Christmas DEADLINE spells death knell of Covid: Yuletide Liveline

TheHomeService

Isn’t this the shyte that Darcy normally inflicts on us?

Bosco, just feck off!

Flukey

Government buildings wrote: »

I wonder if Joe thought this show would be a good idea. I'd say he's having second thoughts now. He will certainly earn his money today.This is heavy going, and not over till 3.

He's got more sense out of them than a lot of callers on a usual day. However difficult they are, it is not €400k's worth.

gmisk

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

These are kids ffs.

I will never understand the need for grown or middle aged adults to criticise small children in this way. This isn't a mod comment just a personal observation. Obviously Duffy is open to criticism but Jesus.

Your entitled to your opinion.
I just prefer to hear from a more down to earth kind of average kid, not the Billy Barry stage school kids but hey just me, just a personal thing, chill out

PieOhMy

Betty beatle is better off than me. I never had a house.

Flukey

Ah will you get off the radio and go back to your box... and take Bosco with you.

generalgerry

RTE now have puppets promoting the mandatory vaccine. Along with the other RTE puppets we have been listening to for the last eight months.

PieOhMy

Covid is a bully. If Tubridy gets his hands in it hes going to break its legs!

gmisk

gmisk wrote: »

Your entitled to your opinion.
I just prefer to hear from a more down to earth kind of average kid, not the Billy Barry stage school kids but hey just me

Nothing wrong with disliking the Billie Barrie kids, until it starts getting personal about specific, individual kids mate.

Totally unnecessary. The programme was an awful idea and there's plenty material here to criticise the host without picking on a small child.

2smiggy

poor child, up rooted from Crosshaven to Louth

gmisk

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Nothing wrong with disliking the Billie Barrie kids, until it starts getting personal about specific, individual kids mate.

Totally unnecessary. The programme was an awful idea and there's plenty material here to criticise the host without picking on a small child.

You have made your point mate, you can get off your high horse now.

TheHomeService

Jesus, that laughter clip is really starting to grate!

11 posts in 15 minutes.


I think it's safe to say its a lousy show today.

gmisk

I am out.

This thread has been great craic this year a welcome distraction when working from home

Have a lovely Christmas all and a happy new year.

BPKS

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

These are kids ffs.

I will never understand the need for grown or middle aged adults to criticise small children in this way. This isn't a mod comment just a personal observation. Obviously Duffy is open to criticism but Jesus.

You wouldn't want to stand on the sideline of a soccer, football or Hurling match caller.

Criticism of young kids is regular but usually not nasty. "He's playing bad today, her kicking is brutal, he looks unfit, no wonder he's useless sure look who his father is".

Of course soon enough legislation will be brought in to ban all forms of criticism of anybody under 18 in case it hurts their feelings.

sligojoek

Ten Pin wrote: »

And there it is....not even trying to hide the nepotism any more

Let me guess.

Darcy's young lad. He was reviewing a film or something on Ray's show recently.

Abel Ruiz

gmisk wrote: »

This child has been over trained with her pronunciations and drama...kind of painful...give me a genuine kid like Caleb any day...

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

These are kids ffs.

I will never understand the need for grown or middle aged adults to criticise small children in this way. This isn't a mod comment just a personal observation. Obviously Duffy is open to criticism but Jesus.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Nothing wrong with disliking the Billie Barrie kids, until it starts getting personal about specific, individual kids mate.

Totally unnecessary. The programme was an awful idea and there's plenty material here to criticise the host without picking on a small child.

Are you for real?
Picking on a small child????? Read what was actually said.
I think you are just looking for something to be offended about.
What an absolute joke!!!!!!


Anyway. The liveliners are the Best threads on boards, it is entertaining to the majority.
And what a year it has been. Loved reading it any day I can.
Keep up the wonderful, brilliant wurk callers!

withless

I didn't hear the show but I just rang in to stay it was an absolute disgrace Joe.

golondrinas

McGinniesta wrote: »

diary of a little bollix

I laughed out loud I saw that. I know I shouldn’t.

ButtersSuki

gmisk wrote: »

You have made your point mate, you can get off your high horse now.

@gmisk, tyring to send you a PM but you mailbox is full so to speak. Can you delete some of your fan mail and let me know when you have done so?

:pac:

TYFYS.

golondrinas

gmisk wrote: »

The great duets of our time Joe Duffy and Caleb....

Is a Caleb a young soon to be Celeb.?

ButtersSuki

withless wrote: »

I didn't hear the show but I just rang in to stay it was an absolute disgrace Joe.

How dare you! It was brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, wunderful, fantastic so it was so to speak - and so were de beauriful chislers - de girdles and de bhoys - and every gender in between and dat so to speak.

ButtersSuki

golondrinas wrote: »

Is a Caleb a young soon to be Celeb.?

He'll be forgotten as quickly as Car-Loss was.

golondrinas

Ten Pin wrote: »

That was Dee Forbes laughing after she read the retirement party incident report

Yeah and Kay Burley got six months ( not in prison).

gmisk

ButtersSuki wrote: »

@gmisk, tyring to send you a PM but you mailbox is full so to speak. Can you delete some of your fan mail and let me know when you have done so?

:pac:

TYFYS.

I have deleted a few, please don't give out to me it has been a long day the last thing I want is a circular firing squad so to speak

ButtersSuki

gmisk wrote: »

I have deleted a few, please don't give out to me it has been a long day the last thing I want is a circular firing squad so to speak

Like a Healy Rae constituent, you're still over de limit caller......

gmisk

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Like a Healy Rae constituent, you're still over de limit caller......

I had no idea I was so popular....deleted some more can you give it another whirl?

Clon63

Ah gmisk is one of the great posters of recent times. He got checked pretty hard back there so to speak and then the thread sort of died. Should have been checked about his aul guff about his hatred for Bagatelle though. That was uncalled for😀

amlinopta

I see the Alan Hughes drive in panto which featured prominently on the show has been cancelled due to restrictions. I wonder how much of the €300k grant they stroked will be refunded?

ButtersSuki

amlinopta wrote: »

I see the Alan Hughes drive in panto which featured prominently on the show has been cancelled due to restrictions. I wonder how much of the €300k grant they stroked will be refunded?

I predict somewhere between €0.00 and €10.00.

gmisk

Clon63 wrote: »

Ah gmisk is one of the great posters of recent times

I chose to stop reading at this point...lol

Atlantic Dawn

I heard someone mention on the radio earlier that Rip.ie was for sale for €5 million, I can't see a mention of it anywhere though, not on any of the usual news sites. Perhaps RTE could buy it as another investment, they could run ads for Fair City alongside the latest deaths.

Clon63

gmisk wrote: »

I chose to stop reading at this point...lol

Feel free to use it as a review for your beaudiful, wunderful self published book next year

Clon63

amlinopta wrote: »

I see the Alan Hughes drive in panto which featured prominently on the show has been cancelled due to restrictions. I wonder how much of the €300k grant they stroked will be refunded?

Heard the ad for the Olympia panto ( think thats the one by the fordener) taking the pias oyt of it - the panto in the car park�� If it is the one that Sammy Sausages was objecting too that is good stuff

goose2005

Flukey wrote: »

Who replaced him, Radu the Roma?

the beano in the good old days

goose2005

goose2005 wrote: »

the beano in the good old days

Omg! So unwoke!

PieOhMy

Update to account for recent events - source
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/disappointment-for-up-to-20000-people-as-drive-thru-panto-forced-to-cancel-from-sunday-39895161.html

Very curious about this whole situation.

First of all Joe Diffy gave a platform on the national station to someone who previously hired him in a private capacity. Mr Sausages had applied for €300,000 to run the annual panto shows in the Shelbourne Hall in the RDS, in be safe ‘COVID-friendly pods’.

Then Sammy Sausages made some allegations about other panto producers on air and where they spend their money and pay their taxes, unchecked by the host.

Ironically Mr Suasages' production company is a tax defaulter.

Then the Department of Arts and Culture discovered that there had been a clerical error and the panto proposal had never found its way in front of the panel to be assessed. The pantos production company, a tax defaulter was subsequently granted the full 300k requested. Without a Government grant their cast and crew will be left without much-needed work.

It was then announced that the panto would take place as drive-in pantomime at Malahide Castle in Dublin i.e recorded and played on a big screen each night.

Maybe if any posters who have experience in applying for grants like this could shed some light on:

Would cost estimates submitted as part of the application be required to be adhered to? As in if it turned out that rental and staff costs turned out to be much lower than set out on the proposal would there be any clawback or audit by the body which issued the grant?

It would be great if the cast and crew were being paid their full fee the same as if they performed each and every matinee and evening show as normal. I really admire people who create business and give employment to other people and support the government's deployment of funds to support the arts.

Further developments.

Sammy sausage will now not being paying the lad working in the carpark or for the use of malhide castle due to the new level 5 restrictions. The panto appears that it is to be streamed direct to people houses instead

The website is not clear on this.

The website has no clear information regarding refunds on the homepage, it does however have instructions for those looking to book extra streams.

I sincerely hope the application for the grant included some more realistic projections on attendance than in the independent article.
If those calculations are applied to the stream idea there could evently be upwards of 7 billion people watching the Sammy Sausages show
Also the simple maths in the article inexplicably is incorrect. 32 X 200 is 6,400, not 6,000.

6,400 X €50 = €320,000.

The article also states that the grant awarded to the tax defaulting production company was for €230,000. This was previously widely reported by the same paper and other papers as being €300,000. €70,000 difference. Another clerical error?

With all these errors it can be hard to keep track of what's happening but as per the independent article there could be funds of anywhere between €530,000 and €620,000 at stake.
If production costs transpire to be lower than projected on the grant application is there any potential for funds to be returned? Is this even a feature of grants? Once the funds are released is that it over and done with? I have no experience of this area so maybe someone more learned than myself might be able to advise?

Welsh Megaman

walshb

Kodaline...

Fook me. What a rank way to start any holiday period!!!

Puke music..

Sir Oxman

Brendan O Cardell loive

walshb

walshb wrote: »

Kodaline...

Fook me. What a rank way to start any holiday period!!!

Puke music..

I hate their tinny-brassy sound.

Sounds like he's in de studio with him

Welsh Megaman

Nothing gets you in the mood for Christmas than a singer who sounds as if he’s crying into the microphone.

He must have travelled from Florida, has he isolated etc?

Trier is in Germany

walshb

2 hours of reliving Covid 2020 misery!!

Sir Oxman

*Misery* makes it's first appearance in de joyful, Christmas celebrations.

Gwynplaine

Need a translator or subtoytiddles for this.

Is this a comedy piece... oh no, a tale of near Death

Test For Echo

Listening to Mourning Ireland and this clown appears to spoil my morning mood! :mad:

Haven't listened to de Joe Duffy Show in a while - turns out daily listening to an overpaid, obnoxious bollix (sorry mods) was causing stress and affecting my sleep. Suffered from poor sleep for a long time but it has improved significantly since I stopped listening to Mr Duffy.

I do miss de thread though. Happy Christmas.

Welsh Megaman

Brendan effortlessly slips into his Mrs. Brown character.

Rock Lesnar

What a load of fun and frolicks