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The Cash machine stuff is out of control now, no letting up, doesn't matter if it's morning, noon or night.

Despite worse presenters, I've switched to 2fm.

Well you're stuck between a rock and a hard place after the top of the hour news and weather , you can either put up with one minute of Cash machine promotion or multiple minutes of Entertainment updates usually led by Lottie Ryan.

You don't like Ray Foley and JP cos they sound so forced and rehearsed and repeat clips but you genuinely love Dermot and Dave?

Sounds like a big contradiction to me?

Ok, so what I mean is while Dermot and Dave have different regular segments - say Dave's Bad Jokes or "Say stuff that suits the music" - the rest of the time they'll start off talking about Topic X and veer off onto different tangents, the way you do naturally when you're having a conversation with mates down the pub. Like the pronunciation of the name "Ger" today! And when Dermot brings on Nony the tangents can be a bit out there! It all sounds like natural - at least to me.

The other two lads, though, it's like they're reading off a script - one that says "after Ray says X, play the clip again. When Ray repeats what the clip said and JP has responded, play the clip again." They had one today where some kid was pretending to be a celebrity that they must have played 10 times. Maybe it only felt like that cos it wasn't funny after the first time?

Obviously, everything is subjective, YMMV, etc.

Irish radio is being taken over by giveaways, competitions etc.

So many now on shows, being repeated to death.

What ever happened to just having a radio show, a bit of chat and some music? I'd say only a tiny percentage of listeners actually enter competitions on radio.

The ad breaks aren't making ends meet. Other income has to be found.

The Last Word, Pat Kenny Show, The Hard Shoulder et al have absolutely no integrity in taking the high moral ground when discussing the big bad bookies targeting children with advertising during sports events etc when Spin are forcing the Cash Machine down kids throats everyday.

Off the Ball used to be two faced about it and were willing to take a chunk of Paddy Powers revenue and talk about the ills of gambling at the same time but now they just take the bookies money and ignore the problems they are adding to.

Lord christ they dug out Jennifer Gannon to dribble out analysis of the Depp trial. Good comedy tbh.

Shes best left to reviewing Love Island anything else is beyond her.

She essentially felt it was unfair for Amber Herd to lose as she won't be given the opportunity to restart her career, but she felt it was fine for Johnny Depp to lose because he'd get a second chance at his career, even though he had already lost roles due to the original allegations.

She didn't really seem to care about any of the facts behind the case

People still have landlines? 22-year-olds still have landlines?!