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,103 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Duffy threatened to resign in 2007 then realised newstalk wouldn't give, him anywhere near half a million a year & 26 weeks paid holidays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭CarrickMcJoe


    Boombastic wrote: »
    Do the 3 twins only have 2 names between them? Tis terrible



    No, one of them is called" AND" :D

    Taxi drivers will have to pull out all the stops to beat the whining nurses...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 152 ✭✭Caledonia


    syklops wrote: »
    I love how that caller says "On a number of occasions", which usually means it happened over a few days or weeks, but in the context of this story, and according to the caller it happened in a few minutes.

    A lady, A Lay-dee, A. Lay. Dee.

    And I love when he does the accent too. :D

    Thanks for the concern yesterday btw, to put your mind at ease no one has got a p45 yet anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭withless


    Has to be sewahsoide today.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,872 ✭✭✭Sittingpretty


    withless wrote: »
    Has to be sewahsoide today.

    Oh no! Why?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    withless wrote: »
    Has to be sewahsoide today.

    Det by sewahsoide.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    It's sewahsoidality.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Today Joe is comparing the pensions of ex ministers to the plight of the nurses and junior doctors

    & the woes of ex criminal Taxi drivers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭gjc


    Betcha the price of chips is on todays show....chip shops will be calling in saying they will be forced to close down etc etc....blah, blah, blah.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    gjc wrote: »
    Betcha the price of chips is on todays show....chip shops will be calling in saying they will be forced to close down etc etc....blah, blah, blah.....

    Cue a load of 'salt of de earth' Dubs ringing in about where they got their favourite one-and-ones back in the 60s...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    I dont want to hear anything from Bill Gates until I first get an apology for Windows Vista.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    I dont want to hear anything from Bill Gates until I first get an apology for Windows Vista.

    FYP.
    Thanks for the concern yesterday btw, to put your mind at ease no one has got a p45 yet anyway.

    Was that you??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Doctors today. This isn't new is it, doctors have worked crazy shifts for years, the world over.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    syklops wrote: »
    FYP. Was that you??

    Me? (if yes, then no)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    Hi, I'm back after a protracted absence. Mad shifts on the hospital roster to kick off it seems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,103 ✭✭✭✭neris


    aw here we go again nurses & doctors are joes new **** material


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,987 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    Anonther afternoon of pure bullsh1t ahead....dunno why i tune in tbh.

    Listening to Liveline is like smoking cigarettes.....there's a very low level of enjoyment while you're doing it but there's no logical reason why you do it really, it's undeniably bad for your health and will probably kill you one day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    I dont want to hear anything from Bill Gates until I first get an apology for Windows Vista.

    That was Ballmer's baby, Gates wasn't at the helm for that debacle. And he (Ballmer) already did (well, sort of - the article is a bit tongue-in-cheek :)).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    RadioRetro wrote: »
    Hi, I'm back after a protracted absence. Mad shifts on the hospital roster to kick off it seems.

    You cant just stroll back in after such a long time without an explanation.. It's not the public service...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭his_dudeness


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Doctors today. This isn't new is it, doctors have worked crazy shifts for years, the world over.

    Not the world over.

    Oz and NZ, where everyone is taking off to, have rosters. UK too.

    US even has rosters, albeit mad ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,827 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Cartman78 wrote: »
    Anonther afternoon of pure bullsh1t ahead....dunno why i tune in tbh.

    Listening to Liveline is like smoking cigarettes.....there's a very low level of enjoyment while you're doing it but there's no logical reason why you do it really, it's undeniably bad for your health and will probably kill you one day.

    Yea, gona tune out soon. Can't listen to this victimhood sh!t anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    Well that was a very brief re-appearance by me. No more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭gjc


    outta here


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


    You cant just stroll back in after such a long time without an explanation.. It's not the public service...

    It's ok, he brought a note signed by both parents Blair Horan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,774 ✭✭✭Big Daddy Cool


    Hospital radio again it seems


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭sudzs


    A "hat meal" ?? What's a hat meal??! Is that Rachael Allen on the line?!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,103 ✭✭✭✭neris


    pampered doctor eh family fussing around him. sounds like a typical irish mammy scenario


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,827 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    No mention of what they are getting paid, funny enough.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    Whiners!

    You know what they say, ' if you can't stand the heat '


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,827 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    my friend wrote: »
    Whiners!

    You know what they say, ' if you can't stand the heat '

    Ring Joe Duffy and whinge...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,987 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    Sounds horrific in fairness but nobody is putting a gun to their head to be a doctor....unless things have gotten real wild in the HSE


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    A stuttering depressed Dr ?

    Shouldn't he be a patient ?


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


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


    Is this Dr Micheál Martin on the line ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    So in talking about those two doctors that died, you say "No one can know the full circumstances blah blah". So why is that not your attitude when talking about other suicides? (Like the whole "the banks caused that suicide" thing)...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    I'm not sure I want this chap standing over me with a scalpal...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭NickD


    My 6 year old just asked me to turn off the radio because he hates Joe Duffy. I asked him why he hated him, he said and I quote "Just the way he goes on; like he's sooooo popular."

    Can't disagree with the child.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Is this broadcast a government ploy to scare people away from hospitals and ease pressure in A&E's?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,103 ✭✭✭✭neris


    joe what about people who run their own businesses and work 7 days a week doing a 80 or 90 hours a week?? are you going to stand up for them?? **** stirrer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,755 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Note Joe's horror at the idea of a 36 hour shift.... he doesn't even do 36 hours in a month !!! :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    "Taco... yeah"...

    Was Joe just ordering lunch there?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭withless


    Airtraffic controllers moaning now!!

    All state employees should be working 36 hour shifts for half the money.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭my friend


    How has this whiner been given a position of responsibility?

    Anyone that's ever worked in a trench situation knows you need real leaders around you, not whining nanny goats.

    Does this whining idiot Anthony want people to be ill from 9-5?

    Time for a career change Anthony.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭NickD


    Why..Does......He .................Talk...................So ........................Slow?


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