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ballsymchugh

chughes wrote: »

Did I hear correctly or did Joan Burton belch during an interview a short while ago on the Breakfast Show ?

yep!! i'd say everyone was just thinking wtf and thought nah, that didn't happen!

jeffontour

chughes wrote: »

Did I hear correctly or did Joan Burton belch during an interview a short while ago on the Breakfast Show ?

Good to hear I didn't imagine that.

Penny Dreadful

chughes wrote: »

Did I hear correctly or did Joan Burton belch during an interview a short while ago on the Breakfast Show ?

I thought it was just me!......that heard it that is not that I was the only one who belched:D I waited for her to excuse herself or something. It was really loud.

splendid101

I heard that too! Surely she would have excused herself though? Could it have been something else, like Chris?

robo

Heard it too this morning - but here is a link to the podcast

ballsymchugh

@ 15.05 on part 3 of today's show!

tippx

what if she meets the queen and it happens:eek:

splendid101

What's the deal with Hooky and his cyclist bashing?

Personally, I don't think the same rules should apply to motor vehicles and bicycles. Doesn't make sense to me.

It's one of his hobby horses that he's always getting excited about.

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Harry Angstrom

splendid101 wrote: »

What's the deal with Hooky and his cyclist bashing?

Personally, I don't think the same rules should apply to motor vehicles and bicycles. Doesn't make sense to me.

It's one of his hobby horses that he's always getting excited about.

I think he has a point though. I cycle quite a lot and it always annoys me to see cyclists going through red lights, going the wrong way down one way streets and cycling on foothpaths. They also don't seem to think that they should stop at pedestrian crossings either. Having said that I've been in plenty of scrapes where motorists have cut me up and not given me right of way when I was entitled to it but I think the roads would be a lot safer for everyone if cyclists observed the basic traffic laws. Most of them do not.

mike65

Who is this Arnold Schwarzenigger that Chris O'Donohue keeps mentioning?

Lapin

Arnold Householdstaffshagger !

orourkeda

see ye jane. get off the radio

tippx

I cant stand hook any more since 3 Mths ago I switch over to Matt cooper Less ads for one, and that show he,"s doing on Sat mornings what is it some sort of start up your life" Agony" Uncle, He,s hardly qualified and yes he has a thing against cyclist.
Oh god I feel the Agony!!!!!!!!!from here:eek:

Rubik.

Tom Dunne is going to be presenting a 2 hour music show on Sunday nights, can't help wondering if this may be the start of the process of easing him out of his daytime show.

Ol' Donie

Thats kinda good news. Im afraid i cant listen to him in the morning. Its just lots and lots of talking with nothing being said.
Any other changes to the schedule do you know?

Rubik.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Any other changes to the schedule do you know?

No, I only knew about that because he mentioned on the show yesterday. It starts next Sunday night, I think its going to be from 10 to 12 .

Ol' Donie

Rubik. wrote: »

No, I only knew about that because he mentioned on the show yesterday. It starts next Sunday night, I think its going to be from 10 to 12 .

Thanks for that.
Amazingly that sounds less appealing than a repeat of down to business!!

telekon

If they have any sense, they'll replace Tom (who I incidently like) with someone who can take on Pat Kenny in this time slot as Pat has evidently given up the current affairs format years ago for rubbishy music, cooking segments, book plugging and gardening nonsense.

Definite gap in the market here. Even a phone-in show, a Newstalk Liveline of sorts would be gold in this time slot. And no Funny Friday crap to worry about either. Sort it Newstalk!

Harry Angstrom

telekon wrote: »

Definite gap in the market here. Even a phone-in show, a Newstalk Liveline of sorts would be gold in this time slot. And no Funny Friday crap to worry about either. Sort it Newstalk!

Didn't Newstalk already have a quasi-Liveline show with Brenda Power hosting it? It wasn't all that interesting although she probably wasn't the right person for it. I'd love to see Kevin Myers hosting something like that. He'd eat them alive

On the subject of Tom Dunne, am I the only person who doesn't give a flying fart about his family situation? This is something I've noticed about Ray D'Arcy and Tom Dunne. They go on ad nauseum about their children. Maybe this is to try and make the listener feel that they are privy to their private lives but I just find it dull and boring.

neris

chughes wrote: »

Did I hear correctly or did Joan Burton belch during an interview a short while ago on the Breakfast Show ?

would explain why the joan burton character on gift grub this morning was belching. was away last week so missed that

tippx

neris wrote: »

would explain why the joan burton character on gift grub this morning was belching. was away last week so missed that

Well her meet and greet with the Queen went belch free this evening,
that said she was lookin well in a pink number!!never thaught I,d say that:eek:

hacx

oh holy jesus, Mark Coleman you ******.

mike65

Whats he at now?

edit, I'm listening, Coleman is a very dubious conservative/catholic figure.

michael999999

hacx wrote: »

oh holy jesus, Mark Coleman you ******.

Whats he done?

mike65

Is that Coleman with the noises off?

hacx

Saying the Irish fighting in WW1 should've been fighting in the Easter Rising.

mike65

Not the Channel Islands!

constitutionus

i think the blokes lost the plot.

his ego has inflated MASSIVELY leading to the failed senate bid.

had to turn off yesterday as he basically went off on a polemic.

what is it about newstalks presenters where given enough time they eventually disappear up their own backsides ?

that said nice to hear the text about the ****ing nightmare that is gettinga round the city this week.

it took me two hours waiting for a bus to get me across the suburbs which were no where NEAR the security stuff in town. whole pubic transport is fubard.

Imhof Tank

So, Ivan has been off on sick leave for a couple of weeks at this stage and (imo) Chris and Shane Coleman have been worse than poor -their show is now an irrelevance - just a poor immitation of Morning Ireland.

Yates' input is what differentiates the show. Without him, if say the back injury is so bad as to rule him out long term, they may as well scrap the format altogether.

On Chris specifically- why the showman act? And the hip patter? He cant ask a question without putting it in his form of trendy "modern" speak

- give us your take on ...........
- how did it all play out .........

mike65

I suspect at his age he doesn't know any other way to speak. I find Shane Coleman a more than adequate as a replacement for Yates (if he doesn't return).

Imhof Tank

mike65 wrote: »

I suspect at his age he doesn't know any other way to speak. I find Shane Coleman a more than adequate as a replacement for Yates (if he doesn't return).

Maybe he should work on it then - it doesnt sound good to hear someone being asked about for example a fatality ......"tell us how the day played out".

On Shane Coleman, he is completly different and is not a like for like replacement for Yates - the show himself and Chris are now delivering is really a different format to the Chris/Yates show.

mike65

May not be bad thing, Yates to my mind was getting a bit too "loud" and his repartee with Chris was frankly tedious

Imhof Tank

mike65 wrote: »

May not be bad thing, Yates to my mind was getting a bit too "loud" and his repartee with Chris was frankly tedious

Meh, I like Ivan

The perspective he brings to issues is unique.

Shane Coleman was/is a good journalist and Chris is full of enthusiasm - but what do either of them (or any of the regulars on MI or drivetime) know about for example running for election, running a government department, coalitions generally, employers issues, running a business,crashing a business etc, etc.

Macy0161

mike65 wrote: »

May not be bad thing, Yates to my mind was getting a bit too "loud" and his repartee with Chris was frankly tedious

I'm back listening to it a bit more with Coleman. He'll never last - not ranty right wing US talk radio enough for modern day Newstalk...

magotch07

i have completely gone off the breakfast shows since Yates has been sick....its just not as good

mike65

Maybe the solution is Yates and Coleman

Imhof Tank

mike65 wrote: »

Maybe the solution is Yates and Coleman

That would be the dream team allright.

NT snapped up Coleman the minute the Tribune went down which looked ominous for Chris at the time.

fifth

Darragh from boards on Moncreif right now.

DEFTLEFTHAND

mike65 wrote: »

Maybe the solution is Yates and Coleman

That would be my preference aswell , with Chris maybe taking up a roving reporter role.

Rubik.

The Breakfast Show's listenership went up by 23,000 in the last quarter, so I don't think Newstalk will be sharing the view that the Yates-Donoghue combo is a problem that needs to be solved.

irishh_bob

mike65 wrote: »

I suspect at his age he doesn't know any other way to speak. I find Shane Coleman a more than adequate as a replacement for Yates (if he doesn't return).

so replace a staunch FG man with a staunch FF one

bamboozle

getting fed up with newstalk breakfast, this morning's 7.30 sports bulletin they give feck all time to the HC final tomorrow followed by golf and a 2 minute interview with a Kerry footballer, their 8.30 sports starts with a story on Carlos Tevez followed by Golf followed by news on the HC final.

fred funk }{

I'm sorry to say it because I used to be a fan of his but Chris is really starting to grate on me lately. The over emphasis of the letter 'T' is unbearable at this stage. I turned off this morning when he was interviewing the mother of the unjoined-cojoined twins, dreadful interview.

Speak Now

According to Chris tomorrow is "Sattaday"!

constitutionus

ha !

newstalk send sean moncreif down to cork and the lines gone down. davenport is doing his show now from dublin.

of all the days, i bet seans raging.

Imhof Tank

Rubik. wrote: »

The Breakfast Show's listenership went up by 23,000 in the last quarter, so I don't think Newstalk will be sharing the view that the Yates-Donoghue combo is a problem that needs to be solved.

Yes but would the Coleman -Donoghue combo we have at the moment maintain those figures?

I doubt it.

Skid

constitutionus wrote: »

ha !

newstalk send sean moncreif down to cork and the lines gone down. davenport is doing his show now from dublin.

of all the days, i bet seans raging.

Did Davenport just say Moncrieff was in Galway?

Why would he go to Galway when they have studios in Cork, today of all days.

Lapin

constitutionus wrote: »

ha !

newstalk send sean moncreif down to cork and the lines gone down. davenport is doing his show now from dublin.

of all the days, i bet seans raging.

I am now convinced that Fionn Davenport lives in the Newstalk building.

constitutionus

this is great craic.

the whole stations falling apart, not only did they not get back to sean they couldnt even get quillys Q tip to play them out.

now doing ads to get to hooky.



have to say though fionn is doing alright considering, just making a joke out of it and rolling with it which TBH is the best way to go in these circumstances.