Ronan Collins Show

Kenny B · 30-10-2019 2:19pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

To be honest, they should just change something, anything, just try something different... for a change.

I emphasize by the way the criticism is probably more against RTe than Ronan, who I’m sure is a very nice person.

Smacks of lazy programming to be adopting the same tired formula for decades.

In my opinion.

It's an Afternoon show, not everything has to be edgy, changing for the sake of change is total madness, my guess is he has one of the highest songs per hour average - that is a good thing. Listening to DJ's prattle on about nonsense is annoying.

Cathal Murray at night keeps the chat to a minimum also, even though he comes across as the most boring man alive, he has a good show because he plays the music.

Brendan Bendar · 30-10-2019 3:45pm

Kenny B wrote: »

It's an Afternoon show, not everything has to be edgy, changing for the sake of change is total madness, my guess is he has one of the highest songs per hour average - that is a good thing. Listening to DJ's prattle on about nonsense is annoying.

Cathal Murray at night keeps the chat to a minimum also, even though he comes across as the most boring man alive, he has a good show because he plays the music.

Just change something dude, just for the crack.

Things move on.... if we didn’t change things Croke Park and Lansdowne Road would still be grey cold soulless kips, we’d still be listening to Din Joe at 1330, Mart and Market would still be on TV with Cowjack.

Morgan O Sullivan would still be on at 1000, The Kennedy’s of Castleross would still be on, Michael O Mhuirceartaigh would still be covering GAA games and Michael Lyster still doing The Sunday Game.

For Jaysus sake move on.........time to stir things up..... the same auld patter is stale a limp...... it’s 2019 FFS.

Dipole Keith · 30-10-2019 8:11pm

Handy hour for Ronan, Happy birthday to Mary Morgan from Tullamore shes 80 today, Here’s a man celebrating his 83rd birthday today it’s Engelbert Humperdinck

bobbyss · 31-10-2019 1:18am

Brendan Bendar wrote:

Things move on.... if we didnâ€™t change things Croke Park and Lansdowne Road would still be grey cold soulless kips, weâ€™d still be listening to Din Joe at 1330, Mart and Market would still be on TV with Cowjack.

Mart and Market.
That used to be on for about ten minutes I think. The price of heifers and two year olds. A bit of footage from Tullamore Mart maybe.
Then some Thursday evening sports programme which featured English first division highlights for twenty minutes . A lifeline for those in one channel land.

ford fiesta · 31-10-2019 8:18am

Dipole Keith wrote: »

Handy hour for Ronan, Happy birthday to Mary Morgan from Tullamore shes 80 today, Here’s a man celebrating his 83rd birthday today it’s Engelbert Humperdinck

Ronan never announces a listeners age

real rocker · 31-10-2019 11:10am

ford fiesta wrote: »

Ronan never announces a listeners age

Very true the birthday lady is celebrating a significant birthday or some such. I think that male listener birthday information may be more specific though.

Zird · 08-11-2019 1:37pm

Ciara of Chris and Ciara in for Ronan today

Brendan Bendar · 08-11-2019 3:37pm

Zird wrote: »

Ciara of Chris and Ciara in for Ronan today

Breath of fresh air.

ford fiesta · 08-11-2019 8:02pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Breath of fresh air.

another terrible choice of fill in presenter. who'll be covering for ronan next....the love island guy?

Brendan Bendar · 08-11-2019 11:16pm

ford fiesta wrote: »

another terrible choice of fill in presenter. who'll be covering for ronan next....the love island guy?

200 going, we can always hope.

sligojoek · 09-11-2019 3:04am

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

200 going, we can always hope.

He won't be going anywhere till retirement age. The RTE Gold avenue has now been shut off. He'll stick it out till the end.

Anyway, I've no issue with Ronan . As I said before it's a grand oasis from current affairs.

The whole RTE Radio 1 schedule has run its course. The current format was done by Anna Leddy over 10 years ago. It's time to do something different with it.

Set in stone.

Morning Ireland

Tubbs

SOR Soon retiring

Ronan

News

Duffy

Darcy

Wilson

Arty Farty sh1te

John Ceeedon.

Random stuff.

Welsh Megaman · 16-12-2019 1:40pm

Ronan continuing his annual tradition of playing different cover versions of ‘O Holy Night’.

When will he get to this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p0ptkrc844

ford fiesta · 17-12-2019 11:11pm

I see Ronan will be doing the showband tour for all of January and some of Feb...So presuming he will be away from the radio show?...Hopefully Radio 1 will get a proper stand in presenter and not the bland Michael Cahill or Ciara, Keith from 2FM or someone looking for shout outs on "twidder" !!

amlinopta · 07-01-2020 3:08pm

Ronan did a superb job on his show today with a lovely tribute to Larry, excellent music and well chosen words in what must have been difficult circumstances. Credit where credit is due.

RINO87 · 08-01-2020 4:21pm

Just listened to Ronan's show from yesterday there myself. A great tribute. Lovely hour of radio.

ford fiesta · 24-02-2020 1:19pm

Who's the female covering for Ronan this week?

Welsh Megaman · 24-02-2020 1:23pm

ford fiesta wrote: »

Who's the female covering for Ronan this week?

Una Healy

Itssoeasy · 24-02-2020 1:27pm

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Una Healy

I just turned on the wireless and clearly it’s not Ronan but I was wondering who it was. In fairness she hasn’t lost the accent which is nice to see.

Itssoeasy · 24-02-2020 1:44pm

This is meant as a compliment but may not come across as one but she’s doing a good job so far.

Brendan Bendar · 24-02-2020 1:47pm

Breath of fresh air.......none of the usual auld up down patter.

Badly needed.

padd b1975 · 24-02-2020 1:54pm

Nope.

She’s trying hard but not really working for me.

Music choice is pretty poor for the age profile of the average listener.

Itssoeasy · 24-02-2020 1:57pm

padd b1975 wrote: »

Nope.

She’s trying hard but not really working for me.

Music choice is pretty poor for the age profile of the average listener.

Ah let’s give her a week to see how she does. Not a bad start IMO.

Brendan Bendar · 24-02-2020 2:03pm

Bright ,lively, fast moving, different type of music.... thumbs up from the Bren.

ford fiesta · 24-02-2020 2:18pm

she has the uk/Irish accent when she's on TV???...sounds like it's magically disappeared!!!

why do RTE feel that they need a non radio /celebrity person to fill in on these shows!!!?

California Dreamer · 24-02-2020 3:42pm

FFS! The amount of proper experienced radio people that are in RTE, and in the regions that could do with the gig and we get landed with the former mediorce pop star!!!

24-02-2020 4:16pm

Well I thought she did well for a first outing. I like Ronan and his easy way he has; Una was a good choice. And she didn’t take it over and make it all-about-her. I look forward to the rest of her week.

ford fiesta · 24-02-2020 5:26pm

California Dreamer wrote: »

FFS! The amount of proper experienced radio people that are in RTE, and in the regions that could do with the gig and we get landed with the former mediorce pop star!!!

You would think with the financial state of RTE, that RTE would get staffers to fill in on such shows, instead of paying more Contractors!!!

24-02-2020 6:52pm

ford fiesta wrote: »

You would think with the financial state of RTE, that RTE would get staffers to fill in on such shows, instead of paying more Contractors!!!

They’re too busy dancing

Red Fred · 24-02-2020 11:52pm

According to an article on buzz.ie, Ronan's contract expires later this year and Una is rumoured to be replacing him permamently.

https://www.buzz.ie/entertainment/una-healy-is-filling-in-for-ronan-collins-this-week-on-rte-radio-one-356765?fbclid=IwAR3VcwUSQwhOL6peEllgRDTW7vSGtZDaNOaHHEszSB3Iykm6JKaoQExmIbU

Brendan Bendar · 24-02-2020 11:57pm

Red Fred wrote: »

According to an article on buzz.ie, Ronan's contract expires later this year and Una is rumoured to be replacing him permamently.

https://www.buzz.ie/entertainment/una-healy-is-filling-in-for-ronan-collins-this-week-on-rte-radio-one-356765?fbclid=IwAR3VcwUSQwhOL6peEllgRDTW7vSGtZDaNOaHHEszSB3Iykm6JKaoQExmIbU

Good move, that slot needs a bit of a shake up.

ford fiesta · 25-02-2020 12:24am

Red Fred wrote: »

According to an article on buzz.ie, Ronan's contract expires later this year and Una is rumoured to be replacing him permamently.

https://www.buzz.ie/entertainment/una-healy-is-filling-in-for-ronan-collins-this-week-on-rte-radio-one-356765?fbclid=IwAR3VcwUSQwhOL6peEllgRDTW7vSGtZDaNOaHHEszSB3Iykm6JKaoQExmIbU

RTE can just renew Ronan's contract. The problem with radio today is when non presenter celebrities replace radio presenters

Odyssey 2005 · 25-02-2020 4:51am

Red Fred wrote: »

According to an article on buzz.ie, Ronan's contract expires later this year and Una is rumoured to be replacing him permamently.

https://www.buzz.ie/entertainment/una-healy-is-filling-in-for-ronan-collins-this-week-on-rte-radio-one-356765?fbclid=IwAR3VcwUSQwhOL6peEllgRDTW7vSGtZDaNOaHHEszSB3Iykm6JKaoQExmIbU

If that's the case I'm out.

California Dreamer · 25-02-2020 12:02pm

"There's a move towards putting famous TV faces on radio, like the hiring of Brendan O'Connor to take over Marian Finucane's old slots."

Hahahah! Who writes this crap?!!?

California Dreamer · 25-02-2020 12:06pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Good move, that slot needs a bit of a shake up.

Rick O'Shea (if he would go back to his real name) would be perfect in that slot or Will Leahy, Lorcan Murray, Aidan Leonard or any of the former 2FM old guard. Experienced radio presenters are a plenty. At this rate they might as well give it to Lottie Ryan!

sligojoek · 25-02-2020 12:15pm

It looks like Una is here to stay. Tubbs gave her a plug this morning and welcomed her to "the fun factory". There was also an ad for her during SOR.

That never happened with any of the other "stand ins" in the past.

Long_Wave · 25-02-2020 1:02pm

Wouldn't Una Healy be more suited to 2fm? Actually she's about the same age as most of the female daytime 2fm djs

sligojoek · 25-02-2020 1:23pm

Long_Wave wrote: »

Wouldn't Una Healy be more suited to 2fm? Actually she's about the same age as most of the female daytime 2fm djs

Looks like they're going for a younger audience. The Frank Sinatra and Deano brigade won't last forever.

ford fiesta · 25-02-2020 1:23pm

California Dreamer wrote: »

Rick O'Shea (if he would go back to his real name) would be perfect in that slot or Will Leahy, Lorcan Murray, Aidan Leonard or any of the former 2FM old guard. Experienced radio presenters are a plenty. At this rate they might as well give it to Lottie Ryan!

Agreed. this Healy one is wholly unsiitable for this slot. Stand in's lately on Radio 1 music shows have been terrible choices. Like I said I thought RTE were strapped for cash..get an RTE staffer to take that slot if Ronan is hanging up his headphones

Brendan Bendar · 25-02-2020 1:27pm

sligojoek wrote: »

It looks like Una is here to stay. Tubbs gave her a plug this morning and welcomed her to "the fun factory". There was also an ad for her during SOR.

That never happened with any of the other "stand ins" in the past.

About time they got sense Joe, the Swingtime Aces era is long gone.

The auld Roseland Ballroom in Moate doesn’t get the mineral bottles clinking too much these days.

Time to move on, I would suggest.

Long_Wave · 25-02-2020 1:39pm

With Sean O'Rourke due to retire this year, perhaps RTE wiii do a radical shake up of radio one?

TheRiverman · 25-02-2020 1:58pm

Ageism alive and well in RTE.Anyone over fifty four doesn't count it appears when they are catering for listeners.

padd b1975 · 25-02-2020 2:15pm

Long_Wave wrote: »

With Sean O'Rourke due to retire this year, perhaps RTE wiii do a radical shake up of radio one?

It doesn't need it.

It's got a massive and loyal listenership.

Long_Wave · 25-02-2020 5:10pm

padd b1975 wrote: »

It doesn't need it.

It's got a massive and loyal listenership.

Brendan balfe wrote in his autobiography that the philology in RTE is, if it ain't broke, break it

irs · 25-02-2020 5:32pm

Long_Wave wrote: »

Wouldn't Una Healy be more suited to 2fm? Actually she's about the same age as most of the female daytime 2fm djs

I heard a bit of her show today and she played "Feels Like Heaven" by Fiction Factory which wouldn't be on 2fm anymore. It's no different to BBC putting Angela Scanlon on Radio 2.

irs · 25-02-2020 6:03pm

padd b1975 wrote: »

It doesn't need it.

It's got a massive and loyal listenership.

That's part of the problem. RTE are meant to be a PSB but their flagship station is only interested in the same narrow audience that listen out of habit.

ford fiesta · 25-02-2020 7:12pm

The solution here is to keep the dedicated oldies station i.e.: RTE Gold. It would reduce the number of music shows on Radio 1 too.
I wonder where will the few Gold staff be redeployed to when it expects to cease?

padd b1975 · 25-02-2020 8:33pm

Long_Wave wrote: »

Brendan balfe wrote in his autobiography that the philology in RTE is, if it ain't broke, break it

More than a grain of truth there.

shockwave · 26-02-2020 10:47pm

Long_Wave wrote: »

With Sean O'Rourke due to retire this year, perhaps RTE wiii do a radical shake up of radio one?

RTE will surely keep him on hes the political broadcaster/interviewer they have,.

Odyssey 2005 · 26-02-2020 11:19pm

shockwave wrote: »

RTE will surely keep him on hes the political broadcaster/interviewer they have,.

ONLY

28-02-2020 3:54pm

Well i listened to Una Healy today and I have to say I thought she was fine - a nice stand in for Ronan. She followed his light and easy style, which I like, and did all the well wishing and happy birthday stuff with good grace and humour. I also like her accent and her diction is good. All in all, for what it’s, well done Una

I didn’t win tickets to see ELO, though, darn it!

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