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The Hard Shoulder with Ivan Yates (interregnum)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 611 ✭✭✭redbuck


    I'm going setting up a go fund me to raise money for Henry McKean to fulfill his dream of being a butler if anyone would like to contribute.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,729 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    redbuck wrote: »
    I'm going setting up a go fund me to raise money for Henry McKean to fulfill his dream of being a butler if anyone would like to contribute.

    If it was to show him the door, I would throw in a euro or two.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,940 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    If it was to show him the door, I would throw in a euro or two.

    Who would you like to see him replaced with?


  • Registered Users Posts: 611 ✭✭✭redbuck


    If it was to show him the door, I would throw in a euro or two.

    Who would you like to see him replaced with?

    Eoin Sheehan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,940 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    redbuck wrote: »
    Eoin Sheehan.

    Makes sense. As always.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Great, tonight's programme proving that Tiger madness is back in some parts of the country, promoting trips to Lapland €3k+ and once in a lifetime chance to visit Santa's workshop. It sure is as at the rate of global warming there soon won't be any snow up there. How did we manage back in the day when a visit to Santa was usually a trip to Woolworths. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    While I have no desire to go to Santa's cave in Ireland or in Lapland (yes I'm a miserable parent) why is that such an issue. People will be spending multiples of that for one person to watch something that will be on TV anyway and nobody is whinging about that. I haven't heard complaints when Euro was on either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    redbuck wrote: »
    I'm going setting up a go fund me to raise money for Henry McKean to fulfill his dream of being a butler if anyone would like to contribute.

    I felt a bit sorry for him especially when he was made do all those ridiculous challenges, he's like Newstalk's dancing bear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,515 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Great, tonight's programme proving that Tiger madness is back in some parts of the country, promoting trips to Lapland €3k+ and once in a lifetime chance to visit Santa's workshop. It sure is as at the rate of global warming there soon won't be any snow up there. How did we manage back in the day when a visit to Santa was usually a trip to Woolworths. :rolleyes:

    It's their money, they can fritter it away however they like. A fool and their money etc.
    I don't care.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Yates was place-naming just before 5pm and pronounced F***Et incorrectly - Phuket, Thailand
    then, I switched to Radio1 and
    They played Joan Collins TD's f-bomb in full

    My freakin ears!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Also the Joan Collins TD f-bomb was played on RTE's Late Debate
    and
    Andrea Gilligan on NT Breakfast referred to the rental market in Dublin as a "Shítstorm"
    :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,729 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    It's their money, they can fritter it away however they like. A fool and their money etc.
    I don't care.

    Sure, but the same coterie will be ‘ marching’ for increases in.......well ..every entitlement they have, and a few they haven’t ...yet.

    I’m sure no one will ask them when they are rocking up to the hatch of a Tuesday....”What about the 5 k you spent on de Lapland trip dere before de Chrissamas”

    Nah.... won’t happen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Ivan makes so many stupid simple mistakes that I don't know how he can justify the salary the phoenix thinks he's on.

    just now, with regard to the cervical cancer screening issue, he said that scientologists should be overseeing the check.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Bobby Kerr is going to need surgery to remove his tongue from the arses of various EY (Ernst and Young) people in the appalling segments on the show tonight. Ernst and Young, the people who brought you "we didn't notice anything wrong with Seanie Fitzpatrick and Anglo" and "our female employees should keep quiet and concentrate on their appearance".


    EY sponsors of the Entrepreneur of the Year Awards https://www.ey.com/en_ie/entrepreneur-of-the-year - only in Ireland or perhaps not. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Azatadine


    I often have a chuckle at Ivan and Tom Dunne. They seem to get on very well and the music section on Thursday is actually good. I would never have put the two of them together beforehand but I like it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Did anyone just hear James in Wicklow talking?
    Henry McKean voxpop on Valerie Cox candidate
    He made so much sense and he is currently homeless


  • Registered Users Posts: 611 ✭✭✭redbuck


    zell12 wrote: »
    Did anyone just hear James in Wicklow talking?
    Henry McKean voxpop on Valerie Cox candidate
    He made so much sense and he is currently homeless

    Heard that, he seemed like a really interesting guy.

    Homeless for 5 years and living in a tent, it’s a tragedy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    redbuck wrote: »
    Heard that, he seemed like a really interesting guy.
    Homeless for 5 years and living in a tent, it’s a tragedy.
    He needs more airtime, place on a radio panel or such.
    He is confident, articulate, and has a unique viewpoint that needs to be heard. Sounds like he could shoot down any argument that an FGer has


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭wetoutside19


    zell12 wrote: »
    .....he could shoot down any argument..,..

    That would be my fear, I don’t think he would give the other side a chance to reply. Don’t think a panel environment would suit him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Whay was the jist of it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12




  • Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭BillyBird


    Ivan is great a stirring shıt. Earns a living as a political commentator, does worse than a monkey throwing darts at a board with political predictions, calls it a win.

    People go nuts of course, but all you can really do is laugh.

    https://twitter.com/IvanYatesNT/status/1227263140708200448


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭EndaHonesty


    BillyBird wrote: »
    Ivan is great a stirring shıt. Earns a living as a political commentator, does worse than a monkey throwing darts at a board with political predictions, calls it a win.

    People go nuts of course, but all you can really do is laugh.

    https://twitter.com/IvanYatesNT/status/1227263140708200448




    I think he gets a share of the income generated from the texts and is just trolling people to seed the text line...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    zell12 wrote: »

    So that’s a room full of accountants!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,938 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    I think he gets a share of the income generated from the texts and is just trolling people to seed the text line...

    second captains posted a background photo years ago of the studio in newstalk. they're all encouraged to give out the text number as much as possible with the cost to generate income for the station, so it pays to have someone deliberately spout sh1te on every show.


  • Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭BillyBird


    second captains posted a background photo years ago of the studio in newstalk. they're all encouraged to give out the text number as much as possible with the cost to generate income for the station, so it pays to have someone deliberately spout sh1te on every show.


    Been a long time since I was involved with premium SMS but even then it was very difficult to make money on the lower end. VAT at 21% comes off first. What's left is split three ways between the mobile operator (e.g. Vodafone, 3, etc.), the company operating the premium number (who also took a fixed fee) and the radio station.


    Last time this came up somebody with more recent experience said it had gotten worse - can't find that thread.


    My guess is that text messages are cost neutral and/or used to back up advertising sales pitches i.e. we can demonstrate an engaged audience.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭EndaHonesty


    BillyBird wrote: »
    Been a long time since I was involved with premium SMS but even then it was very difficult to make money on the lower end. VAT at 21% comes off first. What's left is split three ways between the mobile operator (e.g. Vodafone, 3, etc.), the company operating the premium number (who also took a fixed fee) and the radio station.


    Last time this came up somebody with more recent experience said it had gotten worse - can't find that thread.


    My guess is that text messages are cost neutral and/or used to back up advertising sales pitches i.e. we can demonstrate an engaged audience.


    There is no way the 30c texts are cost neutral. Dinny knows too much about telecommunications to be doing something where he isn't the main beneficiary...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭Horse84


    Anyone hear paddy Agnew on yesterday talking about the virus in Italy? He was obviously heavily intoxicated. Yeats didn't seem to notice at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,823 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Horse84 wrote: »
    Anyone hear paddy Agnew on yesterday talking about the virus in Italy? He was obviously heavily intoxicated. Yeats didn't seem to notice at all.

    That's the way he speaks all the time.

    He has a slight lisp.

    Unless, of course he's permanently pissed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭Horse84


    Allinall wrote: »
    That's the way he speaks all the time.

    He has a slight lisp.

    Unless, of course he's permanently pissed.

    This was more than a lisp. He was slurring and talking ****e


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Azatadine


    Meant to comment on this myself. He sounded drunk as a drunk skunk. I know what he normally sounds like but he really was drunk I'd say. Mixing up and mispronouncing words and everything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Horse84 wrote: »
    Anyone hear paddy Agnew on yesterday talking about the virus in Italy? He was obviously heavily intoxicated. Yeats didn't seem to notice at all.
    Yates noticed. He asked 'do you think you have caught the virus yourself?'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭Horse84


    zell12 wrote: »
    Yates noticed. He asked 'do you think you have caught the virus yourself?'

    I heard that but then he kept going with the piece for a good while and asked him a lot of questions afterwards. Surely if he suspected he was drunk he’d have shut it down or else gave some glib remark. He did neither


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,729 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Horse84 wrote: »
    I heard that but then he kept going with the piece for a good while and asked him a lot of questions afterwards. Surely if he suspected he was drunk he’d have shut it down or else gave some glib remark. He did neither

    If you want a rambling disjointed report on...well anything, get Paddy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Horse84 wrote: »
    Anyone hear paddy Agnew on yesterday talking about the virus in Italy? He was obviously heavily intoxicated. Yeats didn't seem to notice at all.

    He's recovering from a brain haemorrhage, he mentioned it on Dunphy's podcast.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,317 ✭✭✭Horse84


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    He's recovering from a brain haemorrhage, he mentioned it on Dunphy's podcast.

    Seriously? That explains that so. I wasn’t aware. He did sound absolutely hammered however lol. Thanks for info.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Horse84 wrote: »
    Seriously? That explains that so. I wasn’t aware. He did sound absolutely hammered however lol. Thanks for info.

    Oh yeah absolutely.
    I was about to give up on the podcast to be honest before he just casually threw it in when discussing the Italian health service.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,673 ✭✭✭✭Ol' Donie


    Is that that spanner Michael Graham again?

    For some reason it occurred to me the other day that I hadn't heard his imbecilic nonsense for years.

    Radio off, thanks very much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,940 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Is that that spanner Michael Graham again?

    For some reason it occurred to me the other day that I hadn't heard his imbecilic nonsense for years.

    Radio off, thanks very much.

    He was giving out about healthcare being denied from people because of Covid-19 and letting them die. Bet he isn't in favour of Bernie Sanders wanting to give people healthcare to prevent them from dying.

    He said a positive from this whole thing will be the end of the EU, and that will make the world a safer place.

    He said that come the US election in November, that if there aren't a total of 1M deaths, it's a sign that Trump actually did well.
    .
    Christ...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Whatever about Michael Graham. I cannot understand why serious regular guests like Cara Augustenborg and Éanna Ní Lamhna continue to come on the show at all only to be treated to a series of infantile comments by Yates every week. The eejit is sixty but behaves like he hasn't reached puberty. An empty vessel makes the most noise. I wrenched the radio plug out of the wall this evening during a discussion about whales.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,638 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I don't usually tune in, but, I didn't realise Ivan was such a pain in the arse to listen to on the radio until I listened to his conversation earlier with Sam McConkey - surely the nicest and most agreeable infectious disease expert in the country - which consisted of Ivan ploughing headfirst against expert opinion with a series of bar-stool hot-takes. You'd wonder why the guests bother appearing. Surely it must hurt their brain to fight against such hot air.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Ol' Donie wrote: »
    Is that that spanner Michael Graham again?

    For some reason it occurred to me the other day that I hadn't heard his imbecilic nonsense for years.

    Radio off, thanks very much.

    Have only heard him once, or twice, since Hook went off the air. I think he’s a great “guest”.

    Granted, I’d be over on the other side of the spectrum regarding his political “beliefs“ but he makes for good radio.

    Having said that, Yates came across as a bit of a nut harping on about the lack of “transparency“ and the lockdown.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭BillyBird


    Have only heard him once, or twice, since Hook went off the air. I think he’s a great “guest”.

    Granted, I’d be over on the other side of the spectrum regarding his political “beliefs“ but he makes for good radio.

    Having said that, Yates came across as a bit of a nut harping on about the lack of “transparency“ and the lockdown.


    Same boat, opposite end of the spectrum, but he's not the worst.


    That said he needs somebody on the other end of the phone to challenge his nonsense. Otherwise it's just two codgers waffling on together.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,940 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Have only heard him once, or twice, since Hook went off the air. I think he’s a great “guest”.

    Granted, I’d be over on the other side of the spectrum regarding his political “beliefs“ but he makes for good radio.

    Having said that, Yates came across as a bit of a nut harping on about the lack of “transparency“ and the lockdown.

    Graham should be challenged more than someone hinting that actually, they have a point. Thinking back on it, Grahams statement that the world without the EU would be a much safer place really annoyed me that it wasn't challenged.

    What evidence could a conservative American offer to support that statement with the sh*tshow their ideals helps to contribute to both at home and abroad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,001 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Who is replacing Ivan when he retires in August?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,940 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    zell12 wrote: »
    Who is replacing Ivan when he retires in August?

    Not sure. Don't think it has been announced.

    Would Shane Coleman or Kieran Cuddihy move from the breakfast show? Not sure either could handle it on their own as Ivan has done. Maybe Shane could.

    Could Gavin Reilly? Any female candidates whose name could be in the hat?

    Ivan will be a big loss to the station.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Not sure. Don't think it has been announced.

    Would Shane Coleman or Kieran Cuddihy move from the breakfast show? Not sure either could handle it on their own as Ivan has done. Maybe Shane could.

    Could Gavin Reilly? Any female candidates whose name could be in the hat?

    Ivan will be a big loss to the station.

    They seemed to be “priming” Mark Cagney for awhile there, he was filling in for everyone.

    Wouldn’t be keen on either of the two “breakfast” lads. And I think if they went with one of them they’d lose a chunk of listeners who want to hear someone “tell it like it is”.

    Jonathan Healy seems more suitable for replacing Moncrief, when the time comes and Susan Keogh for Dr. Ciara Kelly.

    Would Cagney be too “woke” for the more crotchety listener?

    Could Newstalk actually pull off a stroke of marketing genius by bringing back someone like Dil Wickramasinghe and actually increase the listenership due to the number of irate, and hateful, listeners tuning in, and “listening back”, just to complain aggressively somewhere like here?

    Only time will tell.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,940 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    They seemed to be “priming” Mark Cagney for awhile there, he was filling in for everyone.

    Wouldn’t be keen on either of the two “breakfast” lads. And I think if they went with one of them they’d lose a chunk of listeners who want to hear someone “tell it like it is”.

    Jonathan Healy seems more suitable for replacing Moncrief, when the time comes and Susan Keogh for Dr. Ciara Kelly.

    Would Cagney be too “woke” for the more crotchety listener?

    Could Newstalk actually pull off a stroke of marketing genius by bringing back someone like Dil Wickramasinghe and actually increase the listenership due to the number of irate, and hateful, listeners tuning in, and “listening back”, just to complain aggressively somewhere like here?

    Only time will tell.

    Jesus even I wouldn't be able to call for objectivity if that came to pass. Think it would be more likely they would get Niall Boylan in than going that route.

    Cagney is 4 years older than Ivan, not impossible, but would seem like a somewhat regressive step.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,951 ✭✭✭✭2smiggy


    Ivan seems to be complaining about his horse racing meets and GAA matches being cancelled as a reason we should all just 'get on with it'. That people who want to go out and do what they want, go ahead, and the elderly and sick can keep cocooning. Similar thinking to Trump , and both managed to go bankrupt in the gambling industry. Can't listen to his rubbish any more.


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