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tommytee

Never thought I would actually mutter these words but
Come back George Hook all is forgiven....

this Newstalk Drive is absolute garbage,can someone please tell Sarah McInerney to stop laughing at her jokes they are simply not funny.

Moncreiff is the only show i will be listening to.. Yes i've moved the dial alright

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_Kaiser_

Great news and the right move by NT but Ivan definitely needs someone to work with in this slot. Chris is the obvious choice so hopefully it'll happen.

Sarah going is no loss and it has nothing to do with her gender (not sure how that nonsense got brought into it) but just that she's a very poor presenter

Breakfast has to be next though. Since the reshuffle last year I've hardly listed to NT at all but Yates back will change that

Conservative

Yates and Moncrieff aren't too far apart in age I would have thought?

Would Sarah seriously get the Vincent Browne job? I never got the impression she was some kind of political heavyweight as others have suggested.

Poorly informed and ill judged in most of the interviews I heard on NT.

Five Green Bottles

Conservative wrote: »

Yates and Moncrieff aren't too far apart in age I would have thought?

Would Sarah seriously get the Vincent Browne job? I never got the impression she was some kind of political heavyweight as others have suggested.

Poorly informed and ill judged in most of the interviews I heard on NT.

Mary O'Rourke was a way better stand in than Sarah, she is way too lightweight. If #saraham gets the late slot with TV3 she will need a big back room team and more importantly she will need to wear a muzzle to hold back her poorly informed often feminist rants and opinions.
knowledge of just politics is not enough to carry her on a show that needs an all round current affairs presenter, having a chip on each shoulder just won't help at all.

Radio_Fan_738

What age is sarah mcinerney ? I could never tell if she is 20 something or 40 something

meeeeh

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

He is strongest on politics and sport (soccer, rugby, gaa, horse racing). He takes a cliched right wing view on most issues seemingly for the entertainment and also I suspect it genuinely is his view but he adds a bit of emphasis for effect.

I know I have not problem with that and I find him very entertaining but there were interviews on social issues, especially some dare I say feminist topics where he was like a fish out of water. It has nothing to do with his personal views, it was just painfully obvious he was not competent about the subject. Three hour slot has to cover various items and I think it works better if there are two presenters. Pat Kenny and Moncrieff are different because their subjects usually require less preparation.

Larbre34

Radio_Fan_738 wrote: »

What age is sarah mcinerney ? I could never tell if she is 20 something or 40 something

AFAIK 38/39

Lt Dan

Badabing wrote: »

Two of them

Thank you baby Jesus. SOmething to look forward to in the after noon. Been Drive and the bleeding heart professional take offence on behalf of everyone,Off the Ball (sometimes, you might hear about sport) NT had gone off the boil

Can't be having lightweights on the radio at that time

Lt Dan

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

Fantastic news! I'd almost given up on Newstalk ... I'll look forward to listening to Ivan on the way home from work. I would like Chris to stay on though, they work well together.

No . Chris can jog on. God is good

bleary

Five Green Bottles wrote: »

Newstalk DOB simply have a a poor record in selecting women, its as if they pick them off tinder on looks and propose marriage before even dating at all.

Claire byrne started in Irish radio on newstalk with Ivan, she seems to be doing just fine in rte. the problem seems less the women newstalk have on rather than how they end up getting treated there. Not a problem now there are none left I guess.

James St. John-Smythe

The big question is will they f*ckin give Moncrieff back the time they stole STOLE last time there was a shuffle?

newcavanman

Murt10 wrote: »

Hook should never have been given the lunchtime gig. Way past the time he was permanently retired.

I would love to see them poach Keelin Shanley from RTE. Top notch journalist.

Oh please. Keelin " shocked " shanley, possibly leaving the safe haven of RTE ? Not a feckin hope, and thank God for that. With Yates at the helm, we will get some decent drivetime radio for the first time in a year

Lady Chatterton

I have a feeling that Sarah McInerney will be offered Ivan's old Sunday Show slot. I'm not a big fan of hers but I think she could do a decent job there given her previous career as a political correspondent for the Times.

On a purely human level, I feel for her, she has had a tough week losing the Drivetime gig and now, there is speculation that Yates has been given the Vincent Browne Show along with Matt Cooper, a programme she guest presented for a time.

Journalism is a tough career, you'd want a thick skin to be able to deal with being dropped from your role in such a public manner. While I like Ivan a lot it must be disheartening for trained journalists to see former ministers like him and Nora Owen earning a decent livelihood from their media work.

Five Green Bottles

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I have a feeling that Sarah McInerney will be offered Ivan's old Sunday Show slot. I'm not a big fan of hers but I think she could do a decent job there given her previous career as a political correspondent for the Times.

On a purely human level, I feel for her, she has had a tough week losing the Drivetime gig and now, there is speculation that Yates has been given the Vincent Browne Show along with Matt Cooper, a programme she guest presented for a time.

Journalism is a tough career, you'd want a thick skin to be able to deal with being dropped from your role in such a public manner. While I like Ivan a lot it must be disheartening for trained journalists to see former ministers like him and Nora Owen earning a decent livelihood from their media work.

On a personal level most probably would agree with you, however Sarah and her manner with guests is most distasteful her rants most incoherent and her unearned arrogance unpleasant. I think she has taken a saber to her own neck and I also believe Chris jumped last week too.
Sarah is a repugnant character and wouldn't have lasted a week on RTE radio and that in itself prompts another question, the independents should have some share of the TV licence applied to them, the Female presenters of RTE in my opinion are streets ahead of the male presenters. Cathrine Thomas filling in for Ray, she's way better and I'm not one of her fans.
Mary Wilson, Keelin, Claire and Audrey are probably the best Irish presenters, not because they are in RTE because of education, training and the quality if their resumes,

Jobs OXO

Five Green Bottles wrote: »

On a personal level most probably would agree with you, however Sarah and her manner with guests is most distasteful her rants most incoherent and her unearned arrogance unpleasant. I think she has taken a saber to her own neck and I also believe Chris jumped last week too.
Sarah is a repugnant character and wouldn't have lasted a week on RTE radio and that in itself prompts another question, the independents should have some share of the TV licence applied to them, the Female presenters of RTE in my opinion are streets ahead of the male presenters. Cathrine Thomas filling in for Ray, she's way better and I'm not one of her fans.
Mary Wilson, Keelin, Claire and Audrey are probably the best Irish presenters, not because they are in RTE because of education, training and the quality if their resumes,

Yeah the feminazi aggression combined with her ultra liberalism and (as you say) outlandish arrogance got tiresome fairly quickly

Del.Monte

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I have a feeling that Sarah McInerney will be offered Ivan's old Sunday Show slot. I'm not a big fan of hers but I think she could do a decent job there given her previous career as a political correspondent for the Times.

On a purely human level, I feel for her, she has had a tough week losing the Drivetime gig and now, there is speculation that Yates has been given the Vincent Browne Show along with Matt Cooper, a programme she guest presented for a time.

Journalism is a tough career, you'd want a thick skin to be able to deal with being dropped from your role in such a public manner. While I like Ivan a lot it must be disheartening for trained journalists to see former ministers like him and Nora Owen earning a decent livelihood from their media work.

Not to mention triple jobbers like (Dr) Ciara Kelly.

PeterTheNinth

ThisRegard wrote: »

We get it Peter, you're perpetually outraged when anything, or anyone, left of centre is on radio.

Yep... that about covers it.

It's kind of amazing that the (presumably) clever people running the station could not see how poor the lineup was last year when they had their big fanfare to introduce the new schedule. It looked terrible on paper, and they've lost a year on what was pretty obviously going to be a failure. Having Yates back on drivetime at least fixes one of the issues. Wonder what they will do with the rest of the schedule.

brooke 2

DickSwiveller wrote: »

I wonder is Sarah being lined up to replace Vin B on TV3. I'm pretty sure she filled in for him a few times

She did a very good job too filling in for Vincent. Was also one of the best of the regular panellists.

But, she was a bit of a disaster on the radio, I'm afraid.

brooke 2

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

I actually enjoy him more on this time slot than the Right Hook. I think when he's given time to discuss the less serious stuff he's quite fun to listen to. I do however wish Ciara Kelly would go back to being a doctor

She was filling in on the breakfast show the other morning and turned up later on Hook's High Noon. He remarked that she was spending a lot of time around Newstalk and asked her if she needed the money!

brooke 2

meeeeh wrote: »

I think Hook's slot improved from car crash it was at the beginning.

Anyway I think Yates is brilliant but I think he works better with co-presenter. And Yates can be we weak on certain subjects too, he had bad interviews where you know he knows nothing about not even enough to ask the right questions. I think one of current presenters should be kept with him.

There was a running joke when he was on the morning show with Chris that he had not read the script. At times he comes across as not being very bright.
But he is good at the bluster and on subjects which do interest him.

brooke 2

Mr Starman wrote: »

I actually respect Hook for holding a view and having a personality. Better to stand for something rather than nothing. And he is able to laugh at himself, I reckon he is a decent skin off the radio. But every day I have had too switch him off to the words 'what a load of sh*te George, f*cks sake!'

I liked Chris and Sarah on Drive time, youthful feel to the show. It's difficult to find serious shows with younger presenters. I mean its all ould fellas on Newstalk now apart from 'Off the Ball' and Moncriffe. And Today FM is a total cringefest.....unfunny people thinking they are funny.

Ivan Yates though, total bluffer!

Totally agree Yates is a bluffer. But I must confess that I like listening to him.

brooke 2

Conservative wrote: »

Yates and Moncrieff aren't too far apart in age I would have thought?

Would Sarah seriously get the Vincent Browne job? I never got the impression she was some kind of political heavyweight as others have suggested.

Poorly informed and ill judged in most of the interviews I heard on NT.

Sarah was very good on the VB show. Had a lot of gravitas. I was looking forward to hearing her on the radio, but got increasingly irritated with her
as time went on. Her giggling wrecked my head - she was almost as bad as Áine Lawlor!! And if she told us once more that she loves dancing........:rolleyes:

I guess the radio is more intimate than TV - some can cross over successsfully from one to the other. Not Sarah, I'm afraid.

brooke 2

Five Green Bottles wrote: »

Mary O'Rourke was a way better stand in than Sarah, she is way too lightweight. If #saraham gets the late slot with TV3 she will need a big back room team and more importantly she will need to wear a muzzle to hold back her poorly informed often feminist rants and opinions.
knowledge of just politics is not enough to carry her on a show that needs an all round current affairs presenter, having a chip on each shoulder just won't help at all.

Mary O'Rourke was a disaster!

brooke 2

bleary wrote: »

Claire byrne started in Irish radio on newstalk with Ivan, she seems to be doing just fine in rte. the problem seems less the women newstalk have on rather than how they end up getting treated there. Not a problem now there are none left I guess.

And Claire Byrne also received a lot of criticism when she was on Newstalk, even though she was excellent. Ger Gilroy was on with her when, out of the
blue, Yates got the gig. She was really annoyed on Gilroy's behalf - quite understandably, imo. It was rather controversial at the time, the manner in
which Yates was parachuted into the programme while Gilroy was sidelined. It banged of DOB doing a buddy a favour. Initially, there was a lot of needling
between CB and Yates - she let him away with none of his misogynistic tripe. He often gave the impression in those early days that he should have been
doing the show on his own. As time went on though, it seemed like they grew on each other!

Sarah Carey has been on NT a few times hosting a morning weekend programme. I thought she was very good, even though I feel I might be in
the minority on that score!!

Five Green Bottles

"Mary O'Rourke was a disaster!"

I didn't say that she wasn't a disaster at all, I said that she was better than Sarah.
Mary when goes in a rant you know that she is a compentent well read and experienced lady, Sarah is an obnoxious Illinformed person who's a man hating woman and who's done far more harm to her own sex in the workplace than she has to any man. Ivan got her radio slot and 50% of the #vinb show, both of which she should be at the helm of. Sarah's hatefulness towards men, opinions that she doesn't agree with, her falseness and her false sense of political correctness made her position untennable. Dr. Kelly, and lord Williams of self importantance are both fast following in her footsteps and I predict won't last too long, that's if Williams isn't already gone.

brooke 2

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I have a feeling that Sarah McInerney will be offered Ivan's old Sunday Show slot. I'm not a big fan of hers but I think she could do a decent job there given her previous career as a political correspondent for the Times.

On a purely human level, I feel for her, she has had a tough week losing the Drivetime gig and now, there is speculation that Yates has been given the Vincent Browne Show along with Matt Cooper, a programme she guest presented for a time.

Journalism is a tough career, you'd want a thick skin to be able to deal with being dropped from your role in such a public manner. While I like Ivan a lot it must be disheartening for trained journalists to see former ministers like him and Nora Owen earning a decent livelihood from their media work.

+100.

I think the Sunday Show might be a good fit for Sarah. I get the feeling that she might be more suited to the more serious programmes. She obviously
felt that she had to do the banter, etc., on the evening show - it did not work for her at all. When she was obviously reading off the script, she came
across as very preachy.

Grolschevik

Jesus. 'Feminazi rants' and 'hatefulness to men'. From the comfortable, middle class, wife and mother, middle of the road, as far from radical as you can get, landlord McInerney.

Goes with the other misogynistic bile often spouted about any woman with an opinion on radio, also.

Seriously, some posters here would want to leave their bedsits or IT Crowd basement and go out and talk to actual women.

Five Green Bottles

This "bile" is exactly what got Sarah canned! You didn't read the other posts that were pro female presenters, your rant using the vile, nasty and offensive Nazi term is inconceivable.
Sarah was ousted mainly because of incoherent rants just like your using the word Nazi, the use of that word has no place in a discussion such as this, nor is it a discussion of class, the discussion is rather why Sarah was fired.
Had she a little sence, feel for her audience maybe even topped with a little decorum she would still be at the helm of the drivetime slot.
An eye catching beautiful young woman with any ability to be in anyway plausible, coherent maybe with the ability to be liked would have gotten the the #vinb slot over Ivan and Cooper in a heartbeat.

Grolschevik

What?! The term 'feminazi' has been used many times by misogynistic posters all the way through this thread and others, which I have followed and read since their inception. I'm not really feeling the faux outrage here.

Five Green Bottles

Grolschevik wrote: »

What?! The term 'feminazi' has been used many times by misogynistic posters all the way through this thread and others, which I have followed and read since their inception. I'm not really feeling the faux outrage here.

I find it's better to engage ones brain before making an idiot of ones mouth,

Sarah sees/hears freaks and reacts, much as you have done, your last post was at best I'll informed and you reacted without informing yourself that in previous posts. Women in broadcasting have huge male support, in Ireland women in business have the highest respect from men and are not bashed in the same way as so called feminist women with keyboards bash men,
Your tenure on radio would also be short,

Grolschevik

Thanks for that, Captain 'Not a Sock Puppet' Nonsequitur. Not going to get into a back and forth with someone whose username I've never seen on this forum before today.

Have a good evening.

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