The tinkle of the piano
The welcoming “hello there, and a very good morning to you”
Talking about “the match”
Forgetting to mention the name of the person she’d just interviewed
Saying the word “pollyanna”
The clink of the tea cups against the saucers in the background
The coughing
Mentioning the Camino
Telling us about how great Trump is - “he’s delivering on his promises”, “sure CNN is just as bad as Fox News” etc., “hello random Trumpbot, here’s 45 minutes to talk shite”
The reassuringly turgid regular guests like Stephen O’Byrnes, Gerard Howlin, John Downing, Michael O’Regan etc.
All is changed, changed utterly
I feel it’s both appropriate and alarmingly eerie that this happened on the same day as Fallon and Byrne closed down
2020 is going to be another 2016
Gone is the hashtag, all we are left with is the ashtag
They ll need to be a top earner and high profile enough to fill a Late Late tribute show so money can be saved on voluntary contributions from celebs that would otherwise command eye watering appearance fees.
It’s important as one matures as a forum poster to gloss over the turgid small c conservatism of a newly dead radio presenter that mildly irked you, yet prompted you listen to in the first place in order to be mildly irked, in favour of highlighting a long departed radicalism of earlier decades
While Colm instructs us to read up ourselves on the change she effected before commenting, I can’t be arsed. Was it generally being a pioneer for women broadcasters or was she behind specific campaigns? I remember her presenting that Crimecall or Crimeline or whatever it was called of a Monday night when I was in secondary school. That distinctive inflection in her voice as she teed up some muldoon Garda to talk about a distinguishing feature of a petrol station robber in Longford.
After the death was announced on the 6pm news Philip Boucher Hayes was at pains to point out that he knew for a number of hours but they needed to wait for friends and family to be informed.
Kinda like talking about someone behind their back, it’s tweeting about them without tweeting them directly. Not that Marian can read what’s being tweeted in any case.
