Statement from @NewstalkFM regarding George Hook. pic.twitter.com/PIOjXXHDAE
— Greg Murphy (@TheGregMurphy) September 22, 2017
Harsh.
Previously: George Hook on broadsheet
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Statement from @NewstalkFM regarding George Hook. pic.twitter.com/PIOjXXHDAE
— Greg Murphy (@TheGregMurphy) September 22, 2017
Harsh.
Previously: George Hook on broadsheet
Newstalk have bottled it!
They’ve probably found they don’t have grounds to sack him and he doesn’t want to resign. I dunno though.
Why do u say that?
I wonder what man will replace him.
Football or gaa hopefully
Just like an offending priest moved to a different parish. Works out well!
…well said…
Well put. Looks like one too.
Gay. What are you implying?
…maybe he means that George Hook bares a striking resemblance to Brendan Smyth…
Ha ha ha jaysus
Well the weekends are going to be off the Hook. Or Hook turned off, at least.
Maybe they’ll give him a medical advice show, where he compares all his oul lad ailments to his listeners. It’s called Dr Hook.
Or.him and that Bobby from insomnia chat to George’s mates from the sailing scene in Crosshaven. It’s called Captain Hook.
Or a show where callers ring in to test George’s IQ – Hook Head?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCcDp6HRKh0
I just hope he doesn’t get eaten by that crocodile that swallowed the alarm clock.
Is Hook that popular, with that many listeners that NT wouldn’t just cut him loose? You’d wonder if Hooky knows where all the bodies are buried??
nah.
sur he’s too thick to remember anyway
He couldn’t be sacked contractually for what he did as he didn’t receive a disciplinary process
What happens to all the naughty girls at Newstalk is that they are put on at the weekend when they hope no-one is listening to the wittering nonsense and hope they will eventually get fed up and leave.
It’s not about listeners, major sponsors like the Clayton group and tesco won’t run ads during his slot.
For a “thick” man I’m sure he earns a better living than you are!
Ah that old line. My Ma says stupid stuff like that too.
I’m sure he does
But I don’t have t’be him for my few bob
Although in one respect
You would also have to play me to talk about Rugbee in public
So
Ya know
There is that
Doesn’t he already have some waffley show at the weekend?
and really who cares
nah, that Marian on RTE1
‘After George Hook used the national platform we gave him to make entirely unacceptable comments about the victims of rape, we have conducted an inquiry and decided he should get that national platform at a different time during the week’
In fairness it will split the #marian listenership and panel pool. There is no way he’d be able to anywhere after Saturday or Sunday lunch.
Win-win.
The only reason he’s kept on – see above, His contractual rights to a disciplinary process were not observed. This way he can keep his profile and still get a few bob on the after dinner set, from the chambers of commerce gobspoos for the speaking engagements and opening whatever envelopes need a thick heavy set misogynist need to officiate
This^
And simple economics too. Haven’t his sponsors deserted him leaving a significant hole in the Newstalk budget? No significant sponsor money coming in, no show for George.
He can go off fishing on a ledge by a cliff now with Baldie Noonan. Bliss.
Looks like everyone is in agreement so.
I love a good mob
Lynching.
I think we’re going to have to face up to the fact that nobody knows what these pitchforks are actually for, unless it’s ‘move someone to a weekend slot ‘
He should have been given back his slot. He apologised. It’s a load of poo poo.
I tend to agree but it’s a commercial radio station. Once businesses decide they won’t advertise on his slot, it’s curtains.
Did you read his apology? There’s no way on earth he wrote that himself. Apologies drafted by PR firms don’t count.
Even if he had given the most contrite apology totally off the cuff, we would have no way of knowing what he truly feels.
The point is, everyone deserves a second chance. That why we have Employment Law procedures. You or I would get a warning and a chance to keep our bib clean. Why should George Hook deserve less?
I think Ciara Kelly’s bit on Marian Finucane should be referred to as the last word and then we’ll all move on. OK?
Not until I’ve heard it ;)
I’m sure being your recommend, it has reason and not histrionics as its’ core…
What date should I look up for replay?
Doubt he will have Dr Kelly on with her medical advice slot. She robbed his gig after giving her the big break.
She’s even more preachy and annoying than George. At least Hook didn’t take himself to seriously. Nothing worse than presenters who think their opinion matters, such as Dr Kelly and Statler and Waldorf on the 7-9am slot Monday – Friday.
I heard her on Marian last weekend, a total bore.
BUT SHES A WOMAN!!! Won’t someone please think of Una Mullaly.
While we’re on the subject of radio, did anyone hear Dorothy Cross on Second Captains a few weeks ago? Best radio I’ve heard in a long time.
I hope Moncrieff gets some extra time back to his show after all this moving around
+1
I miss the half hour interview he used to do at the start of his show.