Rising Time on RTE Radio 1

why did RTE drop "The Living word" which had been around for many, many years for a terribly named slot called "A word in edgeways" ?

This morning had a woman from Sligo talking for ages about taking down decorations from the attic and putting up the Christmas tree.

Really awful.

Alf retired in 2015. https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/arid-40218665.html

Lilian was never dropped as such but she spent forever as a fill in and was liable to disappear for weeks at a time. Nowadays she fluctuates between her regular weekend Rising Time shows and standing in on Late Date or Rising Time weekdays, or very occasionally for John Creedon. I once heard that she was offered Late Date on a permanent basis when Val Joyce had retired but politely declined the offer.

somehow I don't think shay byrne wants a promotion??

He has his 1.5 hrs show done by 7am, then preps for his next days show - so I would estimate he's home by latest 12 noon. his music is all pre-selected, no song requests from listeners during the show. so he knows the running order and the links / banter with business/sports timings in between songs.

nice work if you can get it.

much better than his previous job, of being a painter / decorator just over 10 years ago.

is he permanent with RTE?

From listening to shay's show and the texts he reads out, I think the majority of his listeners are not the doom and gloom type. not the day to day early commuters.

at a guess they would be over 55, retired or semi retired - living in the country.

all they've to think about at that hour of the morning, is the 6am walk with the dog and the weather prospects, not really bad news.

Sheelagh Dempsey sounded to be panicking and was very out of breath opening the show and introducing to the news room just now at 6am, it was very strange to hear.

she acknowledged this after, but I wonder what happened?

Where has Shay Byrne been for the last wo weeks? I kind of remember he was on holiday not too far back in Summer perhaps? How much holiday time does he get a year?

I often wonder about the part timers in RTE as to what they get up to after their show. Does Shay finish his day work at 9AM? 1One and a half hours work a day with RTE? What does he do every day after that? Same with Ronan Collins.

I’ll have you know sit

I’ll have you know sir there’s never a time that isn’t appropriate for some AC/DC! 😀

Trying to find a fit for the show/slot?

The 3 used so far aren't cutting the mustard.

Shay does a mighty job on rising time and might be the man for the 9 o clock show

well Lilian on Tuesday only did about 30 seconds on the papers ( does she get the full newspaper in the cork studio or just the front pages via email? ). Maybe Shay felt she hadn’t done them in enough detail!

Very different styles and music choices between Lilian and Shay. Lilian is very brief whereas Shay is overly verbose at times

I got tired of Lillian ramming it down our throats that she was broadcasting from Cork!