The silly season has officially started
Jim Carroll
Liveline. Right now. Joe v the Lovely Girls. You couldn’t make this up. I assume someone from Blogorrah now works as Joe’s sidekick.
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irishtimes.com - Posted: August 11, 2009 @ 2:29 pm
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That was priceless. Almost as good as yesterday when you had people giving out yards about Bertie Ahern writing for the News of the World. I wonder what they have planned for tomorrow?
My favourite was the comment that Lovely Girls were discriminating against the gay community. That had to be a wind-up
Fiona – you might like this so – http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0811/1224252361043.html
Did you listen to lasts week kerfuffle with De Danen? Priceless
Paddo – heard the day-after stuff and read a few news reports on it. Liveline is newspaper GOLD during August. Wonder how hard is it to manipulate a story onto Livelive?
Wonder how hard is it to manipulate a story onto Livelive?
Quite simple I would imagine. See yesterday’s show, just start of with a call to/from Cork’s own John “John” O’Donovan about Bertie being a disgrace. Heat to gasmark 3 then simmer gently. John is quite the researcher’s friend and a frequent flyer on Liveline/96FM/RedFM.
http://www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/~peoplesr/forums/showthread.php?t=161907&highlight=liveline
I think the secret to manipulating a story onto Liveline is getting your gran to call up.
Friends of mine have tried the manipulation route but neglected to use the important strategy outlined above.
Ivor – there are a few potential John “John” O’Donovans amongst the OTR readership
Fiona – ah yes, nothing melts the heart of a Liveline researcher than a granny giving out yards
Especially if said gran is a ‘woman from clontarf’
Especially if said gran is a ‘woman from clontarf’
The De Dannan edition was brilliant, especially when Alec Finn was called a second rate accompanist. And when Dolores started asking “why is it so bloody important to you” and Ringo’s bitchy comments about Frankie. Ah Hughes pub is long forgotten!
Mind you they’re right to be annoyed at him touring as Frankie Gavin and De Dannan.
And yer man going on about the “progress” that Ireland has acheived and citing strip clubs as an example is a fine example of humanity and enlightenment. I wonder what his plan for society is.
My god, that’s hilarious. Good man Joe, public service broadcasting at its finest. Almost as funny as the idea of Fintan O’Toole ag obair in a factory. I wonder what they were manufacturing? Trembling, self-righteous outrage?
who/what are the lovely girls???
Good question, Jim at 13
Jim/Pat – listen back to yesterday’s show at http://www.rte.ie/radio1/liveline/ and all will be revealed
The irony, which I don’t think was mentioned on air, is that Liveline yesterday featured Joe and various callers disgusted by photoshoots with scantily clad models but earlier in the week, following a cri de coeur from Ireland’s top topless model, Joe acted as a location scout for her forthcoming calendar shoot.
Ivor – Joe doesn’t do irony – he does carefully manipulated outrage.
@ 15, alas rte’s crappy website only allows one to listen if one has real player
i’m a mac man, me like
jim – i’m a Mac man too and I’m listening away right now to Joe, the Lovely Girls and the Only Shy Celebrity Chef In The World
weird, tried to listen to rte this morning about the Zoe Developments affair and was told i needed real player, at least today fm is on itunes, can’t believe rte isn’t (or at least doesn’t seem to be)
anyhoo, who ARE these lovely girls?
It’s back for day two! Fried gold.
Part two today Jim. Vivienne Connolly and Georgia Salpa are on w/ Joe now
The lovely girls are lining up again today on Joe. Apparently the lovely girls scene in Ireland has gone ‘commercial.’ The poor girls have to provide all their own clothes, make up and hair do in Ireland while in the UK, it’s provided by the agent.
And now models are complaining about Ryanair hostess taking their jobs and that models do in fact eat. Genius.
Joe Duffy = Chris Morris.
Totally awesome
It’s like the return of Blogorrah or something
@ 23
who ARE these people???!!??
You have to take your hat off to Joe Duffy – he’s a world-class manipulator even when he’s on crutches
Anyone want to give the odds on someone calling a model agent a pimp by the end of the show?
Strangely enough Georgia Salpa is probably best known in Ireland for not being in a bikini as the *ahem* face of the Fás job fair thing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/lazy_atom/CI%20stuff/FAS_Girl.jpg
Typical FAS wasting our money. They couldn’t even get her to dress in a bikini.
I’d give her a start
must be getting old, i have no idea who any of these people are (if indeed they ARE people)