Lunchtime Live with Ciara Kelly [Mod warning post #1]

Heard somebody on the radio the other day waxing on about Ciara Kelly's prog and how it was great to have a show with no PC bull - and there was me thinking that (Dr) Ciara Kelly was PC personified.

On my pet hates list - on a recent show she repeatedly referred to Pearse Street Station, and today she seemed to be even worse than usual with her pronunciation of News as Noos - two more reasons not to like the show.

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S Katie. *cue outrage*

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Did anyone else think that Ciara went overboard today looking for a victim of the foot fans?

I thought she hand the jailing of the sports journalist and rape victims very well. Even the abuse against female celebrities I thought was good for the most part. But today I thought she took the cause a little bit too far

I heard some of the show today and she spoke to some woman, (didn't catch her name), in connection with the Victoria's Secrets incident. I thought her attempt to get this woman to condemn the action of the fans was pathetic. When that failed she tried to get the woman caller to say that she must have had some experience of sexual harassment in the past. The caller, to her credit, said no, nothing that she could recall. Kelly gave up at that point.
Kelly seems to have an agenda and has no time for anyone who doesn't go along with it.

It' hilarious how often people get her name wrong. She's Sheila today, she was Claire the other day.

She was at it again yesterday. Trying to get her guests & callers to back up her belief that FF had been planning this all along. Most presenters would start a program like that by how it all started. Yet I didn't once hear her tell the listeners about lying in the dail or what a disaster she was as Minister for Justice or in fact that it's not the first time her honesty has been brought into question

She nailed her colours firmly to the FG flag yesterday

meeeeh wrote:

In fairness you would assume that listeners of news based radio station don't need a recap. I don't necessarily agree with her opinion but there really wasn't any point rehashing story that was all over the media for days before.

Well there was when she took the stance that FF had orchestrated this out of nowhere.

I get that she has herself own political opinions and agenda but she totally whitewashed the facts. This is over a year in the making. Fitzgerald should have been sacked a year ago. This isn't the first time she's been selective with the truth.

Have a listen back to yesterday's show. Remembering that MaCabe is the victim here not Fitzgerald, Ciara did a terrible job yesterday.

I really thought ciara did a great job on the child grooming, and sexual abuse of women. But since then I'm feeling it's very light weight. Almost like the old magazine Woman's Own, only a radio show version. It's more suited to 2fm in a morning slot to replace Gerry Ryan.

I'm asking myself is her show suitable for a News station? That's not to say that it doesn't have a market but news and current affairs? I don't think so

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Only caught a small segment of the segment on bitcoin this lunchtime but Kelly (as ever) acted as if she knew more than the contributor (from Deloitte), referred to JP Morgan as a person more than once ("he said" etc.) and came across about as clueless as one could possibly come across on this subject, despite the aforementioned implied knowledge.

Anything outside her immediate sphere of interest (medical issues or feminism) she seems to have little to no knowledge of. Makes for painful listening, especially when it's blindingly obvious that she's winging it.

Same issue as when NT shoehorned David McWilliams into the breakfast slot years ago, the man knows a lot about economics, but f*ck all about anything else.

The good doctor has really got her feet under the table now and is never on her own show.

the_pen_turner wrote: »

was anyone listening to that sexist load of horse manure she was on about today. she was on about women(no mention of me) not being able to work due to kids so she had some hippy on that wanted employers to allow mothers(no mention of fathers) to bring their kids to work and that employers need to pay to have safe spaces for the mothers to breast feed and look after the kids.


I wonder would these workers be willing to be paid an appropriate percentage of their collegues wages that represents all the time lost looking after the kids.

It was her stand-in, Andrea Gilligan, who presented the show today.

Amusing moment on the show today when Ciara had a guest on to talk about how to convey your sexual preferences to your partner, without being too blunt about it.
"So should he or she just say it, just spit it out?"

Ouch!

anthonyjmaher wrote:

She stood silently by as George, her old mentor and friend, was vilified and hounded out of his job by the usual liberal bullies that seem to have taken over our media. And for her this is a personal victory. Ciara, I wouldn't go celebrating your ill-gotten gains just yet, because if your first few months are anything to go by, you will be back in the surgery before the end of the year.

Ciara publicly stuck up for George. I heard her being interviewed for ages on Radio One. She most definitely did stick up for him. If you heard the interview she actually puts you in George's shoes and you feel for what he & his family were going through.

I do agree that the show is a mess under her control but I do take exception to anyone claiming that she stood idly by & did nothing. I hear her defend him. Not his words because they were wrong but she definitely stood up for him

Link to interview : http://www.rte.ie/radio1/marian-finucane/programmes/2017/0916/904979-marian-finucane-saturday-16-september-2017/?clipid=102605021

anthonyjmaher wrote:

She only spoke about it when a) George had already been suspended. b) She had already taken over his job. Speaking out at this late stage was a contrived, self serving act and was effectively the same as saying nothing.

That's simply not true.
First off she nor anyone else have come forward defending what George said. He said it was wrong to say it, Pat Kenny, Ciara kelly and everyone else said that he was in the wrong for what he said.

She, Pat Kenny etc came forward to defend his character not what he said.

The interview linked above on previous post she did not have his job at that stage & she went into great detail defending him.

At the end of the day George got himself into hot water. No one else can be blamed for his mistakes. To my knowledge not a single TV or radio personality has defended what George said because it was wrong. I think it very unfair to lay any blame on ciaras shoulders.

Personally I don't think she'll last long on the lunchtime slot. I'd imagine they have lost a ton of listeners. She's too lightweight in that slot imo.

It's a shame that this thread has so many posts taking about her rather than the show or her in the show