NT: The Hard Shoulder with Kieran Cuddihy

Any chance of Ivan or George coming out of retirement ??

I was really hoping that Mark Cagney would take over full time from Ivan Yeats when Ivan retired. Cagney filled in for Ivan on numerous occasions especially in the few months leading up to Ivan's departure and I thought he was an excellent natural fit for that slot, it seemed he was being lined up to take over that slot, even better than Ivan in parts.

Tork wrote: »

Would Mark Cagney be a better stand-in for Pat Kenny? Jonathan Healy seems to get on a lot of peoples' nerves.

That's more than likely what they are looking for.

I was just reading Mick Heaney's radio review and the "straight-talking" Moncrieff and Cuddihy discussing how pandemic cancelled kids birthday parties were obviously hard on the children, but unexpectedly "bloody brilliant" for the parents.

I had to laugh as well during the week at Cuddihy's conversation about the Toy Show with a female reporter (whose name I didn't catch). The contrast between them was quite amusing. She related how she loves it to the extent that during her Hen weekend, she made all her friends sit up and watch it together in their PJs. Whereas Cuddihy (and his kids even) just don't get it. Said Ryan Tubridy seems to lose the plot every year some time in October, not getting over it until the middle of January. How true that is ... imo

good discussion on remote working, how will the cities cope if all the senior execs and management level head off home though?

i know in our company none of the senior staff are originally from dublin - the company will collapse if they all take advantage of this remote working and move home to other parts of Ireland...

Cuddihy referred to the NI border a number of times as "an international frontier" when challenging Micheal Martin

Cuddihy got some blowback from callers up in arms that a stolen dog didn't justify a 10 month sentence. One caller said a 10 YEAR sentence was appropriate for dog theft.

Tbf I'm with Cuddihy on this one and I don't agree with him all that often, too many people with dogs treating them as substitutes for children. Proposal is by Aontu (:D) so it'll get the derision it deserves.

whisky_galore wrote: »

Cuddihy got some blowback from callers up in arms that a stolen dog didn't justify a 10 month sentence. One caller said a 10 YEAR sentence was appropriate for dog theft.

Tbf I'm with Cuddihy on this one and I don't agree with him all that often, too many people with dogs treating them as substitutes for children. Proposal is by Aontu (:D) so it'll get the derision it deserves.

Dog theft can cause huge distress for some people...never mind the animals themselves...to let some greedy opportunistic parasite off with no serious punishment...ie jail time/heavy fines just turns a blind eye to this rotten activity.Save your derision
Well done to Toibin

whisky_galore wrote: »

No matter how much you love your "fur baby", dog theft is not the same as kidnapping a human or child from a legal standpoint and rightly so.

And if there wasn't a market for these dogs, ie the deluded people prepared to pay stupid money for dogs, there wouldn't be a theft explosion. They're part of the problem.

Reminds me of the other day he was talking about scraping the fur off the jam for his kids sandwiches, but a caller reprimanded him for (or warned against) feeding mouldy bread to the ducks. I think it's funny the way he trolls his audience and people rise to it.

leath_dub wrote: »

A lot of Newstalk shows seem to depend on the 30 cent texts, so they do their best to trigger the listeners outrage and hopefully motivate them to text in.


Similarly, on a 2 person show like the breakfast show, fo every topic being discussed Ciara takes one (scripted) viewpoint and Shane takes the opposite (scripted) viewpoint. They rehash their attitude (word perfectly) for the rest of the show, howine the plabes will txt in to agree or disagree. Thay will also often shamelssly entreat their listenere to "text in and let us know what your favourite type of soup is".


It's all pretty tacky

Yeah I don't hear the beginning of Breakfast show much the last few years but I remember that Coleman and Cuddihy used to do that. It was pretty obvious..

That being said people texting in comparing dogs to kids and demanding 10 years for dog theft are pretty insane. It's completely out of proportion and I say that as an owner of black eejit who is completely convinced that her spot in the family hierarchy is above our daughter's. Anyway I have no objection to Newstalk making money out of that kind of nonsense.