Newstalk Megathread

buckfasterer

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Am I the only one who likes Chris?

Yes!

CountyHurler

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Am I the only one who likes Chris?
He's the least pretentious presenter on the radio and he's not afraid to laugh at himself.

The combination of Yates and Donohue really works for me. I just wish the Newstalk coverage around the country was better, as I end up having to listen to either Tubridy or Murray (did I just dream that awful thing about "sausages" this morning???) when I'm on long journeys.

Harry Angstrom

Is it just me who thinks that Damien Dempsey is absolute cack?

ThisRegard

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Is it just me who thinks that Damien Dempsey is absolute cack?

Double-linn Town was pretty awful, but I do like the recorded version of It's All Good with Sinead O'Connor, the live version he sang yesterday on Pat Kenny was awful.

Muff Richardson

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Is it just me who thinks that Damien Dempsey is absolute cack?

if it was that ad this morning you are talking about, i think its because he lets this big extended roar/singing at the end of it which is pretty offensive to the ears. contender for that crap radio ad thread that i saw here a while ago.

PopePalpatine

All of these hipster arseholes who moan into a microphone are pure cack, end of story.

ThisRegard

LOL at calling Damien Dempsey a hipster, are you aware of who he actually is ?

mike65

Jasus NT fix your audio output! The max level limiter keeps getting triggered

CountyHurler

Pat certainly hasnt left his love for the banjo behind him in Montrose..

Poly

CountyHurler wrote: »

Pat certainly hasnt left his love for the banjo behind him in Montrose..

don't begrudge him a bit of banjo, at least he left all the montrose inbreeds back in the woods. I certainly don't miss Valerie Cox making mountains out of Mohill

michael999999

Poly wrote: »

don't begrudge him a bit of banjo, at least he left all the montrose inbreeds back in the woods. I certainly don't miss Valerie Cox making mountains out of Mohill

Are you available for funny Friday?

kneemos

mike65 wrote: »

Jasus NT fix your audio output! The max level limiter keeps getting triggered

Gone completely at the moment.Intermittent all day on Tuesday.
Seems they can't handle windy weather for some reason.

mjv2ydratu679c

kneemos wrote: »

Gone completely at the moment.Intermittent all day on Tuesday.
Seems they can't handle windy weather for some reason.

Bit like Denis O'Brien - must be the main reason he's not resident here hmmmmmm

Harry Angstrom

Movies And Booze is getting boring. If you're not a connoisseur of alcoholic grape juice or overpriced craft beer, there's not much point to it.
If I'm getting a bottle of wine, I generally go for the highest percentage. That's my yardstick.

T'would be nice if they discussed whiskey, brandy, and more popular beers and stouts once in a while.

Snake Plisken

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Movies And Booze is getting boring. If you're not a connoisseur of alcoholic grape juice or overpriced craft beer, there's not much point to it.
If I'm getting a bottle of wine, I generally go for the highest percentage. That's my yardstick.

T'would be nice if they discussed whiskey, brandy, and more popular beers and stouts once in a while.

Yeah the posh one doing the wines today sounded langered before it even started shouting about her verruca!

Also someone please get rid of Henry and his mother Please!!!!

Harry Angstrom

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Also someone please get rid of Henry and his mother Please!!!!

It's fairly clear at this stage that Henry is being used as a gom. In all his years at Newstalk, he's yet to get himself his own programme. He's a poor man's Paddy O'Gorman, and that's saying something.

ballsymchugh

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Yeah the posh one doing the wines today sounded langered before it even started shouting about her verruca!

Also someone please get rid of Henry and his mother Please!!!!

dean mcguinness is funny, as is martin moran, but the other 2 wine reviewers just make what should be a relaxed part of the week drag on.
i'm teetotal, but enjoy movies and booze a lot when there's a bit of craic in it. there rarely is when it's jean smullen though.

neris

Henry had his own show before.

buckfasterer

neris wrote: »

Henry had his own show before.

Can someone explain the point in him please? The last two Fridays have been painful with this date nonsense. The pointless vox pops everyday going round the street to ask the people questions is painful aswell. Doesn't help when he sounds like he's still got his silver spoon shoved in.....

DEFTLEFTHAND

neris wrote: »

Henry had his own show before.

'Under The Covers' on Saturday mornings, I think it's still on. It's prerecorded and the content is usually very bland.

McDave

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Am I the only one who likes Chris?

He's the least pretentious presenter on the radio and he's not afraid to laugh at himself.

I like Chris myself. A perfectly able wingman.

If he could only lose the 'nooz' tick!

my friend

ballsymchugh wrote: »

dean mcguinness is funny, as is martin moran, but the other 2 wine reviewers just make what should be a relaxed part of the week drag on.
i'm teetotal, but enjoy movies and booze a lot when there's a bit of craic in it. there rarely is when it's jean smullen though.

Yes, she's quite bitter

HooohRaaah

How has nobody in Marconi House told Chris on the Breakfast Show to relax on pronouncing his "t's" and "th's" at this stage.

Harry Angstrom

HooohRaaah wrote: »

How has nobody in Marconi House told Chris on the Breakfast Show to relax on pronouncing his "t's" and "th's" at this stage.

The guy who does the business news is ten times worse.

ThirdMan

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Movies And Booze is getting boring.

Does the movie critic still do a mini-review before she actually does the full review, even though she has nothing of interest to say in either of them? So irritating.

The point of a movie critic is to place the film in a certain context, how it relates to other films from the genre/director/era, what themes it's trying to explore, etc.

None of the critics on Newstalk do that. They're modern critics, which means they get paid for saying what they like. Such a pointless job.

touts

ThirdMan wrote: »

Does the movie critic still do a mini-review before she actually does the full review, even though she has nothing of interest to say in either of them? So irritating.

The point of a movie critic is to place the film in a certain context, how it relates to other films from the genre/director/era, what themes it's trying to explore, etc.

None of the critics on Newstalk do that. They're modern critics, which means they get paid for saying what they like. Such a pointless job.

Well some stuck up their own arse self important "critic" waffling about the talking "context" of a movie and the various themes it explores is one way to drive the audience to booze.

ThirdMan

touts wrote: »

Well some stuck up their own arse self important "critic" waffling about the talking "context" of a movie and the various themes it explores is one way to drive the audience to booze.

Listening to 'critics' talking about this year's grapes and bottle-conditioned Norwegian ales... it's enough to drive ya to the cinema.

mike65

has anyone else in the south east lost the signal?

kneemos

mike65 wrote: »

has anyone else in the south east lost the signal?

No.
Louder than it used to be though.

Snake Plisken

Fionn Davenport in for Sean, and have to say makes a nice change from Sean.

kneemos

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Fionn Davenport in for Sean, and have to say makes a nice change from Sean.

Whatever floats your boat.

Bits_n_Bobs

Liam Doran justed claim 'profiteering by airlines' because nurses were emigrating, presumably on profiteering airplanes.....DAMN YOU MICK O'LEARY AND YOUR EVIL PROFITEERING

neris

Bits_n_Bobs wrote: »

Liam Doran justed claim 'profiteering by airlines' because nurses were emigrating, presumably on profiteering airplanes.....DAMN YOU MICK O'LEARY AND YOUR EVIL PROFITEERING

Was changing station to pat heard dorans whiny voice turned off. We must be exporting a serious amount of nurses to keep airlines in profit. Dont forget trade unions dont like business making profits (unless the company gives 100% of profits to union members)

serfboard

neris wrote: »

Dont forget trade unions dont like business making profits (unless the company gives 100% of profits to union members)

I don't think Trade Unions are that silly.

mikom

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Fionn Davenport in for Sean, and have to say makes a nice change from Sean.

If by nice you mean smarmy.

Green Hornet

mike65 wrote: »

has anyone else in the south east lost the signal?

Yes. Comes and goes depending on the day....annoys the hell out of me.

buckfasterer

Jesus Chris is taking this gay rights issue awful personal. He seems mortally offended if someone disagrees with his view. It seems to be the way of younger reporters now though that they are so pc and high and mighty.

Bits_n_Bobs

Ugh listening this morning and Ivan makes a reference to Chris being a windbag...Chris's awesome riposte "NO YOU"RE A WINDBAG!!!" It was better when he

HooohRaaah

When Chris and Ivan have "banter" I feel like throwing up.

Harry Angstrom

What the fook am I listening to at the moment?

Childhood pastimes? Considering McIntyre is just about out of short pants, these memories must be as familiar as if they happened last week......

Harry Angstrom

Coleman and McIntyre think that Captain Morgan is whiskey :rolleyes:

Lapin

And Hookie claims not to know what a Battered Sausage is.

Pull the other one George.

Harry Angstrom

Lapin wrote: »

And Hookie claims not to know what a Battered Sausage is.

Pull the other one George.

He spouts on about Jackie Lennox's in Bandon Road. They've been serving battered sausages in that place since Adam was a boy.

Lapin

There's that. And the way the words 'battered' and 'sausage' kind of give it away too !

brooke 2

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Fionn Davenport in for Sean, and have to say makes a nice change from Sean.

Sean Moncrieff's show has become almost a show for perverts! Vaginas, semen, anecdotes such as the one about the guy who put his penis in his friend's
cocktail!!! - used to like the show but it must have a new producer as Jonathan
McCrea was on yesterday and Fionn Davenport today, and it was more of the
same!

ballsymchugh

brooke 2 wrote: »

Sean Moncrieff's show has become almost a show for perverts! Vaginas, semen, anecdotes such as the one about the guy who put his penis in his friend's
cocktail!!! - used to like the show but it must have a new producer as Jonathan
McCrea was on yesterday and Fionn Davenport today, and it was more of the
same!

i find that too. i listen to it at work all the time, and dealing with the public in a quiet environment, i've had to turn the radio down so many times recently. especially if kids are around too.

brooke 2

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

It's fairly clear at this stage that Henry is being used as a gom. In all his years at Newstalk, he's yet to get himself his own programme. He's a poor man's Paddy O'Gorman, and that's saying something.

Cannot like Henry McKean since he said on IrelandAM with Anton Savage that he thought Garda Commissioner Callinan was 'wonderful' after his appearance before
the PAC when he had described what the whistleblowers had done as 'disgusting'!

brooke 2

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i find that too. i listen to it at work all the time, and dealing with the public in a quiet environment, i've had to turn the radio down so many times recently. especially if kids are around too.

Whew! Was not too sure if anyone would agree with me but it had to be said!
I have felt compelled to change the dial away from Newstalk far too often
recently during Moncrieff's show. Wanted to listen to Jonathan McCrea
yesterday but when he started talking to a woman about her husband's
semen, not even Jonathan's sexy tones could stop me from reaching for
the dial!!

take everything

Regina defending Shatter to the hilt.
Depressing.

Wouldn't mind hearing from Lucinda Creighton.

take everything

Shocking stuff from FG.
Regina Doherty spinning like mad.
Ugh.