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To a degree he is but his self deprecation is likeable as opposed to Foley who thinks he's really, really funny. Quilty is sharper and has more wit than Foley.

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I enjoy the self-deprecation. And how he plays the snippets of people slagging him, albeit in good fun not maliciously.

Ya I was listening to that and as it started I was thinking "how are you gonna dig yourself out of this" but wow he was unbelievable, it was a really great moment of radio, very honest, natural and caring.

Not sure if this URL will work but the both of them spoke very well. Fair play to him

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_QoccFNCAz/

It's up on the Today Fm Insta page, second post there currently. Has gotten a great reaction.

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There were loads of gremlins earlier while I was driving, seemed like Louise is standing in tomorrow evening and was pre-recording her song intros without realizing she was on air. 🫣

It kept cutting in over one song anyway and also took out the sports news.

That's certainly an eclectic mix! Some of the scheduling is a little odd - particularly the early hours of Saturday show "Insomnia" which looks to be a combination of dance music and live phone-in (?) I'm imaging it was 20 mins of raving followed by someone phoning in about their missed bin collection or their child not getting a place in the nearest school, but it can't have been that odd surely?

I like the idea of the 6am weekday classical countdown. I remember "River of Soul" with Karl Tsigdinos but I don't recall him also having the weekday mid-morning slot…a challenging time slot considering Gerry Ryan's dominance on 2FM at the time.

A farming programme on Saturday morning!

It's certainly an interesting lineup, but maybe trying a bit too hard to appeal to too many people. It's a long way from the "Let's play Bruno Mars for the 10th time today" station it is today.

That weekday slot by Karl was a stand-in programme while someone was on holidays. It just happened to be that particular schedule. I don't remember his River of Soul being on Saturdays. I always associated it with Sundays, but I do remember that his showtime was moved around quite a bit before it was shelved altogether. It lasted until 2003. That farming programme with Seamus Duke was on Sunday morning (not Saturday). I notice that in those Radio Ireland days Phil Cawley was known as Philip Cawley!

Edit: Paul Power was not normally on 7 days a week. He was standing in for Philip Boucher Hayes in the weekday lunchtime slot, who was presumably on holidays.

its amazing how recently as a few years ago there were still echos in the Radio Ireland days in Today FM's schedules - the post 7pm non mainstream music shows, the sunday am discussion show, premier league live then Saturday Kicks with Dec Pierce, the last word. All that's left really is the last word and a few - Claire Beck, Block Rockin Beats Ed Smith, the rest being playlisted stuff which is these days slightly geared towards the over 40s. Bland FM.

They haven't fired Claire Beck, she was on on Saturday & Sunday. Kelly Ann Byrne was replaced by Claire Beck, not sure if KAB left or was fired