Louise McSharry in the evening

buckfasterer wrote: »

I remember her breakfast show that was on iRadio around 4 years ago. Ridiculously condescending to people and a real attitude. You can see it coming out in the articles she writes for The Journal also.

I remember her on TheJournal-coincidentally the only outlet I have seen covering her departure.

Not like them to have an agenda ;)

Think that Anton Savage didn't get to do a farewell show and neither did Adrian & Jeremy (according to their tweets). And I think Ray Darcy (who moved on his own Accord to RTE). I think when radio presenters are let go or jump ship, they don't get to do a farewell show. But I could be wrong.

So did she say why she was sacked? Anyone know?

I often think of the breakfast show with the garrihy lady, lurch and the overly camp irritating guy and think how badly the likes of career djs get treated by rte, take Louise mcsharry who has done the early mornings and late nights and put in the hard work for years only to be looked over for the talentless hacks currently on the breakfast show, likewise gerry ryans daught by virtue of the fact she's daddy's girl got a grand cushy number when surely there were better djs pounding the halls of montrose, they tried to do the same to jenny Green but for a public backlash, Damien farrely and will leahy booted or given a demotion by some simpleton spending too much time on Instagram or twitter to see who the wokest newcomer out there is that can make the whole mess a little more messy, they had a great team with Bernard and Keith and kicked them to touch for the 3 current morons who's biggest surprise every day is believing their luck in landing a job as handy as primetime radio on the national broadcaster.

2fm is a clusterfuck ATM and until they get rid of the like of donnacha who can hardly string a sentence together maybe due to too many punts on the head playing ruggerball or doreen who but for her father being pally with ian dempsey to get her big sister the start years ago would thankfully be working as a beautician or hairdresser in some dive in clondalkin, its a bad system where mediocrity and being in the clique is rewarded over hard work and endurance and its showing in the level of broadcasting that's being produced, its a huge dumbing down of product for the listener and they'll pay for it in the long run .....hopefully, but I doubt it

we dont know the full story. obviously there was a genuine reason for 2fm to part ways with L McS and maybe she wasnt thrown under a bus

the reason will likely be that the management are happy with his figures, his show is a specialist show also.

understandable they would want to keep him for as long as they can, the same as they did with larry (RIP)

I like Dave Fanning's show. He has some interesting guests and features. It's a nice break from the generic shite they and Today FM normally havecl on

I would say that Dave Fanning might be an employee as opposed to contract worker, which is what most of the new "presenters" (they are not really DJs) have and probably Larry Gogan was too.

I like Dave and I listened to him more when he was on 9 to 11am at the weekend, his lunch time slot doesn't suit me for live listening but I do catch some of his podcasts. When Louise got the 9am weekend slot, I tried to listen but I had to give up (I am female, mid 40's) but I just couldn't enjoy it anymore. Bring back Dave to that slot please!

It does see heartless that at the drop of a hat, presenters can lose their jobs and its harsh to think that is the nature of the game.

It's more public when it happens on radio or TV of course. Being in the public eye is part and parcel of a presenter's gig so it ends up on Twitter in no time.

It's not even the music, it's the knowledge he has and the way he can interview even the biggest stars, can you imagine dreary doirean or some of the rest of the simpletons with the same experience in 30 years, no chance, they're an embarrassment to hard working djs who put in the years only to be overlooked for the brain drain morons on the breakfast show, niall boylan would be more enjoyable listening than these pampered over publicised excuses for entertainment, the only thing I'd like to see them doing is a version of the hunger games, now that would be worth the license fee

To be honest. I think she was shafted by RTE. But I have little sympathy for her. I don't rate her as a broadcast. And she comes across poorly on air and in her writing.

Maybe I am picking up on her wrong. But she just comes across as so condescending.

Some bang of entitlement off her-she fitted in well with the journal, when she was there-load of delicate types who were never chastised by their parents and think it's all about them.

I presume networking means cold-calling other professional victims?

Oh yes, I remember her getting some criticism in the Twitter for that.

Along the lines of (not my terminology), overweight bird criticises formerly overweight bird for losing weight and making other overweight birds look bad.

I don’t know where she was going with the whole calling out of Adele thing, but if I recall, she gave out to her for bowing to the patriarchy or something.

I'm not sure what the purpose of this puff piece was meant to be. Ideally, it should've been timed to coincide with the launch of her podcast or some other project she has on the go. Instead, it came across as a "Poor Me" article. It's never nice to see anybody lose their job but a sizeable number of radio presenters are dispensable and could be axed at any time. She is just the latest in a long line of people who've suffered this fate. There are only so many jobs to go around and there are a few decent presenters who are now without a mic to sit in front of. As has been mentioned already, the podcast market is saturated. Unless she has something unique to offer or has a load of die-hard fans, it's hard to see where this enterprise will go for her. There are only so many hours in the day and so many podcasts anybody can listen to. She might need to start considering a Plan B or a Plan C.