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Liveline With Joe Duffy - Mod Note in OP

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  • #30002
    mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭mountain


    RTE love to Lionise one of their own, there was a time when Liveline was a “caller driven show”, in recent years it descended into a parody of itself, with a host full of his own hubris, has he done 2 weeks work/ broadcasting in the past 12 weeks?



  • #30003
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    RTECneed to get back to the stage where the on air staff are there to do they’re job, not that we’re there to fund the lifestyles of the on air staff You don’t really see anyone on BBC radio getting too big for their show and waltzing in and out sheer they feel like it. Here if feels like we should be privileged a presenter has actually come in on any particular day.



  • #30004
    Peter Dragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123585259#Comment_123585259

    She wouldn’t even be an A-Lister in Hollywood Co. Wicklow.



  • #30005
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,911 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123585229#Comment_123585229

    just listening to that clip- the deathly silence, sounds like they’re recording in a morgue with Joe alone



  • #30006
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,276 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0627/1520747-joe-duffy/

    ”"I was president of Trinity students union, I still have the posters. I was president of the USI, I still have the posters, but my face has changed a lot, maybe my intellect isn't as strong as it used to be.”


    There's no maybe about it bud!



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  • #30007
    ShamNNspace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭ShamNNspace


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123585830#Comment_123585830

    His intellect was NEVER too strong, he just hasn't the intellect or self awareness to see this



  • #30008
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,601 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    I didn't get a chance to hear the show or catch up with the thread for three days.

    Is it worth my while doing either over the weekend?



  • #30009
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123585867#Comment_123585867

    It was the first time hearing a Healy Ray impressed in a Dublin accent.



  • #30010
    Peter Dragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123586037#Comment_123586037

    I gave it a few minutes but gave up before I vomited.

    I guess if you’re a fan of deathly silence the June Rogers bit is worth listening back to.

    If you really want to vomit or need to move a large stool though Thursday’s opening with Brendan O’Carroll will aid in either case.

    Post edited by Peter Dragon on


  • #30011
    steinbock123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 843 ✭✭✭steinbock123


    Jeez , Playback this morning having another run at yesterday’s show. It’s actually worse hearing the stuff second time around. Listening to it, I’ve come to the conclusion that’s Joe is not actually fat, it’s actually a swelled head he has from all the unearned praise and fawning platitudes he’s been subjected to this last while.

    Saw his interview on the news last evening- I never saw anyone look as smug as him when he was asked about running for president, plus all the faux modesty of course. It’s hard to watch.



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  • #30012
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Ticktok

    https://www.tiktok.com/@rtenews/video/7520644700588723478



  • #30013
    WishUWereHere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭WishUWereHere


    Sometime in May last year ( 2024 ), Liveline ran a full programme on Prostate problems. As the people were phoning in, I realised their symptoms were a reflection of how my own body was behaving- up to then I was luckily never sick & only saw my GP to get my eyes tested for my driving licence renewal.
    Long story made short, I went to my GP last June & this week I was confirmed as being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
    I am not here looking for sympathy but I would like to thank Joe Duffy & Liveline for opening my eyes. And if I could offer a piece of advice, everyone get a medical every year INCLUDING getting Your blood tested.



  • #30014
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,679 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123586322#Comment_123586322

    Caller, you are not the only one. Charles III was also listening in January 2024 😏, and he was persuaded by Joe's soothing calming tones to venture to the doctor



  • #30015
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,679 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    28th June front pages

    Mirror

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    Irish Times

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    Daily Mail

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    Examiner

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  • #30016
    littlevillage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,885 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123586322#Comment_123586322

    Thanks for sharing. Hope you make a full recovery



  • #30017
    WishUWereHere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭WishUWereHere


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123586541#Comment_123586541

    Thanks Little Village🙏



  • #30018
    Leg End Reject
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 21,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Mod: Please lay off the on the weight comments, that goes well beyond Duffyisms.

    https://forumofgames.com/



  • #30019
    golondrinas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭golondrinas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123584952#Comment_123584952

    worth it to get rid of a 350,000€ a year chancer.



  • #30020
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,317 ✭✭✭bigroad


    Is he going to try and squeeze a pension out of them ,even though he is self employed.



  • #30021
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Genghis


    There'd be no better pension than the Áras pension plan. €249k per year plus whatever he'd get from airbnbing the place in Clontarf.



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  • #30022
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,541 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Apparently Syl Fox joined the knees up in The Duke 👏

    "The former Liveline host, who left his show on Friday after nearly 27 years, was congratulated at the bash in The Duke by a collection of well-known faces and friends.

    Among those at the party were Miriam O’Callaghan, Aonghus McAnally, Brush Shields, Syl Fox, John McColgan, Mike Murphy, Marty Morrisey, Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick, Brenda Donohue, Health Minister Dr Jennifer Carroll MacNeil, Gay Byrne’s daughter Suzy and her daughter Sive, and Charlie Bird’s widow Claire Mould."

    https://m.sundayworld.com/news/ryan-tubridys-new-fiancee-shows-off-sparkler-at-joe-duffys-going-away-party/a696892749.html


  • #30023
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,151 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123586037#Comment_123586037

    Ive not listened for about a fortnight and frankly couldn't be bothered. He very much was just phoning it in for the last number of weeks. Arguably, for longer than that.



  • #30024
    Peter Dragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123587384#Comment_123587384

    The word you were looking for is “years”.



  • #30025
    Peter Dragon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,642 ✭✭✭Peter Dragon


    Not quite sure why the Minister for Health made an appearance tbh but nothing like cementing the relationship between RTE and the Govt I suppose.

    Methinks Ryan is hinting at an heir to the Tubridy throne being imminent too. Truly wonderful news.



  • #30026
    mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,277 ✭✭✭mountain


    Will Duffys replacement be given the same free rein
    that he was, Liveline became the Joe Duffy show years ago, pet subjects of his own, weeks off with random presenters filling in.

    KT seems to be in pole position to replace him, however she is laughably Kerry centric.

    Liveline if it continues needs a complete reset



  • #30027
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,151 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123587563#Comment_123587563

    I read the article and found her appearance very odd, I have to say.

    Will Duffys replacement be given the same free rein
    that he was, Liveline became the Joe Duffy show years ago, pet subjects of his own, weeks off with random presenters filling in.

    KT seems to be in pole position to replace him, however she is laughably Kerry centric.

    Liveline if it continues needs a complete reset

    It needs a full reset and whoever takes over needs to be given full reign.



  • #30028
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Will Joe's new book about chislers getting de clatter be out in time for Christmas? Asking for a friend.

    Post edited by Dublin Calling on


  • #30029
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,545 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123587566#Comment_123587566

    KT would be a disaster…….needs a full overhaul



  • #30030
    Genghis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Genghis


    I might be reaching here, but let's just suppose that Joe dominated everything on Liveline, from its daily agenda, to the editorial lines, to the production ethos, to who gets put through (or who gets called).

    That's not the reach, I think that's likely to be how it is. If so, the show we know today was the Joe show, even while he was on one of his many breakeens, because no one would dare step out of format.

    Maybe - and here is the reach - what we got from KT as stand in was a bad fit with the Joe Show, maybe with no Joe she can make it her own.

    I'm not even sure myself, would KT be a strong enough host to pull the show in a definite direction? But we might see a different Liveline once a new host is appointed.



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  • #30031
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,151 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123587685#Comment_123587685

    A common occurence was at 12:45 Joe would go on with Louise Duffy, and tell her what would be on the show, sometimes including a clip from the day before. Somewhere between 12:45 and 1:45, the entire schedule would be thrown in the bin, and they'd go with a different theme.

    That happens sometimes on like cable news TV programs when there has been some kind of breaking news. The format of Liveline wasn't reporting or commenting on breaking news. So what was happening on a regular basis between 12:45 and 1:45 is ones guess, but I surmise it was effectively either Joe getting a bee in his bonnet about something, or an interesting caller returned one of the calls from the research team.

    Short of real actual breaking news, it's a really unprofessional way to run a radio programme. Whoever takes over needs to go do a short course in radio production and learn these things.



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