Muireann O'Connell

she she had/has a unique voice Muireann and it was a good one on the radio - they are so wrong getting rid. If i thought it would help I would suggest starting up a petition and entitle it "att the management of TodayFM - we, the listening public, demand Muireann O'Connell be returned to her post on TodayFM forthwith'
mind you she might not want her job back there now she realizes she has been shafted by them and kicked out

Dublinmuppet wrote: »

Ah ffs can we start a petition to get her off TV and radio. Her whiny irritating voice is getting on my nerves

Have never heard her on the radio....have only seen snippets of her on TV.


I like her voice......growing on me....find it very sexy.

Thinks she's quite hot as well.

micar wrote: »

Have never heard her on the radio....have only seen snippets of her on TV.


I like her voice......growing on me....find it very sexy.

Thinks she's quite hot as well.

How are ya Muireann? U just back from the dole office?

micar wrote: »

Have never heard her on the radio....have only seen snippets of her on TV.


I like her voice......growing on me....find it very sexy.

Thinks she's quite hot as well.

I'm the other way round - heard her voice every day on today FM but never sat down to watch that show on TV3 / Virgin Media

I am amazed the sacking of Muireann did not come sooner if i'm honest

The last couple of JNLR results for her show were awful

She must have seen this day coming for a while

gamecube wrote: »

I am amazed the sacking of Muireann did not come sooner if i'm honest

The last couple of JNLR results for her show were awful

She must have seen this day coming for a while

a lot of shows are declining rapidly I believe, Cooper's declined, I think the only one who grew in last few years was sadly Ferg D'arcy....and they gave Louise Duffy 3 cracks, the lunch, the fenton spot and nights..

Im guessing was Jenny Greene was offered the lunch....didn't it say somewhere she was offered a today fm gig

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

she's not as good now she is a zamperelli or whatever she is ... I think she should get divorce

And Mairead-RTE shoved Mairead into EVERYTHING, and she was crap at all of them.

Some of the shows didn't even last a full run (one series) when she was involved.

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

I wouldnt call her voice Whiney - its pretty deep ... with the sort of like on 40 fags a day rasp to it

Yeah, Muireann's a smoker-she's mentioned it in some of her tweets.

TheDavester wrote: »

a lot of shows are declining rapidly I believe, Cooper's declined, I think the only one who grew in last few years was sadly Ferg D'arcy....and they gave Louise Duffy 3 cracks, the lunch, the fenton spot and nights..

Im guessing was Jenny Greene was offered the lunch....didn't it say somewhere she was offered a today fm gig

Jenny Greene was in talks with Today FM, more than likely it was about taking over Muireann's 12-2pm slot but Dan Healy burned rubber out the gate of RTE straight to her house to stop that from happening!

Mairead is insufferable...kids kids kids mommy mommy as nauseam...

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

in all fairness a lot of radio DJ's (women and men) are or have been smokers .. and coffee junkies apparently - I like it, it may make them smell like an old ashtray and age their face by 10 years but it does make them have a great phlemmy/gravelly voice for radio

Marion funnicane ... need I say more?

Some, not all. And the smoking thing was more popular when radio DJ's could smoke in the studio. Now, not so much.
Marion Finucane and company are sort of a dying breed (pun unintended). Radio presenters, much like singers, need to look after their voices. I know Simon Young when he did radio said he has never smoked or taken drugs. And he was lucky, they were pretty rife in his era of radio presenting.

Coffee junkies, totally-especially since they have to be 'on' for the duration of the show.

donkeykong5 wrote: »

So why is she still there ?. Is it cos she has multiple kids or a multiple millionaire husband ??

I have no goddamn Idea. People used to think she was good looking (I never saw it-genuinely). So that explained why she got so much 'talking heads' gigs.
And she was starting to wane out, thank God... I thought she'd disappear... by then she did Dwts.
I think she's still coming off of the 'Dancing with Stars' buzz-so folks are like 'People LOVE her now'... they don't.
She's woefully not cut out for presenting.

Irish Media has the habit of hiring folks who don't have 'it'-that quality that's needed to set you apart. Even if you do show your humanity on the odd occasion. (Muireann O Connell comforting Katherine Zappone after she spoke on the passing of Zappone's wife, for example, was a very human moment that so many wouldn't do-not 'good for the image').

But I imagine they'll try and peddle her as the 'mommy' presenter-until that train leaves the station very quickly. I mean, most mom's don't have the money to afford a nanny or a whole bunch of child minders as someone who's husband was bailed out by the taxpayers of IReland.

It's the most oddball choice I've heard in recent times. Like replacing a Harley Davidson with a bicycle.

Former Former wrote: »

I like Muireann O'Connell, seems to be more of a real person than many presenters. However, presenters getting moved on is part and parcel of it, as Muireann herself knows from getting the bullet from Phantom back in the day. These things happen if the numbers don't add up.

But if the answer is Mairead Farrell, I don't want to know what the question is. Absolutely insufferable.

going out on a limb here but if listening figures are down for a radio presenter could it all be down to the radio presenter?

other things I could think of:

the time of day the presenter is on - does that have an effect on listernership?

What kind of shows/music are on other stations that can be received at the same time? - could that have an effect on listernership?

see if they are up on that , why actually 'fire' the presenter? - why not move them around to a different time slot / genre of music slot ... but actually fire them right from the station for it?? - that seems pretty severe