Kieran Cuddihy hosts a zinger of a presidential debate. Just not the one you saw on TV
Radio: Newstalk host has lively exchanges on ballot papers, while Séan Moncrieff gets scientific and saucy
Kieran Cuddihy
Pat Leahy on the presidential TV debate: Neutrality, irrelevance and Jim Gavin’s struggle
Jim Gavin has a difficult debating debut as Catherine Connolly and Heather Humphreys deliver as expected
RTÉ host Colm Ó Mongáin goes nuclear on rudderless Liveline
Radio: Fabled phone-in show is drifting despite talents of guest host, while Brendan O’Connor underlines his interview skills
RTÉ’s Claire Byrne asks a question that dispels any trace of carefree holiday vibes
RTÉ Radio 1 host sounds disconcertingly cheerful in discussion about a new outbreak
Fintan O’Toole? Johnny Logan? Liveline asks the nation, one by one, who should be president
Radio: The phone-in canvasses so many people that it might just qualify as a poll of voting intention for the entire country
Ivan Yates swaps ranting for raving, showing unexpected knowledge of nightclubs
Radio: Newstalk’s opinionated guest presenter bemoans young people’s abstemiousness
‘Burn them all out’: The prejudice bubbling under Ireland’s thin veneer of normality
Radio: Newstalk and RTÉ cover unrest in Ballymena and Los Angeles
Under cover of flimsy filler, Ray D’Arcy gets political
Radio: Radio 1 host’s show lays it on thick and thin, while former boxer Bernard Dunne hears compelling tales of sporting highs and lows
Radio review: ‘It sounded like a big mosquito’ - anger over drones fills the airwaves
Radio: RTÉ presenter is a likable substitute for Joe Duffy, while Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy launches an unusual free-speech crusade
Oliver Callan’s mood darkens: ‘In this incredibly rich country of ours we get this’
Radio: RTÉ host hears about waiting-list misery as Kieran Cuddihy exchanges tart words with Minister for Health
Claire Byrne’s inner klaxons sound when a former Trump ambassador raises Enoch Burke’s imprisonment
Radio: Michaél Martin’s White House visit gives a dispiriting glimpse of the prism through which the Maga movement sees Ireland
As Fergus Finlay and Tom Clonan’s spat escalates, Sarah McInerney relishes the radio gold
Radio: The whiff of cordite in the RTÉ studio is strong enough to warrant a UN peacekeeping mandate of its own
‘If the asteroid hits Dublin, everything is gone’: A chastened Kieran Cuddihy hears about the end of the world
Radio review: Odds of its hitting Earth turn out to be far shorter than those of winning Newstalk’s Cash Machine contest
Ray D’Arcy conjures up a Storm Éowyn image that would leave anyone feeling disconcerted
Radio: At least the RTÉ host is doing his bit to help out. Government Ministers seem caught in the headlights
Winter wedge issue: On Oliver Callan, icy weather is one of Ireland’s ever-growing urban-rural divides
Radio: ‘I can tell you Dublin is getting off very lightly in the cold snap so far,’ Oliver Callan notes on Tuesday’s show, ‘much to our relief here’
When Claire Byrne confronts Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary on RTÉ, the atmosphere is seriously tetchy
Radio 1 host clashes with airline boss over high airfares, while Ray D’Arcy captures a frazzled festive atmosphere
Newstalk’s interview with Gerry Hutch is an anticlimax after Kevin Myers’s inflammatory opinions fill the air
Radio: The Hard Shoulder host Kieran Cuddihy gives his guest’s talent for inflammatory opinions full rein – all while discussing his favourite books
Sage Bertie Ahern, wry Joe Duffy and stoned-sounding Irish Maga fan: Radio reactions to Trump’s US election win
Radio: Ciara Kelly hears differing takes on Trump victory while Kieran Cuddihy meets jubilant Maga fans in New York
Plodding Jack Chambers makes Paschal Donohoe sound like an unhinged Donald Trump
Radio review: With robust public finances allowing Ministers a Teflon complacency, the fireworks of old are missing from the post-budget airwaves
Sickening but essential listening as victims tell radio shows about sexual abuse at religious-run schools
Radio: The Hard Shoulder and Liveline hear harrowing stories from former pupils while the Leinster House bike shed continues to exercise listeners
Dr Eva Orsmond isn’t mincing her words. Where are we? Back in 1952?
Radio: The weight-loss expert is on Newstalk for a discussion of Ozempic and similar drugs. Prof Luke O’Neill, the guest host, needs to push back more
Claire Byrne shows you don’t have to spice things up to have some bite
RTÉ host’s low-key approach is quietly effective, while Kieran Cuddihy is left speechless by Gazan horrors
Pat Kenny’s conversation with Michael O’Leary turns the air sulphuric
Radio: As one of Ireland’s most experienced interviewers, Pat Kenny is forensic in his questioning. But not, seemingly, with Michael O’Leary this week
Kieran Cuddihy is far better at landing punches than punchlines, which is bad news for Stephen Donnelly
Radio: Newstalk presenter mercifully ditches the flat gags, subjecting the Minister for Health to an onslaught
Newstalk host Kieran Cuddihy isn’t easily silenced, even when his mouth is full
Radio: Newstalk host tucks into burgers while taking on bigger issues, as Ray D’Arcy earns dad rock cachet
Pat Kenny goes from dropping clangers to a raw conversation about a distressing subject
Radio: The Newstalk host draws out detail rather than showily sympathising when he speaks to Mary about her experience of reporting historical abuse
Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy is on top form but not everything that comes out of his mouth is palatable
Radio: ‘If I was walking the dog, no one around, I’d hock up a big spit and fire it into the air,’ he announces
Kieran Cuddihy searches for festive joy, Pat Kenny warns of Christmas tree surprises
Radio: Anti-immigrant attitudes worry Hard Shoulder host, while his Newstalk colleague is wary of seasonal speedbumps
Andrea Gilligan might not pose the toughest questions, but she knows how to dodge a bullet
Radio: The Lunchtime Live host opts for friendly inquiry rather than wilful baiting, but she needs to stay alert all the same
‘Say that again?’ Katie Hannon can’t believe what she hears in budget brouhaha
Radio: Liveline’s stand-in host hears foster parents speak of strain, while Pat Kenny shows his wonky side
‘Is it a little bit of a dog whistle?’ Newstalk Breakfast hosts swap conversations for clickbait
Radio: Shane Coleman and Ciara Kelly half-heartedly stir the pot, while Kieran Cuddihy enjoys some senatorial skirmishing
Joe Duffy needles Up the ’Ra songwriter about the ‘brutal’ song that made him ‘a bit rich’
Radio: Argument about chant from the Wolfe Tones song Celtic Symphony feels unsatisfying all around
‘Ireland damaged a lot of its children and she was one of them’: Sinéad O’Connor’s death casts sense of shock across the airwaves
Radio: Normally wry Newstalk presenter captures disbelief over singer’s death, in a week of disturbing news at home and abroad
Kieran Cuddihy asks if ‘Ireland is full’, a phrase now seemingly normalised on Newstalk
Cuddihy’s showy spirit runs through the Hard Shoulder: no sacred cow is safe
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