Oiling up the Tape Players out in Montrose.

Apparently he will be doing two programmes a week for the summer.

At least he does research and has an interest in his subject which is more than can be said for Duffy et al.

You said it, Bren.

Once you hand out that sort of moola to a staffer in the building, they are most likely on it for the rest of their days in there. Even if it's only in the firm of an "allowance".

Is it pensionable or non pensionable?

If only there were some public interest watchdogs who would ask questions similar to these on behalf of the license fee payer! Those useless c**nts on the Dail Committee never seem to ask a pertinent question of the DG and her lieutenants.

Often wondered if the staffers take a pay cut when their work load is reduced. Mooney and Darcy post his TV show being two cases in point. 117 employees on more than €100k basic salary as recently as 2020. Handy work if you can get it alright.

one chap in his seventies and the other not far from 70. Madness and unnecessarily expensive. This on a service that is supposed to be fairly specialised with a tiny market share and a listener reach within the margin of error on the JNLR survey (3per cent).

He seems to be no longer with Lyric FM.

I see the six one news is down to 30 minutes with the usual reeling in the years picking up the slack, is that it until September?

The big news of Trimble dying is breaking and theres no one in RTE to cover it properly...id say they are scrambling in there....

Very slow out of the blocks on the app...

Copy and pasting....

Well well well It’s that time again.

The briefcases are packed, the gúnas are taken out, the ‘little place’ in Tuscany has had the beds aired.

Gogggins are getting in the ‘good wine’ as the annual ‘ migration of the stars’ commences.

Ballsy seems gone already…Ronan almost gone…Nooze Hannon moved on…O’Mongáin (what was he doing!) brought in

Seanie peeping o er the parapet again..Marty has enough time to go on stage..

Lets keep an eye on developments here, all contributions welcome.

Meanwhile ….autopilot on…check…FMC updated…check…anti ice on…check…mixture lean……carry on!

I'm having nightmares about the Brenda O'Donoghue documentaries already!

Ciara King in on Late Date, Cathal checked out last Thursday until New Year, other than a Christmas Eve special.

Aengus Cox, son of Valerie who took RTE/the tax payer for €50k in an age discrimination case, with a rare outing as Morning Ireland host alongside Mary Wilson. Some of the regulars already with the feet up.

Lad does it a fair bit, bit of a ‘super sub’ .

Does some various reportage too, however like the Ma in her day doesn’t seem to stray too far from the environs of the M11.

Id say a quadrant of 50 km South from the Mother Ship in Donnybrook would be the lads preferred bailiwick.

Hmmm..

We all need a lord boucher hayes lecture about climate change for christmas....

In fairness that does go out every Monday, think they are on episode 18 now, so be prepared to hear all of them again (some for the 3rd time) every evening over christmas

The 1pm news was about 10mins long...rolled out karen creed (i think)....

Sure news doesnt happen now for the next 3 weeks....

Good call A, came from obscurity as Deppity Foreign Editor, to the Late Debate, to the Saturday gig and now to Drooivetoime as he says himself.

Huge improvement on that braying jackass who holds the position up to now.

Wonder who replaced him as ‘Deppity Foreign Editor’. ……..uhmmmmm….yeh.

Often wonder what kind of a wedge Del Boy gets now.

Was well sinecured back in the day…….I guess we will never know.

Unbelievable Jeff

I’m quite happy to pay the little fecker NOT to broadcast.

One of the two acolytes (one whom is infinitely politer than the other, under their varied sock puppets) will now chime in to remind us how great Del was/is.

Im afraid he wasn’t. I struggle to decide between himself and Arsey, as to who was worse. I actually think it was him rather than Porridge Man, at least Ray didn’t come with Braying Brenda and that absolute harridan Eanna.

Spoke too soon there.

Today was her last appearance of the year.

She's done her bit over the season in fairness...by RTE standards that is.

Thats the point with the ‘so far’ P.

Lots more time to go ….Brenno Courtney on this morning interviewing all women……not one poor man if I recollect correctly.

Plenty of time to make a name for yourself while the ‘stars’ rest their weary bones down around Monkstown and Killiney

Neil Doherty on now, the off button going to get a dunt.

Tommy Mescal is busy, doing the news on radio and TV all week by the look of it.

To hear Neil go a show without an ABBA track and something from the soundtrack of a recent Hollywood musical would be RTÉ's version of Blooms crossing Dublin without passing a pub.

What do guys like Doherty do for the rest of the year.

As bland as a Westmeath motorway.