Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

Snake Plisken · 17-09-2016 8:49pm

Say Your Number wrote: »

He had another go at George there

I took his taking the piss out of George as playful but it seems more serious than that, he's a lot more friendly to the Drive presenters, the hand over is nowhere near as frosty.

He does seem diplomatic overall about it, don't know if I'd be the same....

He always made fun of George! I was listening to Tom Dunne during the week and I genuinely think he is better suited to the show then Sean, Tom's has a laid back approach to presenting whereas Sean seems uptight all the time and looking for something to get offended about!
I wouldn't be surprised if he leaves Newstalk in the near future with his Girlfrind Caroline in RTÉ!

foxtrot101 · 18-09-2016 1:27am

Snake Plisken wrote: »

He always made fun of George! I was listening to Tom Dunne during the week and I genuinely think he is better suited to the show then Sean, Tom's has a laid back approach to presenting whereas Sean seems uptight all the time and looking for something to get offended about!

Sean has well over twice the number of listeners than what Tom Dunne had when he was presenting the mid-morning show on Newstalk.

barryegan · 04-10-2016 2:35pm

Moncrieff once again not afraid to hint at his contempt for Hook during the changeover.

Ol' Donie · 04-10-2016 2:46pm

barryegan wrote: »

Moncrieff once again not afraid to hint at his contempt for Hook during the changeover.

Didn't hear today, but wasn't impressed with Tom Dunne yesterday (Tom:I'm filling in for Sean, dunno where he is. George: Probably on his second holiday this week.)

I've a bad feeling about all this.

jooksavage · 04-10-2016 3:14pm

barryegan wrote: »

Moncrieff once again not afraid to hint at his contempt for Hook during the changeover.

What did he say? I managed to inadvertently catch 10 seconds worth of Hook when I got in my car at lunch. He was banging on about vaccines again. It must annoy Sean no end that his show lost 30 mins to that crap.

barryegan · 07-10-2016 1:17pm

Ah Hook just had this patronizing tone when asking what was coming up and sounded like Moncrieff wasn't all that impressed.

Ol' Donie · 07-10-2016 1:48pm

barryegan wrote: »

Ah Hook just had this patronizing tone when asking what was coming up and sounded like Moncrieff wasn't all that impressed.

Did you hear yesterday when Sean had a guy on about swearing?

Someone textedin to say "These days, I normally say what the George Hook is going on instead of swearing"

I believe Sean's reply was "that's about right" or something along those lines.

Evil_g · 07-10-2016 2:01pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSLGrkMO8iI

Say Your Number · 07-10-2016 2:27pm

Given that he had time cut to make room for some ill-informed soapboxing I think Sean deserves a lot of credit for not saying 'go f*ck yourself' to George's condesending tone everyday.

I have to say I'm listening to the show less and less these days, it seems rushed and truncated, hopefully common sense will prevail and Sean get's his hour back and whoever was responsible for this decision is shot out of a catapult.

ballsymchugh · 07-10-2016 2:35pm

Say Your Number wrote: »

Given that he had time cut to make room for some ill-informed soapboxing I think Sean deserves a lot of credit for not saying 'go f*ck yourself' to George's condesending tone everyday.

I have to say I'm listening to the show less and less these days, it seems rushed and truncated, hopefully common sense will prevail and Sean get's his hour back and whoever was responsible for this decision is shot out of a catapult.

has anyone noticed sean seemingly overcompensating his side of the argument this week? he's brought up fox news at the start of his show today and yesterday while most of us aren't really that bothered, we know the score with them.
it seems he's trying too hard.
i still listen but same as you, less and less. i can't be arsed listening to drivetime for that 30 mins at 4, so sometimes switch off earlier when i get a chance.

Snake Plisken · 07-10-2016 2:51pm

He is being squeezed out Is Henry gone fully from the show? I notice he is on the crappy Chris O'Donaghue show that follows Sean's every evening!

buckfasterer · 07-10-2016 3:31pm

Does Esther who reviews the movies like ANY film she reviews? She's painful to listen to here and in competition with Sean with the um um ah um nonsense.

davef1000 · 08-10-2016 1:40pm

Seán is currently RTing up a storm of people who are annoyed at the show losing an hour. (He won a PPI award last night, and lots of people are tweeting their congratulations, and admonishing Newstalk for the cut.)

08-10-2016 5:59pm

davef1000 wrote: »

Seán is currently RTing up a storm of people who are annoyed at the show losing an hour. (He won a PPI award last night, and lots of people are tweeting their congratulations, and admonishing Newstalk for the cut.)

He RT'd this too, adding to the speculation of bad blood between Hook and Moncrieff

https://twitter.com/KillHill101/status/784707685585416192

theoldbreed · 08-10-2016 7:36pm

buckfasterer wrote:

Does Esther who reviews the movies like ANY film she reviews? She's painful to listen to here and in competition with Sean with the um um ah um nonsense.

Agreed. She has a bank of phrases she uses.... just didn't do it for me I'm afraid being her favourite. She ruins the segment for me, anytime she shares a film I know I'll love it. She hated Horrible Bosses, I nearly died laughing in the cinema!

Horse84 · 08-10-2016 8:26pm

theoldbreed wrote: »

Agreed. She has a bank of phrases she uses.... just didn't do it for me I'm afraid being her favourite. She ruins the segment for me, anytime she shares a film I know I'll love it. She hated Horrible Bosses, I nearly died laughing in the cinema!

She is absolutely desperate. I've said it about her before. Nothing personal at all purely professional. She even says yday I can be a bit simple at times when it comes to plots or something along those lines.... The fact that she slated girl on a train is after convincing me to go and see it now. Is she employed elsewhere as a reviewer or what?
That whole segment is destroyed anyhow. I'd look forward to it every Friday but now it's rushed and feels like it's just stuck in there. It was all relaxed and a bit zany before. Absolutely disgusted that the show was cut. Hard to believe moncrieff actually stood for it himself?

08-10-2016 9:01pm

Horse84 wrote: »

Is she employed elsewhere as a reviewer or what?

The Sunday World, the paper of record among certain government employees, which also employs Paul 'Scumbags' Williams.

Say Your Number · 09-10-2016 12:00am

On the whole Twitter thing, I have seen Sean retweet negative stuff too, so he's at least balanced about it.

Have to laugh at the kicking Newstalk are taking about this

styron · 09-10-2016 12:02am

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

The Sunday World, the paper of record among certain government employees, which also employs Paul 'Scumbags' Williams.

Miltiades, your finger is no longer on the pulse of baser instincts of Hoi Polloi ... Williams vacated that august institution in 2010.

ShagNastii · 10-10-2016 1:47pm

Haven't been completely enamoured by all the new shifts and changes in Newstalk but the killer is losing that first half hour of Moncrieff.

Was one of my most enjoyed parts of daily radio. Just a casual chat with some random public figure.

j.s. pill II · 10-10-2016 1:57pm

ShagNastii wrote: »

Haven't been completely enamoured by all the new shifts and changes in Newstalk but the killer is losing that first half hour of Moncrieff.

I'm by no means a daily radio listener but I do like catching a the start of Moncrieff at lunch time when I can. Can't say I was too happy when I switched on this afternoon only to hear Hook. Thought he might have been just filling in but alas, no. He's only gone and knocked Moncrieff's show out of my lunch hour. What a nasty surprise for a Monday.

ThisRegard · 10-10-2016 2:40pm

Missed the handover from Hook to Sean today, how was it considering the flurry of tweets over the weekend?

kunst nugget · 10-10-2016 2:41pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

Missed the handover from Hook to Sean today, how was it considering the flurry of tweets over the weekend?

George all praise for Sean on his win at the PPI awards.

Ol' Donie · 10-10-2016 2:45pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

Missed the handover from Hook to Sean today, how was it considering the flurry of tweets over the weekend?

It was way, way friendlier than usual.

kunst nugget · 10-10-2016 2:48pm

Ol' Donie wrote: »

It was way, way friendlier than usual.

George talking to the whales about being friends with Sean was surreally great.

Say Your Number · 13-10-2016 3:11pm

Turned it on while they were playing the clip of your man ranting and raving about Clinton and I thought they'd given Hook more time and he'd gotten more intense and extreme :eek:

PopePalpatine · 13-10-2016 3:35pm

Say Your Number wrote: »

Turned it on while they were playing the clip of your man ranting and raving about Clinton and I thought they'd given Hook more time and he'd gotten more intense and extreme :eek:

I'm not listening to the show at the moment but I guessed you were talking about Drumpf's buddy Alex Jones, so I checked Sean's Twitter...and I was right! :pac:

ballsymchugh · 14-10-2016 12:09am

Say Your Number wrote: »

Turned it on while they were playing the clip of your man ranting and raving about Clinton and I thought they'd given Hook more time and he'd gotten more intense and extreme :eek:

i mentioned it earlier, but why the feck is he playing these clips from american nut jobs??
most of us are aware of who they are and don't need to know much more, but it's almost like the reverse of us complaining about Global Village. he starts off with these far right nutbags to justify his liberalism.

tommyboy2222 · 14-10-2016 9:36am

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i mentioned it earlier, but why the feck is he playing these clips from american nut jobs??
most of us are aware of who they are and don't need to know much more, but it's almost like the reverse of us complaining about Global Village. he starts off with these far right nutbags to justify his liberalism.

Because if you don't agree with his lefty PC right on views you are a right wing conspiracy theorist redneck angry white man racist

jooksavage · 14-10-2016 9:49am

ballsymchugh wrote: »

i mentioned it earlier, but why the feck is he playing these clips from american nut jobs??
most of us are aware of who they are and don't need to know much more, but it's almost like the reverse of us complaining about Global Village. he starts off with these far right nutbags to justify his liberalism.

In fairness, that clip was pretty funny and it warranted broadcast by the fact that the Republican nominee thinks that Jones has an "amazing" reputation. Comparing Global Village to Infowars is quite a stretch (and I'm saying this as someone who hates GV)

Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

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