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Regrettably, as I really like the fella, I have to admit with above posts re Dave's show. It just doesn't work. He is a positive guy, but the constant waxing lyrical about Sabrina Carpenter and co has just tipped the balance for me.

Seems to be done rarely now and it's usually someone either semi famous for something they've done or are about to do, not just Karen from Tipp.

I bet he still referred to them as "legends" though.

Ray Foley has more or less referenced the fact that it’s a pre-populated playlist these days. Now he still has a bit of freedom to play clips of songs and throw requests out to people etc, but nowhere near the same licence as he — and the likes of Tony Fenton and Ray Darcy — had back in the day.

I filled in that questionnaire too. I used to be a diehard and have become a real casual fan lately. When asked about the shows I like I double checked the website to remind myself of the full line up. Dear god it is soo stale and uninspired.

Ian Dempsey is coming on 20 years at the breakfast slot.

Dave (& Dermot) are coming up on 8 years.

Foley & JP have been on the books for a long long time.

Matt Cooper has been manning TLW since 2002!!!!!

Ian Dempsey is there longer than that, I say it's closer to 30 than 20.

I am pretty sure that Ian Dempsey is the longest continuous breakfast presenter (allowing for holidays of course) for a single Irish station among all the current breakfast presenters across Ireland. It is also quite likely that he could be the longest continuous breakfast presenter ever for a single Irish station.

David Cawley on Mid West Radio in Mayo has been presenting the Mon to Fri breakfast show solo since 1998, I think October 1998.

Ian has been on Today FM breakfast since Sept 1998.

Himself and Ian are probably only a handful of solo breakfast presenters in Ireland today

Nosferatu is a vampire. Or is 100+ years still a spoiler?

I'm sorry but Ian Guider has not got a voice for radio, I have to switch off every time he fills in for Matt.

His voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me, as well as the fact he can't pronounce his TH's.

I don't mind Ian Guider's voice at all. I always liked his business reports, going back to when he was the main business presenter in the morning on Newstalk. It is good that he is able to stand in and present The Last Word, rather than just covering the business news. Matt Cooper started off as a newspaper business journalist if I am not mistaken.

He must be in a bad mood as normally even the most mundane person is an "'absolute legend'.

Can’t find a thread for The Last Word so posting this here:

Roe McDermott discussing her favourite films of the year, firstly picks a film from 2023 and was questioned on that by both Matt and the other contributor but just ploughed ahead with it regardless.

Every film on her list was soooooooo beautiful and sooooooo gorgeous, there was her obligatory reference to “the patriarchy”, and of course Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal were robbed by not getting nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes. My only surprise was that she didn’t criticise the makers of that particular film for casting a straight actor in a gay role - but it’s funny how her criticisms change when the story is closer to home (in this case obviously because it was a film with Irish involvement and obviously everything Irish is amazing).

When she spoke of one film, she commented that she was stuck to her seat for 10 minutes after the film ended such was the impact it had on her. Sure you were Roe. 🙄

Maybe she has a cold at the moment or was feeling under the weather but her voice appeared to be cracking as she spoke and at one stage I honestly found myself wondering is she going to start crying here with all this gushing over how beautiful and gorgeous everything is?

Her film takes are slightly better from an intellectual standpoint than Ryan Tubridy’s, but we are coming from a low base.

I’d love to know what Matt really thinks about her?