Breakfast Republic on 2fm thread

its_steve116 · 02-05-2019 03:02PM

Ruraldweller56 wrote: »

God forgive me for saying it but you'd nearly miss Hector in the morning.

No, I would never miss him in the morning. He is an absolute pillock, rahoo rahoo rahoo. I've never understood his popularity.

Butterface · 02-05-2019 04:22PM

Delighted it's been scrapped.

At work we have a group Skype chat in the mornings to discuss how bad its gotten. We started early enough during Jen's maternity leave.. mainly to give out about Keith and Lottie.

Recently I would only tune in one or two mornings a week for about an hour.

Not sure how McDermott will gel with Doireann Garrihy.. don't know much about her so I presume she has some appeal?!

sitkaspruce · 02-05-2019 04:50PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The word legend is thrown around too easy theses days..What makes a person a legend?

You can ask anyone in the radio industry. Andy Mac guarantees you listeners. Who the f__k are you to say he is not a legend. He is all of the below and MORE.

Lively
Entertaining
Great music knowledge
Easy on the ear
Never off topic
Dedicated

kazamo · 02-05-2019 05:13PM

Butterface wrote: »

Delighted it's been scrapped.

At work we have a group Skype chat in the mornings to discuss how bad its gotten. We started early enough during Jen's maternity leave.. mainly to give out about Keith and Lottie.

Recently I would only tune in one or two mornings a week for about an hour.

Not sure how McDermott will gel with Doireann Garrihy.. don't know much about her so I presume she has some appeal?!

At work, you have a daily group Skype chat to discuss a radio show :eek::eek::eek:

DopeTech · 02-05-2019 05:23PM

Butterface wrote: »

Delighted it's been scrapped.

At work we have a group Skype chat in the mornings to discuss how bad its gotten. We started early enough during Jen's maternity leave.. mainly to give out about Keith and Lottie.

Recently I would only tune in one or two mornings a week for about an hour.

Not sure how McDermott will gel with Doireann Garrihy.. don't know much about her so I presume she has some appeal?!

She's not great on radio but they know each other from here as road watch days. It'll be dull.

Do none of the workers have access to the radio to change station?

iseegirls · 02-05-2019 06:32PM

sitkaspruce wrote: »

You can ask anyone in the radio industry. Andy Mac guarantees you listeners. Who the f__k are you to say he is not a legend. He is all of the below and MORE.

Lively
Entertaining
Great music knowledge
Easy on the ear
Never off topic
Dedicated

For 3 hours a day for over 15 or so years, he's played the same music again and again - no thanks to beats playlist. He has no control of any songs outside of that playlist. Unsure if he's entertaining - he says the same amount of words than a DJ in a nightclub. Here's the 6 in the mix, here's the news, here's the traffic, repeat on loop.
Dedicated?? In what way? He's been lucky to have stayed in the job for this long in what is supposed to be a youth station.

sitkaspruce · 02-05-2019 07:24PM

iseegirls wrote: »

For 3 hours a day for over 15 or so years, he's played the same music again and again - no thanks to beats playlist. He has no control of any songs outside of that playlist. Unsure if he's entertaining - he says the same amount of words than a DJ in a nightclub. Here's the 6 in the mix, here's the news, here's the traffic, repeat on loop.
Dedicated?? In what way? He's been lucky to have stayed in the job for this long in what is supposed to be a youth station.

15 years. One station. Theres dedication for you....

You can be sure he had offers from your big stations like RTE / Today FM / BBC but he chose to stay local. If you want to be entertained switch to WLRFM on the lunchtime show where hes filling in doing the lunchtime show.

threein99 · 03-05-2019 09:31AM

iseegirls wrote: »

For 3 hours a day for over 15 or so years, he's played the same music again and again - no thanks to beats playlist. He has no control of any songs outside of that playlist. Unsure if he's entertaining - he says the same amount of words than a DJ in a nightclub. Here's the 6 in the mix, here's the news, here's the traffic, repeat on loop.
Dedicated?? In what way? He's been lucky to have stayed in the job for this long in what is supposed to be a youth station.

Do Beat still do that 6 in the mix ?

Wanderer2010 · 03-05-2019 03:29PM

threein99 wrote: »

Do Beat still do that 6 in the mix ?

Yes and BEAT is long dead now because of Niall Power and his utterly boring and repetitive breakfast show garbage plus he has total control over what songs are played so he usually plays the same 3 or 4 songs every hour on the hour until you don't even know other songs exist!

Back in the day with Mary O Neill, the breakfast show used to be quite funny when they were in their 20s and the issues were relevant. Now Mary has moved on to better things in WLRFM whilst Niall and Vinnie are still acting like giddy teenagers when they are both middle aged men, they are to be pitied at this stage.

threein99 · 03-05-2019 05:48PM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Yes and BEAT is long dead now because of Niall Power and his utterly boring and repetitive breakfast show garbage plus he has total control over what songs are played so he usually plays the same 3 or 4 songs every hour on the hour until you don't even know other songs exist!

Back in the day with Mary O Neill, the breakfast show used to be quite funny when they were in their 20s and the issues were relevant. Now Mary has moved on to better things in WLRFM whilst Niall and Vinnie are still acting like giddy teenagers when they are both middle aged men, they are to be pitied at this stage.

It's probably 2006 since I last heard that station, can't believe the six in the mix still exists

03-05-2019 09:27PM

sitkaspruce wrote: »

You can ask anyone in the radio industry. Andy Mac guarantees you listeners. Who the f__k are you to say he is not a legend. He is all of the below and MORE.

Lively
Entertaining
Great music knowledge
Easy on the ear
Never off topic
Dedicated

If you read the post again,you will see I didnt say the presenter wasnt a legend..I asked what makes a person a legend..I didnt mention the name of the presenter at all.If you werent in such a hurry to defend your favourite presenter,you would have seen that.So maybe in future before you ask a person who the f**k they are to have an opinion,you understand the post you are answering!Thats all...

L1011 · 03-05-2019 09:50PM

kazamo wrote: »

At work, you have a daily group Skype chat to discuss a radio show :eek::eek::eek:

Do you realise how boring the kind of office environments that have Skype usually are?

03-05-2019 10:49PM

Butterface wrote: »

Delighted it's been scrapped.

At work we have a group Skype chat in the mornings to discuss how bad its gotten. We started early enough during Jen's maternity leave.. mainly to give out about Keith and Lottie.

Recently I would only tune in one or two mornings a week for about an hour.

Not sure how McDermott will gel with Doireann Garrihy.. don't know much about her so I presume she has some appeal?!

Would that office be in 2FM by any chance?ðŸ˜ðŸ˜

California Dreamer · 04-05-2019 12:31AM

threein99 wrote: »

It's probably 2006 since I last heard that station, can't believe the six in the mix still exists

You mean like 10 spin hits or 5 hits in a row!?!!?

threein99 · 04-05-2019 08:04AM

California Dreamer wrote: »

You mean like 10 spin hits or 5 hits in a row!?!!?

Eh?

California Dreamer · 04-05-2019 10:08AM

threein99 wrote: »

Eh?

Every station has a strapline. 6 in the mix has been around as long as any of the others!

sitkaspruce · 05-05-2019 11:19AM

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Yes and BEAT is long dead now because of Niall Power and his utterly boring and repetitive breakfast show garbage plus he has total control over what songs are played so he usually plays the same 3 or 4 songs every hour on the hour until you don't even know other songs exist!

Back in the day with Mary O Neill, the breakfast show used to be quite funny when they were in their 20s and the issues were relevant. Now Mary has moved on to better things in WLRFM whilst Niall and Vinnie are still acting like giddy teenagers when they are both middle aged men, they are to be pitied at this stage.

Niall Power and the gang are awful. Absolute trash. They seem to be unmoveable from the breakfast slot.

I used enjoy bernard Keith and jen in the morning before going back to beat for the drive time show. When Lottie came on board it just went downhill fast.

The thoughts of Eoin MacDermott and his "I love you bye" at the end of each call when sitting in traffic on a Tuesday morning just doesn't sound appealing to me.

threein99 · 06-05-2019 09:30AM

California Dreamer wrote: »

Every station has a strapline. 6 in the mix has been around as long as any of the others!

It's garbage whatever name you put on it.

sitkaspruce · 06-05-2019 12:30PM

So does this mean Breakfast Republic is now finished? Who will be in on Tuesday?

castle2012 · 09-05-2019 09:20AM

Just listening in. Last day today. There doing Friday stuff. Have to say it is not the same with the other 2 gone. It's prob for the best they axe it. But the trouble is there is worse to come now in the mornings. I can't stand eoghan mc dermot. He just loves talking about himself. I definitely will be re-tuning the radio

castle2012 · 09-05-2019 09:20AM

Just listening in. Last day today. There doing Friday stuff. Have to say it is not the same with the other 2 gone. It's prob for the best they axe it. But the trouble is there is worse to come now in the mornings. I can't stand eoghan mc dermot. He just loves talking about himself. I definitely will be re-tuning the radio

DopeTech · 11-05-2019 07:01PM

sitkaspruce wrote: »

So does this mean Breakfast Republic is now finished? Who will be in on Tuesday?

Some fill in like afric probably.

its_steve116 · 12-05-2019 06:47PM

Sir Dosser wrote: »

Some fill in like afric probably.

Or Stephen Byrne.

iseegirls · 12-05-2019 07:37PM

Aifric and Carl Mullan were presenting Friday's show, and will probably continue until Eoghan takes over.

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