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emo72

Poly wrote: »

Muppets on with new cookbooks every second day now, it's really getting tedious.

People stuffing their faces on air is really poor radio

This really upsets me. I cant cook. My missus can't cook. I see all these food programmes on TV and then they are selling their books. I'm starving thinking about it.

Anyway back over to McDonald's for a euro burger lads?

CountyHurler

:eek:

Muff Richardson

nicedryturf wrote: »

Jesus, these Happy Pear guys seem to be everywhere now doing the hard sell on their book - Brendan O Connor, Ray D'Arcy, Newstalk Breakfast. I'm expecting them to pop up between Golden Memories and the Obituaries on Tipp Mid any minute. This kind of over-exposure has made resolve not to buy their bloody book, even as a present for someone else.

I've been once and it was rank, I then got a take away salad and that was rank too...maybe because it was healthy or supposed to be, but it didnt seem so, it was absolutely drenched in dressing and oil and was more like a stew of soggy veg. Its some of the priciest food around also. €5.50 for one of those small plastic containers of salad. The place itself in Greystones is a nightmare, packed to the brim with SUV driving yuppy not so yummy mummies and those car sized prams they bring with them wherever they want. Tables completely covered in various baby feeding devices, toys, food, clothing and breast pumps (ok, maybe not the breast pumps but you get the picture)...all round a highly unpleasant dining experience. I think I'll give it a miss.

neris

Muff Richardson wrote: »

I've been once and it was rank, I then got a take away salad and that was rank too...maybe because it was healthy or supposed to be, but it didnt seem so, it was absolutely drenched in dressing and oil and was more like a stew of soggy veg. Its some of the priciest food around also. €5.50 for one of those small plastic containers of salad. The place itself in Greystones is a nightmare, packed to the brim with SUV driving yuppy not so yummy mummies and those car sized prams they bring with them wherever they want. Tables completely covered in various baby feeding devices, toys, food, clothing and breast pumps (ok, maybe not the breast pumps but you get the picture)...all round a highly unpleasant dining experience. I think I'll give it a miss.

Sounds like ross ocarroll kelly meets north wickla

ballsymchugh

has that horse**** with the news stopped already after only 2 days?!!
that's the spirit Newstalk. keep reading this thread for accurate criticism!

Harry Palmr

NT running an hour of propaganda for Wellness (WRAP) as run by Mary Ellen Copeland. Not saying it doesn't work, just wondering why its getting what amounts to radios version of a Sponsored Feature.

nicedryturf

Ian O'Doherty on the Sunday Show there. He's a solid go-to-guy when you need someone who knows nothing but damn if he doesn't have an opinion about everything.

McDave

nicedryturf wrote: »

Ian O'Doherty on the Sunday Show there. He's a solid go-to-guy when you need someone who knows nothing but damn if he doesn't have an opinion about everything.

He's very fond of himself. However, I like the way he put the boot into the amplified buskers on Grafton Street. They're an entirely legitimate target, and should be given the bum's rush without further ado.

nicedryturf

McDave wrote: »

He's very fond of himself. However, I like the way he put the boot into the amplified buskers on Grafton Street. They're an entirely legitimate target, and should be given the bum's rush without further ado.

Yeah but that's all he's good for - putting the boot in. And as much as I could agree with him about the crappy buskers, he still managed to sound like a tool with that stupid story - "One of my mates, roight, mimed giving money to a mime act huh huh huh. And then the mime chased him huh huh huh" Cool story Ian.

Lteegan

God Newstalk really misses Hooky at this time of the day. He would have made the last two topics, water charges and recycling, a lot more lively (even though I do like Shane Coleman).

Calhoun

Lteegan wrote: »

God Newstalk really misses Hooky at this time of the day. He would have made the last two topics, water charges and recycling, a lot more lively (even though I do like Shane Coleman).

Thats a double edge sword he can be interesting when hes not trying to feed his ego or waffling on about how hes old.

Don't get my wrong when it comes to pieces on the elderly he is quite good but he plays off on it too much in his other slots, sometimes he plays way to dumb to be believable.

Judgement Day

Calhoun wrote: »

Thats a double edge sword he can be interesting when hes not trying to feed his ego or waffling on about how hes old.

Don't get my wrong when it comes to pieces on the elderly he is quite good but he plays off on it too much in his other slots, sometimes he plays way to dumb to be believable.

+1

But when he starts on about the 'lovely Ingrid' or 'leafy Foxrock'....

CountyHurler

Coleman is asking a lot of hard questions to Pat Falvey all the same... I dont really get Pat Falvey .. If he has a death wish then let him off, but bringing him on acting the hero just encourages other people to follow him up the hill.... Fair enough if it's a single man, but most of these people have families... At least Shane Coleman is calling him on it...

Those 50 people that died Pat.. Was it worth it for their families? Was it responsible?

Judgement Day

Gaelige.... but I reached the radio before the second word was uttered.

Calhoun

CountyHurler wrote: »

Coleman is asking a lot of hard questions to Pat Falvey all the same... I dont really get Pat Falvey .. If he has a death wish then let him off, but bringing him on acting the hero just encourages other people to follow him up the hill.... Fair enough if it's a single man, but most of these people have families... At least Shane Coleman is calling him on it...

Those 50 people that died Pat.. Was it worth it for their families? Was it responsible?

I don't know what it is about Shane but his questioning style annoys me, no idea why as hes a good counter argument.

Lapin

I like Christy O'Connor's contributions to OTB on Clare Hurling, but Jesus he has a serious dose of the 'ya know, ya know' bug.

jimmyw

Lteegan wrote: »

God Newstalk really misses Hooky at this time of the day. He would have made the last two topics, water charges and recycling, a lot more lively (even though I do like Shane Coleman).

Calhoun wrote: »

I don't know what it is about Shane but his questioning style annoys me, no idea why as hes a good counter argument.

Well I dont, I think he is one of the most annoying presenters on air.Too boring and too PC correct.A pro government supporter.He agrees with all these extra charges etcs.Easy for him to say.Afraid to offend anyone.

Four more days of him to go.

The Duncan Stewart interview proved that, he should have just let him go from the studio that time, instead of letting him rant on talking bull.

At least George says what he thinks.Although he should not keep going on about "Ingrid" alot of the time.

michael999999

jimmyw wrote: »

Well I dont, I think he is one of the most annoying presenters on air.Too boring and too PC correct.A pro government supporter.He agrees with all these extra charges etcs.Easy for him to say.Afraid to offend anyone.

Four more days of him to go.

The Duncan Stewart interview proved that, he should have just let him go from the studio that time, instead of letting him rant on talking bull.

At least George says what he thinks.Although he should not keep going on about "Ingrid" alot of the time.

If you think Shane Coleman is a Gov supporter, you obviously don't listen to him.

The man is the most loyal Fianna fail supporter I have ever heard. He is usually in hysterics if you criticize he's beloved Fianna fail.

And he's brother in law is former minister dermot ahern!

Calhoun

michael999999 wrote: »

If you think Shane Coleman is a Gov supporter, you obviously don't listen to him.

The man is the most loyal Fianna fail supporter I have ever heard. He is usually in hysterics if you criticize he's beloved Fianna fail.

And he's brother in law is former minister dermot ahern!

I think it's his questioning style, he is to keen too aggressive when it comes to asking questions.

You nearly get the impression he knows too much about the topic than the person he's interviewing so without letting them finish their point he jump's all overthem.

In comparison, if you listen to Pat (When i have listened) he lets them speak first then questions.

jimmyw

michael999999 wrote: »

If you think Shane Coleman is a Gov supporter, you obviously don't listen to him.

The man is the most loyal Fianna fail supporter I have ever heard. He is usually in hysterics if you criticize he's beloved Fianna fail.

And he's brother in law is former minister dermot ahern!

Well maybe your right and I don't listen for long enough because I change channels, but when I do, he seems to be defending all the decisions of the government.(I suppose Fianna Fall and Fine Gael are really the same) I normally dont hear him put the other side of the argument, but I could be wrong.

michael999999

jimmyw wrote: »

Well maybe your right and I don't listen for long enough because I change channels, but when I do, he seems to be defending all the decisions of the government.(I suppose Fianna Fall and Fine Gael are really the same) I normally dont hear him put the other side of the argument, but I could be wrong.

I can't stand listening to him. He sees no wrong with what he's beloved Fianna fail have done to this country.

If this guy was a political correspondent for a national paper its no wonder nothing was ever written about FF during there years of mass fraud!

CountyHurler

I thought the country would have had enough of PWC's advice ?

Muff Richardson

CountyHurler wrote: »

I thought the country would have had enough of PWC's advice ?

Country is doing well; call in PWC for consultation. Country collapses; call in PWC for an audit

michael999999

CountyHurler wrote: »

I thought the country would have had enough of PWC's advice ?

There also on radio 1.

The circle is obviously still intact!

Say Your Number

No Moncrieff today, feckin budget misery all day long...

Washout

is there no George Hook for the budget coverage?

ThisRegard

Washout wrote: »

is there no George Hook for the budget coverage?

On hols, Chris and Ivan doing it.

Ol' Donie

The f***ing volume increase during the ads drives me nuts.

CountyHurler

It's eh. eh .e h. eh. eh ... Jack O' eh eh eh Connor... That's all folks..

Muff Richardson

is that the same dozy cow that does/did that crap technology slot giving her expert opinion on the budget?

califano

Jamie Heaslip was on Newstalk getting thick with Ivan,
I don’t think it was the interview he expected as Ivan started in a vein of ‘I was in the Aviva last week, what hapenned?’’.
Heaslip got thick and said ‘’well you were there, we lost’’.
Then his answer to Ivans next question was ‘’I think that’s a ridiculous question’’.
And it went on in that vein. I think Ivan was just about to taunt him about their new pub in Ballsbridge ‘’The Bridge 12’’(Formerly Bellamys who be bought and redesigned with the Carney brothers and Sean O Brien but the line went dead whether by accident or design.
Heaslip wouldn’t really know the cut of Yeats jib so probably expected a standard claire mc namara sideline interview!

Ol' Donie

Heard the start of that. Poor old Heaslip he wasn't expecting that at all. Although i think he went a bit far (what happened? Yis had no passion!), i'd love to see Ivan bring that to the Late Late Show host's chair.

Imagine the next Twink interview..."sure what happened, i thought your career finished in the eighties...why do you keep coming on here?"

CountyHurler

Heaslip is usually very controlled and mild mannered. I wonder was it a publicity stunt...

honeybear

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Heard the start of that. Poor old Heaslip he wasn't expecting that at all. Although i think he went a bit far (what happened? Yis had no passion!), i'd love to see Ivan bring that to the Late Late Show host's chair.

Imagine the next Twink interview..."sure what happened, i thought your career finished in the eighties...why do you keep coming on here?"

When Yates was on the LLS recently, I thought he'd be a much better host than Tubridy.

Grolschevik

What was that dreadful song they played a clip of at the end of Breakfast? Sounded like a rejected Smiths b-side.

Bits_n_Bobs

Chris continually referring to 'the twitter machine' AARRGHH!!! Shut up shut up shut up!!

Am I alone in being so mentally unbalanced that this gives me rage???

ThisRegard

It's most likely because of Vincent Brown. It's now part of peoples vocabulary so I guess it's off to the funny farm for you.

yosser hughes

Bits_n_Bobs wrote: »

Chris continually referring to 'the twitter machine' AARRGHH!!! Shut up shut up shut up!!

Am I alone in being so mentally unbalanced that this gives me rage???

No you're not.

Shiraz 4.99

Bits_n_Bobs wrote: »

Chris continually referring to 'the twitter machine' AARRGHH!!! Shut up shut up shut up!!

Am I alone in being so mentally unbalanced that this gives me rage???

Chris is just mimicking Vincent Browne's mocking of Twitter.

Did you hear Mark Little laughing at politicians last week who haven't a clue about social media, phrases like twitter machine & interweb being bandied about.

vidor

Bits_n_Bobs wrote: »

Chris continually referring to 'the twitter machine' AARRGHH!!! Shut up shut up shut up!!

Am I alone in being so mentally unbalanced that this gives me rage???

This post really should have come with a health warning.

DEFTLEFTHAND

CountyHurler wrote: »

Heaslip is usually very controlled and mild mannered. I wonder was it a publicity stunt...

Some of the rugby boys are a bit precious, they're not used to anyone in the media criticising them.

I wouldn't be surprised if poor old Ivan is put on the blacklist.

serfboard

English fella on Moncrieff this afternoon plugging a book he's just written about rich people. While he was talking about the 1% and the 0.1% I was wondering if he knew he was talking on a station owned by one of Ireland's 0.0001%?

He mentioned super-rich people being from all countries, including Ireland, but Seán never followed up on that one ...

kumate_champ07

serfboard wrote: »

English fella on Moncrieff this afternoon plugging a book he's just written about rich people. While he was talking about the 1% and the 0.1% I was wondering if he knew he was talking on a station owned by one of Ireland's 0.0001%?

He mentioned super-rich people being from all countries, including Ireland, but Seán never followed up on that one ...

He actually replied to a text about Denis O Brien afterwards, do you expect him/anyone to speak negatively about their employer?

SEPT 23 1989

Granny's phone:o:pac:

Ol' Donie

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Granny's phone:o:pac:

That was hilarious.

And so was Chris telling us a few minutes before about the note Ivan left on his desk!

buckfasterer

Incase anyone missed it

http://www.newstalk.com/Texts-from-beyond-the-grave-Ebola-and-Sinn-Fin:-Heres-the-Newstalk-Breakfast-paper-review

constitutionus

lads is anyone else having a problem with the stream?

regularly now it starts replaying the last show and i find myself having to refresh the page to hear the live stream again.

fecking annoying.

hullaballoo

constitutionus wrote: »

lads is anyone else having a problem with the stream?

regularly now it starts replaying the last show and i find myself having to refresh the page to hear the live stream again.

fecking annoying.

It's happening with most of the Communicorp sites for me. Spin1038 is completely dead and has been for a while but Newstalk, TXFM, 98fm and Today FM are all the same for me: periodically going back to some earlier point in the day until the déjà vu gets too much and I realise what's going on.

ThisRegard

constitutionus wrote: »

lads is anyone else having a problem with the stream?

hullaballoo wrote: »

It's happening with most of the Communicorp sites for me.

Yeah, they're pretty unreliable. There were a few mornings this week where I switched to Morning Ireland because the Newstalk one was non existent. I regularly get it with Today FM too.

CountyHurler

She's off laughing already... How long before we're talking about obesity in children and sugary drinks for the millionth time..