How would you feel if Joe Duffy left Liveline?

Hans_Memling · 03-02-2017 2:21pm #1

I think a lot of you would be devastated.. (I know it'll never happen, obviously)

darkpagandeath · 03-02-2017 2:24pm

I would call Joe.. Oh wait.

Galway_Old_Man · 03-02-2017 2:26pm

How would you feel if Joe Duffy left Liveline?

Powerless.

Who would fix my problems?

ClovenHoof · 03-02-2017 2:31pm

He exists to medicate the great unwashed.

Noveight · 03-02-2017 2:31pm

Jooooooooeeeee Duffaaaay.

Grayson · 03-02-2017 2:33pm

I've never listened to it.

punisher5112 · 03-02-2017 2:33pm

I would call all the other chat shows and tell them they should be more like Joe.

Super-Rush · 03-02-2017 2:33pm

I have an empty box with the amount of fcuks I'd give.

clintondaly · 03-02-2017 2:35pm

CalamariFritti · 03-02-2017 2:36pm

Grayson wrote: »

I've never listened to it.

Same. I wouldn't even know what he sounds/looks like.
I'm working through the day and my job wouldn't really be compatible with radio.

And I've grown to dislike radio anyway unless there is music involved.
If it's not music it's usually bad news or ads or someone morning about something.

artanevilla · 03-02-2017 2:37pm

donegal. · 03-02-2017 2:38pm

the only thing worse than Joe Duffy is the alternative

Noveight · 03-02-2017 2:39pm

donegal. wrote: »

the only thing worse than Joe Duffy is the alternative

Niall Boylan. Ugh.

Noddyholder · 03-02-2017 2:41pm

I just don't know what I do.....

CFlat · 03-02-2017 2:41pm

Well I'm under 80, so it wouldn't affect me.

endacl · 03-02-2017 2:44pm

If Joe Duffy left, well... I,... I suppose I'd just have to not listen to somebody else at that time. I'd be overwhelmed with indifference.

Arghus · 03-02-2017 3:03pm

I only tune in occasionally and 60% of the time he's not on and they have someone filling in.

When he is on he's one of the most awful broadcasters in the land: incoherent, self-important, santimonious, rude, ignorant of facts; you name it.

He's never met a tragic situation he doesn't milk for maximum mawkisness. He's the pits: good riddance.

5rtytry56 · 03-02-2017 4:22pm

Throw that book away..

Neames · 04-02-2017 3:01pm

It really wouldn't bother me one way or the other.

I've only listened a few times and have found it to be a show where people feel they can complain about very trivial issues.

I was shocked when a friend of mine told me he had called Joe Duffy about a personal but trivial issue. I asked some months later did the call to Joe help to resolve the issue. This was followed by an awkward silence and then a very quick change of topic.

Neames · 04-02-2017 3:02pm

Those funny Friday guys are gas....

....not.

Sue Pa Key Pa · 04-02-2017 3:09pm

I'd hear a new name to be threatened with by customers at work. Would be a welcome change

theteal · 04-02-2017 3:10pm

I'd probably expect it to be posted in some sort of radio forum. . .

04-02-2017 3:13pm

How would you feel if Joe Duffy left Liveline? and was replaced by Ray Darcey?

corner of hells · 04-02-2017 3:24pm

Super-Rush wrote: »

I have an empty box with the amount of fcuks I'd give.

That type of attitude let Trump get elected.

We could end up with Crystal Swing or Brendan Ogle in charge .

04-02-2017 6:47pm

I'd start a "bring back Marion" campaign to reinstate her to her original role.

sligojoek · 04-02-2017 7:13pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I'd start a "bring back Marion" campaign to reinstate her to her original role.

Cough, cough, splutter.

No way

RobertKK · 04-02-2017 7:27pm

Deleted User wrote: »

How would you feel if Joe Duffy left Liveline? and was replaced by Ray Darcey?

Ray is even worse.

Dr Crayfish · 04-02-2017 7:31pm

People with jobs would just carry on living their lives

04-02-2017 10:27pm

sligojoek wrote: »

Cough, cough, splutter.

No way

ah why not? She was great on the original live line and can certainly talk for Ireland

Itssoeasy · 04-02-2017 10:30pm

I've a bottle of something in the cabinet at home. I'd crack it open.

elperello · 04-02-2017 10:39pm

Easy enough to bash Joe but this is one of the few programmes where ordinary citizens get on air.
A lot of the media consists of pr guff, politicians and spin merchants.
Sure Liveline has it's problems and Joe is not perfect.
If Joe left maybe a new presenter could improve the formula but most of the time Joe gets it right.

JupiterKid · 04-02-2017 10:41pm

I wouldn't be shedding any tears.But then I'm not in the demographic Liveline is aimed at. I'm sure plenty of old dears would be very upset.

sligojoek · 04-02-2017 10:44pm

Deleted User wrote: »

ah why not? She was great on the original live line and can certainly talk for Ireland

No doubt she was good in her day. She has too handy a number now. 3 weekends out of 4 in a good month. 250.000 a year.

cruais · 04-02-2017 10:48pm

I like to listen to Jooooooeeee Duuuuuffy in the car, purely for an entertainment factor. You couldnt take the auld dears serious at all.

This particular day, Josie rang in as she took the bus from stephens green and got off in parnell sq. In between this, she somehow lost her hat.

I kid you not, she rang Joe to ask people to look out for her hat. This resulted in other people telling their tales of the time the lost different items over the years

04-02-2017 10:49pm

sligojoek wrote: »

No doubt she was good in her day. She has too handy a number now. 3 weekends out of 4 in a good month. 250.000 a year.

Ah yea but would be nice to have her back. that and Gay doing the Gay Byrne hour.

somesoldiers · 04-02-2017 10:49pm

I'd be sad. There is some gold in there. The LiveLine thread wouldn't be the same without Joe...he hasn't taken a day off yet this year folks will be surprised to know. Though it is only early February

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RwWeeR89Gw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzd4eBaR7h8

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZwVtoqMzO4

sligojoek · 04-02-2017 11:05pm

cruais wrote: »

I like to listen to Jooooooeeee Duuuuuffy in the car, purely for an entertainment factor. You couldnt take the auld dears serious at all.

This particular day, Josie rang in as she took the bus from stephens green and got off in parnell sq. In between this, she somehow lost her hat.

I kid you not, she rang Joe to ask people to look out for her hat. This resulted in other people telling their tales of the time the lost different items over the years

There's too much of this sort of sh1te. And Joe's own personal hobby horses.

During the week he had people on who were awarded sums of money at the employment tribunal against Ray and Ann Monaghan. The following day the Monaghans coughed up. This is what liveline should be about.

newacc2015 · 04-02-2017 11:14pm

I dont get the appeal of liveline. It is just coffin dodgers phoning in about how entitled people are or the state of modern Ireland. You swear of half of the callers were living in war torn Bosnia with how bad their lives are.

The waffle they go on about is like how dreadful it is the Government is considering introducing higher charges on prescription meds. How are they supposed to have three foreign holidays and a new Mondeo every 3 years if they have to pay more for their heavily subsidised medicine? Does the Government expect them to have no quality of life?

Arghus · 04-02-2017 11:55pm

RobertKK wrote: »

Ray is even worse.

At the very least Ray would turn up every day.

pjmn · 05-02-2017 12:00am

Elated!

kuntboy · 05-02-2017 1:07pm

It would be good riddance. Can't stand him. An arrogant unrefined jumped-up skanger scobie who should be driving a bus. Never lets a bad word be said against Fianna Fail, as he obviously intends to run for office someday.

ToddyDoody · 05-02-2017 4:24pm

He's at it 18 years now. I doubt he'll be doing another 18 so the day will come.

It's kindof like the Irish Jeremy Kyle, but on radio.

05-02-2017 5:52pm

I look forward to the demise of this talentless tool. He has always been a protége of Gay Byrne, and brought Byrne's diehard anti-republican/pro-imperialist politics with him. I'll never forget his eulogy for the thug from Ballyfermot who joined the British Army and was killed in 2003 while trying to occupy another people's land. Violence for political purposes is noble, as long as it's the British who are using it. Duffy's hypocrisy on the use of violence to achieve political purposes - going nuts at IRA violence and glorifying British violence - is as galling and ethically indefensible as John Bruton's on the same issue.

The end of the entire Sticky/Harris/Fanning/Byrne/Joe Mulholland/Myles Dungan Section 31-loving grip on RTÉ is a wholly positive thing.

Bricriu · 05-02-2017 5:59pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I look forward to the demise of this talentless tool. He has always been a protége of Gay Byrne, and brought Byrne's diehard anti-republican/pro-imperialist politics with him. I'll never forget his eulogy for the thug from Ballyfermot who joined the British Army and was killed in 2003 while trying to occupy another people's land. Violence for political purposes is noble, as long as it's the British who are using it. Duffy's hypocrisy on the use of violence to achieve political purposes - going nuts at IRA violence and glorifying British violence - is as galling and ethically indefensible as John Bruton's on the same issue.

The end of the entire Sticky/Harris/Fanning/Byrne/Joe Mulholland/Myles Dungan Section 31-loving grip on RTÉ is a wholly positive thing.

Well said.

How would you feel if Joe Duffy left Liveline?

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