Look at how Joe was able to negotiate with RTE up front no side deals needed,
I think he was a Gas Ticket and a true blue Dubliner,
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I think he was a Gas Ticket and a true blue Dubliner,
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There is a rubric amongst those who design financial services retail products that goes "does it meet the Joe Duffy test?". There will be a big gap in our consumer protection framework.
Though he was a populist - for example he got stuck into the Boss for speaking the truth which in this case was favourable to the banks (I forget the details).
Though he was a populist - for example he got stuck into the Boss for speaking the truth which in this case was favourable to the banks (I forget the details).
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Hi Duke
I don't Listen to the Joe Duffy Show,I never have I was working around the time he was on air,
I might walk into a house or be in a car when his program was on,
I loved the way he managed people who phoned in how he let some get away with blue murder knowing full well the complainiing will sooner or later prompt an opponent to ring in,
if he thought they were above there station he would give them enough rope to hang themselves Joe pulls the leaver and leave them dangling,
I did not see the program you are referring to, You must remember Joe has a vested interest in keeping the phone calls coming which might not be a bad thing really,no phone call is ever routine nor should the be taken as such people going trough a rough time may not be thinking straight,
one thing I admired about him even if I did not agree with him, He Was Always Gentle On People Who Rang His Show something I always admired in people dealing with the public,
many a item that needed to be highlighted might never have see the light of day if Joe bit the head off people who rang his show,
It not like askaboutmoney where over several days/weeks other posters and the OP posting can interact and if they are in the wrong
sooner or later someone will point out where they are wrong,
How often have you seen something getting posted and it taken several days before someone points out to the poster they may have unreasonable expectations, in other words other posters point out to them that reality doesn't measure up to there expectations,
we don't get on to the boss for allowing it to get posted and if we did the boss would do a Joe Duffy on it,
Without joes Dublin Wit,
Duke have you anyone in mind to take over from Joe,
the pay is good,
I don't Listen to the Joe Duffy Show,I never have I was working around the time he was on air,
I might walk into a house or be in a car when his program was on,
I loved the way he managed people who phoned in how he let some get away with blue murder knowing full well the complainiing will sooner or later prompt an opponent to ring in,
if he thought they were above there station he would give them enough rope to hang themselves Joe pulls the leaver and leave them dangling,
I did not see the program you are referring to, You must remember Joe has a vested interest in keeping the phone calls coming which might not be a bad thing really,no phone call is ever routine nor should the be taken as such people going trough a rough time may not be thinking straight,
one thing I admired about him even if I did not agree with him, He Was Always Gentle On People Who Rang His Show something I always admired in people dealing with the public,
many a item that needed to be highlighted might never have see the light of day if Joe bit the head off people who rang his show,
It not like askaboutmoney where over several days/weeks other posters and the OP posting can interact and if they are in the wrong
sooner or later someone will point out where they are wrong,
How often have you seen something getting posted and it taken several days before someone points out to the poster they may have unreasonable expectations, in other words other posters point out to them that reality doesn't measure up to there expectations,
we don't get on to the boss for allowing it to get posted and if we did the boss would do a Joe Duffy on it,
Without joes Dublin Wit,
Duke have you anyone in mind to take over from Joe,
the pay is good,
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One of my clients got "Joe Duffy'd" once, it was other nonsense what was being said and it vanished in a couple of days as the next thing came along. But it did create an element of paranoia for a while.
Having said that, he did give a voice to a lot of people who perhaps would not otherwise have been heard, whilst some of them probably should never have been heard, some did have genuine issues and it helped bring things like the Mother and Baby home further to the surface.
Having said that, he did give a voice to a lot of people who perhaps would not otherwise have been heard, whilst some of them probably should never have been heard, some did have genuine issues and it helped bring things like the Mother and Baby home further to the surface.
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Conor McGregor, but I don't think the pay would be good enough.Duke have you anyone in mind to take over from Joe,
"Talk to Joe" would become "Get punched by Conor".
It would be more "listen to Conor spouting manure" rather then talk to Joe. Somehow I couldn't see McGregor doing a week listening to callers talking about the menopause
Joe the Public Crybag at €400,000 a year . . . he's gone.
But he's 69 now and my understanding from employment law 101 is that, once over 65, an existing term contract coming to an end need not be renewed at the same pay - or at all, if the employer sees fit.
Joesie might have been offered something like €100,000 - €120,000 depending on audience retention and ad capture. Sure wouldn't I make more than that writin' my oul books on Ballyer, says Joe. So off he goes, nice boy shirt and tie, cuff-links and all to the pastures of silence.
He's not going to do a Pat Kenny and put it up to Montrose by working a competing show on a commercial radio station.
He can't do a Pat Kenny.
He's off to promote comfy slippers on radio ads.
But he's 69 now and my understanding from employment law 101 is that, once over 65, an existing term contract coming to an end need not be renewed at the same pay - or at all, if the employer sees fit.
Joesie might have been offered something like €100,000 - €120,000 depending on audience retention and ad capture. Sure wouldn't I make more than that writin' my oul books on Ballyer, says Joe. So off he goes, nice boy shirt and tie, cuff-links and all to the pastures of silence.
He's not going to do a Pat Kenny and put it up to Montrose by working a competing show on a commercial radio station.
He can't do a Pat Kenny.
He's off to promote comfy slippers on radio ads.
A consumate, forensic interviewer, with a terrific intellect, capable of pinning down the most weasely of politician/ chancer.
Pat Kenny not Joe duffy
Rad É pays too low for this man
(Too low for this man)
He won't take it
(Won't take it)
So he's leavin' this life he's come to know, oh
He said he's goin' off to find
(Goin' off to find)
What's left of his world
The world he left behind
Just a year or two ago, oh
He's leavin' on an evenin' tram to Beechwood
(Leavin' on an evenin' tram)
Hmmmm, yeah
Said he's goin' off (goin' off to find)
A richer place and time (and when he takes that ride)
Yes he is (guess who'll never be by his side)
I'll not be with him (we know you won't )
On that evenin' tram to Beechwood
(Leavin' on an evenin' tram to Beechwood)
I'd never live in his world (live in his world)
I'll live without him in mine !
(Too low for this man)
He won't take it
(Won't take it)
So he's leavin' this life he's come to know, oh
He said he's goin' off to find
(Goin' off to find)
What's left of his world
The world he left behind
Just a year or two ago, oh
He's leavin' on an evenin' tram to Beechwood
(Leavin' on an evenin' tram)
Hmmmm, yeah
Said he's goin' off (goin' off to find)
A richer place and time (and when he takes that ride)
Yes he is (guess who'll never be by his side)
I'll not be with him (we know you won't )
On that evenin' tram to Beechwood
(Leavin' on an evenin' tram to Beechwood)
I'd never live in his world (live in his world)
I'll live without him in mine !
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And Joe won't have the women of Clontarf to hide behind any more either !
It's amazing to see what happened Duffy between his zenith in 1979 when we all voted him president of TCDSU and today's sort of latter-day media thug with French cuffs and jewelled links.
What happened the revolutionary Joe, the cantankerous Joe, the rational and sensible Joe, the empathetic Joe - what happened that old goodie in a duffle-coat who went to mass in secret ? Was he really just "acting the student" in the old days ? If so, he sure fooled a share of us.
All of a sudden in around 1982, he was shaved, haircutted and in junior civil service garb handing out leaflets approved for mild South Dublin sensibilities near the Hyde Gallery. Just thinking about that day as I showed my father around TCD brings back the smell of the New Arts Block passageway. Old Duffer saw me standing in the NAB lobby waiting for the boss to return from the jax and silently proffered me one of his missives. I read his name on it and stared in wonder at how much he had changed.
Whatever happened to change The Dufflecoat into The French Cuff had already started by then. He can't blame it on the triplets either - they only arrived in 1995. Maybe it's just me and my boyish expectations. Or maybe it's just the story of all of us (well mostly all of us anyhow) in the 70s - our casual confidence back then in our capacity to change the world around us and our hopeless failure since to even maintain the better parts of that world.
Au revoir, Joe.
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Well the good news is that the world has improved beyond all recognition since the 1970's but it wasn't done by middleclass socialists. Maybe Joe realised that between the mid 1980's and the mid 2000's Capitalism did what Socialism failed to do in 100 years and raised the vast majority of the world out of poverty.
Kudos to Joe for growing up.