Liveline Thread 17/06/2015 to date

2smiggy wrote: »

move out of Dublin, plenty of places in towns and villages around the country €600 - €700 for nice houses ??

Most social welfare lifers in Dublin seem unable to cope if it is even suggested that they should live more than a 10 minute bus ride from 'me ma'. Sending them off down the country would fry their heads altogether.

Seems to me awfully like he's trying to extend the reach of his cash cow. Two arms of that - make it more part of the RTE line-up and get more into the public awareness, and secondly, try to justify his existence by making out he's somehow an indispensible part of the show.
After all, there was no LiveLine before Joe Duffy - or was there? (dat's a retor'kle ques'yin, so to speak)

Lying in me hostibel bed with a pain in me bollix reading dat so to speak - and not just from de needle day inserted into me meat and two veg so to speak - de pain is ex-screw-sea-8ing so to speak says I.



‘I’ve been pushing the idea me own agenda for years’ - Joe Duffy on new RTE One television show ‘Call Back’

Broadcaster Joe Duffy is set to appear on television screens later this year, as filming gets underway for a new series ‘Call Back’.

The RTE Radio One stalwart contractor broke the news to presenter Dave Fanning on the station this morning.

“I’ve been pushing the idea my own agenda without anyone daring to contradict me for few years now,” he revealed. “Its day has come, we’re making a six part series. We made a pilot, showed it to the powers that be and they liked it.”

‘Call Back’ will revisit callers from the most memorable episodes of Joe Duffy’s Live Line show over the years.

Joe explained that due to the rapid and constantly changing nature of the show his agenda, it is impossible to follow up with callers on the radio, especially if their opinion differs to his.

“The nature is a very rolling, energetic daily programme, subjects change within the programme. Sometimes when an issue is raised, we try and help, but by the time the next Live Line comes around it's moved on to more urgent topics, like artists, art, Fiber-gades and Fry's Model Railway.”

“It’s a simple thing, people salt-a-see-irths were always stopping me asking ‘What happened…’ In the book I wrote that sank without trace and still available in some branches Dealz for €1.49, my so called autobiography, I wrote a lot about Live Line and the spin off from that was people saying, ‘What happened Susie Long’s campaign...what happened the family of..what happened Shane O'Curry....what happened Blind Boy Boat Club form De Rubberbandits?"

The show will be rolled out in the six weeks prior to Christmas, thus ensuring more fees for the humble and jovial artist/broadcaster/author/jornalist.

The pilot, which has already been made, will feature Susie Long’s public campaign against hospital waiting lists, the repatriation of Sean Parker - anudder of me hobby horses, and the ‘incredible’ day where a woman rang in about her elderly neighbour being scammed out of €10,000 by builders, which culminated in a car chase across Dublin as the Gardaí pursued the criminals.

“We have quite a few stories, Live Line is on 5 days a week, 51 weeks a year - I "wurk" as many as 20 of dose meself so to speak, Larkin and Connolly wood be so proud of me - 75 mins a day, totally live, there’s an inordinate number of stories. We’re staying with personal stories like death and misery, dose are me favourite, espcially when I can make a vulnerable caller cry so to speak. Live Line has always been and will always be about the strength of its human stories, rare diseases, pain, suffering, misery and death - hopefully all in the same story from de same caller.”

The 59-year-old presenter bluffer and peddler of misery porn gets up at 6am every day to go to the gym, where his butler reads the papers to him so he can set the agenda for dat day’s show.

“I get up at 6am and go to the gym - with little effect because it's very hard to get rid of the calories you get from de caviar and the champagne,” he joked. “If de butler see something in the papers while on the treadmill, I have him text the team.”

“Live Line has a particular job to do - to get listeners to stay at the top of what RTE do every day push my pro-Fianna Fail and anti Sinn Fein agenda as well as allowing me to prey on de most vulnerable,” he concluded.

“1850 715 815 - I have a twelve year old who goes around saying that!” Dave Fanning laughed.

He looks very uncomfortable in that last picture. A very ill-fitting shirt (the sleeves are too long) and a badly knotted tie. He looks like someone who only wears a suit at weddings, funerals and court cases. He'd be much more at home with a pair of Air Max, adidas track suit bottoms, a Liverpool/Man U/Celtic or Dubalin jersey and some signet rings.

As or the way he wears pochettes? That 4 pronged crown look went out donkeys years ago. And his "shlacks" look too long too. Jaysus would someone in wardrobe in RTE not say something to him? Or would he not go into "Lewis" Copeland and have him dress him?

Money simply cannot buy style or class.