The Pat Kenny Show

Same here. I had to switch to RTE's breakfast show as I couldn't take Ciara Kelly (me,me,me) any longer. Now Claire Byrne, the epitome of blandness, low brow, safe, uncontroversial. I'm female by the way before anyone throws it at me that I'm a mysogynist. As another poster said, non stop tabloid on Newstalk.

(I like Shane though and Sean Moncrieff and the science and history programmes.)

Sad to see him leave weekday slot.Very little options now and no interest in tuning into Claire Byrne.

Have to remember Anton is full-time with the Communications Clinic. Wonder will he just focus on that and then pop up for cover from time-to-time.

Bizarre decision by Bauer to hire Claire Byrne - she won't bring listeners with her- those that listened to that slot will listen to RTE no matter what. Inertia. It's a mistake by them.

Still, one less ridiculous wage off the licence fee-payers hands and certainly an improvement of a presenter with David McCullagh.

Hopefully he brings it back to the show it was with Sean O'Rourke and Pat before him.

Also with Pat moving to the weekend it's a great improvement on bland, compromised friend of politicians, Anton and will be good competition for another of RTE's overpaid, talent-less presenters - Brendan O'Connor. How he ever got that gig is beyond me. He's dreadful.

I used to like BOC both as a journalist and a presenter. He does the 1-2-1 interviews very well still.

However he is terrified of his own shadow, he cuts off good interviews to cover his backside , the amount of times he says " in fairness so and so isn't there to defend themselves" drives me mad. He has the producer in his ear all the time or else he has been in trouble before and got sued maybe? Either way it makes for very disjointed, tiresome and frustrating listening. Pat Kenny never does this.

Any chance Andrea Gilligan would hang up the microphone?
shes some dose.

You would imagine that Newstalk will shake up their broadcast schedule, Ciara Kelly and Johnatan Healy could do with being replaced, two lightweights and very poor performers.

Not a huge fan of Claire Byrne but she is a good journalist and interviewer.

You’d imagine Pat will be missing as often as BO’C and this is part of his winding down so a year or two maximum before he retires completely. It’s probably more of a thank you from Bauer than a serious schedule assault on weekend mornings

I do admit I would have thought Newstalk would have gone for someone like Mary Wilson, who is due to retire later this year.

Reading the various radio threads would lead one to believe that most of us who listen to radio are oddballs.

God, just listening to Pat discussing that accident in Lisbon and the informed questions and breadth of knowledge he brought to it. The thoughts of you know who discussing same. I know Pat is an engineer but is she interested in anything? I doubt she even reads.

Pat is being a bit of a pr1ck to that hotel owner.

Maybe it's cos the hotel.owner said "there is dynamic pricing when it comes to radio advertising".

Dynamic pricing and cancellation of existing bookings are totally different things so I would agree with Pat taking him up on that