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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 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.

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.

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.

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 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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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 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,