Liveline gold - Favourite Liveline topics ever

Amberjack

Following on from the Liveline thread, I'm just wondering what your favourite ones from all the years are as there have been some crackers.

My favourite was Dec 09 or 10 (can't exactly remember) when they had the Rubberbandits and Willy O Dea on and Joe was talking about twenty cent (mixing him up with fifty cent)
Closely followed by the editor of the Catholic newspaper and the articles on masterbation a few weeks ago.

I'm sure there's loads more I've missed

Whatever happened to the young guy called Joseph who slept rough in the grounds of RTE? Was there ever a follow-up?

2smiggy

a best of liveline website be great - when i mean of, i mean it goes spectacularly wrong for Joe

Red Kev

Shane..Shane..Shane O'Curry in Stoneybatter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F97i0tP3VUI

Real accents...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4y_24liaq0

^^I hadn't heard that Shane O'Curry call before.

I have zero sympathy for Eirigi as a "political organisation" (bunch of thugs), but well done to that man for being so articulate & coherent.

Duffy, on the other hand, was anything but professional. I know, I know... most of us would have a hard time being subjected to public criticism, but that's why we don't have a show on the national broadcaster, with the financial remuneration it entails.

Duffy & al often dismiss anonymous online criticisms, and often they are justified in so doing. Twitter, and sometimes boards, can be vicious.

However, here was a man willing to go on live radio and put a name to his voice, and stand up to what he saw as an abuse of media by Duffy, and Duffy was totally unable to deal with it. It isn't difficult to beat a member of Eirigi in a debate, but Duffy took it so personally he came off far worse.

padd b1975

Michael O' Leary and his taxi plate.

He ran rings around some union guy.

comegowithme

Bono's cock!

PeterTheEighth

I remember being in tears at one this year, literally crying at my desk laughing. Wonder what one it was?

Amberjack

Just updating this as there's been some gems over the last few weeks - Brazilian police interview, the guy from the women's clinic on Berkeley Rd, Sean & Seamus and the direct provision service debate to name but a few.
While I don't always post on the Liveline thread, I'm listening most days

NIMAN

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

I remember being in tears at one this year, literally crying at my desk laughing. Wonder what one it was?

Could have been one of many in fairness.

Dick phelan

Remember there being about spunout and some article about threesomes which was pretty funny.

mrsdewinter

My own favourite from recent months was 'Michael Collins's blanket'. I didn't hear the original call, which I think dealt with the theft of a replica of the blanket Michael Collins had wrapped around his knees when he was shot dead, but the spat between a museum official and some other guy over the fate of the original artefact was hilarious...

Amberjack

Been away for the last week, so wondering if i missed any Liveline Gold?

Atlantic Dawn

Amberjack wrote: »

Been away for the last week, so wondering if i missed any Liveline Gold?

Soundcloud has a nice library of oldies so to speak https://soundcloud.com/search?q=rte%20liveline

Last week has been fairly rubbish, my personal favourites of the last month or so are...

The Refugee topic, he talks to a lad who claimed almost all were fraudulant claims...
https://soundcloud.com/nuala201/sean-deegan-explains-to-joe-duffy-why-he-rejected-498-out-of-500-asylum-claims

On the same topic a councillor from Monaghan calls in and Joe throws a strope fest, 6mins 20secs in is the peak so to speak...
https://soundcloud.com/nuala201/cllr-seamus-treanor-accuses-joe-duffy-and-rte-of-bias

the woman who was staying in a hotel and heard another woman being beaten by her partner in the next room. did she ring the guards? did she even go down to hotel reception to report it? not at all, she went home and rang Joe and told HIM about it, and she finished up the call reading out a little poem she wrote about the poor lady.

BPKS

Shag a Ginger night in a nightclub in Donegal. The local Parish Priest rang in to give out about it.

snubbleste

Amberjack

Thanks guys, sounds like I didn't miss much and I see Philip is in today, so Joe must be off on more jollies. I heard the Sean Deegan one alright and the Monaghan councillor

SEPT 23 1989

the mother with an army of kids who couldn't get a bag of coal up the stairs

the comment "well you should have kept your legs closed" from one Dublin caller was one of the funniest things i have heard on the show

snubbleste

The male stripper who talked to Damien in May 2016
Renoir Taha is a male stripper who was attacked at the weekend, he gave an insight into his work.

oh and Dr Omar Hassan..he who was struck off

Amberjack

Oh yeah, they were good ones Snubbleste, yesterday's one was pretty good too, with the crazy Yank who was paying someone (even crazier imo) to mind her kids for $128 for 2 weeks while she came here and then missed her flight a month ago and has been living in a tent since then

gluppers

Anything to do with the Alive magazine brigade

Although that can be very infuriating

Jan_de_Bakker

A few years back some caterer didn't turn up for a communion, the parents called Joe and were upset, the caterer called to defend himself - his defence ? - he got a call saying if he turned up to the event he would be beaten up so stay the f*ck away!

It was ridiculous and he kept digging and digging ... and digging even after it was shown he was lying his arse off ... classic stuff.

oh yeah and the Nigerian embassy ..

cml387

There was a prgram airing complaints about a medium who had an event in a sports complex.Last year I think.
The medium herself came on and,shall we say, did herself no favours.

A fascinating (and scary) insight into an area of life I knew nothing about.

Jan_de_Bakker

Was that the one who was caught with a prompter in the back feeding her info via a wireless mic/earpiece ?

cml387

No I think it was the one where the medium said that a particular person needn't bother continuing her cancer treatment becasue her cancer was gone.
This proved to be unwise advice.

signostic

a Hot day in Knock.....

balls and arse...

foggy_lad

signostic wrote: »

a Hot day in Knock.....

balls and arse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PX7FSaBZW8

and not a piebald pony in sight!

SeaFields

Dublin guy ringing from a resort in Tunisia after the terrorist attacks on the beach there. At one stage wanted the Irish navy to come get him.

"Two people in the pool today Joe"

Jan_de_Bakker

signostic wrote: »

a Hot day in Knock.....

balls and arse...

!!!

He actually said BALLS & ARSE!!!!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Whatever happened to the young guy called Joseph who slept rough in the grounds of RTE? Was there ever a follow-up?

I hate to pull a Joe and reference myself, but does anyone know the answer to this?

In fairness to the Liveline team*, this was one of the few pieces of their broadcasting that cast RTÉ in a poor light, and I wonder about this guy whenever I pass Montrose. Anyone know if there ever was a follow-up? Sounded like a very genuine, hard case.


*I'm talking about the producers. Joe was condescending as f*ck, warning that if Joseph had a criminal record, he'd soon find out about it.

philstar

Sorry don't mean to go off topic...but does anyone know when Liveline started? tried looking online but could find no definite date, i know marion finuncane presented it

mrsdewinter

signostic wrote: »

a Hot day in Knock.....

balls and arse...

That is frikken hilarious - please tell me where it's from. I recognise the male caller from that show made in Mayo...

Atlantic Dawn

mrsdewinter wrote: »

That is frikken hilarious - please tell me where it's from. I recognise the male caller from that show made in Mayo...

It's The Viper from Hardy Bucks.

philstar

philstar wrote: »

Sorry don't mean to go off topic...but does anyone know when Liveline started? tried looking online but could find no definite date, i know marion finuncane presented it

I searched the Irish Newspaper Archives, and the first mention of Liveline is in the radio-review column of the Irish Press, on the 12th of April 1986.

Another early article on Liveline, this time in the Irish Press in 1987, tells how a caller to Liveline complained about the programme and about RTÉ.

Did Marian take umbrage? Did she tell the caller to give up his ould guff? Did she promise to calm down if he calmed down? Not a bit of it. Marian offered to swap jobs for the day. She invited him in to man the studio, and she'd go and run his shop in Bray.

Unfortunately, there is no public access to the RTÉ radio archive. That episode would definitely be one for the Liveline Gold thread.

Then again, if anyone is looking for evidence that any old eejit can present Liveline, take a look at the incumbent.

Hyland x

Years ago, 2003 or 2004 I'd guess, a woman was on to complain that her teenage daughter had to wear a sports bikini as her uniform in a lifeguard academy in florida. She went on to say her daughter had a bit of extra weight on her hips and stomach and didn't look well in the bikini.

Donal55

My favourite was the prisoner who rang from his cell.

Atlantic Dawn

Donal55 wrote: »

My favourite was the prisoner who rang from his cell.

He was killed shortly afterwards, him being on the radio meant all the other phones that prisoners had were confiscated in a crackdown. Duffy has blood on his hands for taking the call on air.

He phoned 'Liveline' on RTE to abuse the respected and courageous crime journalist Paul Williams, f*****g him from a height from his cell in the supposedly high-security Portlaoise jail.


As a result, embarrassed prison authorities realised they had been caught with their pants down in the most public way possible, and raided the prisoners little caches of contraband.



The contraband was not a few fags, not a 'Porridge' style secret box of biccies. It included more than 1,300 mobile phones in the hands of criminals who were supposedly locked away from society.


Those phones were so important to their "owners" that it seems a contract was put out on John Daly, who had his head blown off as he sat in a taxi with five other people.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/daly-signed-his-death-warrant-live-on-the-radio-26327771.html

Donal55

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

He was killed shortly afterwards, him being on the radio meant all the other phones that prisoners had were confiscated in a crackdown. Duffy has blood on his hands for taking the call on air.



http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/daly-signed-his-death-warrant-live-on-the-radio-26327771.html

He who lives by the phone dies by the phone.

ButtersSuki

Teenager with excema and his mother online taking about applying his topical medicine and "creaming" him. Was unintentionally hilarious.

ButtersSuki

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

He was killed shortly afterwards, him being on the radio meant all the other phones that prisoners had were confiscated in a crackdown. Duffy has blood on his hands for taking the call on air.



http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/daly-signed-his-death-warrant-live-on-the-radio-26327771.html

Nothing to do with Joe according to himself.

foggy_lad

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

He was killed shortly afterwards, him being on the radio meant all the other phones that prisoners had were confiscated in a crackdown. Duffy has blood on his hands for taking the call on air.



http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/daly-signed-his-death-warrant-live-on-the-radio-26327771.html

I remember ringing in that day to tell Joe that he should hang up on Daly immediately as he was helping the convict to break the law and was an accessory to that crime as well as possibly committing a crime himself by allowing the convict access to the airwaves to communicate with other criminals.

ButtersSuki

foggy_lad wrote: »

I remember ringing in that day to tell Joe that he should hang up on Daly immediately as he was helping the convict to break the law and was an accessory to that crime as well as possibly committing a crime himself by allowing the convict access to the airwaves to communicate with other criminals.

Don't you be givin' me any of yer auld guff.....

snubbleste

Dunnygall Toosday - a number of times.
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/student-defends-donegal-tuesday-telling-rte-broadcaster-joe-duffy-february-is-the-designated-drinking-month-30999272.html

Amberjack

Today's episode: Joan v Keith Barry wasn't bad either

thesandeman

Yep. Don't think todays will be beaten this year.

Spanish Eyes

The priest and the Ginger festival orgies.

(I cannot be accurate about anything on JD, but something like that!)

djemba djemba

thesandeman wrote: »

Yep. Don't think todays will be beaten this year.

It was F... this, F... that, F... you all from a women who doesnt like that type of language.

The first time she said it you could hear Joe nearly falling off his chair

Do you remember the auld fella who had never missed giving blood for about 20 years but said he'd never do it again since they stopped providing bottles of Guiness? he claimed that when he told them at the centre that he wouldn't be coming back of of principle, they were upset & crying because he'd be greatly missed. He sure thought a lot of himself.

mrsdewinter

thesandeman wrote: »

Yep. Don't think todays will be beaten this year.

Brilliant - that's the soundtrack to tonight's washing up sorted - thank you!!

Amberjack

Well today's is definitely another contender - Yew and his son arguing about the merits of being buried (without a coffin I might add in the home garden, along with the mother who is already there)