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RTE LiveLine

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  • #1802
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Annette Egan produced. At the rate Sarah covers different topics the LiveLine staff will be taking WRC cases for over work.



  • #1803
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,300 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    So we’ve had KT, PUBH, Colm and now Sarah. Was there another applicant? I can’t remember or is Sarah the last?



  • #1804
    mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭mountain


    that lad Tubridy might be making a last minute run at it….



  • #1805
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123698633#Comment_123698633

    If RTE got the summer out of him, it would have gone a decent long way towards paying off the taxpayer's few bob.



  • #1806
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,493 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Didn't hear all of it today, but was interested to see how Sarah McN would do. I thought it was a bit of an odd fit at times, she was caught on the hop when people kept talking sometimes and the like.

    I'll say this though she's nowhere near as boring as Colm or KH. So she's immediately far better than either of those - I'll just stop listening to LL altogether if one of them gets the gig.

    I don't think PBH is awful, he's far, far better than the other two, but I think he's better suited to something like what Claire Bryne does. Which is to say he's better than CB at it. So is Colm for that matter.



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  • #1807
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,300 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    I see the fifth presenter will be Cormac O’Headhra. I haven’t listened to the event show himself and Sarah do but from the ads he sounds like the comedy while she’s the serious journalist. Maybe I have it wrong. It’ll be interesting to see how he does. I presume he’ll take over grin Sarah Monday fortnight.



  • #1808
    Expunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,241 ✭✭✭Expunge


    I had a listen to the top of the show yesterday. Sarah tried a bit of call generation on a specific topic (Marriage breakdown with no money for people to move out of the family home etc.) It's a good idea in principle - LBC do it mostly every hour.

    The problem with it is you've really got to stick to the topic for the hour or whatever to generate a flow of callers with different ideas. They (LBC) mostly start the hour with an expert for a bit of context and then over to the callers.

    Unfortunately after setting it up she went to some former drug addict on something else. That's where I lost interest and turned it off.

    I'm guessing such an approach will be a bit of a culture shock to the production people after years of Duffy jumping hither and yon on pet interests.

    All that said, she sounded to me like the outstanding candidate for the gig, so far.



  • #1809
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,300 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    Unfortunately LL is a show where no experts are brought in. It could be something Sarah could do to make her mark on the show if she gets it. It sure beats an OAP who did nap evening course in a subject then calling in as the resident expert which is what we got in Joe’s day. I think she got a poor selection of items if yesterday’s show was what the team came up with. She did really well given a book promo by a recovered junkie, a know it all road knob and, bar the seagull I forget after that because the subjects were all so boring. That’s not her fault. If anything she has shown that the production team need a serious refresh along with the front of house.



  • #1810
    mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭mountain


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123700285#Comment_123700285

    a few very relevant points there,

    Regardless of the presenter it’s the topics and callers who make the show, proper public interest relevant topics, with callers are effected by them. The producers also have a responsibility to put on a good show



  • #1811
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123700285#Comment_123700285

    Minister for Health was on earlier this year! https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22505702/ and don't forget on-call expert John in Cark



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  • #1812
    bcklschaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭bcklschaps


    Ministers will only go on the TV/Radio if their spin doctors have already vetted and prepared answers to the questions. They could not risk being blind sided by the great unwashed.

    Witness Simon Harris and that lady in the supermarket while he was out electioneering. 😁

    That was very nearly career ending



  • #1813
    squonk
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,300 Mod ✭✭✭✭squonk


    You can be damn sure Jennifer Carroll-McNeill will be the last minister to go on Liveline if Sarah gets the chair.



  • #1814
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Did anyone catch the promo?

    Will any of the 60k pensioners who got a Class 1 Compliance Intervention letter from the Tax Man be on air?



  • #1815
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,102 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123700847#Comment_123700847

    what's this ?



  • #1816
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    and we are off..



  • #1817
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    live line @ rte dot ie

    They got rid of joe @ rte dot ie 😯



  • #1818
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Plug for Zara fashion



  • #1819
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Women's Hour



  • #1820
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Miss Ireland 1985 is really annoyed



  • #1821
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,102 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    Untitled Image

    ….



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  • #1822
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    Ed Sheeran! Sarah, auld lads like me who listen to da LiveLine have no interest in him showing up in places.



  • #1823
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "a triggering conversation"



  • #1824
    Dublin Calling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 873 ✭✭✭Dublin Calling


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123700925#Comment_123700925

    It was covered on the Wireless this morning. The Revenue have written out to 60 thousand OAPs who in 2022 received both the State and private pensions and do not have their tax affairs in order.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0806/1527173-revenue-writes-to-70-000-pensioners-over-incorrect-tax/


  • #1825
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Who has been sending Sarah videos?



  • #1826
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,102 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    is there not a massive amount of people taking diabetes drugs for weight loss ?



  • #1827
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,558 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Newsagents used algorithms back in the day, they wouldn't be placing Loaded Magazine next to Ireland's Own.



  • #1828
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "thank you very much for talking to us this evening this afternoon rather" 😃



  • #1829
    dvcireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,226 ✭✭✭✭dvcireland


    how much are RTE making out of these UNICEF ads during Liveline



  • #1830
    zell12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,748 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    "Elizabeth what can you tell us". So demanding!



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  • #1831
    2smiggy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,102 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    Christ, has the back to school moaning started already. Earlier and earlier every year



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