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George Hook

  • 22-05-2020 7:13pm
    #1
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,279 ✭✭✭✭


    Just wondering does anyone know what George is up to now? Havnt heard anything about him in ages


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users Posts: 81,073 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Just wondering does anyone know what George is up to now? Havnt heard anything about him in ages


    Fairly active on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/ghook


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    AwaitYourReply
    Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭AwaitYourReply


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Just wondering does anyone know what George is up to now? Havnt heard anything about him in ages

    I seem to recall George chatting away on the phone to Neil Prendeville on Cork's RedFM 104-106 FM one weekday morning between 09:00am-12noon.

    Hook was talking about binge watching his favourite shows/films on the box and I think it was early on during the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.

    He seemed in good form.


  • #4
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    I'd been Googling him periodically on YouTube to see if he had contributed anything.

    But he did contribute to this show during the World Cup recently. He was regular enough on this.


    He did a sit down with Theresa Lowe about a year back.


    And he gave a good speech at the Irexit conference about the media and freedom of speech.


    He should have set up his own Podcast or his on YouTube channel, even if just to keep his mind occupied. When I have heard him speak he said that he had been doing nothing since being axed by Newstalk.


  • #5
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,222 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    generalgerry wrote: »

    And he gave a good speech at the Irexit conference

    He's gone full loopy, then?


  • #6
    omerin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭omerin


    It would be great if he co presened the Stand with Emo or was interviewed on it


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  • #7
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    endacl wrote: »
    He's gone full loopy, then?

    Well he sort of distanced himself from the Irexit movement at the start of the speech by saying that he was there to give a speech specifically about the media.
    omerin wrote: »
    It would be great if he co presened the Stand with Emo or was interviewed on it
    Dunphy knows which side his Tesco bread is buttered on. If he got Hook on, even as a guest, the usual mob would picket Tesco. Dunphy used to be an independent, dissenting voice, but he knows which fences to stay between in order to keep Tesco on side.


  • #8
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,313 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    generalgerry wrote: »
    Dunphy knows which side his Tesco bread is buttered on. If he got Hook on, even as a guest, the usual mob would picket Tesco. Dunphy used to be an independent, dissenting voice, but he knows which fences to stay between in order to keep Tesco on side.

    Very true. Google ‘deplatforming’ if you don’t get the point being made above.


  • #9
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    generalgerry wrote: »
    Well he sort of distanced himself from the Irexit movement at the start of the speech by saying that he was there to give a speech specifically about the media.


    Dunphy knows which side his Tesco bread is buttered on. If he got Hook on, even as a guest, the usual mob would picket Tesco. Dunphy used to be an independent, dissenting voice, but he knows which fences to stay between in order to keep Tesco on side.

    Dunphy was always media establishment while posing as a rebel


  • #10
    Ahwell
    Registered Users Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Ahwell


    omerin wrote: »
    It would be great if he co presened the Stand with Emo or was interviewed on it

    Pretty unlikely...
    Hook: 'I dislike Dunphy more than any other human being on the planet'
    "Dunphy is like Greece - full of crap but people keep giving him huge money"
    "Hook controversial by conviction; Dunphy by opportunism".
    "Found a voodoo replica of Dunphy here in Haiti - I have stuck a pin in his most obvious feature"


  • #11
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Ahwell wrote: »
    Pretty unlikely...

    And don't forget this classic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eesvvm_6AKk


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  • #12
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    I miss George. I disagreed with a lot of the stuff he came out with, but he was intelligent, very frank and very entertaining. I pretty much gave up listening to Newstalk once he left. George was a bit of a wildcard, and that made his show interesting to listen to. Amongst all the blandness that pervades Irish radio, he really stood out. I wish there were more like him :)


  • #13
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    I'd agree.

    For all Hook's bombast & bluster, there was an essential decency to the guy too, that came across if you listened to him for any length of time.


  • #14
    southstar
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭southstar


    He was entertaining all right....but essentially is a self promoting windbag who stokes controversy to enhance his persona.This is very much in line with some of his bizarre pronouncements and predictions as a rugby pundit ....almost a replica of Dunphy..although he seems to have finally matured a little


  • #15
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    southstar wrote: »
    This is very much in line with some of his bizarre pronouncements and predictions as a rugby pundit ....

    Yeah I always enjoyed George on radio and TV. But he seemed to be universally hated by the rugby players. They certainly did not enjoy his coverage.


  • #16
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I thought he was a gas man, he bucked the trend many times. Full of bombast though, but hey as others have said it was refreshing amongst the bland, full on Left Wing tendencies of the vast majority of radio and other media these days. I knew he couldn't last long.

    As for his replacement, I wouldn't turn her show on if I was stuck alone in the desert. I did listen once or twice just to see. That woman sure likes the sound of her own voice, and will not let anyone talk at all. Off switch pronto.


  • #17
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,728 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    I notice people round here do be crying out for Sean Moncrieff and Matt Cooper to be balanced, yet Hook was rambling incoherently about vaccines and foreigners unchallenged and ye all think he's great!

    Thought objective and impartial broadcasting was important to ye.


  • #18
    artvanderlay
    Registered Users Posts: 2,198 ✭✭✭artvanderlay


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    I notice people round here do be crying out for Sean Moncrieff and Matt Cooper to be balanced, yet Hook was rambling incoherently about vaccines and foreigners unchallenged and ye all think he's great!

    Thought objective and impartial broadcasting was important to ye.


    It's not that important to me. I would take entertaining any day. There's a lot of virtue-signallers in the media that probably have different views off the airwaves, but George was pretty much an open book. He didn't seem to have a filter, and it was entertainiing to listen to. He wasn't always right, but, to be honest, I don't look to media figures to educate me or help form my opinions. I just liked listening to his drivel and his slobbering into the mic like a St. Bernard with a speech impediment. He's an old school guy, with a sense of humour and a fun personality, and I'd rather have a pint with George than any other Irish media figure.


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