NT: The Hard Shoulder with Kieran Cuddihy

Starting off with the Interview by Kieran with Kevin Myers.

Kevin is still very very upset after being lynched for his article in the Sunday Times.

Now, I have had 3 presences here on boards.ie
Ive said some silly things.


Poor Kevin. He is very put off by overuse of the word mysogony.

L1011

Myers wasn't done in for one article, he ran out of road after decades of the same schtick.

I can't listen to her. That accent.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

I can't listen to her. That accent.

Erm, mate

Poor old Kevin was being interviewed by Kieran, a gentleman!

RINO87

I didn't hear the interview with Kieran but surprised Meyers was on again so soon. Didn't he do a "Thursday Interview" with Ivan not so long back?

2smiggy

Any chance of Ivan or George coming out of retirement ??

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Erm, mate

Poor old Kevin was being interviewed by Kieran, a gentleman!

No, the vegan woman who was interviewed is who I was referring to

Neil the ISME rep in PURE THATCHERITE mode.
Apparently there's deflation at the moment.
Don't raise the minimum wage whatever ye do!

No fan particularly of Brenda ogle, but this time there's a method to his madness

gourcuff

Kieran is very good in this slot, i rarely switch to Matt Cooper anymore...and obviously would never go near Darcy

Wilbury Twist

I was really hoping that Mark Cagney would take over full time from Ivan Yeats when Ivan retired. Cagney filled in for Ivan on numerous occasions especially in the few months leading up to Ivan's departure and I thought he was an excellent natural fit for that slot, it seemed he was being lined up to take over that slot, even better than Ivan in parts.

Tork

Would Mark Cagney be a better stand-in for Pat Kenny? Jonathan Healy seems to get on a lot of peoples' nerves.

Allinall

Tork wrote: »

Would Mark Cagney be a better stand-in for Pat Kenny? Jonathan Healy seems to get on a lot of peoples' nerves.

That's more than likely what they are looking for.

EmmetSpiceland

Tork wrote: »

Would Mark Cagney be a better stand-in for Pat Kenny? Jonathan Healy seems to get on a lot of peoples' nerves.

I’d like to hear Healy stand in for Moncrieff instead of Tom Dunne.

plodder

I was just reading Mick Heaney's radio review and the "straight-talking" Moncrieff and Cuddihy discussing how pandemic cancelled kids birthday parties were obviously hard on the children, but unexpectedly "bloody brilliant" for the parents.

I had to laugh as well during the week at Cuddihy's conversation about the Toy Show with a female reporter (whose name I didn't catch). The contrast between them was quite amusing. She related how she loves it to the extent that during her Hen weekend, she made all her friends sit up and watch it together in their PJs. Whereas Cuddihy (and his kids even) just don't get it. Said Ryan Tubridy seems to lose the plot every year some time in October, not getting over it until the middle of January. How true that is ... imo

James O'Brien from LBC coming up next. Looking forward to this, he's probably my favourite radio host.

generalgerry

Haven't listened to this before. Does Cuddihy always picks side with the most populist side of the argument? Why bring Richard Boyd Barrett on and bark yourself?

72sheep

generalgerry wrote: »

Haven't listened to this before. Does Cuddihy always picks side with the most populist side of the argument? Why bring Richard Boyd Barrett on and bark yourself?

Kieran comes across as a blend of "down the country" smarminess and insecurity. His tone on the interview with Kevin Myers was inappropriate. School report would say "needs improving".

(Jonathan Healy can just be dismissed as a stooge, he's terrified of saying anything that might upset his boss.)

gourcuff

good discussion on remote working, how will the cities cope if all the senior execs and management level head off home though?

i know in our company none of the senior staff are originally from dublin - the company will collapse if they all take advantage of this remote working and move home to other parts of Ireland...

batistuta9

2smiggy wrote: »

Any chance of Ivan or George coming out of retirement ??

Ivan's hosting new show on VM1 called The Green Room. there was 1 on before xmas & started its regular slot last friday

The Green Room with Ivan Yates is an entertainment show which promises to highlight the ‘news, issues and fun’ in the world of sports. ivan will be joined on the show by Paddy Power, impressionist and TV broadcaster Conor Moore and a mystery special guest.

What am I listening to

Jakey Rolling

Deleted User wrote: »

What am I listening to

Guest espousing her views on women getting drunk? You have tuned in to the 1950's!

George Hook lost his job for saying the same stuff i.e. it's the woman's fault if she gets bladdered and taken advantage of.

zell12

Cuddihy referred to the NI border a number of times as "an international frontier" when challenging Micheal Martin

Del.Monte

Kieran Cuddihy has been busy promoting Valencia Island's bid to become a Unesco World Heritage site and just had some Prof.from TCD on and by the end of the segment we were none the wiser about the proposal - not a jot. Typical sensational Newstalk crap..

whisky_galore

Cuddihy got some blowback from callers up in arms that a stolen dog didn't justify a 10 month sentence. One caller said a 10 YEAR sentence was appropriate for dog theft.

Tbf I'm with Cuddihy on this one and I don't agree with him all that often, too many people with dogs treating them as substitutes for children. Proposal is by Aontu (:D) so it'll get the derision it deserves.

gourcuff

72sheep wrote: »

Kieran comes across as a blend of "down the country" smarminess and insecurity. His tone on the interview with Kevin Myers was inappropriate. School report would say "needs improving".

(Jonathan Healy can just be dismissed as a stooge, he's terrified of saying anything that might upset his boss.)

what the hell is 'down the country smarminess'? sounds like nonsense to me, are you sure you aren't the insecure one?

southstar

whisky_galore wrote: »

Cuddihy got some blowback from callers up in arms that a stolen dog didn't justify a 10 month sentence. One caller said a 10 YEAR sentence was appropriate for dog theft.

Tbf I'm with Cuddihy on this one and I don't agree with him all that often, too many people with dogs treating them as substitutes for children. Proposal is by Aontu (:D) so it'll get the derision it deserves.

Dog theft can cause huge distress for some people...never mind the animals themselves...to let some greedy opportunistic parasite off with no serious punishment...ie jail time/heavy fines just turns a blind eye to this rotten activity.Save your derision
Well done to Toibin

whisky_galore

southstar wrote: »

Dog theft can cause huge distress for some people...never mind the animals themselves...to let some greedy opportunistic parasite off with no serious punishment...ie jail time/heavy fines just turns a blind eye to this rotten activity.Save your derision
Well done to Toibin

No matter how much you love your "fur baby", dog theft is not the same as kidnapping a human or child from a legal standpoint and rightly so.

And if there wasn't a market for these dogs, ie the deluded people prepared to pay stupid money for dogs, there wouldn't be a theft explosion. They're part of the problem.

plodder

whisky_galore wrote: »

No matter how much you love your "fur baby", dog theft is not the same as kidnapping a human or child from a legal standpoint and rightly so.

And if there wasn't a market for these dogs, ie the deluded people prepared to pay stupid money for dogs, there wouldn't be a theft explosion. They're part of the problem.

Reminds me of the other day he was talking about scraping the fur off the jam for his kids sandwiches, but a caller reprimanded him for (or warned against) feeding mouldy bread to the ducks. I think it's funny the way he trolls his audience and people rise to it.

leath_dub

plodder wrote: »

Reminds me of the other day he was talking about scraping the fur off the jam for his kids sandwiches, but a caller reprimanded him for (or warned against) feeding mouldy bread to the ducks. I think it's funny the way he trolls his audience and people rise to it.

A lot of Newstalk shows seem to depend on the 30 cent texts, so they do their best to trigger the listeners outrage and hopefully motivate them to text in.


Similarly, on a 2 person show like the breakfast show, fo every topic being discussed Ciara takes one (scripted) viewpoint and Shane takes the opposite (scripted) viewpoint. They rehash their attitude (word perfectly) for the rest of the show, howine the plabes will txt in to agree or disagree. Thay will also often shamelssly entreat their listenere to "text in and let us know what your favourite type of soup is".


It's all pretty tacky

meeeeh

leath_dub wrote: »

A lot of Newstalk shows seem to depend on the 30 cent texts, so they do their best to trigger the listeners outrage and hopefully motivate them to text in.


Similarly, on a 2 person show like the breakfast show, fo every topic being discussed Ciara takes one (scripted) viewpoint and Shane takes the opposite (scripted) viewpoint. They rehash their attitude (word perfectly) for the rest of the show, howine the plabes will txt in to agree or disagree. Thay will also often shamelssly entreat their listenere to "text in and let us know what your favourite type of soup is".


It's all pretty tacky

Yeah I don't hear the beginning of Breakfast show much the last few years but I remember that Coleman and Cuddihy used to do that. It was pretty obvious..

That being said people texting in comparing dogs to kids and demanding 10 years for dog theft are pretty insane. It's completely out of proportion and I say that as an owner of black eejit who is completely convinced that her spot in the family hierarchy is above our daughter's. Anyway I have no objection to Newstalk making money out of that kind of nonsense.

whisky_galore

So tell us Imbrahim; working for Facebook or a stay in an Egyptian prison, which was worse?

generalgerry

Honestly we have to listen to this lad and his cock and bull story again. He should have be treated like a hero should he, after all the lies he told.

And if he wants to preach tolerance, maybe he should start in his own house instead of preaching to the Irish people.

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/ibrahim-halawa-dublin-egypt-13733984
"Father of acquitted Ibrahim Halawa brands homosexuality as 'sinful'"

Any mention of this hypocrisy from NT, no?

gourcuff

duncan from the labour party seems a bit naive...

NufcNavan

Kieran loves nothing better than to grandstand on a fairly nothing event in the grand scheme of things. Today's example is the Jerusalema dance by the coastguards. His set pieces usually consist of a 3 minute monologue where he looks into the camera, gets all serious and surly and throws in statements like "what is going on here", all so he can watch all the "well said Kieran" comments roll in on Facebook.

BPKS

In an attempt to get away from the misery around Covid, lockdown, job losses etc The Hard Shoulder are doing a special programme this evening.

On the Stardust disaster.

plodder

I thought the special on the Stardust was very good. KC showed empathy without being sentimental about it. Good job imo.

newcavanman

No harm, but this show isnt a patch on what it was when either Hookie or Uncle Ivan were presenting it

Most of the daytime presenters on newstalk are off today , wonder why that is?

EltonJohn69

zorro2566 wrote: »

Most of the daytime presenters on newstalk are off today , wonder why that is?

Illuminati conference.

SureYWouldntYa

zorro2566 wrote: »

Most of the daytime presenters on newstalk are off today , wonder why that is?

The schools being on mid term break is the obvious answer

SureYWouldntYa

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

The schools being on mid term break is the obvious answer

Really? Has Pat Kenny got school children?

SureYWouldntYa

zorro2566 wrote: »

Really? Has Pat Kenny got school children?

Doubt it but only link I can come up with, maybe he's always taken the mid terms off down the years back when he did have kids and just kept doing it

Del.Monte

Zoom discussion about redundancies? One can only dream...

whisky_galore

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

The schools being on mid term break is the obvious answer

They got soooooo many places to go and all.

Del.Monte

Kieran Cuddihy doing his best to play up to the Republican segment of his listeners.

I have no time for people who troll, or worse, the likes of James McClean but he has brought a lot of it on himself. Like many others he should remember the old proverb 'those that live by the sword, perish by the sword' i.e if he would get off social media, stop tweeting, giving rubbish interviews about poppies and all the rest, he could have had a quiet life.Instead he's riled up the low end of the football gene pool and brought it home to his family. Also,Cuddihyseems genuinely upset by callers telling him GB isn't the cess pit of anti-Irish racism he believes it to be.

Del.Monte

And for something really original the Thursday Interview is Panti Bliss....has he ever been interviewed on Newstalk before? :rolleyes:

plodder

Did nobody else hear him being pranked?

hold my beer

Why do they feel the need to have random people phoning in? It's been happening more and more the last few weeks. I've turned off the show after the joker on a minute ago

EmmetSpiceland

hold my beer wrote: »

Why do they feel the need to have random people phoning in? It's been happening more and more the last few weeks. I've turned off the show after the joker on a minute ago

The breakfast show did that for a bit. Got listeners “views” on things at around 8:45am. God, it was just dreadful.

ghostdancer

hold my beer wrote: »

Why do they feel the need to have random people phoning in? It's been happening more and more the last few weeks. I've turned off the show after the joker on a minute ago

Agreed. It's awful.
If I wanted to know what a load of thicks from the general public thought, I'd read the Radio forum.
Keep these morons off the airwaves please.

Patrick2010

Cuddihys opening monologues are getting boring now