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

quintana76 wrote: »

Did Dill really have any influence considering that she presented a minor programme on a Saturday night when no one was around. She was actually sacked for refusing to do her job until Hook was fired. Would still be very suspicious of Moncrieff considering his attitude to feminist subjects on his show. There also used to be a thinly discuised antipathy between them when Hook would hand over to Moncrieff after his lunchtime show.

I cant imagine it was Sean, He has been around and is smart enough to know whoever started the letter would be in trouble with Newstalk. George is in pretty good with Dennis O Brien and got Ciara Kelly her gig in Newstalk.

Id imagine it was someone more reactionary, maybe Chris O donoghue or someone who had an eye on another gig and wasnt afraid about losing their job.

UsedToWait wrote: »

Whatever happened to that guy?
Last I heard he was Political Editor or some such, but I don't think I've heard him in a long time?

Got a Job with Simon Coveney.

http://www.thejournal.ie/chris-donoghue-newstalk-3704239-Nov2017/

Conservative wrote: »

I remember a poster here claimed to have inside knowledge that GH wasn't well liked by lower tier staff in NT as he treated them poorly. One of my neighbours runs a restaurant that George frequents and she only has nice things to say about him.

I did a bit of IT work in Newstalk years ago, contracted by another IT company. I didn't deal with George personally, but another one of our team did, and he certainly was every inch the difficult man that you would expect him to be. And particular given that it was IT stuff, where his starting position would be very frustrated.

DickSwiveller wrote: »

Was Sarah McInerney there at the time?

Yup but she wasn't a "long serving" presenter but she would have definitely signed the letter in a heart beat. My Money would have been on Chris or Sean. I wouldn't say Dill was the originator as she's much more of a passive protestor ie complaining from the sidelines, choosing not to do her show and taking cheap shots than actually putting her money where here mouth was so to speak by starting such a letter.

Jesus. Can we have a Godwin's for Newstalk threads, with George and Dil instead of Nazis?

CatFromHue wrote: »

She said her show, starting Monday, would have 8-10 callers from the public on the air each hour........... Jaysuz :eek:

That sounds terrible.

That sounds like Liveline which is why I "moved the dial".
I'm moving to West Awake Radio.

VinLieger wrote: »

Sean of the past maybe, I really did used to enjoy his show but he's become so self important I really cannot stand to listen to him constantly smelling his own farts and then looking for praise from his listeners for being so liberal and opened minded while he at the same time shuts down anything that goes against his own narrative of how he thinks the world should work

The ego and intolerance of differing opinions was always there. It just seems to have escalated recently. It is almost as if he has gone on the defensive. Maybe he is getting too many texts disagreeing with his views and is not taking it well.

southstar wrote: »

Guess you didn't like Hook either.. Just less liberal

I used to listen to hook and ill admit i was forced to change the channel or turn off the radio in frustration many times however i could also enjoy getting angry at him because mostly my problems with him were due to him being an ignorant old fart who doesn't like anything new but is generally willing to listen to people with other opinions even if he disagrees.

Moncrief on the other hand is a self important twat who as I said previously shuts down and ridicules anyone he disagrees with or that goes against his narrative of how the discussion should be progressing.

Tell me how wrote: »

As always, I'm stunned at the level of dislike that is levelled at all presenters.
Pat Kenny seems to be the only one who comes close to having an overall positive representation of followers according to online posts.
Are they all truly hated or is there something about the online community to encourage negative posts much more than positive?

If you were to read boards to form an opinion of media personalities and commentary in Ireland you'd be left with the impression that every show is terrible and nobody watches or listens anymore.

Ivan and Chris were great in the morning, moncrief used to be good but has gotten too used to smelling his own farts, hook was enjoyable to get angry at, wooden pat is an old reliable and inoffensive is probably the best thing you could say about him, Tom Dunne was way better than pat in that mid morning slot in my opinion.

Very often when I jump in my car at lunchtime and start the engine, I get a quick blast of Ciara Kelly before turning off. Again today it was some women VS men nonsense. Does it ever get old? What a damn bore.

DickSwiveller wrote: »

I think the level of dislike displayed in threads like this is justified. I think a lot of people are fed up listening to the same bleeding heart, feminist pc crap that infests the minds of most presenters. Pat Kenny does a decent job of hiding his bias because he is a proper journalist who hasn't mistaken that once great for activism.

Maybe people should vote with their dials and listen to people who don't have infested minds. If there are so many of you, then there should be no problem finding commercially viable alternative.

DickSwiveller wrote: »

I think the level of dislike displayed in threads like this is justified.

Fully justified.

The insurrection in Newstalk V Hook and the overly PC nonsense at the station in general is endemic of social morays now, I think.

Hook, who - unlike others - I always liked, was run out of town by screeching feminists and liberal loons who didnt care to understand the context of what he was talking about and only heard what they wanted to hear - 'George thinks rape is a womans own fault'. That is patently not what he was saying. He was saying, take care of yourself, be careful, there are bad people about.

I think his comments (personal responsibility), while ill-communicated, were not malicous. Hook clearly adores women and does not look down on them or consider them to be 'less able' than men in any way. See his championing of Kelly, his oft mentioned regret at not being a better son to his mother and his placing of Ingrid on a pedestal.

I think the situation that led to his firing is relevant in the context of the media storm and protests concerning the recent Belfast rape trial.

Seems to me the jury ultimately decided that the woman was not raped, but rather put herself in a horrible situation which she later regretted. e.g. she had to take responsibility for her actions - it was a seedy, sordid affair, but it wasnt rape.

I release I may get hammered for this. Society is getting increasingly shrill on all these issues.

DickSwiveller wrote: »

I'm making the point that when it comes to presenters' opinions on various topics, there is always a groupthink consensus as to what the correct opinion is to hold. Take the Paddy Jackson trial. From what I heard you would swear the accused' had been found guilty such was the one-sided nature of the discussions. This turns a lot of people off. That doesn't mean that I don't enjoy listening to the radio. Many presenters are engaging and interesting, and being a current affairs junkie I wouldn't be able to go a day without listening.

Which is fair enough but if so many people are turned off certain type of presenter surely commercial radio stations would tap in to that cohort. Or maybe it's just a particular type of listener that shouts about feminazis every time they hear woman on radio and are actually not enough of them to produce radio targeted at them.