Morning Ireland.

I’m expecting a lot of ‘emotion’ from Dezzie around 0845 when ‘de rowers’ are interviewed.

’De famblie’ at home will get full emotional treatment.

Well done ladies, anyway.

Hope there’s no tears……………from Dezzie.

whats the story with a yank doing the traffic reports now

sounds all wrong

I didn’t catch the name of the crowd doing it now?

I thought is was Oliver Callans "Michael Flateley".

Did he tear her a new one?

Hmmm. Apart from the incongruity of the ‘example’ what did Simon Harris say that was “badly informed’?

Not trying to derail the thread but maybe it’s not just the contributors are badly informed.

Just saying…..

Don’t think I heard anyone say that who is qualified in the handling of Pandemic situations.

You need to read my post a chara and check out ‘guarantee’.

Any stult including myself and the three you named can make a statement on anything and have a chance of it happening.

Guarenteeing what is going to happen in a Pandemic situation is another matter entirely

Good day Sir!!

Sports news this morning, "If you think that the club championships had late finishes, it was nothing compared to the Los Angeles Rams who scored a touchdown with 1.25 seconds left to win the Superbowl."

Only thing is that it actually was 1 minute, 25 seconds left. He obviously barely scanned an article.

It was poor by the sports presenter. I don’t think he’s great. And he’s very woke. Camogie player reviewing the men’s club hurling final, as is the way of it these days. Gavin Jennings smart arse links into the sports bulletins a new feature best avoided.

Aine Lawlor hasn't been presenting the show in a good few weeks - hope that she is doing ok

Eamonn Ryan on, his first mistake "The €230 electricity credit", it's €200 inclusive of Vat.

The PSO levy removal would be welcome. I don't get his ambitions about smart meters. I've had one for over 2 years, low usage customer and the smart tariffs on offer make absolutely no sense, I've thouraghly checked. I actually pay more in levies, taxes and rural standing charge than I do for electricity (albeit that's changing monthly).

Shorter showers is a nonsense.

It's not, simply pointing out Eamonn "Drive slower and shower Quicker" Ryan was on. Pointed out he was incorrect on his very first point but also praised the possible removal of the PSO levy,

Your point being exactly what Bren 🤔 or just another meaningless swipe perhaps

What are you shyting about now, I simply pointed out on this Thread, Eamonn Ryan is a guest and commented about his comments, what am I ,or clearly you missing. Do you moderate comments 🤔, you don't dictate content.

Were's your snide comments about other guests appearances. You seem to trawl through threads trying to fund something absurd to say and seem particularly fond of my contributions on Boards, I've not forgotten your last offence accusations by the way.

You are not the content police and I'd ask you not to quote me but of course you'd ignore that.

Get off your high horse, I used to think you just got offended by FG politicians being critised, perhaps your a closet Green too 🙄, good luck with that.

Hi, I use a power shower so pump uses very little electricity, water heated with Oil.

I admit to not fully understanding what is proposed re smart meters I can assure you I've checked thouraghly smart tariffs and indeed switching and in my case , Zero savings achievable but of course I accept this not the case for every customer as I'm a very low user.

I'd love to have a night rate etc but getting this then increases rates across plans .

I suppose my gripe is primarily around the levies and especially the Rural standing charge which is much higher than Urban .

I have welcomed the levy measures if it happens 😏

Good and you should keep it up.

An unusual presenter line-up this morning: David Murphy and Justin McCarthy. Must be a long time since there was no female presenter. The four regular ladies all absent. And Gavin Jennings on the News at One.

You're spot on there, seems to be far more stand-ins than previously, despite five "full-timers" instead of four as used to be the case. I thought it would be back to the regulars from September once the holiday season ended but it doesn't seem to be the case. David Murphy was on last week also. RTE holidays something else

Of the five presenters, Rachael English and Aine Lawlor appear to have some form of part-time set up, whereas Mary Wilson, Audrey Carvill and Gavin Jennings are full-time, at least in theory. Salaries probably multiples of what Newstalk pay.

Drivetime is and interesting one as well. They were initially using a second presenter on Tuesday when Sarah is on Prime Time, so the likes of Samantha Libreri filled in. But now they seem to be just going with Cormac. 2 presenters on the other days.

Staffing levels and holiday entitlements never fail to surprise.

There’s a lot more RTE dont like people to know.

They tend to treat the place like the third secret of Fatima, whilst their on air cohort expect all other concerns to by open and transparent!!

Needs a cleaning out that place.

About a ‘quawter’ of an hour of decent content.

What are the salaries of the personel?

Why do all links never seem to work properly?

What kind of a wedge is Aonghus on?

Does stints as It says in the papers, Editor, Presenter, Reporter…

Be great if we knew all this and could release a bit of bile

By the way…have given up on the following

nooze

quaater

seen

done

So….

Those lads are beyond saving…………eh?