Liveline With Joe Duffy - Mod Note in OP

Atlantic Dawn

The local gun club might want them to shoot at.

McDermotX

Yeah caller…….I'll take all the Vanilla Ice and 2Unlimited records of ya

McDermotX

Literally cleaning two peoples gaffs

Have you heard of long term storage…….or a dump ?

2smiggy

I'm trying to listen, but have no idea what this is about, it's so painfully boring.

McDermotX

Brit

The other lad's oul lad will be reaching of the grave

Arghus

You're really honouring him by trying desperately to flog his collection.

dvcireland

Sil Fox was around for this:

What was the first ever audio recording?

The earliest known intelligible recorded sound of a human voice was conducted on April 9, 1860 when Scott recorded someone singing the song "Au Clair de la Lune" ("By the Light of the Moon") on the device.

2smiggy

….

Atlantic Dawn

We inherited = We were given them because it would have been expensive to put them all in a skip.

dvcireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123440522#Comment_123440522

he does not have a strong accent

Arghus

I really have to question what I'm doing with my life listening to a show where the highlight is the unintentional comedy of the sound of some guy inadvertently pressing keys on his phone while on a call.

McDermotX

Nazis asked them to help out for reward….

Collaborators, some would say

dvcireland

in recent years the doc on one has gone downhill

Jordan 199

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123440621#Comment_123440621

2Unlimited 😯 Blast from the past!

avfc1874

I know it's been said many times this year but I'd have to put this sh#te show in the top one of katies most boring shows of the year/years 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🙄

johnbarrett35

No mention of Joe's return tomorrow, there now.

Arghus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123440701#Comment_123440701

I think this was middle of the road by KH's standards. First segment was particularly painful alright. Even the caller was willing to end the conversation long before it actually ended.

I think some of Colm's most recent stint were quite bad - as bad as anything KH has ever done.

I don't mind her as a broadcaster. She's fine - but as a permanent host of a show like LL? Absolutely not suitable.

mykrodot

I rarely comment on this thread because I only listen now and again to Liveline.

However I have to say categorically that Katie Hannon is THE most boring presenter ever. I have never heard her make an interesting show. She sounds half asleep …all little soft laughs…. she's the same on TV. I always want her to grab the bull by the horns and actually speak with a bit of assertion and motivation! She sounds afraid of her own shadow.

If she takes over the Liveline is dead. Joe was streets ahead of her.

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123440973#Comment_123440973

Caller, you need to call in and share the love 0818715815 😃

zell12

Is it not The Joe Duffy Show?

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/letters-its-pity-joe-duffy-didnt-give-credit-to-his-hard-working-background-support-staff/a636844603.html

sligeach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123441894#Comment_123441894

Oh "it's a pity" alright.

Basic English not even a requirement to work in journalism anymore, it would appear.

squonk

I didn’t gear his sign off but it’s ironic that Oliver Callan’s spoof of the whole thing dud thank the background staff!

archfi

Young Despard captained the University Challenge winners so expect more from his da tomorrow

(PS congrats to the young man)

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0512/1512473-dublin-scholar-in-tonights-university-challenge-final/

sligeach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123442496#Comment_123442496

I thought it was given away by the son, when the father was asked by another guest on the show last week, do you know if he won, and he said his son said "you'll enjoy it more if you don't know the result". Or something almost identical.

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123440487#Comment_123440487

or slowly subject the nation to excruciating aural torture

BPKS

Mario Rosenstock must have been reading the Liveline thread yesterday.

Gift Grub this morning was the auditions for the new presenter, finished with Ray D'Arcy doing what Ray does.

We also had a caller muttering "you called me".

I won't post the link to it however as the humour in it may be against the forum charter.

archfi

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0512/1512487-zamparelli-says-shed-be-mad-not-to-consider-liveline/

"There's a new head of audio and they might just... RTE are great for shaking things up and doing something different, aren't they? They're mad for that. But we'll see.

[…]

"And you'd need to be appointed by Joe. You'd need full approval. Otherwise, you'd have no chance in hell."

I don't know if she's being sarcastic or not!

Other names mentioned in connection with Liveline include Katie Hannon, Ray D'Arcy, Claire Byrne, Sean Moncrieff, Marty Morrisey, and Joe Brolly.

Ugh.

squonk

Are there really no young, hungry, highly trained and competent presenters around the country who could liven things up? There are media courses in many colleges around the place. Where do ask the graduates go? I’m not saying hire someone straight out of college but surely someone with 5 years experience under their belt could deal with the average Liveline caller? Actually, screw that. Get away from the average Liveline caller. Field cans from young families taking the cost of living crisis or other issues of the day.

We seem to just get tge sane bunch of names popping up for Rte jobs over and over again. It’s good at jest they went off campus for the LLS revamp. I’d love to see seeing similar with LL.

Expunge

I call for continuity: John from Cark or Anne from Cannes could probably take over seamlessly.

Also, Derek Mooney is mincing around the radio centre on big money with only half a gig.

zell12

I motion RTÉ be shut down, except TG4.