The Claire Byrne Show - Newstalk

ordinary is all I expect from my morning radio shows. I’m happy.

As mentioned above though, the podcast is annoying with the random ads thrown in and the volume goes down for the first minute or so and then shoots up. That’s a problem I’m having across all newstalk podcasts.

It is endless, every day there is a misery slot, mainly on Andrea Gilligan’s but it’s there and its like they are all competing against liveline constantly - I want current affairs, not hearing about illness and death. It’s not what I want. And I never said censor, I just don’t want to hear it every day.

And this government and the previous one is the same main parties and before that FG, has our health service got worse? Yep, stop voting for the same idiots, they clearly can’t put it right. You think a moan fest on newstalk is going to change government policy? You probably believe in santy.

Easy way to have more nurses/doctors/physios etc, is make every person who does a medical/health related degree in Ireland stay in the system for 2 years. Just 2 years and then they can feck off to Dubai for the big bucks. Can you imagine how many more staff we would have in the system, thousands in ancillary health workers (OT, physio, podiatry, etc) - easy to do but political suicide. So Irish people have to listen about suicide etc while the government do nothing.

I am ranting about the same thing. I’ll take the What’s Your Favourite Humming Noise topics anytime over the Very Important Morality Sermons. Newstalk must be deliberately after a certain demographic of pearl clutching misery gluttons

I didnt listen to her on RTE.

Has she brought the same regular contributors with her she had on that station.

I wouldnt be able to stick a show that has Conor Pope as a regular so I have been trying out the competition here and there last few days and nothing jumps out at me.

To be honest today was my first time listening. No Conor Pope. She did have Ian Dempsey though.

Yeah………..The Pat Kenny Show.

Claire: You just want to awareness that burglaries happen.

News Flash. Burglaries happen.

And for fex sake, people, please stop keeping (sizeable amounts of) cash at home. If you do keep a large amount, put it somewhere your average scobe is not going to look.

Denzel Washington put his cash in a bag in the freezer marked Veal

the last segment on the show today was a chat about wearing the colour red, what shade of red, how many shades are there, what to wear it with, full red or a pop of red, a red lip or not!?? Complete bland inane girley chat. Not the kind of radio I want to tune into.

Could never warm to Claire Byne after her tone of voice when she ambushed a British politician in the way she did about 4 years ago. Farage trusted an Irish person and was tricked some time previously, as part of a light hearted Brithday greeting, in to saying Up the Ra as requested by the Irish person.

Claire Byrne confronted him some time later on live TV which was supposed to be about something else and said, in a very ugly tone of voice, : “Don’t try and lecture the Irish people about the history, culture and precarious nature of peace on this island. You haven’t got a clue.”

Easy for her to put in the knife and twist it to a British politician. As part of the RTE golden circle for so long, never saw her put the knife in to "one of our own" (to borrow a phrase she often uses) like that. Could not care less what she will do in Newstalk because as long as boring Caire Byrne is on it, people will move the dial.

The caller (expert?) also said red has the shortest wavelength. That is incorrect. Blue has the shortest wavelength. That is the reason the sky is blue.

Can you imagine the chat the producer would have with Pat?

Producer: So after the news at 10am you will talk to Julia about how and where to wear the colour red.

Pat: You are joking right?

Particularly strange given the saddos in the Irish media who spend half their working week lecturing on Britain and America. Most of their tweets and comments aren't about Ireland.

Lol the fact you still have a chip on your shoulder about this is pathetic.

She was making the entirely correct point he didnt have a clue about Ireland or Northern Ireland during a time when he was constantly spouting on about what needs to happen with NI as far as a hard border goes to achieve a "hard brexit", even the most loosely knowledgeable person on NI should know what "up the ra" means. Anyone associated with british politics as he has been for the past 30-40 years absolutely should know what it means, the fact he didnt shows how much of a spoofer he is and always has been.

I've tried to listen a few times over the last couple of weeks and I just can't warm to it. It's like Liveline Lite and isn't differentiated enough from the Lunchtime Show that's on afterwards.

RTE and Newstalk have become hours and hours of light magazine topics - endless sound bites with very little in depth discussion of anything.

Add to this the fact that the 6 pm news on RTE has been replaced by sport - at a time when many routinely would switch on for news -

What is being served up is just wall to wall - mush.