The Louise Duffy Show - RTE Radio 1

That viral song is something else. Great to hear her play it.

Why would you wonder that?

Have you nothing better to be wondering about?

I thought tge song was a pile of angry shîte myself but Faye play to her fur playing it. I don’t know why she’s getting flak. It’s normal I’d think to have a producer. It’s bit hospital/college radio. Ronan might have done it all himself but he’d been doing it for years so knew the flow. It did sound though like a one man show. I’d also presume both producers alternate days. I know she’s playing a few songs for an hour but give her a break. It sounds like she was parachuted into the fleadh coverage. It’d have been the same if they’d sent Dave Fanning. It’s not her even but she did ok even though it wasn’t her core thing. That’s why you have producers.

I mean Christ when you have a station with Duffy and D’Arcy bumbling they’d way through their respective slots daily, she’s a breath of fresh air and hardly the worst thing RTE has going for it right now.

As far as I know Lilian Smith, Shay Byrne, John Creedon, the Late Date mob etc. do not work day to day with a producer. They're to pick their own playlists and get on with it.

Someone in authority in RTE has deemed Louise Duffy to be "talent". That means increased resources to support her and a shiny ad campaign for her slot.

The rest of them can feck off. They're not "talent". The same Tubridy style shoite is playing out in real time, before our very eyes despite everything that has gone on. She's a photogenic person who is about local radio standard, in my view.

There are better presenters roaming the corridors of Donnybrook already on a wage - again, just my opinion.

Having spent much of her career playing music from a pre-determined playlist at Today FM, maybe she's not trusted to do what the other R1 music presenters must do.

Agree MrF, kind of bollocks you might hear in a bar in The Rambling House in Emyvale or some such backwater.

Nothing against Louise but bit early to be deifying her on the basis of playing nine or ten songs in a quiet period

on the broadcasting schedule.

Calm the fuuuhrkk down folks……take a chill pill here.

Real media onslaught at the moment, she’s flavour of the month. Definitely picks her own music based on a feature interview in the Sunday Independent Life Magazine. Agonises over every choice!

The 12-1pm slot was down 10000 listeners in the last JNLR survey period (Quarter1 2023).

In fairness, she was only in situ for about half of that time. I'm not sure what the masters of RTE were sensing exactly. Still, she deserves the year and more to see where it's going.

I'm sure a frothy TV series fronted by Ms. Duffy is coming soon.

You don't think they carry out their own research?

Ok.

I don't. I think they looked at her social media stats, her husband and how she looks.

They may have looked into their hearts also.

That's it.

Aah yes, got it now, maybe checking hotels for their standards of spa treatments and stuff, that could be a runner.

You're right, Brenner, the stults don't care about John Q Taxpayer

Now, now Francis. No one said that.

It may have been a consideration for her being hired instead of others though.

My point is there are other, probably better radio presenters overlooked for this gig for other reasons.

But, shur, you speak for "most people" so you know best.

Which other presenters, and is it just your opinion that they are better, and have been overlooked for- what reasons?

Yes, of course it's just my opinion!

Just like all the lads on here dribbling in their pants about how wonderful it all is since she and her 2 producers started playing 'real' music.

Why couldn't the head of radio 1 have said to Lillian or indeed Shay or Grainne Brookfield or Will Leahy or Rick O Shea. Right, you've done your time elsewhere, our listeners know you, like you. We'll get the music right and you bring your personality?

If they were overlooked for some big TV name, I could understand that but Louise Duffy?

Unknown to existing R1 listeners and not the strongest profile outside of that.

If she was a better presenter that those mentioned above, well maybe. But -again this is an opinion - she's not.

But, lookit, if you're hearing tunes you like between 12 and 1 every day, more power to ya.

Well, I'm enjoying the music anyway. And if Louise herself is choosing the tracks, then I'm impressed with her. I assumed she was.

That said, I don't find her to have a particularly engaging personality (in terms of presenting a show - I'm sure she's a lovely person in reality), and have found her few interview segments awkward. It doesn't really matter or detract significantly if she's bringing us great music, and that's the focus for the hour. But if the music is actually being chosen by producers, then it would be difficult to see why she would be chosen over existing RTE personalities who are more engaging.