2fm - New schedule coming

I would literally take DJ3000 from The Simpsons over her.

She is the most bland and pointless host I literally can think of. Barely capable of doing the celeb gossip slot on a show and is living of her fathers legacy (not that she would mention him at every possible opportunity).

Constant stream of bland stories about her on vip/rsvplive and similar when she literally had a holiday or wants to push some product to people as well, painful individual.

She's another tubridy that just hasn't been found out yet.

Pull away the safety blanket of rte and she'd sink.

I hear they've got some new guy called Bryan tubridy, a DJ in England I believe.

Looks like Laura Fox is off next week, with Blaithnaid stepping in. Not ideal for the start of the "summer schedule", but I'm sure they are wholidays booked from a while ago.

Don’t know but you’d think there was some other mention given it’s the 45th anniversary of the station.

btw here’s the schedule for RTE radio 2 on June 1st, 1979(first full day).

6:30am Declan Meehan’s Breakfast Show. Early morning pop
9:30am Vincent Hanley
12:00 Larry Gogan
2:00 sponsored programme
2:15 sponsored programme
2:30 Ronan Collins
4:15 schools out -Top 40
5:00 Wheelin’ Home
7:00 Here comes the weekend
8:00 Ken’s Klub. Ken Stewart
10:00 Night moves with Mark Cagney
12:00 midnight Dave Fanning
2:00 Closedown

wheelin' home was presented by Marty and Here comes the weekend was gerry ryan

It is interesting to read how that thread ended.

It seems to me there is a group shutting down any real criticism of an RTÉ presenter regardless of who they are. (I'd argue of RTÉ as a whole, not just a presenter).

You could not even possibly be of the opinion Well done to whomever for getting what ever job in RTÉ… however here are a few legitimate questions and criticisms of that presenter.

If you do you are then shut down by the usual tropes "Begrudgery is alive and well", "that's so misogynistic", "Off course you should use who you know to get a job" and finally "people really post stuff like this, would you not get a life".

The idea I assume is to get critical posters to become over the top with the criticism and then to get the thread closed by a moderator.

It seems to be a tactic that works.

Doesn't seem to work now matter how you start your criticism with "I don't mean to be rude…" or "In fairness to them they are achieving something but…"

Often the accusations are completely misplaced.

Personally I think you just have to ignore the people supporting the presenter or RTÉ. Or asking them to write something positive about the show.

There is a radio review in the Indo if this was written here it would be shot down as misogynistic. https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/ann-marie-hourihane-the-2-johnnies-show-is-culchie-bloke-heaven-but-2fm-breakfast-listeners-deserve-better/a1944726214.html

I am sure Ann Marie is really a 65 year old man out of touch with the yuff of today.

was this last week, she hasnt actually developed in the last 11 plus years…anywhere else, she'd be out on her ass - she isnt even a popular influencer, youd swear the person holding onto the "must look after Gerrys kids" links would be gone

What I can't understand is why there's a head of 2FM, a head of Radio 1, a head of Lyric FM, yet there's only a single head of TV, the money machine by multiples is TV. As for Dan Healy, it's clearly time for him to move on if he thinks what he's changed will mean success for the station.

They did at one point have a RTÉ ONE controller and RTÉ2 controller, when Bill Malone left for VMTV both roles were brought together under Adrian Lynch, until the Directors of TV and Radio were put under new names Director Of Content (He's out sick for some reason, hope he gets well soon) and Director of Marketing, Channels and Audience which a gave Adrian Lynch his current role.

Controller of RTÉ2 at one point was pretty much the Head of Scheduling, but I think RTÉ2 is pretty much as dead as 2FM, huge talk about 2FM but everyone seems to forget about poor aul RTÉ2, imagine the uproar is 3 of its stars left the channel… nah they should be safe as they have no Irish programming outside of sport… unless the GAA man with the car and the cruise hands in his notice and well that is the nail in the coffin for RTÉ2!

Adrian is now Deputy Director General (having moved his way up from Controller of RTÉ ONE)

While Director of Content has been split into Director of Content Video and Director of Content Audio, but Jimbo won't take either role when he returns from sick leave (I wonder why?). Basically Director of TV and Director of Radio have returned just been given a more modern sounding names … Though I think "Video" is a bit archaic.

Oh who do I think will be the new Director of Content Audio … Dan Healy … unless his media performance rules him out of the role.

It must be embarrassing for Lottie when so many of her co workers leave for better opportunities over the years and she just stinking up the joint with no talent or actual marketable skillset beyond her surname. What does she even say to people who are leaving? "Oh..all the best" or how would she reply if someone ever asked her would she consider a career outside rte? She wouldn't be able to answer that because the only reason she got that job is because of her father. She wouldn't even be capable of working a proper 9 to 5 job or even serving in Aldi!

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What are you talking about with suicide, are you even able to read my post?

I'm saying she wouldn't be able to do any job that's not in RTE. Others have left to do different work but she's an outlier in that she never took or even pursued a different job abroad or outside of Dublin. It's very noticeable to be that unambitious in a job and especially in someone young.

I’d wager the average person wouldn’t know them, let alone care that they’re gone.

I'd argue that many people don't know any of these people.

What ever about Chris and Ciara, Louis McSharry, Tara Kumar and Stephen Byrne all left in 2022 with little notice. Though Louise did try to say something, if she hadn't I wonder if she'd be back on 2fm. I am surprised that Tara and Stephen were asked back in the emergency!

2Fm is supposed to be for the "young listeners"

Lottie since the first day she went on RTE has played the "Dublin southside teenager" role. It didn't work the first day she went on and at this stage she is married, has kids and nearly 40.

She is replacing two guys who are significantly younger than her and if he plan is to continue with the same skit she will crash and burn, I don't think she will change as she seems to think that works. Nobody seems to have told her either that it's time to grow up.

To me this is 2FM with nobody left on bench and nobody really interested in going into RTE now all the "freebies" have stopped. It is also a case that she is highly paid and she has been doing the role an intern should be doing for years now because as you said she has been a disaster onair.

If she fails her RTE will have to sack her, if she is kept any longer on huge wages and not been able to do her job.

2FM in reality should have been shut down when her father died, she could be the final nail in the coffin.

She's about 37 or 38.

Yeah it's very disturbing hearing her trying to act like a cool 21 Yr old instead of the almost 40 year old woman that she is. I'd say she knows nothing outside of south Dublin as in literally nothing. I wouldn't say she's ever been down to Cork or Waterford. Her whole life is instagram and RSVP magazine and people who are also from south Dublin.

With any luck the bosses will give her the boot and she can get a job in Dealz stacking shelves where her daddy's name means fcuk all.