The Claire Byrne Show - Newstalk

ah the reminiscing - dinner party stuff surely!

And started by Anton Savage in his chat with Claire Byrne on the breakfast show

Obviously someone in Newstalk deemed it the hot topic of the day

Says it all, really

They even let gals join nowadays 😊

Stunning and brave.

This is something close to my heart. I was in the reserve for 10 years and watched as it was systematically downsized and under funded.

Lets talk about the navy for a minute. Let's say you are 21 and thinking of joining the navy. The days when a 21 year old slung their duffle bag over their shoulder "Im off to join the navy", are gone. By 21 or even 18, most kids have a 41" inch tv, a laptop, a tablet and an Xbox. Where do they put those things when they are sent to sea for 4 months. They used to be able to leave them in the billet in Cork but the government sold off those buildings to developers, so now Able Seaman Walsh is house sharing in Cork, and hoping his stuff does not get robbed when he's at sea. All for 37k a year. Flipping burgers in McDonalds suddenly looks attractive as a career path.

Claire Byrne, the fella from OTB and the guy from DCU and the discussion on the Spurs keeper is worth a listen back just to see how low the bar has fallen

And I'm not talking about how sh1t Spurs or the keeper are

She had Joanne McNally on yesterday and I had to turn off. She has Vogue Williams on now turned off again.

She was crying again about some poor millionaire footballer being taken off after making 2 calamitous mistakes. Yhe poor lad, what will it do for his mental health, she left like hugging him

The whole show is a bit like Loose Women on radio. I gave it a month or whatever but its just annoying me at this stage. Have to find something else to listen to in the morning

I know you were asking someone else. But its kinda like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ3YC7vzTBs

”Healy Alert”

In terms of Claire Byrne’s radio show and my listening times, I only listen to Claire, in the evening for an hour and a half on podcast while at the gym as this is the only window I get to do it. At the moment I am veering between two new hosts – Claire Byrne and David McCullough. Claire Byrne had two very good medical guests last  week. 11 March the first was an Oncology doctor, a cancer doctor, holding a conference in Dublins Convention Centre, on how artificial intelligence is changing how cancer is picked up and detected. Michael Reff is the name of the doctor, an American doctor from oncology organization N-Coda. Eoin Tabb, also spoke from Ireland. America are the leaders globally in medicine, and, to have guests, lead and contribute like this, is wonderful to listen to. 

March 10 podcast on Claire Byrne, outlined how new research in America has found a way to plant ideas in dreams, resulting in a boost of creativity for the person, when they wake. Claire spoke to the Senior Author of the study, Ken Paller, the James Padilla Professor of Psychology, at Northwestern University in Illinois. In their tests, they used puzzles to see if the human mind can solve those puzzles during sleep. He also said, memory processing is done during slow wave sleep and noted it is probably not impossible but very unlikely to change someones mind on something they hold verry strongly consciously.,Ultimatley, subconscious suggestion through physical means is very real and done every day on the internet. Both of these guest were extremely articulate and educated me enormously in the short time they were on. Claire’s research and questions helped the process hugely also.        

But what I suppose my difficulty has been with Claire is that her market is tailored toward young women, mothers and families. My issue is that I feel as if this has been slightly imbalanced towards topics that don’t really appeal to people who want to focus on things outside of the home. And I understand how ignorant and offensive that might sound to some people, and sound very mysogonistic and sexist, but nothing can be further from the truth, I am pro womens rights, womens reproductive rights, womens work rights and womens financial independence rights. I have been recently surrounded by some women even throwing themselves at their bosses feet metaphorically in a act of survival, to save their jobs and livelihoods, by breaking down in front of their bosses, while raising a family. My heart is with those women. And then there is also the women who struggle for decades on public transport as single mothers bringing their child to creches while working and bringing them home while raising them alone. Those women still outperform men and get to the top on merit. I am appalled and so far from toxic masculinity parcelled up as men rights and men needing to have more rights or attention given to them by society or the political system. 

Returning to the radio show - So what that means is current affairs, books, finances, science, technology, and anything out of the ordinary which can educate us further than what we know on a daily basis would be a place where I would consider listening on a prolonged basis. For the first time on Friday, other than that, the RTE programme on David McCullough, Friday the 13, didn’t have David on, but was very light and had topics of foreign travel, music and film, the sporting events of the weekend and pieces on preparing food and meals today. Very light and topics of the day, and discussions aimed at brightening the morning times, in the way a talk show host might try and do, and resultantly, the mood of the public. At the moment I would be veering towards David McCullough programme when I have time, but would veer towards Claire if she could increase the quantity of expert guests and medical, scientific or eco segments. I understand I’m in the minority and not the target market for Claire Byrne but there you go, that’s just my two cents worth.  

I would disagree , I’ve always maintained that newstalks demographic research has determined it should cater exclusively to middle class affluent Dublin mothers. They are a commercial station in a free country , etc. Claire and Andrea’s program overwhelming pander to this group in topic selection and on air callers .

Council trying to highlight the scourge of dog sh1t in poster campaign "get your shít together"

A slightly humorous poster like that would be fairly common, un-pass remarkable in Australia, here it's guaranteed the offend the "think of the children" type people as were on the show.

The Aussie model Lara Bingle did a tourism Australia add in the UK and it was banned because the sentence "where the bloody hell are you" in the ad was considered offensive. The word bloody was offensive apparantly. The word cun't over there can be a friendly term.