Best Breakfast show?

Quality

Who do you love and who do you loathe on the breakfast circuit?

Personally Joe & Keith Crack me up (and I am not even a student)

The loathing goes to the 98fm morning crew. That fella has the most whining voice. 3 Gobeens if you ask me. The jokes are so bad and the toll trolls make me feel like commititing road rage.... Well nearly...

chalkitdown1

98FM

Colm & Jim Jim. Living in Cork all my life, I had never heard them until the morning they started on 2fm. I thought I'd hate 'em, but I gotta say they've really grown on me. I listen to them almost every morning, now.

Green Giant

Spin 1038

Today FM for Gift Grub alone.

Colm and Jim-Jim wreck my head, but not as much as the Limerick Live95 muppets/morons/shotheads etc.

That_Guy

Spin 1038

I picked Today FM solely for Gift Grub. Starting to go off Ian Dempsey. Slightly repetitive these days and their sports news on the half hour drives me mad. So many interruptions all the tiime. Just get on with it.

Pigletlover

Spin 1038

Green Giant wrote: »

Colm and Jim-Jim wreck my head, but not as much as the Limerick Live95 muppets/morons/shotheads etc.

I HATE those presenters on Live 95, what is with their accents. Colm and Jim Jim wreck my head too.

I listen to Ian Dempsey, mainly because there is no alternative. I'm not a huge fan of Gift Grub, I know I'll probably get shot down for this, but I think a lot of the impersonations are quite poor. Sometimes I find it hard to tell the difference between Bertie and Ronan and I think Mario's take on Roy is terrible, it sounds nothing like him. I also hate the way he uses phrases 'all credit to...' and 'at the end of the day...' for Roy, and 'come on' or 'in fairness' for Ronan completely out of context, but a lot of the sketches are good if you can overlook these things.

Big Balls

Pigletlover wrote: »

I think Mario's take on Roy is terrible, it sounds nothing like him.

Jesus man, you need to sit down and listen to the Roy talks to Roy interview

Dudess

Spin 1038

Of the list, Ian Dempsey is far and away the best (in my opinion of course). Gift Grub is brilliant and I really like Ian as a presenter. His style is so natural and engaging, and his taste in music is great. He often makes smart comments about any awful chart stuff he has to play - for that alone he gets my respect.

Not everyone on Boards is in Dublin you know! My local stations are RedFM and 96FM in Cork - wouldn't listen to them if you paid me.

I used to live in Dublin - wouldn't touch 98, 104, Spin, Q with a bargepole.
The only Dublin station I listened to in the mornings was Phantom.

And for current affairs, NewsTalk. Their breakfast show is the only thing I'd listen to on that station. I'd flick over to Morning Ireland the odd time just to check, but I never listen to it for long unless there's something exceptionally interesting on.

So when in Dublin: Today FM, Phantom, NewsTalk, Morning Ireland.
When in Cork: Today FM, NewsTalk, Morning Ireland (Phantom if I was listening online but that doesn't really happen in the mornings).

Badabing

Spin 1038

Ian Dempsey by a mile, does everything his way great taste in music and Gift Grub is so much better than knob oliver callon nation.

DMC

Agree with Dudess, very narrow Dublin-focused poll.

Stick LMFM in for the laugh and see if Seamus Farrelly gets ANY votes!

Ray777

Spin 1038

Out of that selection, Ian Dempsey by a mile. I despise the local Dublin stations, and haven't listened to 2FM in the mornings since Tubridy quit the Full Irish.

I usually find myself listening to Morning Ireland nowadays. If I want to listen to music, I prefer to choose it myself.

SpartanKiller

i listen to today fm in the morn purely for giftgrub and the sports news,but dempsey is an idiot,hes stupid,plain and simple,he ****s up all the comps as well,then he plays nothing but bruce springsteen and david bowie all the time,when he annoys me i'll switch over to phantom

Dudess

Spin 1038

SpartanKiller wrote: »

he ****s up all the comps as well

That's what I like about him - his natural, relaxed, unpolished, unrehearsed style; the way he doesn't have to resort to generic DJ-isms. I think he's excellent.

patrickc

98FM

used to love Dempsey.but now he seems more into himself than the show, Colm and Jim Jim for me now, they are the funniest by far

cor

The breakfast shows are so bad (apart from Phantom) that I usually listen to my IPOD. If I am listening to the radio I listen to Phantom, and I flick over to Newstalk for the news.

bbability

98FM

Colm and Jim Jim (notice the way I give the bosses daughter no mention... that because she's out of her depth)

Outside of the Ireland it has to be Chris Moyles. Top show... would recommend his podcast...

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I always hated Colm and JimJim, arseholes.

98fm is so unfunny it's cringeworthy.

Them two planks on Spin.

bbability wrote: »

Outside of the Ireland it has to be Chris Moyles. Top show... would recommend his podcast...

You have it spot on there. I wake up to Moyles at 6.30 and listen for a half hour (I got my Logik Internet Radio specifically for this purpose), then head accross Dublin to be in work for about 8.15 and then listen to the rest of the show.

On the journey I listen to Newstalk.

I'm currently trialling a new application on my phone, Spodtronic, they haven't got the BBC stations yet, but I hope they do when it gets a proper release.

Nightwish

Morning Ireland ftw! News and no bullsh!t tomfoolery a la Colm and Jim Jam.

byte

Spin 1038

I listen mostly to Ian Dempsey in the morning.

Pigletlover

Spin 1038

Big Balls wrote: »

Jesus man, you need to sit down and listen to the Roy talks to Roy interview

I have, and while i'm not saying that the interview wasn't funny, I just don't think that Mario sounds like Roy, like what's the laugh about???

Sizzler

Spin 1038

I'd have to go with Today FM, I think it would be lost without Gift Grub though. But Dempsey is the least annoying punter to listen to in the AM so gets my vote

Colm & Jim Jim, that old routine is old hat at this stage and they aint all that funny.

98FM - Just pure grade A poop.

nakedlykeenthen

Red Fm, Cork station, KC and Lenny, brill show, gets my vote!

Sephiroth_dude

Spin 1038

today fm all the way I love it when jay comes on the radio and starts giving out,hes a LEGEND!!!!!!!!

cashback

Newstalk in the morning or Dempsey (even though he's bland beyond belief) mostly for gift grub...
Usually just cds though!

SprostonGreen

Newstalk; Byrne and Gilroy are great presenters and its good to get a good fill of news before breakfast.

Ian Dempsey is an idiot and a bad presenter who cant come to the point at all and has to meander and meander, his interview with Ricky Gervais was pure cringe. Gift Grub is ok, but I blame a lot of Aherns popularity on this, so therefore its fundamentally evil.

Colin and Jim Jim can eat **** whatever station that they are on.

d.harney

Spin 1038

today fm for gift gurb... its very funny!!

Big Tone

The Red Rooster is best in Cork, leaves 96FMs dull dull brekk show in the shade.

Tried listening to 2FMs "Gollum and Dum Dum" but you can only take so much meandering and routine.

luckat

BBC Radio 4's The Today Show. Brilliant, brilliant news focus programme every morning. I don't know how they do it.

I'd love to see something as meaty on Irish radio.

tbh

the problem with Ian Dempsey is that he seems likes he's constantly "padding" to fill time. It's very annoying. Plus there are too many "in-jokes" between the staff on the breakfast show.

TheDemiurge

Q102

Have to say, I don't find the 98fm show too bad at all. Dempsey is too sedate and reminiscent of 2fm circa 1984, and one of my New Year's resolutions was to change the morning dial from the horror that is Colm and Dim-Jim Nugent Show, which I listened to for want of an alternative. 98fm might be crap but it's far more buoyant in a positive way than Colm/JJ.

Bard

DMC wrote: »

Agree with Dudess, very narrow Dublin-focused poll.

Agreed, I'd vote for Paddy Mac's "Good Morning Dundalk" on Dundalk FM over that lot any day!...

Honest...

is_that_so

Always been a Morning Ireland junkie although recently it seems to be shipping a lot more non-stories and losing its bite. Would not listen to anything that involves people thinking they are funny or that shouting on radio early in the morning is good for you.

petals

Q102

Luv Joe and Keith on Spin and the 98fm morning crew... They have good homour etc for that hour of the morning and those Toll Trolls are just legends!

Don't like Colm and Jim-Jim at all. I've tried to listen a few tiems and I just see some of the homour they have a drunken pub homour and shouldn't be on radio at that hour of the morning.. Like one day for example I was listening and they had this rubbish joke about buying a car with a turd on the seat of it. Come on like it's 6-9 in the morning

thusspakeblixa

Spin 1038

I'm in Dublin, but I reall really can't stand Q102, Spin, 98fm and 2fm
The only ones I listen to reguarly are Ian Dempsey on Today FM, The Classic Breakfast on Lyric, And Sinister Pete on Phantom.

Drag00n79

Pity, some BBC stations are not included in the poll

trish123

Spin 1038

I have listened to Ian Dempsey ever since he moved to TodayFm and before, but just recently I have been really getting p***ed off with the intervention from the Newsreader Emma Tully .. she does my head in, and Paul Collins .. if it's not Tipperary related - it's not worthy ! Ian is grand - but I really think he's got too comfortable of late - same o, same o ! Maybe I'm just getting too old for it ! :rolleyes:

mickd

SprostonGreen wrote: »

Newstalk; Byrne and Gilroy are great presenters and its good to get a good fill of news before breakfast.

Your kidding. Byrne sounds like some bird in Cafe en Seine witless and clueless

SprostonGreen

mickd wrote: »

Your kidding. Byrne sounds like some bird in Cafe en Seine witless and clueless

Wrong on so many levels.

Sizzler

Spin 1038

trish123 wrote: »

I have listened to Ian Dempsey ever since he moved to TodayFm and before, but just recently I have been really getting p***ed off with the intervention from the Newsreader Emma Tully .. she does my head in, and Paul Collins .. if it's not Tipperary related - it's not worthy ! Ian is grand - but I really think he's got too comfortable of late - same o, same o ! Maybe I'm just getting too old for it ! :rolleyes:

PC has the same script which he rotates from day to day :rolleyes:

His best work includes :

"How ye goin"
"How ye gettin on"

He lays it on with a trowel and also thinks hes a bit of a ladies man :eek:

Pigletlover

Spin 1038

trish123 wrote: »

I have listened to Ian Dempsey ever since he moved to TodayFm and before, but just recently I have been really getting p***ed off with the intervention from the Newsreader Emma Tully .. she does my head in, and Paul Collins .. if it's not Tipperary related - it's not worthy ! Ian is grand - but I really think he's got too comfortable of late - same o, same o ! Maybe I'm just getting too old for it ! :rolleyes:

I hate the two of them too. It annoys me the way Emily buts in all the time, I thought it was great the morning when Michael McMullen was filling in for Paul Collins, and she kept butting in asking questions. In the end he told her that if she shut up and let him finish his report she'd find out, that shut her up What's probably more annoying is that she feels the need to feature something 'interesting' from the mornings papers at the end of each news bulletin, leading on to 50 stupid questions from Ian. And as for Paul, how did he get a job reporting on sports? if it's not Tipp GAA, he doesn't have a clue.

Benster

SprostonGreen wrote: »

Wrong on so many levels.

Oh no, I quite agree with Mickd. That Newstalk show has gone down the pan since they put her on with Ger. He did the show for a few weeks on his own and it was so much better. Then she comes along with her fake "trying to get a killer soundbite from this politician and nail him with one line" style and it falls flat. She doesn't have what it takes to do good radio journalism.

Now Dunphy, like him or loathe him, totally outclassed the both of them. He followed the ISSUE, almost in a Paxman way and wouldn't let his guest/victim off the hook if there was an important point to be made. Sorry he's gone, tbh. He might have went on a bit sometimes, but there was more substance in one of his programmes than a month of the current Newstalk show.

Back on topic - Out of all the crap that masquerades as breakfast radio - Phantom. At least they don;t play sh!te the whole time.

And the point earlier about BBC radio, totally agree. Both in music and talk, they lead. Could teach the fools over here a lot, if only they weren't so busy trying to be funny to listen.

B.

GERMAN ROCKS

nakedlykeenthen wrote: »

Red Fm, Cork station, KC and Lenny, brill show, gets my vote!

+1

aac.conroy

98FM

the 2fm show by a mile! I don't like the FM104 1. Its not my kettle of fish.:D

berliner

Spin 1038

Why do the presenters on the 2fm breakfast show keep saying "that's brilliant,Wow! really?". It's pure ****e and what's with all the fake american accents doing the promos for the various shows on 2fm.Bloody annoying and totally uncool.

efb

Spin 1038

Colm and Jim Jim make me want to hurt people...

Iano is a ledge, listening to him for as long as I can remember, he started on Today FM when I started college.


Ann Marie Kelly preceding Iano from 5-7am is pretty damn good with her music and interction with her listeners. All in all Today FM for teh win!

berliner

Spin 1038

efb wrote: »

Colm and Jim Jim make me want to hurt people...

Iano is a ledge, listening to him for as long as I can remember, he started on Today FM when I started college.


Ann Marie Kelly preceding Iano from 5-7am is pretty damn good with her music and interction with her listeners. All in all Today FM for teh win!

Iano is starting to sound like alan partridge.He could almost phone in the show everymorning.Just goes through the motions.Without gift grub he'd be lost.

Saruman

Pure morning on Phantom. Sinister Pete is in no way annoying to listen to and he mostly plays good music without any talk.

rasoul

98FM

love the gerry ryan show, cant listen to any of the other shows on any station prior to that, except maybe morning ireland

jb91

Today FM out of those otions but Phantom is the only one where you don't have crappy presenters that think they're hilarious.

Declan A Walsh

Phantom, I would say, by a mile has the best breakfast show with Sinister Pete. It has none of this rubbishy conversation setup so beloved of most music-based radio stations, certainly in Dublin, just plenty of music and the minimum necessary chat such as traffic updates. My second choice would be Newstalk - news stories with a difference - with or without Ger and Clare.

That said, I'm just slightly concerned about what I heard on Phantom this morning. I'm hoping it was just a St. Patrick's special. The breakfast show was co-hosted by Neil Austin. I've no problem with the guy, but there was a bit more banter than normal. Please tell me this is not a new look breakfast show. The big thing about Phantom, apart from its emphasis on the musical content, is that there is none of the god-awful conversations and attempts at humour. Viva la difference!

... By the way, seeing as nobody else mentioned it, my third choice on weekday mornings is Dublin City FM, for its brilliant traffic reports on Live Drive.

xIsabelx

I really miss Ryan Tubridy on the Full Irish on RTÉ2 back in 2004 ish. That was my favourite.

Subcitizen

By far, the best morning show is Howard Stern.