Liveline With Joe Duffy - Mod Note in OP

Archduke Franz Ferdinand · 08-05-2025 06:49PM

he’s no loss… he was rude and obnoxious to people he didn’t agree with and was highly paid to do so. He frequently used the airtime to peddle non sensical topics of no interest to anyone only himself and he was intolerant of many people with opposing points of views to his.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand · 08-05-2025 06:51PM

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god… Kay tee is just too bland and flipping boring.

Atlantic Dawn · 08-05-2025 07:19PM

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Please not Jennifer Z, it would turn out like an agony aunt section of the Sunday World.

squonk · 08-05-2025 07:34PM

Liveline is OAP radio now. After Joe departs it needs to be seriously revamped with a young presenter with ambition and ability who isn’t afraid to tackle the tougher issues of the day, not necessarily the big news items but this relevant to a younger audience and one with young families. None of this will happen though and Katie or Colm will take over the hotseat and it’ll be business as usual. My money is on Katie getting the gig.

hawley · 08-05-2025 07:42PM

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I rarely listened to Liveline. The last episode I listened to was about the goat at the Killorglin Puck Fair. He shouted down anyone who disagreed with him and tried to bully them into submission. He seemed to be a lot more arrogant than he was in previous years. I wasn't a regular listener, so could be wrong about him being more arrogant.

Brendan Bendar · 08-05-2025 07:56PM

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Katie getting the gig would sign the death knell for the prog.

Tork · 08-05-2025 07:58PM

I hope this isn't a way to bring Ryan Tubridy back

BP_RS3813 · 08-05-2025 08:14PM

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Ok I may be a boring monotone invidual who has never smoked, done drugs, gambled and very rarely drinks but christ I hadn't realised you can bet on literally everything nowadays. I thought it was limited to the horses/football.

archfi · 08-05-2025 08:18PM

Finally farewell to the laughable Liveline telephonist.

It'll be KT for the hotseat and for all his faults (and there were many, many, many faults) that's a fate worse than him continuing.

Anyhow, the show hasn't been a shadow of itself in ages (I don't fully blame Duffy for that, he was most certainly castrated by RTE after he dared try to be fair during the infamous trans phone-in a few years ago) with mere sprinkles of GOLD amongst vats of self-interested tripe, hugely boring subjects, a litany of free advertising to his mates and virtually no current national topics.

So long to the highest paid 'star' on RTE, lol.

ford fiesta · 08-05-2025 08:37PM

I wonder will the replacement be an existing RTE staffer who is not an overpaid contractor ???? Bakhurst should keep his promises on saving RTE money.

leath_dub · 08-05-2025 08:41PM

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It will be interesting if Noel Kelly manages to drop one of his Muppets into the gig.

It will show how much RTE have moved on from the bad old days

littlevillage · 08-05-2025 08:43PM

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Joe must be spitiling that the new pope was annouced this evening.... completely eclipsing his retirement wankathon tomorrow

avfc1874 · 08-05-2025 08:44PM

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I'd give it to Darcy for the comedy value 😁

Every person with any problems would be asked have you tried porridge and running and tutted and talked down to if they ever admitted touching the nasty demon drink

mountain · 08-05-2025 08:45PM

just listened to him reading out his own statement…

He’s a smug ….

zell12 · 08-05-2025 08:47PM

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I know! the cheek of those cardinals, stealing our Joe's headlines. They could;ve delayed it until the weekend

Jeff2 · 08-05-2025 09:10PM

Ray seemed to somewhat confirm what people in this thread post every so often about Joe eating while the show is on.

He said "Joe goes to the canteen to fill up his flask and if he passes you he takes a kitkat or something out of his pocket and throws it to you".

Demonique · 08-05-2025 09:21PM

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Was it Mario Rosenstock who had a character called Buzzkill Darcy?

Burt Renaults · 08-05-2025 10:01PM

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Same, tbh. In the last few years though, he's developed so many weird verbal tics that I don't think he's really suitable for live radio any more. The "so to speak" one is something that a good producer would have beaten out of him years ago. It's been going on for at least ten years now. The fact that nobody has told him to stamp it out is quite bizarre.

zell12 · 08-05-2025 10:05PM

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I knew it! chomping and munching away whilst demanding to know more about the pain

bureau2009 · 08-05-2025 10:14PM

How about this - wipe the Radio 1 daytime schedule clean following Morning Ireland and START AFRESH.

Bye bye Oliver, Claire, Joe and Ray. There's much more compelling presenters out there willingly to work for considerably less money.

And more talented producers able to make more interesting radio.

Expunge · 09-05-2025 02:20AM

All this will have to wait as Pope Leo XIV has, in recent past, visited his Augustinian confreres in Ireland.

Surely the Irish links to the new pontiff must be explored by Joe and Father Iggy (another great and verbose Augustinian) in coming programmes.

The RTE self congratulatory stuff might have to be put on ice for a while.

BPKS · 09-05-2025 07:32AM

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To be fair to Joe, on the topic of Puck Fair he had every right to bully and shout down all the callers who disagreed with him, given that Joe comes from an agricultural background.

zell12 · 09-05-2025 08:10AM

Joe must be seething, some obscure yank stole his thunder!

dxhound2005 · 09-05-2025 08:52AM

Pope Bob. And on that theme, Saint Bob (Geldof) would make a good replacement for Joe.

fonecrusher1 · 09-05-2025 09:16AM

Good riddance to him.

Grossly overpaid talentless whinger who'd never have earned anywhere near what he sponged off the irish tax payer (RTE) over the last few decades working in the same industry in any other country.

LambshankRedemption · 09-05-2025 09:34AM

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I would not be in favour of that but what I would say is they really need to spend some money on a decent producer. Stuff like 3 ad breaks in the final 5 minutes would never happen on any partly professionally produced show. Im sure eating at the desk would also not happen. Particularly during 75 minutes. How many times has there been a complete mess of a programme only to be told at the end "Producer Brenda O'Donoghue".

A competent producer will tell the host "Despite you earning more than me, and being more famous than me, for the duration of the programme, I am your boss so you do as I say". I don't think that ever happened with Liveline.