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Ronan Collins Show

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    #602
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118631815#Comment_118631815

    I thought the same.. Lillian would not be perfect in that slot 😀



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    #603
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Moving Hearts in the Olympia in March! I'm there!



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    #604
    Nevin Parsnipp
    Registered Users Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118599436#Comment_118599436

    Think you was sent orf there with your ar$e in a satchel Benj....just sayin...



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    #605
    deise man
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭deise man


    I always enjoy Ronans hour of music. He comes across as a decent person. He plays a nice mix of music, Cry before dawn played today👌. Has a great knowledge of music. He doesn't need a co presenter to roll around laughing at his jokes, he doesn't try to get people to text in about some stupid subject like what you found down the back of the couch or inflict celebrity gossip on us. He'll be missed when he hangs up his mic!



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    #606
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118649728#Comment_118649728

    Why does Ronan's "retirement" / "hanging up the mic" always come up on boards and in media articles ??? - Ronan is not yet retiring and has been clear about this on-air and in interviews !!



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    #607
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,054 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118652682#Comment_118652682

    Why does anyone retire , what do we do?

    Keep going with the same people till they ‘drop at the desk’ ?

    We do need to keep things fresh, moving on, giving young people a chance.

    Nothing against Ronan personally, but the show has been the same patter, same stuff, same content week after after week.

    No harm in that surely?



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    #608
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    there are enough young presenters on RTE Radio, they are being given a chance



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    #609
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,054 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118653035#Comment_118653035

    Oh….. news to me.

    who has a fixed contract for a show between the core hours 0700- 2300…..

    Nothing personal but surely there comes a time to move on.



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    #610
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Oh lucky day, a double dose of Shay!

    Will they go for the hat trick and ask him to stand in for creedon tonight?



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    #611
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,618 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Is that true, do you get a cheque from the Government when you reach 100 years old?


    :)



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    #612
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118823080#Comment_118823080

    Smug Shay is doing Overtime as it is. His normal day finished at 7 am..



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    #613
    RINO87
    Registered Users Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭RINO87


    Ronan did sound like he had a dose yesterday alright, must have been working from home or he'll have montrosia riddled!



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    #614
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118824030#Comment_118824030

    Ronan has always worked from the RTE studio during Covid



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    #615
    mumo3
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭mumo3


    Where is Ronan? Although I am loving shay, he plays a great upbeat selection for this hour of the day...how long have we got him for?



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    #616
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,054 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118855679#Comment_118855679

    A long time hopefully, at least a bit of life in the show rather than the repetitive ‘patter’.

    Breath of fresh air.



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    #617
    Furze99
    Registered Users Posts: 10,242 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    Inclined to agree, every dog has his day and Ronan's day has passed. Give someone else the gig. This chap not so bad, better than some fella called Neil who appears at weekends and can't seem to say a sentence without a little laugh. OK in small doses but does your head in after a while.



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    #618
    Glaceon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118653035#Comment_118653035

    Agreed. Plenty of them on 2FM. All with generic south Dublin accents that you can barely tell apart from each other. Radio 1 has been dumbed down enough already, it doesn’t need any more of that.



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    #619
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    According to Lillian this morning, the weekend Late Date will be presented by Grainne Brookfield who was reading the news earlier. Whatever the reasons for all the chopping and changing of late, seems they are blooding a few new voices anyway.

    A quick search reveals Grainne was the singer of John Waters' widely panned Eurovision effort a few years back. Hopefully we won't get that on the playlist anyway!



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    #620
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users Posts: 20,487 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    I hope the poster from the Tubridy thread wasn't listening to Shay's advice about the cold weather. It could be the end for their phone.

    "I listened back very very briefly to his riffin segment this morning...he started talking about how dreadful the weather was in D4....hailstones....advised people to just stay in..."the garden will take care of itself"......

    500k a year ......

    I very nearly fùcked my phone against the wall....."



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    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,965 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118860682#Comment_118860682

    He'll be offered a contract after his retirement, if they want to hold onto his figures. The obvious shoe in's for the slot, John Kelly is no spring chicken either while regular stand in, Fiachna, isn't that far off 60 himself. Strong candidates for the show long term aren't obvious.



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    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,618 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Neil Doherty, perhaps?



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    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,054 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118861417#Comment_118861417

    I read somewhere that he said he was quitting after retirement to write books and stuff.

    What was that song about RTE “You can check out any time you want but you can never leave”

    Hotel Montirosia I think it was.



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    #624
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,618 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    KISS!


    :D



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    #625
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,618 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    ‘Walk Like A Panther’ by The All Seeing I and Tony Christie!


    Fantastic record :)



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    #626
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,618 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Dennis Waterman!


    RIP.



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    #627
    amlinopta
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭amlinopta


    Shay Byrne in for Ronan for another full week, despite saying on Friday he was back on Rising Time. Hopefully Ronan is ok.



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    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users Posts: 71,618 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Shay Byrne doing a great job sitting in for Ronan.


    Where is Ronan anyhoo?



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    #629
    amlinopta
    Registered Users Posts: 800 ✭✭✭amlinopta


    Back some time in June, according to a vague RTÉ statement issued on Tuesday. Philby by Rory Gallagher, nice one Shay!



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    #630
    Dipole Keith
    Registered Users Posts: 366 ✭✭Dipole Keith


    Heard Lillian say this morning that she’s on all next week ‘Rising Time’ so I’d imagine it’s another week of Shay filling in for Ronan, Have to say I’m enjoying Shay on the show just hope Ronan is ok.



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    #631
    petronius
    Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭petronius


    I must say I love the music programmes on radio 1 (amidst the news and talk) like Ronan, John Creedon, and Fiachna (late date in general), you can tell they love their music - and a different mix than the banal "current" formulaic music on other channels



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