You did’nt answer either of my questions but anyway…look what makes her a bumbling mess and why do you feel so strongly on the subject?
It’s a bit bizarre mate?
Ive made my point, now fuck off to bed you drunk.
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You didn’t address my last post and resorted to your usual digs pal.
Winner.
Chris Donohoe is not a cunt. He’s a fucking smarmy, sarcastic, patronising cunt
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I heard the beautiful Sarah blow her top this evening on the Catholic Church requesting that cremated ashes be treated with respect and not just fucked everywhere like an awful lot of heathens are known to do. The rant seemed forced, and I didn’t truly believe Sarah was outraged.
Sarah McInertney is a huge let down as a current affairs radio anchor. She is seriously compromised by Newstalk requiring their presenters to assume a personality and offer strong opinion on trivial matters.
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Meanwhile Chris wanted to make an issue of the Dail not taking next week off.
I’d still belt the arse off her all the same.
If people don’t like RC rituals and policy at funerals or weddings there are other options. Sarah is a gorgeous looking lady it must be said and a decent journo but average on the radio. Radio is best suited to ugly people methinks.
This is her, is it?
No
Newstalk Breakfast’s new line up of Colette Fitzpatrick, Paul Williams, Alan Quinlan and Shane Coleman pulled in average ratings of 115,000.
This is a drop of 48,000 when compared to the stations previous Breakfast Show fronted by Ivan Yeats and Chris Donoghue which rated at 163,000.
A spokesperson for the station defended the drop saying it was a result of the show reducing in duration by one hour.
“It is just not possible to compare the schedule,” a spokesperson for the stations said. “Breakfast is now an hour shorter than Chris and Ivan’s programme and that is going to be reflected in the ratings.
“We will not be contrasting today’s ratings with ratings issued three months ago as they are not comparable.”
“Shows that have not changed – like Off the Ball - have increased (from 47,000 to 50,000
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Jesus that’s a vicious drop. Much more violent % move than you’d ever see in radio ratings. The real question is how they’ve anyone left though
Looks like Dennis will be going to the transfer window in January
Denis went buck ape with the Shinners today 
. Hes a weird individual giving the report more oxygen than it ever would have gotten otherwise. It’s not like Fine Gael we’re going to act on it 
Some lad on Sean moncrief now who has invented an alarm clock that is a vibrator to wake the ladies up in the morning with a smile !!
Oooft
Paul Williams’s hard-boiled breakfast proves hard to stomach
Newstalk’s gobby morning host takes aim at the PC brigade, but his shtick is pure pantomime
MICK HEANEY
In an episode of The Simpsons from the mid-1990s a right-wing shock jock called Birch Barlow berates the corrupt incumbent, Mayor Quimby, at a public debate for being soft on crime. Barlow, a scaremongering blowhard with an uncanny resemblance to the US radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, pictures the mayor’s house being ransacked, his family tied up by thugs, the scene awash with blood. Barlow then gets to the point: “My question is about the budget, sir.”
Twenty years ago this seemed like outlandish satire, at least to Irish audiences. These days it could well pass for a transcript of Paul Williams’s tenure on Newstalk Breakfast (weekdays). On Monday morning the crime reporter turned presenter is chatting to his stand-in co-anchor Jonathan Healy. Healy mentions an AA survey in which respondents favoured a register for those convicted of drink-driving.
Suddenly a red mist seems to descend on Williams. The presenter says that if he wrote about the 45 serious assault convictions of “a thug who’s terrorising people in Tipperary, say”, he would be criminally investigated. “The Garda Commissioner would have all her Gestapo in Garda headquarters, in the Kremlin, searching my phone,” he snarls. “That’s when I get angry.” No, really?
Perhaps alarmed by his colleague’s apocalyptic vision of totalitarian persecution, Healy conciliates him with platitudes about justice. This seems to work. Williams says that he wouldn’t object to a drink-driving register so long as there were one “for all the other thugs and scumbags”. This, remember, in response to a hypothetical question in a survey.
It’s all, presumably, music to the ears of Newstalk management. A month into his role as a radio host Williams’s chief asset remains his hard-boiled, fuming persona. It’s not just the criminal fraternity and the Garda hierarchy he takes aim at but also anyone who smacks of being lily-livered or politically correct. He talks about “the snobby world of literature” and dismisses President Michael D Higgins’s voluntary pay cut with a curt “big bloody deal”, while constantly making cracks about “the Shinners”.
Taking offence seems pointless. Most of the time Williams’s shtick is pure pantomime, albeit without much in the way of comic timing. As he chats with his cohosts he has the same bulldozing wit of that gobby mate who isn’t as funny as he thinks he is. Reflecting on the (admittedly gobsmacking) fact that Dublin’s two Luas lines run on different gauges, Williams quips that “maybe they were smoking that medicinal canaboloids”. Lest anyone miss the joke he clarifies that he means cannabis.
Yet Williams is the most memorable performer on the revamped breakfast show. For one thing he is decent at the business end of his job, as in his informative interview with the Sky News reporter Enda Brady about the migrant camp in Calais. But he also overshadows his regular cohosts, Shane Coleman and Colette Fitzpatrick, who for all their accomplishment as broadcasters are also detrimentally level-headed. Williams has made a splash, but whether he wins over more listeners than he turns off remains to be seen.
The Newstalk style is generally for presenters to shoot from the hip, not button the lip. Chris Donoghue and Sarah McInerney may preside over their slot on Newstalk Drive (weekdays) as inquisitive journalists rather than opinionated grouches, but should they feel the need to vent they’re given more leeway than their public-service-broadcasting peers.
Such an occasion arises on Tuesday, with the Vatican’s announcement that the ashes of cremated bodies should only be buried in consecrated ground. Or, as Donoghue pithily puts it, “Catholics should not keep granny on the mantelpiece.”
This matter, McInerney says, “has really got my blood boiling”. After The Irish Times ’s Rome correspondent, Paddy Agnew, has explained the Vatican’s rationale, McInerney suggests that it should instead “look at the law that treats women as second-class citizens in the Catholic Church”. Normally a poised broadcaster, she exhales with such fury that Donoghue shoots to a break. Then, when a listener claims that the issue is giving McInerney “a good opportunity to feign outrage”, she lets rip. “I am outraged – I wish I wasn’t,” she says, adding that “I don’t call myself a Catholic any more”.
McInerney sounds regretful rather than angry, which seems only to emphasise her sincerity. Coupled with Donoghue’s bitter-sweet memory of cremating his late mother it gives proceedings an impact.
But the comparative rarity of such raw moments is what underpins the success of Donoghue and McInerney’s stint so far. The show carries a regulation amount of editorialising, but it’s the combination of thoroughness and accessibility that marks out Newstalk Drive . A report on the problems surrounding Airbnb in Dublin and New York is just one example, bringing together personal anecdotes from Irish flat-dwellers and policy discussion with US legislators.
The smoothness with which the two hosts work together underlines how quickly they have forged a natural partnership. It’s an opportunity denied the Newstalk Breakfast team, who have to contend with a rotating roster, never mind the fulminating roaster among their number.
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They must have spared Quinlan out of sympathy?
He makes Borat, Brent et all seem non cringeworthy… It must be a pisstake by Dinny as nobody with a monosyllabic tone should be let on radio.
A fulminating roaster. 
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I’m not following this bit Fagan?
The Luas is a tram. Like a cross between a small train and a bus.