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Newstalk: 'Lunchtime Live' with Andrea Gilligan

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    #602
    Comhrá
    Registered Users Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Andrea's back talking about 'defibulators' again today. Why on earth does a presenter on national radio not know how to say defibrillator? She's very amateurish. Would do grand for some of the local radio stations.



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    #603
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,742 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    If we banned cars from beaches, we would have no fun videos of asshats getting stuck with the tide coming in.

    I've never seen another country where it was ok to drive on and park up on a beach.



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    #604
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,742 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Your one raging about language on soaps, back to first world problems.



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    #605
    Exclamation Marc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708202#Comment_118708202

    Straight out of the late 80s. Was bizarre to listen to.



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    #606
    Heroditas
    Registered Users Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118646131#Comment_118646131

    Pay a visit to Daytona if you get a chance! It's positively encouraged there.



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    #607
    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,270 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    What do you think listeners? Text me in there

    That just about sums up every one of these shows



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    #608
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,742 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118710727#Comment_118710727

    The craziest state in the land of crazy.

    'Merica. *eye roll*



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    #609
    [Deleted User]
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    Losing the will listening to this bilge!



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    #610
    millb
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭millb


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119019137#Comment_119019137

    she reminds me of a 3 year old - what's your favourite colour?

    "what's your second favourite colour?" Text me listeners -



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    #611
    leath_dub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭leath_dub


    Some guy called Shane standing for Andrea today. The first male presenter in that slot since George Hook got "cancelked" a good few years back, as far as I know..

    The show format is terrible and I'm not sure who could save it but today's host is an upgrade on Andrea



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    #612
    Exclamation Marc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119712523#Comment_119712523

    Adrian Kennedy has done that slot loads of times.



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    #613
    leath_dub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭leath_dub


    Good point!

    How could I forget Adrian Kennedy?



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    #614
    Dr Karl
    Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭Dr Karl


    It was the early morning newsreader Shane Beatty filling in on Friday. Was he on Kildare local radio prior to Newstalk? Did I mishear, just before the 1 o clock news he mentioned about dealing with your bored children during the summer holidays. Was it a pre record meant for the summer? I only heard a bit and there was talk about a cyclepath thru a graveyard. Wasn't that in the news earlier this year?



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    #615
    Exclamation Marc
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119716191#Comment_119716191

    No it was live. That graveyard proposal is only recent.



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    #616
    Duggie2012
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭Duggie2012


    How is this allowed to be the lunchtime show on a National radio station. Absolute fluff everyday. Its amazing how some presenters can get jobs. Switched on today and ots a segment about re wilding the concrete at Leinster House. I mean FFS you couldnt make it up. Do the bosses not listen everyday? Quickly move the dial.



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    #617
    mikep
    Registered Users Posts: 922 ✭✭✭mikep


    I was the same....the list of things she intended to discuss was pure drivel. Local radio content on a national radio station.



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    #618
    2smiggy
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    they must have her on job bridge wages , the only explanation



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    #619
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    Ah , this old chestnut , a campaign to outlaw teenage rudeness

    scangers under 18 have immunity from any sort of repercussions no matter now much pearl clutching and desk thumping goes on



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    #620
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    Not a day to be listening to Andrea if you’re a Honda Civic revv-ing , boy racing , inner city scumbag who can’t stand Margot Robbie



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    #621
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    Ah come on , IVF and Coldplay , giving Ray Darcy a run for his muesli with this Soccer Mom nonsense



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    #622
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    So if these wagons wants the kids to have their surname , the father can stop paying paying for the kid



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    #623
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    Bloody hell , these guys sounds like they spend this cash on Monster flavoured double espressos



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    #624
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    No wonder I’m the only one here when Andrea rolls out a parade of Moaning Mudders .



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    #625
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    Ah here lads , enough already with the parade of mothers complaining that everyone else isn’t paying for everything for their kids. You don’t get a big book of blank cheques just because your a parent



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    #626
    monstermag
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭monstermag


    George Hook was great on the radio. He was great craic. Remember when radio was a bit of craic ?



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    #627
    tesla_newbie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,933 ✭✭✭tesla_newbie


    Is Andrea a bit thick ?, she chaired a discussion yesterday about the possibility of teaching school children about “ trans “ issues , the caller in decks were as you’d expect stacked with career trans activists or people who were bursting with enthusiasm about it , a few callers who opposed it referred to how “ a large percentage of children with gender dysphoria are autistic “

    Andrea nearly fell off her chair with indignation at the notion that this might be true and fairly robustly ( by her vanilla standards ) poured scorn on the callers contribution

    the dogs in the street know that gender dysphoria is a lot more common amongst autistic children yet this was a big revelation to our Ballyshannon host ?



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    #628
    Exclamation Marc
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    Andrea is very very good on political and current affairs issues.

    She is lost at sea on everything else. I'll never forget when she was speaking to someone who had lost someone to a serious illness and she asked something as banal as "and did it really upset you when they passed away?".

    I also find that she struggles to pivot on the spot if something goes wrong the way others like Ciara Kelly or Moncrieff would.



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    #629
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,531 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Poor Andrea struggling to understand the popularity of Trad music after the Wolfe Tonnes gig at Electric Picnic.



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    #630
    Mohat Mogeansai
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭Mohat Mogeansai


    Andreas slide into Liveline continues , tears and the misery



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    #631
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121056172#Comment_121056172

    She's more than a bit thick. I heard that 'discussion' very lopsided and she clearly did zero research on the subject. Her disbelief about the autism connection really betrayed her ignorance



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