RTÉ Radio 1 Shakeup 2025

The salary Ray Darcy was getting was obscene.

Moving the 'Today with' Dave McCullagh to 9am is an obvious move and should slow any retuning to NT and Claire Byrne.

However Oliver Callan at 11 is potentially a weakness , especially if there is a big or breaking news story on the day - and big stories are more likely to break in the 11 to 12 time period. Callan is like marmite and its to be seen if he can carry a 2 hour programme.

Kieran Cuddihy is either a masterstroke or potentially a disaster in the liveline slot, however, that he is not immediately replacing Joe Duffy will be to his advantage.

Louise Duffy show will become a shortend 'Ray Darcy' style slot.

Drive time.....NT starts at 4 and that part of the show tends to be filler.....will Drivetime be any different?, 'prime' drive time is the 5 to 6pm slot with the 6 to 6.30pm used for secondary stories , its a strange decision.

Where Nuacht fits in hasn't been confirmed ,its 12noon and in particular the 4pm slot may need to be changed (again).

Louise said it would on her show today.

Patricia moynihan is formerly Newstalk I heard. Is the plan to turn RTE into another woke Newstalk? Going that way with the cuddihy appointment.

Pensioners won't get the time of day on liveline with cuddihy. He'll cut them off quicker than D'Arcy..

It's amazing in broadcasting how you get slated by public and then get offered a new job as a result

Cormac is awful and is much better suited to a magazine show or Newstalk.

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Its too early for a full sports show by about 1/2 hour- 6.30 might be OK but at 6pm people are still in the throws of traffic jams and whatnot

if you excuse the language ‘the bigger the bollox the better you’ll do on Liveline ‘

I predicted from day one that it would be an outsider and so it was.

Agreeing with everyone and the auld ‘ everyone is great’ doesn’t work on Liveline

I wonder if Patricia Monahan will EVER be able to sort out 2FM?

Will our annual licence fee reduce?

Dill on for a few years. But her show was awful. She came across as so smug and self serving.

I think she tried to make a come back with her revelation that she was in a threesome with another woman but that was too much even for the ultra liberals so she has disappeared, id say the same for the threesome

Probably not, but with Darcy defenestrated she would have been the only one on an old style salary.