This morning.
The launch of ‘The Big Busk for Focus Ireland ‘ on March 11 with Focus Ireland and Today FM calling on YOU (even if like Nick you can only play the spoons) to join the band and help fund ‘an end to homelessness’.
Present were Today FM ‘jocks’ from top: Pamela Joyce and Ray Foley; Dermot Whelan (left) and Dave Moore.
Bants level: high.
Register here.
Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
I will be working on other TV projects so you may see as well as hear me again soon. 🙏
— Matt Cooper (@cooper_m) August 10, 2021
Last night.
Matt Cooper announces he is leaving The Tonight Show (Independent.ie)
After two decades, Pamela Joyce (top) will be replacing Paul McLoone’s alternative music show on Today FM with a top 30 hit-based format
Eugene Connolly writes:
Just thought I’d bring your attention to the issue of Paul McLoone’s abrupt sacking at Today FM. He presented a two hour nightly show of music, indie I guess would be the general category. He was our modern day John Peel or even the Dave Fanning of decades past. Paul is also the long time replacement for Fergal Sharkey in The Undertones.
The new owners choose to go a more bland route.
Paul was there for 18 years as researcher, producer and presenter. Every programme he had a hand in was sure to be good.
Weekend shows were 3 hours long. Essential listening and he always supported new bands.
A big Bowie fan, his all-time favourite song was ‘Ceremony’ by Joy Division. The opening lines seem poignant:
‘This is why events unnerve me
They find it all the same old story’I suggest there should be an ‘Indie uprising’, take to the streets to march against corporate broadcasting blandness. Who’s with me?
TodayFM/Paul McLoone
Update:
Paul McLoone – Final TodayFM Show (10th June 2021) https://t.co/WsUoQ2yWkW
— fanningsessions (@fanningsessions) June 11, 2021
Louise Duffy (left) and Muireann O’Connell
Hello lovely people! I have been fired from @TodayFM It’s all good. Like, it’s embarrassing and I’m a bit sad but I love almost everyone in that station and wish them all the best in the future. @cocomairead will be great!
— Muireann O’Connell (@MuireannO_C) July 30, 2019
Yet another disastrous decision from @todayfm, which has stumbled from one disastrous decision to another over the past few years. @MuireannO_C has been one of the best presenters its had for years, yet she’s dumped whilst mgmt & others stay in their jobs. Best of luck Muireann
— Ronan Casey (@ronan_casey) July 30, 2019
@TodayFM have made a monumentally disastrous decision to get rid of @MuireannO_C and Louise Duffy. Apart from Ian Dempsey & Fergal Darcy why would you bother tuning in at all now! I may start surfing around……
— Martina Roche (@TrionaTrina) July 30, 2019
Pics: Twitter
Meanwhile..
This text is very off. I don’t know you Muireann, but I’m imagining you are a very nice person. Prob too nice.If you’ve been fired it’s not all good. I think you are dreadfully upset and not thinking straight and need to talk to your legal advisor. https://t.co/JZhzia0K1C
— Deirdre O Halloran (@Foley62) July 30, 2019
Pull up a chair.
Paul McLoone, of Today FM, writes:
Check out The Waterboys in The McLoone Sessions. We recorded this in their rehearsal space, it turned out lovely. You can listen to the full session by clicking here
Super Dave,
The hero we deserve.
Susie Dardis writes:
Who do you want Electric Ireland to bring back to its Throwback Stage at this year’s Electric Picnic? ’90s enthusiast, Today FM’s Dave Moore, takes to the streets of Dublin to ask people who they want.
Contains: generic and unnecessary synth ‘bedding’.
Give Emma Doran a job.
Emma writes:
Dermot and Dave on Today Fm are moving to mid morning 9-12. They’re looking for a content creator and reporter ( Iknow, I thought of me aswell)
– @PaulKimmage on the best sporting moments of 2016
– Political party updated 1916 proclamation with current leader signatures for €115 😧😧😧 pic.twitter.com/dwGnRINGKz— Today FM (@todayfm) December 19, 2016
Sports journalist and early Pat Hickey nemesis Paul Kimmage will be joining Matt Cooper on Today FM after 6.30pm.
Meanwhile…
Previously: Back In Her Box
Meanwhile
As part of the First Fortnight festival…
“Paul Kimmage… will join us at First Fortnight for a very special Banter In Conversation event to talk about his life as a professional cyclist, his career as a sportswriter,the mental stresses and strains that occur in sport and how sportspeople deal with these. The interview will be conducted by Banter’s Jim Carroll.
At the Workman’s Club in Dublin, on Tuesday, January 10, at 7pm…
Tickets here
A timely swipe at the election broadcast moratorium.
Featuring the subtle acting chops of Today FM’s ‘pol corr’ Gavan Reilly. His ‘waiting’ is pure method.
Gavan will be presenting Today FM’s General Election coverage as soon as polls close tonight.
This morning.
They follow you around the station.
Paul Mallon writes:
Doff of the cap to the person who’s taken the time to put googly eyes on Matt Cooper at the DART station – cheering up the morning.
Thanks Paul
